BREAKING: Senior FBI official who led 2016 investigation finding no link between Trump and Russia, Charles McGonigal, has now been arrested for taking and laundering money for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
The Kremlin infiltration of America goes VERY deep.
@tristansnell - That's false. He didn't "lead the investigation." He was very high up in the New York office. It's certainly fair to want to investigate what he did. It's just not true he was the leader.
Charles McGonigal sent an email message about Papadopolous after an Australian Ambassador contacted him. He was also involved in the Carter Page investigation.
Donald Trump was only investigated by the FBI in 2017 *after* he fired James Comey under suspicious circumstances.
@tristansnell “As Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel points out, the Department of Justice is pursuing this case so far as about public corruption, not about national security. But it is surely significant that the man who was supposed to be in charge of protecting the U.S. from Russian oligarchs went to work for one as soon as he left the FBI, and perhaps sooner. And that oligarch was connected to Trump’s 2016 campaign manager.“
Today a jury found three members of the Oath Keepers gang, along with a fourth defendant associated with them, guilty of seditious conspiracy for their actions surrounding the January 6th insurrection in 2021. In October a different jury also found the founder of the Oath Keepers, Elmer Stewart Rhodes, as well as their Florida leader, Kelly Meggs, guilty of seditious conspiracy. Five members of another extremist gang, the Proud Boys, are currently on trial on that charge and others.
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