The Federalist is exclusively reporting that the Special Counsel investigating the origins of the Russia Collusion hoax — which so far, in filings, point directly to Hillary Clinton and her campaign hired guns — is also looking into the 2016 Democratic National Committee (DNC) computer server “hack.” At least one familiar name has coincidentally turned up.
After the leaks, the DNC immediately blamed “the Russians” to further buttress their fake story that Donald Trump was somehow colluding with Vladimir Putin to conduct the hack. But the DNC hack story has never been quite that simple. It appears that Durham may see it that way, too.
For example, the FBI, tasked with looking into the hack, was never allowed to examine the DNC servers. Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey could have used subpoenas to get a look at the DNC setup, but he never did. Clinton and DNC attorney Michael Sussmann, who Durham indicted for lying to the FBI, hired CrowdStrike to track the hacker. The cybersecurity company concluded, in what must have been record time, that the Russians did it. That notion was hoisted up the flagpole and everyone saluted. Except for Durham, it appears.
To be clear, most of the IT security experts I know (and I know a lot in my field) said that there was no way that CrowdStrike could identify who hacked their server, and if they could identify it, that it was very likely someone leaving "breadcrumbs" in order to pin it on someone else. We never really got any conclusive information on how they determined it was the Russians, although there was some buzz that the IP addresses were similar to some that had at one time been used by GRU, which supposedly employs some high level computer hackers.
Suffice it to say that being the only Party to have been successfully hacked and being the only candidate to have been successfully hacked was probably a sign of incompetence more than it was a sign of nefarious activity. Everyone knew that these campaign servers would be hacked to death. It appeared that the same hackers who successfully hacked the DNC and Clinton campaigns were unable to hack any other Candidates servers, including Bernie Sanders.
At the end of the day, if we find out that this particular Russian interference was more-less a hoax as well, pushed by the DNC and Clinton campaigns, that only leaves the failed attempts by Mueller to charge Russian PR firms with election interference. A charge that they refused to prove in court when those Russian corporations hired attorneys, demanded disclosure and a speedy trial. In fact the DOJ eventually (and quietly) dismissed those charges.
So what exactly was the Russian interference in the 2016 election? Well at this point we quite literally have no proof of anything and we might be finding out shortly that the server hacks blamed on the Russians was actually a hoax as well.
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In a video released Thursday, Zelenskyy told Russia its invasion would backfire.
"You will definitely be prosecuted for complicity in war crimes," Zelenskyy said. "And then, it will definitely be, you will be hated by Russian citizens. All those whom you now constantly, daily, for many years in a row, deceive. When they feel the effects of your lies, they will feel in their wallets, in the possibilities that are becoming less and less. On the stolen future of Russian children."
Britain’s armed forces minister, James Heappey, also said that whether hitting the hospital was “indiscriminate” fire into a built-up area or a deliberate targeting, “it is a war crime.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed those accusations and alleged that the hospital was a base for far-right radical fighters and that all mothers and pregnant women had been taken out of the building. Lavrov gave no evidence for the claims and video taken after the strike showed pregnant women being carried away on stretchers and women crying while holding children outside the building.
Russia’s defense ministry said Thursday that the hospital attack was “staged,” according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
“The supposed ‘air strike’ was a completely directed provocation to sustain the anti-Russian sentiment in the Western audience,” the state news agency said. The photos of the aftermath showed “two separate staged explosions next to the hospital. One was a deep underground explosion and the other one was smaller and was targeted at the hospital building,” it said.
Pjmedia is absolute proof that you have lost your mind.
I know that lawyers sometimes include things under the guise of educating the judge, I certainly did that when I was in your shoes, and I think that’s fair game. But … your pleadings in this case are under a microscope and may be employed for one reason or another by folks that have nothing to do with the ultimate question in this case. So just be mindful of that as we go forward.”
The warning came after an inquiry as to whether Sussmann agreed to waive the potential conflicts of interest that could arise from a fact that one of Sussmann’s lawyers was working for the Executive Office of the President of the United States (“EOP”) at the time that “relevant events that involved the EOP” occurred.
