Bannon to Kushner talking about Paul Manafort three days before the 2016 election: "they are going..

[demmiblue]

Bannon to Kushner talking about Paul Manafort three days before the 2016 election: “they are going to try and say the Russians worked with wiki leaks to give this victory to us... can’t let word get out he is advising us.”

Link to tweet

The Mueller Report’s Secret Memos

The 448-page report issued by then–special counsel Robert Mueller last March was the most hotly anticipated prosecutorial document in a generation, laying out the evidence of Russia's interference in the 2016 election and the Trump administration’s efforts to obstruct the inquiry. That report, however, reflects only a small fraction of the billions of primary-source documents that the government claims Mueller’s team may have amassed over the course of its two-year investigation.

Those documents are a crucial national legacy, a key to understanding this important chapter in American history. But the public has not been allowed to see any of them. Until now.

Beginning last April, BuzzFeed News has pursued five separate Freedom of Information Act lawsuits to pry loose all the subpoenas and search warrants that Mueller’s team executed, as well as all the emails, memos, letters, talking points, legal opinions, and interview transcripts it generated. In short, we asked for all the communications of any kind that passed through the special counsel’s office. We also requested all of the documents that would reveal the discussions among Attorney General Bill Barr, former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, and other high-ranking officials about whether to charge President Donald Trump with obstruction.

Justice Department lawyers said the volume of records at issue could total 18 billion pages and could take centuries to produce.

At a hearing earlier this month, US District Court Judge Reggie Walton was not sympathetic. “It shouldn’t fall on the backs of the citizens to wait years to find out what the government is up to,” he said. If the Justice Department couldn’t handle the request in a more timely fashion, he added, it should ask Congress for money to hire more help.

Today, in response to a court order, the Justice Department has released the first installment of documents: 500 pages of summaries of FBI interviews with witnesses, available here for the first time. Another installment will be released every month for at least the next eight years.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/mueller-report-secret-memos-1

[demmiblue]

1. A couple more tidbits:

Manafort was pushing the conspiracy theory that Ukraine hacked the DNC as early as 2016

Page 14: In an April 2018 interview with the special counsel’s office, Rick Gates, who had served as deputy Trump campaign chair and long been Paul Manafort’s right-hand man, told investigators that after the campaign learned the DNC had been hacked, Manafort pushed the theory that Ukraine, not Russia, had orchestrated the attack. It’s a conspiracy theory that’s persisted in right-wing circles, even after the US Intelligence Community concluded Russia was involved, and one that Trump brought up in his July 2019 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

In a written memorandum of the July call released by the White House, Trump at one point says to Zelensky, “I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say CrowdStrike… I guess you have one of your wealthy people… The server, they say Ukraine has it.” —Zoe Tillman

Page 109, Bannon's 302:

"Bannon knew Kushner was on vacation off the coast of Croatia with a Russian billionaire when Bannon took over the campaign. Kushner was with Wendy Deng, the Russian billionaire, and the Russian's girlfriend. Bannon said his friends in the intelligence community said the girlfriend was "questionable." Bannon called Kushner and told him to come back from vacation. They had 85 days to go, no money and they needed Kushner to come back and firePaul Manafort."

[BumRushDaShow]

21. "Kushner was with Wendy Deng, the Russian billionaire, and the Russian's girlfriend."

And Wendy Deng (first name normally spelled "Wendi" ), if I'm not mistaken, is Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife.

[demmiblue]

23. She is... something. Oy!

The 14-year marriage of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng ended abruptly last year, after the News Corp. chairman came to believe his third wife had been romantically involved with a former head of state and with a prominent Silicon Valley executive. Talking to friends of the couple’s, Mark Seal reports on the shifting power dynamics in the Murdoch household as Deng’s ambitions changed, and tackles the question now being debated: Who blindsided whom?

The passionate note surfaced amid the flotsam of a shipwrecked marriage. It was written in broken English by a woman to herself, pouring out her love for a man called Tony. “Oh, shit, oh, shit,” she wrote. “Whatever why I’m so so missing Tony. Because he is so so charming and his clothes are so good. He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt . . . And he is slim tall and good skin. Pierce blue eyes which I love. Love his eyes. Also I love his power on the stage . . . and what else and what else and what else . . . ”

The woman was Wendi Deng Murdoch, the Chinese wife of the Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The note, not revealed until now, could have been one of the few pieces of evidence in their surprise divorce last year, had the case come to trial. “Tony” was the former prime minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair.

Later, some would claim that Rupert felt betrayed by the close relationship between Wendi and Tony, who was his trusted companion and powerful political ally. Others would insist that Wendi and Tony were just friends, and that the handsome statesman was merely comforting the lonely wife of an absent and distant older husband.

