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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/12/06/people-cant-stop-reading-a-professors-theory-of-a-trump-russia-conspiracy-true-or-not/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_with_top_mostshared_1_na&utm_term=.b33fdcf31891After trying for many years to expand his business empire into Russia, Abramson asserts, Trump visited Moscow in 2013 to personally meet agents of Russian President Vladmir Putin, using his beauty pageant as cover.
There, Abramson writes, a secret deal was struck: Putin agreed to open up his countrys rich real estate market to Trump, and Trump agreed to campaign for president while promoting pro-Russian policies.
Simple as that. And everything that has happened since the election hacking, Trumps improbable win and a special counsels investigation into his campaign and administration follows from that deal, in Abramsons telling.
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The CORE NARRATIVE is simple, as Abramson wrote in a typically styled Twitter thread over the weekend. America was SOLD OUT by men who wanted POWER and were willing to trade U.S. POLICY to get it.
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Trump, "I never had any connections to Russia."
Link to tweet
janterry
(4,429 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,770 posts)D_Master81
(1,822 posts)would love to see something come out that confirms this, but it seems plausible since Trump goes out of his way to avoid saying anything neg whatsoever about Putin and Russia.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)I read Seth every day and I really appreciate the extensive, committed work he's doing.
K&R
Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)It all fits.
onetexan
(12,994 posts)we have a treasonous illegitimate DOTUS inhabiting the seat of power and under Russian control. Frightening as hell.
Botany
(70,281 posts)... because "nothing is sweeter than liberal tears," we had to stop Hillary's liberal agenda,
and something about abortions, coal jobs, guns, global warming is real, kneeling in the NFL,
Jesus, and those colored people.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Link to tweet
2/ Special Counsel Bob Mueller is a lifelong Republican, and the man who oversees his work dailyActing Attorney General Rod Rosensteinis a lifelong Republican.
The Republican Rosensteinwho appointed the Republican Muellerwas himself appointed by a Republican: Donald Trump.
3/ When the Republican Trump appointed the Republican Rosenstein, top D.C. Republicans overwhelmingly approved the appointment.
And when the Republican Rosenstein appointed the Republican Mueller, top Republicans overwhelminglyagainapproved the Republican Rosenstein's choice.
4/ The FBI Director nowWrayis a lifelong Republican, just as the *former* FBI Director (Comey) was a lifelong Republican. The Republican Comey was fired by the Republican Trump.
The head of the DOJSessionsis a lifelong Republican, just as the *acting* head (Rosenstein) is.
5/ Republicans control the White House. Republicans control the United States House of Representatives. Republicans control the United States Senate.
That means Republicans control every one of the three Trump-Russia investigations that are currently ongoing in Washington, D.C.
6/ Republicans control the Trump-Russia investigation in the House Intel Committee. Republicans control the Trump-Russia investigation in the Senate Intel Committee. Republicans control the Trump-Russia investigation in the House Judiciary Committee. Three Republican-led probes.
7/ Republicans also control all the committees in the House of Representatives and Senate that we'd *normally* expect would be conducting investigations into ties between Trump and Russia but are notbecause they're Republicans, and they run everything that happens in Washington.
8/ Republicans controlled both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate in 2015 and 2016, too.
And that means Republicans were in control of the entire legislative branch in Washington, D.C. for the full course of the Clinton email investigation.
9/ Speaking of the Clinton email investigation, not only was it run by a RepublicanComeybut the FBI field office that was in charge of the Clinton investigation was *so* Republican that it was (and is) called "Trumpland."
Of course, some of the investigation was done by NYPD.
10/ *NYPD* is so Republican it was illegally leaking newssome of it false or misleadingto lifelong Republican Rudy Giuliani (an advisor to the Republican Trump) for the full course of the Clinton investigation. The Republican Giuliani then leaked to the Republican-led Fox News.
11/ FNC is America's most-watched cable news. It's run by a lifelong RepublicanRupert Murdocha pal of the Republican Trump. Top FNC anchors include lifelong Republican Sean Hannityadvisor to Republican Trumpand lifelong Republican Jeanine Pirro (advisor to Republican Trump).
12/ The reason the FBI probe run by the Republican Comey took so long is that a veritable clown-car full of lifelong Republicansincluding Paul Manafort and Mike Flynneither lied to the FBI (which is a federal crime) or did anything they could to lead probe investigators astray.
13/ No one has done more to undermine the Trump-Russia probe than the Republican Trumpwho, on the advice of the Republican Sessions and the Republican Rosenstein, fired the Republican Comey after he'd been overseeing the probe for a year, forcing unnecessary, significant delays.
14/ The Republican Trump has also used Twitter, Republican rallies, and even a false statement he wrote for his Republican son to generate a flurry of *new* crimes the Republican Mueller must nowwith the help of the Republican-led FBIinvestigate in addition to everything else.
15/ The Republican Trump, with Republican Congressional allies and Republican advisors nominally working as "journalists" for Republican-run FNC, has also delayed the probe by bringing up nonsense like the idea he was wiretapped in Trump Tower or the GSA is part of a secret plot.
16/ Turns out the GSAwhose General Counsel was a lifelong Republican appointed by the Republican Trumpwarned the lifelong Republicans at Trump for America who staffed the all-Republican Presidential Transition Team that their emails would be available to the Republican-led FBI.
17/ So with Republicans running the White House, Congress, DOJ, and the FBI, and therefore all Trump-Russia probesand having run Congress during the Clinton investigation that was run by a Republican field office of the Republican-led FBIRepublicans have announced a complaint.
18/ Their complaintnaturallyis that DEMOCRATS staged a massive DEMOCRAT plot to plant a mountain of inculpatory DEMOCRAT-developed evidence against the president while erasing a mountain of inculapatory DEMOCRAT-created evidence that would've incriminated the DEMOCRAT Clinton.
19/ This DEMOCRAT plot involved DEMOCRATS somehow convincing several dozen Republican politicians and advisors to lie to the FBI, America, and one another about their contacts with Russia. The DEMOCRAT plot also involved saying not-nice things about Republicans via text messages.
20/ So only a partisanor conspiracy theoristwould see anything in this wall-to-wall Republican sh*tshow but a big DEMOCRAT conspiracy to (wait for it) put *Mike Pence* in the presidency instead of Donald Trump, as Trump was once a Democrat but Pence never has been.
All clear?
sarge43
(28,939 posts)When you could have your Personnel Reliability certification revoked for having a copy of Das Capital in your barracks room.
Now we have a CinC working hand in glove with them Ruskies and the Repugs are fine with it. I guess because they're not commies anymore, it's ok.
PatrickforO
(14,514 posts)Wow.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Links in this post from last year
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029174288
http://heavy.com/news/2017/06/david-bossie-trump-war-room-russia/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/12/1514319/-Peeking-into-Trump-s-Black-Box-David-Bossie-and-Citizens-United
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/corey-lewandowski-introduced-russia-linked-carter-page-to-the-trump-2016-team-report/
Read the du post or click on the links below it to connect Trump to Putin to Citizens United even before 2013