No collusion? Too bad its not a crime and that a sitting POS can't be charged. Buh, buh, buh, Hillary and her emails! Never mind covid, eh?
The biggest scandal of the week is that President Trump refused to defend the United States from a pandemic. The second-biggest is that he refuses to defend our democracy from growing Russian attacks on our election — and that, indeed, he appears to be aiding the attackers.
The Treasury Department on Thursday imposed sanctions against Andriy Derkach, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, who was described as an “active Russian agent for over a decade.” Treasury says that Derkach has “been complicit in foreign interference in an attempt to undermine the upcoming 2020 U.S. presidential election” — for example, by releasing “edited audio tapes and other unsupported information with the intent to discredit U.S. officials.”
The target of Derkach’s smear campaign has been Democratic nominee Joe Biden — and Derkach’s willing collaborator has been Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer. Giuliani now claims to barely know Derkach, but the former New York mayor has met with him at least three times. Earlier this year, he told The Post that he knew Derkach “quite well” and that the Ukrainian lawmaker “has been very helpful to me.” Trump, in turn, has hyped this Russian agent’s bogus charges against Biden.
Talk about deja vu: Paul Manafort was in regular contact with a Russian agent while serving as chairman of Trump’s 2016 campaign — and while Trump was amplifying Russian attacks against the Democrats. Once again, there are suspiciously strong parallels between Trump’s propaganda and Russia’s. This year, both Trump and Russia are assailing the integrity of mail-in voting. The Department of Homeland Security warns that Russian operatives have “denigrated vote-by-mail processes, alleging they lack transparency and procedural oversight, creating vast opportunities for voter fraud.”
The president and his unscrupulous appointees have attempted to deflect well-founded suspicions that Russian President Vladimir Putin is helping Trump to win again by suggesting that China is the real election threat — and that Beijing is helping Biden. Microsoft complicated that narrative by releasing an analysis this week showing that China is doing more to hack Biden than Trump. But U.S. intelligence analysts and outside analysts say that the Russian threat to the election is far greater than similar efforts from China, Iran or anyone else. Yet Trump and his minions are working overtime to cover up the Russian attacks — even going so far, the New York Times has reported, as to tamper with a national intelligence estimate.
Last week, the director of national intelligence, Trump loyalist John Ratcliffe, told Congress that he would suspend in-person briefings on foreign election interference. This week, Brian Murphy, who until recently was a senior intelligence official at DHS, came forward with a whistleblower’s complaintalleging that senior department officials told him to falsify intelligence to play down Russian attacks and play up the purported threat from China and Iran. Murphy quotes acting DHS secretary Chad Wolf telling him that those instructions came straight from the White House.
Step back and think about what is happening here: Trump’s lawyer is working with a Russian agent to help Trump politically — and the president’s appointees are trying to prevent the intelligence community from blowing the whistle on Russian interference. This is the strongest evidence yet of Trump’s collusion with Putin — and it’s not in the past. It’s happening right now.
What remains unclear is Trump’s motive. Obviously, he benefits politically from Russian election interference. But is there more to it than that? Is he compromised by past dealings with Russia?
Those of us who have suggested that there is something deeply suspicious in Trump’s subservience to Putin have been accused of spreading a “hoax.” But Peter Strzok, formerly a senior FBI counterintelligence agent, told the Atlantic “I do think the president is compromised . . . because there is leverage over him, held specifically by the Russians but potentially others as well.”
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, says that when Trump sold a mansion to a Russian buyer in 2008 for a grossly inflated price, making a profit of $54 million, he assumed that Putin was secretly funding the deal. Cohen also says that Trump praised Putin in 2016 “because he assumed he would lose and wanted to make sure he could borrow money from Russian sources for his real estate empire.”
Strzok has been unfairly maligned as an anti-Trump partisan and Cohen is a convicted felon, so you can choose to ignore what they say. But what about Daniel Coats, a former Republican senator and Trump’s first director of national intelligence? Bob Woodward reports that Coats “continued to harbor the secret belief, one that had grown rather than lessened, although unsupported by intelligence proof, that Putin had something on Trump. . . . How else to explain the president’s behavior? Coats could see no other explanation.”
Whatever his motivation, Trump’s failure to defend our country is scandalous and shocking. If the Russian campaign again pays off and Trump is reelected in November, he should begin his second term by being impeached for a second time.
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honestly, i can get behind most of the stuff lincoln project has put out....but i'm not so sure i'm down with them politicizing 9/11. just gives me an uncomfortable feeling.
honestly, i can get behind most of the stuff lincoln project has put out....but i'm not so sure i'm down with them politicizing 9/11. just gives me an uncomfortable feeling.
