2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumReports: Trump's Ties To Russia Are Deep And Ongoing
There are two bombshell reports out today about Trump, the Trump Organization, and Trump's possible ties to Putin. They are all deeply disturbing.
From Mother Jones, a report that Trump may have been compromised by Russian intelligence as long as five years ago.
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But when he dug into Trump, he notes, he came across troubling information indicating connections between Trump and the Russian government. According to his sources, he says, "there was an established exchange of information between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin of mutual benefit."
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/10/reports-trumps-ties-russia-are-deep-and
So finally the Americans are seeing the light.....
hint: There is more there:
RKP5637
(67,106 posts)dalton99
(781 posts)If Trumps own words are anything to go by, not to mention the activities of some of his former advisers like Paul Manafort and Carter Page, Moscow may have made inroads in the United States (Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, once mooted to become Trumps vice-presidential candidate, remains an adviser; he has been a regular contributor to the Russian-funded news channel RT and was a paid guest at an RT gala where he was seated next to Putinodd behavior for a former Defense Intelligence Agency director with the highest security clearances). Never in its wildest dreams could the old Soviet politburo have imagined it would get a U.S. major party candidate so congenial to its interests. All it had to work with was poor, old Gus Hall, the Communist Party USAs perennial hapless candidate!
Compared to the Clinton emails or Trumps Access Hollywood scandal, this has been an underplayed story, given the grave implications of foreign intervention in an American election. While an FBI investigation into improperly managed emails has already significantly influenced the presidential election (with the Bureaus most recent lead growing from an investigation launched by revelations in a British tabloid article), the Department of Justice has been oddly passive, at least in public, in the face of substantial evidence of political subversion resulting from an adversarial foreign governments spending resources to affect that same election.
FBI director James Comey has been publicly inert over the astounding spectacle of a presidential candidate encouraging the Russian government to release the content of emails stolen from American servers, with that government subsequently complying. In contrast to Comeys unprecedented volubility over the Clinton emails (a case in which no one has been charged), the FBI has been unusually dilatory with timely information about potential Russian involvement in the election.
We are now witnessing a curious phenomenon: The resurgent far-right parties in numerous Western countries, which harp incessantly on the sovereignty, independence, and world-historical uniqueness of whichever country they happen to live in, have self-organized into a transnational alt-right comintern that appears to be more effective than the leftist comintern of the Soviet era. No doubt this development was inevitable in the age of digital communication, but it has undeniably received a boost from the Kremlin. It also bears emphasis not only that Russia is attempting to influence politics in Western nations, but that this influence comes prepackaged with a specific ideological content.
Rocknrule
(5,697 posts)Seriously, what happened to the "more-patriotic-than-thou" GOP? Now they can't wait to elect a guy whose head is so far up Putin's butt that he can tell what he had for lunch last week.
hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)Are these bombshells being covered on cable and network news today?
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