2/16/18
Although Mr. Trump appears to revel in the notion that
today’s Indictment from The Mueller Investigation makes no specific mention of
he and his contemporaries, there are at least two points worthy of note – 1)
The President of the United States upon being informed of a complex, sustained
and largely successful cyber-attack against Our Nation’s Electoral Process,
makes no comment whatever about the damage done to the U.S., or what penalty
the perpetrators of this dreadful affair shall suffer.
2) While the President extolls the pronouncement of ‘No
Collusion’, he seems to ignore the pathway This Indictment opens, and has
apparently disregarded Deputy AG Rosenstein’s repeated emphasis of “This
Indictment”. There have already been other Indictments resultant from This
Investigation. Also, anyone paying close attention to the language and
information contained in ‘This Indictment’ cannot help but believe
there are further indictments coming.
This Indictment portrays a deep and wide-ranging Conspiracy
that begs further, continued Investigation and Prosecution. Watch your step Mr.
President, you are by no means out of the woods just yet. An objective read of this document portrays if not yet
direct Trump Campaign Conspiracy, there is plenty of reference to it.
The Indictment contains information that a primary objective
of the Conspiracy to Defraud the United States Government described herein, was
to promote the election of Donald J. Trump to the U.S. Presidency. To ignore
the likelihood that the Trump Campaign participated in this plot would be
foolish.
‘This is not a Hoax; This is a wide-ranging attack on the
U.S. Any President loyal to his oath to defend This Country would be extremely
disturbed and take appropriate action …’ Malcom Nance – former Navy Seal
and U.S. Intelligence Operator. http://thetacticsofterror.org/
Here, just a brief peek at the Illegal Activity Russian
Nationals conducted in Collusion with American Citizens. : UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. INTERNET RESEARCH
AGENCY LLC A/K/A MEDIASINTEZ LLC A/K/A GLAVSET LLC A/K/A MIXINFO LLC A/K/A
AZIMUT LLC A/K/A NOVINFO LLC, CONCORD MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTING LLC, CONCORD
CATERING, (et al)jw
INDICTMENT
The Grand Jury for the District of Columbia charges:
1. The United
States of America,
through its departments
and agencies, regulates
the activities of foreign
individuals and entities
in and affecting
the United States
in order to
prevent, disclose, and counteract
improper foreign influence
on U.S. Elections and on the U.S. political system. U.S. law
bans foreign nationals
from making certain
expenditures or financial
disbursements for the purpose
of influencing federal
elections. U.S. law
also bars agents
of any foreign
entity from engaging in
political activities within
the United States
without first registering
with the Attorney General.
2. Defendant INTERNET RESEARCH
AGENCY LLC (“ORGANIZATION”) is a
Russian organization engaged
in operations to
interfere with elections
and political processes…
… VENKOV worked
in various capacities
to carry out
Defendant ORGANIZATION’s interference operations targeting the United
States. From in or around 2014
to the present, Defendants knowingly
and intentionally conspired
with each other
(and with
persons known and
unknown to the Grand Jury) to defraud the United
States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the
government through fraud and deceit for the purpose of interfering with the
U.S. political and
electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016.
4. Defendants, posing as U.S. persons and creating false
U.S. personas, operated social media pages and groups designed to attract U.S. audiences.
These groups and pages, which addressed divisive U.S. political and social issues, falsely
claimed to be controlled by U.S. activists when, in fact, they were controlled by Defendants. Defendants also
used the stolen identities of real U.S. persons to post on ORGANIZATION-controlled social media
accounts. Over time, these social media accounts became Defendants’ means to reach
significant numbers of Americans for purposes of interfering with the U.S. political system,
including the presidential election of 2016.
5. Certain Defendants traveled to the United States under
false pretenses for the purpose of collecting intelligence to inform Defendants’ operations.
Defendants also procured and used computer
infrastructure, based partly in the United States, to hide the Russian origin
of their activities and to
avoid detection by U.S. regulators and law enforcement
6. Defendant ORGANIZATION had a strategic goal to sow
discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential
election. Defendants posted derogatory information about a number of
candidates, and by early to mid-2016,
Defendants’ operations included supporting the presidential campaign of
then-candidate Donald J. Trump (“Trump Campaign”) and disparaging Hillary
Clinton.
