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The Russia Insinuation Collapses
The National Review ^ | March 14, 2017 | Conrad Black

Posted on 03/14/2017 9:39:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Trump wins again, but now faces policy challenges.

The ignominious collapse of the Democratic claims and insinuations that Donald Trump was improperly connected to the Russian government has de-escalated the Democrats’ campaign against the president — from a frenzied assault seeking impeachment and removal for a cause to be named later, to guerrilla war. Russian collusion has vanished down the same deep hole as the charges of sexism, racism, and a will to autocracy. It is widely believed that press reports in the New York Times and other outlets accustomed to receiving and amplifying anti-Trump leaks from within the administration (a thoroughly illegal process), as well as an aside of Democratic representative Adam Schiff of California, to the effect that the House Intelligence Committee would want to know about the surveillance of the Republican campaign, confirm that there was such surveillance.

Most intelligence-agency directors in the latter Obama era have volunteered that there was no evidence of such collaboration. The impact of Trump’s famous tweet accusing Obama of tapping his telephones has been substantially muted, as the Democrats have assisted in repurposing the whole matter from panting like the Hound of the Baskervilles after evidence of Trump-Putin collusion to detached curiosity about intelligence practices, as if these were conducted without, as has been claimed, the knowledge of President Obama and his entourage. If that were entirely clear, the Obama camp would probably be even more unctuous than it has been.....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; media; russia; trump
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1 posted on 03/14/2017 9:39:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This Congressional a$$hole Swalwell whose district borders ours is presently on Tucker Carlson “outlining” how his “website” is going to prove Trump’s connections to Russia. BTW, Swalwell follows Fortney (Pete) Stark who, when he was in Congress, was King of the A$$holes. Swalwell, on his best day couldn’t hold a candle to Stark. Stark used to swear at his constituents and cut them off.


2 posted on 03/14/2017 9:46:22 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Poor Democrats...after all that fail, tonight their lesbian hero lets them down again. What a big meany Maddow is, building up hopes all day that finally, for once and for all, they would have the satisfaction of the thrill of victory over Trump...but...

THEN THIS HAPPENED


3 posted on 03/14/2017 9:50:29 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

collapses? tell that to BBC who have given the Sean Spicer “stalker” Shree Chauhan a HUGE platform on their “World Have Your Say” radio program, which broadcasts to many millions worldwide, and is repeated:

short audio:

14 March: BBC World Have Your Say: Why I confronted Sean Spicer in an Apple store and filmed it
Ms Chauhan, the founder of an education start-up...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39254125

BBC presents Chauhan as the victim:

AUDIO: 13 March: BBC World Have Your Say: Religious Symbols at Work
Also the Indian American woman who confronted Sean Spicer in an Apple store tells us she doesn’t regret her actions
INTRO BY BBC’S RICK KELSEY features Shree, including some audio from her.
THEN, BEGINNING AT 27MINS IN UP TO 36MINS 15SECS, IT IS ALMOST ENTIRELY A WELL-PREPARED MONOLOGUE FROM CHAUHAN
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04w19x5

no mention whatsoever of her past Democrat connections:

13 Mar: Heavy.com: Shree Chauhan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Teach for America reports of Chauhan: “Shree worked for the U.S. Department of Education, in the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development where she counseled senior leaders, including the Assistant Secretary Martin and Secretary Duncan. She went on to serve in the U.S. Senate for Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) advising on education issues.”

given the disastrous Presidential election results for the Democrats, MSM is desperate to hold on to/claim back every minority possible for the Party, including Indian Americans, who voted heavily for President Trump.

it is so transparent, and further demeans the MSM.


4 posted on 03/14/2017 9:55:59 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: bigbob

Heh, I always loved the “Wide World of Sports” intro.


5 posted on 03/14/2017 9:57:38 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445736/donald-trump-russia-obamacare-repeal


6 posted on 03/14/2017 9:57:44 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: MAGAthon

should have added there’s plenty of RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA from Shree Chauhan. BBC allows her to speak unchallenged.


