Comrade Trump

[frank ryan]

So a lot has happened lately. Trump has essentially shoved all of Putin's requisition down Ukraine's throat.

Now there are leaks concerning plans to pressure 4 countries (Poland, Hungary, Austria, and Italy) to leave the EU.

https://www.the-independent.com/news...-b2882684.html

I haven't doubted it for a long time but Trump is absolutely on Putin's leash. Now we are at the point where no one who doesn't care will.

[Uncle Ted]

The long awaited Durham report is out... I am surprised you Dems are not all over this, especially given this was published in WaPo:

Durham report sharply criticizes FBI’s 2016 Trump campaign probe
Special counsel says “extremely troublesome” failures appear to stem from bias that kept agents from carefully examining evidence

Special counsel John Durham has issued a long-awaited report that sharply criticizes the FBI for investigating the 2016 Trump campaign based on “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence” — a conclusion that may fuel rather than end partisan debate about politicization within the Justice Department and FBI.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-trump-report/


Wait... I thought this was going to put Drumpf in jail once and for all. Instead it just makes the FBI look like a bunch of dumbasses? But they actually are a bunch of dumbasses so there is no need for them to act like dumbasses.

Durham goes further in his criticism, however, arguing that the FBI rushed to investigate Trump in a case known as Crossfire Hurricane, even as it proceeded cautiously on allegations related to then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. In particular, the report notes that while the FBI warned Clinton’s team when agents learned of possible evidence by a foreign actor to garner influence with her, agents did not give a similar defensive briefing to the Trump campaign before quickly launching an investigation.

The FBI’s handling of key aspects of the case was “seriously deficient,” Durham wrote, causing the agency “severe reputational harm.” That failure could have been prevented if FBI employees hadn’t embraced “seriously flawed information” and instead followed their “own principles regarding objectivity and integrity,” the report said.

As examples of confirmation bias by the FBI, Durham cites: the FBI decision to go forward with the probe despite “a complete lack of information from the Intelligence Community that corroborated the hypothesis upon which the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was predicated”; agents ignoring information that exonerated key suspects in the case; and the FBI being unable to corroborate “a single substantive allegation” in a dossier of Trump allegations compiled by British former spy Christopher Steele.

Not only is the FBI just a bunch of dumbasses... they are democrats. Ok, that makes sense. Democrats and dumbasses go hand-in-hand.

It ended with a short recommendation for the FBI: Create a position for an FBI agent or lawyer to provide oversight of politically sensitive investigations. That person would be tasked with challenging every step of such investigations, including whether officials appropriately adhered to the rules governing applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which handles matters of national security.

Here is a better recommendation... Just shut the FBI down. Better yet, "splinter the agency in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds."

[Northwestcoug]

The above NYPost story doesn't say anything about Mr. Joffe or his company being paid by the Clinton campaign. He was apparently promised a fat cybersecurity job if Hillary became the president, however. Of course, Clinton bought and paid for the bogus Steele dossier. Nice that the NYTimes confirms that the hacked data came from Obama administration. They admit that the Dems were spying on the Drumpf campaign, most likely illegally.

LOL... The NYTimes just doesn't want to give their Pulitzer price back for reporting fake news:


https://nypost.com/2022/02/14/washin...ump-reporting/

heres a helpful quick Twitter thread Ted. It’s from a CATO writer (that’s a libertarian resource so you might not know about it):

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[Uncle Ted]

LOL... You are not expected to understand:

Oh, So That's Why The New York Times Didn't Cover Latest Durham Bombshell

When a new motion was filed by John Durham on Friday night that included information about Hillary's Clinton's campaign and its activities toward Donald Trump's campaign, the mainstream media largely said "meh" and ignored the development (though Townhall did not, and Vespa's story is here). Well now The New York Times is trying to defend its decision...by insulting its readership.
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So what was The Times' excuse? The revelations, according to national security and legal policy correspondent Charlie Savage, "tend to involve dense and obscure issues, so dissecting them requires asking readers to expend significant mental energy and time."
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Savage's assault on the intelligence of The Times' readers goes on to claim that all the coverage from Townhall and other conservative outlets is bunk, but even that claim doesn't make sense given Monday's White House press briefing in which Karine Jean-Pierre did nothing to cast doubt on the revelations. If the entire narrative around the latest Durham bombshell was fake, wouldn't she have pointed that out instead of saying the White House "can't speak to" the revelations? And if the stories coming from the development were baseless, wouldn't some of the mainstream outlets that remained silent have rushed exculpatory evidence to air in defense of Hillary Clinton and her campaign — including Biden's current National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan?

