{"id":135232,"date":"2017-10-31T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135232"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:37:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T02:37:45","slug":"look-monday-mueller-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/31\/look-monday-mueller-moves.html","title":{"rendered":"A look at the Monday Mueller moves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amidst the various breathless commentary out there, this article seems the clearest on what actually got announced and what it presently means (certainly more so than random Presidential tweets).<\/p>\n

Before we dive any deeper into the Manafort-Gates indictment\u2014charges to which both pled not guilty to Monday\u2014or the Papadopoulos plea and stipulation, let\u2019s pause a moment over these two remarkable claims, one of which still must be considered as allegation and the other of which can now be considered as admitted fact. President Trump, in short, had on his campaign at least one person, and allegedly two people, who actively worked with adversarial foreign governments in a fashion they sought to criminally conceal from investigators. One of them ran the campaign. The other, meanwhile, was interfacing with people he \u201cunderstood to have substantial connections to Russian government officials\u201d and with a person introduced to him as \u201ca relative of Russian President Vladimir Putin with connections to senior Russian government officials.\u201d All of this while President Trump was assuring the American people that he and his campaign had “nothing to do with Russia.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And remember — these were the opening<\/i> moves.<\/p>\n


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\nRobert Mueller\u2019s Show of Strength: A Quick and Dirty Analysis<\/a><\/span>
\nAny hope the White House may have had that the Mueller investigation might be fading away vanished Monday morning. Things are only going to get worse from here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amidst the various breathless commentary out there, this article seems the clearest on what actually got announced and what it presently means (certainly more so than random Presidential tweets). Before we dive any deeper into the Manafort-Gates indictment\u2014charges to which both pled not guilty to Monday\u2014or the Papadopoulos plea and stipulation, let\u2019s pause a moment … Continue reading “A look at the Monday Mueller moves”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532,1071],"tags":[1078,1077],"class_list":["post-135232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","category-trump","tag-russia","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mueller.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133429,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/08\/trump-finally-scrubs-muslim-ban-language-from-his-campaign-website.html","url_meta":{"origin":135232,"position":0},"title":"Trump finally scrubs "Muslim ban" language from his campaign website","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 8-May-17 9:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that it's like nobody will remember Trump talked about banning Muslims from coming to the US, but it took a \"fake media\" press question asking why, if the current Trump Muslim-ish travel bans aren't about banning Muslims from coming to the US, those campaign statements aren't still out there\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127662,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/23\/donald-trump-the-living-overton-window-shifter.html","url_meta":{"origin":135232,"position":1},"title":"Donald Trump: The Living Overton Window Shifter","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 23-Aug-15 11:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The continued polling success of Donald Trump is beginning to spell more than how people react to a well-known person running for office. 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