It is comforting to know there is only one person on the planet who can call for a Special Prosecutor and that is the Attorney General of the United States!
After continuing investigation by Justice and the Intelligence community, NO incriminating evidence of ANY connections with the Ruskies has been found.
I want to know why you keep refusing to answer the question about Sessions? He answered all the questions about Russia and the elections. You said keep moving those goal posts? Yet you cannot point out where he was lying at all. Purp's post was right on the money, he answered all the questions truthfully.
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Another member of the Trump campaign met with Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador.
Kushner and Flynn Met With Russian Envoy in December, White House Says
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and MATT APUZZOMARCH 2, 2017 link
WASHINTON Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and now a senior adviser, also participated in the meeting at Trump Tower with Mr. Flynn and Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador. But among Mr. Trump’s inner circle, it is Mr. Flynn who appears to have been the main interlocutor with the Russian envoy — the two were in contact during the campaign and the transition, Mr. Kislyak and current and former American officials have said. But the extent and frequency of their contacts remains unclear, and the disclosure of the meeting at Trump Tower adds to the emerging picture of how the relationship between Mr. Trump’s incoming team and Moscow was evolving to include some of the president-elect’s most trusted advisers. The White House has repeatedly sought to play down any connections with Mr. Kislyak. Attorney General Jeff Sessions acknowledged this week that he had met twice with him during the campaign, despite previous denials. The New Yorker reported this week that Mr. Kushner had met with Mr. Kislyak at Trump Tower in December. Hope Hicks, a White House spokeswoman, confirmed on Thursday that Mr. Flynn was also at the meeting in response to questions from a New York Times reporter. It is common and not improper for transition officials to meet with foreign officials. But all meetings between Trump associates and Russians are now significant as the F.B.I. investigates Russian interference in the American election and whether anyone close to Mr. Trump’s campaign was involved. The meeting in December came at a crucial time, just as the Obama White House was preparing to sanction Russia and publicly make its case that Moscow had interfered with the 2016 election. What is now becoming clear is that the incoming Trump administration was simultaneously striking a conciliatory pose toward Moscow in a series of meetings and phone calls involving Mr. Kislyak.“They generally discussed the relationship and it made sense to establish a line of communication,” Ms. Hicks said. “Jared has had meetings with many other foreign countries and representatives — as many as two dozen other foreign countries’ leaders and representatives.”
The Trump Tower meeting lasted 20 minutes, and Mr. Kushner has not met since with Mr. Kislyak, Ms. Hicks said. When first asked in January about Mr. Flynn’s contacts with Mr. Kislyak, the White House said that there had been only a text message and phone call between the men at the end of December, and that both came before the United States imposed sanctions. That was quickly contradicted by news reports. Mr. Flynn’s story then began changing, and the White House eventually acknowledged the two men had discussed the sanctions and how the two countries could move past the acrimony once Mr. Trump was in office. American officials have also said that there were multiple telephone calls between Mr. Flynn and Mr. Kislyak on Dec. 29, beginning shortly after Mr. Kislyak was summoned to the State Department and informed that, in retaliation for Russian election meddling, the United States wasexpelling 35 people suspected of being Russian intelligence operativesand imposing other sanctions. Mr. Kislyak was irate and threatened a forceful Russian response, according to people familiar with the exchange. He then left the State Department and called Mr. Flynn, the first in a series of calls between the two in the 36 hours that followed. American intelligence agencies routinely wiretap the phones of Russian diplomats, and transcripts of the calls showed that Mr. Flynn urged the Russians not to respond, saying relations would improve once Mr. Trump was in office, according to the current and former officials. Mr. Flynn’s failure to fully disclose the nature of the calls with Mr. Kislyak ultimately cost him his job last month after a tumultuous 25 days as national security adviser. The United States government has concluded that Russia intended, at least in part, to help elect Mr. Trump through a campaign of cyberattacks, propaganda and misinformation. The government has concluded that Russian operatives were behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and John D. Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Current and former American officials have said that Mr. Flynn had contacts with Mr. Kislyak during the campaign. But few of the specifics of those contacts were known. The Russian ambassador has acknowledged that the two men had known each other since 2013 and were in contact during the campaign. “It’s something all diplomats do,” Mr. Kislyak was quoted as saying by The Washington Post, though he refused to say what subjects he discussed with Mr. Flynn.
This individual apparently posses deep connections. His role with Russia got detailed in the dossier by Michael Steele, and much of the dossier starts to pan out.
So much for #FakeNews, and let's hear it for #HonestReporting.
I still want to know who trusts the House Intelligence Committee after their gaffe on Flynn.
This revelation comes after 46 and Team claimed they had no doings with softening up on Russia-Ukraine conflict.
For those who fail to understand the significance of this:
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Trump and his team have long insisted that his campaign had no contact with Russian officials during the 2016 race, and that they were not behind softening the language on Ukraine in the Republican Party platform.
This revelation comes after 46 and Team claimed they had no doings with softening up on Russia-Ukraine conflict.
