https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/2018/04/07/mueller-speaks/492731002/
Truth has become a game in the era of Trump and Fox News, Alex Jones and conspiracy theorists. Mueller, however, is insisting on factual truth. Truth is not fuzzy; there is no alternate reality. You tell the truth, or you end up in jail.
That is Lesson No. 1.
And there are other lessons and messages from Mueller in this guilty plea. Mueller rebuts the chatter from Fox News and other sources that there is no "collusion" or nexus between the Trump campaign and Russians connected with the GRU, the Russian secret service. Nestled in the guilty plea, Mueller somewhat gratuitously tells us that Manafort and Gates were interacting with a foreign agent who is not specifically named but appears to be Constantin Kilimnik, a former Russian intelligence officer for GRU, Russia's military intelligence organization. The argument that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians is destroyed once you understand what Mueller is telling us.
Truth has become a game in the era of Trump and Fox News, Alex Jones and conspiracy theorists. Mueller, however, is insisting on factual truth. Truth is not fuzzy; there is no alternate reality. You tell the truth, or you end up in jail.
That is Lesson No. 1.
And there are other lessons and messages from Mueller in this guilty plea. Mueller rebuts the chatter from Fox News and other sources that there is no "collusion" or nexus between the Trump campaign and Russians connected with the GRU, the Russian secret service. Nestled in the guilty plea, Mueller somewhat gratuitously tells us that Manafort and Gates were interacting with a foreign agent who is not specifically named but appears to be Constantin Kilimnik, a former Russian intelligence officer for GRU, Russia's military intelligence organization. The argument that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians is destroyed once you understand what Mueller is telling us.
