On Friday December 7, the Special Counsel’s Office headed by Robert Mueller for the first time outlined in a court filing the grand narrative of the Russia Probe. The court filing revealed what many had long suspected, that Trump and his family had used, or tried to use, his presidential candidacy, and then his presidency, to enhance their own wealth. We also learned finally what hold Russian President Vladimir Putin has over Trump. It’s not as some suspected, a money laundering episode from more than a decade ago. It was something that happened in real time during the presidential election itself. Thus, Trump himself repeatedly stated since entering the presidential race in June 2015 that he had no business in Russia and no interactions with representatives of Russia. It now turns out that Putin knew what the American people didn’t, namely that Donald Trump was throughout the 2016 presidential primary campaign secretly negotiating to build a huge and lucrative hotel in Moscow, which required the personal support of Vladimir Putin. The fact that Putin knew about Trump’s secret dealings, while the American people didn’t, meant that if Trump didn’t do what Russia wanted, Russia could expose Trump’s lies and so bring him down.
The filing revealed that Mueller’s Office is now investigating the hypothesis that Donald Trump, his campaign, his organization and his associates participated in a massive election fraud, through five interlocking conspiracies—arguably the worst set of crimes against the United States in its history.
Where’s The Crime That Trump Supposedly Committed?
Trump’s defenders—and Donald Trump himself—contend that the Special Counsel has yet to allege, let alone prove, that Trump committed a crime in the sense that “Trump’s fingerprints are on the murder weapon.” There’s no “smoking gun.”
What these contentions overlook is the law of criminal conspiracy.
Guilt in a criminal conspiracy doesn’t require that every participant in the conspiracy commit a criminal act. All it requires is that there is an agreement by two or more people to commit a criminal act and that at least one of the co- conspirators commits an overt act towards the accomplishment of the conspiracy. Nor is it necessary that the goal of the conspiracy has been successfully accomplished: it is enough if at least one overt step has been taken towards implementing the conspiracy. Nor is it necessary that co-conspirators know the identity of the other members of the conspiracy. Nor does the conspiracy have to be planned in secret.
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Poster Comment:
A very clear explanation as to what the author believes is going on in the Office of the Special Council.
Worth the read!
DS45 lifting of Russian sanctions,
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/politics/sanctions-oleg-deripaska-russia- trump.html
and handing over Syria to Putin,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trumps-surprise-syria- pullout-is-a-giant-christmas-gift-to-our-enemies/2018/12/19/c032c7e4-03ae-11e9- b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c92f8adc0636
Can now be seen in a different light.....