As Law&Crime has previously detailed, Durham last September secured a single-count indictment against Sussmann, a high-profile Perkins Coie cybersecurity lawyer who previously worked for both the Clinton campaign and for the Democratic Party. The indictment accuses Sussmann of allegedly “mak[ing] a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement or representation” before an Executive Branch agency, namely, the General Counsel of the FBI (who at the time was James Baker). Durham claims Sussmann falsely denied to the FBI that he was acting on behalf of the Clinton campaign during an interview about the Trump Organization’s “secret communications channel” with Alfa Bank. The crime alleged is a purported violation of 18 U.S.C. §1001(a)(2). Sussmann has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Durham and Sussmannsparredbefore the Thursday hearing by debating in dueling motionswhether Sussmann liedand, if so, whether the lie was material. But, as Law&Crimealso noted, the core legal issues were for a time overshadowed by insinuations that Durham’s motion supported claims that the campaign of then-candidateDonald Trumphad been spied upon — claims that weredubiously supported by written recordand which Durham’s teamlater wrotehad been “overstated, understated, or otherwise misinterpreted” by “third parties or members of the media.”
The evening before the Thursday hearing, Durham filed a supplemental motion which sought to probe yet another area of alleged conflict of interest. In it, Durham’s team said it had “become aware of” and discussed with defense counsel . . . an additional potential conflict of interest.”
Specifically, the Durham team sought an inquiry into the law firm representing Sussmann in this proceeding, Latham & Watkins LLP, because it “has previously sought, and in some cases received, client work from the current employer (“Employer-1″) of the former FBI General Counsel whom the Government expects to call as a central witness at trial.”
The ex-FBI general counsel, James A. Baker, now works for Twitter, according to multiple reports and his LinkedIn page.
“This client work and related proposals for such work have included one or more matters involving Witness-1, who serves as Deputy General Counsel of Employer-1,” Durham wrote.
After a brief back and forth with Sussmann in which Sussmann agreed to waive any potential conflicts, Cooper said he wasn’t convinced that Durham’s filing, and Sussmann’s subsequent motion to strike, was necessary at all.
“Both sides agreed to the inquiry that the government has requested,” said Cooper, a Barack Obama appointee. “I understand there’s a need for a factual record, but that factual record could have been a consent motion agreed to by both sides, [and we] could have done it in 20 mins in a status conference.”
As to the information that Sussmann said Durham “provocatively—and misleadingly” included, Cooper indicated that he would have little patience for it going forward.
“I don’t know why the information is in there,” Cooper said. “I extend a presumption of good faith to all counsel, particularly government counsel. I don’t ascribe any ill motives … for that and other reasons I’m not going to strike anything from the record.”
“Striking it will not unring the bell,” Cooper added. “It will probably make the bell sound even louder.”
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And of course Crooked Hillary.
Until we swear a jury in this case, you folks have an audience of one, and that’s me,” U.S. District Judge Christoper Cooper told prosecutors and attorneys for former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann at a hearing Thursday.
Tasked with investigating the origins of the FBI’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Durham accused Sussmann of lying about whether he was representing a client when he spoke to the FBI about the Trump Organization’s ties to Alfa Bank. Durham wrote in a recent filing that an attorney linked to Clinton’s campaign “exploited” data from Trump Tower and the Executive Office of the President to impugn Trump. Certain pro-Trump outlets characterized those allegations as “spying,” a claim that Durham never made. The data in question was from the public domain and collected before Trump’s tenure in office.
https://lawandcrime.com/russia-investigation/judge-chides-durham-team-for-putting-extraneous-information-in-court-documents-you-folks-have-an-audience-of-one-and-thats-me/?utm_source=mostpopular
What were 3 beliefs of the Federalists?
They favored weaker state governments, a strong centralized government, the indirect election of government officials, longer term limits for officeholders, and representative, rather than direct, democracy.
A very small, extreme libertarian organization. We wouldn't have any public schools, no regulation including smog control systems requirements, even public transportation, etc.
They support the authority of state legislatures in federal elections to choose electoral college votes, even if the popular vote said the other otherwise.
Under the guise of freedom, the voice of the people is ignored..
Almost exactly two years ago.
The indictment was political theater never meant to be tried in court.
