FrantzHardySwag Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 31 minutes ago, Archy1221 said: https://freebeacon.com/national-security/disclosed-how-obama-administration-officials-conducted-shadow-diplomacy-with-iran-to-undermine-trump/ Senior Obama administration officials engaged in a secret meeting with Iran in 2018 as part of an effort to undermine the Trump administration's diplomatic push to isolate the hardline regime, according to an internal State Department document. Pompeo's group the whistle blower on this? Didn't he just visit the President of Taiwan? 23 minutes ago, RedDenver said: If this was without the knowledge of the administration, then I hope the official(s) are charged the same as Flynn. Flynn was charged with lying to the FBI, right? Not violating the Logan Act? Link to comment
RedDenver Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 6 minutes ago, FrantzHardySwag said: Pompeo's group the whistle blower on this? Didn't he just visit the President of Taiwan? Flynn was charged with lying to the FBI, right? Not violating the Logan Act? And Flynn was pardoned, so hopefully we see the same level of "justice". Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 1 hour ago, RedDenver said: And Flynn was pardoned, so hopefully we see the same level of "justice". And same level of investigation. 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 17 minutes ago, Archy1221 said: And same level of investigation. Which "Obama officials" were at that meeting? And what was the "undermining" that has the MAGAverse in a froth? Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 3 minutes ago, knapplc said: Which "Obama officials" were at that meeting? And what was the "undermining" that has the MAGAverse in a froth? I don’t think you will get much feedback asking a question that way. LOL. 2 Link to comment
knapplc Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 47 minutes ago, Archy1221 said: I don’t think you will get much feedback asking a question that way. LOL. I figured you didn't know, because none of the articles said who it was. They tried to imply it was Kerry, but if they knew they would have said. At this point it's fair to doubt the veracity of any of those articles. Nothing in that memo "undermined" the cheeto. 1 Link to comment
Scarlet Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 Another frothy froth gone to waste. What a shame. Whelp, on to the next conspiracy theory. Full MAGAt ahead!! 1 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 13 minutes ago, Scarlet said: LOL. Elie must not have followed the information that actually came out in the trial. Plus you had this as a jury… 2 1 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 24 minutes ago, Archy1221 said: LOL. Elie must not have followed the information that actually came out in the trial. Plus you had this as a jury… Prosecutors had veto power over any of the jury pool candidates. Either Durham intentionally stacked the jury so the guy he's trying to prosecute walked, or Turley is lying. Or - and hear me out here, because this is a radical concept - OR, there was never any criming here. Regardless, Durham can continue to look for the real killers to his heart's content. 1 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 (edited) We're three years into the Durham Probe. He has zilch (0) to show for his efforts thus far, including one embarrassingly failed prosecution. How does that stack up against the Mueller Probe that our righty political hacks got so frothed about? Durham Probe Timeline April 12, 2019 – A top Barr aide spoke with DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to explain what appeared to be the start of Durham's probe. May 13, 2019 – It became public that Barr tapped Durham to probe issues related to the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation. May 23, 2019 – Trump said Barr asked him to direct intelligence officials to cooperate with the probe into surveillance during the 2016 election.' Trump authorized Barr to declassify and downgrade information related to the probe. July 25, 2019 – Trump held his infamous phone call with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, revealing Trump may have referred to the Durham probe when he asked Kyiv for help and insisted Zelensky speak with Barr and Rudy Giuliani. October 19, 2019 – Two articles came out indicating Durham interviewed two dozen FBI officials. October 24, 2019 – The New York Times broke the news that the Durham inquiry was now a criminal investigation. December 2019 – Durham was revealed to be examining the role of the Obama-era CIA director John Brennan in how the intelligence community assessed Russia's 2016 election interference. April 2020 – Durham's probe proceeded despite the pandemic. April 10, 2020 – Barr said Durham's 'primary focus... is looking to bring to justice people who are engaged in abuses if he can show that they were criminal violations.' April 24, 2020 – Probe shifted to looking at leaks within the Trump administration that prompted chaos in his early years. May 18, 2020 – Barr said during a press conference that neither Obama nor Biden was the focus of Durham's criminal probe. September 2021 – Durham issued new set of subpoenas, including to a law firm with close ties to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. September 17, 2021 – Cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann pleaded not guilty in federal court. He was indicted for lying to the FBI in a 2016 meeting where he shared information related to ties between the Trump Organization and Russia's Alfa Bank. He said he wasn't working for a client but was hired by Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. November 