As it turns out, even The Times' piece that seeks to defend Hillary Clinton's campaign and its activities couldn't avoid the shady nature of what Durham's team apparently uncovered. As Savage points out in his piece:

The filing was ostensibly about potential conflicts of interest. But it also recounted a meeting at which Mr. Sussmann [a Clinton Campaign lawyer] had presented other suspicions to the government. In February 2017, Mr. Sussmann told the C.I.A. about odd internet data suggesting that someone using a Russian-made smartphone may have been connecting to networks at Trump Tower and the White House, among other places.

Mr. Sussmann had obtained that information from a client, a technology executive named Rodney Joffe. Another paragraph in the court filing said that Mr. Joffe’s company, Neustar, had helped maintain internet-related servers for the White House, and that he and his associates “exploited this arrangement” by mining certain records to gather derogatory information about Mr. Trump.

It's been a long time since The Gray Lady has been printing anything but "All the News That Fits the Narrative," but a desperate attempt to tamp down questions about what the Clinton campaign was up to after those questions were already being asked in the White House briefing room is not going to quell interest in the latest revelations.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spence...shell-n2603300

[PaloAltoCougar]

The above NYPost story doesn't say anything about Mr. Joffe or his company being paid by the Clinton campaign. He was apparently promised a fat cybersecurity job if Hillary became the president, however. Of course, Clinton bought and paid for the bogus Steele dossier. Nice that the NYTimes confirms that the hacked data came from Obama administration. They admit that the Dems were spying on the Drumpf campaign, most likely illegally.

LOL... The NYTimes just doesn't want to give their Pulitzer price back for reporting fake news:


https://nypost.com/2022/02/14/washin...ump-reporting/

at the opening phrase, "With the entire Russiagate affair exposed as a Clinton campaign fabrication," which is patently absurd. It's also nice that Ted relies on Rupert Murdoch's sensationalistic tabloid to pass judgment on the journalistic quality and integrity of the New York Times and Washington Post.

[Uncle Ted]

Ted, before you breathlessly quote a NY post editorial, please try to keep up with the facts:



https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/u...mp-russia.html

The above NYPost story doesn't say anything about Mr. Joffe or his company being paid by the Clinton campaign. He was apparently promised a fat cybersecurity job if Hillary became the president, however. Of course, Clinton bought and paid for the bogus Steele dossier. Nice that the NYTimes confirms that the hacked data came from Obama administration. They admit that the Dems were spying on the Drumpf campaign, most likely illegally.

LOL... The NYTimes just doesn't want to give their Pulitzer price back for reporting fake news:

Washington Post, New York Times should give back their Pulitzers for Russia-Trump ‘reporting’

With the entire Russiagate affair exposed as a Clinton campaign fabrication, it’s the clear duty of The Washington Post and New York Times to give back the Pulitzers they won for “reporting” the fake news.

Clinton campaign cash ordered up the “Steele dossier,” with Democratic operatives providing some of the rumors and a cynical Russian exile asking buddies to supply rank speculation for the rest.

Other Clintonites actually hacked Trump computers, including White House ones after he took office, to create another smear, as Special Counsel John Durham’s latest filing revealed.

That’s all there ever was: A Team Clinton scheme to make her e-mail scandal look tame by comparison, and so win the 2016 election, followed by a longer drive to cripple the new president. It was a true “war on democracy,” abetted by the two papers in endless, breathless “reporting.”

Their Pulitzer awards say the papers “dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign.” Now everyone knows they only “dramatically furthered” a smear.

Show a shred of decency, and give your Pulitzers back.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/14/washin...ump-reporting/

[Jeff Lebowski]

Ted, before you breathlessly quote a NY post editorial, please try to keep up with the facts:



https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/u...mp-russia.html

The funny thing about all of this is how Uncle Ted ate all this totally fabricated sh*t up like it was apple pie with blue bell ice cream.

[Northwestcoug]

We now know that it was all bullish*t created by the democrats...


https://nypost.com/2022/02/13/eyes-t...agate-scandal/

The funny thing about all of this is how many on this board ate all this totally fabricated sh*t up like it was apple pie with blue bell ice cream.