More than an investigation, the Mueller probe was the wellspring of a political narrative. That becomes clearer as time goes by and more information ekes out . . . such as new confirmation that, months before Mueller was appointed in May 2017, it was already well understood in Justice Department circles that there was no case of criminal “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russia.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/department-of-justice-dismisses-robert-mueller-charges-against-russian-businesses/
The Deep state conspiracy was exposed according to you
Before we even get underway this morning, you need to go and look at several reports from last night at Taegan Goddard's politicalwire.com:
U.S. Will Revoke Favored Trade Status for Russia
Congress Clears $1.5 Trillion Spending Bill
How Goldman Sachs Profits from War In Ukraine
Bullying and Ethical Lapses Alleged at White House
WORLDWIDE Covid Deaths May Be Three Times Reported Number [AT EIGHTEEN MILLION, NOT SIX]
Russian Convoy Near Kyiv Disperses AND FANS OUT TO WREAK HAVOC ON CIVILIANS
Bonus Quote of the Day
“I don’t want to believe it, and I do not believe it.”
— Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, quoted by Reuters, when asked if he thought a nuclear war could be triggered by the war in Ukraine.
Treasury Secretary Predicts Another Year of Inflation
Facebook Will Allow Calls for Violence Against Russians
McConnell Opens Up to Biographer
Flynn Refused to Answer Committee Questions
North Korea Testing New Long Range Missiles
The Real Reason Trump Hasn’t Been Indicted
IRS Plans to Hire 10,000 New Workers
Feds Report $8 Billion In Pandemic Relief Fraud
And one more point is the isolation movement is back in the Trump era. There would not have been the cold war or NATO and the Russian Communist regime would have concurred Europe.
11, 2022
The War in Ukraine has Exposed the Perils of 21st Century Globalism
By Steve McCann
The unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine has exposed the folly, peril and incoherence of 21st Century Globalism. Unlike the economic globalism of the 19th and early 20th centuries that focused on the concept of free trade of goods for goods, this iteration can be characterized by allegiance to irrational environmentalism and the creation of elitist global institutions determined to mold mankind and impose regimentation on countries and their populations to ostensibly “save the planet.”
The operational underpinning of 21st Century Globalism is the extortion and intimidation of nations throughout the planet to acquiesce to radical “green” policies whose true objective is not to “save the planet” but the elimination of national identity and de facto global governance by unaccountable institutions.
The populations of many countries (such as the United States and much of Europe) have accordingly been coerced into altering their traditional national lifestyles and have marginalized their manufacturing and energy bases by voluntarily becoming reliant on other nations for basic goods and energy.
The Ukraine War has revealed the inanity of naïve voluntary dependance on manufactured products and/or natural resources from despotic countries, such as Russia, Iran and China, who are jointly and clandestinely setting up their own version of autocratic globalism.
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Freedom would have disappeared.
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Pjmedia is absolute proof that you have lost your mind.
Up until now, 9 posts, 8 from your alcoholic, mentally ill, insane asylum-locked down ass, and it's CH who has lost HIS mind.
LOL.
Yeah... that's it alky.
You're the sane one here.
GOOD MORNING.
AND HERE'S BOTH THE GOOD AND THE BAD OF IT, FROM HONEST REPORTING.
START AT BOTTOM AND WORK UP.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
Russia Claims Biological Weapons Research in Ukraine
Mmarch 11, 2022 at 7:40 am EST
“Russian officials accused the U.S. of funding biowarfare efforts in Ukraine, drawing concern from Western officials who fear that a crescendo of allegations about weapons of mass destruction could serve as a pretext for Russia to unleash chemical or biological weapons itself,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Putin Talks of Nationalizing Western Businesses
7:36 am EST
“Besieged by an onslaught of sanctions that have largely undone 30 years of economic integration with the West in the space of two weeks, President Vladimir Putin on Thursday opened the door to nationalizing the assets of Western companies pulling out of Russia and exhorted senior officials to ‘act decisively’ to preserve jobs,”
the New York Times reports.
“With Russia in danger of defaulting on its sovereign debt and facing a sharp contraction in its economy, the West is betting that the looming, generation-defining economic crisis could make Russians turn on their president. It is also possible, however, that the crisis could end up strengthening Mr. Putin, validating his narrative that the West is determined to destroy Russia.”
Financial Times:
Putin seeks “legal solutions” to seize assets of companies exiting Russia.
Tech Walls Off Russia
7:34 am EST
Bloomberg:
“The campaign to starve Russia of technology — stripping the nation of everything from iPhones and Airbnb listings to defense electronics — is an unprecedented experiment that risks pushing Vladimir Putin further into China’s orbit.”
