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DIY-HP-LED
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Trump in Even More Legal Hot Water After Lying to Judge
Trump’s lies were exposed after he was caught talking out of both sides of his mouth.
DIY-HP-LED
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This is what many suspected, where did the golf course money come from? The Deutsche bank money?
Uncle Sam should dance on Vlad's corpse over this, and will if true. Vlad sure left himself open to punishment by invading Ukraine and all those Vlad fucked over see their chance to eliminate him, starting with the Ukrainians.
Uncle Sam should dance on Vlad's corpse over this, and will if true. Vlad sure left himself open to punishment by invading Ukraine and all those Vlad fucked over see their chance to eliminate him, starting with the Ukrainians.
DIY-HP-LED
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KGB groomed Trump as an asset for 40 years, former Russian spy says
New book interviewing Yuri Shvets and many other sources alleges Moscow rescued Trump's businesses with laundered funds, directly tying this to ex-president's affinity for Putin
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KGB groomed Trump as an asset for 40 years, former Russian spy says
New book interviewing Yuri Shvets and many other sources alleges Moscow rescued Trump’s businesses with laundered funds, directly tying this to ex-president’s affinity for Putin
Former US president Donald Trump was nurtured as a Russian asset for decades, starting in 1980, a new book claims, with Moscow actively encouraging the businessman to enter politics many years before he won the presidency and supporting him through numerous failed business ventures as it built a “deep” relationship with the mogul.
“He was an asset,” former KGB spy Yuri Shvets, who worked for the KGB in Washington DC for years in the 1980s, told journalist Craig Unger in the new book American Kompromat.
Unger’s book is based on interviews with numerous sources, including Soviet defectors and ex-CIA agents. In it he makes the assertion that Trump’s relationship to Russia as president — one in which he appeared repeatedly averse to criticize Moscow and often took actions seen as desirable to leader Vladimir Putin– was directly tied to his cultivation by Russia over long years.
The book says Russian officials repeatedly helped Trump get through dire financial straits over the years, providing him with laundered money to support his businesses.
“Trump was the perfect target in a lot of ways: His vanity, narcissism made him a natural target to recruit. He was cultivated over a 40-year period, right up through his election,” Shvets told the Guardian.
Shvets said Trump first came to the attention of Soviet officials in 1977 when he married his first wife Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech model.
When Trump opened the Grand Hyatt New York hotel in 1980, he bought hundreds of televisions from a Russian immigrant who was a KGB spotter and who highlighted him as a potential asset, being an up-and-coming businessman.
And when Trump visited Moscow in 1987, he was unknowingly in contact with KGB agents who launched “a charm offensive” on the real estate developer, Shvets said.
“They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery,” Shvets said.
“They played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the president of the United States one day: It is people like him who could change the world.”
Shortly after his return, Trump first mulled running for president, and put out major ads touting the same talking points he would wield in 2016, criticizing US support of NATO and suggesting “America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves.”
In Russia, the KGB celebrated, Shvets said.
“It was unprecedented. I am pretty well familiar with KGB active measures starting in the early 70s and 80s, and then afterwards with Russia active measures, and I haven’t heard anything like that or anything similar — until Trump became the president of this country — because it was just silly. It was hard to believe that somebody would publish it under his name and that it will impress real serious people in the West but it did and, finally, this guy became the president.”
Shvets, stressed, however, that “it was not this grand, ingenious plan that we’re going to develop this guy and 40 years later he’ll be president. At the time it started, which was around 1980, the Russians were trying to recruit like crazy and going after dozens and dozens of people.”
US authorities have long said Russia meddled in the 2016 election to get Trump elected. His campaign’s ties to Russia were investigated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The probe concluded that Russia interfered in the election through hacking and a covert social media campaign and that the Trump campaign embraced the help and expected to benefit from it. But Mueller did not charge any Trump associates with conspiring with Russians.
But Trump’s attitude toward Russia throughout his presidency often raised eyebrows. He appeared loath to criticize Moscow on multiple occasions and repeatedly and openly cozied up to Putin.
The president sometimes described Russia as a misunderstood potential friend, a valued World War II ally led by a wily president who actually may share American values, like the importance of patriotism, family and religion.
Trump was roundly criticized by both Democrats and Republicans in 2018 after he refused to challenge Putin over interference in American elections, accepting his word over the pronouncements of US intelligence officials.
