Muller's Report: How Trump's Companions' Public Declarations Differ from Their Affidavit - ForumDaily
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Müller's report: how Trump’s public statements differed from their affidavits

For two years, President Donald Trump and his close associates have contradicted, refuted, and evaded messages and questions about Russia's participation in the 2016 election campaign of the year. Now that the report of Special Attorney Robert Muller is published, CNN offers to check public denials and compare them with what Trump’s entourage told Muller during interrogations.

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Here are some notable examples where the data from the Müller report contradicts the public statements of Trump and some of his associates.

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Trump Jr. and meeting at the Trump Tower

In July, the Washington Post newspaper 2017 reported that Trump dictated a statement by Donald Trump Jr. about reports in the New York Times that Trump Junior had met with a Russian attorney at the Trump Tower last summer.

  • What was said to the public: Trump did not dictate the statement of his son.
  • What they said to Muller: The statement was indeed written under the dictation of the president.

In a statement for The Post, Trump's lawyer, Jay Sekoulow, wrote that “individual values, characteristics are misinforming, inaccurate and irrelevant”. Trump Jr.'s lawyer said he had “no evidence to support this theory,” stating that writing the statement was “a collective situation in which people in charge of communication and various lawyers participated”.

During the briefing, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the president "certainly didn't dictate, but he did weigh and make suggestions, like any father."

However, as CNN first reported in June 2018 of the year, the Trump team of lawyers in a letter to the Muller team admitted that Trump "dictated" Trump Junior's original statement.

According to Hope Hicks, the main public relations assistant, President Trump asked her to write in a statement that the discussion during the meeting was devoted to adoption in Russia. Hicks wrote a statement attributed to Trump Junior.

The speech was also misleading because it characterized the topic of conversation.

  • What was said to the public: the meeting was devoted to the adoption of children from Russia, and not the 2016 campaign of the year.
  • What Mueller was told: The meeting was supposed to be about “incriminating” information about Hillary Clinton, but the conversation turned into a discussion about the current sanctions against several Russians.

The Muller report says that Trump Jr. was motivated to meet promises of “official documents and information that would catch Hillary in her relationship with Russia” for the Trump campaign.

The meeting began with a pro-Kremlin attorney making statements that the National Democratic Committee or the Clinton campaign received donations from a dubious source. But in the end it all came down to a discussion about the Magnitsky Act, directed against several leading Russians and the sanctions imposed on them. In response to the adoption of this document, Russia has banned the adoption of Russian children in the United States. However, it was about the sanctions themselves. Trump Jr. said that the topic could be reconsidered, "if and when they will be in the government."

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Intervention in the investigation

Over the past few years, there have been many reports confirming Trump’s concern about the Russian investigation, including his anger towards former Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his disengagement from the Russian case, as well as Trump’s desire to stop the investigation.

  • What they said to the public: Trump did not want to interfere in the investigation.
  • What they said to Muller: Trump wanted to push Sessions to limit Muller’s jurisdiction.

Former headquarters manager Corey Lewandowski knew that Trump wanted to put pressure on Sessions and intervene in Muller’s mandate. According to the report, at the 19 meeting on June 2017 of the year, Trump commissioned Lewandowski to convey the message to SES.

“The President has directed Sessions to make a public statement with the following content: I know that I have withdrawn myself from specific tasks on certain issues. But our President... is being treated very unfairly,” the special counsel team writes in its report. “The message was further dictated that Sessions would meet with the special counsel to limit his jurisdiction in interfering in future elections.”

At a meeting in the Oval Office exactly one month later, 19 July 2017, Trump asked Lewandowski if he met with Sessions and conveyed the message.

“The President told him that if Sessions did not meet with him, Lewandowski should tell Sessions that he was fired,” the report says.

But on July 26, 2017—just a week later—Lewandowski defended the president on “Good Morning America,” arguing that he made no attempt to pressure Sessions or Mueller—even though it is now clear that all of that was happening.

Robert Muller. A photo: Wikipedia

Trump Tower in Moscow

During the 2016 election campaign of the year and during Trump's presidency, there were reports of his potential business ties with Russia.

  • What was said to the public: Trump did not have any deals or business in Russia.
  • What they said to Muller: The Trump Organization promoted the Trump Tower agreement in Russia during the campaign, and Trump knew about it.

Trump has repeatedly denied having had any business relationship with Russia, including a deal or business since the start of the election campaign. Even after last year there were new details about Trump’s role in the project, Trump’s personal lawyer Rudi Giuliani gave CNN a false statement that Trump did not sign the letter of intent, although in fact he did.

