Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #6370

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Langsam aber sicher kommt alles raus:

This Explains the Anti-Barr Freakout

https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/02/new...trump-campaign/

Wichtig ist das hier:
"The public schedule for a 2014 conference led by Halper shows that Kohler also spoke to the same group about the same Russian case on May 9, 2014."

Bitte das Datum beachten !

Eine lang geplante Operation, lange bevor "Kandidat Trump" geboren wurde.

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There falls another one:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5qSphnWAAAlznp.jpg

When talking with his boss:
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
Had a long and very good conversation with President Putin of Russia.
As I have always said, long before the Witch Hunt started, getting along with Russia, China, and everyone is a good thing, not a bad thing....
10:06 AM - 3 May 2019

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
....We discussed Trade, Venezuela, Ukraine, North Korea, Nuclear Arms Control and even the “Russian Hoax.” Very productive talk!
10:06 AM - 3 May 2019


Jeff Lewis@ChicagoPhotoSho
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
did you ask him to stop interfering in our election or did u ask for help again in 2020?
10:07 AM - 3 May 2019

Scott Woodbury@woodburypdx
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
Did you discuss the 12 officials from the Russian military intel unit, the GRU that were indicted for meddling in the election?
Like to know what you agreed to do about it.
12:59 PM - 3 May 2019

WHITE HOUSE
Trump, Putin discussed Mueller report and agreed no collusion, White House says
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the two leaders spoke by phone for an hour on Friday.

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Friday and both agreed "there was no collusion" between Moscow and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-h...-house-n1001706

😂😂😂😂😂

“The day that Richard Nixon failed to answer that subpoena was the day he was subject to impeachment.”
Lindsey Graham, 1998

Of course Donald Trump didn't bring up Russian meddling with Vladimir Putin
President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin for an hour on Friday morning. But, nowhere during that 60 minutes did Trump find time to warn Putin against interfering in future elections as the Russians did in the 2016 presidential race.

"We didn't discuss that," Trump told reporters Friday afternoon. "Really we didn't discuss it. We discussed five or six things. We also went into great detail on various things."
Great detail! Various things!
Trump's refusal to raise the possibility of future election interference by the Russians isn't surprising. But it should be deeply concerning.

No one paying attention should be at all surprised that Trump seems disinterested in the documented Russian interference in our last presidential election. (The US intelligence community said in early 2017 that Russia had sought to interfere in order to help Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton. Special counsel Robert Mueller's report, released last month, backed up that assertion in vivid detail.) After all, Trump has long expressed skepticism regarding the role Russia played in the 2016 campaign -- admitting only under duress that the foreign power ran a deep and broad influence campaign.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/03/politics/...tion/index.html

Kenneth P. Vogel@kenvogel
REPORTER: “Mr. President, did you tell [Putin] not to meddle in the next election?”
TRUMP: “We had a good conversation about many different things, ‘k?”
REPORTER: “Did you tell him not to meddle in the next election?”
TRUMP: “We didn't discuss that.”
11:41 AM - 3 May 2019

end game


Lindsey Graham will ask Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate FISA court misconduct

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...ourt-misconduct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY-ZsRaRrhI

Haha, der Typ kann einem leid tun. Willie, ich kann mich in ihn einfühlen ("ich will Präsident werden") und eindenken ("ich nutze die "collusion" für meine Zwecke so wie weiland Richard Nixon den Alger Hiss case für seine Zwecke genutzt hat"), aber leider fühle ich kein Mitleid mit diesem Mann, der wahrscheinlich gar keine Stimmen bekommen wird, sondern nur Schadenfreude - und ich bin eigentlich kein schadenfroher Mensch...

Ex-mob prosecutor says Trump’s talk with Putin was a ‘get your stories straight call’ like she used to hear on wiretaps
The former chief of the organized crime and racketeering unit at the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York explained on MSNBC Friday how President Donald Trump’s call with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin reminded her of what she used to hear listening to mob wiretaps.

