Today in Trump

[Kirkland Laing]

They actually captured the ringleader of the Benghazi attacks. He goes on trial at some point. He's testified that the thing that set them of was that video. The CIA said the same thing which is why the Obama administration told the media that their best guess was that the riots had been set off by some video.

The GOP investigative committee isn't anything other than a Trump message shop:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republ...rump-or-russia

They're just looking for some new Benghazi-style manufactured scandal so that they've got something to show their viewers and listeners to distract from the train wreck happening in Washington.

I'm certain Ahmed Abu Khatallah was ready to admit to just about anything considering the conditions he was in...Following his capture, Khattala was kept in a cell where the lights were kept on for twenty-hours a day, and interrogated for five days before being given a Miranda advisory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/01/u...BC962E&gwt=pay



Oh but you are ever the eager beaver to trust the Obama Administration...I mean not like there would have been any political incentive to have him to say what he said

And this is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Manufacture some scandal to distract from the Trump presidency. From last January:

The raw memos on which the synopsis is based were prepared by the former MI6 agent, who was posted in Russia in the 1990s and now runs a private intelligence gathering firm. His investigations related to Mr. Trump were initially funded by groups and donors supporting Republican opponents of Mr. Trump during the GOP primaries, multiple sources confirmed to CNN. Those sources also said that once Mr. Trump became the nominee, further investigation was funded by groups and donors supporting Hillary Clinton.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/10/po...sia/index.html


Paying for opposition research is something both political parties do. In this case people from both parties paid for this stuff. That's not the same as colluding with the government of a hostile power to alter the result of an election. We don't know if the Trump people did that yet but we know that efforts were made by the Russians to help Trump win. That's according to the CIA, FBI and so on.

The only thing manufactured in this case was the Dossier. Yes ESTABLISHMENT Republicans and of course Hillary and the DNC were all in on that. Hillary and the DNC robbed Bernie and they wanted to smear Trump whom ironically they thought was going to be easy to beat in the general election.....but that was not the case and Hillary is STILL not President of the United States and she never fucking will be.

There were newspaper reports from reporters on the ground in the very same NYT that said that the attacks were inspired by the video. The CIA said the same thing which is why the Obama administration went on the telly and said that according to the best information we have the riots were started by the video.

But look where we are Lyle. When this thing started you told us all on good authority that you knew somebody in the air force who could have made it there and taken the terrorists out but he was told to stand down. You posted a million videos and so on claiming that Obama watched the whole thing happening and did nothing and so on. Now after eight investigations over as many years all led by the GOP all of that conspiracy looniness has been disproved and you're reduced to arguing over a video.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...e=with%3Aimg-2

The Steele dossier has gained a lot of credibility over the last year. Lots of claims in the dossier have been proved correct by subsequent revelations. If the Democrats were going to smear Trump with the information in this dossier why didn't they release it before the election? Nobody knew about it till January. And the Democrats and the GOP were conspiring together to defeat Trump?

[Kirkland Laing]

Pennsylvania finds 544 possibly illegal ballots since 2000
https://apnews.com/64ac234e5fad44d09...&utm_medium=AP


So it DOES happen and before you get all "Well that's not a lot".....every single illegal vote makes a legal vote disappear and also 'The illegal ballots were apparently cast by noncitizen immigrants who later reported themselves as having mistakenly registered, the department said.' think of all those who never reported anything and the number could be quite high.

So there was a glitch in the Pennsylvania computer system that allowed noncitizens to vote. A system that tried to get citizens to register also mistakenly tried to get noncitizens to register. Some did and the glitch allowed them to get a registration card. And 544 illegal votes were cast out of more than 93 million over an 18 year period. Maybe the number was higher than this! It's a argument for a mandatory comprehensive foolproof voter registration system I suppose but the GOP are dead against one of them for some reason. They just want to suppress minority votes.

