Posted on 04/17/2019 5:25:28 AM PDT by rlmorel
Note that this is not a real article. It was composited and altered from various sources and changed to make a point (to protect the "guilty" some might say) It may sound vaguely familiar to some. I have changed names, crimes, and technologies. This was done as an exercise.
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In June of this past year, Fox News, asked the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward about the story: “Are members of the media, do you think, Bob, too scandal-obsessed, looking for something at every corner?”
According to an analysis by the Media Research Center, the news coverage of the congressional hearings on the release of the Mueller Report exonerating Trump were dwarfed by reports on Smollett Incident and the Crisis at the Border.
The Russian Collusion scandal involving the Trump Election team first came to light in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign. A lawyer for Trump, Cohen was a top fundraiser who scooped up suspect foreign cash for Team Trump.
A 2018 Senate Government Affairs Committee report on the scandal found “strong circumstantial evidence” that a great deal of foreign money had illegally entered the country in an attempt to influence the 2016 election. The RNC was forced to give back more than $2.8 million in illegal or improper donations from foreign nationals.
The most suspect funds were brought in by Paul Manafort, a bagman for the Russian billionaire Deripaska family. Manafort confessed that at least $35,000 of his donations to the Trump campaign and the RNC had come from Russian aerospace executive — a lieutenant colonel in the Russian military. Manafort said the executive had helped him meet three times with General Sergi Sampsonov, the head of Russian military intelligence. According to Manafort’s testimony, General Sampsonov had told him: “We really like your Candidate. We hope he will be reelected. I will give you $300,000 U.S. dollars. You can give it to . . . your candidate and the Republican party.”
The sprawling fundraising scandal ultimately led to 22 guilty pleas on various violations of election laws. Among the Trump fundraisers and friends who pleaded guilty were Sheldon Adelson, Robert Murray, Joseph Craft, and Vince McMahon. But many questions went unanswered, even after the revelations that Trump had personally authorized offering donors Oval Office meetings and use of the Mar a Lago Estate. A total of 120 participants in the fundraising scandal either fled the country, asserted their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, or otherwise avoided questioning. The stonewalling worked — and probably encouraged by Donald Trump in his own cover-up of his Stormy Daniels agreement and his ties with Alfa Bank in Russia.
Indeed, much of the media basically gave the Trumps a pass on evidence that special-interest donors to the Trump Foundation frequently managed to score favors from the State Department. Journalist Peter Stoffer revealed in his book Trump Cash that State had helped move along an infamous deal that granted the Russians control of more than 20 percent of the rare-earth production here in the United States. The company involved in acquiring the American rare earth was a very large donor to — you guessed it — the Trump Foundation!
Furthermore, As president, Donald Trump essentially wiped out any strategic advantage the U.S. had by selling advanced U.S. missile technology to our enemy, Russia.
That “administration’s voluntary release of all the secrets of America’s nuclear tests, combined with the systematic theft of the secrets that were left as a result of its lax security controls, effectively wiped out America’s technological edge,” said CNN.
Unlike the administrations that preceded it, the Trump administration accepted millions of dollars from the military and intelligence services of at least one hostile foreign power. All of this was done in exchange for illegal campaign contributions from a massive totalitarian country determined to regain its place in the world as a superpower to rival the US.
President Trump also lifted security controls, allowing thieves to access other vital military technologies, while disarming his own side and opposing needed defenses.
“One of the key technological breaks Russia received, without having to spy to get it, was the deliverance of hypersonic missile technology once banned from export for security reasons,” said NBC News.
“Hypersonic Missile technology has the capability to be a major strategic and tactical game changer for military operations’”
“This transfer,” he writes, “was authorized three years after the spy thefts were detected. What rationale—besides stupidity, greed, or some other equally indefensible motive—could justify this? What responsible president or administration official, at any relevant level in any government, would allow the massive transfer of national-security assets like these to a dictatorship they knew had stolen their country’s most highly guarded military secrets?”
In the last five years, as longtime Trump bagman Ellioty Broidy, set records raising money for the Trumps. In that era congressional investigators unearthed an elaborate Russian money-laundering scheme.
Under it money was funneled to the Trump organization through businesspeople, including Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska. In that case, 94 individuals either refused questioning, pled the Fifth Amendment, or fled the country. Deripaska, detained during a visit, accepted a plea bargain with federal prosecutors in 2018 in exchange for providing information about questionable campaign contributions from Russia.
Cohen helped a company called Loral Space get seats on official trade missions. He reportedly convinced the Trump administration to overrule national security officials in order win approval for a Loral deal that gave Russia critical hypersonic missile technology. Loral’s chief executive officer became the Republican National Committee’s largest donor and Cohen became Trump’s go to man on the ground.
According to a Wall Street Journal account, a bipartisan congressional inquiry “found Moscow has stolen U.S. design data for nearly all elements needed for a major nuclear attack on the U.S., such as advanced warheads, missiles, and guidance systems. Targets of the spying ranged from an Army anti-tank weapon to nearly all modern fighter jets. Most wasn’t done by professionals, but by visitors or front companies. Lax security by the Trump Administration is blamed in part, and satellite makers Hughes and Loral are criticized.”
Russia’s theft of American technology gave it a 20-year head start in developing its own hypersonic missile delivery system.
Hughes and Loral, large contributors to Trump’s campaign coffers, gave the Russians technology to deliver both conventional and nuclear ordinance in hypersonic missles.
“They were able to accomplish this with indispensable assistance provided by the Trump White House that allowed them to circumvent technology controls instituted for national-security purposes by previous administrations,” writes Newsweek.
Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who was a member of the National Security subcommittee on military research and development and is fluent in the Russian language, characterized the two years of Trump’s administration that had thus far elapsed as “the worst period in our history in terms of undermining our national security.”
When Gillibrand visited Russia with 10 other congressmen a Russian general threatened them, saying that if the U.S. deployed ground troops to Venezuela, Russia could throw America into chaos by detonating a nuclear device in the sky near the eastern seaboard that would destroy every computer chip in the country, disabling telephones, airplanes, and electrical grids.
Such are the fruits of appeasement.
Of course there is a lot of illicit foreign money coming into the U.S. and perhaps the majority of it is to attempt to buy influence or back certain political horses, but it seems to me that a lot of it is intended simply to attack us, our society, our culture, and sow seeds of chaos. To use that fact (and even obscure it) to go after one political party and not the other, or worse yet, only one candidate/campaign is to do a dis-service and to aid those who want to harm our nation
You would have been better off just stating the truth with the original names.
Some liberal bozo is going to grab this article and claim it is true because they saw it on the internet.
That was one of my two points thank you for picking it up:
1.) What you said, focusing on one party is destructive
2.) In this case, what was actually done from accepting foreign money and damaging national security, and collusion with foreign entities was far, Far, FAR worse on the part of the Clinton and Obama administrations.
LOL, I thought about that, but that might actually be useful if someone bothers to read the beginning and endo of it!
Use their inability to read against them...:)
This post will be used as “evidence” to justify the need for a new FISA warrant to “wiretap” Trump’s associates. /sarc
Heh, how is that not worse than the FBI leaking a story to the media, then using the media story to justify a FISA warrant?????
Okay, you had me worried, (it’s still early here on the Left Coast), but the part about LORAL gave me the clue that someone had a tongue stuck deep in cheek!!
The most dismal and depressing part is that most people just don’t care. The divide between us matters more than foreign malice, and the reason it’s so sad to me is that I have come to realize in the last few years that it’s not just the media and the coastal elites. There are a lot of every day people who will embrace an article that imputes one side, and will reject the very same set of facts if they are presented for the other side.
You still didn’t make it clear. Now this will go into Google as news.
You realize, of course, that your “essay” will go viral on the web, now, and be read into the Congressional Record in the next few days by one of the leftist swine ensconced there!
Actually, the left only reads what they want their “truth” to be.
"What is the F***ing government doing with my F***ing taxes? They just F***ing waste it and F***ing throw it away. What the F*** do they waste it the F*** on...?"
And so on.
I listened and thought, she sounds like a new immigrant, but a "woke" immigrant to conservatism, at least fiscally speaking for herself (I hate the "woke" description, but to use it to make fun of them works for me)
But in the next breath, the reporter asked her who she would vote for, and she said: "I don't know...probably Bernie Sanders."
I nearly went off the road...I think these are the EXACT people your referenced in your post as "...There are a lot of every day people who will embrace an article that imputes one side, and will reject the very same set of facts if they are presented for the other side..."
Or be used to submit another FISA warrant against Trump!
I am always reminded of the Robert Kennedy quote, because it seems to embody this in some way: "Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not."
To be fair, I kind of like that quote, but in the hands of some people, I think they interpret it as:
"...Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why should we not accept those as the way things are."
Most don't know who their CongressCritter is. Most don't know their US Sinators.
Most don't know what the 2nd A...states.
Most have not read a book..in the last 3 years.
Most know who starred on "Dancing with the Stars"....
Most know all the names of the Kardasians....prolly spelled dat wrong..but you all know what I mean.
Most think they can retire on one million $$...and these are 20-30 yr old goobers....
That is because the media has successfully convinced these people that all the free stuff they are promised will be paid for by rich people, and they will not have to pay anything nor make any sacrifices, either financially or in liberty.
Every time a conservative comes along and tries to warn people that these promises can not and will not work as advertised, they are censored or railed.
A good example is Obama care. How many times did people warn that there is no way those promises could be kept, but the people who were trying to sound the alarm were accused of being lacky’s for big medicine and big insurance or having some other kind of reason to deceive.
There was once a time when people understood inherently that you everyone cannot receive without giving. Just like the physics truism that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred, it is also true in economics that you cannot just get something without someone else losing something, unless you are giving something for it.
The Bernie Sanders of the world used to be marginal and fringe kooks in our society. Now, people just want to believe that we have all been duped and it is more than possible for all their wishes (not just needs and rights) can be provided for and some obscure money pile exists somewhere to pay for it all.
In old-style families with both a mother and father, one of them would be certain to imbue their progeny with:
“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
“There is never something for nothing.”
“If a thing seems too good to be true...it isn’t.”
And of course: “The total energy of an isolated system remains constant; it is said to be conserved over time. This law means that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another.”
(Well, okay, I never heard that from my mom or dad, but you get the idea!)
What’s ironic is this tangent that we went on about socialism and people being duped into believing it’s all possible to get without significant sacrifices, and it started out with a discussion on billions of dollars coming into the US from foreign interests who do not wish good things to come from it (for us). It’s ironic because, there indeed are big and seemingly endless money piles out there... but they are not being used for benevolent purposes, and they certainly aren’t giving healthcare and education to the common folk.
Truer words were never spoken. There are many who would say there are endless piles of American money being used in other places around the globe for non-benevolent puposes, and it would be hard to disagree that happens, but our piles and purposes are often (and positively) quite different from Chinese, Russian, or Iranian piles of money...
Doesn't mean it always ends well with our piles of money, but...you know what I mean. The fundamental intent is often different and often good in many cases.
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