The Real Russian Elite
7:32 am
Anatol Lieven:
“One of the worst effects of this war is going to be deep and long-lasting Russian isolation from the west. I believe, however, that Putin and the siloviki (though not many in the wider elites) welcome this isolation. They are becoming impressed with the Chinese model: a tremendously dynamic economy, a disciplined society and a growing military superpower ruled over with iron control by a hereditary elite that combines huge wealth with deep patriotism, promoting the idea of China as a separate and superior civilization.”
Democrats Are In Denial About Inflation
7:30 am EST
Catherine Rampell:
“It’s unclear if Democrats have been blaming ‘corporate greed’ for inflation because the message polls well or because they believe it. If the latter — well, we’re in deep trouble.
“Because Democrats might end up adopting policies that make things worse.”
Quote of the Day
7:11 am EST
“We are all dealing with a terrorist state.”
— Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, quoted by The Guardian, on Russia.
Why Putin Won’t Back Down
6:30 am
David Brooks:
“There have been hints that Putin might be willing to cut a deal with some sort of compromise and retreat from Ukraine, but that would be a shock. It would destroy the bloated and fragile personal and national identity that he has been building all these years. People tend not to compromise when their very identity is at stake.”
Endgame Remains Elusive In Ukraine
6:29 am
“As Western leaders congratulate themselves for their speedy and severe responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, they’re also scratching their heads with uncertainty about what their actions will accomplish,”
the AP reports.
“They may not say it publicly, but U.S. officials and their NATO allies don’t see a breaking point for Putin — either an economic toll so severe or battlefield losses so devastating — that would convince him to order his troops home and allow Ukraine’s leaders to govern in peace.”
Graham Claims Madison Cawthorn Is an Outlier
6:24 am
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) claimed that Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) is an outlier “in the largest sense possible on our side.”
ISIS Names a New Leader
6:21 am
“The Islamic State on Thursday announced that it has a new leader, but provided little information on the true identity or background of the man who will now oversee the global terrorist organization,”
the New York Times reports.
“The new leader, Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, was unveiled in an audio message released on Islamic State social media accounts that also confirmed the death of the group’s previous leader, who American officials say blew himself up during a U.S. commando raid on his hide-out in northwestern Syria last month.”
Democrats Look to Biden for a Reset
6:17 am
New York Times:
“One year to the day after the enactment of Mr. Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, a law that remains broadly popular even if the president, at the moment, is not, Democrats are toiling to retool their message and refocus their agenda. They are worried that the accomplishments they helped deliver to Mr. Biden are being drowned out by concern over the rising price of gas and a focus on their legislative failures.
“And they are looking to Mr. Biden, who is to address them at the retreat on Friday, to help them reframe the conversation.”
Democrats See Midterm Hope In Biden Bounce
6:15 am
Politico:
“Even in an improved position, Biden and his party are in trouble, with Democrats still widely expected to lose the House in November. But with Biden’s poll numbers ticking up in recent days — after his State of the Union and with the country rallying ever so slightly behind his handling of the war in Ukraine — even skeptical Democrats are feeling oddly optimistic that a Biden rebound might last and that the party’s midterm losses might not be so severe.
“Democrats still have reason to be anxious. But at a critical juncture in the midterm election cycle, the party is in an improved position from just three months ago, when moribund party officials met in South Carolina to close out the last year. At the time, Biden’s approval ratings had cratered. The Omicron variant was surging. Justice Stephen Breyer had yet to announce his retirement, a development that would allow Biden, last month, to make his historic and base-pleasing selection of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
“Most importantly, Russia had yet to invade Ukraine, a development that has shifted public attention away from a year of domestic difficulties and recast Biden as a fixture in a war raging nonstop on Americans’ TVs. In recent days, multiple polls have registered a moderate improvement in Biden’s still-weak public approval ratings.
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That no one reads
SSDD
Coldheartedtrurh, now you've done it. You've triggered the copy paste couple. Cue the next 15 posts being long articles about Trump.
JUST IN
Putin says Russia to use Middle East volunteer fighters against Ukraine
Reuters
March 11, 2022, 5:48 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the green light on Friday for up to 16,000 volunteers from the Middle East to be deployed alongside Russian-backed rebels to fight in Ukraine, doubling down an invasion that the West says has been losing momentum.
