Russian oligarchs that don't follow Putin's orders end up dead and in jail.
That's the difference between Russia and the USA. We don't kill our cranky billionaires, or jail them on phony charges.
The Trump crime family broke alot of laws in their treasonous collusion with Russia's attack on our country, but we still let him run for president and "win"
Opposition figures in Russia are imprisoned and bankrupted by Vladimir Putin who has even less regard for the rule of law that his puppet Donald Trump. Once we kick that traitor out of office, America's rule of law will once again be a beacon to the free world.
It's not hard to understand the difference between Russia and the US, but if you can play the false equivalence game that equates a boring centrist (Hillary) to a right wing traitor (Trump) then I guess you are gullible enough believe any false equivalence.
The Russian government is not some guy that can be appealed to with leniency in criminal cases.
Russia is a hostile foreign adversary who has attacked us and has an ongoing cyberwarfare campaign against the United States.
It is idiotic to partner cyber-warfare defense with the very entity which is currently attacking you. We have allies like Israel and Germany. Why would we partner with our adversaries who are currently attacking us?
Trump's treasonous crime spree has gone on long enough. The Russian government is not your friend, even if it is as bigoted and anti-American as you are!
This is like inviting Jeffrey Dahmer to join your neighborhood watch after he kills your neighbors.
I know that the right wing has bought into Trump's treasonous collusion with Russia, but this is ridiculous.
This is a tech website. Do you actually mean to tell me you would willingly put a hacker that maliciously attacked your country on our cyber security team?
Donald Trump removed from the GOP platform language for punishing Russia invading Crimea and threatening Ukraine. citation provided
America is now essentially subservient to Russian foreign policy on Ukraine, which is why Trump never acknowledges Russia's ongoing attacks on Ukraine and the United States.
It's obvious that Donald Trump is acting as a puppet of Vladimir Putin, and has ceded control of America's foreign policy to the Russian agents that prop up his business empire while criminally attacking his political opponents.
The G20 meeting is a venue for Vladimir Putin to instruct Donald Trump to commit his next treasonous actions. In exchange Russia will collude with Donald Trump on additional attacks on American democracy.
It looks like Russia's patsies are out in force to make sure we ignore Russia's attack on our country's democracy.
Russia wants us to ignore their attack on our election so they can keep doing it.
If we step back and notice that a foreign country attacked the USA, and that we need to immediately secure our voting system, basic patriotism would compel us to act to secure our elections against foreign attacks.
Don't count on Donald Trump securing our voting machines any time soon. Trump is on Russia's payroll and only acts in their interest.
Donald Trump will continue undermining NATO but he'll never fight to secure our voting machines against Russian hacking. Wonder why...
Donald Trump fears real news like the Washington Post far more than he fears bullshit propaganda like the Intercept or its liberal equivalents.
Real news is powerful. When the Washington Post reports criminality and collusion the FBI is usually close behind, or way ahead of the story.
When The Intercept whines that Rachel Maddow reported on Donald Trump's treasonous behavior, nobody gives a shit. It's just some asshole molding the news to fit his agenda.
The Washington Post is the rough draft of history. Real news matters, even if you ignore it.
The problem with treating real news like the Washington Post the same as you'd treat fake news is that you are totally blind when the President of the United States goes on a treasonous crime spree with a hostile foreign adversary...
Brian Williams jizzed his pants over a missile strike because he is a tool. This is different than: In Russia, journalists and opposition politicians are imprisoned or killed. The Trump / Russia scandal has left a trail of dead bodies in Russia.
Russian state run media is not the same as the US media, which may report information given by the government, but isn't controlled by it.
Open your fucking eyes and quit this false equivalence that puts free media at the same level as state run media in a place where journalism that embarrassed Putin often results in the Journalist's death.
I'm sorry that the CIA detected Donald Trump committing treason, but it's not their fault. Moscow Donald just made things too easy for them. The CIA watches Russian figures like the ones Donald Trump chose to commit treason with.
