Thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome, everyone, to the last gas of the russia collusion Conspiracy Theory. As democrats continue to foist the spectacle on the American People, as well as you, mr. Mueller, the American People may recall the media first began spreading this Conspiracy Theory in the spring of 2016. When the fusion gps, funded by the dnc and the elder Clinton Campaign, started developing the Steele Dossier. A collection of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russian agents. Effusion gps, steel, and other confederates and to top officials in numerous agencies, quitting the fbi, the apartment of justice, and the state department. Among other things, the fbi used dusty allegations to obtain a
warrant to spy on the Trump Campaign. Despite acknowledging dusty allegations as being salacious and unverified, former fbi director james comey briefed those allegations to President Obama and president elect trump. This briefings conveniently leaked to the press. Laun
speak of this attack on our democracy, as you said, involve two operations. first, a social media disinformation campaign. this was a targeted campaign to spread false information on places like twitter and facebook. is that correct? because that s correct. facebook estimated prereport of the russian fake images reached 126 million people. is that correct? i believe that is the sum we recorded. director, who did the russian social media campaign ultimately intended benefit? hillary clinton or donald trump? donald trump. the second operation i can say donald trump him but there were instances where hillary clinton was subject to much the same behavior. the second was a scheme, will be called the hack and dump to steal and release hundreds of thousands of emails from the democratic party and the clinton campaign. is that a fair summary? that is. did your investigations find that the releases of the hacked emails were strategically timed
look for the nra. why trump called on her, i still don t know. but what do you see in this suggestion? what i see is how i have been making sense of mueller s investigation since it began which is that russia s active measures had four main threads. one was a social media disinformation campaign. that s one thread. you have another which is the hacking of the dnc server. another is political influence and using agents to charm and bring in people in positions of power and then a campaign finance thread. we have seen indictments and charges brought on the first three threads. the social media, the hacking, the political influence with butina and what this is is a little tidbit that mueller is, in fact, looking into this potential fourth thread of whether russia may have channelled illegally foreign funds into a federal campaign in
money than they usually do. the butina connection, not a good look for the nra. what do you see in this suggestion? what i see is how i have been making sense of mueller s investigation since it began, which is that russia s active measures had four main threads. one was a social media disinformation campaign, and then the hacking of the dnc server, and political influence using agents to try and charm and bring in people in positions of power, and then you have a campaign finance thread. so far we have seen charges and indictments brought on the first three threads, and i think what this is is a little tidbit that mueller is, in fact, looking into this fourth thread of whether russia may have channelled illegally foreign
what i heard was him specialessy conceding there was collusion in the campaign. which contradicts everything he has been saying. we have been hearing for the last year and a half that the mueller investigation was a witch hunt. and what he s done is vindicated the core purpose of the investigation. and remember, that investigation was later expanded. and rod rosenstein authorized that. that was a complaint also. looks like there was a basis. finally if you remember, spy gate. the whole idea there was no reason to go into the campaign. if they are conceding there was a reason to believe members of the campaign were colluding with russia, clearly the fbi had a basis to use a tactic a source to discover more information. i have been very hard on saying don t get stuck on this it has to be a crime to be wrong. if it comes into whether politicians want to act on it.