Manafort and Gates Charged

[Dill]

(10-30-2017, 08:11 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: https://lawfareblog.com/robert-muellers-show-strength-quick-and-dirty-analysis

This bit is a rather interesting window into the administration:

Papadopoulos first became publicly affiliated with the Trump campaign in March 2016. That month, Trump faced significant pressure to announce foreign policy advisers after numerous Republican foreign policy and national security experts publicly vowed never to work for him. In response, Trump produced a list of names of purported experts, a list that included both Papadapoulos and Carter Page.

Trump appears to have been dredging the bottom of the barrel for foreign policy experts.  Page was on Chris Hayes last night. His previous interview was a disaster (he could not say whether he did or did not meet Kislyak at the R national convention), and this one was not better. He cannot say yes or no to a yes or no question, like "Were you ever on a campaign email chain in which Russia was discussed?"   He does still insist his name has been sullied by the implication he was either a willing go-between or played by the Russians, but he is suing some news outlet(s) to correct this.