Toistan saman, jonka sanoin jo sunnuntaina 11.6.: älkää tuijottako nyt collusion -väitettä, vaan obstruction of justice. James Comey on jo todennut Trumpin pyytäneen häntä keskeyttämään Flynnin tutkinta. Nyt jos Dan Coates ja Mike Rodgers sanovat vielä samaa, niin se on todennäköisesti game over Trumpille. Ja mitä Sessionsin todistukseen tulee, niin hän itse asiassa vahvisti monta Comeyn esittämää kohtaa.
Tuo vehkeily venäläisten kanssa on paljon työläämpi juttu todistaa. Sen tutkimiseen menee helposti vuosi tai kaksikin. Bob Mueller on muuten koko ajan laajentanut tutkintaa. Nyt on otettu mukaan paitsi tämä Trumpiin kohdistuva obstruction of justice -epäily, niin myös epäily Trump-organisaation harjoittamasta venäläisten oligarkkien rahanpesusta. Tutkittavien listalle on päässyt myös Eric Trump.
Yleensä tutkimuksen edetessä kuivuneita tutkimushaaroja suljetaan. Nyt niitä tulee koko ajan lisää ja lisää. Mistähän tämä voisi kertoa...
Tuo nimenomaan on täysin tulkinnanvaraista, mitä Trump sanoi. Sen suhteen ei todistettu mitään.
Täydestä transkriptistä tuossa alempana
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/politics/senate-hearing-transcript.html?mcubz=0&_r=0
Lisäksi Comey oli jo aiemmin toukokuussa todistanut, ettei kukaan ollut ikinä yrittänyt lopettaa tutkimusta poliittisista syistä.
Collusion-höpötys on vaihtunut OoJ-höpötykseen. Joka vaihtuu sitten johonkin muuhun jne. menee seuraavat 3.5 vuotta. Ei kerro mistään muusta kuin siitä, millaista politiikka on jenkeissä.
RISCH: Thank you.
All right. So — so those three things, we now know, regarding the active measures, whether (ph) the president’s under investigation and the collusion between the — the Russian — the Trump campaign and the Russians.
I — I want to drill right down, as my time is limited, to the most recent dust-up regarding allegations that the president of the United States obstructed justice. And, boy, you nailed this down on page 5, paragraph 3. You put this in quotes — words matter.
You wrote down the words so we can all have the words in front of us now. There’s 28 words there that are in quotes, and it says, quote, “I hope” — this is the president speaking — “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
Now those are his exact words, is that correct?
COMEY: Correct.
RISCH: And you wrote them here, and you put them in quotes?
COMEY: Correct.
RISCH: Thank you for that. He did not direct you to let it go.
COMEY: Not in his words, no.
RISCH: He did not order you to let it go.
COMEY: Again, those words are not an order.
RISCH: He said, “I hope.” Now, like me, you probably did hundreds of cases, maybe thousands of cases charging people with criminal offenses. And, of course, you have knowledge of the thousands of cases out there that — where people have been charged.
Do you know of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice or, for that matter, any other criminal offense, where this — they said, or thought, they hoped for an outcome?
COMEY: I don’t know well enough to answer. And the reason I keep saying his words is I took it as a direction.
RISCH: Right.
COMEY: I mean, this is the president of the United States, with me alone, saying, “I hope” this. I took it as, this is what he wants me to do.
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COMEY: Now I — I didn’t obey that, but that’s the way I took it.
RISCH: You — you may have taken it as a direction, but that’s not what he said.
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COMEY: Correct. I — that’s why...
RISCH: He said — he said, “I hope.”
COMEY: Those are exact words, correct.
RISCH: OK, do you (ph) — you don’t know of anyone that’s ever been charged for hoping something. Is that a fair statement?
COMEY: I don’t, as I sit here.
RISCH: Yeah. Thank you.
