So Trump told Putin he could have Mariupol and the Donbas if Putin put him into the White House ....

[Botany]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217498446


.... using Manafort's help? It wasn't just polling data but data analytics (or what could be turned into D.A.) that Manafort
gave Kilimnik and Manafort has admitted to doing so too.
https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-manafort-exclusive-interview-trump-campaign-polling-data-russia-kilimnik-2022-8


And now remember that Manafort tried to flee America last spring but got stopped from getting on to
a plane to the UAE which has no extradition treaty with America. (I think)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/manafort-passport-revoked/index.html

And the republicans including McConnell (he was told by the Obama administration), Paul Ryan, Steve Scalise,
McCarthy all knew Trump was "Russian dirty," along w/all those GOP Senators who got Russian money via the NRA,
and somehow Fox News was player in that Russian mix too.

[Quakerfriend]

1. ....And, we are still waiting for the release of

the full Muller report.

[Botany]

2. And the full transcript and recording of Trump's call leaning on Zelenskyy to find dirt on Biden as

he was withholding military aid to Ukraine with their war with Putin in the Donbas.

[Quakerfriend]

6. Yes, many of the puzzle pieces have

fallen into place. And yet, the American public remains mostly unaware.

Imo, Bill Barr’s ‘cover up’ of the Muller report was one of the greatest crimes against this nation.

[Lucky Luciano]

13. And yet the Democratically controlled congress opted not to release it

This is why I have very little confidence that trump will ever get any serious consequences for anything.

We had two years as the party in power to release the full Muller report and didn’t. Therefore it was a nothing burger.

[lees1975]

19. Release the full report and bring charges for all the crimes Trump committed.

But he stood in the middle of Fifth Avenue and got away with all of that.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. Get that translator now! ! !

[OMGWTF]

9. THIS! THIS! THIS!

[Grasswire2]

42. We are told that a translator prepares a Mem Con (memo of conversation)..

...which is kept by the State Department..

It should exist, if Pompeo didn't burn it.

[Evolve Dammit]

43. Didn't Orange Julius confiscate the interpreters notes more than once? Direct conversations w/ Vlad

[triron]

12. I fear American public will never be allowed to see.

Shows too much corruption.

[cilla4progress]

41. Yep.

My suspicion as well. We are little children who must be coddled and can't be told the truth...

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. They have morphed into the Organized Crime Party.

It's all about stealing elections.

[Botany]

4. Yup and the Godfather of that crime ring is Vlad Putin

n/t

[OMGWTF]

10. Putin is the real Chairman of the Rethuglican Party.

[rubbersole]

15. They needed him to install a POTUS.

Somebody has to make the autocracy work.

[Rebl2]

17. Yes that

is what they should change the name of their party to. I remember hearing years before tfg was in office that he was part of organized crime. What I didn’t realize is it was Russian OC.

[Takket]

5. this excerpt.......

"Manafort told Insider the purpose of sending the polling data to Kilimnik was not to help elect Trump by aiding the Russians in their attempts to undermine the election but rather to lay the groundwork for future business deals. "It was meant to show how Clinton was vulnerable," he said. By his account, he was trying to use his influence with the future US president to extract money from pro-Russia oligarchs."

That's a hell of a claim. LOL "Oh, I didn't commit crime A. I committed crime B!"

[Walleye]

14. And he is a convicted liar

[Tetrachloride]

8. One might think that Trump's top enemy is

some unknown Ukrainian family.

[roamer65]

11. Nixon cost us 4 more years in Vietnam, Reagan cost the hostages months longer in Iran.

I would not be surprised one bit if Trump made a dirty deal like this.

Repukes are treasonous scumbags.

[OAITW r.2.0]

18. Republicanism has killed this country

the truth.

[burrowowl]

25. And Barr got

Nixon and Bush I off of being tried as war criminals for the Iran Contra mission in which 200,000 to 250, Guatemalan indigenous people were killed. Barr is a fucking criminal.

[FakeNoose]

44. Wasn't it Reagan and Bush 1?

But yeah, I see your point. Bill Barr was just as corrupt working for Reagan as he later became working for Chump.

Lock them ALL up!

[burrowowl]

51. You are right oops

[James48]

16. Whoa!

Say what?

[certainot]

20. rick gates/manafort used limbaugh to push palin on mccain. and in 2014 sam nunberg "listened to 1000

1000's of hours of talk radio for trump". but while MSNBC had nunberg on many times to talk about trump i doubt he ever got asked if he was listening to rw radio in those critical swing states and if the notes he thought were going to trump might have been going to the kremlin. .

media and dems still have no fucking clue the russians did all this with RW radio

[Joinfortmill]

21. Sickening, but we shouldn't be surprised. There is no bottom for Trump.

[emulatorloo]

22. K&R Thanks for putting this together.

[SunSeeker]

23. K & R for exposure.

[calimary]

24. Bastard! Fraternizing with the enemy for his own personal benefit.

WHY CAN'T WE THROW HIS ASS IN JAIL???

Yeah, rights. I know. But if anyone's forfeited their rights, it's the Rotten-Orange Russian Sympathizer. He saw it as just making another fucking deal.

