- Trump lawyer John Dowd says he drafted it, but did Dowd actually tweet it, since he’s now being fronted as the “author”, and a claim is being made about who sent the tweet.
Trump tweeted it regardless of authorship, so despite all this disinformation, he (still) has obstructed justice, and Mueller will still continue to prove it.
Meanwhile the dramaturgy of #TrumpRussia has all the earmarks of active measures under a strategy of tension.
ABC got manipulated by the WH because of a minor correction they had to make while suspending a reporter for that error. Needless to say the WH seized on it and is spinning it as false equivalence.
A key aide in the Trump transition appeared to write in an email that Trump should seek to ease sanctions on Russia because that country had helped Trump win the election.
The aide, K. T. McFarland, currently the nominee to be the next United States Ambassador to Singapore, wrote on December 29 that sanctions imposed by the Obama administration were undesirable, according to a report by the New York Times. McFarland explained that Trump was seeking to improve relations with Russia “which has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him.”
Taken on its face, the email appears to describe a quid pro quo transaction where relaxed sanctions were exchanged for Russia’s help in winning the presidency.
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