That doesn't mean the CIA has turned on Donald Trump - they just always watch the Russia spies who compromised Donald Trump and his team.
I for one have much less skepticism from legitimate American news sources like the Washington Post, that I have for a state controlled news outlet like RT. The CIA does not control the Washington Post.
I'm sick of watching turncoats put America on the same very low level as Russia. You are plainly wrong.
Dec. 10, 2015 Lt. Gen Michael Flynn is part of a panel discussion in Moscow for the 10th anniversary of government-backed Russia Today, for which he receives payment (The Washington Post, Aug. 15, 2016). Officials notice an increase in communication between Flynn and the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, following the Russia Today event (CNN, May 19, 2017).
Late 2015 British intelligence agencies detect suspicious interactions between Russia and Trump aides that they pass on to American intelligence agencies (The Guardian, April 13, 2017).
March 19, 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta is sent an email that encourages him to change his email password, likely precipitating the hack of his account (CBS News, Oct. 28, 2016).
March 21 During an interview with The Post, Trump lists Carter Page as part of his foreign policy team. Page had been recommended by a son-in-law of President Richard Nixon, New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox (WP, March 21, 2016).
March 28 Political veteran Paul Manafort is hired to help the Trump campaign manage the delegate process for the Republican National Convention. He is recommended by Trump confidante Roger Stone (New York Times, March 28, 2016). Before joining the campaign, Manafort lobbied on behalf of Oleg Deripaska, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. That deal followed a memo from Manafort in which he offered a plan that could "greatly benefit the Putin Government." His relationship with Deripaska ended in 2009 (Associated Press, March 22, 2017). Manafort also worked on behalf of the Russia-friendly Party of Regions in Ukraine, helping guide the party's leader, Viktor Yanukovych, to the country's presidency. Yanukovych would later be ousted. (WP, Aug. 19, 2016)
April 27 Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) may have met with Kislyak at a reception at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington before a foreign-policy speech given by Trump (CNN, May 31, 2017).
June At a closed-door meeting of foreign policy experts and the prime minister of India, Page praises Putin effusively (WP, Aug. 5, 2016).
June 15 A hacker calling himself "Guccifer 2.0" releases the Democratic National Committee's research file on Donald Trump (Gawker, June 15, 2016). News reports already link the stolen data to Russian hackers (WP, June 14, 2016).
July At some point this month, the FBI begins investigating possible links between the Russian government and Trump's campaign (Wired, March 20, 2017).
July 7 Page travels to Moscow to give a lecture (NYT, April 19, 2017). The Trump campaign approved the trip (USA Today, March 7, 2017). This trip was likely the catalyst for the FBI's request for a secret surveillance warrant to track PageÃs communications (WP, May 25, 2017).
July 11 or 12 Trump campaign staffers intervene with the committee developing the Republican Party's national security platform to remove language call arming Ukraine against Russian aggression. (July 18, 2016).
July 18 At an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation as part of the Republican National Convention, Sessions and Kislyak have a brief conversation (WP, March 2, 2017).
Flynn delivers a speech at the Republican convention, joining in the crowd's "Lock her up!" chant. "If I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth of what she did," Flynn said, "I would be in jail today" (C-Span, July 18, 2016).
July 22 Wikileaks releases emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee (WP, July 22, 2017).
Jul. 27 During his last news conference of the campaign, Trump asks Russia to release emails hacked from Clinton's private server. He later says that he was joking (WP, July, 27, 2016).
Aug. 9 Flynn Intel Group, a consulting firm founded by Flynn, signs a contract with Inovo BV, a firm run by a Turkish businessman close to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for more than $500,000 (Daily Caller, Nov. 11, 2016).
Aug. 15 The New York Times reports on secret ledger
Dec. 10, 2015 Lt. Gen Michael Flynn is part of a panel discussion in Moscow for the 10th anniversary of government-backed Russia Today, for which he receives payment (The Washington Post, Aug. 15, 2016). Officials notice an increase in communication between Flynn and the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, following the Russia Today event (CNN, May 19, 2017).
