Trump should be impeached again now. Of course, Senate Republicans will never convict him, no matter what he does.
Eight takeaways from the 1000-page Senate Intelligence Committee report, w/ @julianbarnes https://t.co/keYFxO87XP
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) August 18, 2020
The Trump campaign was offered Russian government assistance.
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) August 18, 2020
The Trump campaign sought Russian government assistance.
The Trump campaign received Russian government assistance.
Trump campaign personnel coordinated efforts with Russian intelligence operatives and Wikileaks.
Republican Senators knew all of this when they voted not to remove Trump from office for extorting a foreign power to interfere in our election. They have ratified Putin’s interference in our election. The fascist party hopes he’ll do it again. https://t.co/3fCHwlOYkv
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) August 18, 2020
The SSCI report seems to confirm two things we knew:
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) August 18, 2020
1. Trump solicited, welcomed, and benefited from Russian interference.
2. There wasn't sufficient evidence to charge anyone with a crime.
The fact we've let 2. become the excuse to ignore 1. was and is a national failure.
Trump commuted Stone's sentence last month https://t.co/ZjF6O6YoHI
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) August 18, 2020
Trump commuted Stone's sentence last month https://t.co/ZjF6O6YoHI
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) August 18, 2020
The report showed evidence of contacts between Trump campaign advisers and people tied to the Kremlin — including a longstanding associate of the Manafort, Konstantin Kilimnik, whom the report identifies as a “Russian intelligence officer.” https://t.co/dF364LcWBf
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) August 18, 2020
Wow. Senate Intel report bluntly states that Manafort associate Konstantin Kilimnik is a Russian intelligence officer. That’s further than Mueller went.https://t.co/35Qg3Ga2Fl
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) August 18, 2020
In a section on Russian "kompromat," the bipartsan Senate intel committee report notes that Trump "may have" begun an affair with a Russian woman during a trip to Moscow in 1996. pic.twitter.com/izDBoUEHKb
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) August 18, 2020
A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report has concluded that Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort worked closely with a Russian intelligence officer who may have been involved in the hack and release of Democratic emails during the electionhttps://t.co/YHSWYKAMre
— POLITICO (@politico) August 18, 2020
Trump will claim that he had no idea what was going on in his own campaign, that he never directed any of this, and that Paul Manafort is a terrific guy and that he's very strongly looking at a pardon https://t.co/KCrTI1gTDR
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 18, 2020
A damning finding in the GOP-led Senate Intel Cmte report on 2016 election:
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 18, 2020
“…Manafort's presence on the Campaign & proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over & acquire confidential information on the Trump Campaign”
“….except for all of the clear acts of collusion that we documented.” https://t.co/BRq3gb0ka8
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) August 18, 2020
Manafort appears to have asked Kilimnik — a "Russian intelligence officer," per the report — for recommendations for Trump administration jobs.
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) August 18, 2020
Manafort claimed Kushner and Giuliani were helping him get people hired. pic.twitter.com/VyF5fDR206
So. Perjury? https://t.co/jxqWUChuvq
— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) August 18, 2020
Bipartisan Senate report concludes Trump team's Russia contacts posed major risk https://t.co/9Xtq2SrSSX
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) August 18, 2020
This is why Mueller’s decision not to subpoena Trump and try to force him to sit for questions mattered.
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) August 18, 2020
No follow up questions to Trump’s “I don’t recall” written answer to whether he spoke with Roger Stone about WikiLeaks, which was undoubtedly penned by his lawyers. https://t.co/ZMRzia1CSv
So, Senate Republicans ran with the Ukraine interference story in January knowing they endorsed this SSCI report saying the same story was part of a Russian intelligence disinfo op? https://t.co/inTgtEaVIq
— Alex Finley (@alexzfinley) August 18, 2020
He not only lies to you, he lies to law enforcement. The President is the biggest liar to ever hold the office. https://t.co/YfrmhWmTtF
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) August 18, 2020
The bipartisan Senate report makes Trump’s pardon of Roger Stone look all the more treacherous, and the Mueller Report all the less complete. https://t.co/OoogkXqyXI
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 18, 2020
Sad! 