The move, just over two weeks since Putin ordered the invasion, allows Russia to deploy battle-hardened mercenaries from conflicts such as Syria without risking additional Russian military casualties.
At a meeting of Russia's Security Council, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said there were 16,000 volunteers in the Middle East who were ready to come to fight alongside Russian-backed forces in the breakaway Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.
"If you see that there are these people who want of their own accord, not for money, to come to help the people living in Donbass, then we need to give them what they want and help them get to the conflict zone," Putin said from the Kremlin.
Shoigu also proposed that Western-made Javelin and Stinger missiles that were captured by the Russian army in Ukraine should be handed over to Donbass forces, along other weaponry such as man-portable air-defense systems, known as MANPADS, and anti-tank rocket complexes.
"As to the delivery of arms, especially Western-made ones which have fallen into the hands of the Russian army - of course I support the possibility of giving these to the military units of the Lugansk and Donetsk people's republics," Putin said.
"Please do this," he told Shoigu. The exchange was shown on Russian state television.
Putin says the "special military operation" in Ukraine is essential to ensure Russia's security after the United States expanded NATO up to its borders and supported pro-Western leaders in Kyiv.
Ukraine says it is fighting for its existence while the United States, and its European and Asian allies have condemned the Russian invasion. China has called for calm.
Shoigu said the operation was all going to plan before requesting Putin's approal for the use of fighters from the Middle East.
U.S. intelligence chiefs told lawmakers on Thursday that Russia had been surprised by the strength of Ukrainian resistance, which had deprived the Kremlin of a quick victory it thought would have prevented the United States and NATO from providing meaningful military aid.
That was causing concern in Beijing, Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns said.
"I do believe that the Chinese leadership, President Xi (Jinping) in particular, is unsettled," Burns said. "By what he's seen, partly because his own intelligence doesn't appear to have told him what was going to happen."
Shoigu said Western arms were flowing into Ukraine in an "absolutely uncontrolled" way and that the Russian military planned to strengthen its Western border after what he said was a build up of Western military units on Russia's border.
"The general staff is working on, and has almost finished, a plan to strengthen our Western borders, including, naturally, with new modern complexes," Shoigu said.
Putin said the question of how to react to moves by NATO countries need a separate discussion.
U.S. Fights Disinformation Pushed by Russia and China
8:31 am EST
“One of Russia’s most incendiary disinformation campaigns ramped up days ago, when its defense and foreign ministries issued statements falsely claiming that the Pentagon was financing biological weapons labs in Ukraine,”
the New York Times reports.
“Then Chinese diplomats and state media organizations repeated the conspiracy theory at news conferences in Beijing, in articles and on official social media accounts.
“Now, the Biden White House has taken the extraordinary step of calling out both countries on their coordinated propaganda campaign and saying they might be providing cover for a potential biological or chemical weapons attack on Ukrainians by the Russian military.”
More than 40 Republican U.S. senators on Thursday called for President Biden to aid “the transfer of aircraft and air defense systems” to Ukraine after officials quashed Poland’s offer to send fighter jets with American help.
The senators said in a letter that they “strongly disagree” with the Biden administration’s stance on Poland’s proposal, and that the Ukrainian military is in “dire need of more lethal aid” as it fights Russia’s invasion. They urged the president to work with NATO allies on providing those resources — uniting behind a step that U.S. officials worry could pull the Western alliance into war.
American officials have criticized Poland’s proposal to transfer MiG-29 jets through the United States as risking escalation without significantly changing the situation in Ukraine, given that Ukraine’s air force is largely intact. Asked about the senator’s letter Thursday evening, White House spokesperson Sean Savett noted comments from the Pentagon and the U.S. military commander in Europe expressing those views.
The GOP lawmakers’ letter increases pressure on the Biden administration to go further and underscores the party’s support for major actions against the Kremlin. The White House announced a ban on Russian oil and natural gas imports this week with bipartisan support, and Congress passed a multibillion-dollar aid package for Ukraine that would provide military and humanitarian support and help NATO allies.
[U.S. to ban oil imports from Russia as White House explores drastic plans to buffer economy from energy shock]
“Supporting Ukraine’s fight for freedom against the tyrannical, lawless Russian invasion of Ukraine’s sovereign territory is among the most urgent missions the West has faced in a generation,” begins the senators’ letter, which includes the signature of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky).