Late 2015 British intelligence agencies detect suspicious interactions between Russia and Trump aides that they pass on to American intelligence agencies (The Guardian, April 13, 2017).
March 19, 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta is sent an email that encourages him to change his email password, likely precipitating the hack of his account (CBS News, Oct. 28, 2016).
March 21 During an interview with The Post, Trump lists Carter Page as part of his foreign policy team. Page had been recommended by a son-in-law of President Richard Nixon, New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox (WP, March 21, 2016).
March 28 Political veteran Paul Manafort is hired to help the Trump campaign manage the delegate process for the Republican National Convention. He is recommended by Trump confidante Roger Stone (New York Times, March 28, 2016). Before joining the campaign, Manafort lobbied on behalf of Oleg Deripaska, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. That deal followed a memo from Manafort in which he offered a plan that could "greatly benefit the Putin Government." His relationship with Deripaska ended in 2009 (Associated Press, March 22, 2017). Manafort also worked on behalf of the Russia-friendly Party of Regions in Ukraine, helping guide the party's leader, Viktor Yanukovych, to the country's presidency. Yanukovych would later be ousted. (WP, Aug. 19, 2016)
April 27 Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) may have met with Kislyak at a reception at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington before a foreign-policy speech given by Trump (CNN, May 31, 2017).
June At a closed-door meeting of foreign policy experts and the prime minister of India, Page praises Putin effusively (WP, Aug. 5, 2016).
June 15 A hacker calling himself "Guccifer 2.0" releases the Democratic National Committee's research file on Donald Trump (Gawker, June 15, 2016). News reports already link the stolen data to Russian hackers (WP, June 14, 2016).
July At some point this month, the FBI begins investigating possible links between the Russian government and Trump's campaign (Wired, March 20, 2017).
July 7 Page travels to Moscow to give a lecture (NYT, April 19, 2017). The Trump campaign approved the trip (USA Today, March 7, 2017). This trip was likely the catalyst for the FBI's request for a secret surveillance warrant to track Pageâs communications (WP, May 25, 2017).
July 11 or 12 Trump campaign staffers intervene with the committee developing the Republican Party's national security platform to remove language call arming Ukraine against Russian aggression. (July 18, 2016).
July 18 At an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation as part of the Republican National Convention, Sessions and Kislyak have a brief conversation (WP, March 2, 2017).
Flynn delivers a speech at the Republican convention, joining in the crowd's "Lock her up!" chant. "If I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth of what she did," Flynn said, "I would be in jail today" (C-Span, July 18, 2016).
July 22 Wikileaks releases emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee (WP, July 22, 2017).
Jul. 27 During his last news conference of the campaign, Trump asks Russia to release emails hacked from Clinton's private server. He later says that he was joking (WP, July, 27, 2016).
Aug. 9 Flynn Intel Group, a consulting firm founded by Flynn, signs a contract with Inovo BV, a firm run by a Turkish businessman close to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for more than $500,000 (Daily Caller, Nov. 11, 2016).
Aug. 15 The New York Times reports on secret ledge
Trump sued someone for libel in the amount if 5 billion doallrs, for claiming he was not actually a billionaire. Donald Trump was unable to prove that he actually had assets worth a billion dollars in court.
The difference is that when Donald Trump sues you, he's not suing you for lying. Donald Trump sues you for telling the truth.
Like with his treasonous collaboration with Russia's crimes in the USA, Donald Trump was his own worst enemy. When he filed the lawsuit Trump was subjected to a hilarious deposition where is constant lying was the topic of discussion.
Fast forward 10 years and Donald Trump has highlighted the fact that he has been exposed as a traitor by firing FBI director James Comey.
Your argument seems to hinge on Donald Trump being neither stupid nor deranged.
I think you are on shaky footing there, to put it mildly...
It's easy to collude with Russia and get caught. All you have to do is commit treason while not being careful enough to avoid investigation and prosecution.
Colluding with Russia, and not getting caught in the act is considerably harder.
