Senate Agrees with Mueller

So there you have it, folks.  The Repugnants in the Senate did their own investigation of the Russian Connection, and the one thousand page report they released after three years of work confirm what Robert Mueller told us last year.  The Heel and his gang of grifters were in cahoots with the Russians.  As summarized by the New York Times: The Russian government undertook an extensive campaign to try to sabotage the 2016 American election to help Mr. Trump become president, and some members of Mr. Trump’s circle of advisers were open to the help from an American adversary.  The extensive report is a rare work product of a bipartisan Senate committee headed by a Repugnant, Richard Burr of North Carolina.

For the first time a key contact of former campaign chair, Robert Manafort, Vladimir Kalimnik, is identified as a Russian intelligence officer.  Manafort shared confidential campaign information with Kalimnik.  The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Kilimnik likely served as a channel to Manafort for Russian intelligence services, and that those services likely sought to exploit Manafort's access to gain insight [into] the Campaign," The Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee tied Kalimnik to the GRU, the Russian military intelligence unit that conducted the hacking operation against the Democratic National Committee in 2016. The Senate committee deemed Manafort's many contacts with Russian operatives a "grave counter-intelligence threat".

After years of work, Robert Mueller had previously identified dozens of contacts between Trump minions and Russian operatives which the Democrats in the House of Representatives labeled "collusion"*. Their impeachment effort confined largely to a single phone call, ran into a partisan stone wall in the Senate.  Regime sycophants like William Barr have spent the last year and a half denigrating Mueller's efforts by attempting to frame the investigation of the Russian Connection as a politically motivated "hoax".  The IG for what used to be the Department of Justice has found that the original FBI counterintelligence operation that gave birth to the entire scandal was based on probable cause.  Mueller's latter work has now received the Senate's bipartisan imprimatur.

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*The committee report describes an April 2016 meeting that GOP Congressman Dana Rohrabacher had in Moscow with Vladimir Yakunin, the former president of Russian Railways and a close confidant of Putin. Yakunin at the time was under US sanctions. The committee said that Yakunin “is significantly involved in Russian influence activities, including those targeting elections.” Much of the report’s information on Yakunin is redacted.  On the question of possible Kompromat in the possession of Russia, The report goes far beyond the infamous “pee tape” rumor. It states that Trump “may have” begun a short affair with a former Miss Moscow during a 1996 trip to Moscow—without reaching a firm conclusion.  Regarding the role of Roger Stone, who's sentence the Heel commuted, the committee laid out a range of evidence that Mr. Stone was focused on WikiLeaks. He and Mr. Trump had spoken a few days earlier, on Sept. 29, also on an aide’s phone. Another campaign aide, Rick Gates, witnessed it and told investigators that the two men discussed WikiLeaks. After that call, Mr. Trump told Mr. Gates that “more releases of damaging information would be coming.” From March to November 2016, court records show Mr. Stone had 39 calls with the Chief Apprentice.  According to the Senate report the campaign considered the leak of the intercepted emails to be its "October Surprise".