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January 14, 2019

CNN's Camerota on Trump: Of all the news on Trump this the most mind blowing

:34 into the video

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/01/14/donald-trump-putin-meeting-mind-blowing-camerota-bts-newday-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/

CNN's Alisyn Camerota reacts to Washington Post reporting that there are no records of five personal meetings President Donald Trump had with Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling it "mind blowing."

January 12, 2019

Turn on Joy Reid

Trump is a Russian asset.

January 11, 2019

And never forget that Manafort picked Pence to be V.P. which means Putin picked Pence to be V.P.

Manafort was working off his debt to Putin and company when he went to work as Trump's campaign manager
and was still working for Trump/Russia after he was "fired." And even after he was "fired" Manafort was still
feeding data to the GRU so Russia could rat fuck our elections.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211655120

New Yorker:
When Kost Bondarenko, one of Manafort’s longtime Ukrainian associates, told the
Daily Beast, in May, 2017, that “Trump won because of Manafort,” this is what he
may have meant.

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https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-was-handpicked-paul-manafort-696412

Before Trump formally announced Pence as his vice presidential candidate, it was Manafort who made sure it happened, The New York Times reported last year.

Trump had hesitated to settle on Pence, who was governor of Indiana. Trump was fielding last-ditch appeals from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and publicly said he had not made a “final, final decision” until advisers like Manafort reminded him of the importance of uniting the GOP around conservative Christian values.

CBS News reported that Pence was Manafort's "first choice" and that Manafort even lied about mechanical problems on Trump's plane to make the soon-to-be GOP nominee stay an extra day in Indiana to get to know Pence. In a phone call, Manafort assured Trump that Pence was the right choice and made a case that won over the real estate tycoon.

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The backpedaling began in March after it emerged that Manafort signed a multimillion-dollar contract in 2006 with a close associate of Vladimir Putin. Trump's team now claims that Manafort merely oversaw delegate operations and that Trump was not aware of Manafort's work for other governments, including Russia.

January 9, 2019

Go to the gym or watch Trump?

Any point at all to watch Trump lie his ass off in order to try to create a distraction
from Mueller, Manafort, Russia, Trump Jr., Jared, and Natalia Veselnitskaya.

January 7, 2019

CNN just had on about 10 minutes that many parts of the Steele Dossier are true.

The walls are closing in on Donny and Company.

And here is the smoking gun. The Steele Dossier said that Cohen met with
Russians and paid off hackers in the late summer of 2016 in Prague. Well
it looks like @ least Cohen's phone was there.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-the-michael-cohen-prague-story-true

On Dec. 27, McClatchy DC—a reputable news outlet that broke the most important stories about the Iraq War—reported that cell phone tower records obtained by foreign intelligence sources place Michael Cohen (or at least his phone) in Prague in the late summer of 2016. The story says this information, as well as the fruits of electronic eavesdropping by an Eastern European intelligence agency that picked up discussion among Russians of Cohen’s presence in Prague, are now in the possession of the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

If the McClatchy story is true, it has huge implications for Donald Trump's survival in the presidency. But that’s a major if; unlike many other scoops about the Mueller probe, no other outlet has been able to confirm McClatchy’s reporting. And the McClatchy reporters have made it clear that they have no corroborating evidence of their claims and that some of their sources are indirect at best.


The stakes are immense. If the McClatchy story is validated, it would strongly suggest that Mueller has evidence that in 2016 Trump sent his personal lawyer and fixer to Europe to meet with a high-ranking Kremlin official. The point of the meeting, if it occurred, was ostensibly to discuss Russian concerns that their intrusion in the presidential campaign on Trump’s behalf might be exposed. This would confirm an important section of the (in)famous “Steele dossier” and offer major evidence of Trump’s participation in a criminal conspiracy.

Paying off porn stars, obstruction of justice, corrupt Russian real estate deals—they’re all serious, even criminal, but not in the same league as “Prague” (or another place where Prague-like meetings might have taken place). A meeting or multiple meetings of this kind would be the crown jewels of what Mueller in court filings calls the “core” of his investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election.

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