Defendants also
staged political rallies inside the United States, and while posing as U.S. grassroots
entities and U.S. persons, and without revealing their Russian
identities and ORGANIZATION
affiliation, solicited and compensated real U.S. persons to promote
or disparage candidates. Some Defendants, posing as U.S. persons and
without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals
associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate
political activities.
a. The
ORGANIZATION employed hundreds
of individuals for
its online operations, ranging from
creators of fictitious
personas to technical
and administrative support. The ORGANIZATION’s annual
budget totaled the
equivalent of millions
of U.S. Dollars.
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…VASILCHENKO was responsible for posting, monitoring, and updating the social media content of many
ORGANIZATION-controlled accounts while posing as U.S. persons or
U.S. grassroots organizations. VASILCHENKO later served as the
head of two sub-groups focused on operations to interfere in the U.S. political system,
including the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
. ..VENKOV served on the Translator Project and operated
multiple U.S. personas, which
he used to
post, monitor, and
update social media
content for the ORGANIZATION.
30.
Defendants and their
co-conspirators also
traveled, and attempted
to travel, to
the United States
under false pretenses in
order to collect
intelligence for their
interference operations.
June 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators,
posing online as U.S. persons, communicated with a real U.S. person affiliated with a Texas-based
grassroots organization. During the exchange, Defendants and their co-conspirators learned from the
real U.S. person that they should focus their activities on “purple states like Colorado,
Virginia & Florida.” After that exchange, Defendants and their co-conspirators commonly referred to targeting “purple
states” in directing their efforts.
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Use of U.S. Social
Media Platforms 32. Defendants and their co-conspirators, through fraud and
deceit, created hundreds of social media accounts and used them to develop
certain fictitious U.S. personas into “leader[s] of public opinion” in the
United States.
ORGANIZATION controlled
pages addressed a range of issues, including: immigration (with group names
including “Secured Borders”); the Black Lives Matter movement
(with group names including “Blacktivist”); religion (with group names
including “United Muslims of America” and “Army of Jesus”); and certain geographic regions within the
United States (with group names including “South United” and “Heart of Texas”). By 2016,
the size of many ORGANIZATION-controlled groups had grown to hundreds of thousands of online
followers.
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…They engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about
Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco
Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump.
b. On or about September 14, 2016, in an internal
review of an ORGANIZATION…created
and controlled Facebook group called “Secured Borders,”… was told
“it is imperative to intensify criticizing Hillary Clinton” in future posts.
44. Certain ORGANIZATION-produced materials about the
2016 U.S. presidential election used election-related hashtags, including: #Trump2016,”“#TrumpTrain,”“#MAGA,”#IWontProtectHillary,”
and “#Hillary4Prison.”
47. Starting in or around the summer of 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators also began to promote allegations of voter fraud by the Democratic
Party through their fictitious U.S. personas
On or about August 4, 2016, Defendants and their
co-conspirators promoted a post on the ORGANIZATION-controlled
Facebook account “Stop A.I.” The post alleged that “Hillary Clinton has already
committed voter fraud during the Democrat Iowa Caucus.”
On or about November
2, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the same account to post
allegations of “#VoterFraud by
counting tens of thousands of ineligible mail
in Hillary votes being reported in Broward County, Florida
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50. The
political advertisements included the following: June 7, 2016 “Trump is our only hope for a better future!” June 30, 2016
“#NeverHillary #HillaryForPrison #Hillary4Prison #HillaryForPrison2016
#Trump2016 #Trump #Trump4President” July 20, 2016 “Ohio Wants Hillary 4
Prison”
August 4, 2016
“Hillary Clinton has already committed voter fraud during the Democrat Iowa
Caucus.” August 10, 2016 “We cannot trust Hillary to take care of our
veterans!” October 14, 2016 “Among all the candidates Donald Trump is
the one and only who can defend the police from terrorists.” October 19,
2016 “Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved just how evil
she is.”