Ted, before you breathlessly quote a NY post editorial, please try to keep up with the facts:

The conservative media also skewed what the filing said. For example, Mr. Durham’s filing never used the word “infiltrate.” And it never claimed that Mr. Joffe’s company was being paid by the Clinton campaign.

Most important, contrary to the reporting, the filing never said the White House data that came under scrutiny was from the Trump era. According to lawyers for David Dagon, a Georgia Institute of Technology data scientist who helped develop the Yota analysis, the data — so-called DNS logs, which are records of when computers or smartphones have prepared to communicate with servers over the internet — came from Barack Obama’s presidency.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/u...mp-russia.html

[Jeff Lebowski]

Thanks Ted, glad to know Trump wasn't owned by Putin the whole time. The brazen cyberattacks didn't really happen or maybe were for our own good. The removal of sanctions didn't happen and he never pushed Trump into screwing with our relationships with countries that actually like us. Good to know.

Trump clearly admired Putin. I think he was jealous and would love to rule in the USA in the same fashion.

Oh, and it appears that many of the details on this new story are not panning out.

[BlueK]

Thanks Ted, glad to know Trump wasn't owned by Putin the whole time. The brazen cyberattacks didn't really happen or maybe were for our own good. The removal of sanctions didn't happen and he never pushed Trump into screwing with our relationships with countries that actually like us. Good to know.

[Uncle Ted]

We now know that it was all bullish*t created by the democrats...

Eyes turn to Hillary Clinton, not Trump in the Russiagate scandal

So there you have it.

Russiagate, the collective delusion that Donald Trump was secretly a Russian agent aided and abetted by the Kremlin, the topic of uncountable inches of Washington Post and New York Times copy and the entire primetime lineup of MSNBC, was a dirty trick by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Not just part of it. All of it. One of the most diabolical, successful misinformation campaigns ever concocted.
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A made-up story

Now another piece of Russia, Russia, Russia is kaputski. A computer server operated by Trump’s company was secretly communicating with a Russian firm, claimed Slate magazine and endless Twitter threads of would-be tech experts.

But as special counsel John Durham outlines in his latest indictment, that was just a story made up by tech executive Rodney Joffe, who desperately wanted a job with the Clinton administration. He hacked Trump’s servers, cherry-picked privileged Internet data he had access to, and molded it to look like something nefarious.
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Beyond outrageous

Of course, Hillary didn’t get what she wanted — the presidency. But her operatives didn’t stop, going on CNN to give “very concerned” interviews about a theory they knew was bull. All to undermine Trump’s presidency. It would take three years for the Mueller report to finally put the lie to rest, and we’re now, five years out, at the point where Durham is detailing the full conspiracy.
[...]

https://nypost.com/2022/02/13/eyes-t...agate-scandal/

The funny thing about all of this is how many on this board ate all this totally fabricated sh*t up like it was apple pie with blue bell ice cream.

[BlueK]

Didn't know where to stick this, but the DOJ under shitbag Barr monitored reporters' phone calls . The reporter was looking Trump camp. connections with Russia.

I'm sure our libertarians will be upset





https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...a01_story.html

It's pretty bad. Unfortunately not surprising the Trump DOJ would be hostile to the First and Fourth Amendments.

[frank ryan]

Didn't know where to stick this, but the DOJ under shitbag Barr monitored reporters' phone calls . The reporter was looking Trump camp. connections with Russia.

I'm sure our libertarians will be upset

News organizations and First Amendment advocates have long decried the government practice of seizing journalists’ records in an effort to identify the sources of leaks, saying it unjustly chills critical newsgathering. The last such high-profile seizure of reporters’ communications records came several years ago as part of an investigation into the source of stories by a reporter who worked at BuzzFeed, Politico and the New York Times. The stories at issue there also centered around 2017 reporting on the investigation into Russian election interference.

It is rare for the Justice Department to use subpoenas to get records of reporters in leak investigations, and such moves must be approved by the attorney general. The letters do not say precisely when the reporters’ records were taken and reviewed, but a department spokesman said the decision to do so came in 2020, during the Trump administration. William P. Barr, who served as Trump’s attorney general for nearly all of that year, before departing Dec. 23, declined to comment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...a01_story.html

[Applejack]

I thought Trump was dead... I haven't seen him post anything on twitter for like forever.

Good to see that Trump and you are still alive.

Have you followed the false flag assault on the U.S. capitol??? Damn antifa....

[Uncle Ted]

I thought Trump was dead... I haven't seen him post anything on twitter for like forever.