Classified reports have ‘damning evidence’ of Trump campaign’s coordination with Russ

[KingOrfeo]

If the President simply cannot DO what Democrats grabbing for the smelling salts are apparently afraid he is trying to do, then why be fearful of the man's impotency?

Because he is impotent mentally, but still has all the powers of a president, and a lifetime of experience in getting his way.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Because he is impotent mentally, but still has all the powers of a president, and a lifetime of experience in getting his way.

NO!! PAY THE FUCK ATTENTION!

The answers to those five questions in the linked article make it ABUNDANTLY CLEAR that NO President has the "power", despite a "lifetime of experience in getting his way," of snapping his fingers and making a year-long FBI investigation and all the catalogued evidence associated with it simply disappear.

Stop feeding yourself this bullshit. It only makes yours, Schumer's and Durbin's breath foul-smelling.

 

[KingOrfeo]

NO!! PAY THE FUCK ATTENTION!

The answers to those five questions in the linked article make it ABUNDANTLY CLEAR that NO President has the "power", despite a "lifetime of experience in getting his way," of snapping his fingers and making a year-long FBI investigation and all the catalogued evidence associated with it simply disappear.

I know. But Trump doesn't understand that, he seems to have assumed the whole Executive Branch would simply be his to command; and the more he pushes up against it and gets nowhere, the more angry and frustrated he will grow; and when he is angry and frustrated he is capable of lashing out unpredictably, and there are all kinds of things he can do. That is a dangerous situation. The investigation will not stop; but we may soon find that the possibility it will is the least of our Trump-related problems and the world's.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Donald Trump's Financial Ties To Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from The Netherlands

Donald Trump's business partners have included Russian oligarchs and convicted mobsters, which could make the president guilty of criminal racketeering charges.

That's only one of the eyebrow-raising takeaways from a 45-minute Dutch documentary that first aired last week, "The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump, Part 1: The Russians." Produced by Zembla, the first installment in its investigative reporting series did what no American TV network has yet dared to do--take a deep look at the organized crime links and corrupt international business strategies used by Trump and his partners in his properties.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I know. But Trump doesn't understand that, he seems to have assumed the whole Executive Branch would simply be his to command; and the more he pushes up against it and gets nowhere, the more angry and frustrated he will grow; and when he is angry and frustrated he is capable of lashing out unpredictably, and there are all kinds of things he can do. That is a dangerous situation. The investigation will not stop; but we may soon find that the possibility it will is the least of our Trump-related problems and the world's.

THIS is the Ying and Yang of it. If Trump should have learned anything in the first 100 days it is that there is a whole shitload of stuff that EVEN the President CAN'T DO.

AND HE IS GOING TO LEARN that all the "kinds of things" he can and wants to do WILL MULTIPLY IN NUMBER IF he controls his anger and frustration...

OR....

He is going to be one miserable son-of-a-bitch for the next four years; and a miserable SOB who suffers less and less of his formerly charmed "lifetime of experience in getting his way."

Now, you are certainly free to adopt the foolish paranoia of some and believe that in the face of such denial Donald Trump would go all-out-bonkers and launch America's nuclear arsenal in the ultimate "FUCK YOU!" scenario.

Me, I have faith in the underlying greed and self-preservation of a man currently estimated at being worth $3.5 billion.

I think he'd choose instead to either grab the closest blonde pussy or go play golf. Probably both.

 

[water505]

Once again the narrative falls to pieces while the leftists cling to it like floating wreckage of a sunken ship.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Once again the narrative falls to pieces while the leftists cling to it like floating wreckage of a sunken ship.

The Russia investigation is no sunken ship. It will be going on next month and the month after that. It might not bring down Trump, it might never even personally implicate him, but his team is going to find it troublesome.

 

[Rightguide]

The Russia investigation is no sunken ship. It will be going on next month and the month after that. It might not bring down Trump, it might never even personally implicate him, but his team is going to find it troublesome.

Yes, because they are conveniently "classified," right?

 

[KingOrfeo]

Yes, because they are conveniently "classified," right?

Inconveniently. Those reports require immediate declassification. You agree, do you not?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It seems like reality is now starting to raise its ugly head and we are getting the confession, we don't care if it "gets" him, we just want to harass him...

 

[Rightguide]

Inconveniently. Those reports require immediate declassification. You agree, do you not?

I don't think they exist or they would already have been leaked.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I don't think they exist or they would already have been leaked.

By the FBI? Not likely.

 

[BotanyBoy]

All sane people understand that interfering in a campaign is interfering in an election.

No, just the desperately (D) partisans.

Until someone pant's them, and watch the tables (including you) do a full 180.

Clinton being a scum bag, fucking up repeatedly and running a shit campaign to top it off is not Russia interfering in an election.

 

[KingOrfeo]

No, just the desperately (D) partisans.

Wrong as usual.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Wrong as usual.

Oh look who got cornered into "NUH UHHH!!" again with fuck all to support it.


Want to tell us how being told how to make a living and then bing charged 80+% for the privilege = libertarian style freedom and capitalism yet??

Ever come up with a privilege white people get just for being white???


