RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT

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The biggest political story of the day.

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McCain is like oh I’m a coward cause I was captured??

Ok.

This has been beautifully orchestrated so far by the Maverick

he doesn't give a fukk at this point. he's going to go down with the gun in his hand firing until the last shot

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

trumps final stand will be "I didn't know about efforts by anyone on the campaign to collide."

"Campaigns are very big things...huge..very massive...I'm very smart, probably one of if not the...I mean you gotta give it to Reagan...wonderful person, I met him actually many times...one of the smartest presidents we ever had, so I can't say here right now that I'd be ahead of him, but it's close...let's just say it's a tie...so it's big...I mean I try to do everything I can..you've seen the rallies..tens and I'm told hundreds of thousands of people coming to see me and I gotta remember all those names...so there was no collusion by my part..there IS no collusion now...I mean it's possible you had all these wonderful men and women working to..say it with me... Make America Great Again!!! And maybe some of them got a little carried away..just trying to help but they don't understand like I do about how the fakes news CNN and faker news MSNBC will try and turn things to not be what they probably always really meant..nothing was meant by it and by the way...the real collusion is Hillary...she's the real collusion but the media doesn't want to hear about Russia funding her...so it's just all an excuse for losing an election that they had in the bag..I don't think I ever talked with Russia..I mean how does that work? So if somehow one of these guys had a Russian friend and maybe they were asking him "hey so what's trump really like? Is he serious about making America great?" Who cares!!! I don't have anything in Russia and I never didn't say that maybe Jared did..I mean that guy...he's a beaut! Great guy! Beautiful family..not just the one with ivanka but the one he came from...I mean his dad was an ok guy too but I'm not sure...you know they say apples usually stick to the tree branches and don't like to roll away...thank you"

 

[hashmander]

He should have come out an said it. Protecting the country from foreign threats is his job.

Not doing your duty because of optics is a failure.

As a result of his inaction the types of abuses we see on twitter and facebook were allowed to continue on. They didn't only affect the elections.

the vast majority of things a president does to "protect the country from foreign threats" isn't talked about publicly so if that was the extent of the job we would know everything. they clearly were doing their job identifying the threats and investigating it. having treasonous behavior simply framed as election year partisanship isn't just about optics if you want the investigation to actually go somewhere considering who controls the legislative branch.

 

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[jj23]

4 sealed indictments in the D.C. federal court docket. Shall we make a new poll? :KobeUSure:

The fukkery if Mueller frogmarches Kusher out of the White House while Dotard is on his Asian trip would be video game final boss levels of epic...

 

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Seth A again with the heat.....check out his twitter thread after this post:

 

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The Hill
49 mins ·
“My view on that is let Bob Mueller do his job, let the professionals do their jobs,” GOP Speaker Paul Ryan said. “This is our justice system and the justice system needs to play itself out.”


Ryan to Trump: 'Let Bob Mueller do his job'
House Speaker Paul Ryan said a special counsel investigation into Russian election interference and the Trump campaign should be allowed to play itself out.
THEHILL.COM

 

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He should have come out an said it. Protecting the country from foreign threats is his job.

Not doing your duty because of optics is a failure.

As a result of his inaction the types of abuses we see on twitter and facebook were allowed to continue on. They didn't only affect the elections.

Nah, you're forgetting a lot of things.

Trump literally was saying he:

• Wouldn't drop out if he lost
• would contest the vote
• already claiming obama was weighing in too much on the election
• open to allowing Wikileaks to leak information about the campaign

etc.

There was no "good" way to do it without pushing more voters towards Trump.

Trump created a space to allow a conspiracy against him to take root.

 

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Washington Post
49 mins ·
More than twice as many Americans approve as disapprove of Robert S. Mueller’s investigation.


Post-ABC poll: Most Americans approve of Trump-Russia probe, and nearly half think Trump committed a crime

WASHINGTONPOST.COM

 

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Jared is next. Pap got hit for lying. Jared lied multiple times through his disclosure forms. Also remember how Mueller went after Manaforts attorneys. I'm sure Lowell and Gorelick got that call too.

 

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Sessions under renewed scrutiny on Capitol Hill

Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions is once again under scrutiny on Capitol Hill regarding his candor about Russia and the Trump campaign amid revelations that he rejected a suggestion to convene a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump last year.

According to court filings unsealed this week, Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos suggested at a March 2016 meeting that he could use his connections to set up a meeting between Putin and Trump with the then-GOP candidate's national security team. An Instagram picture on Trump's account shows Sessions attended the meeting at which Papadopoulos made the suggestion.

