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Botany's Journal2/27/17 Business Insider Trump's saying 'enemy of the people'-but the phrase has a very ugly history
https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-president-trumps-phrase-an-enemy-of-the-people-2017-2Over the last two weeks, President Donald Trump has repeatedly referred to media outlets that he dubbed the "fake news media" as " the enemy of the American People ."
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Though the phrase dates back to Roman times and the reign of Emperor Nero (who was declared "an enemy of the people " by the Roman Senate), it came into use in the modern period during the French Revolution. Ennemi du peuple was used to refer to those who disagreed with the new French government during the "Reign of Terror," a period during which thousands of revolutionairies were executed by guillotine.
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It gained its widest use by Joseph Stalin during the early years of the Soviet Union. In the nation's early years, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin used the term vrag naroda (enemy of the nation/people) to refer to those who disagreed with the ideologies pushed forth by the Bolshevik government and, later, adopted by the newly-formed Soviet Union. This could include anyone from the clergy who did not want to adopt state-enforced atheism to writers to political opposition that questioned the ideologies of the new government. Later picked up by Stalin, such a designation could mean immediate imprisonment or removal to a labour camp.
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"The formula 'enemy of the people was specifically introduced for the purpose of physically annihilating such individuals," Khrushchev said in a 1956 speech to the Soviet Communist Party .
Rudy G., "they don't have a goddamn thing"
'cept for
Michael Flynn
George Nader
Rick Gates
Michael Cohen
George Papadopoulus
Trump's tweets
US Intel
Foreign Intel*
Electronic connections between Trump and Russia
bank records
tax returns
the FBI
82 proven contacts between Team Trump and Russia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-evidence-doesnt-prove-collusion-but-it-sure-suggests-it/2018/07/25/1c3ebba0-902e-11e8-b769-e3fff17f0689_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4f49d115f78c
* https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dutch-intelligence-us-fbi-russian-hacking-cozy-bear-democratic-national-committee/
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There is No Collusion! The Robert Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt, headed now by 17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House lawyer) Angry Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC. Therefore, the Witch Hunt is an illegal Scam!
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...and the Amazon Washington Post do nothing but write bad stories even on very positive achievements - and they will never change!
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...dying newspaper industry. No matter how much they try to distract and cover it up, our country is making great progress under my leadership and I will never stop fighting for the American people! As an example, the failing New York Times...
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...accurately. 90% of media coverage of my Administration is negative, despite the tremendously positive results we are achieving, its no surprise that confidence in the media is at an all time low! I will not allow our great country to be sold out by anti-Trump haters in the...
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When the media - driven insane by their Trump Derangement Syndrome - reveals internal deliberations of our government, it truly puts the lives of many, not just journalists, at risk! Very unpatriotic! Freedom of the press also comes with a responsibility to report the news...
So it all comes down to this:
That more than 100,000 Russian sponsored cyber attacks on our elections did not
effect the elections or the outcomes of the elections too.
Montana
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142120655
South Carolina
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/342274-nearly-150000-attempts-to-hack-south-carolina-voter-registration-system
39 states
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/russian-breach-of-39-states-threatens-future-u-s-elections
Wisconsin
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2017/01/23/russians-suspected-hacking-local-dems/96965824/
Washington Post (Max Boot) Trump would not have won without Russian help
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/without-the-russians-trump-wouldnt-have-won/2018/07/24/f4c87894-8f6b-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html?utm_term=.7b3042621cdd
11 House Republicans introduce articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstei
Source: ABC
House Republican members of the conservative Freedom Caucus introduced articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday -- the latest salvo in an ongoing back-and-forth between some in the GOP over the Justice Department's handling of the Russia probe.
The 11 lawmakers accuse the Department of Justice of "intentionally withholding embarrassing documents and information," and allege the agency hid investigative information from Congress, abused the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act and failed to comply with subpoenas, according to a statement.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan has not signed on to the measure nor has he publicly commented on the effort. It's unclear if there will be a vote on the articles and lawmakers are due to leave soon for a multi-day recess.
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Last month, Rosenstein and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, had a particularly heated exchange as the lawmaker and others grilled the deputy attorney general during a hearing about the FBI and Justice Department's handling of the Hillary Clinton email and Trump-Russia investigations.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/11-house-republicans-introduce-articles-impeachment-deputy-attorney/story?id=56827083
Freedom Caucus = Freedom to let Russia Rig our elections w/Russian help
Max Boot/Washington Post: The evidence doesn't prove collusion. But it sure suggests it.