I hope they can provide aircraft without provoking a massive response from Putin, who is unpredictable.
The bipartisan support for Ukraine is spectacularly good news.
The fringe of isolationist are being ignored by the majority of Republicans.
Caliphate4vr said...
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That no one reads
SSDD
March 11, 2022 at 7:01 AM
Myballs said...
Coldheartedtrurh, now you've done it. You've triggered the copy paste couple. Cue the next 15 posts being long articles about Trump.
yep
and all state media all the time
1984
Trump Won’t Call Putin ‘Evil’
8:59 am EST
Donald Trump claimed to Sean Hannity that he had a “very strong” conversation with Valdimir Putin in which he received assurance that Putin wouldn’t invade Ukraine while he was in office.
He also declined to call Putin “evil” when prompted by Hannity.
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I call Putin evil.
I call Trump evil.
I call some of you evil.
I call all who want a fascistic oligarchy, a millionaire-run America evil.
As a retired pastor of a mainline Protestant denomination, I have sadly concluded that there are now a small but significant number of Republicans who no longer represent what this nation stands for. Unfortunately, they have misled many Americans, including working class people, into thinking they are “for” them, “for the people,” when actually they are would-be dictators who want to rule our nation for the sake of their own selfish personal profit.
In this they resemble the corrupt oligarchs who, with Vladimir Putin’s help, are now ruling a captive Russia.
What can we do about this? Oppose them. Vote them out. Free ourselves from them.
In addition, I find myself wishing, for the sake of future generations who will be born in our land, that most Americans would now unite in absolutely insisting on rewording our pledge of allegiance to make it include words like these: “I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, a nation intended [by God] to have government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people – not of, by, and for the rich.”
Government that is "of the people, by the people, and for the people" – for all the people – those are words that need to be heard, learned, and repeated
often by all the children of our land.
James Boswell, Normal
* James Boswell, not normal
Tucker Carlson
FANTASTIC VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1502109870908186630
Robert Pope is in charge of securing or eliminating Soviet-era bioweapons, so he knows a lot about the subject. But it turns out not all of these Soviet weapons are being destroyed or even secured in Ukraine. Pope acknowledged that in an interview.
and Tucker destroys the lame stream media
including his own network
Ukraine Worked With Democrats Against Trump in 2016 to Stop Putin. The Bet Backfired Badly.
Six years ago, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, the Ukrainians bet that a Hillary Clinton presidency would offer better protection from Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though he had invaded Crimea during the Obama-Biden administration, whose Russian policies Clinton vowed to continue.
... but Ukraine's bet backfired both when Trump won in 2016 -- and when Russia invaded after the Democrats regained power under Joe Biden.
Working with both the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign, Ukrainian government officials intervened in the 2016 race to help Clinton and hurt Donald Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation that's been largely ignored by the press. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, where officials worked hand-in-glove with a Ukrainian-American activist and Clinton campaign operative to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on – and even investigate -- their political rival.
Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers – including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election.
As it worked behind the scenes to undermine Trump, Ukraine also tried to kneecap him publicly. Ukraine's ambassador took the extraordinary step of attacking Trump in an Op-Ed article published in The Hill, an influential U.S. Capitol newspaper, while other top Ukrainian officials slammed the GOP candidate on social media.
At first glance, it was a bad bet as Trump upset Clinton. But by the end of his first year in office, Trump had supplied Ukrainians what the Obama administration refused to give them: tank-busting Javelin missiles and other lethal weapons to defend themselves against Russian incursions. Putin never invaded on Trump's watch. Instead, he launched an all-out invasion during another Democratic administration – one now led by President Biden, Barack Obama's former Vice President, whose Secretary of State last year alarmed Putin by testifying, “We support Ukraine's membership in NATO.” Biden boasted he’d go “toe to toe” with Putin, but that didn't happen as the autocrat amassed tanks along Ukraine’s border in response to the NATO overtures.
The Ukrainian mischief is part of Special Counsel John Durham’s broader inquiry – now a full-blown criminal investigation with grand jury indictments – into efforts to falsely target Trump as a Kremlin conspirator in 2016 and beyond.
continues in much longer and well researched article (I won't post 10 pages here like the alky and the POS "pastor" do...)
