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If You Have Rick Gates (and Omarosa) You Don't Need George Papadopoulos

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emptywheel
Chuck Ross and Victoria Toensing are about to lead the Papadopouloses to contemplate something insanely stupid.
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Democracy Against Capitalism: Class

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Ed Walker
Class: the dirty secret of capitalism.
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What Roger Stone's Latest Lies Tell Us about Mueller's Investigation into Him

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emptywheel
Roger Stone may be a liar. But his piece on the investigation into him is more informative than the week-end's NYT puff piece.
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The Dossier as Disinformation: Why It Would Matter

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emptywheel
When I suggest the Steele dossier may include a significant amount of disinformation, people not only don't believe that's possible, but claim there would be no point. Here's what the point would be.
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Mirror Mikey on the Wall

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emptywheel
Wherein Mike Schmidt demonstrates his own lack of self-awareness in a tweet about Trump's lack of self-awareness.
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Like a Rat-Fucking Stone: Russians and Roger Reading from the Same Voter Suppression Script

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emptywheel
The Roger Stone SuperPACs that Mueller is investigated engaged in voter suppression that closely paralleled Russian voter suppression efforts in 2016.
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The Sealed Sidebar: Kevin Downing's Attempt to Share Information on the Case in Chief Fails

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emptywheel
On Tuesday, Manafort lawyer Kevin Downing tried to use the cross-examination of Rick Gates to release information about Meuller's case in chief.
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Oleg Deripaska Probably Fed Both Parties Dirt in 2016 Election

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emptywheel
Some communications records shared with Congress and leaked to right wing scribes add to the evidence that Oleg Deripaska was squarely in the middle of dealing disinformation in the Steele dossier.
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Goldstone's Bare Facts: Attorney, Damaging Information, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Useful to the Trumps

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emptywheel
Rob Goldstone is right: he just did what we was told to do in inviting Don Jr to enter a conspiracy to violate election law. And the formula Emin Agalarov gave him to make that invitation included all the details needed to lay out receipts of the crime.
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August 2016: When Paulie's Panic Set In

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emptywheel
In August 2016, Paul Manafort was facing financial ruin and at least one blackmail attempt. What kind of desperate things might he have done to stave off ruin?
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Trump Tweets a Confession, Then Sekulow Admits His Client Has Been Lying about His Involvement

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emptywheel
Maybe the President and his lawyers think the best way to avoid an interview with Robert Mueller is to confess to everything before noon on Sunday morning? Because between Trump's tweets and Jay Sekulow's TV appearance, they just confessed to conspiring with Russia.
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On the Apparent Complexities of Charging Roger Stone

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emptywheel
A lot has gone on during the three months during which Roger Stone aide Andrew Miller has refused to appear before the Mueller grand jury.
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About That Styx Thing, A Re-Thinking

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bmaz
Had a busy day yesterday and then came to the stark understanding that a significant contributor to this blog had included a Styx Grand Illusion video in a post. I am hoping you can imagine my dismay! I still have not recovered. I just....I…
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The Russian NRA Spy: "Just Remember that It's a Grand Illusion"

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emptywheel
JD Gordon and Mariia Butina went to hear a live version of Styx' the Grand Illusion together in the heat of campaign season.
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GRU's Alice Donovan Persona Warned of a WannaCry-Like Event a Year before It Happened

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emptywheel
One of the articles serially published by the Alice Donovan persona attributed to GRU in the DNC hack indictment seems to have predicted global ransomeware attacks that would be launched a year later.
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Lawfare's Theory of L'Affaire Russe Misses the Kompromat for the Pee Glee

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emptywheel
As I disclosed last month, I provided information to the FBI on issues related to the Mueller investigation, so I’m going to include disclosure statements on Mueller investigation posts from here on out. I will include the disclosure…
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How ABC Broke a Story about Mueller LIMITING Questions on Obstruction and Claimed It Showed a Focus on Obstruction

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emptywheel
Why does the press treat statements Trump and Rudy make that the rest of us see as lies, but claims they present as big secrets as the truth? Robert Mueller is not focused on Trump primarily about obstruction and hasn't been for many months.
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The Non-EDVA Manafort Thread: Paulie Continues to Work for His Pardon

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emptywheel
Paul Manafort seems to be doing what he has been doing since he was first indicted: doing as much damage to Mueller's credibility (and now Rick Gates), as well as collecting information about the evidence Mueller has showing the conspiracy he and Trump engaged in with Russia to help him get elected, all in hopes he'll get a pardon for his troubles.
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Without Integrity: The Debunking of the Metadata Debunkers

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emptywheel
As I laid out a few weeks ago, I provided information to the FBI on issues related to the Mueller investigation, so I’m going to include disclosure statements on Mueller investigation posts from here on out. I will include the disclosure…
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