[orleans]

26. just wanted to show you this tweet

Link to tweet

[mopinko]

27. imho, putler was just 1 of the oligarchs who put him on the throne.

murdoch, the mercers, koch, a few saudis. they all chipped in on this.
i wonder who else.

[Botany]

28. But Putin had the infrastructure, the intel and I.T. people, and he had been working Trump as ...

... an asset since the late 80s to early the 90s and he convinced Trump to run in 2013 however Murdoch,
the Mercers, Zuckerberg & Facebook,the Kochs, the Saudis, and quite a few of the Republican leadership*
was well aware of just how "Russian dirty" Trump was in 2015 & 2016.*

* Paul Ryan Keeps It All in the Family
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy said, according to Entous, a superb reporter who heard a tape recording of the colloquy. “Swear to God.”

Dana Rohrabacher is a Republican from California with a peculiar amalgam of views: pro-marijuana, dubious about climate change, pro-torture. For this last position, in 2007, Keith Olbermann awarded him his periodic “Worst Person in the World” award, on his old MSNBC show. Like Trump, Rohrabacher has been highly solicitous of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Last year, Politico ran an article on Rohrabacher called “Putin’s Favorite Congressman.”

In the Post piece, McCarthy’s remark is met with laughter, and Ryan cautions his colleagues, “This is an off the record . . . No leaks! . . . All right?”

And then, amid more laughter, Ryan says, “This is how we know we’re a real family here.”

[mopinko]

29. yup, tho it's the mercers who fed them the data they needed.

cambridge analytica doesnt get nearly enough attention in all this.

[Botany]

30. And who worked @ Cambridge Analytica? Steve Bannon.

"They" all knew that Facebook was posting bullshit stories about Hillary Clinton they came from
St. Petersburg or Russian cut outs such as Croatia and that C.A. was tracking people through their
keystrokes and then making sure those people got their "news" about HRC from Facebook.


********
Bannon wanted to use the sorts of aggressive messaging tactics usually reserved for geopolitical conflicts to move the US electorate further to the right, Wylie said. He had already directed a series of anti-establishment, conservative documentary films and presided over the far-right website Breitbart News, but Cambridge Analytica would mark another step in his overall ambitions to transform the nation.

With financial backing from hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, Bannon co-founded Cambridge Analytica in 2013 as the US-branch of Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) Group, a British company that advertises how it has conducted “behavioral change” programs in more than 60 countries.

Wylie described Cambridge Analytica as “Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer using a foreign, military contractor … to use some of the same techniques that the military uses … on the American electorate.”

Bannon and Cambridge Analytica did not respond to requests for comment to this story.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/30/politics/bannon-cambridge-analytica/index.html

[mopinko]

31. manafort, bannon, stone

if you gave me a choice btn those 3 and tfg to spend the rest of their lives in jail….

[triron]

34. Cambridge Analytical helped enable the Russian sabotage

Of the 2016 election. Recall they were able to access vote registration databases. What mischief they did we will never know.

[Botany]

36. And Bannon tested out using C.A. and disinformation in Brexit in 2016 prior to the US elections

For two years, observers have speculated that the June, 2016, Brexit campaign in the U.K. served as a petri dish for Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign in the United States. Now there is new evidence that it did. Newly surfaced e-mails show that the former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, and Cambridge Analytica, the Big Data company that he worked for at the time, were simultaneously incubating both nationalist political movements in 2015.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/new-evidence-emerges-of-steve-bannon-and-cambridge-analyticas-role-in-brexit

And it was not only Bannon but some of the exact same Russians worked on both Brexit and the 2016 Trump Campaign.

[triron]

50. Do you believe C.A.s operations were limited ro changing public perceptions?

I don't. I knew Robert Mercer in hs and undergrad school. He was a mathematics/physics genius. Bet there was covert corruption in the election machinery.

[BumRushDaShow]

37. "i wonder who else."

Don't forget this guy because he is still around even though he isn't mentioned much if at all in the news anymore -

[mopinko]

38. yeah, good point.

he’s who you bribed for that evangelical vote.

[BumRushDaShow]

39. I expect he was the one who spearheaded

that $1.7 trillion tax cuts for the rich that Turtle rammed through the very first year of the administration in 2017.

[Irish_Dem]

40. Probably China too.

[niyad]

32. KNR and bookmarking. For later. I am going to need alcohol for this.

[cab67]

33. standard trump con

promising people things he either can't or won't deliver.

[bluestarone]

35. America has to regroup!! Somehow get rid of all this NAZISM!

Also after learning this BULLSHIT, go after Jarred and IVANKA for the 2 BILLION traitor money! NOW!

[honest.abe]

45. This actually makes more sense than the claims Trump is simply a Russian agent.

Trump’s focus is whatever benefits Trump regardless of anything else.

[Malmsy]

46. Tad Devine worked with Manafort to help elect strongman Viktor Yanukovych president of Ukraine.

Maybe the investigation needs to be expanded.

[yaesu]

47. A very widespread operation by the gop working as a foreign agent

Doing the bidding of our foreign enemies, and our justice system seems to be asleep at the wheel.

[myohmy2]

48. +1...

...

[Blue Owl]

49. Red Don and his clan of grifters are no Americans