Government experience would be helpful to avoid getting caught, and to avoid highlighting your treason by committing a major blunder. Donald Trump isn't bright, but his inexperience played a bigger part in his firing the FBI director for investigating Russia, and then bragging about it on TV and to the Russians.
Guccifer may not be Russian, though the evidence points to him being a Russian government agent.
How someone can talk to a known participant to a criminal hack during the hack and data release itself without colluding is just beyond words. That may be enough to keep that traitor out of prison but give me a break. This is collusion.
Trump's team may not be talking to the Russian government to coordinate their information and hacking attack on our presidential campaign, though the evidence shows that they did. Evidence further shows there was and is a quid pro quo, like changing the GOP platform to not oppose Russia's violent annexation of Crimea, part of our ally Ukraine's territory.
The FBI may not be investigating Donald Trump because he conspired with a hostile foreign adversary's crime spree during our recent Presidential election, but leaks indicate that they are investigating exactly that conspiracy.
The investigation is currently uncovering wrongdoing, but is not yet complete. Your suggestion that the fact that investigation is not yet complete actually indicates Trump's innocence is laughable.
Yeah.. no evidence of collusion as the criminal investigation uncovers criminal collusion with Russia's attack on the presidential campaign on a daily basis..
Just an example - Roger Stone communicated with Giccifer on Twitter. Guccifer is a known Russian government hacker, and hacked the DNC. He admitted his communication with a known Russian hacker during the hack. This is not hard to follow, and is just one of dozens of examples.
Now you can keep saying nothing has been found, but the FBI is finding stuff every day, and is building a report. Donald Trump admitted (to the Russian ambassador at the center of the investigation) in the Oval Office that he fired Comey to end the Russia investigation.
Just keep telling yourself there is no evidence of collusion, as that will make Trump's indictments and impeachment that much sweeter.
Fascists fire their FBI director when an FBI investigation closes in on their collaboration with Russia (a foreign adversary) on their hack of our presidential campaign. Would it offend you if I call Trump's collaboration with the crimes of foreign adversary's treason?
Only a fascist would fire the head of the FBI to protect himself from an ongoing investigation.
Only an idiot wouldn't be able to see that while picking out every 3rd word to take offense at my lack of political correctness.
Americans are stupid.. We can all agree on that. France is lucky that an average Frenchman is much smarter than at typical borderline retarded American. I know the truth hurts, and am sorry for any pain that obvious truth causes to abject morons.
Just look at all the comments below from people to stupid to see the obvious reality that they themselves are commenting on...
However, we can't discount the impact of traitors collaborating with Russia in their attack on our election. Donald Trump is stupid, but he is also a traitor.
The republican senators and congressmen assisting Donald Trump's obstruction of justice are genuinely smart, but they are also obvious traitors.
The republican party's collaboration with Trump's coverup of Russia's attack on our election, and his collusion with their attack can not be ignored.
The people who don't see Russia's attack on our election are stupid, but their elected representatives are traitors.
It's kinda funny how despite the way Apple brands itself as innovative and user friendly, but Mac users are still stuck using a mouse on icons and menus while Windows has a touch-friendly interface.
Keep spending big on antiquated technology Apple users. Maybe one day the ghost of Steve Jobs will give you a touch screen and claim it's a revolutionary invention...
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Russian oligarchs that don't follow Putin's orders end up dead and in jail.
That's the difference between Russia and the USA. We don't kill our cranky billionaires, or jail them on phony charges.
The Trump crime family broke alot of laws in their treasonous collusion with Russia's attack on our country, but we still let him run for president and "win"
Opposition figures in Russia are imprisoned and bankrupted by Vladimir Putin who has even less regard for the rule of law that his puppet Donald Trump. Once we kick that traitor out of office, America's rule of law will once again be a beacon to the free world.
It's not hard to understand the difference between Russia and the US, but if you can play the false equivalence game that equates a boring centrist (Hillary) to a right wing traitor (Trump) then I guess you are gullible enough believe any false equivalence.
The Russian government is not some guy that can be appealed to with leniency in criminal cases.
