Posted on 02/01/2019 6:17:30 AM PST by Kaslin
Another day and another Trump-Russia story has blown up. Remember the Trump Tower meeting that Donald Trump, Jr. held in 2016, where he met some Russians who totally wasted everyone’s time? Supposedly, the meeting was made under the pretense that this group of Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton. Some have suggested that Trump Jr. committed treason and that this was just the tip of the iceberg. Lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya just wanted to talk about the Magnitsky Act instead, which targets human rights abusers and bars them from entering the U.S. It was named after the death of tax attorney Sergei Magnitsky, who died while in custody of Russian police in what many alleged was politically motivated incarceration. Russia was furious over the bill passed in 2012 and banned some U.S. officials from entering the country along with the adoption of Russian children by Americans.
It was a colossal waste of time for all involved. The story didn’t go anywhere. It was another Trump-Russia nothing burger that has seen multiple attempts to be resurrected as some nefarious rendezvous by the liberal media. Just stop. Then, CNN reported that Michael Cohen had knowledge that Donald Trump knew about the meeting his son had with the Russians.
The July 2018 story read, “Then-candidate Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton, sources with knowledge tell CNN.” Cue up the Russian collusion machine again, right? Who was the source? Oh, that would be Lanny Davis, Cohen’s attorney, who then backtracked…everything.
“I made a mistake…I did not mean to be cute,” Davis later said. But what about the two blocked calls Trump, Jr. made before and after the dud meeting. Those had to be to then-candidate Trump, right? Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chair of the House Intelligence Committee, sought to investigate these calls, but guess what: the blocked calls weren’t to Trump (via Axios):
The Senate Intelligence Committee has obtained phone records showing that President Trump was not one of the blocked numbers his son Donald Trump Jr. called before and after the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, CNN first reported and ABC News later confirmed.
The big picture: Trump Jr. made phone calls to two blocked numbers the same day he spoke with Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, who helped set up a meeting three days later with a Kremlin-linked lawyer claiming to have dirt on Hillary Clinton. He made another phone call to a private number several hours after the meeting. There has long been speculation that the calls were to his father, and that then-candidate Trump had advanced knowledge of the meeting — an allegation he has denied.
Oh, you bet Donald Trump, Jr. responded (via Fox News):
Has anyone heard from Adam Schiff?
I imagine he’s busy leaking other confidential info from the House Intelligence Committee to change the subject?!? #FullOfSchiff https://t.co/7CC6k0CjlJ— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 1, 2019
Donald Trump Jr. late Thursday laid into House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., after reports appeared to vindicate the younger Trump of Democratic suspicions that he made phone calls to President Trump around the time of the Trump Tower meeting with Russians in June 2016.
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Has anyone heard from Adam Schiff?” Trump Jr. tweeted. “I imagine he’s busy leaking other confidential info from the House Intelligence Committee to change the subject?!?”
Democrats have long suspected the calls were between Trump Jr. and his then-candidate father regarding a meeting with Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
Schiff appeared on MSNBC Thursday night and said that Democrats were unable to confirm the reporting "because the Republicans wouldn't let us get the phone records."
The Russian collusion hysteria on the Left continues. The desperation to find some smoking gun has led to scores of pundits and Democratic lawmakers making total fools of themselves. It’s also led to appalling journalism. BuzzFeed had to eat it after two reporters, one of which was flagged by the Columbia Journalism Review as a total fake news generator, wrote that President Trump directed ex-lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about a real estate deal in Russia. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the DOJ’s Russia probe, which never comments to the press, had to issue a statement to quell the impeachment talk that infested liberal airwaves. The Washington Post, which cleaned up BuzzFeed’s mess*, wrote:
People familiar with the matter said after BuzzFeed published its story — which was attributed to “two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter” — the special counsel’s office reviewed evidence to determine if there were any documents or witness interviews like those described, reaching out to those they thought might have a stake in the case.
They found none, these people said.
The fact that one reporter said he didn’t see the evidence to back up his story, while the other said he’s seen documents should’ve been a huge red flag. Also, the anonymous sources for the Trump-Russia collusion beat have to be taken with severe skepticism. How many times will the liberal media embarrass themselves on this front? This isn’t Watergate. Anonymous sourcing, for this beat, appears to increasingly become a cover for lefty reporters to just back up their shoddy narratives about the president being a Russian agent.
