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posted February 15, 2017 12:06 AM            

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How much does it take before the right wing can lower their heads, admit they're wrong, and be the patriots they profess themselves to be? Unless they aren't patriots and want the US to be a Russian satellite.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/politics/donald-trump-aides-russians-campaign/index.html

CNN)High-level advisers close to then-presidential nominee Donald Trump were in constant communication during the campaign with Russians known to US intelligence, multiple current and former intelligence, law enforcement and administration officials tell CNN.

President-elect Trump and then-President Barack Obama were both briefed on details of the extensive communications between suspected Russian operatives and people associated with the Trump campaign and the Trump business, according to US officials familiar with the matter.
Flynn scrambles White House
Both the frequency of the communications during early summer and the proximity to Trump of those involved "raised a red flag" with US intelligence and law enforcement, according to these officials. The communications were intercepted during routine intelligence collection targeting Russian officials and other Russian nationals known to US intelligence.
Among several senior Trump advisers regularly communicating with Russian nationals were then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and then-adviser Michael Flynn.
Officials emphasized that communications between campaign staff and representatives of foreign governments are not unusual. However, these communications stood out to investigators due to the frequency and the level of the Trump advisers involved. Investigators have not reached a judgment on the intent of those conversations.
Adding to US investigators' concerns were intercepted communications between Russian officials before and after the election discussing their belief that they had special access to Trump, two law enforcement officials tell CNN. These officials cautioned the Russians could have been exaggerating their access.
CNN has reached out to the White House and Flynn for comment. In an interview, Manafort emphatically denied that he was in contact with Russians known to US intelligence.
"That is 100% not true, at least as far as me," he said. "I cannot believe that they are including me in anything like that. I have not been involved in any of these activities."
Manafort said he did not know where US officials got the idea that he was in contact with suspected Russian operatives during the campaign but said he never spoke with any Russian officials during that time.
"I don't remember talking to any Russian officials, ever. Certainly during the time we're talking about," he said, calling the allegations "boggling."
"I have knowingly never talked to any intelligence official or anyone in Russia regarding anything of what's under investigation," he said. "I have never had any connection to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin or the Russian government before, during or after the campaign."
Trump knew about Flynn for weeks
Manafort said the FBI has not contacted him about the allegations and said he was not aware of any other Trump campaign officials or people close to Trump being in touch with Russians known to US intelligence.
Manafort, who has held business ties with Russian and Ukrainian individuals, also emphasized that his work for the Yanukovich government in Ukraine should not be interpreted as closeness to the Russians. He said he worked for Yanukovich during a time when Ukraine was "moving into the European orbit."
The extensive contacts drew concerns of US intelligence and law enforcement officials in part because it came at a time of Russian cyberactivities targeting mostly Democratic Party political organizations.
Post-election intelligence briefings on Russian meddling in the US elections included details of those communications, which included people involved in Trump's businesses.
The communications were gathered as part of routine US intelligence collection and not because people close to Trump were being targeted.
McConnell: Flynn investigation 'highly likely' in Senate committee
The FBI and US intelligence agencies continue to try to determine what the motive for the communications were.
One concern was whether Trump associates were coordinating with Russian intelligence operatives over the release of damaging information about the Hillary Clinton campaign.
"If that were the case, then that would escalate things," one official briefed on the investigation said.
CNN's Jeremy Diamond contributed to this report.

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posted February 15, 2017 02:13 PM            

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More fake news from the Clinton News Network.

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posted February 15, 2017 02:34 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
More fake news from the Clinton News Network.

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Nope.

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posted February 15, 2017 07:06 PM            

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As opposed to Fox and Bitebarf, the "alternative fact" Trump news outlets?

If you only read the news you want ti hear you will never know what's going on, will you?. Its ok to let oil companies and monsanto pollute without oversight, but those scum who don't kneel to don almighty must be destroyed.

Got my popcorn in for the next 6 months..

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posted February 15, 2017 08:14 PM            

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Kool-aide drinkers don`t have well rounded news savvy.

They should have learned from the bogus hope and change bs that slogans are just lies packaged to fit their ideologies.

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posted February 16, 2017 02:44 AM            

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Hard to believe that anyone is buying into the "Trump is a Putin tool" ******** being served up by the U.S. intel community. The whole story was conceived by Robby Mook, Clinton's former campaign manager as a bogeyman to divert attention from her failed campaign. "Giving this stuff legitimacy because its anti-Trump makes the entire left look (and sound) like idiots." I would add a left which is now fully in bed with the establishment of both parties and the deep state.

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posted February 16, 2017 03:24 AM            

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Trump congratulated Putin in December, rather than standing by his President (Obama). He's consistently praised him, and insulted anyone who is against him.

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posted March 12, 2017 10:45 PM            

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Kremlin Spokesman: Russian Ambassador Also Met with Clinton Campaign

Sergey Kislyak
Katherine Rodriguez
12 Mar 2017

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said in an interview that Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, who met with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, also met with advisers to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
“Well, if you look at some people connected with Hillary Clinton during her campaign, you would probably see that he had lots of meetings of that kind,” Dmitry Peskov told CNN’s GPS host Fareed Zakaria on Sunday. “There are lots of specialists in politology, people working in think tanks advising Hillary or advising people working for Hillary.”

Peskov said it is the Russian ambassador’s job to talk “bilateral relations” with officials on both sides. He added that the meetings were in no way an attempt to interfere in the 2016 election.
“But there were no meetings about elections — electoral process … So if you look at it with intention to demonize Russia, you would probably say that, yes, he was trying to interfere in Hillary’s activities. But it would be nonsense because this is not true,” Peskov said.

Peskov also said that Putin never supported Trump when he was a presidential candidate.

“You would probably recall that President Putin, during election campaign, had never answered directly a question about his candidate of his support. He kept saying that we will respect a choice of American people,” Peskov told Zakaria.

But Peskov did say Putin preferred Trump over Clinton, noting that the Russian president mentioned Trump’s name before. The spokesman claimed that Putin believed Hillary Clinton to have a more negative outlook on Russia than Trump.

“The candidate Hillary Clinton was quite negative about our country in her attitude and in her program, declaring Russia being nearly the main evil in the world and the main threat for the United States,” Peskov said. “And to the contrary, the other candidate, Donald Trump, was saying that, ‘Yes, we disagree with the Russians … in lots of issues, but we have to talk to them in order to try to find some understanding.'”

The Russian ambassador had also made it a point to visit the Obama administration often. The ambassador visited Obama at the White House 22 times. The Obama administration also facilitated the meeting between the Russian ambassador and then-Senator Jeff Sessions.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/03/1 2/kremlin-spokesman-russian-ambassador-also-met-with-clinton-campaign/

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posted March 13, 2017 02:49 PM            

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The ambassador is the least of it but kudos for admitting evidence that could explain/backup Putins pteference for Trump 😉

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posted March 13, 2017 03:06 PM            

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Leftist lunatic democrats have hung their hats on the Russian Ambassador having conversations with President Trump's team.

Sorry democrat loons.

The Russian Ambassador had the very same kind of meeting with advisors and high level campaign officials of the Hillary The Corrupt campaign.

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