Did you hear Team Trump Treason speak to having the tallest building? Again? On 9 fucking 11? What should make you uncomfortable is Team Trump Treason’s words on that day and the fact that he’s POTUS.
honestly, i can get behind most of the stuff lincoln project has put out....but i'm not so sure i'm down with them politicizing 9/11. just gives me an uncomfortable feeling.
9/11 was politicized as soon as the first plane hit the tower. Republicans have been beating the hell out of it. The only reason Ghouliana or Bush had any popularity was from 9/11. Since then it has been beaten like a dead horse by politicians. Sure maybe not the day of, but if they are ok politicizing it’s all year all the time what difference does a day make. If you don’t vote for us it’ll be 9/11 x 2356....I’m more worried about them being the wolves in sheep’s clothing that pulls the Democratic Party yet further to the right than I am about making a political ad on 9/11.
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To appeal to their base?
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Roger Stone to Donald Trump: bring in martial law if you lose election
If he loses the election, there’s a chance he retains the presidency. I’m sure public servant Barr spends several hours a day figuring out how. We’ll see whether the party stands up for the Constitution or for Trump.
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honestly, i can get behind most of the stuff lincoln project has put out....but i'm not so sure i'm down with them politicizing 9/11. just gives me an uncomfortable feeling.
Did you hear Team Trump Treason speak to having the tallest building? Again? On 9 fucking 11? What should make you uncomfortable is Team Trump Treason’s words on that day and the fact that he’s POTUS.
both of those things can be, and are, true.
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Roger Stone to Donald Trump: bring in martial law if you lose election
If he loses the election, there’s a chance he retains the presidency. I’m sure public servant Barr spends several hours a day figuring out how. We’ll see whether the party stands up for the Constitution or for Trump.
The thought of what could happen in November is unnerving. Between that, COVID and the fires, I'm probably getting an ulcer!
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Roger Stone to Donald Trump: bring in martial law if you lose election
If he loses the election, there’s a chance he retains the presidency. I’m sure public servant Barr spends several hours a day figuring out how. We’ll see whether the party stands up for the Constitution or for Trump.
The thought of what could happen in November is unnerving. Between that, COVID and the fires, I'm probably getting an ulcer!
I’m with you. No matter who wins, the other side will claim it was rigged and most likely take to the streets for some more fiery but peaceful protesting.
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Roger Stone to Donald Trump: bring in martial law if you lose election
If he loses the election, there’s a chance he retains the presidency. I’m sure public servant Barr spends several hours a day figuring out how. We’ll see whether the party stands up for the Constitution or for Trump.
The thought of what could happen in November is unnerving. Between that, COVID and the fires, I'm probably getting an ulcer!
I’m with you. No matter who wins, the other side will claim it was rigged and most likely take to the streets for some more fiery but peaceful protesting.
It will be a good time to avoid certain parts of town. Foe me, that will mean staying away from all of downtown Placerville as much as possible because ours is a small city with a strong and angry contingency on both sides. Whenever there's a protest on our Main St., its basically two set of people screaming at each other across the street. Hopefully in November it won't like a 2020 version of Shoot Out at the OK Coral!
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Roger Stone to Donald Trump: bring in martial law if you lose election
If he loses the election, there’s a chance he retains the presidency. I’m sure public servant Barr spends several hours a day figuring out how. We’ll see whether the party stands up for the Constitution or for Trump.
The thought of what could happen in November is unnerving. Between that, COVID and the fires, I'm probably getting an ulcer!
I’m with you. No matter who wins, the other side will claim it was rigged and most likely take to the streets for some more fiery but peaceful protesting.
It will be a good time to avoid certain parts of town. Foe me, that will mean staying away from all of downtown Placerville as much as possible because ours is a small city with a strong and angry contingency on both sides. Whenever there's a protest on our Main St., its basically two set of people screaming at each other across the street. Hopefully in November it won't like a 2020 version of Shoot Out at the OK Coral!
I’m with you man. I’ll be home most of that week unless Biden wins. There won’t be too many angry people here in NYC if that happens.
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The biggest scandal of the week is that President Trump refused to defend the United States from a pandemic. The second-biggest is that he refuses to defend our democracy from growing Russian attacks on our election — and that, indeed, he appears to be aiding the attackers.
