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Four things you need to know about Trumps secret server connection to russia
Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton 1h1 hour ago
It's time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia. http://slate.me/2dWggCd pic.twitter.com/07dRyEmPjX
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@HillaryClinton
With just 8 days left, this can’t wait. RT if you agree Trump should immediately disclose all of his ties and connections to Russia.
That is going to get noticed.
Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton 1h1 hour ago
It's time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia. http://slate.me/2dWggCd pic.twitter.com/07dRyEmPjX
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump
But a senior US government official not involved in this case but familiar with the former spy tells Mother Jones that he has been a credible source with a proven record of providing reliable, sensitive, and important information to the US government.
In June, the former Western intelligence officer—who spent almost two decades on Russian intelligence matters and who now works with a US firm that gathers information on Russia for corporate clients—was assigned the task of researching Trump's dealings in Russia and elsewhere, according to the former spy and his associates in this American firm.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html
The researchers had initially stumbled in their diagnosis because of the odd configuration of Trump’s server. “I’ve never seen a server set up like that,” says Christopher Davis, who runs the cybersecurity firm HYAS InfoSec Inc. and won a FBI Director Award for Excellence for his work tracking down the authors of one of the world’s nastiest botnet attacks. “It looked weird, and it didn’t pass the sniff test.” The server was first registered to Trump’s business in 2009 and was set up to run consumer marketing campaigns. It had a history of sending mass emails on behalf of Trump-branded properties and products. Researchers were ultimately convinced that the server indeed belonged to Trump. (Click here to see the server’s registration record.) But now this capacious server handled a strangely small load of traffic, such a small load that it would be hard for a company to justify the expense and trouble it would take to maintain it. “I get more mail in a day than the server handled,” Davis says.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donald-trump-campaign-lobbyist-russian-pipeline-229264
Richard Burt helped shape the candidate's first foreign-policy speech while lobbying on behalf of a Moscow-controlled gas company.
Hillary ClintonVerified account
@HillaryClinton
With just 8 days left, this can’t wait. RT if you agree Trump should immediately disclose all of his ties and connections to Russia.
That is going to get noticed.
Let me guess, offshore accounts for tax fraud?
As reported in the NYT, agents already looked into it and determined it was completely innocent. In other news, Hillary's e-mails remain "pertinent," even if they can't be expected to provide quick answers (including whether there were, y'know, any e-mails from or to HRC) until after the election. You know, they have to take their time to be thorough in that particular case…
