Donald Trump campaign now facing accusations of cyberterrorism, kidnapping, murder and other crimes
Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp” and drive the corruption out of politics. Instead, he and his campaign and his administration have turned out to be the most corrupt in United States history. The accusations against Trump and his advisers now consist of a wide variety of crimes including money laundering, conspiracy against the United States, obstruction of justice, mafia ties, cyberterrorism, and – no kidding – conspiracy to commit kidnapping and mass murder.
This week NBC News reported that a suspected Russian mobster tried to coordinate with the Donald Trump campaign during the election, and that Jared Kushner was aware of it, and that he tried to cover it up by omitting it from his White House security clearance forms (link); lying on the forms is a felony. Earlier in the week it was reported that Donald Trump Jr spent the general election coordinating with Russian-controlled cyberterrorist site WikiLeaks (link). That’s only the half of it.
Elsewhere, Newsweek is reporting that Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn conspired with the government of Turkey to kidnap a guy in Pennsylvania (link). Flynn denies the accusation, but it’s serious enough that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is pursuing it. That means the next arrest in the Trump-Russia scandal could astonishingly be for conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Somehow, that isn’t even the most serious or headline-grabbing charge involved.
The government of Ukraine has accused Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort of being involved in a plot which resulted in the murder of a number of political protesters, dating back to when Manafort was doing work for the Kremlin in Ukraine (link). So we may also be looking at murder charges in the Trump-Russia scandal. Manafort is already under house arrest, awaiting trial for charges including money laundering and conspiracy against the United States. Donald Trump didn’t drain the swamp. He is the swamp.
