a quick poll about Russia and Donald Trump

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/russian-facebook-ads-michigan-wisconsin/index.html

xp

Funny, but he was indeed spotted hanging out at the juggalo march.

xpost If accurate that seems pretty huge.

Why can't the Senate get this basic information about the Steele dossier? Who is hiding it, and why? pic.twitter.com/PyZYpZdbOk

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 4, 2017

apparently, glenn simpson, the fusion GPS guy who commissioned the report

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/attorney-glenn-simpson-reveal-clients-trump-dossier-investigators/story?id=49367909

While Simpson’s attorney said his client provided significant details about his firm’s findings, he did not reveal the identities of those who paid for his research.

so someone's protecting their sources, why is this a story? I don't get it

I always thought the lore around the dossier was that it was ordered by a GOP primary foe like Jeb or Rubio or Cruz.

obviously they can't get that info because Steele refuses to cooperate and they can't subpoena him.

Greenwald is not v smart sometimes.

He is playing dumb on purpose to obscure the fact that he helped Trump by pushing Russian leaks.

I think Greenwald is trying to insinuate something, but there are multiple equally plausible inferences you could draw here, and too little info to assume anything.

well well well

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-dossier/trump-dossier-on-russia-links-now-part-of-special-counsels-probe-sources-idUSKBN1C92WN

The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy’s dossier of allegations of Russian financial and personal links to President Donald Trump’s campaign and associates

pee pee pee

LOL

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-trolls-schooled-house-cards-185648522.html

Six intelligence leaders -- including [former KANSAS representative and current CIA chief Mike] Pompeo and [(Benedict) Donald] Trump's DNI Dan Coats -- were asked by lawmakers on the Senate intelligence committee whether they agree that Russian intelligence agencies were responsible for hacking and the leaking of information to influence the US election. All six said yes.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/19/politics/cia-pompeo-russia-meddling-election/index.html

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-campaign-digital-director-interviewed-house-intel-committee

to be a fly on the wall

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/358138-tillerson-meets-with-russian-ambassador

http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_small_article/public/tillersonrex_061417kc_1.jpg

^^^ lego hair

yes

Most every Russia story is how we built a flaw into our society and are shocked to find a nation exploiting it instead of a company.

— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) November 1, 2017

fake news

http://www.newsweek.com/putin-trump-elected-clinton-700761

A guy who hasn't worked in the Kremlin since 2011 and wasn't actually close to Putin doing a mind-reading exercise? Yeah, I'd call that fake news.

ah newsweek ye have turned inot a too busy distracting awful website that is unreadable and annoying

"Trump recounted the exchange, remarking that the man, who he identified as retired Lt. Col. Louis Dorfman said, "That's my real Purple Heart. I have such confidence in you."

"And I said, 'Man, that’s like big stuff. I always wanted to get the Purple Heart," Trump said. "This was much easier.”

Trump then invited Dorfman to appear onstage with him on camera, as the two posed for photographs and Trump flashed a thumbs-up before placing the Purple Heart back in his suit jacket pocket."

wonder how Dorfman felt about all that

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/DORFonGOLF.jpg

CONFIRMED: Russian-linked hacker Guccifer 2.0 edited the hacked DNC documents before leaking them!https://t.co/00losrYCxS pic.twitter.com/DMjMGgmNn6

— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) November 3, 2017

VERIFIED:

THREAD:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/russia-funded-facebook-twitter-investments-kushner-associate

fake news

all this Paradise Papers shit is ridiculous in a bad way. basically everything about this admin is completely mobbed up with Putin.

or at least that's like the first two or three stories I've heard. that said I sincerely do welcome the ShariVari post wherein he just points out that it has ever been thus since at least 2000 and if you "elect" a Trump you should not be surprised by anything

Hello,

I want Paradise Papers of class IX(Chemistry,Biology,Pakistan Studies,English & Sindhi) according to new syllabus.
Thanks..

lol "elect"

lol, crut.

Spoiler: he's going to ask Putin to solve North Korea and then Putin will take a big photo-op meeting with KJU to bask in adulation and annoy the shit out of the rest of the civilized world. nothing will come of it other than the US moving down another seven pegs in the estimation of basically everybody.

Meuller must be pleased? Or perhaps he already had this dirt
"Other individuals directly or indirectly mentioned in the leaks include President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. A start-up company co-owned by Kushner and his brother received funding from Russian billionaire Milner in 2015."

The Russia stuff in this leak is weak sauce - so much so that a conspiracy theory has arisen suggesting that the Paradise Papers are part of a Russian infowar campaign to make other countries look bad in the wake of the much more damaging Panama Papers.

In reality, I think you are only ever going to learn a limited amount about hidden US assets from big international leaks like this when there are so many opportunities to hide resources within the US itself. The Delaware Papers would probably be much more damaging to Trump - and arguably to a bunch of Russian oligarchs.

It goes to show - stupid crooks rob banks, smart ones steal everyone's money legally

hillary should be in jail because uranium 1 but wilbur ross in business with the putin family is weak sauce. okay

The Delaware Papers would probably be much more damaging

yeah, this is otm

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/mueller-papdopoulos-timeline-wikileaks-emails

Facebook and the fall of empires

The Panama Papers just prove that we need summary execution for all billionaires.

its an illness!

Why bother mounting a Twitter campaign in favor of a guy who was only slightly more credible than Herman Cain? Here are a few guesses:

https://www.apnews.com/dea73efc01594839957c3c9a6c962b8a/Inside-story:-How-Russians-hacked-the-Democrats%27-emails

Why bother mounting a Twitter campaign in favor of a guy who was only slightly more credible than Herman Cain? Here are a few guesses:

- It was just a test. Social media manipulation was new to the Russians too, and they figured Trump might make an interesting test of how effective it could be.

- In the early days, you had to be very, very cynical about the United States to think that a race-baiting blowhard like Trump had a chance to win. Maybe Putin knew us better than we knew ourselves.

- The Russians never really thought Trump had a chance of winning. He just seemed like a good vehicle to sow a bit of random chaos.

- This whole thing started at a fairly low level by some guy who’d been pushing to “really try out this social media stuff.” His superiors finally got tired of him and told him to knock himself out. This low-level guy, it turns out, was a big Trump fan for personal reasons we’ll never know.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/11/wsj-russian-twitter-backed-trump-from-the-very-start/

In the early days, you had to be very, very cynical about the United States to think that a race-baiting blowhard like Trump had a chance to win. Maybe Putin knew us better than we knew ourselves.

but then again who doesn't

so did we arrest the Russians for treason via Facebook yet?

Russia is going to be angry face reaction on facebook about that

i tried to think of other courses of therapy as expensive and useless as this one and all i could come up with was xerxes' invasion of greece

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"He said he didn't meddle. He said he didn't meddle. I asked him again. You can only ask so many times," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he flew from Da Nang to Hanoi in Vietnam. Trump spoke to Putin three times on the sidelines of summit here, where the Russia meddling issue arose.

"Every time he sees me, he says, 'I didn't do that,'" Trump said. "And I believe, I really believe, that when he tells me that, he means it."

"I think he is very insulted by it," Trump added.