FBI investigations: "two grand juries ... one is almost complete" #TrumpRussia

[L. Coyote]

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This is as suspected and awaited for some time now.
Get your butts to the popcorn store and stock up big time.
I'll follow this story as it develops and post down thread.

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[Phoenix61]

1. I so hope this is true

The one thing that makes me think it might be is there haven't been any leaked info recently. So maybe those leaking info are aware of the grand jury investigation and are waiting to see what comes of it?

[doc03]

2. Excuse my ignorance but who the hell is Claude Taylor and

why should we believe him?

[L. Coyote]

3. O.K., I excuse your ignorance,

but not your failure to look it up for yourself.

[doc03]

4. I did again there's Claude Taylor the English Cricketer, Photographer,

Air Canada pioneer, Obituary, State Farm Insurance salesman, elementary school, car dealership, oh here it is finally he worked
on the Clinton staff. He doesn't seem to be so important that I should believe anything he says looks a lot like Steve Bannon.
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[L. Coyote]

5. Click on the tweet and you go to his Twitter account, and there it is:

Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated

Veteran of three presidential campaigns, served on White House staff (Clinton). Actively engaged in protecting and preserving our democracy.
undisclosed location near DC
travelphotography.net
Joined November 2014

[doc03]

6. Myself I am sick and tired reading tweets on every damn thread these days,

never saw them before that orange skinned asshole showed up.

[L. Coyote]

8. DU finally caught up with other media and enabled embedding breaking news. Blame trump

if you must, but that is coincidental.

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[Amaryllis]

14. Well, we knew already why Chaffetz was taking time off, didn't we? Simple deduction, my dear Watson.

[womanofthehills]

20. However, by following Twitter we knew this was coming

before it was in "traditional" news.

[womanofthehills]

24. And by following Twitter - we know Chaffetz has been seen walking just fine

[womanofthehills]

19. Actually, all the top intel info seems to come out in tweets weeks before it hits the news

I myself love The Twitter. Everyone who is anyone in the news has a Twitter account.

[L. Coyote]

23. Exactly. The thing to do is follow trusted sources and be the first to be alerted of the news.

Twitter lets you know what is happening as it happens, at least if you know how to use it. Also, what a great search feature with the various tabs to choose, such as photos or latest.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

49. For stuff like this, I prefer a little more meat on the bones than "first alert" breathless tweets.

[L. Coyote]

50. The "first alerts" from journalists ARE links to their major articles. U decide who to follow.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

51. I have not been able to find any link to any article about "Two grand juries". Care to provide one?

[George II]

52. twitter, the "Deep Throat" of the new Millennium!

[tandem5]

16. I've done the cursory google searches and ending right back at his Twitter bio is not exactly

a satisfying result.

[pnwmom]

31. He's listed on the 1993 Clinton staff here, at a salary of $35,000.

So he's a real person. Whether or not he really has reliable sources, I guess we'll find out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/11/01/salaries-at-clintons-white-house/9c96f5b6-02c5-4888-87ee-dc547d8d93f0/?utm_term=.0851b5112e1c

[tandem5]

44. I hadn't seen that -- Thanks for the link...

I've been following him on Twitter for a little while now along with Louise Mensch and the lot (although I do follow-unfollow with Mensch depending on non Trump/Russia related tweet-storms).

I'm kinda on the fence regarding the whole insider personalities especially as it relates to specific investigation timelines or internal pivotal moments that can't be confirmed. The details provide hope which is of some benefit, but not a lot of utility even if it turns out later to be 100% accurate. That said all the information that they do provide that points out possible connections with Trump et. al are useful and should be their primary focus.

[LanternWaste]

55. I can only imagine...

" He doesn't seem to be so important that I should believe anything he says..."

I can only imagine the ethical convenience you may find in believing only "important people..." Faith in the power brokers is a rather quaint and very nice sentiment.

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21. grin.

[L. Coyote]

7. #100DaysOfShame: 12 White House officials lost jobs due to ethics violations or #TrumpRussia

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[DavidDvorkin]

9. I'm tired of getting my hopes up and being disappointed.

[L. Coyote]

10. Then don't. Be realistic. There is an investigation based on evidence, hence grand juries, then

indictments. That's how the system works. If you understand how the system works, no reason to get hopes up beforehand.

Or, do you think Comey was just pulling a practical joke on Congress?

[Rebl2]

15. I'm hopeful

But grand juries don't always indict.

[Amaryllis]

18. Adam Schiff, whom I trust, keeps talking about how these investigations take time to do right.

As a former prosecutor of white collar crimes, he knows what he is talking about and assures us House Intel at least is on track now but they are WAY short staffed for an investigation of this magnitude. I still wonder if enough people called congress, like with the ACA vote, if enough pressure could change that. I read somewhere that the Senate has added two more staffers due to pressure.