MSNBC legal analyst Mimi Rocah was interviewed on “Deadline: White House” with Nicolle Wallace.
“Official after official, when brought up to Capitol Hill, has bemoaned the fact there’s no top-down order to tell Russia to stay out of our democracy,” Wallace noted.

“There’s no order,” Rocah agreed. “He’s doing the opposite.”

“This phone call between Trump and Putin today reminded me of what we would call — when we were on wires of criminals and listening to their conversations and they didn’t know it — the ‘get your story straight call,'” Rocah replied. “They would do something, they didn’t know we were listening to them after whatever crime they just committed, they robbed a bank or whatever, then they’re on the phone, sort of talking, kind of sort of in code, but it’s a yeah, ‘when we went to the store earlier and I bought the milk,’ you know, they’re making their cover story, congratulating each other, patting each other on the back, saying ‘it’s all good, we made it, we didn’t get caught.’ That’s what this reminded me of.”

“If you look at the obstruction that Trump, I think, clearly committed, it was obstruction of the investigation into Russia, not just Trump, but into Russia’s actions,” Rocah suggested. “And that’s what this phone call was about.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/ex-mob-...ar-on-wiretaps/

Trump, Wrecker of Reputations
On Attorney General William Barr’s testimony and the coming constitutional crisis.

... The Trump Presidency has been a great wrecker of reputations. In his short time in politics, Trump has managed to shred the careers, professional integrity, and dignity of many of those who worked for him. Rex Tillerson had been an American corporate superstar, the C.E.O. of ExxonMobil, one of the wealthiest oil companies in the world. He became Trump’s Secretary of State and, according to the account given to reporters at an off-the-record session by Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly, learned that he was being fired while sitting on the toilet, an indignity followed up with a Presidential tweet announcing his exit. Trump’s first chief of staff, Reince Priebus, was just leaving Air Force One, oblivious, when Trump tweeted the news of his firing. On Thursday, Trump did it again, with Stephen Moore, his controversial choice for the Federal Reserve, tweeting that he was out of contention soon after Moore told Bloomberg News that the President was his “biggest ally.” In the interview, Moore said, of the President, “He’s full speed ahead.” The Trump tweet abandoning him came at 12:29 p.m., which was apparently little more than half an hour after Moore told a Bloomberg writer that the President was still all in. “Moore got Priebus-ed,” the writer tweeted.

Just as striking as Trump’s own crude efforts to humiliate, however, are the numerous examples of those who seem to abase or degrade themselves in their efforts to curry favor with the President. Such behavior, of course, has long been a bipartisan feature of life in Washington, where access to power can do bad things to the character of those who seek it. The Trump Presidency has produced more than its share of examples, however, given that getting and staying in this President’s good graces appears to require an extra helping of public obsequiousness, grovelling, flip-floppery, and over-the-top televised pronouncements.

This unseemly aspect of the Trump era was on full display at Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where both the committee chairman, Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, and Attorney General Barr went out of their way to appeal to the President, at the expense of their own credibility. Graham, who ran against Trump, in 2016, and called the future President a “kook” who was “unfit” to hold the office, opened the hearing by reading aloud text messages exchanged, in 2016, between two F.B.I. agents, who expressed the same fears about Trump that Graham had at the time. Graham then announced that he had not actually read the whole Mueller report, the contents of which he proceeded to dismiss. ...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-fr...-of-reputations

The Russia Investigation Will Continue
Counterintelligence agencies must find it hard to believe the cupboard is already bare.

John Sipher
Retired 28-year veteran of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service

Although Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe is over, and although President Trump on Friday again described the probe as a “Witch Hunt,” the FBI is almost certain to continue its counterintelligence investigation into Russian espionage efforts related to the 2016 election. More important, they will continue to search for Americans working on behalf of the Kremlin.