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/03/10/how_ukraine_conspired_with_dems_against_trump_to_prevent_the_kind_of_war_happening_now_under_biden_820873.html
meant to highlight this:
The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on – and even investigate -- their political rival.
would appear to be a bit of a scandal...
Ukrainian officials reported Russian airstrikes on Friday near airports in the western cities of Ivano-Frankiivsk and Lutsk and more bombings in the eastern city of Dnipro, where at least one civilian was reported killed.
The big picture: Ukrainian officials say it's the first time Dnipro has been attacked, as Russia's military appears to be widening its assault to more cities. Ukrainian lawmaker Inna Sovsun tweeted Friday it shows there's "no safe city" in Ukraine.
State of play: The barrage on Kharkiv continued Friday. Kharkiv's mayor told Reuters "48 schools have been destroyed" in the city as of Friday. The Ukrainian government said Russia's military had struck the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology for the second time in less than a week.
In Kyiv, air raid sirens blared across the capital on Friday morning.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a televised address Thursday that Russian forces had "destroyed the building of the main department of the State Emergency Service in the Donetsk" region."Right next to this building was the place where Mariupol residents were to gather for evacuation," Zelensky added. "This is outright terror. Blatant terror. From experienced terrorists."
Meanwhile, civilians were prevented from leaving the besieged port city of Mariupol and also Volnovakha, in the Donetsk region of southeastern Ukraine, because "Russian troops did not cease fire," according to Zelensky.
Between the lines: The U.K. Defense Ministry said in an intelligence update Friday that Russian forces continued to make little progress in the face of Ukrainian resistance and "logistical issues."
"Russia is likely seeking to reset and re-posture its forces for renewed offensive activity in the coming days," the Defense Ministry said."This will probably include operations against the capital Kyiv."
80 % of Americans want Drill Baby Drill.
Biden admitted he can't do much about it, the it is gas prices.
Yet, Biden said Putin is more powerful and can change gas prices.
U.S. to Ban Imports of Russian Alcohol and Seafood
“The U.S. is planning to ban imports of Russian alcohol and seafood, in the latest effort to punish Moscow for the country’s invasion of Ukraine,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
A Biden-Trump Rematch Would Be Close
9:58 am
A new Wall Street Journal poll finds Joe Biden and Donald Trump are deadlocked in a possible 2024 presidential match up, 45% to 45%.
OH MY. SO NOW ITS CLOSE! A SHORT WHILE AGO, IT WAS TRUMP AHEAD.
IF THE GOP IS DUMB ENOUGH TO NOMINATE HIM, IT WILL TEAR THEIR PARTY APART AND ASSURE THE ELECTION OF A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT, WHETHER BIDEN OR SOMEONE ELSE.
Ex-Montana Secretary of State Explores Presidential Bid
9:57 am EST
Former Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton (R) announced that he is “testing the waters” for a potential run for president of the United States, the Helena Independent Record reports.
How Millions of Lives Might Have Been Saved
9:31 am EST
Zeynep Tufecki:
“What if China had been open and honest in December 2019?
What if the world had reacted as quickly and aggressively in January 2020 as Taiwan did?
What if the United States had put appropriate protective measures in place in February 2020, as South Korea did? [AND TRUMP DIDN'T.]
“To examine these questions is to uncover a brutal truth:
Much suffering was avoidable,
again and again,
if different choices
that were available and plausible
had been made at crucial turning points.
By looking at them, and understanding what went wrong,
we can hope to avoid similar mistakes in the future.”
There’s Too Much Evidence Against Capitol Rioters
9:30 am EST
“The amount of evidence collected as part of the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection rivals what the Hubble telescope has amassed in its three-decade orbit.
And sorting through it all has ground many of its criminal cases to a halt,”
the Los Angeles Times reports.
“To speed things along, U.S. attorneys and public defenders have teamed up to create a massive, searchable database to comb through the thousands of social media messages, videos and other evidence produced when the assault on the Capitol was broadcast to the world by journalists, bystanders and the rioters themselves.”
PUTIN'S PRICES AT THE PUMP
WILL NOT DETER TRUE AMERICANS
FROM OPPOSING HIM AND ANYONE WHO DOES NOT THINK HIM EVIL.
Leadership.
The U.S. is moving to revoke Russia's "most favored nation" trade status in what President Biden called Friday "another crushing blow" against the country over its invasion of Ukraine.