2021 – Durham charged Russian-born analyst Igor Danchenko with lying to the FBI in fabricating a sources for the Steele dossier. He pleaded not guilty to five counts of making false statements to a federal agent. February 11, 2022 – Durham filing reveals Clinton paid tp have Trump Tower and White House servers hacked to 'fabricate' ties between Trump and Russia. February 2022 – Trump-era Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe reveals Durham thinks there is 'enough evidence' to indict 'several more people.' He also said Obama and Biden were briefed on the Clinton revelations in 2016. May 2022 - Jury finds Sussmann not guilty of lying to the FBI about misrepresenting himself when he provided debunked claims of a secret backchannel between Trump and the Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank. Charges - 1 Indictments - 1 Guilty Pleas - 0 Convictions - 0 Referrals - 0 Prison Sentences - 0 Length - Three years (and counting) Mueller Probe Timeline May 17: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appoints Robert Mueller as special counsel to the Russia probe. June 14: Mueller's probe expands to investigate Trump for possible obstruction of justice. Oct. 30: Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates are indicted on 12 counts, including conspiracy against the U.S. and money laundering. The same day, Trump's former campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, pleads guilty to making false statements to the FBI regarding his contact with Russian leadership. He later claims he misled agents to protect the president. Dec. 1: Former national security advisor Michael Flynn pleads guilty to "willfully and knowingly [making] false, fictitious and fraudulent statements and representations" to the FBI regarding his conversations with Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak. 2018 Feb. 16: Mueller indicts 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for violating criminal laws to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election. The same day, Richard Pinedo pleads guilty to identity fraud for selling bank account numbers to Russians involved in election interference. Feb. 20: Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan pleads guilty after being charged on Feb. 16 with lying to FBI investigators about his interactions with Rick Gates and an unidentified individual, labeled "Person A" in court documents. Feb. 22: Mueller files 32 new financial charges, including money laundering and bank fraud, against Manafort and Gates in the Eastern District of Virginia. Feb. 23: Gates pleads guilty to conspiracy and lying to investigators. A federal grand jury also brings a superseding indictment against Manafort, alleging he "secretly retained a group of former senior European politicians to take positions favorable to Ukraine, including by lobbying in the United States." March 15: Manafort's lawyers file a motion to dismiss Mueller's D.C. indictment. March 27: Manafort's legal team files a motion to dismiss Mueller's Virginia indictment. April 3: Alex van der Zwaan is sentenced to 30 days in prison and $20,000 in fines for lying to FBI investigators. The decision marks the first sentencing in Mueller's probe. April 9: The home, hotel room and office of Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen is raided by FBI agents. June 8: Mueller brings new charges against former Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik, a former aide to Manafort who has been suspected of having ties to Russian intelligence. The charges against both Manafort and Kilimnik include conspiracy and obstruction of justice in an alleged attempt to influence other testimonies. Mueller also charges Manafort with conspiracy to launder money, acting as an unregistered foreign agent and lying to authorities against Manafort. July 13: Mueller indicts 12 Russian military intelligence officers for hacking and releasing Democratic emails during the 2016 campaign. Aug. 21: Manafort is found guilty by a Virginia jury on eight counts of fraud. That same day, Cohen pleads guilty in a Manhattan courtroom to eight counts related to tax fraud and campaign finance violations related to the Southern District of New York's investigation. Over the next few months, Cohen reportedly spent more than 70 hours in interviews with the special counsel. Sept. 7: Papadopoulos is sentenced to 14 days in prison for lying to the FBI. Sept. 14: Manafort pleads guilty to charges brought by the special counsel and enters into a "cooperation agreement." Nov. 8: Attorney General Jeff Sessions submits his resignation at the request of President Trump. Sessions' chief of staff Matthew Whitaker, a public critic of the Mueller investigation, is appointed acting AG. Nov. 20: Trump's lawyers say they've submitted written answers to questions from the special counsel. Nov. 29: Cohen pleads guilty in the Mueller investigation to lying to Congress about the length and scope of his work on plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Trump's business entanglements are publicly brought into the Mueller investigation for the first time, with Trump himself reportedly referred to as "Individual 1" in court documents. Dec. 4: Mueller files a memo recommending no prison time for Flynn, citing his "substantial assistance" and cooperation in the special counsel's investigation. Dec. 7: Prosecutors from New York’s Southern District recommend a "substantial term of imprisonment" for Michael Cohen for campaign finance and tax violations, as well as lying to Congress, despite his cooperation with the investigation. Mueller also filed a memo on Cohen stating that he is not taking a position on what amount of prison time Cohen should serve, but said "any sentence of incarceration" the court in New York recommends would be "appropriate." Mueller filed a second document revealing that Manafort lied to the FBI and the Special Counsel's Office about his contact with administration officials, a Russian political consultant, a wire transfer, and information related to another DOJ investigation. Dec. 12: Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison on charges related to campaign finance violations, tax evasion and lying to Congress. In his guilty plea, Cohen claimed then-candidate Donald Trump directed him in 2016 to pay hush money to two women who alleged affairs. 