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      • narp@feddit.org
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        17 hours ago

        Yeah, the reason being:

        Third, the investigation established that several individuals affiliated with the Trump Campaign lied to the Office, and to Congress, about their interactions with Russian-affiliated individuals and related matters. Those lies materially impaired the investigation of Russian election interference. The Office charged some of those lies as violations of the federal false-statements statute. Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying about his interactions with Russian Ambassador Kislyak during the transition period. George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy advisor during the campaign period, pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about, inter alia, the nature and timing of his interactions with Joseph Mifsud, the professor who told Papadopoulos that the Russians had dirt on candidate Clinton in the form of thousands of emails. Former Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to making false statements to Congress about the Trump Moscow project.>

        • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
          1·
          16 hours ago

          Ok, so you’re taking the fact that the entire Mueller investigation could produce nothing showing meaningful Russian interference to be an issue as proof that there was meaningful Russian interference?

          The only charges that came out were perjury.

          • narp@feddit.org
            1·
            13 hours ago

            No… There is simply no doubt that there was Russian interference:

            As set forth in detail in this report, the Special Counsel’s investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election principally through two operations. First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Second, a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the Clinton Campaign and then released stolen documents. The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign.

            On February 16, 2018, a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment charging 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities— including the Internet Research Agency (IRA) and Concord Management and Consulting LLC (Concord)—with violating U.S. criminal laws in order to interfere with U.S. elections and political processes.

            The Mueller investigation couldn’t bring criminal charges of conspiracy against Manafort & co., but they obviously had contact and were found guilty lying about it.

            But sure, giving these people the benefit of the doubt is completely normal behavior in 2026. You go on defending them as much as you want.

            • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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              3 hours ago

              Yes, Russia spent $100,000 on Facebook ads. And probably was tied in with stealing emails. And?

              You’re moving goalposts here. There’s absolutely no evidence in Mueller or elsewhere that (a) Trump is a Russian agent (he’s quite possible of being an evil idiot on his own), or (b) that Russian actions in any way altered the results of the 2016 election.

              and were found guilty lying about it.

              They were found guilty of lying. The fact that’s ALL they were found guilty of is why the Mueller report was such a flop.

              You go on defending them as much as you want.

              I’m not defending anyone. I’m tired of watching supposed “resistance” to Trump and the GOP fascism be squandered on this idiotic conspiracy theory because it makes people like you feel like you’re living in a Le Carre novel.