[Kirkland Laing]

Lyle, can you copy the post about the IRS to your externam, hard drive please so you don't bring it up again. And take Beanz off ignore you fucking snowflake.

@Kirkland Laing Yyyyyyeaaaaah, about that......


Justice Department settles IRS lawsuits from 400 conservative groups claiming discrimination
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ion/801891001/


......damn son

So many times more liberal groups will also now be able to get a class action settlement for the same reason. I'm sure the DOJ will be just as quick to settle their suit.

[Kirkland Laing]

Pres. Trump is at his Virginia golf club, marking his 74th visit to one of his golf properties since taking office http://nbcnews.to/2xIL14c


Under Trump, Made in America Is Losing Out to Russian Steel

An oligarch-owned steel company is winning pipeline contracts, and foreign steel imports are up 24 percent this year.


Four days after his inauguration, Donald Trump signed a handful of executive memos to advance the Keystone XL pipeline and revive the U.S. steel industry. He invited builder TransCanada Corp. to reapply for a permit denied by Barack Obama and ordered up fast-track rules forcing not only Keystone but also all new U.S. pipelines to be made from American steel. “From now on, we’re going to be making pipeline in the United States,” he said.
Made-in-America Keystone was a stunt. Most of its pipes had already been manufactured, a fact the White House grudgingly admitted when it exempted the project from any new Buy American rules a few months later. While some of Keystone’s pipes were made in the U.S., at least a quarter of them came from a Russian steel company whose biggest shareholder is an oligarch and Trump family friend. The company, Evraz North America, supplied Keystone from its steel plants in Canada and for years has lobbied in Washington against Trump-style protectionism.
Ten months after his Keystone event, Trump has yet to deliver on his pledge to boost the fortunes of American steel. Two self-imposed deadlines for trade action, one in June and one in July, have come and gone. Meanwhile, the prospect of tariffs has led to a surge of cheap foreign steel into the U.S., with imports rising 24 percent in 2017, the fastest increase in years............................

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-russian-steel

[brocktonblockbust]

Blow it out your ass Kirkland. You were the biggest troll on this form. Lyle has exposed you over and over again and you come back with nonsense. Donald Trump is innocent here it is the Hillary Clinton campaign in all these other assholes who have been colluding with Russia all along and using Saul alinsky's Playbook blaming your victim blaming your opponent I mean for the very thing that you yourself are doing is exactly what has happened here. Those are the assholes who colluded with the Russians so then they just started pumping after they lost the election that it was Trump who colluded with the Russians. Of course that is over your head Kirkland be good because you are so far up your own ass and you can't see anything

[El Kabong]

Pennsylvania finds 544 possibly illegal ballots since 2000
https://apnews.com/64ac234e5fad44d09...&utm_medium=AP


So it DOES happen and before you get all "Well that's not a lot".....every single illegal vote makes a legal vote disappear and also 'The illegal ballots were apparently cast by noncitizen immigrants who later reported themselves as having mistakenly registered, the department said.' think of all those who never reported anything and the number could be quite high.

So there was a glitch in the Pennsylvania computer system that allowed noncitizens to vote. A system that tried to get citizens to register also mistakenly tried to get noncitizens to register. Some did and the glitch allowed them to get a registration card. And 544 illegal votes were cast out of more than 93 million over an 18 year period. Maybe the number was higher than this! It's a argument for a mandatory comprehensive foolproof voter registration system I suppose but the GOP are dead against one of them for some reason. They just want to suppress minority votes.

Actually it's the Democrats dead set against that (golly gee, I wonder why).



"They just want to suppress minority votes"......If they're illegal aliens then YES, otherwise, no that's stupid and demeaning, but hey it's par for the course for you

[El Kabong]

Lyle, can you copy the post about the IRS to your externam, hard drive please so you don't bring it up again. And take Beanz off ignore you fucking snowflake.

@Kirkland Laing Yyyyyyeaaaaah, about that......