2019 Jan. 25: Roger Stone, a longtime Trump associate, was arrested following an indictment in the Mueller investigation. Feb. 15: Mueller's team recommended that Manafort should serve between 19.5 and 24.5 years in prison in a court filing. Feb. 22: Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a full gag order in Stone's case, after he posted an Instagram photo of her with a crosshairs symbol near her head. Feb. 23: Mueller filed an 800+ page sentencing memo for Paul Manafort, in which he called Trump's former campaign manager a "hardened" criminal who "repeatedly and brazenly" broke the law for over a decade, even after being indicted. Manafort will be sentenced in two separate cases next month, and could spend the rest of his life in prison. March 8: President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced in a Virginia court to 4 years in prison for financial crimes including bank fraud, tax fraud and hiding a foreign bank account. Prosecutors for the Mueller investigation had earlier put sentencing guidelines for Manafort at 19 to 24 years. He still faces sentencing next week in a separate case in Washington, D.C. March 22: Attorney General Bill Barr received Mueller's report, marking the end of the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible obstruction of justice by President Trump. March 24: After reviewing the report, Barr sent a summary to Congress saying: "[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." On the question of obstruction of justice, Barr wrote that while Mueller's report "does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him." April 18: Barr releases a redacted version of the Mueller report. April 30: It emerges Mueller told Barr his 4-page summary to Congress failed to "fully capture" the findings, prompting Democrats to step up criticism of the attorney general. House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) sends a criminal referral to the Justice Department for informal Trump campaign adviser Erik Prince, who Schiff believes "willfully misled" the committee during 2017 testimony. Barr releases a prepared statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of his testimony before the panel on May 1. May 29: Mueller announces that the "investigation is complete" and that he would resigning as special counsel in the first public statement since his appointment. He addressed the decision not to charge Trump, saying, "If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so." He added that under DOJ guidelines that it was never an option to charge Trump with a crime. Mueller left the door open on testifying before Congress in the future, but indicated that his testimony would not go beyond what was already outlined in his report. June 25: Mueller agrees to testify publicly before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees pursuant to a subpoena on July 17. Charges - 199 Indictments/Guilty Pleas - 37 Referrals - 14 Prison Sentences - 5 Length - Just under two years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edited June 1, 2022 by knapplc Linky-dinky-doo! 4 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 1 hour ago, knapplc said: Prosecutors had veto power over any of the jury pool candidates. Either Durham intentionally stacked the jury so the guy he's trying to prosecute walked, or Turley is lying. Or - and hear me out here, because this is a radical concept - OR, there was never any criming here. Regardless, Durham can continue to look for the real killers to his heart's content. 90% of DC voted against Trump. The jury pool was going to vote not guilty even when presented direct text messages showing timelines, law billing receipts showing timelines, expense receipts for thumb drives with timelines on the receipts all because the jury forewoman says there are more important things to prosecute than lying to the FBI. 2 2 1 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 1 hour ago, knapplc said: We're three years into the Durham Probe. He has zilch (0) to show for his efforts thus far, including one embarrassingly failed prosecution. How does that stack up against the Mueller Probe that our righty political hacks got so frothed about? Durham Probe Timeline April 12, 2019 – A top Barr aide spoke with DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to explain what appeared to be the start of Durham's probe. May 13, 2019 – It became public that Barr tapped Durham to probe issues related to the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation. May 23, 2019 – Trump said Barr asked him to direct intelligence officials to cooperate with the probe into surveillance during the 2016 election.' Trump authorized Barr to declassify and downgrade information related to the probe. July 25, 2019 – Trump held his infamous phone call with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, revealing Trump may have referred to the Durham probe when he asked Kyiv for help and insisted Zelensky speak with Barr and Rudy