Epstein Secrets

ether this bias =E244>directly affected" specific FBI actions in the Hillary Clirton email investigation, it nonetheless affects the legality of the Trump-Russia collusion inquiry, code-named Crossfire Hurricane.=u> Crossfire was launched only months before the 2016 election. Its=FBI progenitors—the sa

tter to Mr. C=mey from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, saying he'd learned of="evidence of a direct connection between the Russian government and Donald Trump's presidential campaign," whic= had "employed a number of individuals with significant and distur=ing ties to Russia and the Kremlin." On Aug. 30, the

isplayed not merely an appearance of bias against Donald Trump, but animus bordering on hatred. Peter Str

Mr. Mueller, who was appointed in=May 2017 after President Trump fired Mr. Comey? The inspector general conc=udes

ns, confidently assuaged a colleag=e's fear that Mr. Trump would become president: "No he won=E24*t. We'll s

e generic assertion that Russia aimed=to help Mr. Trump's election, and that the Trump campaign reciproc=te

rpose" of affecting the president=al election. 3 EFTA_R1_01705040 EFTA02549694 The chief evidence of collusion is the hacking of the Democratic=National Committee's servers. But nothing in the public record sug=ests the Trump campaign aided that effort. The collusion narrative therefore hinges on the more gener

whether this bias =E2 directly affected" specific FBI actions in the Hillary Cli=ton email investigation, it nonetheless affects the legality of the Trump-Russia collusion inquiry, code-named Crossfire Hurricane.=u> Crossfire was launched only months before the 2016 election. Its=FBI progenitors—the s

ter to Mr. C=mey from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, saying he'd learned of="evidence of a direct connection between the Russian government and Donald Trump's presidential campaign," whic= had "employed a number of individuals with significant and distur=ing ties to Russia and the Kremlin." On Aug. 30, the

isplayed not merely an appearance of bias against Donald Trump, but animus bordering on hatred. Peter Str

Mr. Mueller, who was appointed in=May 2017 after President Trump fired Mr. Comey? The inspector general conc=udes

ns, confidently assuaged a colleag=e's fear that Mr. Trump would become president: "No he won=E2 t. We'll st

e generic assertion that Russia aimed=to help Mr. Trump's election, and that the Trump campaign reciproc=t

on that it=was initiated "for the purpose" of affecting the president=al election. The chief evidence of collusion is the hacking of the Democratic=National Committee's servers. But nothing in the public record sug=ests the Trump campaign aided that effort. The collusion narrative therefore hinges on the more gener

hether this bias =E2fldirectly affected" specific FBI actions in the Hillary Cli=ton email investigation, it nonetheless affects the legality of the Trump-Russia collusion inquiry, code-named Crossfire Hurricane.=u> Crossfire was launched only months before the 2016 election. Its=FBI progenitors—the sa

ter to Mr. C=mey from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, saying he'd learned of="evidence of a direct connection between the Russian government and Donald Trump's presidential campaign," whic= had "employed a number of individuals with significant and distur=ing ties to Russia and the Kremlin." On Aug. 30, the

isplayed not merely an appearance of bias against Donald Trump, but animus bordering on hatred. Peter Str

ns, confidently assuaged a colleag=e's fear that Mr. Trump would become president: "No he won=E2nt. We'll st

e generic assertion that Russia aimed=to help Mr. Trump's election, and that the Trump campaign reciproc=t

rpose" of affecting the president=al election. 3 EFTA_R1_01704523 EFTA02549325 The chief evidence of collusion is the hacking of the Democratic=National Committee's servers. But nothing in the public record sug=ests the Trump campaign aided that effort. The collusion narrative therefore hinges on the more gener

, had a long career of work for leading Republicans, including presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. But by the time he became Donald Trump's campaign chairman in 2016, Manafort was best known for his work on behalf of foreign political leaders, including several with distinctly autocrati

se, 2016), http‘Wfreedomhouse otglreport/heedom•world/free- dom•vmrl47I116t 3. See, among others, Steve Rosenberg, 'Russian Media's Love Affair with Trump:British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), November 2, 20161 4. Javier Corrales, "Autocratic Legalism in Venezuela,' Journal of Democracy 26, na 2 (Ap

yed a clear preference for Republi- can candidate Donald Trump and disdain for Clinton.3) For Putin, the

ce the 2016 U.S. presidential election in Donald Trump's favor? The answer to that question may never be

initively known. There is, neverthe- less, a critical mass of evidence that Kremlin-allied forces were responsible for hacking into the Dem- ocratic National Committee's computers, stealing millions of files, and turning the information over to WikiLeaks, which in turn circulated it to the media. Some may find the