@stanleybmanly Let me say it’s hard to investigate something you are using as a fact in the rest of your investigation. The Steele Dossier is at the heart of the entire Trump/Russia collusion. If you question the dossier, the rest of the narrative falls into pieces….and you know it. Don’t play the fool.
Crimes from 10 years ago: Manafort – The indictment charged Manafort with conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts, being an unregistered agent of foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, and false statements. Those all occurred back in the mid-2000’s when he was lobbying for a number of foreign leaders.
Gates – mostly tax evasion items from 2010. Not quite 10 years, but certainly before he was involved with the Trump campaign.
Papadopoulos – lied to FBI about a conversation he had with a Russian professor before he joined the Trump campaign.
Flynn – I’ll give you Flynn, but it was about lying to the FBI and what he lied about was not a crime. If he chooses to lie, he should be burned.
So those were some of the big players. A couple of tax evasions and bank frauds that go back almost 10 years and a couple of lies to the FBI. So which of these really required a special prosecutor? People lie to the FBI all the time and we don’t get special prosecutors to deal with them. Ditto that tax evasion and bank fraud. And none of those charges even come close to showing any collusion between Trump and Russia to interfere in the election. AND, I will say it again…collusion is not a crime in this case. You would have to build it up further to be some sort of conspiracy to have any teeth. Mueller can’t even prove collusion so conspiracy is out of the question.