Giuliani. October 19, 2019 – Two articles came out indicating Durham interviewed two dozen FBI officials. October 24, 2019 – The New York Times broke the news that the Durham inquiry was now a criminal investigation. December 2019 – Durham was revealed to be examining the role of the Obama-era CIA director John Brennan in how the intelligence community assessed Russia's 2016 election interference. April 2020 – Durham's probe proceeded despite the pandemic. April 10, 2020 – Barr said Durham's 'primary focus... is looking to bring to justice people who are engaged in abuses if he can show that they were criminal violations.' April 24, 2020 – Probe shifted to looking at leaks within the Trump administration that prompted chaos in his early years. May 18, 2020 – Barr said during a press conference that neither Obama nor Biden was the focus of Durham's criminal probe. September 2021 – Durham issued new set of subpoenas, including to a law firm with close ties to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. September 17, 2021 – Cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann pleaded not guilty in federal court. He was indicted for lying to the FBI in a 2016 meeting where he shared information related to ties between the Trump Organization and Russia's Alfa Bank. He said he wasn't working for a client but was hired by Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. November 2021 – Durham charged Russian-born analyst Igor Danchenko with lying to the FBI in fabricating a sources for the Steele dossier. He pleaded not guilty to five counts of making false statements to a federal agent. February 11, 2022 – Durham filing reveals Clinton paid tp have Trump Tower and White House servers hacked to 'fabricate' ties between Trump and Russia. February 2022 – Trump-era Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe reveals Durham thinks there is 'enough evidence' to indict 'several more people.' He also said Obama and Biden were briefed on the Clinton revelations in 2016. May 2022 - Jury finds Sussmann not guilty of lying to the FBI about misrepresenting himself when he provided debunked claims of a secret backchannel between Trump and the Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank. Charges - 1 Indictments - 1 Guilty Pleas - 0 Convictions - 0 Referrals - 0 Prison Sentences - 0 Length - Three years (and counting) Mueller Probe Timeline May 17: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appoints Robert Mueller as special counsel to the Russia probe. June 14: Mueller's probe expands to investigate Trump for possible obstruction of justice. Oct. 30: Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates are indicted on 12 counts, including conspiracy against the U.S. and money laundering. The same day, Trump's former campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, pleads guilty to making false statements to the FBI regarding his contact with Russian leadership. He later claims he misled agents to protect the president. Dec. 1: Former national security advisor Michael Flynn pleads guilty to "willfully and knowingly [making] false, fictitious and fraudulent statements and representations" to the FBI regarding his conversations with Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak. 2018 Feb. 16: Mueller indicts 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for violating criminal laws to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election. The same day, Richard Pinedo pleads guilty to identity fraud for selling bank account numbers to Russians involved in election interference. Feb. 20: Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan pleads guilty after being charged on Feb. 16 with lying to FBI investigators about his interactions with Rick Gates and an unidentified individual, labeled "Person A" in court documents. Feb. 22: Mueller files 32 new financial charges, including money laundering and bank fraud, against Manafort and Gates in the Eastern District of Virginia. Feb. 23: Gates pleads guilty to conspiracy and lying to investigators. A federal grand jury also brings a superseding indictment against Manafort, alleging he "secretly retained a group of former senior European politicians to take positions favorable to Ukraine, including by lobbying in the United States." March 15: Manafort's lawyers file a motion to dismiss Mueller's D.C. indictment. March 27: Manafort's legal team files a motion to dismiss Mueller's Virginia indictment. April 3: Alex van der Zwaan is sentenced to 30 days in prison and $20,000 in fines for lying to FBI investigators. The decision marks the first sentencing in Mueller's probe. April 9: The home, hotel room and office of Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen is raided by FBI agents. June 8: Mueller brings new charges against former Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik, a former aide to Manafort who has been suspected of having ties to Russian intelligence. The charges against both Manafort and Kilimnik include conspiracy and obstruction of justice in an alleged attempt to influence other testimonies. Mueller also charges Manafort with conspiracy to launder money, acting as an unregistered foreign agent and lying to authorities against Manafort. July 13: Mueller indicts 12 Russian military intelligence officers for hacking and releasing Democratic emails during the 2016 campaign. Aug. 21: Manafort is found guilty by a Virginia jury on eight counts of fraud. That same day, Cohen pleads guilty in a Manhattan courtroom to eight counts related to tax fraud and campaign finance violations related to the Southern District of New York's investigation. Over the next few months, Cohen reportedly spent more than 