The inability to establish that the Trump campaign conspired in a “tacit or express” agreement with the Russian government is not surprising. Most espionage investigations come up empty unless and until they get a lucky break. That does not mean there was no espionage activity in relation to the 2016 election. Every previous Russian political-warfare campaign was built on human spies. Russian “active measures”—propaganda, information warfare, cyberattacks, disinformation, use of forgeries, spreading conspiracies and rumors, funding extremist groups and deception operations—rely on human actors to support and inform their success. Counterintelligence professionals must doubt that Russia could have pulled off its election-interference effort without the support of spies burrowed into U.S. society or institutions.

Indeed, troubling patterns, unanswered questions, and tantalizing leads suggest that Russia relied on human sources to interfere in the 2016 election. Both the Mueller report and Intelligence Community assessments have identified a variety of Russian actors involved in the attack. They uncovered the activities of the Russian GRU, cyberhackers, and the Russian troll factory. However, one key player is missing: Russia’s premier espionage service, the SVR. Is it possible that the Russian espionage service played no role in Russia’s operation, and had no spies helping support what the Mueller report characterized as a “sweeping and systematic” attack of American institutions? The FBI would be professionally negligent if it assumed so.

Consequently, there is still much to uncover—and America’s intelligence services will work to uncover it. For example, how did the Kremlin know where to aim its disinformation effort? How did it know which communities to target, in which counties and states? One can argue that the Russians had a better sense of where to deploy their resources than did the Clinton campaign. Why did Trump and those around him consistently parrot Russian talking points? Why was the campaign so intent on disregarding expert advice on Russian issues? The Mueller report notes that while investigators couldn’t prove a conspiracy, some people nonetheless displayed conspiratorial behavior (destroying communications, engaging in a cover-up, and obstructing the work of investigators). The FBI, which has the benefit of secret intelligence, is certainly aware that it has only scratched the surface of Russian activities in 2016. Cyberhacks, troll farms, and the use of WikiLeaks are hardly cutting-edge espionage tradecraft. The Russian efforts that have been revealed to date were poorly hidden and displayed little professional elegance. Counterintelligence agencies must find it hard to believe the cupboard is already bare.

As Mueller pointed out, the Russians had a dedicated and extensive program to damage the U.S. polity. They sent numerous representatives to contact willing Trump representatives, looking for potential sources, access points to influence policy, and means to disseminate Russian talking points. Russian intelligence officers, like their American counterparts, would seek to establish as many contacts as possible and push as far as the market would bear in order to develop new sources. In the CIA, where I worked for 28 years, we used the analogy of a traffic light. A field officer pursuing a potential source would press forward slowly, assessing the target’s reaction to increasingly provocative and conspiratorial requests. As long as we received a “green light” in response, we would push the relationship further in the direction of our goal. If we hit a “yellow light,” we would reassess and try a different tack. We would stop only when we hit a firm “red light.” From the Mueller report, we now know that those around Trump were consistently flashing green. ...

... To some, it may seem unfair that investigators would not drop their efforts even after Mueller concluded that he could not “establish that the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference.” Trump clearly thinks he’s been vindicated; he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday and said on Twitter that they discussed the “Russia Hoax” in their “long and very good conversation.”

Nevertheless, counterintelligence professionals realize they don’t have the whole story and will continue to work behind the scenes, slowly uncovering the activity of hostile intelligence services. From experience, they understand that failure to prove Russian espionage does not mean it didn’t happen. While the notion of “innocent until proven guilty” is something Americans take as solemn truth, to the Russian intelligence services it is just another vulnerability worth exploiting.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...-report/588628/

Mueller report: Donald Trump failed us as commander in chief
A president who takes seriously his oath would be in shock to realize the astonishing level of penetration of his inner circle by agents of Russia.

The president of the United States, like all elected officials and public servants, swears to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies. But there is one responsibility the president must bear alone, and that is the obligation to act as the commander in chief, the guardian of our national security and the defender of our nation from malevolent foreign powers. The Mueller report makes clear that Donald Trump has failed miserably in this sacred obligation, and instead has traded his constitutional duty for his own safety.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2...nWNwvPEmB1VrXO0

Satire from
The Borowitz Report
Kremlin Names Trump Employee of the Month

Capping an extraordinary year for the former television host, the Kremlin has named Donald J. Trump its Employee of the Month for December.
“No one has worked more tirelessly for the glory of the Fatherland than Donald Trump,” the Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an official statement. “He has set a high bar for all Kremlin employees, and for that, we salute him.”