Rupert Murdoch is one of the wealthiest individuals in America. His empire includes newspapers around the globe, the 21st Century Fox movie studio, the Fox TV network, and the publishing house Harper-Collins. In the years between the Murdochs’ marriage, in 1999, and their divorce, 14 years later, a story emerged that could have come right off the pages of one of the tabloids produced by News Corporation, Murdoch’s media conglomerate, complete with all the usual lurid ingredients: sex, lies, power, money, charges of infidelity.

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/03/wendi-deng-note-tony-blair

[BumRushDaShow]

28. Apparently she has been long-time friends with

Jarvanka.

[meadowlander]

31. Also Putin's girlfriend.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/08/15/ivanka-trump-socializes-with-wendi-deng/

[StClone]

37. Men and women in that stratified world sure tend to hop

From one power broker to the next despite being freaks.

[BumRushDaShow]

40. She gets around.

[Mars and Minerva]

32. Ivanka was a trustee of Deng and Murdoch's daughters Trust.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4203726/Ivanka-Trump-trustee-Murdoch-s-daughters-trust.html

[MarcA]

51. Poster Children of the evils of concentrated wealth in very few hands. n/t

[Bleacher Creature]

2. He briefed Hannity??

[Takket]

6. That caught my eye too!

I though hannity was an “independent fair and balanced journalist”. What does it mean he was “briefed”. Surely he isn’t working for one side and disseminating propaganda for them!

[world wide wally]

19. He was Michael Cohen's other client too.

but only for advice on real estate, of course)

[certainot]

64. hannity is the name with brief description redated in the mueller report glossary sitting between

GRaf and HAWker

he was in the report a few times for incidental shit and should be there . this is not about cohen helping him with a woman problem. it's about other redacted parts of the report with nothing to do with affairs

corsi and stone and manafort are long time talk radio operators.

hannity is a limbaugh buttboy. all this needs to be seen in the context of not just fox, but of the russians using talk radio going back at leaasst to manafort being mcccain's campaign cochair and using limbaugh to force mccain to pick palin, who was being wooed by russian oil and gas

then russians using limbaugh and hannity and wikileaks with a russian hack in 2009 to sell "climategate" to stop obama at copenhagen

russians using talk radio and fox to create the teabag 'resistance'

then debt default in 2011

etc all the way to trump

[riversedge]

34. metoo

[shanti]

11. Caught that too

Proof he IS part of this scheme.

[VOX]

55. 45's "real" chief of staff.

This also explains why Hannity is particularly zealous these days— it’s his fat ass on the line, too.

[IcyPeas]

3. notice Hannity was in on this memo

someone needs to investigate him.

[Docreed2003]

4. Who outside of Bannon was predicting a Rrump win THREE DAYS OUT???

Shit was rigged

[Botany]

12. "Shit was rigged"

+1

[sop]

26. "Shit was rigged"

+2

[Newest Reality]

41. ++GOOD!

Rigged, the shit was!

[Doodley]

44. There are many reasons, including James Comey and the power of Trump's poisonous rhetoric that has

never been seen before in American politics. Was it rigged? Maybe, but maybe not. The vote for Hillary was suppressed through the lies that she was corrupt and the willingness to vote for a bigot. The overall vote shares were very much inline with opinion polls and even at state level, the polls were close.

[Sherman A1]

45. +3

[2naSalit]

47. "Shit was rigged" ...it was too! ...nt

[jg10003]

53. Kelly Ann Conway said trump will win because "we have friends"

When I heard her say that a few days before the election I felt a shiver go through my body. I got the feeling that she knew something everyone else didn't.

[snort]

58. If I may assist in the coining of a new phrase:

Introducing "shitrig". As in "this here has been shitrigged". Please disseminate.

[Docreed2003]

61. Well done...love it!

[grumpyduck]

5. Woo-hoo!!!!

Go after Hannity!!!! Woo-hoo!!!!!

[Roland99]

7. How did Jared Kushner become an expert at online marketing and data gathering so quickly

Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) Tweeted:
This gets stranger and stranger, no clue what to think of it yeT

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

November 22, 2016 Forbes article, Jared Kushner bragged about his “Stealth Data Machine” that won the White House for Donald Trump. In an article dated October 31, 2016, Slate magazine reported on the connections in Kushner’s “Machine.”

http://eureka.news/free-parking-9/

Link to tweet

https://forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusive-interview-how-jared-kushner-won-trump-the-white-house/

How did Jared Kushner become an expert at online marketing and data gathering so quickly

[2naSalit]

48. Huh. Imagine that.

[malaise]

8. This should have 500 recs by now

Rec

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. added mine, thanks to your link to this thread

I had missed this.

