Posted on 07/30/2018 3:53:21 PM PDT by kabar
Three days after the June 9 Trump Tower meeting, the public learned the DNC had been breached. Around this same time, Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, a former British spook, specifically to tie Trump to Russia. Steele oversaw the creation of the still-unverified and salacious dossier. But Steele farmed out the responsibility for the dossier to Edward Baumgartner, a British national with ties to the Kremlin, who used Russians as sources who were likely current and former Russian intelligence officials.
“Wolf, wolf.” Who cares.
One of the Russians Attorney was Edward Lieberman who was married to Hilliary;s confidant, Evelyn Lieberman!!!~
For us Americans, we care that the Dems with the assistance of the Intel community framed the President of the United States. Obama tried to take down Bibi. Should we care?
Call it what it was: Opposition research.
Opposition research is just that, it is not “collusion” or “conspiracy” and every campaign does it.
Don’t let the Left define the terms
“OPPOSITION RESEARCH”
The Trump Tower meeting shows that the Obama administration, despite their spying on the Trump campaign, had found no evidence of Russian collusion up to that time, so they tried to lure them into something that might look like collusion (using a Russian lawyer allied to the Democrats). That Trump’s son and son-in-law immediately rejected the Russian offer shows their honesty (although it would have been better to have avoided the meeting altogether—that was a rookie mistake on their part).
I think this is a another bag job by Cohen and PDJT to get information into the public’s hands that couldn’t be released independantly. The whole op was way too ez.
I think the whole thing was a setup to try and trap someone in the Trump campaign. This was put on by Fusion GPS and the people who paid them.
My opinion is that they weren’t explicitly trying to entrap anyone. The Russian collusion is a convenient excuse for putting the campaign under surveillance just so they could keep tabs and respond accordingly. It was about winning.
[I think this is a another bag job by Cohen and PDJT to get information into the publics hands that couldnt be released independantly. The whole op was way too ez.]
I sure hope you are right.
Thanks for posting.
great links.
then there’s this odd one, written by a Scot, but still unusual given it’s published by Fair:
27 Jul: Fair: The Utility of the RussiaGate Conspiracy
New McCarthyism allows corporate media to tighten grip, Democrats to ignore their own failings
by Alan MacLeod
Indeed, Hillary Clinton and her team actively attempted to secure a Trump primary victory, assured that he would be the easiest candidate to beat. The Podesta emails show (LINK TO PODESTA EMAIL THREAD BELOW) that her team considered even before the primaries that associating Trump with Vladimir Putin and Russia would be a winning strategy and employed the tactic throughout 2016 and beyond.
https://fair.org/home/the-utility-of-the-russiagate-conspiracy/
Wikileaks Podesta emails: Re: HRC, Obama and ISIS
From: Brent Budowsky To: John Podesta Date: 2015-12-21
p.s. On the UN last week, support it yes, but be careful. I love Kerry like a bro’ and support him always as HRC should and does. But be careful about the U.N., support but don’t go too far. Putin did not agree to anything about removing Assad and continues to bomb the people we support. We pushed the same position in 2012 (Geneva 1, which HRC knows all about) and Geneva 2 in 2014. Odds that Putin agrees to remove Assad are only slightly better than the odds the College of Cardinals chooses me to someday succeed Pope Francis.
***Best approach is to slaughter Donald for his bromance with Putin, but not go too far betting on Putin re Syria. Brent
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25651
Budowsky has been churning out anti-Trump, fake Russia collusion stuff for The Hill and the Observer, with praise for the likes of McCain, George Will, etc., for the past two years. go through a few pages here:
Muckrack Articles by Brent Budowsky
https://muckrack.com/brent-budowsky/articles
Boy who cried wolf. Controversy of the day. No one cares anymore because it is all fake, every day. That is my point. No one listens anymore. No one cares what they say anymore about Russia or collusion. If anyone does, they are giving energy to the darkness of the deep state. The best way to deal with it personally is to give it no weight. Otherwise, one will be upset at the next contrived controversary, which will be when more positive news is released by the Trump Administration.
what a guy!
Twitter Edward Baumgartner
https://twitter.com/ebaumgar73
Apelbaum - seems to be a NY tech guy - analyses the dossier’s writing styles, authors, etc etc. VERY long, but fascinating stuff all the way through:
17 March 2018: Yaacov Apelbaum blog: Edward Baumgartner: The Mechanics of Deception
https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/tag/edward-baumgartner/
Thanks for the link to Baumgartner. Never heard of him but he is right on target.
Sperry was on to him in Jan - this was a good piece:
18 Jan: NY Post: Paul Sperry: Did Putins pawns help assemble the Trump-smearing dossier?
Simpson said that, while he farmed out the dossier to his old pal Steele, he also contributed to the dossier along with a mysterious Russian translator who worked directly with his other client, a Putin crony.
In 2016, Simpson hired Edward Baumgartner, an ex-journalist who shares his disdain for Trump, to work on the Hillary contract. Baumgartner says he has a masters degree in Russian and specializes in consulting in the former Soviet Union, where he has offices.
Baumgartner had been working alongside Simpson as a Russian translator for a New York law firm defending a Russian holding company, Prevezon...
He speaks Russian, Simpson said of Baumgartner, after Senate Judiciary Committee staff asked about subcontractors hed hired...
Simpson admitted dining with (Veselnitskaya) before and after the meeting and sitting in the Manhattan courthouse with her the morning of the meeting, but he claims he was in the dark about her Trump Tower meeting. He says they didnt discuss her plans because of a language barrier even though his pal Baumgartner, the Russian translator, was in the room with them...
https://nypost.com/2018/01/18/did-putins-pawns-help-assemble-the-trump-smearing-dossier/
I have never heard of unverified opposition research being used by the FBI and DOJ to spy on an opposing political party during a Presidential campaign, transition team, and a sitting President using the resources of the intel community.
Mueller still hasn’t even bothered to interview the Russian lawyer from the Trump Jnr. meeting. She was working for FusionFSB and the Hillary campaign. No doubt.
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