It’s sad, actually. But it’s also immensely entertaining. How many times can you bash your head against the wall and expect a different result? In the meantime, I’ll be enjoying another defeat for the Democrat-media complex.
Just out: The big deal, very mysterious Don jr telephone calls, after the innocent Trump Tower meeting, that the media & Dems said were made to his father (me), were just conclusively found NOT to be made to me. They were made to friends & business associates of Don. Really sad!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 1, 2019
*Though they have been a total disaster in covering Virginia Democrats' push to legalize infanticide as of late.
P.S. We never heard the term "opposition research" until the dossier came into play.
H9ow much time and money has been wasted with all this ‘Russia’ crap?
Enough wasted that it took down HuffPost and BuzzFeed News financially.
The last time I checked it is NOT against the law to do this!
The missing story is about the Russians indicted by Mueller who got into the discovery phase of their trial and requested the documents from Mueller that he was going to use against them. The documents came back redacted to cover up the illegal acts of Mueller. But the Russian defendants had the unredacted versions of the same documents from WikiLeaks. Per court rules they presented their unredacted versions to Mueller, exposing his crime of redacting documents to avoid arrest for illegal acts. That was the big Mueller story this past week. And Mueller has put President Trump in jeopardy by a member of his team that leaked a sealed indictment raid to CNN. If President Trump doesn’t pull Mueller’s national security clearance, he may be subject to prosecution for that. Why President Trump hasn’t called Mueller to the Oval office to inform him his security clearance is suspended until such time as the leaker on Mueller’s team is prosecuted is a mystery.
Explains the goofy, OMG! look on the Halfrican's face when he met Pres-elect Trump.
The dirt Hillary was gonna sweep under the Oval Office rug was now in the hands of the man they tried to destroy.
"After all we did, that creep Clinton lost. This guy'll find the paper trail. No way I'm going to jail.
We got Mueller, we blame the Russians, and pin it all on Trump."
...enough to buy the Clinton-Obama Marxist-muslim “death to America” alliance statute of limitations time as well as bury the evidence.
Welcome to sideshow bob’s magical mystical democrat getaway show.
"Careful Schiff....you might get asked questions about YOUR handling of US ntl security."
House Report Concluded Pakistanis Made ‘Unauthorized Access’ To House Congressional Servers
LUKE ROSIAK, Daily Caller Investigative Reporter , 01/16/2018
---SNIP---Schiff employed as his IT, a member of the Awan clan now suspected of being Spies. Prosecutors contend in court filings that the Pakistani Awan clan committed bank fraud at a Congressional bank as the way to finance their absconding to Pakistan........b/c investigations into their shady House IT activities had commenced.
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Brothers Abid and Imran were US govt employees cashing US govt paychecks (read tax dollars). They handled Congressional data——sensitive top secret data. Months at a time Imran ran House IT IN pakistan -— an active terrorist country, handling US intel without supervision. Yet Schiff never said a word. Congressional House Democrats who also employed the clan said nothing.
Taxpayers must demand answers:
<><> How did the Awans get a sensitive jobs in the US Congress?
<><> Were they given preference over American job-seekers?
<><> Claiming to be naturalized American citizens, did they falsify credentials and US govt documents?
<><> did Schiff sign-off on Imran’s trips to Pakistan?
<><> did Schiff inform others that Imran conducted IT work for the House in Pakistan? <><> did Schiff inform constituents their emails were being accessed in a terrorist-sponsored country?
<><> did keep his “IT employee on” after his shady deals were exposed?
TAXPAYERS DEMAND TO KNOW WHY ADAM SCHIFF AND DEMOCRATS ALLOWED A US GOVT EMPLOYEE
TO HANDLE US INTEL AND THEIR AMERICAN CONSTITUENTS’ PERSONAL EMAILS IN A TERRORIST-SPONSORED COUNTRY
The Awan clan consisted of two brothers, two wives, one a Russian national, one known friend, and a host of ghost employees in the US Congress sucking up tax dollars.