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According to Muller’s report, “The Trump Organization promoted a license agreement for the construction of a skyscraper in Russia called Trump Tower Moscow”.

The report notes that not only Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, worked on the Moscow deal in the name of Trump, but also the presidential candidate Donald Trump was aware of the progress of the project.

In his written responses to the team, Special Prosecutor Trump said that he had "little" talk with Cohen about the deal, that the conversations were "brief" and "not memorable."

Sarah Sanders and the FBI

It's no secret that Trump didn’t like former FBI director James Komi. In May, 2017, Sarah Sanders, the then deputy spokesperson, said that many people in federal law enforcement agencies had "lost confidence" in Komi.

  • What was said to the public: the FBI lost confidence in James Komi.
  • What they said to Muller: Saunders made this up.

“The President has lost confidence in Director Comey over the past few months,” Sanders told reporters after Comey was fired. “The Department of Justice has lost confidence in Director Comey... And most importantly, the rank and file of the FBI has lost confidence in their director.”

Photo: twitter.com/PressSec

When asked about the FBI agents who disagree with this statement, Sanders replied: "We heard this from numerous members of the FBI."

Later, however, Sanders told the special counsel that the statement was a fabrication and that the reference to ordinary agents was a “baseless” comment.

Trump calls Mueller report 'crazy'

The day after he declared his acquittal, President Donald Trump angrily condemned the report of Robert Muller, calling him "crazy", using the epithet "barnyard" to describe some of the evidence against him, and suggested that his opponents could practice "treason "Writes USA Today.

It all happened on Twitter when Trump spent the Easter weekend at his Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago.

“The statements made about me by some people in the Crazy Mueller Report, which itself was written by 18 Evil Trump Haters, are fabricated and completely untrue,” the president originally wrote.

In the second post, Trump called part of the report "bullshit."

The tweet ended with an ellipsis, suggesting Trump would soon follow up on his point — but he didn't post for nearly nine hours after playing golf with radio commentator Rush Limbaugh.

In the third tweet, he condemned Muller’s research as “a big, greasy, waste of time, energy, and money”; he also promised to “restore justice” in relation to those whom he called political enemies, who initially launched an investigation. Trump said they "committed very serious crimes, perhaps even espionage or treason."

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Critics claim that a whole “day of tweets” reflects the growing anger and despair of the president.

“Trump is completely incapable of doing the job of president because of his self-absorption,” said Tim Miller, a Republican and Trump opponent. “The presidency is about more than one man and his petty, childish vendetta, we should be able to do better than all of this.”

The president also condemned unnamed assistants who provided records and other information to the office of the special prosecutor.

"Beware of people who take so-called 'notes' when notes never existed until they were needed," Trump wrote.

Trump particularly sharply criticized former White House adviser Don McGun, who provided extensive records and testimony to prosecutors, especially regarding Trump's apparent attempts to dismiss Muller.

Noting that he declined to testify in person to Mueller (instead he provided written responses), Trump said "he doesn't have to" respond. He added that some of the statements about him in the report "are complete bullshit - and are made only to make the other person look good (or make him look bad)."

The president also reiterated the allegations that the investigation was "deception" and "should never have happened."

Although Müller and his assistants didn’t particularly accuse Trump of breaking the law, their report described in detail the 10 episodes in which he might have tried to intervene in the investigation into how the Russians had hacked data from leading democrats during the 2016 election.

Democrats in Congress said they would investigate Muller’s findings, although some limited themselves to calling for trump impeachment.

Trump himself sounded much more optimistic after his attorney general, William Barr, announced the summary of the report. Barr stressed that there is no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, and there is no evidence that Trump violated the law on obstructing justice.

“I’m having a good day,” Trump said at a White House event afterward. “It’s called no collusion, no obstruction.”

Screenshot from Twitter / @ realDonaldTrump

Müller’s report cited Trump’s periodic desire to remove Special Prosecutor from office, although advisers did not obey these orders or made him change his mind.

The report says that Trump "made efforts to limit the investigation of the special prosecutor and prevent the disclosure of evidence, including through public and private contacts with potential witnesses."

However, prosecutors could not determine how close Trump’s actions were to the characteristics of criminal behavior, and suggested that Congress might want to address this issue.

“If, after a thorough investigation, we were confident that the President did not obstruct justice, we would have stated so,” Mueller’s report said. “Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not absolve him of responsibility.”

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