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Reports Suggest More Indictments in Russia Probe Coming as Soon as This Week

Reports Suggest More Indictments in Russia Probe Coming as Soon as This Week

Last updated on: November 13, 2018 at 12:56 pm by Susan Wright

Reports Suggest More Indictments in Russia Probe Coming as Soon as This Week 2018-11-13T12:56:58-05:00 Susan Wright

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Watch the desperation of President Trump, this week. We can always tell when something major is about to drop by how frantic and spastic his tweets become.

A fine for instance is this noontime Tuesday tweet, where he urges his cult-like followers, once again, to not listen to the news, but to trust in him, and his relationship with North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un.

The story in the New York Times concerning North Korea developing missile bases is inaccurate. We fully know about the sites being discussed, nothing new – and nothing happening out of the normal. Just more Fake News. I will be the first to let you know if things go bad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2018

That’s right. Multiple sources are reporting about Kim’s continued nuclear ambitions, in direct opposition to what the Trump administration has previously stated, but the president is urging Americans to wait on his word, above all else.

How dangerous is that, that we have a president who wants total control over what information Americans receive?

For now, we can write it off to desperation.

Reports swirling about now are that this week will see new indictments handed down from the offices of special counsel Robert Mueller, regarding the ongoing Russia probe.

From CBS News:

“I’ve spoken with many sources with knowledge of the Special Counsel investigation, and we do expect new indictments to be coming as soon as today,” CBS correspondent Paula Reid reported Tuesday.

The report comes one day after Jerome Corsi, a conservative commentator and conspiracy theorist who is an associate of Roger Stone, stated his belief that he will soon be indicted.

“I’m going to be criminally charged,” Corsi said during a YouTube livestream. “As of today, right now, I expect to be indicted.”

There’s nothing “conservative” about Jerome Corsi. He pimps ludicrous internet tripe on InfoWars, with a glaring troll, Alex Jones, listening intently.

Just the fact that he’s so close to Roger Stone should be reason enough to think the worst of him.

Bad company corrupts good character – if he ever had any.

Stone is suspected of having knowledge of the hacking of the DNC emails during the 2016 election season, and has alternately claimed to have a relationship with the hacker, Guccifer 2.0, and with having no association with the hacker, WikiLeaks, or Julian Assange, at all.

He can lie in his personal life, but lying to Congress, or special counsel could really mess up his future trajectory.

By the way, that “hacker” is now believed to be several people, all working for Russian intelligence.

Stone is also a longtime pal and unofficial adviser to Donald Trump. He’s just one more link, one more step closer to Trump and his inner circle.

The shaping of this very bad week for Trump doesn’t end there.

Former Trump attorney and personal “fixer,” Michael Cohen, made a special trip on Monday to Washington, D.C., along with his lawyer, Guy Petrillo, in order to talk with Mueller.

Cohen’s meeting with Mueller’s team was only the latest in a series of sit-downs the attorney has had with the special counsel’s office since pleading guilty in August to federal criminal charges. Those included campaign contribution violations related to payments to two women, purportedly at the behest of Trump. That case was brought by federal investigators in the Southern District of New York, not Mueller’s team.

Cohen is due to be sentenced Dec. 12 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on charges of tax evasion, making false statements to a bank, and the two campaign contribution violations.

When he pleaded guilty, he did so without an explicit agreement to cooperate with prosecutors in hopes of reducing his potential criminal sentence.

But his voluntary cooperation with Mueller’s team, as well as other meetings Cohen has reportedly had with federal prosecutors in New York and with New York state law enforcement officials, could win him leniency from the sentencing judge.

And Cohen, who went from being a devoted and reliable guard dog for Donald Trump, to a man driven to cut any and all ties to his former boss could be the one that ultimately does the most damage to the president.

Cohen was the clean-up man. He took care of the nasty business, like covering up the affairs, paying off the mistresses, smoothing out the path for a man who many said treated him like garbage.

What could he tell, now that he’s not burdened with an unrequited sense of loyalty?

Mueller’s investigation has already netted indictments of over a dozen Russians, as well as four members of Donald Trump’s campaign team.

There will be more.

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