Russia is a hostile foreign adversary who has attacked us and has an ongoing cyberwarfare campaign against the United States.
It is idiotic to partner cyber-warfare defense with the very entity which is currently attacking you. We have allies like Israel and Germany. Why would we partner with our adversaries who are currently attacking us?
Trump's treasonous crime spree has gone on long enough. The Russian government is not your friend, even if it is as bigoted and anti-American as you are!
This is like inviting Jeffrey Dahmer to join your neighborhood watch after he kills your neighbors.
I know that the right wing has bought into Trump's treasonous collusion with Russia, but this is ridiculous.
This is a tech website. Do you actually mean to tell me you would willingly put a hacker that maliciously attacked your country on our cyber security team?
Donald Trump removed from the GOP platform language for punishing Russia invading Crimea and threatening Ukraine. citation provided
America is now essentially subservient to Russian foreign policy on Ukraine, which is why Trump never acknowledges Russia's ongoing attacks on Ukraine and the United States.
It's obvious that Donald Trump is acting as a puppet of Vladimir Putin, and has ceded control of America's foreign policy to the Russian agents that prop up his business empire while criminally attacking his political opponents.
The G20 meeting is a venue for Vladimir Putin to instruct Donald Trump to commit his next treasonous actions. In exchange Russia will collude with Donald Trump on additional attacks on American democracy.
It looks like Russia's patsies are out in force to make sure we ignore Russia's attack on our country's democracy.
Russia wants us to ignore their attack on our election so they can keep doing it.
If we step back and notice that a foreign country attacked the USA, and that we need to immediately secure our voting system, basic patriotism would compel us to act to secure our elections against foreign attacks.
Don't count on Donald Trump securing our voting machines any time soon. Trump is on Russia's payroll and only acts in their interest.
Donald Trump will continue undermining NATO but he'll never fight to secure our voting machines against Russian hacking. Wonder why...
You are ignoring the evidence, and being smug about it. Give me a break...
You want to claim that your preferred propaganda outlet is true, but we should all ignore real news like the Washington Post.
Then you claim there is no evidence because you ignored the evidence that is sitting right in front of you!
I don't have time for your smug and deceitful nonsense. Open your fucking eyes and read some real news for once.
Donald Trump fears real news like the Washington Post far more than he fears bullshit propaganda like the Intercept or its liberal equivalents.
Real news is powerful. When the Washington Post reports criminality and collusion the FBI is usually close behind, or way ahead of the story.
When The Intercept whines that Rachel Maddow reported on Donald Trump's treasonous behavior, nobody gives a shit. It's just some asshole molding the news to fit his agenda.
The Washington Post is the rough draft of history. Real news matters, even if you ignore it.
Oh I see, so you disregard real news like Washington Post for biased "news" which pushes a distinct agenda like The Intercept.
Ok, wouldn't want to pollute your diet of fake news and propaganda with a legitimate news source like the Washington Post.
You may return to your media bubble. Don't worry about the rest of us... We've got real news. We'll be fine.
The problem with treating real news like the Washington Post the same as you'd treat fake news is that you are totally blind when the President of the United States goes on a treasonous crime spree with a hostile foreign adversary...
This is egregious false equivalence.
Brian Williams jizzed his pants over a missile strike because he is a tool.
This is different than:
In Russia, journalists and opposition politicians are imprisoned or killed. The Trump / Russia scandal has left a trail of dead bodies in Russia.
Russian state run media is not the same as the US media, which may report information given by the government, but isn't controlled by it.
Open your fucking eyes and quit this false equivalence that puts free media at the same level as state run media in a place where journalism that embarrassed Putin often results in the Journalist's death.
I'm sorry that the CIA detected Donald Trump committing treason, but it's not their fault. Moscow Donald just made things too easy for them. The CIA watches Russian figures like the ones Donald Trump chose to commit treason with.
That doesn't mean the CIA has turned on Donald Trump - they just always watch the Russia spies who compromised Donald Trump and his team.
