Briefly Noted: Larry Johnson Lays It Out
I've quoted Larry Johnson in the past. Today he has an excellent piece at Gateway Pundit. He focuses on eight points of focus re Russia for the Mueller inquisition and demonstrates that in every single instance these were entrapment schemes, provocations instigated by US/UK intel agencies or Clinton connected organizations. Below I set out the intro, but follow the link for the detail that follows.
Johson makes a simple but important point toward the end of the intro:
There is not a single instance where Donald Trump or any member of his campaign team initiated contact with the Russians for the purpose of gaining derogatory information on Hillary or obtaining support to boost the Trump campaign.
The distinction here is that we have now learned from John Solomon's reporting that the Ukraine has confirmed that a Clinton campaign operative--Alexandra Chalupa--did in fact proactively reach out to the Ukrainian government seeking dirt on Paul Manafort: Ukrainian Embassy confirms DNC contractor solicited Trump dirt in 2016 .
Monica Showalter at American Thinker comments: "Paul Manafort's case for a tossout of all the charges against him gets quite a bit stronger."
Flynn, Papadopoulos, Manafort ...
Intel and Law Enforcement Tried to Entrap Trump
Guest post by Larry C. Johnson

The preponderance of evidence makes this very simple–there was a broad, coordinated effort by the Obama Administration, with the help of foreign governments, to target Donald Trump and paint him as a stooge of Russia.
The Mueller Report provides irrefutable evidence that the so-called Russian collusion case against Donald Trump was a deliberate fabrication by intelligence and law enforcement organizations in the United States and the United Kingdom and organizations aligned with the Clinton Campaign.
... The biggest curiosity is that US intelligence or law enforcement officials fully briefed British intelligence on what they were up to. Quite understandable given what we now know about British spying on the Trump Campaign.
The Mueller investigation of Trump “collusion” with Russia prior to the 2016 Presidential election focused on eight cases:
Proposed Trump Tower Project in Moscow—
George Papadopolous—
Carter Page—
Dimitri Simes—
Veselnetskya Meeting at Trump Tower (June 16, 2016)
Events at Republican Convention
Post-Convention Contacts with Russian Ambassador Kislyak
Paul Manafort
One simple fact emerges–of the eight cases or incidents of alleged Trump Campaign interaction with the Russians investigated by the Mueller team, the proposals to interact with the Russian Government or Putin originated with FBI informants, MI-6 assets or people paid by Fusion GPS, not Trump or his people. There is not a single instance where Donald Trump or any member of his campaign team initiated contact with the Russians for the purpose of gaining derogatory information on Hillary or obtaining support to boost the Trump campaign. Not one.
Simply put, Trump and his campaign were the target of an elaborate, wide ranging covert action designed to entrap him and members of his team as an agent of Russia.
Let’s look in detail at each of the cases.
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