Mueller Draft Report Says Trump 'Helped Putin Destabilize the United States', Watergate Journalist S

[Julian Englis]

Source: Newsweek

Mueller Draft Report Says Trump 'Helped Putin Destabilize the United States', Watergate Journalist Says

Legendary journalist Carl Bernstein has said that he’s been told that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report will show how President Donald Trump helped Russia “destabilize the United States.”

Bernstein, who is renowned for his coverage of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of former President Richard Nixon, appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday to discuss two bombshell reports released this weekend, one from The New York Times and one from The Washington Post, which revealed new details about whether or not Trump and his aides have colluded with Russia.

The Post reported that Trump has gone to “extraordinary lengths” to conceal direct conversations he has had with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Times article revealed that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into Trump after he fired former bureau director James Comey in 2017, suspecting the president could be working on behalf of Russia. Trump has angrily denied allegations that he worked with Russia and has regularly attacked the media for reporting on the investigation. But Bernstein slammed Trump’s dismissal of the probe.

“This is about the most serious counterintelligence people we have in the U.S. government saying, ‘Oh, my God, the president’s words and actions lead us to conclude that somehow he has become a witting, unwitting, or half-witting pawn, certainly in some regards, to Vladimir Putin,'” Bernstein explained during his appearance on Reliable Sources .

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/mueller-report-trump-helped-putin-destabilize-us-watergate-journalist-1289541

[orangecrush]

1. Rec

And kick.

[RHMerriman]

4. Seconded...

Bernstein knows DC.

[Scurrilous]

2. K&R

[Chickensoup]

3. I hear the treason drums beating closer

and closer. As the nose tightens around
the con,s neck.

[Blue Owl]

5. LOCK HIM UP

N/T

[Perseus]

43. I don't know that jail is the punishment to traitors

It would be a travesty if the next president pardons the orange buffoon.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

51. He helped plot and aid and destabilize the country he professed to be president of.

At some point the idea of execution should be considered. How much more grave a situation is there as Americans? This should WILL never happen again. We came real close to going over the edge. If for no other reason than deterrence, it shouldn't be taken off the table, sadly. Imagine the endless yers of "I didnt do it" and "fake news" on top of it? We didnt start this fight but we are capable of ending it. Treachery of the highest order.

[TomVilmer]

63. Just DO NOT go there, thanks

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

68. Really Tom? Why? Bc it doesnt rise to that level?

[TomVilmer]

69. 2016 Democratic Party Platform...

"We will abolish the death penalty, which has proven to be a cruel and unusual form of punishment. It has no place in the United States of America."
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/files/pdf/2016DemocraticPartyPlatform.pdf

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

70. Unless you try to destroy America and 2/3rds of its people bc they don't agree?

Theres exceptions to every rule. He hurt people I know and wouldve buried you too. Im done w this family. Evil is too small a word.

[The Truth Is Here]

71. Treason? I think public hanging is quite appropriate

Free to be seen by every American to see what a real traitor looks like.

[TomVilmer]

72. And THIS shows again...

... how so called friends can be worse than enemies. Your sentences are not helpful in any way, except for the Fox News crowd, who will enjoy sharing them. You are feeding them nice talking points, helping them to grow stronger. And you are scaring any decent resistance away.

[TeamPooka]

6. K&R

[ffr]

7. With Mitch McConnell's help and without so much as a censure of Individual-1

Amazing!

[calimary]

36. Oh you mean Mitch the Len Blavatnik poodle?

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Only once-removed from Blavatnik’s good buddy Oleg Deripaska? Who himself is only once-removed from dear ol’ Vladimir?

What’s that? Three degrees of separation between McConnell and Putin himself? And this story came out a year-and-a-half ago and got picked up by exactly nobody, and went exactly nowhere. I’m still kind of a news junkie and I try to pay attention, and I missed it, too.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/tangled-web-connects-russian-oligarch-money-gop-campaigns

[burrowowl]

8. Kick and kick again!

[DeminPennswoods]

9. If this turns out to be correct info

WOW.

[greenman3610]

10. I would say, "witting half wit"

[True Dough]

59. Hard to argue with that!

[Kurt V.]

11. wait. what?

draft report leaks isn't the mueller team style

[woundedkarma]

14. This.. this.. this

Yah, you're right. This is a joke of "reporting" by newsweek.

Newsweek said that Bernstein (who arguably has a pretty good record....) that someone he talked to said that maybe there's something we're all hoping for in the Mueller report.

