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dajoki

(10,678 posts)
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 10:59 AM Sep 2020

entanglement went much deeper than negotiating a high-rise tower in Moscow

FBI is sitting on classified information that could destroy Trump: Ex-agent Peter Strzok
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/fbi-is-sitting-on-classified-information-that-could-destroy-trump-ex-agent-peter-strzok/

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok says he could have destroyed President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, but he was not willing to violate his oath by revealing classified intelligence.

Strzok — who has become a favorite target of the president and his Republican allies — told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he could have destroyed Trump’s campaign with classified information the administration was still hiding from the public.

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Strzok said the FBI knew Trump was lying in 2016 when he denied having financial interests in Russia, but he said the president’s entanglement went much deeper than negotiating a high-rise tower in Moscow.

“If you look at the scope of his businesses relationship to Russia, going back decades,” Strzok said. “If you look at the statement by one of his sons about the disproportionate amount of Russian holdings that represented the Trump financial assets, all of these things speak to an ability of Russian interests, of illicit interests, to hold him under their sway and get him to do things that, frankly, we can’t explain.”

“Why isn’t he speaking out against Russia placing the bounties on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan?” he added. “Why isn’t he pushing back against, as you mentioned, the attempted assassination of [Alexei] Navalny? Why is he talking about withdrawing from NATO, from withdrawing 11,000 troops from Germany? The list goes on and on and on. None of these things are in America’s interest, most, if not all, are in Russia’s. It begs the question, why is he doing this? My answer, what I believe is, because there is leverage Russia holds over him that is causing him to act in his rather than America’s national security interest.

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entanglement went much deeper than negotiating a high-rise tower in Moscow (Original Post) dajoki Sep 2020 OP
Just think... karin_sj Sep 2020 #1
I completely agree with you dajoki Sep 2020 #2
There is a name for this: TREASON BComplex Sep 2020 #3
If EVERYONE is afraid to violate their oath or promise re: his criminality... Grasswire2 Sep 2020 #4

karin_sj

(808 posts)
1. Just think...
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 11:05 AM
Sep 2020

Think of all the lives he might have saved, all the environmental and economic devastation, the damage to our relationships over the world, etc., etc., etc., by revealing what he knew when he knew it. Sometimes the end does justify the means.

"Former FBI agent Peter Strzok says he could have destroyed President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, but he was not willing to violate his oath by revealing classified intelligence."

BComplex

(8,046 posts)
3. There is a name for this: TREASON
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 11:12 AM
Sep 2020

If the United States government refuses to call treason on its president, then the bedrock of this country is all wind.

Grasswire2

(13,568 posts)
4. If EVERYONE is afraid to violate their oath or promise re: his criminality...
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 11:50 AM
Sep 2020

...then the world will never be free of his perfidy.

And that's what he banks on.

IT IS A MOB CHARACTERISTIC.

Step back and look.

It is all MOBBERY

"If you squeal on me, you punk, I'll (hurt your family, kill you, reveal your secrets, break your legs, kill your dog...}"

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