Thread: MUELLER DRAFT REPORT SAYS TRUMP 'HELPED PUTIN DESTABILIZE THE UNITED STATES'

MUELLER DRAFT REPORT SAYS TRUMP 'HELPED PUTIN DESTABILIZE THE UNITED STATES', WATERGATE JOURNALIST SAYS

BY JASON LEMON ON 1/13/19 AT 2:45 PM



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Legendary journalist Carl Bernstein has said that he’s been told that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report will show how President Donald Trump helped Russia “destabilize the United States.”Bernstein, who is renowned for his coverage of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of former President Richard Nixon, appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday to discuss two bombshell reports released this weekend, one from The New York Times and one from The Washington Post, which revealed new details about whether or not Trump and his aides have colluded with Russia.

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.@carlbernstein: “This is about the most serious counterintelligence people we have in the US government saying, ‘Oh my god, the President’s words and actions lead us to conclude that somehow he has become a witting, unwitting or half-witting pawn...to Vladimir Putin.'”

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The Post reported that Trump has gone to “extraordinary lengths” to conceal direct conversations he has had with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Times article revealed that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into Trump after he fired former bureau director James Comey in 2017, suspecting the president could be working on behalf of Russia. Trump has angrily denied allegations that he worked with Russia and has regularly attacked the media for reporting on the investigation. But Bernstein slammed Trump’s dismissal of the probe.

“This is about the most serious counterintelligence people we have in the U.S. government saying, ‘Oh, my God, the president’s words and actions lead us to conclude that somehow he has become a witting, unwitting, or half-witting pawn, certainly in some regards, to Vladimir Putin,'” Bernstein explained during his appearance on Reliable Sources .

“From a point of view of strength… rather, he has done what appears to be Putin’s goals. He has helped Putin destabilize the United States and interfere in the election, no matter whether it was purposeful or not,” the journalist added. He then explained that he knew from his own high-level sources that Mueller’s report would discuss this assessment.

“And that is part of what the draft of Mueller’s report, I’m told, is to be about,” he said. “We know there has been collusion by [former national security adviser Michael] Flynn. We know there has been collusion of some sort by [Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul] Manafort. The question is, yes, what did the president know and when did he know it?”


President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during a joint press conference after their summit on July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, FinlandCHRIS MCGRATH/GETTY IMAGES

Trump has defended himself against such reports, arguing, inaccurately, that he has taken a hardline stance against Russia.

“I have been FAR tougher on Russia than Obama, Bush or Clinton. Maybe tougher than any other President. At the same time, & as I have often said, getting along with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. I fully expect that someday we will have good relations with Russia again! [sic],” he wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

However, the president’s 2016 campaign remains the subject of a special investigation led by Mueller. Several former high-ranking Trump aides have been indicted in the probe and last week, it was revealed that Manafort shared confidential polling data with an associate linked to Russian-intelligence.

Trump's administration recently moved to remove financial sanctions on an ally of Putin, and has recently pulled troops out of Syria -- a long-standing demand from the Russian President.

https://www.newsweek.com/mueller-rep...nalist-1289541

LOL!! Well, I'm sure looking forward to seeing the report. I guess if this is true that Mueller is in CRAZY CRISIS MODE. The United States is more stable that it has been in 5 decades. If that's what Putin wanted and Trump worked on together, then God Bless Them Both. This is the most nonsensical idiotic mentally deranged report ever funded by US taxpayers, if this report of the report is true, which I seriously doubt.

Bernstein: Trump has helped Putin ‘destabilize the US’

BY JUSTIN WISE - 01/13/19 04:38 PM EST 741

Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein on Sunday claimed that President Trumphas helped Russian President Vladimir Putin "destabilize" the U.S.

"Trump keeps going back to the idea we need better relations with Russia. He could well be right," Bernstein said on CNN's "Reliable Sources." "But from a point of view of strength, and what everybody can see, is that he has not acted with Russia from the United States having a strength advantage with Russia."

"Rather he has done what appears to be Putin’s goals," Bernstein continued. "He has helped Putin destabilize the United States and interfere in the election, no matter whether it was purposeful or not."

He added that he has been "told" that a draft of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the probe into Russia's election interference and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin will scrutinize whether Trump was a "witting, unwitting or half-witting pawn" to Russia's destabilizing goals during the 2016 election.

His comments come just days after The New York Times released a report that the FBI in 2017 opened a counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump was working on behalf of Russia.

The investigation was allegedly sparked after Trump dismissed former FBI Director James Comey, according to the Times.

The report was followed by one from The Washington Post on Saturday alleging Trump has repeatedly worked to hide details of his private conversations with Putin.

Bernstein added on Sunday that he has spoken with lawyers of defendants in Mueller's probe who think Trump "has been lying at every turn about his relationship with Russia."

"Let us look at all of the lies," Bernstein said. "Follow the money, follow the lies.

They are all mostly — and most vehemently — about Russia."

Trump has repeatedly dismissed allegations that his campaign colluded with Moscow, and has described Mueller's probe as a "witch hunt." He said on Saturday that the idea he was working on behalf of Russia was "insulting."

"I think it's the most insulting thing I've ever been asked,” Trump said on Fox News. “I think it's the most insulting article I've ever had written.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4...abilize-the-us

President Trump went to 'extraordinary lengths' to hide details of Putin meetings