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02-22-2019, 07:15 PM
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Her job is to speak to potential voters.
Her answer is clear and simple.
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02-22-2019, 07:53 PM
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Her job is to speak to potential voters.
Her answer is clear and simple.
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If you consider lying clear and simple.
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02-27-2019, 09:57 AM
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Mueller scores big win as court rejects challenge to his appointment
https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2...-legal-1186701
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Special counsel Robert Mueller scored one of the biggest legal wins of his tenure on Tuesday, as a federal appeals court rejected claims that his appointment was unconstitutional.
In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals turned aside arguments that Mueller wields so much power as a special prosecutor that he should have been nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
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Bad day for the wingnut stupid crowd. You ok, Whell?
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03-30-2019, 10:30 PM
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This opinion piece in the NY Times, by Max Frankel, sheds a clear light on things:
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The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo
The campaign and the Kremlin had an overarching deal: help beat Hillary Clinton for a new pro-Russian foreign policy.
Collusion — or a lack of it — turns out to have been the rhetorical trap that ensnared President Trump’s pursuers. There was no need for detailed electoral collusion between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy because they had an overarching deal: the quid of help in the campaign against Hillary Clinton for the quo of a new pro-Russian foreign policy, starting with relief from the Obama administration’s burdensome economic sanctions. The Trumpites knew about the quid and held out the prospect of the quo.
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Early on, emissaries of the Russian oligarchs sent word of their readiness to help embarrass and undermine the Clinton candidacy. And in June 2016, the Russians lured the Trumpites to a meeting in Trump Tower with a promise of “dirt” against Mrs. Clinton only to use the meeting to harp on their hunger for sanctions relief. As the Trump family openly acknowledged, the Russians spoke at that meeting of a desire to again allow Americans to adopt Russian children. Since the adoptions were halted to retaliate against the American sanctions, it required no dictionary to interpret the oligarchs’ meaning: “dirt” for sanctions relief.
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This is the most sensible explanation of the Trump Tower meeting I've seen.
The Russians did for Trump, and Trump has done for the Russians, with sanctions watered-down and other policy appeasements, including fairly sharp undercutting of NATO. All doable with implicit offer and acceptance, not with explicit, discoverable-by-Mueller skullduggery that meets all the elements of criminal conspiracy.
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03-31-2019, 08:12 AM
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Actually, for DonJr, a dictionary was probably required. But Manafort would have understood what was offered, and wanted.
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03-31-2019, 12:14 PM
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Leonid Bershidsky a Bloomberg contributor several times commented on the scarcity of good Russian analysts. I tend to agree.
For instance: What does "The Russians" mean in a particular situation? Are there identifiable factions in the Kremlin? What is the layer of connectivity of any particular Russian?
What is the weighting/rating of a particular oligarch? Is Putin interested in the
lifting of all sanctions?
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03-31-2019, 12:37 PM
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Good questions indeed. What makes in into the public press on such matters seems heavily weighted by axe grinding. Hopefully the intel services have effective expertise here.
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05-11-2019, 04:30 PM
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"On Friday, the former general counsel of the FBI, Jim Baker, decided to speak out. Frustrated by the burgeoning Republican narrative about how the Russia investigation might have been launched under false pretenses and with nefarious motives, the previously quiet top FBI aide stepped onto the public stage.
“There was no attempted ‘coup,’” Baker said at the Brookings Institution. “There was no way in hell that I was going to allow some coup or coup attempt to take place on my watch.”
He added that he stepped forward because he “just became sick of all the B.S. that is said about the origins of the investigation.” Baker, who left the FBI in 2017, said he wanted to “reassure the American people that it was done for lawful, legitimate reasons.”" WP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.dbc34a372de1
Effin' Devin Nunes. Dirty as they come.
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05-11-2019, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by bobabode
Effin' Devin Nunes. Dirty as they come.
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This ridiculous conspiracy theory is now a talking point for all Republicans.
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05-12-2019, 12:10 PM
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Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise.
RT America, a network known for sowing disinformation, has a new alarm: the coming ‘5G Apocalypse.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/s...th-russia.html
More RT propaganda targeting the very same anti-science ignorant fools who elected this shameful president*.
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