In 2018 a senior Justice Department lawyer reportedly said a former British spy told him Russian intelligence believed it had Trump “over a barrel.”
Yet despite Trump’s rhetoric, his administration also plowed ahead with some of the most significant actions against Russia by any recent administration: Dozens of Russian diplomats were expelled, diplomatic missions closed, arms control treaties the Russians sought to preserve were abandoned and weapons were sold to Russian foe Ukraine.
DIY-HP-LED
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It is the death of a thousand cuts and this is a minor one, more is coming both for his business and him personally. He will still be a felon under the law. By the time he gets to court over this, Jack will have him over the docs and obstruction. This tangles up his feet while the big indictments bring him down and is one more legal burden to bear.
If they had indicted him federally with Cohen, he would have been looking at nearly a decade, triple what Cohen got, for being the kingpin.
Let's talk about Trump, New York, and cold water....
If they had indicted him federally with Cohen, he would have been looking at nearly a decade, triple what Cohen got, for being the kingpin.
Let's talk about Trump, New York, and cold water....
Roger A. Shrubber
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Wow! Trump lied..?Trump in Even More Legal Hot Water After Lying to Judge
Trump’s lies were exposed after he was caught talking out of both sides of his mouth.www.thedailybeast.com
Some people say a real indictment is taking place as we speak with a real Grand Jury. I'm not talking about NY..guess.
Which prosecutor could be the first to indict Trump in 2023?
Federal and state criminal investigations are progressing against the former president. Here’s what to watch this year.www.msnbc.com
A little bit about the penis IQ..they don't tell you if you 'click'..you're automatically 68 and far from 130. That's the trick, they know you're stupid loser and sell your digital footprint to the Chinese or Russians.
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cannabineer
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well, damn. I mean … penises.
Maybe if they started off with 'is this a real constitutional law?' See how many clicks you get? I resent clickbait being dumbed down.
cannabineer
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I haven’t seen that in a chumbox.
DIY-HP-LED
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I'd call it an ominous silence, not a deafening one.
Trump's desperate and dangerous posts, and DOJ's deafening silence
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History often repeats itself, but generally not as quickly as it seems to be this time. After Donald Trump expressly advocated, encouraged and directed a violent attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to unlawfully retain the power of the presidency, he's at it again. Trump just reposted something one of his supporters posted, expressly advocating violence yet again in the event Trump is not made president in 2024.
What's even more surprising than Trump's continued calls to violence is the continued inaction of the Department of Justice to hold Trump accountable for his last insurrection. This inaction is especially inexplicable in light of a ruling from a federal court judge that Donald Trump committed two federal felonies in connection with his last attempt to unconstitutionally remain in office: obstructing an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud or commit offenses against the United States.
Will the DOJ really await a SECOND attack on our democracy before acting to hold Trump accountable for his crimes?
Trump's desperate and dangerous posts, and DOJ's deafening silence
4,015 views Feb 1, 2023 #TeamJustice
History often repeats itself, but generally not as quickly as it seems to be this time. After Donald Trump expressly advocated, encouraged and directed a violent attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to unlawfully retain the power of the presidency, he's at it again. Trump just reposted something one of his supporters posted, expressly advocating violence yet again in the event Trump is not made president in 2024.
What's even more surprising than Trump's continued calls to violence is the continued inaction of the Department of Justice to hold Trump accountable for his last insurrection. This inaction is especially inexplicable in light of a ruling from a federal court judge that Donald Trump committed two federal felonies in connection with his last attempt to unconstitutionally remain in office: obstructing an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud or commit offenses against the United States.
Will the DOJ really await a SECOND attack on our democracy before acting to hold Trump accountable for his crimes?
Roger A. Shrubber
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it sure as fuck seems like it, and i wouldn't be so sure that would be enough to get garland the fuck off of his hands.
printer
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Free Speech.
DIY-HP-LED
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It's in Jack's hands, not Garland's and we don't know why he has not indicted him yet, but there are probably a lot of things going on that we know nothing about. There could be a traffic jam of rats in suits at Jack's office door all looking for a deal and he will need to milk them all dry first. It's like Santos, the FBI will only interview him after they already know the answers to the questions and then he will talk to a grand jury or be the target of one.