Justice Department settles IRS lawsuits from 400 conservative groups claiming discrimination
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ion/801891001/


......damn son

So many times more liberal groups will also now be able to get a class action settlement for the same reason. I'm sure the DOJ will be just as quick to settle their suit.

I guess we'll see, but your reaction to this turn of events is like a Scooby Doo villain "And they would have gotten away with it had it not been for you meddling kids!" ....fucking sad dude.




SAD

[El Kabong]

Shot:




Chaser:



It's almost as if when a Republican does it it's a horrible highly ILLEGAL thing, but when a Democrat does it, I mean what's the big fucking deal right?

[El Kabong]

John Podesta, Whose Lawyer Paid For Dossier, Told Senate He Didn’t Know Who Funded It
http://amp.dailycaller.com/2017/10/2...who-funded-it/
Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, recently denied to Senate Intelligence Committee investigators that he knew who had funded the infamous Steele dossier on Donald Trump.

But when he issued that denial, Podesta happened to be sitting next to the man who did pay for the salacious document: Marc Elias, the general counsel for the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee.

Elias was in the Senate meeting in his capacity as Podesta’s personal attorney, CNN reported on Thursday. But the lawyer, a partner at the firm Perkins Coie, apparently did not reveal during the interview that he was involved in the dossier, which was commissioned by opposition research




....well then

[brocktonblockbust]

Haha there's a good one, Joy "Skank"Reid complaining about the American Media. BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..,. the left SJW libtards cannot even take ONE FUCKING NEGATIVE article

[Kirkland Laing]

Mr. Trump can end this madness by immediately issuing a blanket presidential pardon to anyone involved in supposed collusion with Russia or Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign, to anyone involved with Russian acquisition of an American uranium company during the Obama administration, and to anyone for any offense that has been investigated by Mr. Mueller's office. Political weaponization of criminal law should give way to a politically accountable democratic process. Nefarious Russian activities, including possible interference in U.S. elections, can and should be investigated by Congress.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/begging...ent-1509302308

Right wing media out to lay the groundwork for Trump to fire Mueller. Scenario: Mueller indicts Manafort today on money laundering charges. DO SOMETHING Trump goes through a Saturday Night Massacre procedure to fire him and issues blanket pardons for everybody being investigated, says Mueller is an out of control prosecutor. The GOP rally behind him and let him close the investigation down while still investigating Hillary for Benghazi 2.0.

[El Kabong]

Mr. Trump can end this madness by immediately issuing a blanket presidential pardon to anyone involved in supposed collusion with Russia or Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign, to anyone involved with Russian acquisition of an American uranium company during the Obama administration, and to anyone for any offense that has been investigated by Mr. Mueller's office. Political weaponization of criminal law should give way to a politically accountable democratic process. Nefarious Russian activities, including possible interference in U.S. elections, can and should be investigated by Congress.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/begging...ent-1509302308

Right wing media out to lay the groundwork for Trump to fire Mueller. Scenario: Mueller indicts Manafort today on money laundering charges. DO SOMETHING Trump goes through a Saturday Night Massacre procedure to fire him and issues blanket pardons for everybody being investigated, says Mueller is an out of control prosecutor. The GOP rally behind him and let him close the investigation down while still investigating Hillary for Benghazi 2.0.

Sounds like a fun time.


So Manafort is laundering money which has what to do with the Russians who we now know for absolute certain worked with a Never Trumper and the DNC and Hillary?


Is that a "thing" or was that just opposition research? Because I remember the reaction when Donald Trump Jr was accused of working with the Russians in that very same capacity and there were endless calls for his head, but I guess the difference is he's a Trump and that's a "No-no" and Hillary Clinton is well she's the greatest woman to ever set foot on this Earth so she can do no evil, she can do no wrong.

[El Kabong]

NBC’s Pete Williams on the indictment: “I don’t see anything related to the campaign.”



