VietPress USA (Dec. 5th, 2017): The daily average expenditure of Trump and his family cost to taxpayers US$ 3 Million during first 9 months of his presidency. While Special Counsel Robert Mueller spent almost US$ 3.1 from Taxpayers for investigation of Trump's campaign 2016 election meddling with Russians.
The result is that 4 big Trump's campaign advisers have been charged, including:
1- Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy
Rick Gates were indicted in October with 12 counts. They pleaded not guilty and
had been ordered under house arrest.
A Republican strategist and longtime Washington operator,
Manafort became Trump's campaign chairman in spring 2016. With just under three
months to go until the presidential election, Manafort resigned amid
questions over his campaign role and extensive lobbying history overseas,
particularly in Ukraine, where he represented pro-Russian interests.
2- Rick Gates
is a longtime business associate of Manafort and served as his deputy on the
Trump campaign.
Like
Manafort, Gates also was charged with 12 counts, and his alleged crimes are not
related to his role in Trump's campaign.
3- Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser pleaded guilty in
October to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his
interactions with foreign nationals, including two Russians, with ties to the
Russian government.
The FBI said Papadopoulos "falsely described his
interactions with a certain foreign contact who discussed 'dirt' related to
emails" concerning Clinton. Records also describe an email between Trump
campaign officials suggesting they were considering acting on Russian invitations
to go to Russia.
4- Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in
December to lying to the FBI about conversations with Russia's
ambassador.
He disclosed that he is cooperating with the special counsel's
office and became the first person inside the Trump's administration to be
charged in Mueller's probe.
The
retired lieutenant general started advising Trump on national security in early
2016. Flynn targeted then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in
the chant, "lock her up" during the Republican National Convention.
When Trump took office in January 2017, Flynn served as his national security
adviser, but resigned after less than one month amid questions about his links
to Russia.
According
to a statement of offense filed in court, Flynn conducted several
calls with senior officials on the Trump transition team about his discussions
with then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak related to US
sanctions of Russia. He and Trump advisers discussed US sanctions three times,
and Flynn, then called Kislyak to ask that Russia not respond too harshly to US
sanctions, the statement of offense said. He also spoke with Kislyak about an
upcoming UN Security Council vote condemning Israel's policy regarding
settlements in the occupied territories, the legal document says.
Flynn lied
to investigators about these calls with the ambassador, according to his guilty
plea and the criminal statement of offense. He faces a maximum sentence of five
years in prison, according to federal sentencing guidelines, though the judge
could impose a harsher or lighter sentence.
It is today the office of Special Cousel Robert Mueller declares the cost of US$3.2 million in first 4 months of investigation about Trump's 2016 campaign meddling with Russians.
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Mueller’s Russia probe cost $3.2M in first four months
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