b. Contacts with the Campaign about WikiLeaks
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On June 12, 2016, Assange claimed in a televised interview to "have emails relating
to Hillary Clinton which are pending publication,"194 but provided no additional context.
I have to wonder how much in donations Wikileaks made while all those stolen emails were on the web. The right wing media has demonized Hillary Clinton so terribly, I imagine whenever her name turns up there are throngs of people racing to read it. If Assange was making empty statements to get attention, there were probably plenty of dollars behind it.
In debriefings with the Office, former deputy campaign chairman, Rick Gates said that, Harm to Ongoing Matter 195
Gates recalled candidate Trump being generally frustrated that the Clinton emails had not been found. 196
July 10, 2019
By Kyle Cheney
Former Trump campaign deputy chairman Rick Gates (click here) — one of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s crucial cooperators — has begun providing documents to the House Intelligence Committee, Chairman Adam Schiff said Tuesday night.
The California Democrat said Gates and his attorney have been negotiating with the committee about the former campaign aide testifying in person, as well, “and we believe we’re making progress.”...
That is interesting that Rick Gates had enough interaction with Trump to know he was frustrated with Clinton emails. I was under the impression Trump didn't have much contact with Gates and Manafort. That would be a lie. Trump seems to have regular contact with Rick Gates and trusted him with his frustrations.
Paul Manafort, who would later become campaign chairman Harm to Ongoing Matter 197
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Footnote 194 See Mahita Gajanan, Julian Assange Timed DNC Email Release for Democratic Convention,
Time (July 27, 2016) (quoting the June 12, 2016 television interview).
If Wikileaks doesn't have an agenda, certainly Assange did.
Footnote 195 In February 2018, Gates pleaded guilty, pursuant to a plea agreement, to a superseding criminal
information charging him with conspiring to defraud and commit multiple offenses (i.e., tax fraud, failure
to report foreign bank accounts, and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign principal) against the
United States, as well as making false statements to our Office. Superseding Criminal Information, UnitedStates v. Richard W Gates III, l: 17-cr-201 (click here) (D.D.C. Feb. 23, 2018), Doc. 195 ("Gates Superseding Criminal
Information"); Plea Agreement, United States v. Richard W Gates III, 1: 17-cr-201 (D.D.C. Feb. 23, 2018),
Doc. 205 ("Gates Plea Agreement"). Gates has provided information and in-comt testimony that the Office
has deemed to be reliable.
196 Gates I0/25/18 302, at 1-2.
197 As explained further in Volume I, Section IV.A.8, infra, Manafort entered into a plea agreement
with our Office. We determined that he breached the agreement by being untruthful in proffer sessions and
before the grand jury. We have generally recounted his version of events in this report only when his
statements are sufficiently corroborated to be trustworthy; to identify issues on which Manafort's untruthful
responses may themselves be of evidentiary value; or to provide Manafort's explanations for certain events,
even when we were unable to determine whether that explanation was credible. His account appears here
principally because it aligns with those of other witnesses.
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Michael Cohen, former executive vice president of the Trump Organization and special
counsel to Donald J. Trump, 199 told the Office that he recalled an incident in which he was in
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Cohen further told the Office that, after WikiLeaks's subsequent release of stolen DNC emails in July 2016, candidate Trump said to Cohen something to the effect of HOM
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Manafort also HOM wanted to be kept appraised of any developments with WikiLeaks and separately told Gates to keep in touch HOM about future
WikiLeaks releases.206
There is a lot of material missing to draw any conclusion, except, there was communication between Trump, Cohen, Manafort and Gates.
Footnote 199 In November 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty pursuant to a plea agreement to a single-count
information charging him with making false statements to Congress, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § l00l(a) &
(c). He had previously pleaded guilty to several other criminal charges brought by the U.S. Attorney's
Office in the Southern District of New York, after a referral from this Office. In the months leading up to
his false-statements guilty plea, Cohen met with our Office on multiple occasions for interviews and
provided information that the Office has generally assessed to be reliable and that is included in this report.
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Footnote 203 Gates 10/25/18 302 (serial 241), at 4.
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According to Gates, by the late summer of 2016, the Trump Campaign was planning a
press strategy, a communications campaign and messaging based on the possible release of Clinton emails by Wikileaks. 207
Trump was counting on Russia to deliver Clinton emails as a primary strategy for his campaign. Got that?
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How did Trump know? Who was he talking to? We know that Manafort, Gates, Cohen and Trump were all talking to each other. How did Trump know there would be more emails released?
Robert Mueller stated there was no solid evidence of a conspiracy. Is he sure about that, because the candidate himself knew in advance there was going to be another release of emails. Advanced knowledge is a whole lot more than a symbiotic relationship.
