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First there is accusations.
Next there is no proof, only unnamed sources
What's next?

It is my hope that TRUTH will find a way to overcome HATE.
Until then, We The People will not trust anything the hateful minority might spew.

Pot meet kettle

I don't follow anyone around, so prove it.

I know you can't wrap your head around the fact that Trump voters are in the minority. So ... whatever.

Sorry Eve, I didn't know you were being victimized outside of the political threads. creepy...

And I'm not at all uncomfortable with anything you say or do as I just consider the source, but I've watched you use these comments to change the subject/end attacks/throw curve balls. I think it's hilarious that you do something so simple and completely shut down some people.

As for your bodily functions, I could care less where your hormones take you. I do care about your health and well being as a person I interact with and like, I wish you the best with that at all times. I just do not care your political views and worldviews as they seem to be based on fake news, alternative facts, conspiracy theories and utter nonsense.

You'll notice I don't go after the likes of Purp, Ytown, and other conservatives based on their different perspectives; this is because they are realistic and see the truth when it is exposed. Your little niche on the board (comrades) use zero common sense and will argue your points regardless of facts to the contrary just for the sake of your pride all while playing the victim. Ridiculousness personified!

My head wraps around that without a problem.

It is your head that can't wrap around the fact the Liberal/Progressive movement is accepted but by a small minority of the American people. Most of the Left didn't even show up to support your agenda in this past election.
Yours is only the squeaky wheel in need of grease.

You're the only one in the history of this board to insinuate another board member would end up as a cop killer.

40YEARSWAITING said:

Factual Archival Proof

You end up with no ground to stand on. You display many tendencies that show you're afraid of "the other".

I hope one day you'll drop your irrational fears.

Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence


By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MARK MAZZETTI and MATT APUZZOFEB. 14, 2017


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WASHINGTON — Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials.

American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same time they were discovering evidence that Russia was trying to disrupt the presidential election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee, three of the officials said. The intelligence agencies then sought to learn whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election.

The officials interviewed in recent weeks said that, so far, they had seen no evidence of such cooperation.

But the intercepts alarmed American intelligence and law enforcement agencies, in part because of the amount of contact that was occurring while Mr. Trump was speaking glowingly about the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. At one point last summer, Mr. Trump said at a campaign event that he hoped Russian intelligence services had stolen Hillary Clinton’s emails and would make them public.

The officials said the intercepted communications were not limited to Trump campaign officials, and included other associates of Mr. Trump. On the Russian side, the contacts also included members of the government outside of the intelligence services, they said. All of the current and former officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the continuing investigation is classified.
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Paul D. Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times

The officials said that one of the advisers picked up on the calls was Paul Manafort, who was Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman for several months last year and had worked as a political consultant in Ukraine. The officials declined to identify the other Trump associates on the calls.

The call logs and intercepted communications are part of a larger trove of information that the F.B.I. is sifting through as it investigates the links between Mr. Trump’s associates and the Russian government, as well as the hacking of the D.N.C., according to federal law enforcement officials. As part of its inquiry, the F.B.I. has obtained banking and travel records and conducted interviews, the officials said.





Mr. Manafort, who has not been charged with any crimes, dismissed the officials’ accounts in a telephone interview on Tuesday. “This is absurd,” he said. “I have no idea what this is referring to. I have never knowingly spoken to Russian intelligence officers, and I have never been involved with anything to do with the Russian government or the Putin administration or any other issues under investigation today.”

He added, “It’s not like these people wear badges that say, ‘I’m a Russian intelligence officer.’”

Several of Mr. Trump’s associates, like Mr. Manafort, have done business in Russia. And it is not unusual for American businessmen to come in contact with foreign intelligence officials, sometimes unwittingly, in countries like Russia and Ukraine, where the spy services are deeply embedded in society. Law enforcement officials did not say to what extent the contacts might have been about business.

The officials would not disclose many details, including what was discussed on the calls, the identity of the Russian intelligence officials who participated, and how many of Mr. Trump’s advisers were talking to the Russians. It is also unclear whether the conversations had anything to do with Mr. Trump himself.


A report from American intelligence agencies that was made public in January concluded that the Russian government had intervened in the election in part to help Mr. Trump, but did not address whether any members of the Trump campaign had participated in the effort.

The intercepted calls are different from the wiretapped conversations last year between Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, and Sergey I. Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the United States. In those calls, which led to Mr. Flynn’s resignation on Monday night, the two men discussed sanctions that the Obama administration imposed on Russia in December.

But the cases are part of American intelligence and law enforcement agencies’ routine electronic surveillance of the communications of foreign officials.

The F.B.I. declined to comment. The White House also declined to comment Tuesday night, but earlier in the day, the press secretary, Sean Spicer, stood by Mr. Trump’s previous comments that nobody from his campaign had contact with Russian officials before the election.