70 hours in interviews with the special counsel. Sept. 7: Papadopoulos is sentenced to 14 days in prison for lying to the FBI. Sept. 14: Manafort pleads guilty to charges brought by the special counsel and enters into a "cooperation agreement." Nov. 8: Attorney General Jeff Sessions submits his resignation at the request of President Trump. Sessions' chief of staff Matthew Whitaker, a public critic of the Mueller investigation, is appointed acting AG. Nov. 20: Trump's lawyers say they've submitted written answers to questions from the special counsel. Nov. 29: Cohen pleads guilty in the Mueller investigation to lying to Congress about the length and scope of his work on plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Trump's business entanglements are publicly brought into the Mueller investigation for the first time, with Trump himself reportedly referred to as "Individual 1" in court documents. Dec. 4: Mueller files a memo recommending no prison time for Flynn, citing his "substantial assistance" and cooperation in the special counsel's investigation. Dec. 7: Prosecutors from New York’s Southern District recommend a "substantial term of imprisonment" for Michael Cohen for campaign finance and tax violations, as well as lying to Congress, despite his cooperation with the investigation. Mueller also filed a memo on Cohen stating that he is not taking a position on what amount of prison time Cohen should serve, but said "any sentence of incarceration" the court in New York recommends would be "appropriate." Mueller filed a second document revealing that Manafort lied to the FBI and the Special Counsel's Office about his contact with administration officials, a Russian political consultant, a wire transfer, and information related to another DOJ investigation. Dec. 12: Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison on charges related to campaign finance violations, tax evasion and lying to Congress. In his guilty plea, Cohen claimed then-candidate Donald Trump directed him in 2016 to pay hush money to two women who alleged affairs. 2019 Jan. 25: Roger Stone, a longtime Trump associate, was arrested following an indictment in the Mueller investigation. Feb. 15: Mueller's team recommended that Manafort should serve between 19.5 and 24.5 years in prison in a court filing. Feb. 22: Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a full gag order in Stone's case, after he posted an Instagram photo of her with a crosshairs symbol near her head. Feb. 23: Mueller filed an 800+ page sentencing memo for Paul Manafort, in which he called Trump's former campaign manager a "hardened" criminal who "repeatedly and brazenly" broke the law for over a decade, even after being indicted. Manafort will be sentenced in two separate cases next month, and could spend the rest of his life in prison. March 8: President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced in a Virginia court to 4 years in prison for financial crimes including bank fraud, tax fraud and hiding a foreign bank account. Prosecutors for the Mueller investigation had earlier put sentencing guidelines for Manafort at 19 to 24 years. He still faces sentencing next week in a separate case in Washington, D.C. March 22: Attorney General Bill Barr received Mueller's report, marking the end of the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible obstruction of justice by President Trump. March 24: After reviewing the report, Barr sent a summary to Congress saying: "[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." On the question of obstruction of justice, Barr wrote that while Mueller's report "does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him." April 18: Barr releases a redacted version of the Mueller report. April 30: It emerges Mueller told Barr his 4-page summary to Congress failed to "fully capture" the findings, prompting Democrats to step up criticism of the attorney general. House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) sends a criminal referral to the Justice Department for informal Trump campaign adviser Erik Prince, who Schiff believes "willfully misled" the committee during 2017 testimony. Barr releases a prepared statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of his testimony before the panel on May 1. May 29: Mueller announces that the "investigation is complete" and that he would resigning as special counsel in the first public statement since his appointment. He addressed the decision not to charge Trump, saying, "If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so." He added that under DOJ guidelines that it was never an option to charge Trump with a crime. Mueller left the door open on testifying before Congress in the future, but indicated that his testimony would not go beyond what was already outlined in his report. June 25: Mueller agrees to testify publicly before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees pursuant to a subpoena on July 17. 