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Hawkeye (V3) #8 by Fabian Nicieza and Joe Bennett
There is ample evidence the president is not working for America first.
Who else does Putin own? #GOP #RNC #GOPdonors
“One uncanny aspect of the investigations into Trump’s Russia connections is that instead of too little evidence there’s too much.”
“I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected.”
— Felix Sater
A portion of an email Felix Sater sent to Michael Cohen on Nov. 3, 2015
But three months feels like three decades in Trump years, and I mostly forgot about these reports until I read Luke Harding’s new book, “Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win.”
Trump, the Manchurian Candidate
But Harding’s book is invaluable in collating the overwhelming evidence of a web of relationships between the Kremlin, Trump and members of Trump’s circle. He suggests, convincingly, that Russia may have been cultivating Trump since the 1980s. At that time, Harding writes, the K.G.B. was working to draw “prominent figures in the West” — as the K.G.B. described them — into collaboration. According to Harding, a form for evaluating targets asked, “Are pride, arrogance, egoism, ambition or vanity among subject’s natural characteristics?”
“It wasn’t Putin who fashioned a Republican Party willing to tolerate something close to treason if it’s the price of corporate tax cuts.”
Even if all the Republicans in Congress read Harding’s book, they probably wouldn’t act. But at least they’d know what they’re abetting.
Read The Nation’s article, Who Is Felix Sater, and Why Is Donald Trump So Afraid of Him? This mob-linked operator and ex-con could be the key to the Russiagate investigation.
Trump Tried to Enlist Dan Coats & Mike Rogers in #RussiaCoverUp
“Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers told Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team and Senate investigators, in separate meetings last week, that President Donald Trump suggested they say publicly there was no collusion between his campaign and the Russians, according to multiple sources.”
Both men told Mueller's team they were surprised the President would suggest that they publicly declare he was not involved in collusion, sources said.
Suggesting and asking is the same as an order for the inexperienced and insecure!
but said they did not believe the President gave them orders to interfere, according to multiple sources familiar with their accounts.
McCain prefers Presidents who aren’t captured by Putin
Justice will have the last laugh
FBI’s Trump Russia Investigation, “Let It Go”
#RussiaCoverUp Mike Flynn, Jeff Sessions, Jared Kushner
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban maintains close relations with Russia and seems to be turning a blind eye to the presence of Russian a
In late November 2022, Ukrainian special forces arrested a suspected Russian agent at the Ukraine–Hungary border. The man had been attempting to smuggle secret information into EU member state Hungary on a flash drive that he had allegedly concealed in his anus.
The flash drive contained stolen personal information about senior figures and staff at the Ukrainian domestic secret service SBU and the Ukrainian military intelligence service GUR, as well as sensitive data on Ukrainian army bases, weapons and logistics.
As it turned out, the spy had intended to hand over the drive to the Russian Embassy in the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
Investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi recently wrote about the case for the website Balkan Insight. He has been researching Russian espionage activity in Hungary for quite some time now.
A den of spies at the heart of the EU?
Panyi fears that Budapest could become a centre of Russian espionage within the EU. Over 50 accredited diplomats are currently working at the Russian Embassy in Budapest, while just over 20 are working in Prague, Warsaw and Bratislava put together.
"It is well known that many agents pose as diplomats because it gives them immunity; in other words, it means they cannot be prosecuted by the authorities of the host country," Panyi told DW.
But staff at the Russian Embassy are not the only ones to enjoy immunity; staff at the International Investment Bank (IIB), which was founded during the Soviet era, do, too.
Three years ago, the bank moved its headquarters from Moscow to Budapest. This means that it has nothing to fear from Hungary's financial regulation authority and judiciary and doesn't need to worry about criminal investigations.
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