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Old 03-12-2018, 03:24 PM
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Qatar has evidence on Kushner, but won't share for fear of Trump

Qatari officials say they have information that the United Arab Emirates exerted illegal influence over White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and others close to President Donald Trump through a series of secret meetings that shifted the administration's Middle East policy — and they say Kushner's personal business interests in the region played a role as well, according to NBC News.

The officials claim they have discovered that George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman who served as an adviser to the UAE, and Republican donor Elliott Broidy participated in a series of secret meetings that might have led to Trump taking the UAE's side in a diplomatic row with Qatar last year.

But the Qataris ultimately decided not to reveal this information to special counsel Robert Mueller's team after they met with Trump in Washington, DC in January and February of this year, NBC reported. Because the meetings with Trump seemed like they might improve the diplomatic situation between the two countries, the officials kept the information from Mueller for fear of angering Trump and spoiling any gains they might have made.

http://www.businessinsider.com/qatar...mueller-2018-3
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Old 03-12-2018, 05:41 PM
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House Intelligence Committee Folds its Tent ...

... and blows a big, wet kiss to its Dear Leader.

House Intelligence Committee Republicans have completed a draft report in their year-long Russia probe that states they found no evidence President Trump or anyone affiliated with him colluded with Russian officials to affect the outcome of the 2016 election, a conclusion expected to incite backlash from Democrats.

Republicans also determined that while the Russian government did pursue “active measures” to interfere in the election, it did not do so with the intention of helping Trump’s campaign, contradicting the U.S. intelligence community’s findings.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/power...125_story.html

Whell will, of course, take this as concrete evidence of his Dear Leader's purity.

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Old 03-18-2018, 12:03 PM
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ testimony that he opposed a proposal for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign team to meet with Russians has been contradicted by three people who told Reuters they have spoken about the matter to investigators with Special Counsel Robert Mueller or congressional committees.

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Old 03-19-2018, 03:07 PM
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"Andrew McCabe is more likely than not to be a witness against the Attorney General’s boss, the President of the United States. I think that firing him in that environment could very well be interpreted as an effort to diminish his effectiveness as a witness. What’s that called? Obstruction of justice."
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Old 03-19-2018, 03:39 PM
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Key here is that they first tarnished McCabe as a liar. Will it withstand scrutiny, probably not. I would expect the FBI to turn against the Dotard and his chimp.
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Old 03-19-2018, 04:49 PM
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Funny being a liar is a wrong for everyone else, except for the President and his henchmen. Who have made a career of making it into a black art form.


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Old 03-22-2018, 10:33 AM
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John Dowd, a personal attorney to President Trump, resigned his post Thursday amid a shakeup in the president’s legal team as Trump has sought more firepower to deal with the special counsel’s Russia investigation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...1e4_story.html

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^^^^ from the comments there.

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Shakeups in his cabinet and White House staff; shakeups in his legal counsel; shakeups in his businesses with six bankruptcies; shakeups in his marriages... Just about the only stable in this guy's life is his admiration of Putin. Makes you wonder why.
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Old 03-22-2018, 10:42 AM
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This from the GOP friendly The Hill:



Former CIA Director John Brennan and retired General Barry McCaffrey recently suggested that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin appears to have a strange hold over President Trump for unknown reasons, raising the possibility that Putin could be blackmailing Trump.

This concern is widely shared privately but rarely discussed publicly by serious, patriotic and nonpolitical national security professionals.

The latest leak brought the revelation that Trump was advised to not congratulate Putin on his victory in a fixed and sham election, and to confront Putin about his attacks against American democracy and recent attempts, which are widely believed to have been made by operatives working for Putin, to commit murder on British soil.



The most interesting question about the latest leak, involving Trump’s ill-fated conversation with Putin where he did the opposite of what he was advised to do, is whether the leaker will ultimately take public responsibility, warn the nation about why it was done and offer evidence to special counsel Robert Mueller who is investigating the Russian attacks against America.

It was reprehensible for Trump to congratulate Putin for his victory in the sham election, to refuse to condemn Putin for his attacks against America and the attempted murders in Britain and to spend so much time criticizing patriotic Americans and democratic allies.

The obvious question, which is widely discussed far more than citizens realize, is whether Trump’s praise for Putin and his refusal to criticize Putin suggest that he is being blackmailed by the Russian dictator.

The possibility of Russian blackmail against Trump was suggested in the famous Steele memo, written by former British spy Christopher Steele.

While some other allegations in the Steele memo detailing Russian attempts to influence the American election have been validated by revelations since the memo was written, other allegations, including the suggestion of blackmail, have not been been proven at this time.

Not all leaks are created equal. The leaks earlier in the Trump presidency were often committed by individuals widely believed to be close confidants of Trump leaking negative information against each other.

The most recent leaks are probably being committed for deeply patriotic reasons, by people close to Trump who are alarmed by the ominous facts surrounding his relationship with Putin.

Why does Trump often praise Putin while he simultaneously refuses to condemn him? I am not endorsing the blackmail theory, but it is certainly plausible. When figures as credible as former CIA Director Brennan and General McCaffrey publicly discuss this theory, it will deservedly generate major public discussion.

When some suggest that the special counsel should never have been appointed because there is no cause to believe a crime has been committed, the Mueller investigation of the famous Trump Tower meeting alone proves this assertion to be neither right nor credible.

Individuals acting on behalf of Russia requested a meeting with individuals close to Trump, for the explicit purpose, stated in writing, to provide negative information about Hillary Clinton, obtained by Russia, almost certainly illegally, to further the Russian plan to elect Trump.

The recipient of this request, Donald Trump Jr., expressed pleasure at this prospect. He forwarded the request to the president’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and his son-in-law and close advisor, Jared Kushner, both of whom attended the meeting.

The president was later involved in preparing a false statement about the purpose of the meeting.
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-hou...e-leaks-abound
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Funny being a liar is a wrong for everyone else, except for the President and his henchmen. Who have made a career of making it into a black art form.


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