This is the real reason Trump and Barr want to create a smoke screen. It is getting a little to close to home and who wants the base concentrating on this anyway?
January 25, 2019
By David Jackson, Kevin Johnson and Brad Heath
Federal agents arrested Roger Stone, (click here) a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, Friday on charges that he had lied to investigators about efforts by top Trump campaign aides to learn about emails the Russian government had stolen from his political rivals.
Special counsel Robert Mueller revealed the charges, including counts of obstruction and witness tampering, after FBI agents arrested Stone at his Florida home before sunrise.
The charges against Stone offer the first view from prosecutors of efforts by members of the Trump campaign to obtain information about WikiLeaks’ plans to release hacked documents that they believed would be damaging to Trump's 2016 opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton. Prosecutors have said the hacks were carried out by a Russian intelligence service. Prosecutors said one unnamed senior campaign official was "directed" to communicate with Stone about future releases of the stolen records.
"On multiple occasions, Stone told senior Trump Campaign officials about materials possessed by (WikiLeaks) and the timing of future releases," prosecutors wrote in an indictment unsealed Friday morning....
I have no sympathy for this. The power players, including Putin and his hackers tampered with the election of a free democracy. I never read one of the emails released on Wikileaks. I don't care what a campaign was saying. What I was interested in was having someone in the White House that actually cared about the country and emails never entered the picture.
Hillary Clinton has had both oars in the water all her life and she was by far the most qualified of the two candidates. Trump can't hold a candle to her credentials and know how. She has done incredible work and when she was Secretary of State, the plight of women and girls was illuminated for the purpose of change and uplifting of their status. She achieved great things. There was never a doubt about her qualifications.
November 16, 2019
By Tucker Higgins
The Justice Department (click here) has apparently prepared to indict Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, setting up a legal battle that could have broad ramifications for the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election as well as the government’s prosecution of journalists and others who publicize national security secrets.
The revelation was an accident. Prosecutors pursuing an unrelated sex crimes case, against a man named Seitu Sulayman Kokayi, referenced Assange twice in a filing seeking to keep the complaint against Kokayi under seal.
The complaint, prosecutors wrote in the document, “would need to remain sealed until Assange is arrested in connection with the charges in the criminal complaint and can therefore no longer evade or avoid arrest and extradition in this matter.” At a separate point in the document, prosecutors wrote that “due to the sophistication of the defendant and the publicity surrounding the case, no other procedure is likely to keep confidential the fact that Assange has been charged.”...