I for one have much less skepticism from legitimate American news sources like the Washington Post, that I have for a state controlled news outlet like RT. The CIA does not control the Washington Post.
I'm sick of watching turncoats put America on the same very low level as Russia. You are plainly wrong.
You don't get the Washington Post in your safe space?
I'm sorry that the truth is so painful that you've chosen to withdraw from reality and hide from real news.
Dec. 10, 2015
Lt. Gen Michael Flynn is part of a panel discussion in Moscow for the 10th anniversary of government-backed Russia Today, for which he receives payment (The Washington Post, Aug. 15, 2016). Officials notice an increase in communication between Flynn and the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, following the Russia Today event (CNN, May 19, 2017).
Late 2015
British intelligence agencies detect suspicious interactions between Russia and Trump aides that they pass on to American intelligence agencies (The Guardian, April 13, 2017).
March 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta is sent an email that encourages him to change his email password, likely precipitating the hack of his account (CBS News, Oct. 28, 2016).
March 21
During an interview with The Post, Trump lists Carter Page as part of his foreign policy team. Page had been recommended by a son-in-law of President Richard Nixon, New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox (WP, March 21, 2016).
March 28
Political veteran Paul Manafort is hired to help the Trump campaign manage the delegate process for the Republican National Convention. He is recommended by Trump confidante Roger Stone (New York Times, March 28, 2016). Before joining the campaign, Manafort lobbied on behalf of Oleg Deripaska, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. That deal followed a memo from Manafort in which he offered a plan that could "greatly benefit the Putin Government." His relationship with Deripaska ended in 2009 (Associated Press, March 22, 2017). Manafort also worked on behalf of the Russia-friendly Party of Regions in Ukraine, helping guide the party's leader, Viktor Yanukovych, to the country's presidency. Yanukovych would later be ousted. (WP, Aug. 19, 2016)
April 27
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) may have met with Kislyak at a reception at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington before a foreign-policy speech given by Trump (CNN, May 31, 2017).
June
At a closed-door meeting of foreign policy experts and the prime minister of India, Page praises Putin effusively (WP, Aug. 5, 2016).
June 15
A hacker calling himself "Guccifer 2.0" releases the Democratic National Committee's research file on Donald Trump (Gawker, June 15, 2016). News reports already link the stolen data to Russian hackers (WP, June 14, 2016).
July
At some point this month, the FBI begins investigating possible links between the Russian government and Trump's campaign (Wired, March 20, 2017).
July 7
Page travels to Moscow to give a lecture (NYT, April 19, 2017). The Trump campaign approved the trip (USA Today, March 7, 2017). This trip was likely the catalyst for the FBI's request for a secret surveillance warrant to track PageÃs communications (WP, May 25, 2017).
July 11 or 12
Trump campaign staffers intervene with the committee developing the Republican Party's national security platform to remove language call arming Ukraine against Russian aggression. (July 18, 2016).
July 18
At an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation as part of the Republican National Convention, Sessions and Kislyak have a brief conversation (WP, March 2, 2017).
Flynn delivers a speech at the Republican convention, joining in the crowd's "Lock her up!" chant. "If I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth of what she did," Flynn said, "I would be in jail today" (C-Span, July 18, 2016).
July 22
Wikileaks releases emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee (WP, July 22, 2017).
Jul. 27
During his last news conference of the campaign, Trump asks Russia to release emails hacked from Clinton's private server. He later says that he was joking (WP, July, 27, 2016).
Aug. 9
Flynn Intel Group, a consulting firm founded by Flynn, signs a contract with Inovo BV, a firm run by a Turkish businessman close to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for more than $500,000 (Daily Caller, Nov. 11, 2016).
Aug. 15
The New York Times reports on secret ledger
Dec. 10, 2015
Lt. Gen Michael Flynn is part of a panel discussion in Moscow for the 10th anniversary of government-backed Russia Today, for which he receives payment (The Washington Post, Aug. 15, 2016). Officials notice an increase in communication between Flynn and the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, following the Russia Today event (CNN, May 19, 2017).
