Julian Assange told a U.S. congressman on Tuesday he can prove the leaked Democratic Party documents he published during last year's election did not come from Russia and promised additional helpful information about the leaks in the near future.
Guess he's tired of Peruvian food? And he's got no credibility left if he now claims he can prove it wasn't the Russians after claiming, apparently falsely, that submissions to his site are completely anonymous and even he would never know where the documents came from or who submitted them. Why wouldn't he interview with the FBI for immunity?
i guess the New Yorker article, which I'm reading now, is too close to home? Impeached for violations of FICA, money laundering, tax evasion and violation of banking regulations. Follow the money, from Russia with love and a PTAPE, all the way to impeachment. 755+1.
Because you remembered to follow the money with a PTAPE, from Russia with love, right? Because you remembered when those brilliant brilliance of brilliantly brilliant headlines disappeared, right?
Maybe you missed the "may have had" part. If you have any evidence to the contrary of their possible involvement, feel free to post it here.
Whether you like it or not, this is a huge story.
Brilliantly disappearing headlines. Seeing how the WSJ has a paywall up and it's not likely that posters here get the paper delivered. Follow the money, from Russia with love and a PTAPE, all the way to impeachment. #755+1+7Xs
The reality, as you would find out if you read further into the story,
is that the boast from Felix Sater that somehow the construction of a
Trump Tower in Moscow would demonstrate Trump’s international business
prowess and thus help his election was meaningless. What the incident
really shows is that the Trump organization had little or no pull in
Russia as Putin’s government apparently didn’t lift a finger to salvage
this stillborn building project.
However, leaving aside the Times’ propagandistic approach to Ukraine,
there is this more immediate point about Russia-gate: none of Sater’s
boastful claims proved true and this incident really underscored the
lack of useful connections between Trump’s people and the Kremlin. One
of Trump’s lawyers, Michael Cohen, even used a general press email
address in a plea for assistance from Putin’s personal spokesman.
Deeper in the story, the Times admits these inconvenient facts:
“There is no evidence in the emails that Mr. Sater delivered on his
promises, and one email suggests that Mr. Sater overstated his Russian
ties. In January 2016, Mr. Cohen wrote to Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri
S. Peskov, asking for help restarting the Trump Tower project, which had
stalled. But Mr. Sater did not appear to have Mr. Peskov’s direct
email, and instead wrote to a general inbox for press inquiries.”
The Times added: “The project never got government permits or
financing, and died weeks later. … The emails obtained by The Times make
no mention of Russian efforts to damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign or
the hacking of Democrats’ emails.”
In other words, the Russia-gate narrative – that somehow Putin
foresaw Trump’s election (although almost no one else did) and sought to
curry favor with the future U.S. president by lining Trump’s pockets
with lucrative real estate deals while doing whatever he could to help
Trump win – is knocked down by these new disclosures, not supported by
them.
Instead of clearing the way for Trump to construct the building and
thus – in Sater’s view – boost Trump’s election chances, Putin and his
government wouldn’t even approve permits or assist in the financing.
But the actual evidence suggests something quite different. Besides
Flynn’s relatively modest speaking fee, it turned out that RT negotiated
Flynn’s rate downward, a fact that The Washington Post buried
deep inside an article on Flynn’s Russia-connected payments. The Post
wrote, “RT balked at paying Flynn’s original asking price. ‘Sorry it
took us longer to get back to you but the problem is that the speaking
fee is a bit too high and exceeds our budget at the moment,’ Alina
Mikhaleva, RT’s head of marketing, wrote a Flynn associate about a month
before the event.”
But that recognition of reality would undermine the much beloved story
of Putin-Trump collusion, so the key facts and the clear logic are
downplayed or ignored – all the better to deceive Americans who are
dependent on the Times, the Post and the mainstream media.
The reality, as you would find out if you read further into the story,
is that the boast from Felix Sater that somehow the construction of a
Trump Tower in Moscow would demonstrate Trump’s international business
prowess and thus help his election was meaningless. What the incident
really shows is that the Trump organization had little or no pull in
Russia as Putin’s government apparently didn’t lift a finger to salvage
this stillborn building project.