7 posted on 03/14/2017 10:01:27 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/79644/cia-behind-dnc-leak/


8 posted on 03/14/2017 10:01:49 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Charles Martel

I can watch that all day long ;-) The original “Epic Fail”


9 posted on 03/14/2017 10:05:19 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob

The agony of defeat.


10 posted on 03/14/2017 10:05:53 PM PDT by Stentor (A day without illegals is like a day without food poisoning.--Salamander)
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To: bigbob

I remember that: ‘The thrill of victory. The heartbreak of defeat!’ Bob McKay?
Yeah, that was Rick Maddow today, looking like a jerk.


11 posted on 03/14/2017 10:06:39 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: Stentor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8VPHUvCHHI


12 posted on 03/14/2017 10:07:26 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Given all that has happened, the hysteria over the migrant order, the whole farrago of Russian nonsense, this de-escalation has been another heavy defeat for Trump’s enemies. He has been facing a media that is 90 percent hostile and invents more news than it fairly reports. The ninja vandals at Berkeley, the mobs at airports, the Golden Shower, and the disgraced mythmaker Brian Williams lecturing the president about failing to uphold the integrity of his office, while Mika Brzezinski, also on MSNBC, warbled incoherently about a menace to the security of the world — it has been a baptism by fire and defamation that have failed.

How badly? I give you Rachel Maddow breathlessly releasing a 12-year-old partial tax form as if it were the Ark of the Covenant. That badly.

13 posted on 03/14/2017 10:11:24 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: vette6387

Didn’t know it was illegal to talk with people (even leaders) from other countries during an election.

But to another point. How hard must it be to be a republican running for president and then becoming president with the current MSM

Trump must be an exceptionally in control and a quite decent person to have nothing REALLY damaging to be found ( or it would have already).

I couldn’t be in the running for president for six days before I’d be forced to drop out :)


14 posted on 03/14/2017 10:21:51 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: tumblindice

‘Agony’ of defeat.


15 posted on 03/14/2017 10:22:24 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Stentor

Missed a little.
Stanley Ralph Ross.: “Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport… the thrill of victory… and the agony of defeat… the human drama of athletic competition… This is ABC’s Wide World of Sports! ”


16 posted on 03/14/2017 10:32:45 PM PDT by Fungi (Five genera of fungi are responsible for 90% of all inhaled fungi. The remaining 10% will be named.)
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To: bigbob
The original “Epic Fail”

Broadcast into your home, every weekend!

IIRC, there were several different versions of that into, showing the same wipeout from different angles. The later (1980s) version that started with the words "Spanning the Globe..." definitely looked different.

There was also a clip showing an ugly gymnastics fail, where a competitor ran straight into the side of a pommel horse. That one used to coax a chuckle out of my dad.

17 posted on 03/14/2017 10:33:37 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Charles Martel

Maybe this is a huge difference between men and women.

Whenever I see those clips where someone “wipes out,” I cringe. I think of broken bones, contusions, massive internal injuries, and possible death. I can’t watch those “funny home video” shows because they show so many of those clips, which I do not find funny in the slightest.

But the current left, they want to claim that men and women are exactly the same...


18 posted on 03/15/2017 3:18:52 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Regardless, the charge has been firmly planted in the minds of Dem voters & activists to be later resurrected whenever it suits. The facts at that future date won’t matters because as we all know it’s the ‘seriousness of the charge’ that matters.


19 posted on 03/15/2017 3:33:24 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

John McCain passes dossier alleging secret Trump-Russia contacts to FBI

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/10/fbi-chief-given-dossier-by-john-mccain-alleging-secret-trump-russia-contacts

Maybe he passed Trump’s tax returns also.


20 posted on 03/15/2017 3:38:23 AM PDT by McGruff (#PlugTheLeaks)
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