“There’s nothing that would conclude me that anything different has changed with respect to that time period,” Mr. Spicer said in response to a question.

Two days after the election in November, Sergei A. Ryabkov, the deputy Russian foreign minister, said “there were contacts” during the campaign between Russian officials and Mr. Trump’s team.

“Obviously, we know most of the people from his entourage,” Mr. Ryabkov told Russia’s Interfax news agency.

The Trump transition team denied Mr. Ryabkov’s statement. “This is not accurate,” Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump, said at the time.

The National Security Agency, which monitors the communications of foreign intelligence services, initially captured the calls between Mr. Trump’s associates and the Russians as part of routine foreign surveillance. After that, the F.B.I. asked the N.S.A. to collect as much information as possible about the Russian operatives on the phone calls, and to search through troves of previous intercepted communications that had not been analyzed.

The F.B.I. has closely examined at least three other people close to Mr. Trump, although it is unclear if their calls were intercepted. They are Carter Page, a businessman and former foreign policy adviser to the campaign; Roger Stone, a longtime Republican operative; and Mr. Flynn.

All of the men have strongly denied that they had any improper contacts with Russian officials.

As part of the inquiry, the F.B.I. is also trying to assess the credibility of the information contained in a dossier that was given to the bureau last year by a former British intelligence operative. The dossier contained a raft of allegations of a broad conspiracy between Mr. Trump, his associates and the Russian government. It also included unsubstantiated claims that the Russians had embarrassing videos that could be used to blackmail Mr. Trump.

The F.B.I. has spent several months investigating the leads in the dossier, but has yet to confirm any of its most explosive claims.


Senior F.B.I. officials believe that the former British intelligence officer who compiled the dossier, Christopher Steele, has a credible track record, and he briefed investigators last year about how he obtained the information. One American law enforcement official said that F.B.I. agents had made contact with some of Mr. Steele’s sources.





The agency’s investigation of Mr. Manafort began last spring as an outgrowth of a criminal investigation into his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine and for the country’s former president, Viktor F. Yanukovych. It has focused on why he was in such close contact with Russian and Ukrainian intelligence officials.

The bureau did not have enough evidence to obtain a warrant for a wiretap of Mr. Manafort’s communications, but it had the N.S.A. scrutinize the communications of Ukrainian officials he had met.

The F.B.I. investigation is proceeding at the same time that separate investigations into Russian interference in the election are gaining momentum on Capitol Hill. Those investigations, by the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, are examining not only the Russian hacking but also any contacts that Mr. Trump’s team had with Russian officials during the campaign.





On Tuesday, top Republican lawmakers said that Mr. Flynn should be one focus of the investigation, and that he should be called to testify before Congress. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said the news about Mr. Flynn underscored “how many questions still remain unanswered to the American people more than three months after Election Day, including who was aware of what, and when.”

Mr. Warner said Mr. Flynn’s resignation would not stop the committee “from continuing to investigate General Flynn, or any other campaign official who may have had inappropriate and improper contacts with Russian officials prior to the election.”


Correction: February 14, 2017

An earlier version of this article misstated the number of people (in addition to Paul Manafort) whom the F.B.I. has examined. It is at least three, not at least four.

They should keep covering Sarah Silverman though, she might run across some more swastikas painted on the ground or something.

Trump blames ‘unfair’ media for decision to oust Flynn

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-blames-unfair-media-for-decision-to-oust-flynn-183659904.html

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday denounced “criminal” leaks of classified secrets and what he called the “very, very unfair” news media’s treatment of ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn, a day after the White House said the mercurial retired general had to go because he misled colleagues and lost his unpredictable boss’s trust.

“I think it’s very, very unfair what’s happened to Gen. Flynn, the way he was treated and the documents and papers that were illegally — I stress that, illegally — leaked,” Trump said at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The president praised Flynn as “a wonderful man” targeted by “the fake media,” and condemned leaks of information showing that the former Army general misled top officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, about potentially improper contacts with a top Russian diplomat. “It’s a criminal act,” Trump said of the disclosures. “People are trying to cover up for a terrible loss that the Democrats had under Hillary Clinton.”

It was the latest attempt by the president to shift attention away from Flynn’s actions as well as reported contacts between figures in Trump’s inner circle and officials tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government and toward the remarkable leaks of sensitive information related to his contacts with Russia’s U.S. ambassador in December. Citing unnamed current and former administration officials, the New York Times reported on Tuesday that Trump campaign aides were in regular contact with Russian intelligence officials throughout the campaign.


