It's Official, Russians Corrupted The Election

[finnbow]

The London-based son-in-law of a Russian businessman is set to plead guilty Tuesday afternoon in Washington to making false statements in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a new court filing.

Alex Van der Zwaan was charged with one count of making false statements, a felony, about his work as an attorney employed by a law firm engaged in 2012 by the Ukraine Ministry of Justice to prepare a report on the trial of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Tymoshenko was imprisoned by former president Viktor Yanukovych for signing in 2009 a controversial gas supply deal with Russia. Van der Zwaan is the son-in-law of Russian oligarch German Khan.

U.S. prosecutors in Mueller’s office said the case was related to former Trump 2016 presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort, who was an adviser to Yanukovych.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...921_story.html

Manafort is going to be squeezed until he squeals. Plus the Trump crime family is getting a very clear message about the need to be truthful, something they have a very difficult time doing. Send lawyers, guns and money - the shit has hit the fan.

[Chicks]

Trump spent the weekend tweeting about Russia. He lied, a lot.

Read and learn, Whell. Your Dear Leader is disgusting.

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/2/19/...ndictment-lies

[Chicks]

Trump’s new Russian narrative, blaming Obama for “not doing enough“, goes right back to McConnell & the Repubes, blocking O, telling him it would have been political to do so. Fox “News”, as always, acting like the official State media organ. Spin city.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...n-republicans/

... it has also been established by dogged reporting that leading congressional Republicans rebuffed top Obama officials who wanted them to show a united, bipartisan public front against that Russian sabotage. As The Post has reported, when those officials made that request of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), he refused, claiming (in The Post’s words) that “he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics.”

[CarlV]

We like it when they seem to be in love, like George and Laura Bush, or Barack and Michelle Obama. Even Bill and Hillary Clinton, for all their woes, seem to take pleasure in each other's intellects and achievements. We also want them to be devoted parents.

We get no good vibes from the Trump marriage.

Trump, who demands adoration, would no doubt love for Melania to gaze upon him the way Nancy Reagan gazed upon her Ronnie. But Ronnie didn't cheat on Nancy with porn stars and Playmates.

What's distressing to many Americans is that Melania seems like a prop in her husband's reality show. During his inauguration last year, when the new president turned around to say something to his wife, her face lit up for a second. As soon as he turned away, her happy mask fell away. Months later, she slapped away his hand as they walked on the tarmac in Israel.

"These people are under constant scrutiny," said University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz, a sex and relationships expert. "Has anyone ever seen a loving gesture between them?"


Melania had already skipped the billionaire confab in Davos after the Stormy Daniels payment story broke. Then came Playmate McDougal , and more wifely passive-aggression followed: On Friday, Melania's office, citing a scheduling issue, announced she would drive alone to Andrews Air Force Base rather than helicopter there with her husband from the White House.

Maybe Melania passed on the copter ride because she is getting tired of walking across the White House lawn in her stilettos, but she was also a no-show at a Mar-a-Lago dinner her husband hosted with Geraldo Rivera and her stepsons, according to the Washington Post.

Melania seems to be punishing Donald, but for what?

"I don't think she ever imagined that he was going to be faithful to her," Schwartz said. "This is a man who has never stopped pushing himself on women. The preponderance of the evidence, as they say, is pretty convincing."

The punishment, in that case, must be for the relentless humiliation.

Surely, Melania Trump knew what she was getting into when she married the man who would become our 45th president.

Twenty-four years her senior, Donald Trump had already been divorced twice. He was a famous adulterer, womanizer and sexist, and a regular on shock jock Howard Stern's radio show, making proclamations about then-girlfriend Melania's breasts, the hotness of his own daughter, his belief that when a woman turns 35, it's "checkout time."

http://www.latimes.com/local/abcaria...220-story.html

[Rajoo]

The DNC is making hay while Trump tweets lies after lies.

In the four days since we learned chilling details about the full scale of Russia’s attack on our democracy, Donald Trump has issued a stream of unhinged and dishonest tweets attacking everyone and everything from Oprah [Winfrey] to Pennsylvania’s redistricting map. What he hasn’t done is condemn the Kremlin’s attack on our democracy or vow to defend our elections against future attacks. … This is a president who has taken [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s side over his own intelligence agencies, consistently puts his own interests ahead of U.S. national security and is all but inviting Russia to attack us again by refusing to implement sanctions designed to deter future assaults on our elections. It’s hard to imagine that Russia could have gotten a better return on its substantial investment in Donald Trump’s candidacy.

From Jennifer Ruben's column.
Trump’s conduct is inexplicable, unless he’s in Putin’s pocket

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...=.f503c0b6b074

[bobabode]

'Trump cites a misleading Obama quote to say Russia didn’t interfere in the election'
'Obama was talking about voter fraud — not Russia.'

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...lection-russia

President Trump aka a lying sack of sh!t on Twitter tries to throw more mud at Pres. Obama, get's caught with his pants around his ankles.

[Pio1980]

Two words, narcissistic sociopath.

[finnbow]

[Rajoo]

Is this a form of shoot the messenger instead of confronting the message?

Question: If all of the Russian meddling took place during the Obama Administration, right up to January 20th, why aren't they the subject of the investigation? Why didn't Obama do something about the meddling? Why aren't Dem crimes under investigation? Ask Jeff Session! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 21, 2018

Answer: Ask Mr. Mueller.

Only a Dotard will be asking questions like this since it only invites negative attention on himself, not that I am complaining.

Also now we know why Trump prefers to watch Fox rather than CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/21/polit...sia/index.html

[Chicks]

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...mueller-guilty

To speak the obvious has become nearly forbidden. But here goes: Donald Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths over the course of his time in office to try to stymie or discredit rigorous investigation of the Russia matter. The most likely explanation for why he has done it is that he is guilty of serious Russia-related wrongdoing.

There are viable alternative hypotheses, like he's a huge moron or he’s guilty of some other serious wrongdoing that he fears an investigation will uncover. But the best bet is that things are exactly as they seem and he’s acting guilty because he is guilty.