𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗗 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗧'𝗦 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗧 𝗗𝗔𝗪𝗡 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗢𝗙 𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡. 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗪𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗 𝟯𝟬+ 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗜𝗥 𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦. Let's talk about a pattern. Because once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a strategy. 𝗛𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻: Thirty-three thousand emails deleted. Private server wiped with BleachBit —... a tool specifically designed to make recovery impossible — after a congressional subpoena. Staffers smashed BlackBerries with hammers. Done before and during federal investigations. Nobody charged. 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗠𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺: More than 30 phones wiped and destroyed after the investigation concluded. The DOJ Inspector General documented it. The justifications ranged from "forgot the password" to "it wiped itself" to "entered the wrong PIN too many times." Thirty phones. The entire leadership of the team investigating the President of the United States. All the evidence gone. All of it accidental. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗲: Same story. Phones wiped before they could be handed over to the incoming Republican majority. The committee that spent two years demanding accountability for evidence destruction destroyed its own evidence on the way out the door. Now apply the standard Mueller's own team established. They raided Paul Manafort's home before dawn, guns drawn, because they were worried he might destroy evidence. That was the justification. The possibility — not the act, the possibility — of evidence destruction warranted a pre-dawn armed raid on a private citizen's home. What does the same standard require when the investigators themselves wipe 30 phones? When it's not a possibility but a documented fact? When it's not one person but the entire leadership of a special counsel team? Mueller was also, we now know, in consideration for the FBI Director position at the same time he was running the investigation into the man who would decide that appointment. Rosenstein's own email documents it. Mueller told Congress otherwise. That is called perjury — when a private citizen does it. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗢𝗝'𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵. The hoax is documented. The manufactured Steele Dossier is documented. Brennan's briefing of Obama on the Clinton campaign's plan is documented. The phone wiping is documented. What has never happened — until now — is accountability. The rule of law means the same rules apply to the investigators as to the investigated. For a very long time in Washington, that principle was theoretical. The DOJ is now testing whether it can become real. 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗿 𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘁. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗼 𝗶𝘁.show more

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