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nic Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 2 hours ago, knapplc said: We're three years into the Durham Probe. He has zilch (0) to show for his efforts thus far, including one embarrassingly failed prosecution. How does that stack up against the Mueller Probe that our righty political hacks got so frothed about? Durham Probe Timeline April 12, 2019 – A top Barr aide spoke with DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to explain what appeared to be the start of Durham's probe. May 13, 2019 – It became public that Barr tapped Durham to probe issues related to the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation. May 23, 2019 – Trump said Barr asked him to direct intelligence officials to cooperate with the probe into surveillance during the 2016 election.' Trump authorized Barr to declassify and downgrade information related to the probe. July 25, 2019 – Trump held his infamous phone call with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, revealing Trump may have referred to the Durham probe when he asked Kyiv for help and insisted Zelensky speak with Barr and Rudy Giuliani. October 19, 2019 – Two articles came out indicating Durham interviewed two dozen FBI officials. October 24, 2019 – The New York Times broke the news that the Durham inquiry was now a criminal investigation. December 2019 – Durham was revealed to be examining the role of the Obama-era CIA director John Brennan in how the intelligence community assessed Russia's 2016 election interference. April 2020 – Durham's probe proceeded despite the pandemic. April 10, 2020 – Barr said Durham's 'primary focus... is looking to bring to justice people who are engaged in abuses if he can show that they were criminal violations.' April 24, 2020 – Probe shifted to looking at leaks within the Trump administration that prompted chaos in his early years. May 18, 2020 – Barr said during a press conference that neither Obama nor Biden was the focus of Durham's criminal probe. September 2021 – Durham issued new set of subpoenas, including to a law firm with close ties to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. September 17, 2021 – Cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann pleaded not guilty in federal court. He was indicted for lying to the FBI in a 2016 meeting where he shared information related to ties between the Trump Organization and Russia's Alfa Bank. He said he wasn't working for a client but was hired by Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. November 2021 – Durham charged Russian-born analyst Igor Danchenko with lying to the FBI in fabricating a sources for the Steele dossier. He pleaded not guilty to five counts of making false statements to a federal agent. February 11, 2022 – Durham filing reveals Clinton paid tp have Trump Tower and White House servers hacked to 'fabricate' ties between Trump and Russia. February 2022 – Trump-era Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe reveals Durham thinks there is 'enough evidence' to indict 'several more people.' He also said Obama and Biden were briefed on the Clinton revelations in 2016. May 2022 - Jury finds Sussmann not guilty of lying to the FBI about misrepresenting himself when he provided debunked claims of a secret backchannel between Trump and the Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank. Charges - 1 Indictments - 1 Guilty Pleas - 0 Convictions - 0 Referrals - 0 Prison Sentences - 0 Length - Three years (and counting) Mueller Probe Timeline May 17: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appoints Robert Mueller as special counsel to the Russia probe. June 14: Mueller's probe expands to investigate Trump for possible obstruction of justice. Oct. 30: Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates are indicted on 12 counts, including conspiracy against the U.S. and money laundering. The same day, Trump's former campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, pleads guilty to making false statements to the FBI regarding his contact with Russian leadership. He later claims he misled agents to protect the president. Dec. 1: Former national security advisor Michael Flynn pleads guilty to "willfully and knowingly [making] false, fictitious and fraudulent statements and representations" to the FBI regarding his conversations with Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak. 2018 Feb. 16: Mueller indicts 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for violating criminal laws to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election. The same day, Richard Pinedo pleads guilty to identity fraud for selling bank account numbers to Russians involved in election interference. Feb. 20: Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan pleads guilty after being charged on Feb. 16 with lying to FBI investigators about his interactions with Rick Gates and an unidentified individual, labeled "Person A" in court documents. Feb. 22: Mueller files 32 new financial charges, including money laundering and bank fraud, against Manafort and Gates in the Eastern District of Virginia. Feb. 23: Gates pleads guilty to conspiracy and lying to investigators. A federal grand jury also brings a superseding indictment against Manafort, alleging he "secretly retained a group of former senior European politicians to take positions favorable to Ukraine, including by lobbying in the United States." March 15: Manafort's lawyers file a motion to dismiss Mueller's D.C. indictment. March 27: Manafort's legal team files a motion to dismiss Mueller's Virginia indictment. April 3: Alex van der Zwaan is sentenced to 30 days in prison and $20,000 in fines for lying to FBI investigators. The decision marks the first sentencing in Mueller's probe. April 9: The home, hotel room and office of Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen is raided by FBI agents. June 8: Mueller brings new charges against former Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik, a former aide to Manafort who has been suspected of having ties to Russian intelligence. The charges against both Manafort and Kilimnik include conspiracy and obstruction of justice in an alleged attempt to influence other testimonies. Mueller also charges Manafort with conspiracy to launder money, acting as an unregistered foreign agent and lying to authorities against Manafort. July 13: Mueller indicts 12 