It could even be the debt ceiling and they night want to see that thing done in the national interest before the shit really hits the fan for the GOP house when he is indicted. If the judge cuts him loose and he is on social media he is goona squeeze Kevin's balls until his head pops off. The house is the only lever of power Donald has left and he will use them to wipe his ass like toilet paper on the way down. So let's hope the Judge releases Donald upon indictment with no muzzle and a trial pending in 90 days and few delays possible. Then there is Georgia and I'm sure Jack will be managing that traffic too.
Donald will be indicted, it's just a question of when, Jack has got a mountain of evidence to wade through with more coming to light every day as as all the pieces come together. Donald is hurting the GOP the most by running around loose and Desantis will lay low until he goes away. Most of the elected GOP and Mitch can't wait for Jack to do Donald and remove him from the picture for good. Donald owns the house and the RNC who will be probably paying his legal bills, or he will cause trouble for them too.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
and just about worth it.
cannabineer
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Glenn irritates me at this point. His entire schtick hinges on his experience as a Federal prosecutor, and the credibility “as an insider and guide to how it works” that experience supposedly confers upon him.
However he has been making this call, with incorrectness unrelieved by mounting emotion, for a long time now.
The disconnect between his predictions and the current state of progress is making it plain that he is out of touch with the reality of the matter.
When he is not restricting himself to analysis of established events, like Darling stepping up and then down as special master, his forays into fortune-telling have been no success. I don’t know why he is devaluing his brand like this, but he is, and I’ve had enough of his hand-wringing.
Should and shall are two very different things, and I’m no longer in this to listen to a bucketful of should. Wake me up when he sinks a three-pointer reading the AG’s or the SC’s palm.
Fogdog
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How odd. Ever since US sanctions made it difficult for Putin and his Russia to transfer Russian money into the US, Trump's fundraising has sucked.
Why is that?
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Trump Posts Weak Fundraising Numbers In Failed Bid To Clear 2024 Field
The coup-attempting former president saw no real bump from his campaign announcement, and did not raise much more than he did from his NFT sale.
The coup-attempting former president raised less than $5 million in the final month of 2022 for his 2024 campaign ― barely more than what he cleared in a single day selling photoshopped pictures of himself.
Trump’s Save America Joint Fundraising Committee reported raising $4,951,463 in the final two days of November and all of December in its filing Wednesday night with the Federal Election Commission.
“It’s a bad sign,” said Tyler Bowyer, an RNC member from Arizona who was among the leaders of a movement to push out chair Ronna McDaniel at last week’s winter meeting. “But fundraising is tough right now with lots of uncertainty.”
So very, very odd that donations to Trump and other GOP candidates plummeted the day after sanctions against Russia were announced due to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Must be a coincidence.
Why is that?
Trump Posts Weak Fundraising Numbers In Failed Bid To Clear 2024 Field
The coup-attempting former president saw no real bump from his campaign announcement, and did not raise much more than he did from his NFT sale.
Trump Posts Weak Fundraising Numbers In Failed Bid To Clear 2024 Field
The coup-attempting former president saw no real bump from his campaign announcement, and did not raise much more than he did from his NFT sale.
The coup-attempting former president raised less than $5 million in the final month of 2022 for his 2024 campaign ― barely more than what he cleared in a single day selling photoshopped pictures of himself.
Trump’s Save America Joint Fundraising Committee reported raising $4,951,463 in the final two days of November and all of December in its filing Wednesday night with the Federal Election Commission.
“It’s a bad sign,” said Tyler Bowyer, an RNC member from Arizona who was among the leaders of a movement to push out chair Ronna McDaniel at last week’s winter meeting. “But fundraising is tough right now with lots of uncertainty.”
So very, very odd that donations to Trump and other GOP candidates plummeted the day after sanctions against Russia were announced due to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Must be a coincidence.
Roger A. Shrubber
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you keep saying that trump is going to squeeze mccarthy's balls...but i've yet to see any proof that trump has any dirt on him. mccarthy is a sniveling
toad to begin with, an ass kisser who just went through 15 humiliating votes for speaker, and acted like he won on the first vote. I have no reason to believe trump has any kompromat on mccarthy, who would cringe and lick his loafers with no more incentive than his natural instinct to suck up to those more powerful than himself. I actually think that with trump indicted, mccarthy might even have the nerve to stand up to him for the first time, and tell him to get fucked.