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HoosQ

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In fact, an accurate summary (IMO) would be


1 - Can't indict a sitting president (from Volume 2 summary)
2 - Ignorance IS above the law. Trump campaign officials violated aspects of conspiracy law, but didn't do so "knowingly" because they didn't know the law - how blissful. (see quote from report below...
3 - In the obstruction area particularly, President Trump repeatedly attempted to obstruct, but his administration saved the day by ignoring his direction. (Lots of evidence in Volume 2 that occurred once the President discovered he was in fact under investigation.)

So basically the Orange Julius Seize Her is still in office due to ignorance and incompetence. The good news is, the law of the land is being followed and THAT is very good news. The best anyone could hope for out of this mess!!

Also, unless his successor pardons him, he is knee deep in do-do once he leaves office.

As promised regarding conspiracy...(pages 185-196)
"In brief, the key facts are that, on June 3, 2016, Robert Goldstone emailed Donald Trump Jr., to pass along from Emin and Aras Agalarov an "offer" from Russia's "Crown prosecutor" to "the Trump campaign" of "official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to [Trump Jr.'s] father." The email described this as "very high level and sensitive information" that is "part of Russia and its government's support to Mr. Trump-helped along by Aras and Emin." Trump Jr. responded: "if it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer." Trump Jr. and Emin Agalarov had follow-up conversations and, within days, scheduled a meeting with Russian representatives that was attended by Trump Jr., Manafort, and Kushner. The communications setting up the meeting and the attendance by high-level Campaign representatives support an inference that the Campaign anticipated receiving derogatory documents and information from official Russian sources that could assist candidate Trump's electoral prospects.
This series of events could implicate the federal election-law ban on contributions and donations by foreign nationals, 52 U.S.C. § 30121(a)(1)(A). Specifically, Goldstone passed along an offer purportedly from a Russian government official to provide "official documents and information" to the Trump Campaign for the purposes of influencing the presidential election. Trump Jr. appears to have accepted that offer and to have arranged a meeting to receive those materials. Documentary evidence in the form of email chains supports the inference that Kushner and Manafort were aware of that purpose and attended the June 9 meeting anticipating the receipt of helpful information to the Campaign from Russian sources.
The Office considered whether this evidence would establish a conspiracy to violate the foreign contributions ban, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371; the solicitation of an illegal foreign-source contribution; or the acceptance or receipt of "an express or implied promise to make a

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U.S. Department of Justice
// May Contain Material Protected Under Fcd. R. Crim. P. 6(c)
[foreign-source] contribution," both in violation of 52 U.S.C. § 30121(a)(1)(A), (a)(2). There are reasonable arguments that the offered information would constitute a "thing of value" within the meaning of these provisions, but the Office determined that the government would not be likely to obtain and sustain a conviction for two other reasons: first, the Office did not obtain admissible evidence likely to meet the government's burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that these individuals acted "willfully," i.e., with general knowledge of the illegality of their conduct; and, second, the government would likely encounter difficulty in proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the value of the promised information exceeded the threshold for a criminal violation, see 52 U.S.C. § 30109(d)(1)(A)(i)."

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Posted: 04/19/2019 at 09:00AM



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