Take it with a entire dumptruck full of salt.

Nobody really knows what's in the report until we get the actual report.

[KCDebbie]

26. I think Mueller wants to make sure we know about this stuff in case Trump

is successful in his attempts to make Mueller's Report disappear...

[UpInArms]

28. Methinks Bernstein is projecting

Based on ?

Dunno ...

[Mme. Defarge]

12. Sheesh!

I tear myself away from the headlines to make a quick run to make favorite neighborhood grocery store for the past 30+ years, only to find out it’s closing for good, and come home to read THIS!

[Roy Rolling]

13. Consistent Reporting

Smart journalists today have been saying the same thing for two years plus. Thank God we have a First Amendment.

It's what separates us from propaganda bullshit and state-run media.

[bearsfootball516]

15. Not sure. Mueller doesn't leak. But Bernstein is one of the most reliable sources in the world.

[Honeycombe8]

19. I agree. It's a puzzlement. Of course, he is reporting what someone told him.

So Bernstein is reliable about what someone told him, but depends on the source.

Mueller's team has been tight with no leaks up to now.

"Helping" Putin doesn't necessarily mean intentionally helping him or working with him. It could mean simply that what Trump did or did not do had the result of helping Putin. I think evidence so far shows that Trump was conspiring with Russians (the mtg in Trump Tower, hiring Manafort, secret meetings w/Putin, defending and praising Putin, etc.). But that's not what Bernstein said his source said.

[Linda Ed]

32. Bernstein and Woodward

Never revealed who "deep throat" was.. Deep throat came out with it before he died! So yes, I would believe Bernstein over many journalist..he is legendary...that is a fact!

Forget about Fox...they are a state run entertainment media like Hannity, and a few others..I will say there are a couple of them like Shep Smith and Napaliano even Neil Cavuto once in a while give it straight news vs fake news.

[Honeycombe8]

33. This is different. Bernstein wasn't doing investigative journalism, and didn't verify it...

For Watergate, they verified with other sources. This was something that one person told him. He didn't say he verified it, and how would he? Maybe it's true. Maybe not. Who would have seen the Mueller draft report? And then told Bernstein? Mueller runs a tight ship. But maybe it's true.

I didn't say anything about Fox. ???

In any case, the source didn't say that the "help" was intentional or just a byproduct of stupid actions or inaction. Or if it mattered if it was unintentional.

Interesting, though.

[Liberty Belle]

49. Yes and Deep Throat turned out to be the #2 guy at the FBI.

I am sure Bernstein likely still has sources inside the FBI. He would not risk his reputation to say something like this if he wasn't damn certain his source was right.

[Rollo]

50. Rod Rosenstein? Seeing as he's Mueller's boss... he probably would know more than the average ant...

[bonniebgood]

60. What she said.

[PatrickforO]

16. TREASON

Shall the election of 2016 be annulled?

[bearsfootball516]

20. No legal mechanism.

The electors cast their votes legally. He’s president, unfortunetly.

[Honeycombe8]

17. The key question is whether "helping" Putin means intentionally, or just by his actions....

The key question is whether "helping" Putin means intentionally, or just by his selfish, stupid actions with no thought of anything but winning.

I wonder.

I also wonder if anyone in the know is really leaking part of the draft report. Mueller's team has been tight as a ship up to now. ???

[duforsure]

18. Could this be the real reason for the shutdown

And being intentionally done by trump to please putin?

[slumcamper]

21. BAD HOMBRE.

[slumcamper]

21. BAD HOMBRE.

[bdamomma]

23. Just lock him up

ENOUGH. He's not FIT and this is not normal. Unless you want learn how to speak fucking Russian.

[Grasswire2]

40. well, I prefer due process and Rule of Law followed precisely. nt

[myohmy2]

24. wow wee wow wow...

...if this is true, Congress needs to act, and act fast...

...GET RUSSIA OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!

...

[Yavin4]

25. My new name for Trump is "Martha"

For fans of "The Americans"

[Achilleaze]

27. fuggin republican traitors

republicans have betrayed America

[Baltimike]

29. This seems to good to be true. I'll wait for Mueller. nt

[blue-wave]

30. And he and his minions haven't

stopped trying to destabilize our country and the democracies of the world. This destructive train wreck will continue until the PTB decide to bring the house of cards down. Until then, who knows how much suffering will be brought upon the world.