Yea.....didn't think so

I bet you'll explain how a shit (D) campaign = Russia interfering with our election just as soon as you explain that other insane bullshit.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

All sane people understand that interfering in a campaign is interfering in an election.

You know, it is worth a reminder once in awhile that the only "interfering" in the election that the Russians actually accomplished was publicizing embarrassing internal conversations that the Democrats had regarding their efforts to covertly sabotage the campaign of Bernie Sanders.

It's not as if the Ruskies made that shit up. The only "interfering" they had to do was to stay out of the way of the Democrats' true character indicting itself.

If the shoe had been on the other foot and Russia had done that to Republicans, you guys would be praising Putin as a "whistleblower."

 

[KingOrfeo]

It's not as if the Ruskies made that shit up.

There was also a lot of shit they did make up.

Clint Watts, Foreign Policy Research Institute fellow and senior fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University, and Andrew Weisburd reported for The Daily Beast in August 2016 that Russian propaganda fabricated articles were popularized by social media.[38] The authors wrote that disinformation spread from government-controlled outlets, RT and Sputnik to pro-Russian accounts on Twitter.[38] Citing research by Adrian Chen, they compared Russian tactics during the 2016 U.S. election to Soviet Union Cold War strategies.[38] They referenced the 1992 United States Information Agency report to the U.S. Congress, which warned about Russian propaganda called active measures.[38] They wrote active measures were made easier with social media.[38] Institute of International Relations Prague senior fellow and scholar on Russian intelligence, Mark Galeotti, agreed the Kremlin operations were a form of active measures.[39] The Guardian wrote in November 2016 the most strident Internet promoters of Trump were paid Russian propagandists, estimating several thousand trolls involved.[40]
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Facebook could not identify the parties but it believes that malicious actors were marginally involved in false amplification of election stories. In April 2017, it said its findings do not contradict the ODNI report of January 2017.[41]

In a follow-up article, together with colleague J. M. Berger, Weisburd and Watts said they had monitored 7,000 pro-Trump social media accounts over a two-and-a-half year period,[42] and found that such accounts denigrated critics of Russian activities in Syria and propagated falsehoods about Clinton's health.[43] Watts said the propaganda targeted the alt-right movement, the right wing, and fascist groups.[44]

The Washington Post echoed Watts' findings that Russian propaganda exacerbated criticism of Clinton and support for Trump, via social media, Internet trolls, botnets, and websites denigrating Clinton.[45] Watts stated that Russia's goal was to "erode faith in the U.S. government".[45] The Post cited similarity with online propaganda methods previously researched by the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and the RAND Corporation.[45]

 

[KingOrfeo]

Donald Trump's Financial Ties To Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from The Netherlands

And more:

There are also several federal and state grand jury investigations underway, it was revealed Wednesday, first reported by two bloggers—Claude Taylor with ties to the Democratic Party and Louise Mensch with ties to right-wing sites. What these panels are specifically looking at is not known, although foreign surveillance search warrants reportedly have been issued. The presumption is they are tracing the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia to win the presidency.

<snip>

As the details around all these developments swirl—including claims by Republicans there is nothing to all of this—a tantalizing observation is emerging from investigative reporters who have been following Trump’s organized crime ties for months. What if the FBI investigation was heading into Trump’s mobster-connected business empire, including his partnerships with Russian oligarchs, where the president has broken racketeering, money-laundering and organized crime laws? This is the FBI’s expertise, not the murkier and harder-to-prove charge of Russian campaign collusion.

“There’s one camp that says there’s nothing to this. Which I think is garbage. There’s another camp that Trump was a mole, is a puppet, it’s all about collusion with respect to last year’s election. And I say the jury is out on that,” said James Henry, a corporate lawyer-turned-financial investigative reporter for DCReport.org, where his investigations have linked Trump and his team to Russian mobsters. “Let’s see the FBI investigation. Until we know what it is, the inside details on the FISA warrants or whatever they have, we won’t know.”

Then there is a third camp, Henry said, which holds that the FBI was probing Trump’s business ties with Russian organized crime.

“There’s a third camp, which is stuff I have been working on, is the organized crime," he said. "This guy’s a mobster. He has all these dodgy business partners. He knew or should have known that they were involved in organized crime, money-laundering, racketeering. That’s pretty hard to deny. We see the people he’s been in business with. We see the deals over and over again. It’s in plain sight. That’s the theory I’ve been working on… You could make a case on good old-fashioned criminal law if you had a prosecutor.”

If you had a prosecutor—stop right there. What if what Trump's trying to hide is more about protecting his fortune than seeking Russian help to win the presidency? Firing Comey, the nation’s top cop, and having the Senate Republican leader say there would be no independent investigator dampens the prospect. It is true that Comey will testify in the Senate next week and its Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed documents from Michael Flynn, Trump’s ex-national security adviser (who was fired for lying about talking to Russian diplomats about U.S. sanctions before Trump was inaugurated). But congressional investigations don’t end up in court like FBI investigations do.

