The best Mueller reports, including a Russian-funded Santa Claus, chess tournaments and Jared Kushner's sack of land.

As a document seeking to answer the question of whether a sitting president has coordinated with a foreign government to interfere in the 2016 election, the Mueller Report represents the conclusions of 39, a serious investigation. But that does not mean that some of these discoveries are not strangely entertaining. There are enough palace intrigues in this affair to fill the Twitter thread of a New York Times reporter for weeks. For example, was there anyone waiting to find out in the long-awaited report that Hope Hicks was calling President Donald Trump "the leader", or that Corey Lewandowski, followed by George Papadopoulos, was entering in the countryside, or that at one point, Russia ordered a Santa Claus in love with Trump? Read on for the weirdest, moronic and memorable details of the 448-page document.

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn

How was George Papadopoulos involved for the first time in the mess that ultimately led to his guilty plea for making false statements to the FBI and getting it started? Just the harmless, seemingly perverse social media application, which is called LinkedIn. It was here that Trump's foreign policy advisor, Papadopoulos, became interested for the first time in the campaign to get into the door.

By the time he was at LCILP, Papadopoulos contacted Corey Lewandowski, Trump campaign manager via Linkedln, and sent Michael Glassner, Campaign Manager, to express his interest in participating in the Trump campaign. . On March 2, 2016, Papadopoulos sent Glassner another message reiterating his interest. Glassner expressed Papadopoulos' interest in another campaign leader, Joy Lutes, who warned Papadopoulos by e-mail that Glassner had told him to introduce Papadopoulos to Sam Clovis, national co-president and senior policy advisor. the Trump campaign.

Hope's Catch-22

The next morning's elections, a Russian embassy official sent a message to the press secretary of the campaign, Hope Hicks, transmitting a message from Vladimir Putin, which she then forwarded to the councilor and to Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, with the following stubborn message. One of those pickles that all the publicists deal with from time to time:

Do not want to be fooled, but do not want to get rid of Putin!

Effectively.

"Boss Man"

Hicks heard that the New York Times was working on an article on the famous June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower. After talking with the president, she sent a draft statement to Donald Trump Jr. He insisted on including more details, but Hicks responded that the president wanted to remain vague – and even called the chair " leader".

Hicks replied, "I think that's good too, but the boss is concerned that this raises many questions.[.]

The other Dmitry Klokov

In the fall of 2015, Ivanka Trump sent Michael Cohen an email from a Russian woman on behalf of her husband, Dmitry Klokov, who was offering his help for Trump's presidential campaign. Cohen and Klokov would then discuss the possibility of a meeting between Putin and Trump. But when Michael Cohen heard Klokov's name for the first time, Cohen watched it online and assumed he was the same Dmitry Klokov who had represented Russia at the Olympics and World Championships as weightlifter. He was not.

Ivanka Trump forwarded the email to Cohen. He told the Office that after receiving the investigation, he searched the Internet for Klokov's name and concluded (wrongly) that Klokov was a former Olympic weightlifter.

Secret Santa

You have probably heard about the harmful activities of the Internet Research Agency on social networks, but the agency has also worked at the grassroots, for example by recruiting someone to walk around New York dressed in a suit Santa Claus with a Trump mask …? Well, you never know what could influence an election!

The IRA has also recruited moderators of conservative social media groups to promote IRA-generated content, as well as individuals recruited to perform political acts (such as walking around New York dressed as Santa Claus with a Trump mask).

"Good evening buds!"

In addition to his online work, the IRA has organized real rallies, many of which promoted the Trump campaign, even though they were often not very popular. A footnote in the report indicates an Instagram post that could be the first such rally. His strange language – who says "good evening good evening"? – is a likely sign that it was not organized by an American.

Instagram ID 2228012168 (Stand For Freedom) on 11/3/15 Post ("Good evening buds! Well, I plan to hold a confederate rally[ … ] in Houston on November 14 and I want more people to attend. ").

Roy Cohn did not take any notes

During a meeting with Don McGahn, the White House lawyer, in March 2018, Trump questioned his habit of taking notes. Trump said the notes were bad because … Roy Cohn did not do it.