To mark the honor, Trump’s name will be added to a plaque that hangs in the hallway outside the Kremlin’s H.R. office.
According to Kremlin sources, Trump faced tough competition in the Employee of the Month voting, besting both Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and ExxonMobil’s C.E.O., Rex Tillerson.

Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate, in Florida, Trump called the award “a tremendous honor, just tremendous.”
“Obama was President for eight years and he didn’t win this a single month,” he said. “Loser.”

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz...LoFvWl7eTfVdRwc

The 'wonderful' world of Fascism in action right there:
John Kelly Joins Board Of Company Operating Shelters For Migrant Children: Report
The former White House chief of staff was instrumental in President Trump’s immigration policy.

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly has joined the board of a company that operates the largest U.S. shelter for unaccompanied migrant children, according to a CBS News report.

Kelly joined the board of Caliburn International, the company confirmed to CBS on Friday. Caliburn is the parent company of Comprehensive Health Services, which operates a shelter for migrant children in Florida and three others in Texas.

CBS points out that Kelly had already been on the board of advisers of the company that now owns Caliburn, DC Capital Partners. Other high-ranking military officials, including retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, are also on the board. The company primarily does work in the defense sector, according to the publication.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-kell...4a77kMI7sOJYQCY

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #6390

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The 'wonderful' world of Fascism in action right there:
John Kelly Joins Board Of Company Operating Shelters For Migrant Children: Report
The former White House chief of staff was instrumental in President Trump’s immigration policy.

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly has joined the board of a company that operates the largest U.S. shelter for unaccompanied migrant children, according to a CBS News report.

Kelly joined the board of Caliburn International, the company confirmed to CBS on Friday. Caliburn is the parent company of Comprehensive Health Services, which operates a shelter for migrant children in Florida and three others in Texas.

CBS points out that Kelly had already been on the board of advisers of the company that now owns Caliburn, DC Capital Partners. Other high-ranking military officials, including retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, are also on the board. The company primarily does work in the defense sector, according to the publication.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-kell...4a77kMI7sOJYQCY

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Some Very Fine People Pleaded Guilty To Inciting Violent Riots In Charlottesville
Four white supremacists admitted that they violently assaulted counterprotesters during the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in order to fuel riots.

At least four white supremacists who were at the August 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, have admitted that they attended the rally only to incite violence that would lead to riots, according to the Department of Justice.

Four members of a now-defunct California-based white supremacist group called Rise Above Movement have pleaded guilty to federal rioting charges in connection with the rally that sparked violence in the city on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tas...y-inciting-riot

Trump Gave Putin ‘Green Light’ to Meddle in 2020 Election, Ex-FBI Boss Says
‘It’s troubling to think the president is finding comfort in our adversary,’ former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi said on MSNBC.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-fbi-off...n-2020-election

That wasn't so very long ago:

Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC
Just when you think it can’t get worse: A leading American candidate for President praising Putin.
3:06 PM - 17 Dec 2015


Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC
If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.
2:03 PM - 3 May 2016

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5k0XeFWwAAcG1L.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOUIw8zX0AMKoZP.jpg


jimmy craig@threepeaksexp

Both the DNC and the RNC were hacked

One was done to ensure a loss

The other was done to ensure subservience

The dirt on Graham must be catastrophic

9:19 PM - 2 May 2019

May 2, 2019 - U.S. Voters Still Say 2-1 Trump Committed Crime, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Voters Oppose Impeachment 2-1

American voters say 57 - 28 percent that Donald Trump committed crimes before he became president, according to a Quinnipiac University National Poll released today.

This compares to results of a March 5 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh- pe-ack) University National Poll, before release of the Mueller Report, in which voters said 64 - 24 percent that President Trump committed crimes before he was elected.