However, leaving aside the Times’ propagandistic approach to Ukraine,
there is this more immediate point about Russia-gate: none of Sater’s
boastful claims proved true and this incident really underscored the
lack of useful connections between Trump’s people and the Kremlin. One
of Trump’s lawyers, Michael Cohen, even used a general press email
address in a plea for assistance from Putin’s personal spokesman.
Deeper in the story, the Times admits these inconvenient facts:
“There is no evidence in the emails that Mr. Sater delivered on his
promises, and one email suggests that Mr. Sater overstated his Russian
ties. In January 2016, Mr. Cohen wrote to Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri
S. Peskov, asking for help restarting the Trump Tower project, which had
stalled. But Mr. Sater did not appear to have Mr. Peskov’s direct
email, and instead wrote to a general inbox for press inquiries.”
The Times added: “The project never got government permits or
financing, and died weeks later. … The emails obtained by The Times make
no mention of Russian efforts to damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign or
the hacking of Democrats’ emails.”
In other words, the Russia-gate narrative – that somehow Putin
foresaw Trump’s election (although almost no one else did) and sought to
curry favor with the future U.S. president by lining Trump’s pockets
with lucrative real estate deals while doing whatever he could to help
Trump win – is knocked down by these new disclosures, not supported by
them.
Instead of clearing the way for Trump to construct the building and
thus – in Sater’s view – boost Trump’s election chances, Putin and his
government wouldn’t even approve permits or assist in the financing.
But the actual evidence suggests something quite different. Besides
Flynn’s relatively modest speaking fee, it turned out that RT negotiated
Flynn’s rate downward, a fact that The Washington Post buried
deep inside an article on Flynn’s Russia-connected payments. The Post
wrote, “RT balked at paying Flynn’s original asking price. ‘Sorry it
took us longer to get back to you but the problem is that the speaking
fee is a bit too high and exceeds our budget at the moment,’ Alina
Mikhaleva, RT’s head of marketing, wrote a Flynn associate about a month
before the event.”
But that recognition of reality would undermine the much beloved story
of Putin-Trump collusion, so the key facts and the clear logic are
downplayed or ignored – all the better to deceive Americans who are
dependent on the Times, the Post and the mainstream media.
So all the players, including Trump, should have no problem a, either testifying before congress in open hearings or answering subpoenas from Mueller or b, answering any subsequent charges, whether in criminal court or impeachment hearings, and clearing their names, right? It's all a 4th estate witch hunt, right? 7Xs.
Rather than condemn the press for how they report the "facts," I'll eagerly await Mueller's report and Trump's subsequent impeachment. Email is not the only method of communicating potential quid pro quos. 7Xs.
ORRRRRR there's been a devastating hurricane and flood in the fourth largest city in the country for nearly a week and the media is (as they should) focusing on that.
There is still new and significant news coming out on almost a daily basis that would be top stories on a typical night.
ORRRRRR there's been a devastating hurricane and flood in the fourth largest city in the country for nearly a week and the media is (as they should) focusing on that.
There is still new and significant news coming out on almost a daily basis that would be top stories on a typical night.
An entire country has to shut down and be the focus of the media because of the state of one state? There are other things happening in the world.
Why not? It's unprecedented on this scale. Never. Happened. Before.
And, I think by showing how awful a situation it is down there, maybe it's helping people donate to the relief effort.
Well, sure it should be covered extensively, but I have to agree that it shouldn't be the only story covered. The situation in one American state does not outweigh what is happening everywhere else in the world. To think otherwise is pure American hubris.
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i guess the New Yorker article, which I'm reading now, is too close to home? Impeached for violations of FICA, money laundering, tax evasion and violation of banking regulations. Follow the money, from Russia with love and a PTAPE, all the way to impeachment. 755+1.
