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Watergate / Russiagate - an amazing story of interfering with justice:
http://www.towleroad.com/2017/02/trump-watergate/
http://www.towleroad.com/2017/02/trump-watergate/
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And don't expect much by way of an investigation by Republicans in Congress. FURTHER evidence of the two faced hypocrisy of these bastards, as well as that of their supporters and constituency.
Collusion? Correspondence? Conspiracy? Internet espionage and breaches of cyber security? TREASON? All with the RESULT, as intended, of CHANGING THE OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION?
One would THINK all of the above would make Watergate look like a grade school PRANK.
But to Republicans, Conservatives, and Trump's minions and apologists, NOTHING TO SEE HERE:
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Only Republicans don't want an investigation into alleged contacts and Russian interference in the election. SURPRISE SUPRISE!
Collusion? Correspondence? Conspiracy? Internet espionage and breaches of cyber security? TREASON? All with the RESULT, as intended, of CHANGING THE OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION?
One would THINK all of the above would make Watergate look like a grade school PRANK.
But to Republicans, Conservatives, and Trump's minions and apologists, NOTHING TO SEE HERE:
- John Podesta Says 'Forces Within The FBI' Wanted Hillary Clinton To Lose | The Huffington Post
- Podesta: 'Forces within the FBI' may have cost Clinton election - POLITICO
- NY Times says Trump campaign had repeated contact with Russian intelligence | Reuters
- Dan Rather: Watergate biggest political scandal of my life until now—White House has no credibility
- Manafort and Trump entourage reportedly had repeated Russia contact during election.
- Clinton Officials Denounce Alleged Trump Campaign Officials' Contacts With Russia - NBC News
- NY Daily News: Flynn Paid $40,000 by Russians
- U.S. Allies Conduct Intelligence Operation Against Trump Staff and Associates, Intercepted Communications
- Donald Trump Ducks Questions About Administration's Ties To Russia | The Huffington Post
- FBI refused White House request to knock down recent Trump-Russia stories - CNNPolitics.com
Only Republicans don't want an investigation into alleged contacts and Russian interference in the election. SURPRISE SUPRISE!
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Trump's partners craft a 'peace plan' that rewards Russia for invading Ukraine
Trump's Russia scandal takes an unexpected turn | MSNBC
Senate Intel Committee asks agencies to preserve documents related to Russia investigation - ABC News
Nightly News - White House Resists Calls for Special Prosecutor - NBC News
Trump's Russia scandal takes an unexpected turn | MSNBC
Senate Intel Committee asks agencies to preserve documents related to Russia investigation - ABC News
Nightly News - White House Resists Calls for Special Prosecutor - NBC News
slurper_la
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House Republicans Are Helping Donald Trump Keep His Tax Returns Secret
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-tax-returns-release_us_58b54393e4b0a8a9b785cf56
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-tax-returns-release_us_58b54393e4b0a8a9b785cf56
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Rachel presents an incredible report of financial and personal connections between tRump and Russians.
These may not be the best links but look for her reporting of Monday, February 27, 2017. Find the whole show if you can:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/white-house-denials-raise-new-questions-886225987806
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/...-of-lucrative-trump-russian-deal-886220355575
These may not be the best links but look for her reporting of Monday, February 27, 2017. Find the whole show if you can:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/white-house-denials-raise-new-questions-886225987806
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/...-of-lucrative-trump-russian-deal-886220355575
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"No one talked to Russia except my Campaign Manager, National Security Advisor, Attorney General and like 11 other guys. NO ONE."
Sessions is the FOURTH Trump campaign associate caught trying to cover up communications with Russians. What are they trying to protect?
Sessions is the FOURTH Trump campaign associate caught trying to cover up communications with Russians. What are they trying to protect?
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Top Republicans call on Sessions to recuse himself from Russia investigation:
Trump’s Russia headache gets worse, as Sessions struggles to spin undisclosed meetings:
With Breanne Deppisch
"THE BIG IDEA: Jeff Sessions wakes up this morning with potentially serious legal and political problems.
-- The attorney general and his team are in damage-control mode, trying to explain confusing and seemingly inconsistent statements.
-- A handful of top Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi and Claire McCaskill, called for his resignation overnight. Others are expected to follow in the coming hours. Many more are clamoring for a special prosecutor, both to explore whether Sessions should be charged with perjury for making apparently false statements to Congress and more broadly to explore links between Trump campaign officials and Russia during the election. There is consensus among Democrats in both chambers that Sessions must, at the very least, immediately recuse himself from all Russia-related investigations to preserve the integrity of the Justice Department and the ongoing FBI investigation, something he has repeatedly resisted.
-- Notably, few Republican lawmakers are rushing to vocally defend their longtime colleague this morning. Some worry about what shoes might drop next.
