{"id":28156,"date":"2018-02-17T02:58:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T02:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28156"},"modified":"2018-02-17T02:58:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T02:58:05","slug":"now-mueller-indicts-russians-meddling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28156","title":{"rendered":"Now this: Mueller indicts Russians for meddling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let’s see. If we’re keeping score, the tab is piling up against Donald Trump’s claim that the Russians didn’t interfere in our 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

The nation’s top spooks, the folks who run our intelligence agencies, say in unison that the Russians meddled in our election.<\/p>\n

Now, today, we get word that special counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 13 Russians and three Russian companies for — drum roll!<\/em> — interfering in our election.<\/p>\n

But … the president of the United States is willing to take the word of a former KGB boss, Vladimir Putin, that he didn’t do what our intelligence experts say he did. Donald Trump is the lone denier in all of this.<\/p>\n

To be clear, the indictments don’t suggest any collusion from the Trump campaign. The president might take some solace in that knowledge, although there’s still more to be determined by Mueller’s legal team as it pores through all the material that has piled up.<\/p>\n

Nor do the indictments say that the Russian hackers’ activity actually affected the outcome. They did not determine the outcome. I get that, too.<\/p>\n

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who announced the indictments, said the Russians did accomplish their mission in their meddling, which was to cause “discord” and to throw doubt over our nation’s electoral process.<\/p>\n

When will the president ever acknowledge what is now widely known? My hunch: He’ll take his denial with him to the grave.<\/p>\n

Weird.<\/p>\n\n

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Let’s see. If we’re keeping score, the tab is piling up against Donald Trump’s claim that the Russians didn’t interfere in our 2016 presidential election. The nation’s top spooks, the folks who run our intelligence agencies, say in unison that the Russians meddled in our election. Now, today, we get word that special counsel Robert … Continue reading Now this: Mueller indicts Russians for meddling<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[74,1414,1424,2675,3983,7101,7093,7162,7100,5125],"class_list":["post-28156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-doj","tag-donald-trump","tag-kgb","tag-robert-mueller","tag-rod-rosenstein","tag-russia-probe","tag-russian-meddling","tag-special-counsel","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28158,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28156\/revisions\/28158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}