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Zack Morris wrote:The swamp water that Trump and Co. bathe in is starting to simmer. Mueller is turning up the heat by probing financial transactions and Donnie boy is panicking. During his approval-seeking interview with the New York Times (THE paper of record as far as Trump is concerned), he let slip his fear of this.

Mueller has been hiring top notch attorneys with backgrounds in complex white collar crime. The fun is only beginning

Zack Morris wrote:Plenty of basis. He's tried to obstruct justice,

he keeps covering for our nation's enemies despite an unprecedented attack on our electoral system,

and his family has admitted over the years that they are financially entangled with the Russians.

Lotta smoke here and where there's smoke, there could be a fire.

Trump has deep and dirty ties to Russian oligarchs.

If he helped launder money, that's criminal and we'll have to LOCK HIM UP.

Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy.

“On 9-10 May of this year,” the May 14 memorandum explained, “Sen. Edward Kennedy’s close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow.” (Tunney was Kennedy’s law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) “The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.”

Kennedy’s message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. “The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations,” the memorandum stated. “These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.”

Kennedy made Andropov a couple of specific offers.

Kennedy would make certain the networks gave Andropov air time–and that they rigged the arrangement to look like honest journalism.

Mr. Perfect wrote:A Democrat coordinating with the Kremlin and the media?

NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:

Mr. Perfect wrote:A Democrat coordinating with the Kremlin and the media?

"coordination for me but not for thee"

The New Democratic Party motto

Simple Minded wrote:.

menage a trois

sexual activity involving three people. no more. no less. 3 women. 3 men. 2 women 1 man. 2 men 1 woman. whatever the grouping - all must engage in sexual activity with one another for the activity to be a 'menage a trois'. otherwise see 'gangbang' or 'gang bang'.

jenny (Hilary) said it was fun having a 'menage a trois' with mike (Don) and rick (Vlad). however, since mike (don) and rick (Vlad) didn't mess around, jenny (Hilary) was really 'gang banged'.

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Simple Minded wrote: So, now you two are both telling me you're having trouble discerning the difference between democrats and republicans?

Nonc Hilaire wrote:History rhymes. BBC documentary about the 1933 attempted White House coup.

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EXCLUSIVE: A top FBI lawyer is allegedly under an investigation for leaking classified information to the media
By Sara A. Carter


FBI General Counsel James A. Baker is purportedly under a Department of Justice criminal investigation for allegedly leaking classified national security information to the media, according to multiple government officials close to the probe who spoke with Circa on the condition of anonymity.

Baker is a close confidant of former FBI Director James Comey, and recent media reports suggested he was reportedly advising the then-FBI director on legal matters following private meetings the former director had in February with President Trump in the Oval Office.

Baker was appointed to the FBI's general counsel by Comey in 2014 and has had a long and distinguished history within the intelligence community.

He is a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a lecturer at Harvard Law School.

Parodite wrote:It surprises me that those going after Trump first chose to look for unlikely political collusions, whereas his purely business ties with Russian money probably reveal the dirt they are looking for and a tree to hang him on. But when?

Trump’s Russian Laundromat

Çaveat being that Russian (and other) oligarchs crime money is going into loads of real estate everywhere in the world.

Parodite wrote:It surprises me that those going after Trump first chose to look for unlikely political collusions, whereas his purely business ties with Russian money probably reveal the dirt they are looking for and a tree to hang him on. But when?

Trump’s Russian Laundromat

Çaveat being that Russian (and other) oligarchs crime money is going into loads of real estate everywhere in the world.

The quest to prove collusion is crumbling
By Ed Rogers July 27

While everyone is fixated on President Trump’s unbecoming and inexplicable assault on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the media has been trying to sneak away from the “Russian collusion” story. That’s right. For all the breathless hype, the on-air furrowed brows and the not-so-veiled hopes that this could be Watergate, Jared Kushner’s statement and testimony before Congress have made Democrats and many in the media come to the realization that the collusion they were counting on just isn’t there.

As the date of the Kushner testimony approached, the media thought it was going to advance and refresh the story. But Kushner’s clear, precise and convincing account of what really occurred during the campaign and after the election has left many of President Trump’s loudest enemies trying to quietly back out of the room unnoticed

Typhoon wrote:Not clear if this is a "win" or a "loss" so it goes here.

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2017/07/anthony-scaramucci-sets-land-speed-record-fastest-trump-admin-career-immolation/Anthony Scaramucci sets land speed record for fastest Trump Admin career immolation

Doc wrote:The 100% Anti-trump Washington Post starting t back away from the Russian Collusion story

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/po ... crumbling/

The quest to prove collusion is crumbling
By Ed Rogers July 27

While everyone is fixated on President Trump’s unbecoming and inexplicable assault on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the media has been trying to sneak away from the “Russian collusion” story. That’s right. For all the breathless hype, the on-air furrowed brows and the not-so-veiled hopes that this could be Watergate, Jared Kushner’s statement and testimony before Congress have made Democrats and many in the media come to the realization that the collusion they were counting on just isn’t there.

As the date of the Kushner testimony approached, the media thought it was going to advance and refresh the story. But Kushner’s clear, precise and convincing account of what really occurred during the campaign and after the election has left many of President Trump’s loudest enemies trying to quietly back out of the room unnoticed

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Zack Morris wrote:

Doc wrote:The 100% Anti-trump Washington Post starting t back away from the Russian Collusion story

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/po ... crumbling/

The quest to prove collusion is crumbling
By Ed Rogers July 27

While everyone is fixated on President Trump’s unbecoming and inexplicable assault on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the media has been trying to sneak away from the “Russian collusion” story. That’s right. For all the breathless hype, the on-air furrowed brows and the not-so-veiled hopes that this could be Watergate, Jared Kushner’s statement and testimony before Congress have made Democrats and many in the media come to the realization that the collusion they were counting on just isn’t there.

As the date of the Kushner testimony approached, the media thought it was going to advance and refresh the story. But Kushner’s clear, precise and convincing account of what really occurred during the campaign and after the election has left many of President Trump’s loudest enemies trying to quietly back out of the room unnoticed

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Trump's eerie and uncharacteristic silence on Russia's diplomatic retaliation is telling. Trump hasn't shied away from publicly going after foreign countries, including right after meeting with leaders he wanted to "do deals" with -- the Germans, the Chinese, North Korea, Qatar, etc. Putin ejects 755 Americans from Russia and still not a peep from Trump.

Why is he so afraid of Putin?

A Russian analyst, Nikolai Petrov of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, said the move reflects the Kremlin's disillusionment with Trump: "These measures are tough, and it is linked to a deep disappointment that came after the euphoria linked to the arrival of Donald Trump [to power], and to the idea that today we will start our relations anew."