dj wrote (View Post): |
Nunes is partisan first. Ethics don't matter. First he said he had to tell the speaker. Then he had to tell Trump. Then today he said he made a mistake.
Tick-tock...the bleeding is never going to stop. Mannafort, Sessions, Flynn, Pence, Trump and now Nunes all caught in multiple lies. Can't keep count of how many times Nunes changed his story why he didn't tell the committee first. McCain is a partisan too but he slammed Nunes for this stunt. Mannafort was the first to get caught lying. He got paid $10M by one Russian billionaire alone. Plus Ukrainian pro-russian interests. And now finally he got tied to the same Bank of Cyprus money laundering scandal like the other dirty Russian $ cronies. And one of Trump's billionaire cabinet members was working for the Bank of Cyprus how convenient. |
Bailing_Out wrote (View Post): |
Lets be fair to everyone here. I didn't vote for Trump and I will not defend his idiocy. Ok?
The rest of it is disputable. Not every country is run like we'd want it to be. Hell the US isn't run like I want it to be. McCain? I will not defend McCain in everything he's done, he's made mistakes, like I basically said earlier. No one is perfect. Now that I've gone this far into it. The United States has been a greater force for good in this world than any country EVER. Like I said earlier, we've made mistakes. damn sure in Vietnam and after the 9/11 attacks. Have some of those mistakes been evil? Yeah, they have been, at times been evil. The US has never been NAZI Germany. We can't be yet. YET you might say. Yeah yet. Some people don't agree with what we do but that doesn't make it wrong. I was drunk as hell when I wrote thsi and reserve the right to revise and extend my remarks just like they do in congress or while having congress LOL |
mooxe wrote (View Post): |
Ok Russia is on the back burner simmering, health care is done.... whats going to happen this week? |
dj wrote (View Post): |
Since you only apparently get your "news" from right-wing blogs or Partisan sources. I will post article here. It's all over the news for over a month now. Many, many, many sources and crystal clear ties to Bank of Cyprus.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/27/commerce-nominee-wilbur-ross-bank-of-cyprus-putin Again this is the most corrupt Presidential administration in History and pathogolical liars. They think if they keep repeating the lies and invent them as "alternative facts" people might be stupid enough to actually believe. A sucker is born every minute. Just because Trump is supposedly better than Clinton doesn't make it ok what he is doing. Also Pence and Bannon are even worse. I hope Trump does not die in office because Pence is a radical right-wing fanatic and will absolutely start more wars and seize power. (Wilbur) Ross, a private equity investor who has said he would step down from the bank after his final confirmation, had also been asked to provide more details about his own relationship with previous and current Russian investors in the bank, including Viktor Vekselberg, a longtime ally of the Russian president, and Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, the former vice-chairman of Bank of Cyprus who is also a former KGB agent with a close relationship to Putin. and I stand by my statements about money laundering...same thing happened in the early 90's with BCCI scandal but President Bush did NOT have business with them ..In his letter, Booker asked Ross to explain why he had appointed Ackermann as chairman of the bank, noting that Deutsche Bank is the Trump Organization’s largest creditor. Ross’s investment followed a controversial 2013 bailout of the bank at the height of the European debt crisis that was agreed by the EU, IMF and European Central Bank. At the time, the deal was scrutinised by German politicians who expressed concern that taxpayer funds were being used to bail out a money laundering haven used by Russian oligarchs. A German intelligence report cited by Der Spiegel at the time suggested that Russian deposits in Cyprus banks were worth between €8 to €35bn ($8.5 to $37bn). |
dj wrote (View Post): |
Flynn has absolutely not a shred of credibility left. He is one of the most dishonest statesmen in our nation's history. Even failed to disclose he received $ as a paid lobbyist of foreign government, which is a felony. Only reason why he filed the papers is to avoid prosecution that he covered it up. I believe nobody has ever served in such a high level position for such a short duration. Yes Trump admin is desperate to shift the attention. Everything points towards collusion with Russia. Evidence starting to get exposed about
Russian Bot campaign in the final 2 weeks prior to election. Also even Russia is funding California separatist political movement now to help weaken USA unity. Russia is also said to be trying to helping support radical Right-Wing party in France. And the Brexit movement in England to further weaken the Western alliance. This was said by the former PM of Denmark last night whom also was the head of NATO. Notice a pattern here? Make sense? Russia wants 1/2 a trillion $ oil deal with Exxon...so Trump appoints the head of Exxon to Sec of State to remove the sanctions and seal the deal. Mannafort is very friendly to say the least with pro-Russia separatist factions in Ukraine and literally worked for Putin billionaire allies. Trump repeatedly has criticized NATO...perfectly aligned with Russian interests. Trump has lied about business with Russia. He sold the most expense house in U.S. history to Russian billionaire for well over 2x what he paid for it. His cabinet member did substantial investment with Bank of Cyrpus which is notorious in Europe for being a money laundering haven. |
mooxe wrote (View Post): |
Flynn wants immunity.
Prepare for distraction.... |
mick_xe5 wrote (View Post): |
The quote of the day came from ex-FBI agent Clint Watts in testimony to the Senate: "...part of the reason active measures have worked in this U.S. election is because the Commander-in-Chief has used Russian active measures at times, against his opponents", going on to cite a number of examples dating back to Trump's birther campaign. Note the pointed reference to Trump as C-i-C, then painting his role as a clear and present danger. Now that Nunes has laughably tanked the House investigation to assist in Trump's cover-up, the Senate has framed the scandal with the gravity it deserves and is poised to analyze the evidence thoroughly. Given that Rubio's campaign was also targeted by 'active measures', the Republican senator's understand that this isnt about partisan distractions like finding leakers or Obama's non-existent wiretap.
Watts testimony concluded in chilling fashion. After urging the committee to “follow the trail of dead Russians” he concluded “My biggest concern right now is I don’t know what the American stance is on Russia, on who is going to take care of me. After years in the Army and the FBI, working in the intel community?—?today, I’m going to walk out of here and ain’t nobody going to be covering my back. I’m going to be on my own, and so that’s very disconcerting.” Safe to say his concern is shared widely in the US intel community, which Trump has been subverting since last summer. Doubtful Flynn, who worked with both Russia and Turkey, will get immunity anytime soon. The longer and deeper the investigations dig the less important his cooperation becomes. Certainly not before Sally Yates testifies about the fall of General Flynn. Meanwhile the intricate financial components to the Donnie Moscow affair continue to be unraveled in New York where we are likely to learn that Trump associate Felix Sater is telling the truth about being an FBI(/CIA) mole. And that US Attorney Bharara was fired to squelch several prosecutions potentially damaging to Team Trump. |
mick_xe5 wrote (View Post): |
As expected the Senate has, for the time being, declined Flynn's offer (and Trump's tweet) that he testify under immunity.
Today's wrinkle in the story are reports that the White House staffers (one being a Flynn protege, the other was Nunes' former House lawyer) who leaked to Nunes werent just scouring raw intel to substantiate Trump's wiretap tweets. Their particular intel activities pre-dated those tweets, using US surveillance assets to track the FBI investigation from the outside. Jeez, you'd think that a Trump coven claiming "witch hunt" would be somewhat more discrete with its cauldron of spells and Cyrillic incantations. |
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