But Trump is in court, where his fortune is on the line—and not just for stiffing contractors. His business partners have been sued by a private attorney, Fred Oberlander, on behalf of the public for tax evasion tied to a New York City high-rise in SoHo, where Trump’s co-owners include a Russian mobster and known oligarchs. The New York attorney general did not join this suit, but has empaneled a grand jury, whose focus is secret but is likely to involve the state’s financial laws.

There’s some evidence to suggest that Comey was pointed in this direction—toward Trump’s criminal activities—as the Russia campaign collusion investigation widened. When Comey testified in Congress in recent weeks, the best Democrats could do was ask if the FBI was investigating specific figures in Trump’s campaign and business deals. They were giving him dots to connect. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-CA, asked Comey if he knew of Russian mobster Felix Sater's relationships to Trump. A higher-profile mention was Rudy Giuliani, who had one foot in Trump’s campaign and another in his Russian-connected deals.

This raises an interesting constitutional question: Can a president be impeached for things he did before he was president?

Presumably he can, or what was the point of the Whitewater investigation?

 

[KingOrfeo]

More Americans want ‘independent’ investigation of Trump.

A majority of Americans, including a growing number of Republicans, want to see an “independent investigation” sort out any connections between Russia and President Donald Trump during the 2016 election campaign, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday.

The May 10-14 poll, which was conducted after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, suggests the public is increasingly uneasy with allegations of meddling by the Russians in the U.S. election. Trump’s dismissal of Comey, who was leading the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s probe into ties between the White House and Russia, intensified calls by Democrats for an independent probe.

ccording to the poll, 59 percent of adults, including 41 percent of Republicans and 79 percent of Democrats, agreed that “Congress should launch an independent investigation into communications between the Russian government and the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.”

That compares with 54 percent of all adults, including 30 percent of Republicans and 81 percent of Democrats, who felt that way when the poll last asked the question in February.

“I really don’t know what to believe anymore,” said John Kremer, 74, a Trump supporter from Birmingham, Alabama, who wants an independent investigation. Kremer does not think Trump had any illegal contact with the Russians, but he does not like the way the president is handling he issue.
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“If Comey hadn’t been fired, I would have been comfortable with the results of their investigation,” Kremer said. “My concern now is whether he (Trump) is trying to minimize the investigation.”

The Reuters/Ipsos poll also found that public confidence in the executive branch and in Congress has eroded since the Nov. 8 election. Thirty-six percent of Americans said they had “hardly any confidence at all” in the executive branch and 43 percent said they felt that way about Congress. That is up from 30 percent and 37 percent, respectively, who answered that way in a November poll.

 

[Hard_Rom]

You Yanks just love a conspiracy theory! Men in black, alien invasions, foreign spies. Amazed most of you don't line your baseball caps with tinfoil. Or... maybe you do.

 

[KingOrfeo]

And the investigation works its way up the ladder.

The law enforcement investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign has identified a current White House official as a significant person of interest, showing that the probe is reaching into the highest levels of government, according to people familiar with the matter.

The senior White House adviser under scrutiny by investigators is someone close to the president, according to these people, who would not further identify the official.

The revelation comes as the investigation appears to be entering a more overtly active phase, with investigators shifting from work that has remained largely hidden from the public to conducting interviews and using a grand jury to issue subpoenas. The intensity of the probe is expected to accelerate in the coming weeks, the people said.

The sources emphasized that investigators remain keenly interested in people who previously wielded influence in the Trump campaign and administration but are no longer part of it, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

An "adviser," therefore not Trump himself . . . Bannon? Priebus? Kushner? Place your bets now!

 

[dicknjane]

I know. But Trump doesn't understand that, he seems to have assumed the whole Executive Branch would simply be his to command; and the more he pushes up against it and gets nowhere, the more angry and frustrated he will grow; and when he is angry and frustrated he is capable of lashing out unpredictably, and there are all kinds of things he can do. That is a dangerous situation. The investigation will not stop; but we may soon find that the possibility it will is the least of our Trump-related problems and the world's.

You obviously don't understand how retarded this statement is.

Who the fuck do you think is in charge of the executive branch of the government fuck wit?

 

[KingOrfeo]

You obviously don't understand how retarded this statement is.

Who the fuck do you think is in charge of the executive branch of the government fuck wit?

No one is in charge of it the way Trump was in charge of his businesses. Every department, agency and bureau has its own goals and mission statement set forth in the legislation that created it, and there are many limits on the president's power to meddle.

 

[BotanyBoy]

No one is in charge of it the way Trump was in charge of his businesses. Every department, agency and bureau has its own goals and mission statement set forth in the legislation that created it, and there are many limits on the president's power to meddle.

LOL

Anything to never be wrong even when it forces you to bold face lie about it all hua KO?

Socialism = freedom and capitalism too!!! Because....KO reasons.

 

[Rightguide]

No one is in charge of it the way Trump was in charge of his businesses. Every department, agency and bureau has its own goals and mission statement set forth in the legislation that created it, and there are many limits on the president's power to meddle.

No one on Lit is more uninformed, more ignorant of reality, more jam-packed full of shit, than you are KO. Good Lord, what an ignorant ass.