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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216473597He is a domestic threat to the people of the USA
Irish_Dem
(47,014 posts)Trump and other GOP leaders are Russian puppets, installed and paid by Putin.
They spout his talking points weekly.
And are working to destroy our democracy.
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,014 posts)Who does the media work for?
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,014 posts)dem4decades
(11,288 posts)Money laundering. Either Trump's innocent of all the Russian crimes he's been accused of or the government doesn't care.
Selling condos to Russians, the house in Florida to a Russian for twice what he paid, meetings with Russian money people- all legal.
Maybe Trump is correct, he is being unfairly accused or is it our own government didn't give a shit.
I always though his money came through Russia, but even if it did I guess so what?
edhopper
(33,575 posts)What Barr said was lies.
And who at the FBI was in charge of that investigation again? Oh yeah, the guy just arrested for being a Russian asset.
Botany
(70,501 posts)A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset
He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.
Anytime you hear about Hunter Biden and his lap top your are hearing a Russian talking point.
Donald Trump was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the United States. Thats been documented in Republican-led investigative reports, and now it has been updated with new evidence, thanks to the U.S. Intelligence Communitys assessment of the 2020 election. The report, drafted by the CIA, the FBI, and several other agencies, was released in unclassified form on Tuesday, but it was presented in classified form on Jan. 7. In other words, it was compiled, written, and edited during Trumps administration. It destroys his lies about the election, and it exposes him as a Russian asset.
The report debunks conspiracy theories, promoted by Trump and his lawyers, that hackers in other countries robbed him of victory. We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to interfere in the 2020 US elections by altering any technical aspect of the voting process, including ballot casting, vote tabulation, or reporting results, says the document. A separate analysis released by the Department of Justice reaches the same conclusion. The IC report adds that evidence of such operations, if they existed, would have shown up in U.S. surveillance or in post-election audits of electronic results and paper backups. The report implicitly mocks insinuations from Trumps lawyers that former Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, somehow rigged Trumps defeat. We have no information, it notes drily, that current or former Venezuelan regimes were involved in attempts to compromise US election infrastructure.
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As to Russia, the report leaves no doubt: In 2020, as in 2016, President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations to help Trump and hurt his Democratic opponent. For example, Shortly after the 2018 midterm elections, Russian intelligence cyber actors attempted to hack organizations primarily affiliated with the Democratic Party. Then, in late 2019, Russias military intelligence service, the GRU, conducted a phishing campaign against subsidiaries of Burisma holdings, likely in an attempt to gather information related to President Bidens family. Throughout the 2020 election, agents connected to the Russian Federal Security Service, FSB, planted negative stories about Biden. Internet operatives working for the Kremlin, including the troll farm that had boosted Trump in 2016, continued to promote Trump and his commentary, including repeating his political messaging.
Attacks on Biden and his son, Hunter, were part of this operation. Through US officials and prominent US individuals, some of whom were close to former President Trump and his administration, the report says Russias intelligence services repeatedly spread unsubstantiated or misleading claims about President Biden and his familys alleged wrongdoing related to Ukraine. In this way, Trumps circle laundered the Russian-planted stories, which were then recirculatedand promoted by Russias online proxiesas American news.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html
Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)that this program goes back to the Brezhnev years. Against Jimmy Carter. Putin just dusted it off and put it into action again.
Joinfortmill
(14,417 posts)lostnfound
(16,177 posts)Putin has spent his years poisoning with polonium, shooting, and pushing his opponents out windows, and sometimes their children, to enforce his corrupt and brutal power structure.
Fear is the replacement for a democratic government.
Money laundering is part of their power structure.
dem4decades
(11,288 posts)Government doesn't care?
lostnfound
(16,177 posts)I guess its just frustrating and one does feel like giving up, that something so obviously harmful is allowed to go unchecked.
lastlib
(23,224 posts)dem4decades was only reflecting that.
dem4decades
(11,288 posts)SpamWyzer
(385 posts)is as corrupt a lawyer as has ever sat in a courtroom. His ability to whitewash and hide crimes for his leader and bosses is legendary. When he was chosen, I said to my since departed wife "This is tRump's fixer for the Russia scandal." Duh
As for selling real estate to foreign dignitaries and well-connected politicians and oligarchs, it isn't illegal. But money laundering is. Tax evasion is. And fraud is. Go to jail tRump, it has been waiting for you since you were born. LOSER 45.
dem4decades
(11,288 posts)And as yet, after Barr. So it isn't just Barr. Cohen went to jail years ago for doing Trump's criminal activity, yet Trump still doesn't pay.
Georgia, NY, Manhattan, all looking into charges that the Feds should be handling but they are left to twist in the breeze by themselves with no federal help.
And you may say Jack Smith, but he's a Johnny come lately and that Investigation should be years old.
And just an FYI, Biden had a SP named to investigate him at the drop of a hat.
A SP for Trump takes years but a SP for Biden takes hours?
The DOJ sucks.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)dem4decades
(11,288 posts)Was in 2000 when the changed Florida from Gore to undecided. I knew right then the election was gone. The second time was the day Comey announced the investigation into Hillary was reopened. I knew then the powers that be stole another one.
And fuck that self serving sanctimonious prick Comey, may he rot in hell.
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)doors to stop the recount. Bussed down from DC. Fuck all Repukes. I'm sure there were many others we would all recognize, but those are the two that "stand out." Both dickheads to the nth degree.
Joinfortmill
(14,417 posts)Hope22
(1,827 posts)Remember Bill Barr is a liar as are most of Trumps people. Many Americans do care that Trump sold us out to Russia. It All Matters!
edhopper
(33,575 posts)It's good to add
because some of us are dense,
Lonestarblue
(9,981 posts)It was created to lay out the links between Trump and Russia. I havent read anything there since early in Trumps presidency, and I dont know how accurate their information is, but I think thats where I read speculation that Trump was actually an FBI informant. The argument was that every time it appeared that he was about to face charges in New York or New Jersey (for example, money laundering in his casino), nothing happened and he was allowed to pay a fine. Certainly, law enforcement in New York and New Jersey knew he was committing crimes, but he might have been protected by the FBI if he was providing inside information on the mafia, with whom he had numerous contacts. Speculation, of course, but its one explanation of why he has never been held accountable for any crimes.
BannonsLiver
(16,370 posts)DoBW
(588 posts)I knew he was a Russian asshat
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)SMH. Something's seriously wrong with those people.
kentuck
(111,089 posts)He has never failed to support Putin over America. Never.