https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/25/finally-proof-of-russian-collusion-just-not-the-sort-the-left-was-hoping-for/

“Jordan Schachtel, national security correspondent for the Conservative Review, has uncovered the fact that Michael Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, “is on the payroll of a pro-Moscow Ukrainian oligarch with direct ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
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As principal lobbyist for Firtash, Davis draws a monthly paycheck of $60,000, plus expenses, totaling around a million dollars a year. More interesting still is a report by a Ukrainian news site indicating that Firtash wired him $80,000 just two weeks before the 2016 presidential election.

Owing to Davis’s long-held ties to the woman who ran against Trump in the 2016 election, his fiduciary arrangement with a Ukrainian oligarch might be worth Mueller’s time to look into — or at least it would be if the special counsel were genuinely in knowing the truth.”

Stevens was a federal politician. Sarah Palin’s conflicts were with Gov. Murkowski and his camarilla.

I take it you mean upChuck, the alleged lawyer from Detroit, who graces the Althouse forum. My wager about him is that he’s a careerist on the payroll butt-hurt about the failing grade Republican voters gave the Capitol Hill / K Street nexus in 2016, sort of a lower-echelon John Kasich. I’m actually quite curious to learn which aspirant buckraker he works for. Since he’s never uttered a word which indicates the slightest interest in any ideology or programmatic preference, I don’t think he works for Ben Sasse or anyone like Ben Sasse.

We wait with bated breath for your inside knowledge of the true connections between Manafort’s guilt in this case and Russian collusion of which he was not charged. I know that this judge was unusual in not trying Manafort for a crime that the prosecutors did not accuse him of. That judge is a true outlier these days. How quaint. And yes it is so relevant that Meuller and Rosenstien are staunch, lifelong Republicans who can’t somehow find any Russian collusion or any thing else, jaywalking for example, in the Hillary campaign, It is one of those mysteries of the universe. But do tell all Manju.

“The RNC is likely looking at procedural reforms so as to make it impossible for another outsider like Trump to ever be nominated again.”

Dartmouth did this after TJ Rogers, a highly successful alum, was nominated by petition. The fix quickly descended and Dartmouth continued on the path to the left.

I suspect the RNC might have similar intent from its donor class.

The “life long Republicans” are always calling Rush Limbaugh and regurgitating DNC talking points so we are familiar with the method.

And the one honest judge in this travesty of justice has repeatedly and publicly stated this to be a Witch Hunt to get Trump.

Geoffrey Britain, Judge T. S. Ellis III stated, rather colorfully, that Mueller, by prosecuting Manafort, was outside of his purview. Since the charges had nothing to do with Russian interference with the election, they were only prosecuting him in order to get him to cooperate, or so his argument goes.

Mueller & Co argued otherwise. This case actually does happen to have something to do with Russian interference, above and beyond simply pressuring Manafort, or so their argument went.

They presented their evidence, much of which we do know. But Ellis, clearly sympathetic to your argument and frankly probably still so, does know. He ruled in favor of Mueller. They followed the money, he wrote.

Now, I can sit here and speculate as to what that evidence is. It’s not too hard to imagine, if your paying attention. But my style is more fact-based: like Sessions, Rosenstein, and Mueller are all life-long Republicans.

However, if you’d like me to elaborate, I’d be happy to.