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Corsi is an author who holds a doctorate in political science. 212 Corsi also worked for a media outlet WorldNetDaily (WND). Harm of Ongoing Matter 213
Photo to left is Dr. Jerome Corsi. My understanding is that Dr. Corsi had one count of perjury and they offered him a plea deal. But, he never agreed to it and he beat the charges and is today a free man.
The article below from "Vox" simply states his relationship to this investigation. It would appear Dr. Corsi indicted himself when he claimed to have insider information on Wikileaks. So, he doesn't have room to complain if he is lying to his audience and the FBI believed him.
November 28, 2018
By Jane Coaston and Andrew Prokop
On Monday, (click here) Jerome Corsi, a birther conspiracy theorist and occasional conservative pundit, announced that he had refused a plea deal from special counsel Robert Mueller. “They can put me in prison the rest of my life. I am not going to sign a lie,” he said to CNN, explaining he’d been offered a deal on a single count of perjury.
And now it appears that Corsi shares a joint defense agreement with the president, a relatively common agreement in criminal cases that would allow Corsi to share information about the case with Donald Trump.
Over the past two decades, Corsi has been deeply enmeshed in the conspiratorial wing of the far-right — from John Kerry’s military service to President Barack Obama’s birth certificate to QAnon, the conspiracy theory that says Mueller and Trump are secretly working together to expose pedophiles nationwide.
But now, his all-too-real associations with right-leaning figures, most notably former Trump advisor Roger Stone and even Trump himself, could land the conspiracy-weaving author in federal prison....
Footnote 207
Gates 4/10/18 302, at 3;
Gates 4/11/18 302, at 1-2 (SM-2180998);
Gates 10/25/18 302, at 2.
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Footnote 209 Gates 10/25/18 302 (serial 241), at 4.
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Footnote 212 Corsi first rose to public prominence in August 2004 when he published his book Unfit for
Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry. In the 2008 election cycle, Corsi gained
prominence for being a leading proponent of the allegation that Barack Obama was not born in the United
States. Corsi told the Office that Donald Trump expressed interest in his writings, and that he spoke with
Trump on the phone on at least six occasions. Corsi 9/6/18 302, at 3.
Footnote 213 Corsi 10/31/18 302, at 2; Grand Jury Corsi was first
interviewed on September 6, 2018 at the Special Counsel's offices in Washington, D.C. He was
accompanied by counsel throughout the interview. Corsi was subsequently interviewed on September 17,
2018; September 21, 2018; October 31, 2018; November I, 2018; and November 2, 2018. Counsel was present for all interviews, and the interviews beginning on September 21, 2018 were conducted pursuant to
a proffer agreement that precluded affirmative use of his statements against him in limited circumstances.
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Corsi to the Office during interviews that he "must have" previously discussed Assange with Malloch 215
28 November 2018
By Jon Swaine
Ted Malloch in London on 9 February 2017
An ally of Nigel Farage (click here) was asked to obtain secret information from WikiLeaks for Donald Trump’s team during the 2016 election campaign, according to US investigators.
Ted Malloch a London-based academic close to Farage, was allegedly passed a request from a longtime Trump adviser to get advance copies of emails stolen from Trump’s opponents by Russian hackers and later published by WikiLeaks.
The allegation emerged in a draft legal document drawn up by Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and any collusion with Trump’s campaign team.
In response to a series of questions from the Guardian, including whether he had acted on the request to make contact with WikiLeaks, Malloch said in an email: “No and no comment.”...
10 July 2019
By Charles Hymas
Nigel Farage is responsible for the Brexit Party and claims he will stop a second referendum.
Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party vote (click here) would collapse and switch back to the Tories if Boris Johnson succeeded in taking the UK out of the EU by October 31, a poll of Tory party members shows.
The vast majority of Conservative switchers to the Brexit Party would come back to the Tories in a subsequent general election, leaving Mr Farage with a tiny rump, according to the survey by pollsters Orb International for the Telegraph.
The findings demonstrate how far the Tories’ fortunes at the next general election depend on the next Prime Minister delivering on Brexit by the October 31 deadline.
It appears to support the hardline “do or die” approach of Tory leadership frontrunner and former foreign secretary...
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According to Malloch, Corsi asked him to put Corsi in touch with Assange, whom Corsi
wished to interview. Malloch recalled that Corsi also suggested that individuals in the "orbit" of
U.K. politician Nigel Farage might be able to contact Assange and asked if Malloch knew them.
Malloch told Corsi that he would think about the request but made no actual attempt to connect
Corsi with Assange.218
Basically, Corsi wanted to interview Assange for his radio program. Malloch found himself in the middle of it all along with Nigel Farage. Well, there was a lot of name dropping, but, the FBI would want to understand the relationships and any possible connection to Wikileaks and the Clinton/DNC/DCCC emails.
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Footnote 215 Corsi 10/31/18 302, at 4.
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Footnote 218 Grand Jury Malloch denied ever communicating with Assange or Wikileaks stating that he did not pursue the request to contract Assange because he believed he had no connections to Assange. Grand Jury
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