According to University of New Hampshire legal professor Seth Abramson, a former criminal prosecutor who has been documenting and analyzing the Russia investigation since essentially day one, the details behind Donald Trump’s attempts to stifle former employees from speaking could involve much more than the misguided belief that non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) apply to White House employees.
Those aides and staffers, of course, work for the federal government, not for Donald Trump, which is why his effort to silence former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman is so laughable on its face, legally speaking. NDAs don’t apply in the case of federal employees because requiring that they do not speak about something that happened inside the White House would run afoul of whistleblower laws that exist for this very purpose.
But more importantly, the amount that each former staffer and aide was offered — a well-documented amount recounted by multiple people and admitted to by a number of former employees — is the same across the board: $15,000 per month. That has now been confirmed through Omarosa’s account and emails made public between Lara Trump, the RNC, and former staffers.
That’s how much Keith Schiller is being paid by the Republican National Committee as a “security consultant” for the 2020 convention. Why would they hire an ex-bodyguard as a security consultant? More specifically, it makes no sense that the RNC would hire Donald Trump’s ex-bodyguard as a security consultant when they have had federal contracts for every previous convention — and have at their disposal local police, Secret Service, and untold numbers of volunteers who have been doing the job for years.
Approximately 100 percent of those people would have more experience with large-scale security pertaining to political conventions than Keith Schiller.
And if Schiller’s closed-door testimony before the House last year is factual, he left his post at Trump’s door during a visit to Moscow in 2013 when Trump was approached and offered prostitutes — in a situation where Trump and his security team expected to be blackmailed — so he’s kind of crap at his job to begin with.
OR
Keith Schiller never left his post, because that’s ridiculous.
Either way, immediately after Schiller’s testimony — which is miraculously the only public contradiction to any part of the infamous Steele Dossier — he just happened to land an amazing job consulting with the RNC for Trump’s magic payoff number of $15k/month.
5/ Now we learn, today, clear as day, without any fuzz on it, that the RNC and Trump campaign were giving out $15,000/month “jobs” as hush money to people with stories to tell. And bless Lara’s heart—she pretended that she’d just seen that $15,000/month figure for the first time.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) August 16, 2018
That, ladies and gentlemen, is called witness tampering.
At least, that’s the analysis of Abramson, who has yet to be proved wrong about anything he’s predicted, analyzed, or otherwise presented to the public on his Twitter feed.
And if Schiller is discovered to be covering for his former boss and Mueller gets ahold of him, forcing him to testify… Well, all bets are off. Schiller knows literally everything. Trump brought him along on trips, to business dinners, to stand beside him during foreign appearances. Schiller is the fly on the wall of Trump’s life.
That makes him very, very valuable to the Mueller investigation.
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