51. Staging U.S. Political Rallies in the United States.
Starting in approximately June 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators
organized and coordinated political rallies in the United States. To conceal the fact that they were based in
Russia, Defendants and their co-conspirators promoted these rallies while
pretending to be U.S. grassroots activists who were located in the United States
but unable to meet to participate in person. 53. In or around late June
2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the Facebook group “United Muslims of America” to promote a
rally called “Support Hillary. Save American Muslims” held on July 9, 2016 in
the District of Columbia. Defendants and their co-conspirators recruited a real
U.S. person to hold a sign depicting Clinton and a quote attributed to her
stating “I think Sharia Law will be a powerful new direction of freedom.”
Within three weeks, on or about July 26, 2016, Defendants and their
co-conspirators posted on the same Facebook page that Muslim voters were “between
Hillary Clinton and a hard place.”
a.) In or
around June through
July 2016, Defendants
and their co-conspirators purchased
advertisements on Facebook
to promote the
“March for Trump”
and Down with Hillary”
rallies.
55. b). Defendants and their co-conspirators
purchased advertisements on Facebook and Instagram to promote the “Florida
Goes Trump” rallies.
c). Defendants and
their co-conspirators also used false U.S. personas to contact multiple
grassroots groups supporting then-candidate Trump in an unofficial capacity.
Many of these groups agreed to participate in the “Florida Goes Trump” rallies
and serve as local coordinators.
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For example,
Defendants and their co-conspirators asked one U.S. person to build a cage on a
flatbed truck and another U.S. person to wear a costume portraying Clinton in a
prison uniform. Defendants and their co-conspirators paid these
individuals to complete the requests.
61. On or about June
4, 2016, Defendants
and their co-conspirators used allforusa@yahoo.com, the email
address of a
false U.S. persona,
to send out
press releases for
the “March for Trump”
rally to New
York media outlets.
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66. On or
about July 12, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators created and purchased Facebook
advertisements for the “Down With
Hillary” rally in New York.
67. On or about July
23, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the email address of a false U.S. persona, joshmilton024@gmail.com, to send
out press releases to over thirty media outlets promoting
the “Down With Hillary” rally at Trump
Tower in New York City.
71. On or about
August 4, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators created and
purchased Facebook
advertisements for the “Florida Goes
Trump” rally. The advertisements reached over 59,000 Facebook
users in Florida, and over 8,300 Facebook users responded to the advertisements by clicking on it,
which routed users to the ORGANIZATION’s “Being Patriotic” page.
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Defendants and their co-conspirators used the email address
of a false U.S. persona, joshmilton024@gmail.com, to send an email to Campaign
Official 1 at that donaldtrump.com
email account, which read in part: . “Being Patriotic” is a grassroots
conservative online movement trying to unite people offline. . . . [W]e gained a huge lot of followers and
decided to somehow help Mr. Trump get elected. You know, simple yelling on
the Internet is not enough. There should be real action. We organized rallies in New York before. Now we’re focusing on purple states such as Florida.
82. On or
about August 31, 2016, Defendants and
their co-conspirators, using a U.S. persona, spoke by telephone
with a real U.S. person affiliated with a grassroots group in Florida. That individual requested
assistance in organizing a rally in Miami, Florida. On or about September 9, 2016, Defendants and
their co-conspirators sent the group an interstate wire to pay for materials needed for the
Florida rally on or about September 11, 2016.
84. On or about
September 9, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, through a false
U.S. persona, contacted the real U.S. person who had
impersonated Clinton at the West Palm Beach rally. Defendants and their co-conspirators sent that
U.S. person money via interstate wire as an inducement to travel from Florida to New York and to
dress in costume at another rally they organized. 85.
On or about September 22, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators
created and purchased Facebook advertisements for a series of rallies
they organized in Pennsylvania called “Miners for Trump”
and scheduled for October 2, 2016.
All in violation of
Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. COUNT TWO (Conspiracy to Commit Wire
Fraud and Bank Fraud) 86. Paragraphs 1 through 7, 9 through 27, and 29 through
85 of this Indictment are re-alleged.
Ah, Well… It goes on, more of the same and then some,
Treacherous Espionage and Treasonous Fraud.
This pretty much sums up the 2016 Presidential Campaign and
the Election of Pres. Donald J. Trump. As stated, this portends much more
trouble for the Trump Administration. This Indictment, I believe, opens the
door which could very well be The Beginning of The End of Mr. Trump’s
Presidency. ‘More will be revealed’.
