Back in 2017 the story broke that Trump and his goons tried to get damaging information on Hillary Clinton from a Russian government official. The emails were clear solicitation of foreign interference with a presidential election. You know, the whole “if it is what you say, we love it” thing, which must be illegal.
Now he’s getting indicted for some of the other blatantly illegal things he did while president. So what’s going on with that one?
I get that there were probably hundreds of illegal things he did, and some will never get prosecuted, but this seemed like one of the worst, and most red-handed of them all.
Is it just being forgotten or did I miss something?
Report concluded that there might have been illegal activity, but he doesn’t have authority to do anything about it, so he referred his findings and those that had power to do anything about it didn’t.
Full report: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5955118-The-Mueller-Report
It was Trump Jr and Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign manager.
Robert Mueller investigated the incident for the Justice dept. He concluded Jr. was to dumb to know what he was doing. This isn’t plausible because he had Manafort advising him.
They called someone during the meeting, probably Donnie Sr, but it hasn’t been proved.
Manafort was convicted on charges but I don’t think they were related to this incident.
Mueller obviously intended to never prosecute anyone in the Trump family.
Why you brin’ing up old shit?
Pretty much because all these indictments are also bringing up stuff that happened a few years ago. It’s clear that it just takes that long to do the whole process, and maybe they had to wait until after he was president anyway. So I started thinking about all the other shit he did, and this one stood out as one of the worst.