U.S. President Donald Trump (R) addresses a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 15, 2017. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
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Trump removed Flynn ostensibly over the retired general’s changing characterization of his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Apparently on Flynn’s say-so, top officials including Pence and Trump press secretary Sean Spicer denied that the conversations had touched on the question of U.S. sanctions imposed under the Obama administration in response to allegations that Russia tried to influence the 2016 election. Flynn at first expressed confidence that the sanctions didn’t come up, then later allowed that they might have, after news reports cited multiple officials as saying they had. A bombshell Washington Post report on Friday disclosed that U.S. intelligence officials possessed transcripts of the calls that contradicted Flynn.

After Pence’s public denials, then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates approached White House Counsel Don McGahn on Jan. 26 to say that the Department of Justice had information contradicting Flynn’s account, Spicer confirmed on Tuesday. McGahn immediately “briefed the president and a small group of his senior advisers,” then opened an internal investigation that “determined that there is not a legal issue, but rather a trust issue,” the spokesman said. But Spicer declined to say whether any White House officials had read transcripts of Flynn’s calls, or whether those records would be made public.

Later, Pence press secretary Marc Lotter said the vice president only “became aware” on Feb. 9 — two weeks after Yates approached the White House — that Flynn misled him “based on news reports” that he confirmed with other senior officials.

There was no sign that Pence would have learned that Flynn had misled him absent the news reporting based on the leaks.

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lol, what happened? He was ALL IN with leaks during the campaign season. he applauded it, remember? now it's not cool anymore?

lol, man i'd laugh more if our country wasn't suffering because of these situations. so pathetic, all i can do is try and laugh it all off.

Now i know why you conservatives actually like Pence.

it wasn't because of his qualifications, but you figured he was the best guy to babysit Trump for the next 4 years.

too bad he sucks at it, so far.

Lemme know if they find anything.

I do remember Paul D. Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman.

Trump fired him.

They found something.

No U don't ....

I put on CNN last night and all this was a pretty big deal. They were really going on about how big a deal this is. My wife asked to "put on fox" to see how they are handling it and if this is just the liberal slant. All fox wanted to talk about was a partisan mole that was somewhere with access to lots of info that is leaking and how horrible it is and they have to be found. It was just so horrible. All I could think was how it sucks when the shoe is on the other foot and the dime they are dropping is on you.

Don't forget how horrible it will be when the mole leaks our secret attack plans on North Korea and ten thousand Americans die in what they thought was a secret plan. Laugh now.

Why are we #MakingAmericaWarAgain?

No reason why we should attack North Korea.

uhhh.....so you want to go to war with North Korea?

like...now?

Ah, if only you guys could read and comprehend.

I'm a Conservative and I despise Pence.
I honestly cannot think of a single thing he stands for that I would agree with.

I comprehend your riduculous statements quite well. You're on record as afraid of Immigrants, calling out people as future cop killers, and now someone wanting war.

i mean....he has a good temperament though. it's suppose to be expected from a VP but...with what we're currently seeing in the oval, you at least gotta give him credit for that haha.

Rocket, check your PMs. Scroll up in your link and read in more detail. 40 was not the one being unreasonable!

Thanks Haus but I have explained it numerous times and he is just stuck on this thing. I was truly concerned and I did the right thing and stand by it.
Again thanks.

You're welcome.

I had a longer post written out but decided against posting it. Some things are best left in the past. I do wonder if Rocket had just missed some of the previous posts in that thread or he was being devious. It's probably best to give him the benefit of the doubt and say the former... I would want that courtesy myself.

Hey. what did PDX do to you??

YA ne govoryu po Rossii

So your for oBUMa care ... letting illegals to continue to flood across our borders ... a weak ass military thats going to the smithsonian to get parts .... your for treating vets like crap ...

Either u agree with Pence on a lot or your not conservative .... there one in the same in this case ... seems to me u more than likely disagree with him on a few big things in your eyes ... but its a far far cry from what U said ...

Trump critics need to remember an important fact — he won by being different.

he won by being a jerk, liar, hate monger, divider. He appealed to the lowest in each of us. Not the best in each of us.

Time you admit you voted for a total jerk

It is time you admitted he won by being different and pointing out the obvious with all his opponents...

-Bush was indeed weak and low energy.
-Rubio was indeed a sweaty rookie with canned answers.
-Cruz was indeed mean and had not one backer in his Senate.
-Hillary was and still is a crook.
-You never were a Republican no matter how much you insisted.

I voted for one of the two total jerks that were running.

I find it much more enjoyable watching President Trump in Washington than watching Senate Impeachment hearings on Hillary if she had won.

I voted for Trump ... we see two different men ...

So mac ... just curious witch way the gate swings on this one ....

- is it our FO's fault that Russia got Trump elected

OR

- did Russia hack into our database and make our FO look bad ....

Enquiring minds want to know where the final blame lies .... *LOL* ....

Like during Watergate. Inquiring minds really wanted to know... what did he know? And when did he know it?

are you saying I never was republican because of my stance on Trump? Or is it because I'm not fooled by this lunatic?