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Re: Steve Bannon is the ‘high-ranking’ Trump official in Roger Stone indictment who asked about futu
I'm not sure of the criminality of it, but it would certainly paint a clearer picture along the collusion conspiracy line. Think about it...
All along folks in Trump's campaign including Trump himself has been saying no one within his campaign colluded with Russians. Putting the Trump Tower meeting aside, he could make that claim and probably be right...at least when it comes to direct contact. But what about indirectly?
What if (the) Trump (campaign), as I've outlined above in post #71 above, used people outside the campaign to funnel information back and forth using discrete, encrypted methods, i.e., burner phones - untraceable? Roger Stone, Steve Bannon and Donald Trump, Jr certainly fit that modus operandi. So, all this does is paint the picture alittle bit more clearly. This simply adds another piece to the puzzle showing someone within the Trump campaign was working to communicate with a foreign agent to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton. In this case, it may not have been a direct tie to the Russians, but it does show the lengths to which this campaign was willing to go to get their candidate elected. And as you point out, who directed a senior campaign official to take this action? That's the big question that needs to be answered.
Could be that Bannon immediately cooperated with Mueller on all this. He's been awfully quiet and not discussed.
I'm wondering how this would be criminal though. It would seem that it would be the conspiracy from the Russian hacking, that these guys were part of that criminal conspiracy to stage release of the stolen emails...but none of that has been revealed so more waiting. This time, waiting on Stone to flip or go down.
It's like they say, the cover up is worse than the [not crime]. We've got person 2 in the STone indictment telling Stone he should have just been honest, and it's only Stone's lies that got him strung up on lying to investigators/congress.
Maybe Stone should have listened.
Another juicy bit is this one:
1,a senior Trump Campaign official was directed to contact STONE about any additional releases and whatotherdamaginginformationOrganization1 had regarding the Clinton Campaign. STONE there after told the Trump Campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by Organization1.
Who would direct a senior Trump Campaign official and be unnamed? I won't speculate, it was just remarked on in the news this morning.
I'm not sure of the criminality of it, but it would certainly paint a clearer picture along the collusion conspiracy line. Think about it...
All along folks in Trump's campaign including Trump himself has been saying no one within his campaign colluded with Russians. Putting the Trump Tower meeting aside, he could make that claim and probably be right...at least when it comes to direct contact. But what about indirectly?
What if (the) Trump (campaign), as I've outlined above in post #71 above, used people outside the campaign to funnel information back and forth using discrete, encrypted methods, i.e., burner phones - untraceable? Roger Stone, Steve Bannon and Donald Trump, Jr certainly fit that modus operandi. So, all this does is paint the picture alittle bit more clearly. This simply adds another piece to the puzzle showing someone within the Trump campaign was working to communicate with a foreign agent to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton. In this case, it may not have been a direct tie to the Russians, but it does show the lengths to which this campaign was willing to go to get their candidate elected. And as you point out, who directed a senior campaign official to take this action? That's the big question that needs to be answered.
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