posted May 17, 2017 06:59 PM            

Mueller can prosecute!

posted May 17, 2017 11:10 PM            

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Originally posted by juniperb:
Yahoo!! Republicans want it as badly. Trump has taken them to a new low and I suspect they want their brand redeemed.

Mueller can prosecute!

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posted May 18, 2017 02:41 AM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Former FBI Director, Robert Mueller, named as special counsel. Finally, the Dems can shut their mouths.

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posted May 18, 2017 04:56 AM            

Nor is it a Dem fantasy

Read the year old transcript from a,tape of Repubs talking amongst themselves.

Dont let the link scare you it says Wapo on it😲🤤 but its a pdf transcript which the Repubs tried to deny, then tried to pass off the mentions of Trump as a joke. Maybe it was. But they've been letting the public think only the Dems were making a meal of this .. they were aware there was evidence of Russian tampering and that is why the investigation started. If DT came up in the research he may be innocent or guilty but its coincidental until he started flapping around.

posted May 18, 2017 12:35 PM            

This investigating has been going on a ling time. DT could be an innocent porpoise in a tuns net, or he could be something bigger that was after the tuna when the net came round. in a personal sense as well as legal, rather than political, if you want truth it is imperative you don't make up your mind before hearing the case. No honest lawyer would allow you on a jury if this were a civil suit and certainly no prosecutor.

Meanwhile Ivanka is taking meetings in the WH in her father's absence. An even more unqualified, unelected, family member .. the gact that she isn't taking a salary doesn't fully exonerste nepotism charges here. She jas an expenses paid office, has profited business wise fron proximity to the throne, and the paranoia exhibited by her father is highlighted by this.

posted May 18, 2017 12:43 PM            

Is DT an innocent ostrich or consciously evasive? Also part of the investigation now.

Russia is no longer Communist and they may have good reason to protect themselves against the US.. but that doesn't mean Putin is not using KGB style tactics.. nor that he is not acting "preemptively" to get us off his back by weakening us.

posted May 18, 2017 01:39 PM            

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Originally posted by Catalina:
And watch who you call Dems please. If you're referring to me you're barking up the wrong tree. I am party-indifferent and dont like many more Dems than Repubs. If either party did half what they say they would I would be shocked. Even then the fact that they clump together in opposition too each other rather than deal with issues in a practical way makes them worse than obsolete imo.

So don't wave away every criticism of DT or suggestion that we might have an infiltration problem as a Dem persecution. LOTS of peoole across the spectrum have issues with all of this.. And there are many different agenda operating behind the surface

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posted May 18, 2017 03:26 PM            

Many Repubs were solidly against Trump as candidate. This pdf indicates they declined to PUBLICLY acknowledge the appearance of possible Russian interference which - collusion or not - hurt HRC and helped Trump.

The enemy of my enemy, right? It occurred to me during the campaign that they declined to rock the boat of a possible winner even tho many of them appeared to despise him ...and that Pence was the perfect backup for their agenda. And if the growing suspicions of Pence play out RYAN is third in line...

posted May 18, 2017 03:28 PM            

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Like many a good spy tale, the story of how the U.S. learned its democracy could be hacked started with loose lips. In May 2016, a Russian military intelligence officer bragged to a colleague that his organization, known as the GRU, was getting ready to pay Clinton back for what President Vladimir Putin believed was an influence operation she had run against him five years earlier as Secretary of State. The GRU, he said, was going to cause chaos in the upcoming U.S. election.
What the officer didn't know, senior intelligence officials tell TIME, was that U.S. spies were listening. They wrote up the conversation and sent it back to analysts at headquarters, who turned it from raw intelligence into an official report and circulated it. But if the officer's boast seems like a red flag now, at the time U.S. officials didn't know what to make of it. "We didn't really understand the context of it until much later," says the senior intelligence official. Investigators now realize that the officer's boast was the first indication U.S. spies had from their sources that Russia wasn't just hacking email accounts to collect intelligence but was also considering interfering in the vote. Like much of America, many in the U.S. government hadn't imagined the kind of influence operation that Russia was preparing to unleash on the 2016 election. Fewer still realized it had been five years in the making.

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posted May 18, 2017 04:22 PM            

Of course that is just speculation at this point but Ryan and McConnell strike me as truly Machiavellian in their "tolerance without support" of DT.. who I suspect struck them as the ideal smokescreen for their own agenda...their Trojan Horse.

posted May 18, 2017 07:01 PM            

..The Repubs have been waiting for this imo. Quietly and without setting off DT's alarm bells..

This article seems to think the same thing and a lot of what it says make sense when you think back to campaign/election time. What swamp rat wants to lose his habitat?