Cool indictment bro

[Kirkland Laing]

And the third indictment today is this Papadopulos guy who apparently:


According to the statement, Papadopoulos was in regular contact with three individuals he believed to have high-level ties with the Kremlin from the time he came onboard as a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign in March 2016 through at least August of that year, and he regularly informed other members of the Trump campaign about those communications.
He was arrested on July 27 upon landing at Dulles International Airport and has since “met with the Government on numerous occasion to provide information and answer questions,” according to the statement.

so he's already flipped to the FBI months ago.

It shows a Trump foreign policy advisor in active communication with what appear to be Russian government officials or spies trying to get dirt on Hillary Clinton, arrange meetings with Russian government officials (even Vladimir Putin, rather ludicrously) and solicit Russian support. That an active foreign policy advisor was taking these actions while in active communication with the campaign about those actions is quite damning.




During the 2016 campaign, Papadopoulos was in contact with a Russian professor whom he believed had close ties to the Kremlin. Papadopoulos told prosecutors that the man promised “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails. In a significant detail, the offer took place in the midst of the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails — months before those efforts were made public.
Papadopoulos lied to investigators when he claimed that he thought the man was unconnected to the Russian government.
The professor introduced Papadopoulos to a woman claiming to be a relative of Vladimir Putin. Using his connections, Papadopoulos attempted to set up a meeting between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
The newly revealed email element of Papadopoulos’s story is perhaps the clearest sign yet that at least some sectors of the Trump campaign sought to work directly with Russians to try to sway the U.S. election against Hillary Clinton.


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...a-contact.html


Over the next days watch Trump and the GOP media amp up the Hillary/Obama nonsense and create giant hysterical manufactured outrage on the right. Hillary is the real criminal. The GOP investigative committees in Congress will amp up the bullshit Hillary investigations and make all kinds of claims showing she's the real criminal. Then Trump will claim that the two investigations are the same, both incidents that happened in the past and we should look to the future and will magnanimously decide to close the Hillary investigations down along with the Mueller one, probably give Hillary a pardon too.

[Kirkland Laing]

Mr. Trump can end this madness by immediately issuing a blanket presidential pardon to anyone involved in supposed collusion with Russia or Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign, to anyone involved with Russian acquisition of an American uranium company during the Obama administration, and to anyone for any offense that has been investigated by Mr. Mueller's office. Political weaponization of criminal law should give way to a politically accountable democratic process. Nefarious Russian activities, including possible interference in U.S. elections, can and should be investigated by Congress.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/begging...ent-1509302308

Right wing media out to lay the groundwork for Trump to fire Mueller. Scenario: Mueller indicts Manafort today on money laundering charges. DO SOMETHING Trump goes through a Saturday Night Massacre procedure to fire him and issues blanket pardons for everybody being investigated, says Mueller is an out of control prosecutor. The GOP rally behind him and let him close the investigation down while still investigating Hillary for Benghazi 2.0.

Sounds like a fun time.


So Manafort is laundering money which has what to do with the Russians who we now know for absolute certain worked with a Never Trumper and the DNC and Hillary?


Is that a "thing" or was that just opposition research? Because I remember the reaction when Donald Trump Jr was accused of working with the Russians in that very same capacity and there were endless calls for his head, but I guess the difference is he's a Trump and that's a "No-no" and Hillary Clinton is well she's the greatest woman to ever set foot on this Earth so she can do no evil, she can do no wrong.

The Russians didn't do anything with Hillary. Hillary paid a UK/US oppo research firm to look into the claims about Trump's relationships with the Kremlin and various other Russian actors. But she never actually used the dossier at all. Nobody knew about it till after the election.

Here's what America's eleven intelligence agencies found about Russian interference in the 2016 election Lyle:

“We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump. We have high confidence in these judgments.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...t-allegations/

You could try reading all of that link. Lots of facts and evidence. Manafort indictment is being brought now to get him to flip on what he knows. The invesigation is really just getting started. Indictments normally come at the end of investigations. For this indictment to come now means Mueller is after the real story from Manafort.