Giuliani said that Rick Gates was supposedly at this pre-meeting that theoretically occured. If that's true, Mueller already knows about it because Rick Gates has flipped.

Don Jr testified that his dad didn't know about the meeting. If there was a second meeting in which the Trump team strategeized about their meeting with the Russians, it's more likely that this was a bigger deal in the Trump campaign than what Don Jr. originally said (nothingburger, 20 minutes, only took it as a favor for a friend).

Additionally, Don Jr. called a blocked number before and after the Trump Tower meeting. Then-candidate Trump had no public events that day and spent his day at Trump Tower. Congressional Republicans refuse to subpoena this information. If Democrats win the House in November, they will likely find out who it was Don Jr called before and after the meeting.

>when you realize Democrats have hanged all of their hopes dreams on this investigation.
>and then the investigation eventually ends as a nothingburger
>such a flood of commie tears has never before been seen
>reeeeeee-ing throughout the streets

Some interesting twitter threads:

Russiagate:
https://twitter.com/vermontgmg/status/1024651192331395072

Summary of Manafort day 2 by former federal prosecutor(follow this guy for Manafort trial insights):
https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1024800529967456257





Ghot, could you explain to us what this story implies?



Derp.

This post was edited by IceMage on Aug 2 2018 06:55am

You literally have two years of butthurt invested in this now and all you have is Manafort, a Republican who has been breaking the law for like twenty years. I don't even think he would get pardoned.

The Trump cult is still obsessed over jailing Hillary... and she's not even under investigation anymore. Sad!

so uh, why is Mueller's team prosecuting Manafort for FARA violations and tax evasion related to the exact same ukrainian lobbying as Podesta / Vin Weber / other guy

What you quoted contains the answer.

if the Ukrainian lobbying is the 'russian end of the probe', then Podesta / Weber would be wrapped up in it.
but it has dick-all to do with "russian interference in the 2016 election", something we can say with a lot more certainty now that Mueller has presented his evidence at trial and makes no such allegation

I mean it'd be helpful but considering we've gone all the way from 'never met with russians' to 'ok met with russians but no collusion' to 'ok collusion but collusion isn't a crime' I think all we have to do is wait another couple of months and Trump will be tweeting out 'OK we colluded with the Russians to undermine the election but if we didn't Hillary would have won and who wants that?'

Between Trump's tweets and Giuliani's TV interviews they're pretty much gonna admit to the whole thing anyway. Oh and don't forget Don Jr. Recently he seems to be tweeting under supervision but we know he's capable of saying some really dumb and incriminating shit too... eg. emails and Trump firing McCabe due to Nunes memo.

This post was edited by Scaly on Aug 2 2018 07:19am