[FiveGoodMen]

66. "until the PTB decide"

If this were a democracy, WE'D be the PTB.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

31. Kick.

[JDC]

34. KR

[PeeJ52]

35. I think they are messing with tRump and it's funny as hell!!!

[Dan]

37. "destabilize the United States." OR

destabilize the West.

Step back and looks at his actions since taking the presidency... and make your own determination...

[Grasswire2]

42. both are true nt

[Vinca]

38. Wow.

[benld74]

39. IMHOP tRump knowingly

Did what occurred.

He thought he would get away with it
BUT
He’s a sociopathic fool who
Must
Be in the limelight
Constantly
And
He lies
Constantly

The more one lies
The more it becomes increasingly
Difficult to cover them

[meow2u3]

41. Trump is a #RussianAsset

[WheelWalker]

44. Fire For Effect.

[Buckeyeblue]

45. I'm not sure which is worse: knowingly or unknowingly

Knowingly is malice. Unknowingly is completely stupidity.

[NotASurfer]

46. In my mind, I can already hear the chant of "Lock him up!" being repeated by a crowd outside the Whi

te House.

Every day it gets louder. Every day I am more encouraged

And Donnie Two Scoops can hear it in his mind too. It only makes him feel more trapped

[GusBob]

47. Never ever forget: Putin is KGB

They play the long game and work their assets slowly wittingly, willingly or not.

They got him elected for a reason

I always thought the reason was they were afraid of
HRC

This makes more sense

[AlexSFCA]

56. exactly

He knew Clinton could not be compromised and corrupted. Also, don’t forget that putin drummed up support for Obama in 2008 against mccain. Putin hated mccain with passion and thought obama being the first black president would help him to destabilize the country. He was funding both white supremacists and black radical movements. In 2012, putin turned against romney due to his vile anti-russia stance. In 2008, Obama was very much in support of good relationship with russia all the way through 2012. Then, of course, Magnitsky happened and obama became mortal enemy. Putin’s long game paid off big time, his skills in political technologies worldwide are insanely dangerous. He is reshaping Europe in real time.

[Texin]

61. And yet, McCain accepted $200k from a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin in 2016!

As far as Putin "hating" one pol over another, I don't think the passion runs that deep in this man. He's a strategic operator. He uses those he can co-opt and tries to minimize those he knows he can't. And he goes about it using the medium in which they operate. He doesn't get emotionally or intellectually twisted when he's planning how he's going to get back at people who have opposed him. He's totally sang froid. Clinton and Obama were intelligent enough to figure that out and they paid attention to the information they were briefed on by the intelligence communities.

[Kablooie]

48. Mueller Draft Report??!! Is this a leak?

[Cha]

52. Kick!

[Doodley]

53. Every single action by Trump has been to destabilize America.

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He headed departments (Environment, Housing, Health, Education, etc) with those that have expressed sentiments to undermine those departments.

He has undermined military leadership, the FBI, the DOJ.

He has undermined our media, and labeled all opposition as fake.

He has ripped up international accords and agreements, such as the Paris Accord, TPP, UNESCO, the Iran deal, without putting anything in its place.

He has undermined America's alliances through threats to Nato, and insults to world leaders, whilst sucking up to despots.

He has sought to divide Americans by using race and grievances.

He has put the economy on a course similar to his failed businesses. The completely unnecessary shutdown, unsustainable tax cuts, and tariffs, all serve to damage America.

America was the world leader before he took office, but he has successfully alienated America from the rest of the world and left us as a weakened laughing stock.

These are not the results of an idiot who just happened to do everything wrong to damage us, but the result of a carefully planned program of destruction. Trump isn't smart enough to achieve this on his own. His puppet master is.

[colorado_ufo]

57. THIS!

[Apollyonus]

54. Trump was just one prong of a two-prong attack

The other prong has not been subjected to significant investigation despite high level staffers being connected to Manafort and Russian oligarchs.

[dalton99a]

55. Treason, plain and simple.

[Pachamama]

58. Comfort and Aid to the enemy....

The current POTUS plays for the other team....

[Cold War Spook]

62. If this is true,

Putin may not want Trump to talk. Yes it would mean that Trump may be a traitor or an idiot, but he is not the only head of a country Putin is trying to destabilize so Putin will make sure that Trump doesn't get to tell what he knows, if anything.

[NastyRiffraff]

64. How did somebody get hold of the Mueller draft report??

Those people don't leak. Unless this is strategic, and a warning? Not that I'm not excited to hear about it, but it's surprising that we're hearing anything about it.

[Hassler]

65. "Half-witting pawn" nails it.

[red dog 1]

67. K&R