In today's survey, 46 percent of voters say Trump committed crimes since he became president and 46 percent say he did not commit crimes.

But American voters say 66 - 29 percent that Congress should not begin impeachment of President Trump. Democrats support impeachment 56 - 38 percent. Opposition to impeachment is 95 - 4 percent among Republicans and 70 - 27 percent among independent voters.

Investigating Trump distracts Congress from other national issues, 53 percent of voters say, while 43 percent say Congress can investigate Trump and work on other national issues at the same time.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller conducted a fair investigation, voters say 72 - 18 percent, including 65 - 25 percent among Republicans.

Voters say 51 - 38 percent that the Mueller Report did not clear President Trump of any wrongdoing.

American voters also say 54 - 42 percent that Trump "attempted to derail or obstruct the investigation into the Russian interference in the 2016 election."

"No. The Mueller Report did not clear President Trump, American voters say," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

"Yes. The President tried to thwart the investigation.

"But should impeachment proceed?
"The resounding 'no' from voters says Americans want to move on."

American voters give President Trump a negative 41 - 55 percent job approval rating, compared to a negative 38 - 55 percent rating March 5, before the release of the Mueller Report. Today, there is a wide gender gap as women disapprove 62 - 34 percent while men are divided, with 48 percent approving and 46 percent disapproving.

Trump and the Media
The news media is an important part of democracy, 66 percent of American voters say, while 23 percent say the media is the "enemy of the people." Republicans say 49 - 36 percent that the news media is the enemy of the people. Every other listed party, gender, education, age and racial group says the media is an important part of democracy.

By 52 - 35 percent, voters trust the media more than Trump to tell the truth about important issues. Republicans trust Trump more than the media 82 - 9 percent. Trusting the media more are Democrats 92 - 2 percent and independent voters 54 - 29 percent.

U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court is too influenced by politics, voters say 59 - 35 percent. Republicans are divided as 44 percent say the Supreme Court is too influenced by politics and 49 percent say it is not. Every other listed group says the Supreme Court is too influenced by politics.

Voters say 81 - 15 percent that the process of confirming Supreme Court justices is too political. Every listed group agrees by wide margins.

Employers should not be allowed to fire someone based on their sexual orientation or sexual identity, American voters say 92 - 6 percent.

Adding a question to the 2020 U.S. Census asking census participants if they are U.S. citizens is a good idea, American voters say 48 - 33 percent.

From April 26 - 29, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,044 voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percentage points, including the design effect.
https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2618

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #6394

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The dirt on Graham must be catastrophic

9:19 PM - 2 May 2019

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Trump’s New Favorite Network Embraces Russian Propaganda
One America News Network has no qualms with playing the mouthpiece for Kremlin-hatched conspiracy theories. And one of its most loyal viewers lives in the White House

When it comes to putting disinformation in front of American eyeballs, Vladimir Putin has long been able to count alt-right social media stars like Alex Jones and Mike Cernovich as reliable allies. Now the One America News Network, a pro-Trump cable news and commentary channel, is joining them in embracing some of Moscow’s most vile fake news.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new...sian-propaganda

Trump Spends Morning Endorsing Far-Right Fringe Propaganda on Twitter
In a series of eyebrow-raising retweets, the President of the United States spent Saturday morning giving oxygen to far-right extremists.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-spen...ar-right-fringe

Kaum noch auszuhalten. NYT ?

"After more than two years of the Trump administration, warnings that trade wars and erratic management style would throw the economy off course have proved wrong so far, and tax cuts and deregulation are most likely part of the reason for the strong growth rates in 2018 and the beginning of 2019 ...."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/upsho...ndamentals.html

Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #6399

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"After more than two years of the Trump administration, warnings that trade wars and erratic management style would throw the economy off course have proved wrong so far, and tax cuts and deregulation are most likely part of the reason for the strong growth rates in 2018 and the beginning of 2019 ...."

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