-- House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on “Morning Joe” that Sessions should recuse himself. “I don’t have all the information in front of me, I don’t want to prejudge, but I just think for any investigation going forward, you want to make sure everybody trusts the investigation,” he said. “I think it’d be easier from that standpoint.”
-- In case you missed them, four significant Russia stories popped late last night:
The Washington Post reported that then-Sen. Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow during his confirmation hearing to become attorney general. “One of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that took place in September in the senator’s office, at the height of what U.S. intelligence officials say was a Russian cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential race,” Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller report. The second meeting happened after a Heritage Foundation event during the Republican National Convention, when the two spoke individually in Cleveland. A Sessions spokeswoman confirmed both meetings.
Testifying under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was asked in January by Al Franken what he would do if he learned of any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign. “I’m not aware of any of those activities,” he responded. He added: “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.”
There’s more: Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) sent Sessions an additional written question: “Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day?” The AG’s one-word answer could not have been more categorical: “No.”
-- The New York Times revealed that some Obama White House officials were so concerned about possible contacts between Trump associates and the Russians that they took active measures to ensure the incoming administration would not be able to “cover up or destroy” key evidence.
“American allies, including the British and the Dutch, had provided information describing meetings in European cities between Russian officials — and others close to Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin — and associates of President-elect Trump,” three former American officials told Matthew Rosenberg, Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt. “Separately, American intelligence agencies had intercepted communications of Russian officials, some of them within the Kremlin, discussing contacts with Trump associates.”
Full story, here >
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...745cae9b69b1406c75d1b/?utm_term=.e96eaa525a8e
And, there is more, of course:
Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...e613afeb09f_story.html?utm_term=.69dd162790e4
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Trump’s Russia headache gets worse, as Sessions struggles to spin undisclosed meetings:
With Breanne Deppisch
"THE BIG IDEA: Jeff Sessions wakes up this morning with potentially serious legal and political problems.
-- The attorney general and his team are in damage-control mode, trying to explain confusing and seemingly inconsistent statements.
-- A handful of top Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi and Claire McCaskill, called for his resignation overnight. Others are expected to follow in the coming hours. Many more are clamoring for a special prosecutor, both to explore whether Sessions should be charged with perjury for making apparently false statements to Congress and more broadly to explore links between Trump campaign officials and Russia during the election. There is consensus among Democrats in both chambers that Sessions must, at the very least, immediately recuse himself from all Russia-related investigations to preserve the integrity of the Justice Department and the ongoing FBI investigation, something he has repeatedly resisted.
-- Notably, few Republican lawmakers are rushing to vocally defend their longtime colleague this morning. Some worry about what shoes might drop next.
-- House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on “Morning Joe” that Sessions should recuse himself. “I don’t have all the information in front of me, I don’t want to prejudge, but I just think for any investigation going forward, you want to make sure everybody trusts the investigation,” he said. “I think it’d be easier from that standpoint.”
-- In case you missed them, four significant Russia stories popped late last night:
The Washington Post reported that then-Sen. Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow during his confirmation hearing to become attorney general. “One of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that took place in September in the senator’s office, at the height of what U.S. intelligence officials say was a Russian cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential race,” Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller report. The second meeting happened after a Heritage Foundation event during the Republican National Convention, when the two spoke individually in Cleveland. A Sessions spokeswoman confirmed both meetings.
Testifying under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was asked in January by Al Franken what he would do if he learned of any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign. “I’m not aware of any of those activities,” he responded. He added: “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.”
There’s more: Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) sent Sessions an additional written question: “Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day?” The AG’s one-word answer could not have been more categorical: “No.”
-- The New York Times revealed that some Obama White House officials were so concerned about possible contacts between Trump associates and the Russians that they took active measures to ensure the incoming administration would not be able to “cover up or destroy” key evidence.
“American allies, including the British and the Dutch, had provided information describing meetings in European cities between Russian officials — and others close to Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin — and associates of President-elect Trump,” three former American officials told Matthew Rosenberg, Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt. “Separately, American intelligence agencies had intercepted communications of Russian officials, some of them within the Kremlin, discussing contacts with Trump associates.”
Full story, here >
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...745cae9b69b1406c75d1b/?utm_term=.e96eaa525a8e
And, there is more, of course:
Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...e613afeb09f_story.html?utm_term=.69dd162790e4
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Republicans turn up heat on Jeff Sessions:
(CNN) - "The Russian cloud hovering over the Trump White House engulfed Attorney General Jeff Sessions Thursday following revelations he failed to disclose pre-election meetings with the Kremlin's ambassador to Washington.
Several Republicans, many of them increasingly uneasy about the implications of the evolving Russian drama, called on Sessions to recuse himself from any involvement in an FBI probe into ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
"If he, himself, is the subject of an investigation, of course he would," said House Speaker Paul Ryan. "But if he's not, I don't see any purpose or reason to doing this."
