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September 9, 2018

Please remember that Donald Trump will go down as the biggest .....

... traitor and crook in American history. End of story.

In 2018 we need to push 24/7 that voting for a Republican is voting for Vlad Putin.
Sadly, a large % of the right have become so indoctrinated that they are OK with what
happened in 2016 because "we had to stop Hillary's liberal agenda."

BTW I stole this meme from another a far smarter DU poster than me who posted the
same idea last night or this AM.

September 7, 2018

Rudy Giuliani makes yet another complete mess

Source: Wsshington Post

On Thursday night, the Associated Press had a big new exclusive: Giuliani had told them that not only would President Trump not submit to an interview with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III about obstruction of justice, but that he also wouldn't answer any questions in writing about that portion of the investigation.

"That’s a no-go. That is not going to happen,” Giuliani said. “There will be no questions at all on obstruction.”

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This would have been big, because it would have basically foreclosed any Trump-Mueller interview from happening, once and for all — after months and months of negotiations. We had previously learned that Mueller had agreed to let Trump answer questions about the 2016 campaign in writing. Those questions would logically cover the other of two portions of the investigation involving Trump: Collusion.

By taking any obstruction questions off the table, there would be nothing left to interview Trump about. That would mean we were moving into a new and final stage of the investigation. Giuliani has to have known this. And yet, he went out there and made some really big news that was apparently based upon nothing.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/07/rudy-giuliani-makes-another-complete-mess/?utm_term=.6274e2013425



Rudy is not Trump's lawyer but a rodeo clown.
September 3, 2018

Daily Kos: Manafort Ally Linked To Cambridge Analytica and Russian Intelligence Pleads Guilty

" ... one step closer to confirming what we already know ... "

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/31/1792420/-Manafort-Ally-Linked-To-Cambridge-Analytica-and-Russian-Intelligence-Pleads-Guilty?detail=emaildkre

Here’s the latest domino to fall in the Mueller probe. Sam Patten is a lobbyist who worked with Paul Manafort on various campaigns in Ukraine, and also with Cambridge Analytica on micro targeting operations. He failed to register as a foreign agent, surprise surprise, and plead guilty to that in federal court Friday morning where he also agreed to cooperate with authorities. Further, Patten helped pump foreign money into Trump’s Inaugural fund. The way these dots connect you’ll swear you’re reading a spy novel. Bloomberg:

Patten, who served in the State Department under George W. Bush, headed the Moscow office of the International Republican Institute in the early 2000s. A Russian employee of IRI at the time, Konstantin Kilimnik, went on to work as a fixer for Manafort in Ukraine and is a business partner with Patten. Kilimnik has been indicted in absentia alongside Manafort on obstruction of justice charges.

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Patten also reportedly worked at the Oregon office of Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, SCL Group, on voter targeting in the U.S. 2014 midterm election cycle, according to the Daily Beast, which said he described his work as developing “micro targeting” technologies “adopted by at least one major U.S. presidential candidate.”


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Patten’s guilty plea today is one more rock on the pile, and it simply puts us one step closer to confirming what we already know: Vladimir Putin had a lot of his denizens infiltrating the American political scene, culminating in his piece de resistance, the election of Donald Trump.

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