The evidence doesn't prove collusion. But it sure suggests it. 82 know contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-evidence-doesnt-prove-collusion-but-it-sure-suggests-it/2018/07/25/1c3ebba0-902e-11e8-b769-e3fff17f0689_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.36e66085d4cc
President Trumps mantra is no collusion, something he says as if sheer, mind-numbing repetition can make it true. The president is faithfully echoed by the likes of House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), who insists theres no evidence of collusion. In reality, while there is not yet proof of collusion (thats special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs job), there is copious evidence of it and that evidence grows more damning by the day.
In Helsinki, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted he wanted Trump to win something Trump continues to deny to this day. Putin was more than a well-wisher from afar: His intelligence services ran an extensive operation designed to help Trump, including social media propaganda and hacks of Democratic emails. As I argued earlier, there is strong reason to believe that Trump wouldnt be president without Russian help.
While this was going on, the Moscow Project of the Center for American Progress reports, there were 82 known contacts between the Trump team and Russia-linked operatives. None of these contacts were ever reported to the proper authorities, according to the project. Team Trump tried to conceal all of them.
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Yet more indications of possible collusion emerged from this weekends release of the FBIs 412-page application to wiretap former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page as a suspected Russian agent. The application, approved by four Republican judges, notes that the FBI believes that the Russian Governments efforts are being coordinated with Page and perhaps other individuals associated with Candidate #1s [Trumps] campaign. It also says that Putin aide Igor Diveykin had met secretly with Page and that their agenda for the meeting included Diveykin raising a dossier or kompromat that the Kremlin possessed on Candidate #2 [Clinton] and the possibility of it being released to Candidate #1s campaign. (Page admits to being an informal adviser to the Kremlin but denies serving as a Russian agent. He also denies meeting Diveykin but admits to meeting deputy prime minister Arkady Dvorkovich.)
Max Boot's article Without the Russians, Trump wouldnt have won
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/without-the-russians-trump-wouldnt-have-won/2018/07/24/f4c87894-8f6b-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html?utm_term=.f42cce2da897
Opinions: Without the Russians, Trump wouldn't have won please read and pass this on
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016211803#post4The chairman of Donald Trump's campaign is going to trial* for "Crimes against the United States"
* I am not sure which one of Manafort's trials in which that charge is gonna be brought up.
But the Attorney General laughs and joins in a "lock her up chant" about Hillary Clinton who
hasn't been found guilty of anything.
Please help with this list of links between Trump and Russia
Happy witch hunting
1) Changed the RNC platform to make it more pro Russia
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/04/568310790/2016-rnc-delegate-trump-directed-change-to-party-platform-on-ukraine-support
2) The June 2016 Trump Tower meeting
https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/politics/donald-trump-jr-meeting/index.html
3)https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1021062976961490945
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/russian-billionaire-with-us-investments-backed-alleged-agent-maria-butina-according-to-a-person-familiar-with-her-senate-testimony/2018/07/22/dcaa7f48-8c58-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b663d3008827
Morning Tweet storm: Trump feels the walls closing in on him as he watches Fox and Friends
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When you hear the Fake News talking negatively about my meeting with President Putin, and all that I gave up, remember, I gave up NOTHING, we merely talked about future benefits for both countries. Also, we got along very well, which is a good thing, except for the Corrupt Media!
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.....Carter Page wasnt a spy, wasnt an agent of the Russians - he would have cooperated with the FBI. It was a fraud and a hoax designed to target Trump. Tom Fitton @JudicialWatch A disgrace to America. They should drop the discredited Mueller Witch Hunt now!
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....and the DOJ, FBI and Obama Gang need to be held to account. Source #1 was the major source. Avoided talking about it being the Clinton campaign behind it. Misled the Court to provide a pretext to SPY on the Trump Team. Not about Carter Page..was all about getting Trump.....
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It was classified to cover up misconduct by the FBI and the Justice Department in misleading the Court by using this Dossier in a dishonest way to gain a warrant to target the Trump Team. This is a Clinton Campaign document. It was a fraud and a hoax designed to target Trump....
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So we now find out that it was indeed the unverified and Fake Dirty Dossier, that was paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the DNC, that was knowingly & falsely submitted to FISA and which was responsible for starting the totally conflicted and discredited Mueller Witch Hunt!
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