More on this here >
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/politics/democrats-sessions-russia-resignation-call/
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(CNN) - "The Russian cloud hovering over the Trump White House engulfed Attorney General Jeff Sessions Thursday following revelations he failed to disclose pre-election meetings with the Kremlin's ambassador to Washington.
Several Republicans, many of them increasingly uneasy about the implications of the evolving Russian drama, called on Sessions to recuse himself from any involvement in an FBI probe into ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
"If he, himself, is the subject of an investigation, of course he would," said House Speaker Paul Ryan. "But if he's not, I don't see any purpose or reason to doing this."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/politics/democrats-sessions-russia-resignation-call/
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The Trump-Russia scandals: a quick visual guide
The web of connections in Trump’s Russia controversies.
"President Donald Trump’s Russia scandals are deeply intertwined.
As Vox’s Zack Beauchamp writes, there are three separate Trump-Russia scandals that together call into question the nature of Trump’s relationship with Russia: the resignation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn; the hacking of the DNC; and the as yet mostly unproven dossier. Now it seems there could be a fourth: The Washington Post reported Wednesday night that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with Russia’s ambassador to the US twice, even though he has stated twice that he did not.
To explain how the players in these scandals are related, we made a web that highlights the important cross-connections in this Trump-Russia universe."
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/2/14791084/trump-russia-chart
![Trump_russia_scandals_chart.jpg]( "Trump_russia_scandals_chart.jpg")
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The web of connections in Trump’s Russia controversies.
"President Donald Trump’s Russia scandals are deeply intertwined.
As Vox’s Zack Beauchamp writes, there are three separate Trump-Russia scandals that together call into question the nature of Trump’s relationship with Russia: the resignation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn; the hacking of the DNC; and the as yet mostly unproven dossier. Now it seems there could be a fourth: The Washington Post reported Wednesday night that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with Russia’s ambassador to the US twice, even though he has stated twice that he did not.
To explain how the players in these scandals are related, we made a web that highlights the important cross-connections in this Trump-Russia universe."
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/2/14791084/trump-russia-chart
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Jeeze... don't you think that this looks ridiculous and weak when you have it all put together like that?
It certainly looks small and petty all in one place and in color...
... when it's NOT together and swirling around with innuendo and unverified allegations/statements/leaks it seems MUCH more sinister.
Thanks for uploading it... makes the whole debacle look stupid as fuck.
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- 5 critical questions Trump needs to answer about the Russian ambassador's covert trip to Trump Tower
- If the Kilsyak meeting was legit, why did the Trump staff go to such lengths to conceal his visit?
- Where did the meeting take place? Was it in the offices of the Trump organization? Paul Manafort’s Trump Tower residence? Donald Trump’s personal residence?
- Who else attended the meeting? The New York Times confirms former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and Jared Kushner were there. Was anyone else? Right-hand man Reince Preibus? Steve Bannon? At the time, Ivanka Trump was seen meeting with nearly everyone, so were brothers Donald, Jr., and Eric Trump present? After all, we also learned this week that Junior was paid $50,000 to attend a meeting in Paris to discuss the Syrian conflict and possible U.S.-Russian cooperation in the region. And after all, Junior once bragged about all the money "pouring in from Russia" to the Trump Organization. He traveled to Russia at least half a dozen times from 2008-09.
- What, specifically, was discussed at the meeting? We know the meeting happened around the time President Obama announced sanctions against Russia for the hacking and expelled 35 Russian diplomats. Was this discussed at the meeting? Were promises made to roll back these sanctions? Repeal the expulsion of these diplomats?
- Finally, and most importantly, did Donald Trump himself speak with Sergey Kilsyak at Trump Tower? After all, the two men know each other. In fact, at an April 2016 Trump campaign speech, Kilsyak was on hand and the Wall Street Journal reported “Mr. Trump warmly greeted Mr. Kislyak” at a VIP reception before the speech. Jeff Sessions was also mingling among the guests at that reception. Are we to believe that Kilsyak was summoned to Trump Tower, taking a private flight from Washington, D.C., covertly brought into the building to … meet with Jared Kushner for 20 minutes? Donald Trump rarely left Trump Tower during this time. He didn’t even come by the meeting to shake hands with Putin’s top U.S. representative, his old friend?
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...ssian-Ambassador-s-covert-trip-to-Trump-Tower
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Doughnuts, I say!... Doughnuts!
From old photo to right-wing meme to Trump’s twitter: The journey of one Schumer/Putin pic:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-one-schumerputin-pic/?utm_term=.50049b3662f9
From old photo to right-wing meme to Trump’s twitter: The journey of one Schumer/Putin pic:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-one-schumerputin-pic/?utm_term=.50049b3662f9
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Awesome reporting... Let's hear from our local Stalinists, now.
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They're just trying to cover their OWN ASSES should this thing blow up in their faces.
@ActionBuddy @sargon20 Thanks BOTH of you, for the excellent follow- ups and links (and with graphics too!
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