The Treasury Department on Thursday imposed sanctions against Andriy Derkach, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, who was described as an “active Russian agent for over a decade.” Treasury says that Derkach has “been complicit in foreign interference in an attempt to undermine the upcoming 2020 U.S. presidential election” — for example, by releasing “edited audio tapes and other unsupported information with the intent to discredit U.S. officials.”
The target of Derkach’s smear campaign has been Democratic nominee Joe Biden — and Derkach’s willing collaborator has been Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer. Giuliani now claims to barely know Derkach, but the former New York mayor has met with him at least three times. Earlier this year, he told The Post that he knew Derkach “quite well” and that the Ukrainian lawmaker “has been very helpful to me.” Trump, in turn, has hyped this Russian agent’s bogus charges against Biden.
Talk about deja vu: Paul Manafort was in regular contact with a Russian agent while serving as chairman of Trump’s 2016 campaign — and while Trump was amplifying Russian attacks against the Democrats. Once again, there are suspiciously strong parallels between Trump’s propaganda and Russia’s. This year, both Trump and Russia are assailing the integrity of mail-in voting. The Department of Homeland Security warns that Russian operatives have “denigrated vote-by-mail processes, alleging they lack transparency and procedural oversight, creating vast opportunities for voter fraud.”
The president and his unscrupulous appointees have attempted to deflect well-founded suspicions that Russian President Vladimir Putin is helping Trump to win again by suggesting that China is the real election threat — and that Beijing is helping Biden. Microsoft complicated that narrative by releasing an analysis this week showing that China is doing more to hack Biden than Trump. But U.S. intelligence analysts and outside analysts say that the Russian threat to the election is far greater than similar efforts from China, Iran or anyone else. Yet Trump and his minions are working overtime to cover up the Russian attacks — even going so far, the New York Times has reported, as to tamper with a national intelligence estimate.
Last week, the director of national intelligence, Trump loyalist John Ratcliffe, told Congress that he would suspend in-person briefings on foreign election interference. This week, Brian Murphy, who until recently was a senior intelligence official at DHS, came forward with a whistleblower’s complaint alleging that senior department officials told him to falsify intelligence to play down Russian attacks and play up the purported threat from China and Iran. Murphy quotes acting DHS secretary Chad Wolf telling him that those instructions came straight from the White House.
Step back and think about what is happening here: Trump’s lawyer is working with a Russian agent to help Trump politically — and the president’s appointees are trying to prevent the intelligence community from blowing the whistle on Russian interference. This is the strongest evidence yet of Trump’s collusion with Putin — and it’s not in the past. It’s happening right now.
What remains unclear is Trump’s motive. Obviously, he benefits politically from Russian election interference. But is there more to it than that? Is he compromised by past dealings with Russia?
Those of us who have suggested that there is something deeply suspicious in Trump’s subservience to Putin have been accused of spreading a “hoax.” But Peter Strzok, formerly a senior FBI counterintelligence agent, told the Atlantic “I do think the president is compromised . . . because there is leverage over him, held specifically by the Russians but potentially others as well.”
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, says that when Trump sold a mansion to a Russian buyer in 2008 for a grossly inflated price, making a profit of $54 million, he assumed that Putin was secretly funding the deal. Cohen also says that Trump praised Putin in 2016 “because he assumed he would lose and wanted to make sure he could borrow money from Russian sources for his real estate empire.”
Strzok has been unfairly maligned as an anti-Trump partisan and Cohen is a convicted felon, so you can choose to ignore what they say. But what about Daniel Coats, a former Republican senator and Trump’s first director of national intelligence? Bob Woodward reports that Coats “continued to harbor the secret belief, one that had grown rather than lessened, although unsupported by intelligence proof, that Putin had something on Trump. . . . How else to explain the president’s behavior? Coats could see no other explanation.”
Whatever his motivation, Trump’s failure to defend our country is scandalous and shocking. If the Russian campaign again pays off and Trump is reelected in November, he should begin his second term by being impeached for a second time.
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memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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such effective marketing...
Hey what's the next batch of tapes going to have on them? You know there's more and probably worse. I think it would have to hit Monday.
Roger Stone to Donald Trump: bring in martial law if you lose election
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The thought of what could happen in November is unnerving. Between that, COVID and the fires, I'm probably getting an ulcer!
It will be a good time to avoid certain parts of town. Foe me, that will mean staying away from all of downtown Placerville as much as possible because ours is a small city with a strong and angry contingency on both sides. Whenever there's a protest on our Main St., its basically two set of people screaming at each other across the street. Hopefully in November it won't like a 2020 version of Shoot Out at the OK Coral!
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14