By Stephanie Baker and Helena Bedwell
A Georgian-American businessman (click here) is accusing Special Counsel Robert Mueller of “glaring inaccuracies” and sensationalizing texts about alleged salacious tapes involving Donald Trump’s 2013 trip to Moscow.
In a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday, lawyers for Giorgi Rtskhiladze demanded a retraction to a footnote in Mueller’s 448-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election....
The paragraph below is a lie.
...Rtskhiladze said the full exchange of his texts with Cohen shows he was only communicating a rumor a friend had overheard at a Moscow party. He said his friend, whom he declined to identify, called to alert him about the rumor because of Rtskhiladze’s business dealings with Trump. Rtskhiladze said he passed along the identity of his friend to Mueller....
Oh, dear. In typing the word "some" was left out and it completely changes the entire meaning of the conservation. That is a man that does not understand the English language. SOME? SOME?
...In his texts, Rtskhiladze tells Cohen: “Stopped flow of some tapes from Russia.” But in the footnote, Mueller dropped “some” from the text, which is a “crucial” word because “it establishes the fact that Mr. Rtskhiladze had no knowledge of the tapes’ content,” according to the letter to Barr. Mueller didn’t disclose the rest of the text exchange, which shows Rtskhiladze didn’t have direct knowledge of the rumor involving the tapes, the letter says....
“Stopped flow of some tapes from Russia.”
The only person that would be interested in the word SOME would be Donald Trump. Some is meaningless to the Special Council. It doesn't matter if there are some stopped coming from Russia or one stopped coming from Russia or a million; there is at least ONE tape that Rtskhiladze was interested in talking to Michael Cohen about.
Donald Trump would definitely be interested in the word some, because that would indicate there are others that were not stopped coming from Russia. But, for the Special Council, if there is just one tape stopped coming from Russia, the question is, "Why would a Russian call Michael Cohen to pass on a message that there was at least one tape that was stopped coming from Russia?" My guess is the word some was allowed to be absent from the footnote because it is completely irrelevant to the fact there was at least one tape stopped coming from Russia.
I don't care if a Russian by the name of Rtskhiladze has his pants in a wad because his text message was included in a footnote of the Special Council. WHAT IN THE HELL IS BILL BARR ENTERTAINING RUSSIANS FOR?
