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Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence
New York Times ^ | FEB. 14, 2017 | MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MARK MAZZETTI and MATT APUZZO

Posted on 02/14/2017 7:17:27 PM PST by VanShuyten

Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials.

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The officials said the intercepted communications were not limited to Trump campaign officials, and included other associates of Mr. Trump. On the Russian side, the contacts also included members of the Russian government outside of the intelligence services, the officials said. All of the current and former officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the continuing investigation is classified.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; nsa; russia; trump
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To: arrogantsob

IDK. Maybe I’m just getting freaked out.

But, I have little doubt that nevertrumpers Ryan, McCain, et al won’t try.


61 posted on 02/14/2017 7:49:18 PM PST by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: VanShuyten

This is a coup d’etat playing out in slow motion. First you create this “russia hacked our election” fake story and pound it until it’s in the public mind. Then you start linking Trump’s people to some sort of nefarious collusion with them. Then you say “that proves it, Trump worked with the Russians to steal the election in violation of law x, y, and z” and then they impeach him. They need the house and senate, they think they’ll get them in 2018 if they agitate enough and then they strike.


62 posted on 02/14/2017 7:49:51 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: WilliamIII

If there are patriots in deep state perhaps we will see some of the conversations mccain and graham have been having in UKraine


63 posted on 02/14/2017 7:52:15 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: VanShuyten

Shut down US intel and contract it out to the Russians.
Hillary and Obama already still control the FBI, CIA, and other intel groups. It’ll take too long to clean it up.


64 posted on 02/14/2017 7:53:10 PM PST by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: blackdog

And now that the leakers and their handlers are out of power, they want to turn the NSA collections off so Trump cannot use it against them as Obama used it against his opponents...by getting him and congress to neuter it. They never liked it in the first place... until Obama won, when it was useful, like the nuclear option was in congress. Now that Trump’s in it’s a different story with these tools in his hands.


65 posted on 02/14/2017 7:53:47 PM PST by piasa
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.


66 posted on 02/14/2017 7:54:15 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: madison10
Waste of ink and paper.

Not for them. I'm sure that their readers gobbled it up and are anxiously awaiting for more of the same.

67 posted on 02/14/2017 7:54:17 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: pepsi_junkie

62 million people know that Russia had no effect on why they voted for Trump

Hillary’s exposure as a careless arrogant corrupt old twat and her labeling half of America as deplorables was plenty enough reason


68 posted on 02/14/2017 7:55:31 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Az Joe

“Lot of cucks on this thread aren’t there?”

Yep. They are either cowards or liberal infiltrators. The forum would be better off without them.


69 posted on 02/14/2017 7:56:33 PM PST by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: TennTuxedo

What the hell are you talking about?


70 posted on 02/14/2017 7:56:42 PM PST by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

They WILL NEVER get the Senate the American people have had ENOUGH of this BS!!! The left has GONE TO FAR the PC CRAP and immigration has poisoned this nation!!! The DEMS are DONE they are to STUPID to realize it!! All of these SCREAMING PROTESTS have just pushed more voters AWAY from them!


71 posted on 02/14/2017 7:57:38 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: b4me; Helicondelta
And calling for Flynn's resignation at the first sign of major resistance is fighting - how?

Hopefully it was a tactical retreat and not some naive attempt at appeasement - 'cause the opposition views this as total war, as their actions to date indicate.

72 posted on 02/14/2017 7:59:03 PM PST by amorphous
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To: Helicondelta
I bet you were one of the snowflakes who surrendered to Hillary back in July.

How much you wanna bet?

73 posted on 02/14/2017 8:00:10 PM PST by amorphous
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To: Az Joe

Members in good standing of the Surrender First, Last and Always brigade. McCrazy and Linda do not have the power some believe they do.


74 posted on 02/14/2017 8:01:27 PM PST by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com.)
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To: Gene Eric
Abraham Lincoln and the press:

Major-General John A. Drx,

Commanding at New York:

Whereas there has been wickedly and traitorously printed and published this morning in the New York World and New York Journal of Commerce, newspapers printed and published in the city of New York, a false and spurious proclamation purporting to be signed by the President and to be countersigned by the Secretary of State, which publication is of a treasonable nature, designed to give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States and to the rebels now at war against the Government and their aiders and abettors, you are therefore hereby commanded forthwith to arrest and imprison in any fort or military prison in your command the editors, proprietors, and publishers of the aforesaid newspapers, and all such persons as, after public notice has been given of the falsehood of said publication, print and publish the same with intent to give aid and comfort to the enemy; and you will hold the persons so arrested in close custody until they can be brought to trial before a military commission for their offense. You will also take possession by military force of the printing establishments of the New York World and Journal of Commerce, and hold the same until further orders, and prohibit any further publication therefrom.

A. LINCOLN.

75 posted on 02/14/2017 8:01:33 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: VanShuyten

The Russians must be laughing at this spectacle.


76 posted on 02/14/2017 8:02:22 PM PST by McGruff (Drain The Swamp)
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To: amorphous

Flynn is a democrat. Why would the democrats want his head?

Trump fired him because he lied.


77 posted on 02/14/2017 8:02:57 PM PST by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: phoneman08

None of then have anything to do with this.

This will evaporate under a deluge of Trump actions.


78 posted on 02/14/2017 8:07:32 PM PST by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com.)
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To: Helicondelta
There are good men and women in all parties. Flynn is a good man, like the Congress lady from Hawaii is a good women in the fight against the deep state.

I'd rather have them on our side in this fight than McCain or Graham, any day. Wouldn't you?

Ringing the alarm, and a call to action is the opposite of surrendering. What we're seeing go down, is far more serious than most realize.

The time to fight back is now, before those who already are, the deep state, gain even more ground.

79 posted on 02/14/2017 8:11:24 PM PST by amorphous
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To: VanShuyten

Long.knives.

This is getting ... Spooky.


80 posted on 02/14/2017 8:12:33 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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