If Seth supplied Wikileaks with leaked, not hacked files, the whole foundation of Russiagate begins to crumble, crushing those who are heavily invested in finding something substantial after all of this effort.
I'm sorry, that's a ridiculous assertion. The DNC e-mails are only a small part of the overall picture. And if Assange were selectively releasing only those e-mails harmful to Hillary's campaign, he might certainly fudge on facts about the Kremlin's influence on Wikileaks.
There's no reason to believe Assange's source for the e-mails was the hacker/thief himself. Anyone with an IQ over 60 would have a third party deliver the goods to Assange.
These right-wing memes are a hall of mirrors. We
know the intelligence community warned the Trump campaign that the Kremlin would likely seek to infiltrate and/or influence the Trump campaign, and asked to be told of any suspicious contacts. We
know the Kremlin had *many* contacts with Trump campaign officials, including the Russian ambassador, Kislyak. We *know* that the campaign did not report these Kremlin contacts.
We have every reason to believe Flynn's contact with Kislyak during the transition was just one more internally-acknowledged contact. We have good reason to believe Flynn reported back to the transition team. Pence headed the transition team. It's not credible that he wasn't aware of ongoing contacts with Kislyak.
Thus, Pence's denial of any campaign contacts was clearly a lie to the public. When Flynn's contact with Kislyak became public, Pence's only option to save himself was to declare that Flynn was acting alone, a lie. And so, Flynn was thrown under the bus, so the rest of the campaign could stick to the lie that there was no contact.
All of the campaign leaders who entered government service lied, and denied contacts, under oath and to Congress, and to the FBI. These are felonies. Beyond this, the consistency of lies among these individuals can only be credibly interpreted as a conspiracy to commit perjury.
It matters not at all who or how the DNC emails were stolen. But let's not forget also other separately-stolen e-mails are in the picture.
Let's go ahead a shoot down another right-wing meme/propaganda. The Steele Dossier is NOT a foundation of the investigation. It doesn't matter whether it's true, or merely credible, or a tissue of lies. It's a very peripheral matter.
Let's not forget that the Mueller investigation is *both* a criminal investigation, as well as a national security investigation. Hacking into voter databases to cause Democratic vote suppression in swing states has been reported. It's more than plausible that the Kremlin did this to try to assure a Trump win, so that sanctions could be lifted. Perhaps not coincidentally, the Trump administration appears to have done nothing to try to assure database security in election districts.
And anther right-wing meme/propaganda should be noted. An FBI agent was found to have texted criticism of Trump (as well as Sanders, Stein, and Hillary). He was promptly removed from the investigation. Yet somehow this sequence of events is laid out as proof of bias against Trump by the Mueller team. The reality is plainly the opposite. Mueller does not tolerate even the appearance of bias in his team.
There's an abundance of different smoking guns in the picture here. What doesn't make sense is the right-wing propaganda being disseminated here to try to discredit Mueller.
Let's not forget that the entire leadership of the FBI, including Mueller and Rosenstein, are life-long Republicans. If there was any dirty tricks by the FBI during the campaign, it was in Trump's favor, not Hillary's. After all, every inquiry by the FBI about Hillary was leaked to the press. But investigations into Trump and Manafort were kept quiet. That speaks volumes about who the purported "Deep State" was favoring.