[malaise]

18. Anytime

[NoMoreRepugs]

9. 500 pages a month of summaries to be released? What are

they doing, scanning microfiche and chiseling it onto stone tablets? This drip drip drip is yet another ploy of the Billy Barr justice department to protect the Orange Anus.

[erronis]

15. The drip..drip could be good. But the faucet can also be tightned.

And the source of the flow completely destroyed.

DumpAss's second term will take care of leaky faucets/people.
It's third forever term will get rid of the internet.
The dumpass dynasty will make sure humanity is a dead-end breed.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. I'm surprised Barr's Dirt Services (formerly DoJ) is moving at all

There must be some real people left over from when it was the Department Of Justice.

[mopinko]

25. yeah, could take centuries to release. ummmm

it only took 2 years to collect.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "Briefed Rick Gates and Hannity"

And surprise surprise - all of those referenced and/or corresponding in those emails have been hauled in front of Congress to testify (even if they took the 5th like Bannon) - EXCEPT Sean Hannity.

Hannity needs to be subpoenaed.

[shanti]

13. Absolutely!

Imagine if this was Obama instead of Trump, and Rachel Maddow was Sean Hannity. This is outrageous. I hope Adam Schiff is informed of this!

[blaze]

33. Is this why FauxNews shut down their Twitter account?

Their last post was 11/8/18.

Or did we ever hear a reason?

[blogslut]

42. It was about ethics in game journalism

No, wait, that's not it.

Oh yeah, I remember. It was about social media being mean to Tucker!

https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/fox-news-twitter-tucker-carlson-1203026225/

Fox News continued its Twitter boycott for a fourth day on Monday in an apparent attempt to protest how the social media platform handled tweets surrounding a recent rally against Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Both the network’s main Twitter account as well as the accounts of some of its hosts remained silent Monday. However, other hosts and show accounts continued to tweet.

Fox News last tweeted on Thursday, and a number of accounts associated with the network stopped tweeting Thursday or Friday as well. The company hasn’t released any official statement over its Twitter absence, and a spokesperson declined to comment.

Multiple outlets reported over the weekend that the Twitter break was to protest the social media company’s slow response to requests to delete tweets that contained Carlson’s home address. Twitter didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.

Protesters visited Carson’s home last Wednesday to voice their opposition to his opinion pieces on the network, which in recent weeks included anti-diversity screeds and commentary blaming the Democrats for the migrant caravan. Carlson later claimed that protesters had broken his front door and were threatening him and his family — something that has been disputed by observers and hasn’t been corroborated by a police report about the incident...

[dchill]

14. K&R.

[demmiblue]

16. Flashback regarding Hannity:

Sean Hannity Has Trump's Direct Phone Line And They Talk Multiple Times A Day: Report

President Donald Trump and Fox News host Sean Hannity have a much deeper connection than having taken legal advice from embattled lawyer Michael Cohen.

Hannity is one of only a few dozen family members and friends cleared to reach Trump at his direct White House telephone line via the switchboard operator, New York Magazine reported on Sunday. Hannity usually calls Trump after 10 p.m., after his show Hannity airs, and the two sometimes talk multiple times a day about developments as they come up.

White House officials know how frequently Hannity calls because Trump will say, "I just hung up with Hannity," talk to the TV host with others in the room or reference points from their chat later in the day, according to the magazine.

Trump often uses Hannity "to decompress" at night because he does not share a bedroom with his wife Melania Trump, a person familiar with the men told the magazine. The two men reportedly talked a few hours before Trump greeted three Americans who had been hostage in North Korea in their homecoming Thursday.

https://www.newsweek.com/sean-hannity-has-trumps-direct-phone-line-and-they-talk-multiple-times-day-924659

Sean Hannity: “That's not going to bode well for me” if my phone calls with Trump were recorded

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Again, there's nothing in the president's call, at all. He released it. There's like 60 people on the call -- wonder if that means any time I've talked to him, if he -- if it's being recorded. That's not going to bode well for me. Good grief.

LYNDA MCLAUGHLIN: I assume everything is being recorded.

HANNITY: Yeah, it's true.

MCLAUGHLIN: As a result, I say the most ridiculous things possible, so at least when the agents are listening, they have something really interesting to report.