Late 2015
British intelligence agencies detect suspicious interactions between Russia and Trump aides that they pass on to American intelligence agencies (The Guardian, April 13, 2017).
March 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta is sent an email that encourages him to change his email password, likely precipitating the hack of his account (CBS News, Oct. 28, 2016).
March 21
During an interview with The Post, Trump lists Carter Page as part of his foreign policy team. Page had been recommended by a son-in-law of President Richard Nixon, New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox (WP, March 21, 2016).
March 28
Political veteran Paul Manafort is hired to help the Trump campaign manage the delegate process for the Republican National Convention. He is recommended by Trump confidante Roger Stone (New York Times, March 28, 2016). Before joining the campaign, Manafort lobbied on behalf of Oleg Deripaska, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. That deal followed a memo from Manafort in which he offered a plan that could "greatly benefit the Putin Government." His relationship with Deripaska ended in 2009 (Associated Press, March 22, 2017). Manafort also worked on behalf of the Russia-friendly Party of Regions in Ukraine, helping guide the party's leader, Viktor Yanukovych, to the country's presidency. Yanukovych would later be ousted. (WP, Aug. 19, 2016)
April 27
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) may have met with Kislyak at a reception at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington before a foreign-policy speech given by Trump (CNN, May 31, 2017).
June
At a closed-door meeting of foreign policy experts and the prime minister of India, Page praises Putin effusively (WP, Aug. 5, 2016).
June 15
A hacker calling himself "Guccifer 2.0" releases the Democratic National Committee's research file on Donald Trump (Gawker, June 15, 2016). News reports already link the stolen data to Russian hackers (WP, June 14, 2016).
July
At some point this month, the FBI begins investigating possible links between the Russian government and Trump's campaign (Wired, March 20, 2017).
July 7
Page travels to Moscow to give a lecture (NYT, April 19, 2017). The Trump campaign approved the trip (USA Today, March 7, 2017). This trip was likely the catalyst for the FBI's request for a secret surveillance warrant to track Pageâs communications (WP, May 25, 2017).
July 11 or 12
Trump campaign staffers intervene with the committee developing the Republican Party's national security platform to remove language call arming Ukraine against Russian aggression. (July 18, 2016).
July 18
At an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation as part of the Republican National Convention, Sessions and Kislyak have a brief conversation (WP, March 2, 2017).
Flynn delivers a speech at the Republican convention, joining in the crowd's "Lock her up!" chant. "If I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth of what she did," Flynn said, "I would be in jail today" (C-Span, July 18, 2016).
July 22
Wikileaks releases emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee (WP, July 22, 2017).
Jul. 27
During his last news conference of the campaign, Trump asks Russia to release emails hacked from Clinton's private server. He later says that he was joking (WP, July, 27, 2016).
Aug. 9
Flynn Intel Group, a consulting firm founded by Flynn, signs a contract with Inovo BV, a firm run by a Turkish businessman close to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for more than $500,000 (Daily Caller, Nov. 11, 2016).
Aug. 15
The New York Times reports on secret ledge
Trump sued someone for libel in the amount if 5 billion doallrs, for claiming he was not actually a billionaire. Donald Trump was unable to prove that he actually had assets worth a billion dollars in court.
The difference is that when Donald Trump sues you, he's not suing you for lying. Donald Trump sues you for telling the truth.
Citation Provided
Like with his treasonous collaboration with Russia's crimes in the USA, Donald Trump was his own worst enemy. When he filed the lawsuit Trump was subjected to a hilarious deposition where is constant lying was the topic of discussion.
Fast forward 10 years and Donald Trump has highlighted the fact that he has been exposed as a traitor by firing FBI director James Comey.
Your argument seems to hinge on Donald Trump being neither stupid nor deranged.
I think you are on shaky footing there, to put it mildly...
It's easy to collude with Russia and get caught. All you have to do is commit treason while not being careful enough to avoid investigation and prosecution.
Colluding with Russia, and not getting caught in the act is considerably harder.