After Trump declined to rule out the idea, Sessions weighed in and rejected the proposed meeting, according to a person who attended.
But Sessions, who was a top surrogate for Trump during the campaign, did not disclose these discussions despite a persistent set of questions from Democrats and some Republicans about Russia during multiple hearings on Capitol Hill. The new information is renewing attention to how forthcoming Sessions has been with Congress.


There is interest from Democrats on both the Senate intelligence and judiciary committees for Sessions to formally clarify his remarks made before both committees given what's now known about his interactions with Papadopoulos, a Senate aide told CNN. The source said the request for clarification could take several forms, such as having Sessions testify again or submitting a clarification in writing, but that has not yet been determined.

On Wednesday, lawmakers from both parties said Sessions needs to explain the discrepancies. And Democrats were sharply critical.

"Jeff Sessions concealed his meetings with the Russians and he had an obligation to be more forthcoming about meetings that involved Papadopoulos," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who sits on the Senate judiciary committee.

Sen. Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat who sits on the Senate intelligence committee, said that despite Sessions' testimony before the panel earlier this year, "it turns out he was at this meeting with George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos proposed meeting with Putin and Trump. He didn't disclose that to the committee."

Heinrich added it calls into question "whether he is being honest and forthright with the committee and what does that mean for the highest law enforcement officer in the country?"

Sen. John Cornyn, the No. 2 in Republican leadership who serves on the intelligence and judiciary panels, said he was unaware of Sessions' attendance at that meeting until now.

He added: "I certainly think it's a legitimate area of inquiry" for lawmakers to pursue.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said Thursday he was still learning all the details about the Papadopoulos matter.

Asked if Sessions should amend his testimony before his committee, Grassley told CNN: "I'm looking into it."

The Justice Department did not comment.

But a source familiar with Sessions' thinking pointed out that others in the room recall that Sessions "shut down" talk of a Putin meeting and that Papadopoulos "didn't have a lot of credibility." The conversation moved on to other topics and Papadopoulos did not leave a "lasting impression" with Sessions, the source said.

The source added that Sessions "has no clear recollection" of Papadopoulos and any further interactions with him, even though two were seated next to each other at a second meeting of Trump's foreign policy team at the Capitol Hill Club steps from the House.


"The attorney general has been entirely truthful and consistent on this matter," the source said, referring to Sessions' testimony before Congress where he rejected the notion of meetings and interactions with Russians during the campaign season.

At his Senate confirmation hearing in January, Sessions denied any contacts with Russian officials during the presidential campaign. He later acknowledged that he met then-Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak twice during the campaign. He also testified that he was "not aware" of anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicating with the Russians.

Sessions testified in June that he wasn't aware of any conversations between "anyone connected to the Trump campaign" and Russians about "any type of interference with any campaign or election in the United States."

He also testified that he does not remember meeting Kislyak during a VIP reception before an April 2016 campaign event at the Mayflower Hotel, though he acknowledged Kislyak was in the room. Also there were Trump and his son-in-law and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner. In testimony submitted to Capitol Hill investigators, Kushner said he "shook hands" and "exchanged brief pleasantries" with Kislyak.

Donald Trump's continued denials of Russian collusion 01:30
Asked under oath at a Senate hearing last month if he believed Trump campaign surrogates had communications with Russians, Sessions replied, "I did not and I'm not aware of anyone else that did, and I don't believe it happened."

It is a crime to lie under oath to Congress. Sessions says that his answers were truthful because his meetings with Kislyak weren't specifically about the campaign. At least two Democratic members of the Senate judiciary committee, Al Franken of Minnesota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, have asked the FBI to investigate whether Sessions committed perjury during his confirmation hearings.

At the Senate judiciary hearing last month, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, asked Sessions: "Did anybody in the campaign, did you ever overhear a conversation between you and anybody on the campaign who talked about meeting with the Russians?"

Sessions replied, "I have not seen anything that would indicate collusion with the Russians to impact the campaign."

On Wednesday, Democrats said Sessions needs to clarify his comments.

"I was very troubled by Attorney General Sessions comments overall," said Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee.

CNN's Jeremy Herb contributed to this report.

 

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Washington Post
49 mins ·
More than twice as many Americans approve as disapprove of Robert S. Mueller’s investigation.


Post-ABC poll: Most Americans approve of Trump-Russia probe, and nearly half think Trump committed a crime

WASHINGTONPOST.COM

1. EMBED THE MEDIA SOURCE BRO. Theres an extra 2-3 clicks to read 99% of the stuff you post. Even if you just had the FB embed, that saves clicks

2. This is Trump's problem. Trump literally burned any mandate and legitimacy he ever had with the public.