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/world/russian-ambassador-to-sudan-dies-in-khartoum/index.html
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/26/politics/mueller-flynn-clinton-emails/index.html
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/washington-lobbying-firms-receive-subpoenas-as-part-of-russia-probe/2017/08/25/55e547de-89c2-11e7-a50f-e0d4e6ec070a_story.html?undefined=&utm_term=.fe61dde991de&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
More brilliantly disappearing headlines in all their brilliance.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/world/europe/russians-arrested-on-treason-charges-helped-us-catch-hacker-report-says.amp.html
Tick tock goes the impeachment clock. 755+1+7Xs
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The reality, as you would find out if you read further into the story, is that the boast from Felix Sater that somehow the construction of a Trump Tower in Moscow would demonstrate Trump’s international business prowess and thus help his election was meaningless. What the incident really shows is that the Trump organization had little or no pull in Russia as Putin’s government apparently didn’t lift a finger to salvage this stillborn building project.
However, leaving aside the Times’ propagandistic approach to Ukraine, there is this more immediate point about Russia-gate: none of Sater’s boastful claims proved true and this incident really underscored the lack of useful connections between Trump’s people and the Kremlin. One of Trump’s lawyers, Michael Cohen, even used a general press email address in a plea for assistance from Putin’s personal spokesman.
Deeper in the story, the Times admits these inconvenient facts: “There is no evidence in the emails that Mr. Sater delivered on his promises, and one email suggests that Mr. Sater overstated his Russian ties. In January 2016, Mr. Cohen wrote to Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, asking for help restarting the Trump Tower project, which had stalled. But Mr. Sater did not appear to have Mr. Peskov’s direct email, and instead wrote to a general inbox for press inquiries.”
The Times added: “The project never got government permits or financing, and died weeks later. … The emails obtained by The Times make no mention of Russian efforts to damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign or the hacking of Democrats’ emails.”
In other words, the Russia-gate narrative – that somehow Putin foresaw Trump’s election (although almost no one else did) and sought to curry favor with the future U.S. president by lining Trump’s pockets with lucrative real estate deals while doing whatever he could to help Trump win – is knocked down by these new disclosures, not supported by them.
Instead of clearing the way for Trump to construct the building and thus – in Sater’s view – boost Trump’s election chances, Putin and his government wouldn’t even approve permits or assist in the financing.
But the actual evidence suggests something quite different. Besides Flynn’s relatively modest speaking fee, it turned out that RT negotiated Flynn’s rate downward, a fact that The Washington Post buried deep inside an article on Flynn’s Russia-connected payments. The Post wrote, “RT balked at paying Flynn’s original asking price. ‘Sorry it took us longer to get back to you but the problem is that the speaking fee is a bit too high and exceeds our budget at the moment,’ Alina Mikhaleva, RT’s head of marketing, wrote a Flynn associate about a month before the event.”But that recognition of reality would undermine the much beloved story of Putin-Trump collusion, so the key facts and the clear logic are downplayed or ignored – all the better to deceive Americans who are dependent on the Times, the Post and the mainstream media.
Rather than condemn the press for how they report the "facts," I'll eagerly await Mueller's report and Trump's subsequent impeachment. Email is not the only method of communicating potential quid pro quos. 7Xs.
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http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
Crazy website or not, either way this story is fading.
There is still new and significant news coming out on almost a daily basis that would be top stories on a typical night.
http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
An entire country has to shut down and be the focus of the media because of the state of one state? There are other things happening in the world.
http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
By all US media?
And, I think by showing how awful a situation it is down there, maybe it's helping people donate to the relief effort.
http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
Probably the biggest part of this story yet came out tonight. Great timing.
I'm aware of the headlines but even they state not illegal.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/michael-cohen-trump-lawyer-russia_us_59a71a28e4b010ca2899e933
Well, sure it should be covered extensively, but I have to agree that it shouldn't be the only story covered. The situation in one American state does not outweigh what is happening everywhere else in the world. To think otherwise is pure American hubris.
By the way---here's how the trump supporters responses have morphed:
He did nothing wrong!
No collusion!
10 months and they found nothing!
Well....okay, he did that......but......its....not illegal?!
slow.death.march.
"But Hillary"..
That's usually #2 or 3.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/sources-clapper-discussed-using-supreme-court-justice-block-trumps-inauguration/