[mnmoderatedem]

11. that can't possibly be

drumpf told everyone the whole Russia thing is a distraction concocted by democrats because they lost the election...

[L. Coyote]

12. Trump's lawyer has told 4 different stories about the Russia-Ukraine 'peace plan' debacle

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Add Trump's lawyer to the list of #TrumpRussia liars:

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-russia-ukraine-peace-plan-2017-2

Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was at the center of a bombshell New York Times report published Sunday that said he hand-delivered a "peace plan for Russia and Ukraine" to former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn before Flynn was asked to resign.

The plan — which The Times said was pushed by Cohen, businessman Felix Sater, and Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Artemenko — involved lifting sanctions on Russia in return for Moscow withdrawing its support for pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine, according to the report. It would also allow Russia to maintain control over Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.

Hours after the Times story was published, however, Cohen told The Washington Post that he hadn't delivered the peace plan to Flynn nor discussed it with anyone in the White House.

In an interview with The Post, Cohen corroborated The Times' reporting that he had met with Sater and Artemenko ....

[mcar]

13. K&R

[OldRedneck]

17. Here we go . . .

[L. Coyote]

33. Russian National Charged with Multiple Offenses in Connection with Kelihos Botnet

The arrests are happening already:

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[womanofthehills]

22. Bill Palmer report on this tweet by Claude Taylor

Report: grand juries underway on multiple Trump-Russia conspirators, indictments expected

The revelation comes from Washington insider Claude Taylor, who served in the the Bill Clinton administration. He says that according to his inside source, two grand juries are in progress in the Trump-Russia scandal, with one of them “almost complete” (link). So what now? It’s not clear who has initially been targeted, though they’re likely to be proverbial smaller sized fish who can be persuaded to provide damning evidence and testimony against a bigger fish in return for leniency. The end goal of the investigation is ostensibly to get to Donald Trump himself, being the biggest fish in the scandal.

Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn failed to register as a foreign agent at the time he was taking payments from intermediaries of the governments of Russia and Turkey. Trump’s former campaign manager is Paul Manafort is accused of having taken tens of millions of dollars from a pro-Kremlin benefactor in similar fashion. Trump’s former campaign adviser Roger Stone has admitted to contact with the Russian hacker who stole emails from Trump’s election opposition. Carter Page is alleged in a number of Russia-related incidents.

So take your pick as to whom the targets of these two initial Trump-Russia grand juries might be. But with one of them near completion, and indictments more or less automatic, we should begin finding out soon. Will the FBI have the two indicted individuals arrested in a public spectacle in order to pressure them to flip more quickly?

https://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/indictments-grand-juries-trump-russia/2498/

[womanofthehills]

25. Good Claude Tweet

Claude Taylor? @TrueFactsStated 39m39 minutes ago

Claude Taylor Retweeted Claude Taylor

I'm getting pushback because it's not on NY Times website or CNN. How long did they sit on now verified Steele Dossier?

[L. Coyote]

27. How long did NYT cover-up Bush criminal spying before 2004 election?

How much push back did we get on DU for mentioning the FISA warrant? Besides hackers shutting down the domain, I mean.

FBI has FISA warrant for Trump secret server connected to Russia.

And how much push back at every hint that Republicans might be connected to the hackers? Claude is getting trolled just like we do here.

We need to respect the brave journalists, not criticize them.

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[Botany]

26. I hope something comes out of all of this

n/t

[triron]

28. kick for visibility

[L. Coyote]

29. Will Eric Schneiderman Take Down Donald Trump? - POLITICO

There may be some coordination between FBI and NYS re announcing indictments and who files first.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/eric-schneiderman-donald-trump-new-york-214734

... in 2010. Back then, Schneiderman was running for attorney general of New York, and Trump was still in his pre-birther, reality TV host phase. Trump had donated money to one of Schneiderman’s opponents in the Democratic primary. Schneiderman managed to pull off a come-from-behind victory, and after the race, he went to Trump Tower to ask for a donation for the general election. Trump coughed up $12,500 to the Democrat, and Schneiderman went on to beat his Republican opponent and win.

But Trump and Schneiderman did not become best friends. That meeting was the beginning of a long and increasingly bitter saga between the two. Schneiderman took up the state’s existing case against Trump University—New York wanted the school to drop the “university” from its name, since it was not chartered as an institution of higher learning and lacked a license to offer instruction—and as he pursued it over the next five years, he became the target of a relentless series of personal attacks from the Trump camp. Trump filed an ethics complaint alleging that Schneiderman offered to drop the suit in exchange for donations; he went on television to denounce Schneiderman as a hack and a lightweight, and said he was wasting millions of taxpayer dollars when he should have been going after Wall Street. (Never mind that Schneiderman had already been declared “the man the banks fear most” ....