Government experience would be helpful to avoid getting caught, and to avoid highlighting your treason by committing a major blunder. Donald Trump isn't bright, but his inexperience played a bigger part in his firing the FBI director for investigating Russia, and then bragging about it on TV and to the Russians.
You're right, you never said he was innocent. That was my mistake.
The left does not believe Hillary did no wrong.
I think you are discounting very sound evidence and more or less claiming it hasn't been proven just because the investigation is not yet complete.
One correction - I see that you aren't claiming that Trump is innocent. I should be more careful.
Hehe, sure...
Guccifer may not be Russian, though the evidence points to him being a Russian government agent.
How someone can talk to a known participant to a criminal hack during the hack and data release itself without colluding is just beyond words. That may be enough to keep that traitor out of prison but give me a break. This is collusion.
Trump's team may not be talking to the Russian government to coordinate their information and hacking attack on our presidential campaign, though the evidence shows that they did. Evidence further shows there was and is a quid pro quo, like changing the GOP platform to not oppose Russia's violent annexation of Crimea, part of our ally Ukraine's territory.
The FBI may not be investigating Donald Trump because he conspired with a hostile foreign adversary's crime spree during our recent Presidential election, but leaks indicate that they are investigating exactly that conspiracy.
The investigation is currently uncovering wrongdoing, but is not yet complete. Your suggestion that the fact that investigation is not yet complete actually indicates Trump's innocence is laughable.
Yeah.. no evidence of collusion as the criminal investigation uncovers criminal collusion with Russia's attack on the presidential campaign on a daily basis..
Just an example - Roger Stone communicated with Giccifer on Twitter. Guccifer is a known Russian government hacker, and hacked the DNC. He admitted his communication with a known Russian hacker during the hack. This is not hard to follow, and is just one of dozens of examples.
Now you can keep saying nothing has been found, but the FBI is finding stuff every day, and is building a report. Donald Trump admitted (to the Russian ambassador at the center of the investigation) in the Oval Office that he fired Comey to end the Russia investigation.
Just keep telling yourself there is no evidence of collusion, as that will make Trump's indictments and impeachment that much sweeter.
Let's see.. their last phone literally exploded, but this one is safe enough to point a laser at your eye?
Fascists fire their FBI director when an FBI investigation closes in on their collaboration with Russia (a foreign adversary) on their hack of our presidential campaign. Would it offend you if I call Trump's collaboration with the crimes of foreign adversary's treason?
Only a fascist would fire the head of the FBI to protect himself from an ongoing investigation.
Only an idiot wouldn't be able to see that while picking out every 3rd word to take offense at my lack of political correctness.
Americans are stupid.. We can all agree on that. France is lucky that an average Frenchman is much smarter than at typical borderline retarded American. I know the truth hurts, and am sorry for any pain that obvious truth causes to abject morons.
Just look at all the comments below from people to stupid to see the obvious reality that they themselves are commenting on...
However, we can't discount the impact of traitors collaborating with Russia in their attack on our election. Donald Trump is stupid, but he is also a traitor.
The republican senators and congressmen assisting Donald Trump's obstruction of justice are genuinely smart, but they are also obvious traitors.
The republican party's collaboration with Trump's coverup of Russia's attack on our election, and his collusion with their attack can not be ignored.
The people who don't see Russia's attack on our election are stupid, but their elected representatives are traitors.
Donald Trump publicly complemented Comey's press conferences and other actions related to Hillary's email during his campaign events.
How stupid would you have to be to believe that Donald Trump fired Comey for the actions which he publicly commended him for?
Donald Trump is preparing for his criminal prosecution and impeachment just like Richard Nixon did in the leadup to his resignation in disgrace.
It's kinda funny how despite the way Apple brands itself as innovative and user friendly, but Mac users are still stuck using a mouse on icons and menus while Windows has a touch-friendly interface.
Keep spending big on antiquated technology Apple users. Maybe one day the ghost of Steve Jobs will give you a touch screen and claim it's a revolutionary invention...