For those who fail to understand the significance of this:
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Trump and his team have long insisted that his campaign had no contact with Russian officials during the 2016 race, and that they were not behind softening the language on Ukraine in the Republican Party platform.
Treason.
I don't know about Treason, but this goes a long way in a case against the administration. A few more things like this and he will be impeached.
We should sell our government off to another bag of hat air over threats of war? Must suck to live in a world of fear, and play into useless saber rattling from Putin.
So far I've seen Impeachment and treason, now I know I'm slow but would somebody please explain to me why they think that simply putting a "soft"response on the Ukraine situation is bad? Also there is nothing I can find that makes it bad to have Russian ties other than some people don't like them. I mean there is also 6-8 Dems. that also have had ties to the same Russian that everyone's B'ing about. And to compare this to Nixon is really going over board. That was a break in and then a cover up. This is nothing close to any of that. Trump had business dealing with them, big deal, so have alot of other people, and I'll assume that many are Dems.
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Gordon claimed that Trump said he did not “want to go to World War III over Ukraine” during that meeting, Acosta said.
Yea, Trump sold us out, we could all be dead but Noooooooooo.
Well nobody is just going to admit a deal was cut, but the evidence is stacking up that this President or his staff has been way to cozy with Russia.
- Trump heaps praise on Putin. - His top advisors have connections with Russia. - His campaign has numerous meetings and phone calls with Russian officials. - Trump wants language in the RNC platform reflecting a will to ease a tough position on Ukraine. - The blackmail bit with peeing Russian hookers.
Starting to add up there 40. If this was a list of liberal transgressions, you would have the stake out and the bonfire stacked already. But you got them blinders on tight and ain't having this "Fake News" disrupt your reality.
Trying to keep an open mind. Nothing on that list, except maybe the blackmail, which would not be on Trump is illegal. "too cozy with Russia" is just an opinion. I would think that all the US pres. would have close relations with all country's, especially the ones they consider to be the enemy, as in "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer". This is nothing more than the Dems. trying to make something out of nothing.
Dawginit since Jan. 24, 2000 Member #180 You can't fix yesterday but you can learn for tomorrow #GMSTRONG
I want to do it as a Cleveland Brown because that's who I am.”
Never mind, I'll text sessions and flynn. They know what's up.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
somebody please explain to me why they think that simply putting a "soft"response on the Ukraine situation is bad?
Because: Putin.
Sanctions have crippled his nation's economy, they've hinged their entire economy on oil and gas to Europe, he's no friend of the West... and he'd do anything to regain the global influence that the Soviet Union once enjoyed.
...and when your rival is down, you step on his freakkin' neck. You don't play Putin like you're the Browns, trying to protect a 2-point lead with a prevent d... wit 6+ minutes left in the game. He would NRVER play us that way.
It's what you do, when you want to "make America great again."
Speaking of Putin, I wondered what he thought of all this Russian connection stuff and what I found was this...
"Many in the Kremlin believe hardliners in America — in Congress and the military — want to sabotage the president and his plans for better ties with Russia."
"Some even talk of a conspiracy against Trump. Markov, the former lawmaker, told NBC News that he believes America's intelligence services "want to overthrow President Trump in a coup" because of his desire to improve relations with Russia."
"Flynn was a victim of the U.S. intelligence services."
-Former Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Fedorov and former lawmaker Sergei Markov
Improve relations with Russian, in the mind of Putin, involves allowing him to take as much as Ukraine as he wants. He also wants the sanctions lifted on him in response to the Syria backing, attempts to hack our electoral process, and further sanctions from the Crimea situation.
40, we may usually be at odd but I doubt you sign off on Putin's actions in the following places: state level Russian attempts to influence our electoral process, questionable backing of Assad, and the entire Crimea situation.
We must have common ground somewhere, right?
I get Putin backs your savior that will rally against progress in our country, but will you really claim party before country?
How will you react if 46 gets exposed with collusions, bribes, and extremely questionable conduct in regards to Russia? Will you want him out just as you wanted Hillary gone?
‘This scandal could bring down the administration’: Fox military analyst slams Trump’s Russia stonewalling
Brad Reed BRAD REED 03 MAR 2017 AT 12:36 ET
One of Fox News’s top military analysts now says President Donald Trump must release his taxes to prove that the Russian government has no financial leverage over him.
Ret. Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, the hawkish Fox analyst who infamously called former President Barack Obama a “p*ssy” on air in 2015, warned Fox viewers on Friday that Trump needed to get over his “lunatic” idea of a strategic alliance with Russia, which he suggested was brought about by the president’s past admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“He can’t get over his adulation of Vladimir Putin,” said Peters, who also said that Obama wouldn’t challenge Russia due to “sheer cowardice.” “He just will not challenge Russia on anything.”
Peters said that Trump needed to prove that he was not compromised by Russian intelligence agencies by releasing his tax returns to prove that he doesn’t have any significant investments in the country.
“Look, this scandal — and it is a scandal — could bring down the administration, if the administration doesn’t get ahead of it,” he said. “They cannot keep allowing the slow drip-drip of blood.”
