"He came to believe there was a cover-up, that a cabal within the bureau BLOCKED a thorough inquiry"

[kpete]

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The British and other international papers are offering extraordinary detail on the Trump-Russia-FBI scandal:
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https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/820120440345595904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The combo of the @Independent's reporting and the anger of Democrats hints that Comey may have resisted investigating Trump pre-election.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-russia-dossier-file-investigation-hacking-christopher-steele-mi6-a7526901.html


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The Water Sports Memo (for want of a better term) dates from July 2016. Three months later, FBI does press release on Clinton instead. Why?

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/819979075401945088/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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https://twitter.com/hesanihilist/status/819985104416088065


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https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/820244225220636672

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Updated to include:

Mr Steele produced a memo, which went to the FBI, stating that Mr Trump’s campaign team had agreed to a Russian request to dilute attention on Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine.


Four days later Mr Trump stated that he would recognise Moscow’s annexation of Crimea.

A month later officials involved in his campaign asked the Republican party’s election platform to remove a pledge for military assistance to the Ukrainian government against separatist rebels in the east of the country.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-russia-dossier-file-investigation-hacking-christopher-steele-mi6-a7526901.html

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https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

[mcar]

1. ...

[Squinch]

2. Kick

[democratisphere]

3. YES. The election was HEAVILY RIGGED in drumpf's favor.

Unfortunately the people that are supposed to investigate such things are the people that actually did it! "Making America Fake Again".

[NBachers]

4. We need to look beyond our borders for truth. It's been murdered here by trump & the republicans.

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With collusion and collaboration by a greedy, foul, effluvious media.

[Cosmocat]

5. "I was non-judmental until the last 15 minutes" is why we are fucked

The entire deranged body of conservative elective officials, never ending stream of profiteering conservative media establishment and their mouth breathing horde of 100 million or so pods lose their shit instantaneously over whatever ridiculous bullshit they come up with at any given moment.

THIS has driven the political dialogue in this country for a quarter century now, in an ever increasingly radical and outraged fashion.

Demoracats ... It took until NOW, when it has been stunningly obvious this asshole is SERIOUSLY tied into Russia, it is only NOW, that people are lit up over it?

It starts with the head, the elected officials, there has PLENTY Of evidence to take it to DEFCON 1 with him for over half a year now. And, the country as a whole.

There is no fucking way a democrat could have publically called for russia to hack republican e-mails. There is no fucking way a democrat could have so many high level operatives with a candidate, much the less the candidate himself, have so many direct ties to Russia ... NO WAY these things could happen and that candidate not be absolutely viscerated.

[Ilsa]

10. What scares me is that so many are involved that don't

give a damn about our democracy. They are willing to sell out. Hundreds of years invested in creating the American Experiment, and they'd sell out to facism. The cultivated ignorance of the masses just might keep them in power for ages.

[Cosmocat]

11. This country is in a VERY bad place

1/3 of us see what is unfolding and are helplessly watching it unfold.

1/3 of the country is gleefully supporting fascism out of its deranged partisanship.

1/3 of the country doesn't care.

We are just going over the cliff Republicans are plowing us over.

[uponit7771]

13. +1

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

19. "The cultivated ignorance." That says so much.

Ignorant people are too ignorant to know that they're ignorant. And far less inclined to deep thought of any kind, particularly self reflection.

The cultivation of ignorance was a master stroke. The enlightenment was really fucking with the ruling class so they had to suppress it.

[Ilsa]

22. The lazy thinkers are won over by simple slogans, not well-considered ideas.

"Tax and spend"

"Welfare queens"

"Bleeding heart libruls"

"Freedom isn't free"

"Why do you hate Amurica?"

"Crooked Hillary"

"Make America Great Again"

[blue neen]

6. This has been an attack on all Americans.

It's not just a Republican or Democratic issue.

[calimary]

14. Sure seems like fraternizing with the enemy, to me.

[blue neen]

16. That's what I don't understand.

Why wouldn't the Republicans want this to be investigated? Why are they trying to keep everything covered up? It sure makes you wonder.

[calimary]

17. And the longer they protest, drag their heels, or try to ignore, the fishier it smells.

If you were truly innocent and well-meaning and honest, wouldn't you be shouting from the rooftops about your innocence, and be embracing all attempt to get to the bottom of this, and clear their names and confirm that they're on the up-n-up?

After all, they've often said to us: "if you've done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to worry about."

Well... ?

[blue neen]

18. Exactly.

What do they have to hide?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

20. It's not that complicated. They have shown again and again that they care nothing for

democratic values. They care about power and wealth. Nothing else matters.

[blue neen]

21. It seems that you are right.

Moscow Mitch and his gang of Komrades care more for the Russians than they do for Americans....all in the lust for power.

[Amaryllis]

23. I wonder if some of them were also in collusion with the whole thing. I think they knew they had the

election in the bag, at least some key ones like McConnell, and that's why they wouldn't let Garland have a hearing.

[SharonAnn]

26. Haveany of them been compromised? Do they ower money,even indirectly, to the Russian Mafia?

[2naSalit]

7. K&R

[Percy Cholmondeley]

8. And trump was not the only beneficiary

Pence and Trump were voted on together, and they should be removed together. My own belief is that part of the reason for this brouhaha is to divert attention from Kris Kobach and his dirty "Crosscheck" election fraud program, which did serious damage to, not only Hillary Clinton, but Democrats all over the country at lower levels. Trump did not campaign like a man who wanted to win, everybody saw that, and took it as one more indication he was going to lose. And, he kept exhorting his audiences not to pay attention to the polls. He said they were "purposefully" wrong. The real powers that be put Pence on the ticket knowing Trump would be temporary president. Or precedent.

[pandr32]

9. You make a point that stood out

"Trump did not campaign like a man who wanted to win..." seems to suggest that someone else wanted him to run. Putin had already compromised him and pushed him to run perhaps. The whole campaign might have been a Russian plan and Trump merely playing the assigned role in it.
Perhaps the rise of the Tea Party gave Russia an opportunity to quietly enter the political campaign and right-wing media arenas and use the anger, fear, and hatred to their own end. If so, it was easy for them. Then there was Trump, a greedy, vain, ignoramus who was easily compromised--both financially and sexually.

[calimary]

15. Yeah. They're a team. Team-from-Hell. And they SHOULD be removed together.

Unfortunately, that would mean "President" Ryan.

Right now, we lose any way you slice it.

I sure hope everybody gets out there and votes in the midterms instead of shrugging off and staying home (because there's something supposedly "better" or "more important" to do that day). We can fix this as soon as 2018.

[Rex]

12. They stole another one, but that is okay because we are a country of pretenses.

If we had to live in the reality of the situation, America wouldn't last 5 seconds under real scrutiny.

[Solly Mack]

24. Perhaps Trump isn't the only member of the GOP compromised.

[Overseas]

25. K&R.

[Hekate]

27. KnR

Cry, the beloved country

[doc03]

28. We have to get this information from the UK media, sad. nt

[Lucinda]

29. KNR