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The fools are the ones high fiving over Trump and the Republicans selling the nation out to the Koch brothers.
Help please. Are Trump and the R's selling the nation out to the Koch brothers And Putin ? Are the K brothers working with Putin ? By later today, who else will you imagine is buying the country from your political enemies ?
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Looks like Trump and his brain trust put their "few remaining political chips down on a memo that blithering idiot Devin Nunes wrote about exasperating weirdo Carter Page."
Apparently, "Trump was hoping to convince the American people that the FBI and DOJ had abused Page’s rights by surveilling him, which would give Trump cover to fire everyone at the FBI and DOJ who is investigating him."
Now remember, this is the same Carter Page who traveled to Moscow during the campaign, met with Kremlin officials, and gave a speech praising Putin and trashing the U.S.
This is the same Carter Page who had been warned by the FBI about associating with Kremlin spies in New York who were trying to recruit him.
This is the same Carter Page who wrote that he was a "Kremlin advisor" while trying to convince an editor to publish his rejected manuscript. The editor stated Page had some strange views and described him as a "kook."
This is the Carter Page that Trump bragged about being one of his foreign policy advisers for several months before his ties to the Kremlin were exposed and Trump had to dump him.
Yet somehow, Trump and the brain trust believed they could sell this ridiculous conspiracy theory that Carter Page was an innocent victim, picked on by the FBI and the DOJ for having dared to get a FISA warrant on the guy.
This is the pot they chose to go all in on?
Is it any wonder it backfired?
Is being ridiculously stupid an impeachable offense?
Excellent summary however you are going lightly on Page.
I really have to thank Nunes and Trump for bringing him back under the microscope!
The greatest amount of research into Page, other than Mueller's, appears to have been done by Luke Harding.
He is a foreign correspondent at the Guardian.
His book is called
Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
Vintage Books, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright 2017
I think it should be required reading for all GOP Congressman.
I never heard of this term and looked a little deeper.
"Patel was issued a rare “order of ineptitude” in 2016 by U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes, who faulted the lawyer’s handling of the prosecution of Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, who was accused of trying to support ISIS"
Seems Patel needed a Court transcript. All that requires is a 1/2 page form letter.
Judge Hugh's documented, it took Patel "three days, seven telephone calls, three voicemail messages and one snippy electronic message for them to indirectly ask the court for assistance in ordering a transcript.”
Now mind you Patel was employed by the US Government. Your tax dollars at work.
The greatest amount of research into Page, other than Mueller's, appears to have been done by Luke Harding.
He is a foreign correspondent at the Guardian.
Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win. ...
Harding used to be the Moscow bureau chief for The Guardian.
His reports of international espionage, money laundering, poisoned dissidents, computer hacking, ... as well as his reports on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars are always fascinating reading.
I never heard of this term and looked a little deeper.
"Patel was issued a rare “order of ineptitude” in 2016 by U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes, who faulted the lawyer’s handling of the prosecution of Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, who was accused of trying to support ISIS"
Seems Patel needed a Court transcript. All that requires is a 1/2 page form letter.
Judge Hugh's documented that this idiot Hughes wrote, it took Hughes "three days, seven telephone calls, three voicemail messages and one snippy electronic message for them to indirectly ask the court for assistance in ordering a transcript.”
Now mind you Hughes was employed by the US Government. Your tax dollars at work.
Although many Trump allies say this memo is proof that the Obama administration was spying on the Trump campaign, there is something of a logical syntax problem. Before the date this memo says the FISA order was sought, Carter Page’s amorphous role with the Trump campaign had ended, at least according to statements from campaign officials at the time. In a Sept. 24, 2016, article in The Hill, a spokesman for the Trump campaign denied that Page had any involvement with the campaign.
Mr. Page is not an advisor and has made no contribution to the campaign,” communications director Jason Miller told The Hill. “I've never spoken to him, and wouldn't recognize him if he were sitting next to me.”
During a March 21, 2016, editorial board meeting with the Washington Post, then-candidate Donald Trump had listed “Carter Page, PhD” among his foreign policy advisers.
It’s not clear what, exactly, Page’s role was between March and September. But a former national security adviser to the Trump campaign told NPR Page’s role was minor and that he was most concerned that a trip by Page to Moscow in the summer of 2016 would embarrass the campaign.
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