Driving the news: "We're going to continue to stand together with our allies in Europe and send unmistakable message. We'll defend every single inch of NATO territory of the full might of the united and galvanized NATO," Biden said.
Biden said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had agreed to wait to move forward on revoking Russia's normal trade status until he "could line up all of our key allies," adding that "unity among our allies is critically important."The U.S. is set to lift the status in coordination with the European Union and the Group of Seven countries, meaning those nations can raise tariffs on Russian imports to further inflict economic damage in retaliation for the invasion.
What he's saying: Biden also said Friday that the U.S. is taking steps to ban imports of Russian vodka, seafood and diamonds.
"Putin is the aggressor and Putin must pay the price," Biden said.
The big picture: Congress must pass legislation to remove Russia's permanent normal trade relations with the U.S., though lawmakers in the House and Senate have signaled they are ready to act, according to Reuters.
The status removal comes on top of a U.S. ban on Russian oil, natural gas and coal imports, technology exports to the country, and sanctions on several Russian banks, oligarchs and businesses.EU and NATO countries have also raised similar sanctions against Russia.Congress is pursuing additional legislation that would in part direct the U.S. trade representative to "use the voice and influence" of the U.S. to push for Russia to be suspended from the World Trade Organization.
What's happening: Russia's economy is already suffering from the economic sanctions, with the International Monetary Fund predicting that it will fall into a "deep recession" this year.
To repeat...Based on some comments out there, there are some of you who obviously didn`t pay attention in your high school here is an econ refresher:
What are the main components of the retail price of gasoline?
• The cost of crude oil
• Refining costs and large profits
• Distribution and marketing costs, and large profits
• Local, state, and federal taxes
• Geopolitics (like the war in Ukraine)
• Seasonal variation (supply and demand)
• Strength of the dollar
Oh and by the way the highest average price for a gallon of gas (adjusted for inflation) was in 2008 (when George W. Bush was president) @ $5.13 a gallon (without a war in Europe factoring in). Sorry if that doesn’t fit some who prefer a misinformed narrative, but facts are facts.
High school economics escapes kputz
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The Deep state conspiracy was exposed according to you
What you are quoting is a former us prosecutor who is not embellishing or providing an inflated opinion of things. Just telling the truth.
Mueller indicted Russians so that he could say he was indicting Russians. Because they are not US citizens, the expectation was that they would never be charged. But the Russians hired attorneys, faced the indictments, demanded disclosure, and a speedy trial.
The fact was that when push came to shove and he was forced to actually make a case in court that these people actually interfered in our election. He had ZERO case. No actual evidence other than some Russian story in a periodical.
Mueller was a failure, pure and simple.
Now if we find out (for sure) that the DNC and Clinton campaign embellished the stories about how it was the "Russians" who hacked their servers... well then we are down to zero proven things that the Russians supposedly did to help Trump in 2016.
Literally Zero...
But Roger will be like Journey and "wont stop believing" in spite of having no reason to.
PUTIN'S PRICES AT THE PUMP
Is that the new TPM, Reverend?
There is no way this will work!
Watching Psaki try to defend that against reporters the other day was priceless. It's so transparent and dumb that nobody with more than a room temperature IQ would fall for it.
No offense, because obviously you do or at least want to repeat the rhetoric.
Oh and by the way the highest average price for a gallon of gas (adjusted for inflation) was in 2008 (when George W. Bush was president) @ $5.13 a gallon (without a war in Europe factoring in). Sorry if that doesn’t fit some who prefer a misinformed narrative, but facts are facts.
I am sorry Roger...
Do you want to repeat what gas Prices were 18 months ago?
Did all of this nonsense take place randomly on its own just coincidentally right as Biden took over as President?
https://carolineglick.com/washingtons-betrayal-has-only-just-begun/
Here is your new favorite
The 2016 election resulted in Trump as The President of the United States of America.
It's almost six years ago..
There was no collusion but remember Russia, when will you give us the emails
Get over it.
The 2016 election resulted in Trump as The President of the United States of America.
Which was a totally and completely fair election without any ACTUAL evidence that the Russians tampered or interfered, much less did so on Trump's behalf.
So yeah... get over it Roger!
We are finding soooo much more about how corrupt and tainted the 2020 election was. Fun to see how my statistical and mathematical analysis is suddenly syncing up with all of these known criminal acts!
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