1) Following Impeachment, the CIA's Plan B Begins to Come Into Public View

Please follow along as I build on my earlier thread below discussing the Dima Yakovlev Law as the key to the Trump-Russia conspiracy. https://twitter.com/pdavidmullinsjr/status/1261750454196862977?s=19

2) Perhaps the only thing Republicans got right about impeachment is that the CIA was indeed involved. Trump's crimes were real, but those crimes were brought to Congress's attention by a CIA analyst properly acting as a government whistleblower.

3) But once Republicans put party over country, and it was clear impeachment would fail, indications emerged even before the impeachment vote was final that the CIA had a Plan B to remove a criminal president they knew was illegitimately elected.

4) It seems to me that the initial contours of that Plan B have now begun to publicly emerge. The entire Trump-Russia conspiracy took place in the context of both financial and legal/sexual compromise.

5) The legal/sexual compromise comes into view most vividly in the June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that, misleadingly, was billed by both Team Putin and Team Trump as being "primarily about the American adoption of Russian children."

6) In fact, the meeting was mainly used to threaten the Trump team with criminal prosecution for the sex trafficking of Russian minors through Trump Models. Please see my thread linked above for further details on how the Dima Yakovlev Law served in this context.

7) Now, let's revisit the identities of the Russian participants in the meeting to understand a few additional aspects of what occurred. Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer, was there as the representative of the Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, the "Master of Kompromat."

8) Rinat Akhmetshin, a former counterintelligence agent, was there as a lobbyist for Prevezon, a company seeking to skirt the Magnitsky sanctions. Rob Goldstone was there as the music publicist and representative of Russian pop star Emin Agalarov.

9) Ike Kaveladze was there as the representative of Emin's father Aras Agalarov who, as possessor of compromising tapes on Trump according to both the Mueller Report (2:27-28) and the Steele dossier (113), was in contact with both Chaika and Roger Stone.

10) Finally, Anatoli Samochornov was there as a translator. Notice also that the main participants, Trump Jr., Goldstone/Agalarov, and Kaveladze are the exact same negotiators as on an earlier Trump Tower Moscow effort, so all of this happens in the context of those discussions.

11) Now, I contend that the presence of Veselnitskaya and the mention to Congress by Kaveladze that the "wrong people" from the Trump side were there, and that "we needed to speak to lawyers," indicate that the meeting was a failed attempt to consummate a legal agreement.

12) That agreement would have been rooted in the Trump Tower Moscow Letter of Intent which, Mueller notes (1:70-71), was "intended to facilitate further discussions" in order to "attempt to enter into a mutually acceptable agreement."

13) This agreement, however, would have now moved beyond the tower project to include an indication of the Trump intention to roll back the Magnitsky sanctions in exchange for Chaika NOT moving foward with his criminal investigation activities against Trump and his family.