Letter Sent to Schiff's Office Claiming Papadopolous Coordinated w/Russians w/Trump's Knowledge

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Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman 31m31 minutes ago
BREAKING from me/@NatashaBertrand: An explosive letter has been sent to Schiff's office claiming that Papadopoulos coordinated with Russians with Trump's knowledge in the weeks following the election. Authorities are taking the letter "very seriously" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/papasopouloss-russia-ties-still-interest-fbi-schiff/576895/

from the Atlantic:

____The letter, obtained last week by The Atlantic, was sent to Democratic Representative Adam Schiff’s office on November 19 by an individual who claims to have been close to Papadopoulos in late 2016 and early 2017. The letter was brought to the attention of Schiff and House Intelligence Committee staff, according to an aide who requested anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. The letter was also obtained by federal authorities, who are taking its claims “very seriously,” said two U.S. officials who also requested anonymity due to the sensitivities of the probe.

The statement makes a series of explosive but uncorroborated claims about Papadopoulos’s alleged coordination with Russians in the weeks following Trump’s election in November 2016, including that Papadopoulos said he was “doing a business deal with Russians which would result in large financial gains for himself and Mr. Trump.” The confidant said they were willing to take a polygraph test “to prove that I am being truthful” and had come forward now after seeing Papadopoulos “become increasingly hostile towards those who are investigating him and his associates.” A lawyer for Papadopoulos declined to comment.

If corroborated, the claims in the letter would add to an emerging portrait of Trump and his associates’ eagerness to strike backdoor deals with Russia even after the intelligence community concluded that Moscow had interfered in the 2016 election. (Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, tried to set up a “backchannel” to Russia in the weeks after the election and met with the CEO of a sanctioned Russian bank during the transition period. Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, meanwhile, negotiated with the Russian ambassador about U.S. sanctions before Trump was inaugurated.)

Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman 7m7 minutes ago
Here it is, folks. We had to redact portions of the letter as to not give away any details about the Papadopoulos confidant. It's real, and federal authorities are investigating thoroughly.


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[Thomas Hurt]

1. Seems to be a lot of leaking going on...just not sure who is doing it all...

Trump's answers, this letter, the draft indictment.

[SDJay]

2. Yep. IMO It's Because

the shit is really starting to hit the fan now, and the leakers want to do whatever they can to insulate themselves from winding up in their own legal poopstorm. Some of these folks may just know some inner-circle dump-humpers and they're getting really scared about all of this.

[malaise]

4. Ding ding

New Sheriff in the town - real subpoenas are coming.

[DonViejo]

6. They've realized their aboard the Titanic...

It's every passenger for her and his self now. Enjoy the show, I think it's going to be one helluva great one.

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5. the letter was actually sent to Schiff on Nov. 19

...I'm guessing the Atlantic took this long for due diligence on sourcing and whatever corroboration they could manage (not much, it appears from their report).

The sources of leaks may all be unrelated. There's a 'shit hitting the fan' wind in the air.

[lindysalsagal]

3. These fools are too stupid to catch on that doing something this big and stupid cannot be hidden for

long, if at all.

No one person can move an election, unless it's an inept candidate.

There are lots of people who know what happened and as this drags on, and the tide has turned to the democrats, they'll come out of the woodwork.

They're pissed off totally, and want this crap to stop.

Hopefully this is like me too: It's an opening salvo, followed by an avelanche of new evidence.

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7. kick

[NBachers]

8. I hope they can verify that this is not more misdirection and skulduggery.

[Roy Rolling]

10. My Concerns, Too

To be fooled by a phony letter would be a crushing blow. The media should be smarter and professional enough to prevent being too eager, and thus vulnerable to attacks of this nature.

[lancelyons]

18. I too am thinking this seems somewhat phony. Way to out there.

[C Moon]

12. My first thought.

[Volaris]

17. I was thinking the same thing;

That this smells very much like an aphrodiesiac to a Rat-Fucking.

[certainot]

9. i'm not saying it's the case here but one of the defensive postures they're going to take is to

create fake stories to discredit.

because we ignore their biggest advantage, talk radio, they can take a fake story and create a house of bullshit to discredit the truth tellers.

they do it all the time

[Toorich]

11. I can remember....

.... when the noose finally began to tighten around Tricky Dick's neck
and he was running out of wiggle-room. He was making several public appearances
and Dan Rather was there at the front of the press and dogging
Nixon's every step.
At one of the appearances Nixon asked Rather, "What are you running for
Mr. Rather?
Rather shot back, "Why are you running, Mr. President? Nixon was not amused.


The sense that the end is near for the current prisondent is similarly palpable.
I can only hope that Mueller has enough to get Manafort's boy Pence too.

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15. love that

...great Dan Rather story.

[uponit7771]

13. Careful, Red Don is stupid and maniacal type to write this crap to send folk on goose chases

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14. the caution is right there in the op

...and these are credible journalists who didn't just dish this out the day they got the story.

"The statement makes a series of explosive but uncorroborated claims..."

Besides, there should be some concern about dismissing everything just because some stories didn't pan out.

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[spanone]

16. K&R...