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You can also, as before, find the indictments and convictions (with hundreds of pages of attached evidence) from the investigation: https://www.justice.gov/sco
by jkoudys 8y ago
You can also, as before, find the indictments and convictions (with hundreds of pages of attached evidence) from the investigation: https://www.justice.gov/sco https://www.justice.gov/sco
Numerous convictions for top-level members of the campaign. Detailed operations of the Internet Research Agency, including the many US identities stolen and their work with Cambridge Analytica. Indictments against the "Russian Lawyer" from the Trump Tower meeting that imply she's a spy. Over $60M taken from pro-Russian sources leading up to the invasion of Crimea, that was laundered through NYC real estate.
Don't go into reading the report thinking you'll find something new in there that'll blow your mind. You've already had plenty of giant scandals sitting on a public government server for months.
- jchw 8y agoI don't know why anyone expected this to be a bombshell. If what we knew already wasn't enough, I have no idea what it would actually take to end this presidency. On the flip side, I have the strangest feeling we're going to see better polling numbers during the next U.S. presidential election.
- rootusrootus 8y agoIMO it's not much different than the situation with Nixon. It took an explicit, textbook demonstration of obstruction of justice, printed on paper and signed by the president, before the tide turned against him. Edit: It was tape recording, not paper. Not sure how I forgot that detail.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoI was a bit too young to follow Watergate in detail. Could you be more explicit about what the president signed?
- berbec 8y agoI believe it wasn't actual paper, but the release of the tapes with transcripts.
- rootusrootus 8y agoMy memory is a bit crap this morning it seems. Wasn't on paper, it was a tape. I was thinking of the transcripts but those were only released in redacted form. The actual tape recorded Nixon ordering the acting head of the FBI to halt the investigation. Up until that moment Nixon was pretty safe, congress was held by Republicans. But there was no escaping the obstruction of justice when that tape was released on August 5, 1974, and he resigned a few days later.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoAh, OK. I remember the tapes.