HANNITY: Sometimes -- sometimes I've gotten so paranoid, you just start talking to them. "By the way, for those of you listening on the other end that shouldn't be listening, hello. Hope you're having -- hope you're having a good day."

https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-thats-not-going-bode-well-me-if-my-phone-calls-trump-were-recorded

[certainot]

66. hannity is incidentally mentioned in the mueller report but why redacted in glossary?

hannity is the name with brief description redacted in the mueller report glossary sitting between GRaf and HAWker

he was in the report a few times for incidental shit and should be there . this is not about cohen helping him with a woman problem or talking to trump. it's about other redacted parts of the report with nothing to do with affairs.

right after benghazi talk radio was used to sell the idea that clinton and obama ordered US embassy guards around the world not to carry live ammunition and hannity repeated it on radio at least. basically inviting attacks and too stupid to realize it. the national marine spokesman had to publically refute it. what rw think tank would think that one up?

talk radio is much more valuable and easier to use than fox. they can call limbaugh and hannity and other shows , get them to read emails, etc. like koch and GOP rw think tanks have been doing, and reach tens of millions.

corsi and stone and manafort are long time talk radio operators. hannity is a limbaugh buttboy. all this needs to be seen in the context of not just fox, but of the russians using talk radio going back at least to manafort being mcccain's campaign cochair and using limbaugh to force mccain to pick palin, who was being wooed by russian oil and gas.

then russians using limbaugh and hannity and wikileaks with a russian hack in 2009 to sell "climategate" to stop obama at copenhagen

russians using talk radio and fox to create the teabag 'resistance'

then debt default in 2011

etc all the way to trump

[demmiblue]

22. Note, Bannon seems to have a PARTICULARLY bad memory when it comes to Erik Prince.

Former Navy officer describes former Navy Seal walking around wherever he wanted on the "Loosey Goosey" 14th floor.

Note, Bannon seems to have a PARTICULARLY bad memory when it comes to Erik Prince.

Link to tweet

[sop]

27. Funny how the very thing Mueller was investigating then is why Trump is being impeached now

These goons were busy trying to cover up the Ukraine/Biden thing before the whistleblower ripped the lid off their sordid scheme, just like they were busy covering up the Putin/Hillary election rigging in 2016. Nancy was right when she told Trump, "with you all roads lead to Russia."

[BigmanPigman]

56. "All roads lead to PUTIN" is what she said.

Putin, Putin, Putin!!!

[patphil]

29. So the Justice Department thinks that something that took 2 years to compile

will take hundreds of years to disseminate.
Well shit, I was hoping to read it all.

Maybe my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandchildren will get to see the whole of it.

Patrick Phillips

[dewsgirl]

36. I said this earlier. We will be lucky if we get answers to half of

it in our lifetimes.

[G_j]

30. kick

[PatSeg]

35. K&R

[Historic NY]

38. How do you 'preserve a victory', when the votes weren't yet counted....

you already knew

[Beartracks]

60. The same way you "joke" about Russia finding emails. ...

... It was already past tense: it had already happened.

=========

[orangecrush]

39. Kick

[superpatriotman]

43. I just know the Mercer family is involved

And I hope they are scared.

[OKNancy]

46. Gates

Link to tweet

The RNC said they’d amplify the Wikileaks releases which they knew about ahead of time. Among other things.

-------------------

Link to tweet

[Bernardo de La Paz]

49. Reince, Gates and Hannity cc'ed. All in. . . . nt

[Mike Nelson]

50. Looks like a...

... "Vast right-wing conspiracy," to me.

[SweetieD]

52. Is it not beyond fucked up that Hannity was essentially part if Trump's campaign and yet

Was and still is doing a news show? Keith Olbermann got fired for way less.

[VOX]

54. Muller reviewed/knew about all this and still couldn't manage to give a more damning testimony?

This pisses me off again about Mueller. He either didn’t give a damn, or was a “good Republican.”

[Evolve Dammit]

57. Two years. Now the Dems have to scramble with all the untied threads to save democracy.

[C Moon]

63. We all knew he was a Republican. I guess he would only take it so far.

I had a feeling all the "It's Mueller Time!" bull shit would be empty.

[uponit7771]

68. +1, if your house is burning down you don't just become a functionary and call the FD when there

... is more to be done.

[Beartracks]

59. "I sent this to Reince and briefed Gates and Hannity" ?? n/t

[C Moon]

62. That's creepy as f%ck. Slimy, un-American, traitorous pieces of dog crap.

[UCmeNdc]

65. The real deal!

Donald Corruption Trump! Exposed!

[FakeNoose]

67. I sure hope they get that weasel Steve Bannon under oath

He knows way more than he has already blabbed to Michael Wolff and other journalists. He's been smart enough to keep under the radar, until now. Time to get him ON the radar, he knows where the bodies are buried so to speak.

[lostnfound]

69. Kick nt

[dchill]

70. K&R.