Russia’s Putin Praises ‘Ideological’ Links Between Democrats, Soviet Communism

This is another of the Trump universe’s reversed mirror images of reality.

There’s no question that the covert Russian election meddling operation was undertaken with the intention of damaging Hillary Clinton’s chances of being elected. The objective was to put Donald Trump in the White House. Our own intelligence community reached that conclusion.

There is no question that highly placed individuals in the Trump campaign were aware of this, and to some degree cooperated with those efforts. There were secret meetings. Private election polling data was secretly passed from the Trump campaign to high-placed individuals connected with Russian Intelligence. How that has been rationalized away as business-as-usual is beyond my comprehension. Some of the individuals involved with Russian contacts are in prison or awaiting sentencing. Some of them are now part of the Trump administration, with inside access to privileged information.

There was NO effing “total vindication”. All that Robert Mueller concluded was that there was insufficient evidence to establish the existence of a criminal conspiracy. He wasn’t allowed to get to all pertinent evidence. He wasn’t allowed to directly question Trump, who only answered those written questions that his lawyers saw fit to be answered.

There are entirely legitimate reasons to wonder if the man Putin helped to put in the White House may be subject to coercion, owing to undisclosed financial dealings with Russian money sources. On the surface, there are certainly many odd indicators and apparent irregularities. Robert Mueller, however, was not allowed to investigate this possibility, nor was it made clear until after his investigation had ended that he wasn’t allowed; consequently, no one has done so. All efforts to gain access to tax and financial records have thus far been blocked, all the way up to the Supreme Court.

Trump’s defenders assert that he has been persecuted. In fact, he has shielded himself using his powers of office every step of the way, and has progressively attacked and weakened all safeguards in the system that might be used against him. This has involved the removal and replacement of respected public officials, the firing in inspectors general, the intimidation and methodical discrediting of whistle blowers and potential witnesses, the locking down of evidence, the classification of incriminating documents, etc.

Hey, does Putin look happy in the photo at the top of the page? I don’t think so. He wouldn’t have been happy with Hillary Clinton, either. Maybe somebody should explain the body language of the handshake to you. That’s Biden, taking control of the moment.

obama and biden committed treason. hillary clinton colluded with Russia to vilify the Trump campaign as a way to deflect attention away from her email scandal. The FBI intentionally disregarded information on the clinton email fiasco and under direction from obama/biden began surveillance (spying) on the Trump campaign that went into the Trump presidency.

obama’s actions were treasonous and he deserves life in prison for his crimes.

So, either you want a government similar to Putin’s communist Russia or you want Trump. Time to make a choice.

@Greg: I guess you didn’t read the article. Putin like Biden more than he likes Trump and sees parallels between Democrats and Communists (duh). OK. We need some really good spin for this one. Get on it.

@Greg: Everyone that knows feels icky touching creepy. It can have a gag reflex.

@Deplorable Me:

@Greg: I guess you didn’t read the article. Putin like Biden more than he likes Trump and sees parallels between Democrats and Communists (duh). OK. We need some really good spin for this one. Get on it.

He doesn’t have to spin it. The Putin comments makes Comrade Greggie very, very happy that Putin knows the Democrats are nothing but closet Communists. That is the very reason Comrade Greggie is supporting Biden. The big questions is; is Comrade Greggie really an American citizen with the right to vote or just a Chinese troll?

From The Hill, September 22, 2020 – CIA found Putin ‘probably directing’ campaign against Biden: report

American intelligence agencies believe Russian President Vladimir Putin is behind a disinformation campaign targeting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, according to a new report.

A top-secret CIA assessment concluded Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach engaged in peddling “disparaging information about Biden inside the United States through lobbyists, Congress, the media and contacts with figures close to the president,” two sources with knowledge of the report told The Washington Post.

“We assess that President Vladimir Putin and the senior most Russian officials are aware of and probably directing Russia’s influence operations aimed at denigrating the former U.S. Vice President, supporting the U.S. president and fueling public discord ahead of the U.S. election in November,” the first line of the document reportedly reads.

Derkach has close ties to Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney, the report said.

Derkach has been identified as a Russian agent by the director of national intelligence and the Treasury Department but has denied working on behalf of Moscow.

A recent report from the Senate Intelligence Committee found Russian agents meddled in the 2016 presidential election using social media and other methods to mislead voters about then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign and bolster Trump.

