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Old 07-19-2018, 01:24 PM
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The Worst Security Risk in U.S. History
No one knows what President Trump told Vladimir Putin in Helsinki—or why even his own national-security adviser was excluded from the room.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...-trump/565604/
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Old 07-20-2018, 01:02 AM
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I know that every time Trump opens his pie hole he makes it worse and it's friggin' hilarious. Does anybody still believe that dumbass built a multibillion dollar business on his own? I don't know who is really behind the flashy façade making things tick at Trump Enterprise but, it sure can't be that barely literate half-wit.
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Old 07-20-2018, 07:22 AM
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Simple, dummy. You paint everyone here who dares to criticize your hero Donny with a very broad brush, as a "lefty". Your undying loyalty to Donny is pathetic. You can't let even the slightest criticism of him go.

You, in return, will continue to be seen as the resident Trumpie, with all the baggage of all Trumpies, including the David Dukes.

Got it? Simpleton.
Couldn't find even one example to support your bogus claim, so you try to replace actual proof with two paragraphs of gibberish. Figures.
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Old 07-20-2018, 08:53 AM
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Whell loudly and incessantly supports a hateful bigot. That makes him a hateful bigot. He somehow doesn’t get that. Sad!
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Old 07-20-2018, 09:15 AM
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Russia's Interference in the US Judiciary

Great report from the nonpartisan Atlantic Council. Whell’s Dear Leader is in bed with Pootin, who is manipulating our legal system, and penetrating deeply into our voting systems. Whell continues to defend this traitor. Shame!

http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/publi...e-us-judiciary
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Old 07-20-2018, 09:31 AM
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A Theory of Trump Kompromat

Donny’s long history of money laundering for the Russians will be public knowledge eventually. It is, of course, why he’s desperate to shut down Mueller’s investigation.

https://www.newyorker.com/news-desk/...rump-kompromat
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Old 07-20-2018, 09:51 AM
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The Worst Security Risk in U.S. History
No one knows what President Trump told Vladimir Putin in Helsinki—or why even his own national-security adviser was excluded from the room.

DAVID FRUM
1:43 PM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...-trump/565604/
Wonder what sort of NDA the US interpreter has signed, probably something bulletproof.
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Old 07-20-2018, 09:59 AM
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Wonder what sort of NDA the US interpreter has signed, probably something bulletproof.
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WASHINGTON — Marina Gross, the only other American in the room during President Trump’s meeting on Monday with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, was the interpreter for Laura Bush at the Russian resort of Sochi in 2008 and interpreted for former Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson in Moscow in 2017. She appears to live in an apartment in Arlington, Va., is an employee of the State Department and is, unsurprisingly, fluent in Russian.

Little else is known publicly about Ms. Gross, who has been thrust into the spotlight as potential corroboration for what transpired between the two leaders during their two-hour meeting in Helsinki, Finland. As furor over the meeting grows, she faces increasing calls from Congress to testify about what she heard. Her fellow interpreters, who pride themselves on their discretion and invisibility, are outraged about those demands.

Ms. Gross’s white pad of notes, visible in photographs from the summit meeting, are probably useless, experienced government interpreters said, dictated in her personal shorthand that would be illegible to anyone else. And if she were to say what, exactly, transpired, she would violate an ethics code of confidentiality similar to lawyer-client privilege or the silence of a priest during confession.

Only Mr. Trump, who has alternately contradicted his own narrative of what was said and complained about a lack of fair coverage from a meeting only four people witnessed, could permit Ms. Gross to tell anyone about what she heard. The White House has not said whether Mr. Trump has asked her to do that.

“This is an absolutely nightmarish situation for anyone to be in,” said Stephanie van Reigersberg, who assigned interpreters to such meetings as the chief of the interpreting division in the State Department’s Office of Language Services for 18 years. “It’s a very difficult situation to be in, both in the point of her being asked to give information about what was a confidential meeting and because when you’re doing that kind of interpreting, there are memory issues.”

But some lawmakers have already called for Ms. Gross’s notes, wary of what assurances were exchanged between a Russian leader known for blatant denials and an American president known for frequent falsehoods.

“Given this history, the American people deserve to know if Trump used his position or this meeting with Putin to continue to pursue his own financial interests,” Representative Bill Pascrell Jr., Democrat of New Jersey, wrote in a letter this week asking the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to hear public testimony from Ms. Gross.

So far that seems unlikely. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted to deny a formal attempt from Democrats on Thursday to subpoena Ms. Gross, and State Department officials declined to comment on a hypothetical situation.

Yet Benghazi still lives on.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/u...T.nav=top-news
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Old 07-20-2018, 10:15 AM
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GOP Rep Will Hurd says Trump is being manipulated by Putin

Finally, an honest Repube! A wake up call to his fellow congressmen. Hope they can stop being frightened by Donny’s ignoramus base and do the right thing. Unlikely, sadly.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/785888...lated-by-putin
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Old 07-20-2018, 10:44 AM
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White House advisers are in an “uproar” over an interview that Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats gave to NBC News, according to reporting in The Post this morning.

As well they should be. After all, Coats starkly warned that Russia is currently trying to “wreak havoc over our elections” — meaning Russia is trying to do this right now — and is working to “divide us” from our “allies.” No wonder White House advisers are worked up — after all, Russia already got away with sabotaging our last election, and they’re trying to do it again.

Okay, I’m kidding. Here’s what really upset them about this Coats interview:

Inside the White House, Trump’s advisers were in an uproar over Coats’s interview in Aspen, Colo. They said the optics were especially damaging, noting that at moments Coats appeared to be laughing at the president, playing to his audience of the intellectual elite in a manner that was sure to infuriate Trump.

“Coats has gone rogue,” said one senior White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide a candid assessment.
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Just yesterday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said this about Russia and the 2016 election:

“I haven’t seen any evidence that the attempts to interfere in our election infrastructure was to favor a particular political party.”
Nielsen sounds like a Bulgarian from the 80's.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...=.4c7b0fd3b3d5
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