The President then asked, "What about these notes? Why are you taking notes? Lawyers do not take notes. I never had a lawyer take notes. McGahn said he kept notes because he was a "real lawyer" and explained that these notes created a history and were not a bad thing. The president said, "I've had a lot of excellent lawyers, like Roy Cohn. He did not take notes.

Frankly, many more failures than one thinks

Russian press officers Dmitry Peskov and Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian sovereign wealth fund, were eager to meet Trump team members after Trump's election victory. So eager that they even tried to invite them to participate in a tournament of chess? In Appendix C of the report, Trump responded in writing to the questions from the Office of the Special Advisor, which means that there is a signed document from the president who denies having participated in a chess tournament.

Later in the day, Dmitriev flew to New York, where Peskov was going separately to attend the tournament of chess. Dmitriev invited Nader to the opening of the tournament and noted that, "there was" a chance to see a key to the Trump camp ", he" would like to start building for the future ". Dmitriev also asked Nader to invite Kushner to the event. so that he (Dmitriev) can meet him. Nader did not convey Dmitriev's invitation to anyone in connection with the new administration. Although a World Chess Federation official recalled having heard a participant claiming that President-elect Trump had stopped before the tournament, the investigation did not go unnoticed. not allowed to establish that Trump or a campaign manager or transitional team had attended the event. And the written answers of the president deny it.

"Our boy"

In November 2015, Trump's real estate advisor, Felix Sater, had pitched the idea, in an e-mail addressed to Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, that the Trump project in Moscow could be a means of To be effective with Putin, which could then help to win the elections. Sater saliva to the possibility in this email, in which he addresses Cohen as "buddy" and Trump as "our boy".

Buddy, our boy can become president of the United States and we can design it. I will ask the entire Poutins team to commit to this, I will manage this process. … Michael, Putin goes on stage with Donald for a ribbon cut for Trump Moscow, and Donald holds the Republican nomination. And maybe beat Hillary and our boy is po … We'll handle this process better than anyone. You and I will be meeting Donald and Vladimir very soon on a stage. This is the game changer.

The time Kushner received a sack of earth

If you search for the word dirt in the report you will get a lot of results but "Sol" only comes once: When Jared Kushner met in December 2016 Sergey Gorkov, head of a government-owned bank in Russia as well as a "direct line with Putin", received two gifts from Gorkov: a painting and earth of the place in Belarus, where the family of Jared "comes from". So it was a special floor, but nevertheless a floor. It would probably be fun to present Kushner with dirt.

At the beginning of the meeting, Gorkov handed Kushner two gifts: a painting and a sack of earth from the Belarussian town of Kushner's family.

Deep Reflections on "If that's what you say, I love it"

The memorable message of Donald Trump Jr. "If that's what you say, I love it especially later this summer," is an important point of reference for the Mueller report, which has been published no less than six times. Below, the report tries to explain why the Trump campaigners are not charged with crimes and his analysis of the memorable phrase turn of DJT Jr. (essentially a meme at this point) offers a hilarious juxtaposition of formal, legal and steep language. and the rejected email from Jr.

Uncertainty about what would be delivered could be reflected in Trump Jr.'s response ("if that's what you say I like that ") [emphasis added].

A promise of a tweet

A footnote in the report describes the efforts of President Donald Trump to maintain his good relations with Michael Flynn after the sacking of Flynn. Chris Christie described a phone call between Flynn and Jared Kushner that he witnessed the day after Flynn's dismissal, in which key promises were made that Trump would do something good about Flynn.

See Priebus 1/18/17 302, 9:10 am (The President asked Priebus to contact Flynn during the week in which he was fired to indicate that the President was still concerned about him and felt sad about what had happened to him, Priebus thought the president did not want Flynn to have a problem with him); McFarland 22/12/17 302, at age 18 (about a month or so after Flynn 's termination, the president asks McFarland to contact Flynn to tell him that he is a good guy, that' s a good guy. he should stay strong and the president bad for him); Flynn 1/19/18 302 at 9:00 am (recalling Priebus' call and an additional Hicks call saying she wanted to let the President know that the President was hoping Flynn was doing well); Christie 2/13/19 302, at 3 am (describing a telephone conversation between Kushner and Flynn the day after Flynn's dismissal) Kushner said, "You know the President respects you, the President cares about you. to the president send a positive tweet about you later, "and the president nodded at Kushner's comment promising a tweet).

The dream of every fallen official of Trump.