The intelligence assessment comes as Republicans in the Senate are slated to release a report on a controversial investigation into Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine.

Democrats have expressed worries that the report will include similar accusations to those made by Derkach, though Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who spearheaded the report, has said he has not had any contact with Derkach.

Don’t expect much additional information for present, given that Trump’s toady John Ratcliffe is now Director of National Intelligence. He’s presently engaged in a campaign of selective declassification aimed at keeping Putin’s boy in the White House.

From Lawfare, October 7, 2020 – John Ratcliffe’s Dangerous Declassification Game

On Sept. 29, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe released a strange, cryptic letter about Russian intelligence reporting on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. On Oct. 6, Ratcliffe followed up by selectively declassifying some of the underlying documents relating to this reporting. Much of the response to these disclosures has rightly focused on the impropriety of Ratcliffe’s spreading what may be Russian disinformation for political purposes. But if the Russian reporting is not disinformation—and there’s reason to believe it may not be—Ratcliffe’s actions are even more outrageous.

In his Sept. 29 letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham, which was released just hours before the first presidential debate, Ratcliffe declassified the following:

In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.

Ratcliffe noted that the intelligence community “does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.”*

*In other words, The source of the information I’m releasing, which discredits one of the Trumper’s enemies, is Russian Intelligence, and may be a complete load of horse manure intended by the Russians to be of assistance to him.

The letter also revealed that CIA Director John Brennan subsequently briefed President Obama about this information, and that similar information was formally sent to the FBI in early September 2016. A week after sending the letter, Ratcliffe declassified and released Brennan’s notes from this briefing and the CIA memorandum to the FBI in heavily redacted form.

President Trump and his defenders have breathlessly portrayed these disclosures as, variously, evidence of Clinton campaign wrongdoing that the FBI ignored at a time when the bureau was allegedly pursuing unverified leads against the Trump campaign, proof that the Russia investigation was a hoax, and proof that the Obama administration was spying on the Trump campaign. Among Trump’s detractors, the overwhelming response to the Ratcliffe letter has focused on how the director of national intelligence was spreading disinformation seeded by the Kremlin. In response, Ratcliffe asserted that this reporting “is not Russian disinformation and has not been assessed as such by the intelligence community.”
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Really? He himself stated when he publicly released the letter that the Russian analysis might be an exaggeration or a fabrication. Did he forget he said that?

This clown circus must end. Turn in your noses and vote for Biden.

@Greg:

CIA Memo: Brennan Briefed Obama on Hillary’s Alleged Plan to ‘Stir Up’ Trump Russia Scandal Before 2016 Election

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified more documents related to failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s alleged plan to stir-up a scandal between then-candidate Donald Trump and Russia.

It turns out former CIA Director John Brennan told President Barack Obama about the idea before the 2016 election as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.” Brennan’s notes indicate Hillary approved of the plan on July 26, 2016.

•On 07 September 2016, U.S. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok regarding “U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private mail server.”

The FBI was aware early on that hillary knowing created a distraction because she knew continued focus on her email scandal would be detrimental to her possible election. Anyone remember in the debates when she said 17 intelligence agencies were convince Trump had been assisted by Russia? That was a complete lie.

The entire Russia collusion is a hoax and the leftists are trying to regurgitate it just in time for the 2020 election.

sleepy joe needs to answer for his Ukraine corruption and the money hunter got from Ukraine, china and the wife of the mayor of Moscow. biden is a train wreck and harris is a ship that has sunk….

@Greg:

There’s no question that the covert Russian election meddling operation was undertaken with the intention of damaging Hillary Clinton’s chances of being elected.

You mean someone revealed both she and the DNC were up to no good?

You understand how this sounds?

Clinton with the help of the current Administration at the time set up a false scandal to hurt Trump.

She was caught before and deleted emails. The DNC was caught supplanting the Democratic process of their own members.

There’d be nothing to leak if they weren’t breaking the law/rules.

It’s on them.

@Nathan Blue: Trump restored the economy. Trump restored the military. Trump restored foreign trade equity. Trump restored confidence in US foreign policy. Most of this was destroyed by Obama. Biden would be even worse, because not only does he have no leadership ability but he’s just a place holder until the first opportunity to jettison his lame ass. The only reason to vote against Trump is because you don’t want this nation to be strong, wealthy and independent.