Russian military intelligence officers for hacking and releasing Democratic emails during the 2016 campaign. Aug. 21: Manafort is found guilty by a Virginia jury on eight counts of fraud. That same day, Cohen pleads guilty in a Manhattan courtroom to eight counts related to tax fraud and campaign finance violations related to the Southern District of New York's investigation. Over the next few months, Cohen reportedly spent more than 70 hours in interviews with the special counsel. Sept. 7: Papadopoulos is sentenced to 14 days in prison for lying to the FBI. Sept. 14: Manafort pleads guilty to charges brought by the special counsel and enters into a "cooperation agreement." Nov. 8: Attorney General Jeff Sessions submits his resignation at the request of President Trump. Sessions' chief of staff Matthew Whitaker, a public critic of the Mueller investigation, is appointed acting AG. Nov. 20: Trump's lawyers say they've submitted written answers to questions from the special counsel. Nov. 29: Cohen pleads guilty in the Mueller investigation to lying to Congress about the length and scope of his work on plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Trump's business entanglements are publicly brought into the Mueller investigation for the first time, with Trump himself reportedly referred to as "Individual 1" in court documents. Dec. 4: Mueller files a memo recommending no prison time for Flynn, citing his "substantial assistance" and cooperation in the special counsel's investigation. Dec. 7: Prosecutors from New York’s Southern District recommend a "substantial term of imprisonment" for Michael Cohen for campaign finance and tax violations, as well as lying to Congress, despite his cooperation with the investigation. Mueller also filed a memo on Cohen stating that he is not taking a position on what amount of prison time Cohen should serve, but said "any sentence of incarceration" the court in New York recommends would be "appropriate." Mueller filed a second document revealing that Manafort lied to the FBI and the Special Counsel's Office about his contact with administration officials, a Russian political consultant, a wire transfer, and information related to another DOJ investigation. Dec. 12: Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison on charges related to campaign finance violations, tax evasion and lying to Congress. In his guilty plea, Cohen claimed then-candidate Donald Trump directed him in 2016 to pay hush money to two women who alleged affairs. 2019 Jan. 25: Roger Stone, a longtime Trump associate, was arrested following an indictment in the Mueller investigation. Feb. 15: Mueller's team recommended that Manafort should serve between 19.5 and 24.5 years in prison in a court filing. Feb. 22: Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a full gag order in Stone's case, after he posted an Instagram photo of her with a crosshairs symbol near her head. Feb. 23: Mueller filed an 800+ page sentencing memo for Paul Manafort, in which he called Trump's former campaign manager a "hardened" criminal who "repeatedly and brazenly" broke the law for over a decade, even after being indicted. Manafort will be sentenced in two separate cases next month, and could spend the rest of his life in prison. March 8: President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced in a Virginia court to 4 years in prison for financial crimes including bank fraud, tax fraud and hiding a foreign bank account. Prosecutors for the Mueller investigation had earlier put sentencing guidelines for Manafort at 19 to 24 years. He still faces sentencing next week in a separate case in Washington, D.C. March 22: Attorney General Bill Barr received Mueller's report, marking the end of the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible obstruction of justice by President Trump. March 24: After reviewing the report, Barr sent a summary to Congress saying: "[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." On the question of obstruction of justice, Barr wrote that while Mueller's report "does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him." April 18: Barr releases a redacted version of the Mueller report. April 30: It emerges Mueller told Barr his 4-page summary to Congress failed to "fully capture" the findings, prompting Democrats to step up criticism of the attorney general. House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) sends a criminal referral to the Justice Department for informal Trump campaign adviser Erik Prince, who Schiff believes "willfully misled" the committee during 2017 testimony. Barr releases a prepared statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of his testimony before the panel on May 1. May 29: Mueller announces that the "investigation is complete" and that he would resigning as special counsel in the first public statement since his appointment. He addressed the decision not to charge Trump, saying, "If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so." He added that under DOJ guidelines that it was never an option to charge Trump with a crime. Mueller left the door open on testifying before Congress in the future, but indicated that his testimony would not go beyond what was already outlined in his report. June 25: Mueller agrees to testify publicly before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees pursuant to a subpoena on July 17. Charges - 199 Indictments/Guilty Pleas - 37 Referrals - 14 Prison Sentences - 5 Length - Just under two years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And yet Trump is still out there running around colluding with Russians. 1 1 1 Link to comment
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