#russian hacks

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Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence

The contacts in the year before the election were revealed by intercepted communications, according to four current and former senior American officials.

All Aboard the Impeachment Train! Choo Choo!!! :D

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Investigation complete.

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Happy Valentine’s Day, Mr. President!

[sitta-pusilla]

The piss thing is funny, but the real bombshells in that dossier are allegations that Trump’s lawyers met with Russian intelligence. Tbh many of the non-piss things in that report are borderline espionage. Russia blackmailing Trump, Comey, and the RNC, and Putin directly interfering in our electoral process, AND Trump’s team aiding Russian intelligence in this effort would be grounds for impeachment if Trump were not being sworn in with the Congress least likely to ever impeach him.

[aliasvaughn]

NOW it’s going down, in case it isn’t clear. Trump is going to be in a VEEERY difficult position now. And just an hour ago, news broke that Former CIA director James Woolsey has split with Trump transition team. NOT a coincidence. Also not a coincidence that NBC confirmed this now, that the Post had mentioned. That’s not a high enough source, but TV? Network? Confirming this? Huge deal. The “leaks” have officially started again. And this is one HELL of a leak.

[sitta-pusilla]

So NOW we learn that rumors and allegations that Trump is compromised by the Russians have been circulating for over a year, peaking last summer.

There are things that are unverified, and unverifiable (the piss thing for one, a silly distraction). But the meat of this bombshell is allegations that Russia began cultivating Trump all the way back in 2010. The things we can confirm are damming enough, and still Trump has not (will not) release his tax returns. 

Like, let’s look at what we have

US Intelligence (FBI, CIA) saying Putin directly ordered these hacks specifically to get back at Clinton for publicly questioning validity of Russian ‘elections’ (lol) when she was Sec. of State

Russian Intelligence only releasing hacked info about Clinton, DNC, and Democratic Congresspeople, but holding onto hacked info from the RNC

Trump publicly lying about Russia also having hacked RNC info, even after he read the briefing that told him Russia also hacked the RNC, just hours before said report was made public

Trump naming Tillerson his Sec. of State, a man who is so close to Putin he was given a medal of friendship by the man

Trump staffing his entire cabinet with pro-Russia people

The fact that Russia has been fomenting hard right, pro-Russia politicians across the West for a couple years now, including waging propaganda campaigns like he did here

Trump is MILLIONS of dollars in debt to over 150 Wall Street financial corporations, and quite possibly several foreign enties

Literally everything Trump has said

Paul Manafort

And now unverified allegations that Trump’s people coordinated with Russian intelligence (literal, actual, straight-up, impeachable offense) AND unverified allegations that Putin has dirt on Trump, both financial and personal. 

Trump will be sworn into office in less than 10 days.

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How Trump Became A Russian Plant (and Stole the 2016 Election): A Timeline by Chirs Baugh

“In light of the fact that we're supposed to be skeptical about the latest Trump allegations, I want to tell you a story. 

A long time ago, there was a man named Paul Manafort. Paul Manafort was a GOP operative who exported his political expertise. He and Roger Stone ran what was known in DC as The Torturers Lobby. They worked with warlords and despots. Paul Manafort even worked closely with Russian oligarchs and kleptocrats with ties to Putin. Manafort was one of the operatives who worked in Ukraine to elect a pro-Putin government. This is a verifiable fact. 

At one point, Manafort went missing for 3 weeks. Roger Stone joked that he'd been kidnapped by the Russians. This is about 2010. According to some members of the Intelligence community, around the same time Russia began cultivating Donald Trump as an intel asset. Timing, I'm sure, is totally coincidental. Just giving you a sense of where we're at in the story. In 2011 Donald Trump starts the birther movement, remember that whole thing? In 2012 Donald Trump flirts with a run for President, but he doesn't run. At some point, Hillary Rodham Clinton runs afoul of Vladimir Putin. She and Obama both take aggressive stance toward him. Then in 2016, Donald Trump declares his candidacy. 

He starts as a long-shot managed by Corey Lewandowski. As Trump grows in prominence, he fires Lewandowski and hires...Paul Manafort. Whose last job was in Ukraine. On behalf of Putin. Pual Manafort, who owned a lobbying firm with Trump confidant Roger Stone. Paul Manafort, who had been kidnapped (presumably) by Russians at one point but survived unharmed. Trump's positions softened under Manafort (re Ukraine specifically). Manafort's in charge over summer. It comes out that Manafort received 12 million dollars in an offbooks ledger from the pro-Putin party in Ukraine. 

Wait back up. 

Before this comes out, the DNC emails are hacked. Wikileaks releases the hacked emails. Why did Assange do this if it was an intel op by Russia? Possibly for the promise of asylum, but that's speculation on my part. Maybe he hates Clinton and Obama, but again speculating. Regardless, the leaks help one party and help the other. So now Manafort resigns after the Ukraine thing comes out. Trump hires Steve Bannon, ANOTHER one of Stone's friends. Manafort probably keeps advising Trump. He lives in Trump Tower, so they see each other periodically. Two of Trump's new policy guys are Michael Flynn and Carter Page. Both of whom have ties to Putin and Russia. Galas with Putin, RT, dinners, speaking engagements, etc. So Manafort, Flynn, and Page. Remember the names for a bit. 

Now Wikileaks starts leaking John Podesta's emails. Mostly harmless stuff, but Hillary Clinton and emails is just a bad look. We know they were hacked, we suspect by a state agent, and if you've been paying attention the answer's pretty clear. 

So the election happens and Trump wins. Then the intelligence community confirms what most of us knew or suspected. That Putin had launched an intel op specifically to hurt Clinton. Then it came out he wanted Trump to win, that he was behind the DNC hacks, that he was behind the Podesta hacks, all Putin from the get-go. Curiously PEOTUS refuses to accept the findings of the intel community. Claims it coulda been anybody. Defends Assange. Curious. In response, POTUS Obama kicks out 35 alleged Russian spies posing as diplomats. Pretty big move. The intel community seems pretty certain as to the facts at this point, and Obama is doing stuff he wouldn't do otherwise. 

So today this new trove of background comes out. BUT IT'S UNVERIFIED. Yeah, so what? What do the documents say? That about 6 years ago (around when Trump started birtherism) they began cultivating him. That they conspired to get leverage over him. That they preferred him to HRC. That they had Russian spies in the US posing as go-betweens. That there was high-level cooperation with Trump's campaign via Paul Manafort and Carter Page, remember them?

 So we're supposed to be SUPER SKEPTICAL about all of this.

 I mean, I guess so?

If you didn't know who Paul Manafort was, or what he did, or who Carter Page was, etc. If you didn’t find it odd that Trump's Sec. State Elect won the Order of Friendship from Vladimir Putin. If you ignored all of these things, I guess it's healthy to be skeptical about this. 

So here we are, a week out from inaugurating a compromised asset of Russian intelligence President of the United States. I don't have some cool conclusion to the story because it's a scary story without a good ending. This is the new reality.”

--Chris Baugh, @chris_baugh_ (twitter)

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Like seriously,the story is that Trump ran for President KNOWING he was essentially owned by Russia, and that his campaign coordinated with Russian intelligence to influence the election.

And now we learn that rumors about this have been floating around Intelligence and journalist circles for MONTHS. And a week before the Inauguration American Intelligence decides to brief Trump and Obama on what are currently only unsubstantiated rumors…because they are angry about Trump publicly discrediting them for the past few weeks.

This is a circus.