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[womanofthehills]

30. Now there are three independent sources verifin' this story!!

Tea Pain? @TeaPainUSA

Tea Pain Retweeted Claude Taylor

3 independent sources verifin' this story. @TrueFactsStated @counterchekist and @TheRickWilson. Look out Donald!

Tea Pain added,

[womanofthehills]

32. Rick Wilson saying he and Claude have different sources but same info

Rick Wilson Retweeted
Claude Taylor? @TrueFactsStated 8h8 hours ago

Claude Taylor Retweeted Rick Wilson

For the record-I have had no communication with @TheRickWilson on this at all. My source is not his. His is not mine.

[ryan_cats]

34. Is

Is Fitzmas upon us?

24 business hours?

[L. Coyote]

35. New York AG Opens Investigation Into Trumps Ties To Organized Crime

http://bipartisanreport.com/2017/04/15/new-york-ag-opens-investigation-into-trumps-ties-to-organized-crime-details/

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has long been a thorn in Trump’s side having led the state’s investigation into the Trump University scandal and the issues surrounding Trump’s charitable organization. However, now it appears that he may be getting involved in the investigation involving Trump’s possible ties to Russia.

While the issue of Trump’s ties to Russia are a federal matter that is behind handled by the FBI, the state of New York is concerned with Trump’s possible ties to organized crime which could involve RICO charges and are indirectly related to the ongoing scandal involving Trump and Russia.

On Thursday, Twitter user SheWhoVotes, who is also a constitutional lawyer, tweeted that her sources had informed her that Schneiderman was working with members of the intelligence community to “take out the entire three ring circus.”

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[triron]

39. Hurry!

[maryellen99]

36. And if this is true I fully expect Trump to nuke NK/start WW3 nt

[L. Coyote]

37. He doesn't have the power. Military and intelligence aren't his political minions.

And the scandals make him less powerful by the day.

[womanofthehills]

42. Mattis seems to be sane

Louise Mensch@LouiseMensch

First, Trump has no power to declare war.
Second, Mattis would refuse consent.
Third, military can't obey Trump illegal orders.

[L. Coyote]

38. Check the replies to this AG Schneiderman tweet:

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[L. Coyote]

40. More tweets from Claude a few minutes ago:

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[womanofthehills]

45. Bill Palmer just came out with a new speculation post

According to a new update from Taylor, one of the two grand juries is centered around the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), and it’s the larger of the two. The most likely targets of a FARA case are Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort, the two Donald Trump campaign advisers who have since been exposed as paid foreign agents. But Taylor adds that the case “loops in the Russians in Trump Tower” (link), and that it also invokes the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).

https://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/new-donald-trump-russia-grand-jury-details-hint-at-the-targets/2513/

[Ellipsis]

41. kick

[L. Coyote]

43. On this day in 1973, all hell broke lose in the White House.

April 30, 1973: Nixon's top White House staffers, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign, John Dean fired.

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[womanofthehills]

46. Bye Bye - one by one

J?SŦ?R ✪ ?CŦU?L³³º¹? @th3j35t3r

#FLASH - Gorka's gone

Report: Sebastian Gorka to accept role outside White House

Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Trump, will soon accept a position outside the White House, two sources told The Washington Examiner on Sunday.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/30/report-sebastian-gorka-to-accept-role-outside-white-house.html

[briv1016]

47. Who's the prosecutor?

[L. Coyote]

48. Dworkin: Flynn paper trail will lead back to Trump & Pence

Apr 30, 2017

DCAT’s Scott Dworkin was blunt today on AM Joy: “Michael Flynn should be in jail - and a paper trail will lead back to Pence and Trump.” Tell Congress here [http://bit.ly/2mpmgDT] to demand a full, independent #TrumpRussia investigation with a special prosecutor and an independent non-partisan 9/11-style commission.

[L. Coyote]

53. More tweets:

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[triron]

54. kick again

[L. Coyote]

56. More tweets:

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[triron]

60. knr

[L. Coyote]

57. More tweets:

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[kentuck]

58. Is this a reliable source?

I have never heard of him?? Is he credible?

[L. Coyote]

59. Yes, Claude is proving worth following.

In particular because he is closely following all things #TrumpRussia.

Scott Dworkin is another major player in the public investigations and resistance.

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[womanofthehills]

61. She's Woodward, I'm Bernstein