Cont: All things Trump + Russia Part 3

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mgidm86 said:
"Hard to believe" does not mean credible in my book. A "new acquaintance"....what a joke.
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Maybe, but Mueller has Papadopoulos "under contract" so I guess we'll find out who he told about the emails besides Lanza and the Australian guy.
 
Russia loves Laura:
Embattled Fox News host Laura Ingraham has found some unlikely allies: Russian bots.

Russian-linked Twitter accounts have rallied around the conservative talk-show host, who has come under fire for attacking the young survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting. According to the website Hamilton 68, which tracks the spread of Russian propaganda on Twitter, the hashtag #IstandwithLaura jumped 2,800 percent in 48 hours this weekend. On Saturday night, it was the top trending hashtag among Russian campaigners.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...s-host-laura-ingraham/?utm_term=.b0e23ea60c8c
 
I take issue with the washington post claim.

The claim that the Russian bots were unlikely allies is false. They were inevitable, as Russia is doing everything they can to defend Trump's regime.
 
thaiboxerken said:
I take issue with the washington post claim.

The claim that the Russian bots were unlikely allies is false. They were inevitable, as Russia is doing everything they can to defend Trump's regime.
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Also to create as much public discord as possible, which advocating in defense of Ingraham's deplorable comments about the Parkland survivors is certainly bound to do.
 
George Papadopoulos mouths off in a bar again, this time incriminates Jeff Sessions in Trump-Russia
Apparently Papadopoulos is a big fan of talking to strangers in nightclubs about what actually happened during the Trump campaign....

When Jason asked if he’d be disappointed “when all the facts came out,” Papadopoulos responded that everything was “just getting started.” He also added this new bombshell: Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ role in all of it, particularly with regard to Papadopoulos’ relationship with Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese academic with known high level connections to the Kremlin. While Mifsud appears to have completely disappeared off the map, his connections to both the Trump campaign and Russia remain an important thread currently being investigated by Mueller.
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Squeegee Beckenheim said:
Ralph Peters goes in to detail as to why he left Fox News
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Ralph Peters:
I was the one person on the Fox payroll who, trained in Russian studies and the Russian language, had been face to face with Russian intelligence officers in the Kremlin and in far-flung provinces. I have traveled widely in and written extensively about the region. Yet I could only rarely and briefly comment on the paramount security question....
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This comes as no surprise......


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TheSupermeerkat said:
And as he does so, he does whispers, Homer Simpson style, to his Russian pals, “I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry”
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Yeah like “tell Vlad I’ll be able to do more after the election”. That was Obama whispering that to Dmitry Medvedev on a hot mic.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...he-house-intelligence-committee-broke/557234/

I don't think there's anything particularly revelatory in that story. I'm just posting the link because I'm digging the side-eye of the reporter on our right of the picture that accompanies it.
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I think the article is just a testament to how pointless the house of representatives is for pretty much anything these days. The Senate always has the reputation for being the thoughtful and meaningful body, while the house, especially when it has the majority party same as the president, is nothing but figurehead.

Even when a bill comes out of the house, it goes to the Senate who has to do it properly. Then they fix it, and it goes back to the house who has nothing decent to contribute.

The only time the house is useful is when they are in opposition, and create concessions. Otherwise they are nothing but a rubber stamp to the grown ups.
 
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/982966315467116544

Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price...
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I wonder what Putin has done to upset him?
 
mgidm86 said:
That both sides will grab desperately at anything they can use to hurt their competition.
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There is a majority of Republicans in the Senate & the House along with a Republican President; It appears the GOP plan is to wreck the nation instead of hurting the competition.
 
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The former top leadership in the FBI is now a known small group bent on taking down Trump, he’s known this for awhile, and he’s expected to alert them on his meetings? As one might guess, he isn’t going to comply.
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Is this not what the FBI is supposed to do when they encounter Americans working with Russian intelligence services? The FBI's reaction to Trump's relationship to the Russians seems well within the scope of their mandate.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/982966315467116544



I wonder what Putin has done to upset him?
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I doubt Donnie, in and of himself, gives a rat's. My guess is the tweet is prompted by the continuing concern of the daughter-unit, who seems to have the empathy so lacking in her father.

Relative to a previous chemical weapons attack there:

Donald Trump’s daughter persuaded him to strike targets in Syria, according to reports of a diplomatic memo.

A cable briefing to Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson by Britain’s ambassador to Washington Sir Kim Darroch said Ms Trump was influential in bringing about the bombings, those who saw the memo said.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...cal-attack-sarin-idlib-province-a7674951.html
 
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/983878509637578752

Wow. @maddow obtained Dana Boente's handwritten, contemporaneous notes from his conversations with James Comey. And those notes corroborate Comey's testimony about being pressured by Trump before being fired.
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https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/983880212357287936

So these notes are from BEFORE James Comey was fired. Comey briefed Boente at the time to tell him that Trump was pressuring him to end the Russia probe.

And Boente's contemporaneous notes corroborate Comey's account.
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Squeegee Beckenheim said:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/982966315467116544



I wonder what Putin has done to upset him?
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He walked it back a bit in his next tweet.

"Our relationship with Russia is worse now than it has ever been, and that includes the Cold War. There is no reason for this. Russia needs us to help with their economy, something that would be very easy to do, and we need all nations to work together. Stop the arms race?"

Then blamed it all on the Democrats, Mueller and the investigation.

"Much of the bad blood with Russia is caused by the Fake & Corrupt Russia Investigation, headed up by the all Democrat loyalists, or people that worked for Obama. Mueller is most conflicted of all (except Rosenstein who signed FISA & Comey letter). No Collusion, so they go crazy!"
 
I've not got a link to hand, but Trump is now threatening to bomb Syria, and blaming Russia for being in partnership with Assad. There definitely seems to have been a souring between Trump and Putin of late.
 
He's walking back on it

"Never said when an attack on Syria would take place. Could be very soon or not so soon at all! In any event, the United States, under my Administration, has done a great job of ridding the region of ISIS. Where is our “Thank you America?”"
 
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