Taxpayers demand to know the extent of Adm Schiff's assistance to (A) the three House members of the House intelligence panel, and, (B) the five House members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, among the dozens of elected Democrats employing the Pakistani IT’s.
DEMOCRAT INTEL MEMBER SCHIFF KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THIS? Schiff's intel credentials are flimsy, at best.
APRIL 2016 THE PAKI SCAM IS UNVEILED---
Alarm bells went off when House computer security officials reported “irregularities” in tech equipment purchases......
Specifically, the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in US government property.
The initial evidence pointed to (a) five Paki IT staffers, and, (b) Congressional Democrats that employed them.
DEMOCRAT ADAM SCHIFF KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THIS?
The Paki scam quickly exploded into:
<><> (A) multiple charges of conspiracy against the United States of America,
<><>(B) double-billing Congress,
<><> (C) placing ghost employees on the govt payroll,
<><> (D) stealing govt issue electronics,
<><> (E) submitting falsified documents,
<><> (F) mortgage scams,
<><>(G) shady wire transfers to Pakistan, and,
<><>(H) Congressional bank fraud.
Democrats hired this bunch to boost their “diversity” credentials....sucking up for votes is never far from their small minds.
THE DEMOCRAT DIRTY THIRTY----UP TO 80 HOUSE DEMOCRATS EMPLOYED THE IMRAN CLAN
Interactive at Daily Caller web site.
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ACTION NOW:
Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414
email at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
@POTUS or @realDonaldTrump on Twitter
US CONGRESS SWITCHBOARD: (202) 224-3121
U.S. Department of Justice Comment Line: 202-353-1555 Switchboard: 202-514-2000
FBI tip line web site----https://www.fbi.gov/tips
FBI electronic fraud unit----www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-fraud-schemes/internet-fraud
FBI Major Case Contact Center: 1-800-CALL-FBI (225-5324)
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Schiff's Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence oversees all or part of the
following executive branch departments and agencies:
-Office of the Director of National Intelligence
-Central Intelligence Agency
-Defense Intelligence Agency
-Department of Defense
-Department of Energy
-Department of Homeland Security
-Department of Justice
-Department of State
-Department of Treasury Drug Enforcement Administration
-Federal Bureau of Investigation
-National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
-National Reconnaissance Office
National Security Agency
-Office of Naval Intelligence
-Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency
United States Army Intelligence and Security Command
-United States Coast Guard Intelligence
-Marine Corps Intelligence Activity
NOTE WELL: Schiff employed the Pakistani IT's.
At no time did Cong Schiff advise any of these critical agencies that intel they provided his office
was being viewed by suspected foreign spies....perhaps sold abroad.... by foreign enemies of the US.
“The Halfrican and his factotums orchestrated an elaborate plot to derail the Trump candidacy and then tapped
Mueller to find a crime to get Trump impeached.......by any means necessary”
Perhaps so, but I never gave BHO that much credit on the intelligence quotient. Stemming from Arrested developmental behavior from years of reported (and confessed) drug use.
Arrested Developmental Behavior notwithstanding, continued drug use will harrass his thought patterns even more.
You are a gold mine of useful info!
I was in the spa/workout area watching the four TVs and I was sure CNN had something, they kept obsessing over the two calls. I was sure something happened, again;) They confuse everything on the CNN to make Trump look bad. Their broadcasting license for news should be revoked.
The Clinton-obama manifesto calls for state run media for propaganda.
Trump in cahoots with the Russians..Yeah /s
It was Hillary that was getting money and dispensing favors to the Ruskies.
Why in the world would they try to defeat her???
But again, the MSM keeps the Trump/Russia narrative going to cover the truth.
Keep the opponent in defensive mode.
Congress has known this for a while. It has only just become PUBLIC knowledge. But for the past 12-18 months, the Democrats, while knowing the truth, have accused Donald Trump and his son of lying.
Sadly, @mericans are too stupid to recognize the death of the Republic for which THEY were the sovereigns, s America the Constitution Repblic is now dead. Rule of law is become rule of lies issued fromabsolutely dead souls exercising power ... For a short time, until GOD says ENOUGH! Bring the family home and begin cleansng the stench.
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