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varwoche said:
According to various talking heads on CNN, ethics complaints filed by outside groups happen constantly, and they rarely progress -- this is background noise. It's merely an excuse covering for Ryan taking action due to Nunes' spectacular loss of credibility.
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Drip, drip, drip ...
 
I guess the Trump - Putin honeymoon period is over with US missile strike on the Syrian airfield that the US clsims launched the sarin attack.
 
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I guess whatever leverage Putin & Pals may have thought they had over Trump wasn't enough. One advantage of a president who can generate scandals more powerful than any blackmail with just one tweet.
 
jimbob said:
I guess the Trump - Putin honeymoon period is over with US missile strike on the Syrian airfield that the US clsims launched the sarin attack.
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Since Putin and Trump were bed partners, I wonder if Putin is going to ask Trump for a divorce.
 
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Moscow (dpo) - Just a few hours after the US attack on an air base in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced today that he has manipulated the presidential election in the US. He was sincerely sorry that it would likely have to be repeated - without the discredited Donald Trump, of course.
Speaking at a specially convened press conference, Putin said: "It is perhaps a rather unfavorable time, but my bad conscience forces me to finally make a confession: we have manipulated the US election in November by hacking attacks on the Democrats, agreements with the Trump team and a gigantic fake news campaign."
The Russian government would promptly provide proof that the outcome of the presidential election was undemocratic.
The Russian President deeply regretted that the election would have to be repeated. "Now that it is known that we have manipulated them, it is, of course, impossible for Donald Trump to remain president."
Putin doubts that Trump-Rival Hillary Clinton, who also called for air strikes against Assad, will run again either. "The woman is burned politically after she has been hacked by a foreign government."
Fortunately, there are other good politicians in the US, the Russian President stated confidently. "We ... I mean, of course, the US citizens will sure find the right candidate in the end!"
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Yes, of course it is Satire. Although he could do it, and maybe he should. ;)
 
a_unique_person said:
Putin was never Trump's pal. Trump was just Putins useful idiot to stir up the chaos in the USA political system.
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That's about the size of it.

I think Putin despises Western democracy, which he regards as a hypocritical sham, and is delighting in how easy - and cheap - it appears to be to screw it around.
 
Civet said:
I guess whatever leverage Putin & Pals may have thought they had over Trump wasn't enough. One advantage of a president who can generate scandals more powerful than any blackmail with just one tweet.
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That's okay, the goal posts will be moved to accommodate.


a_unique_person said:
Putin was never Trump's pal. Trump was just Putins useful idiot to stir up the chaos in the USA political system.
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CapelDodger said:
That's about the size of it.

I think Putin despises Western democracy, which he regards as a hypocritical sham, and is delighting in how easy - and cheap - it appears to be to screw it around.
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And the Russian narrative begins to fall apart. I think you give Putin too much credit.
 
jimbob said:
I guess the Trump - Putin honeymoon period is over with US missile strike on the Syrian airfield that the US clsims launched the sarin attack.
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Civet said:
I guess whatever leverage Putin & Pals may have thought they had over Trump wasn't enough. One advantage of a president who can generate scandals more powerful than any blackmail with just one tweet.
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skyeagle409 said:
Since Putin and Trump were bed partners, I wonder if Putin is going to ask Trump for a divorce.
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I do believe, while this may be true, it is almost certainly too soon to be planning the funeral.
 
mgidm86 said:
That's okay, the goal posts will be moved to accommodate.







And the Russian narrative begins to fall apart. I think you give Putin too much credit.
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What's falling apart about it. Seems to me the investigations are proceeding. I have little doubt we'll see further evidence of collusion.

Maybe Trump will want to bomb Russia next to throw the dogs off the scent.
 
uke2se said:
What's falling apart about it. Seems to me the investigations are proceeding. I have little doubt we'll see further evidence of collusion.

Maybe Trump will want to bomb Russia next to throw the dogs off the scent.
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Yep, but he'll call Russia first to make sure they're okay with it.
 
Chabad of Port Washington, a Jewish community center on Long Island’s Manhasset Bay, sits in a squat brick edifice across from a Shell gas station and a strip mall. The center is an unexceptional building on an unexceptional street, save for one thing: Some of the shortest routes between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin run straight through it.

Two decades ago, as the Russian president set about consolidating power on one side of the world, he embarked on a project to supplant his country’s existing Jewish civil society and replace it with a parallel structure loyal to him. On the other side of the world, the brash Manhattan developer was working to get a piece of the massive flows of capital that were fleeing the former Soviet Union in search of stable assets in the West, especially real estate, and seeking partners in New York with ties to the region.

Their respective ambitions led the two men—along with Trump’s future son-in-law, Jared Kushner—to build a set of close, overlapping relationships in a small world that intersects on Chabad, an international Hasidic movement most people have never heard of.

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President Trump has reportedly sought security clearances for Kushner and Ivanka, who have taken on growing roles in his White House. For anyone else, a close personal relationship with the family of a top Putin confidant would present significant hurdles to obtaining security clearances, former high-ranking intelligence officials said, but political pressure to grant clearances to the president’s children would be likely to override any security concerns.

“Yes, such connections to Russia should matter for a clearance,” said Steve Hall, a former CIA Moscow station chief. “Question is, will they?”

“I don’t think the Trump family camp will have any trouble with security clearances, as long as there’s no polygraph involved,” said Milt Bearden, former chief of the CIA’s Eastern European division. “It’s absolutely crazy, but not going to be an issue.”
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...sh-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007

Close but still informal relationships like these are ripe for being compromised by spies. Moreover it should be a prime target for investigation for evidence of collusion between Trumps presidential campaign and Russia.
 
uke2se said:
What's falling apart about it. Seems to me the investigations are proceeding. I have little doubt we'll see further evidence of collusion.

Maybe Trump will want to bomb Russia next to throw the dogs off the scent.
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thaiboxerken said:
Yep, but he'll call Russia first to make sure they're okay with it.
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Yes now that more details have come in - it does look a bit like that... except for the law of unintended consequences. I don't imagine that Trump is going to personally be impressed by a joint statement by Russia, Iran and Assad saying that a red line has been crossed by the US and that they'd retaliate if it was crossed again...

I would think that Russia would not want to draw attention to the fact that it's allied with Iran in this situation.

Mind you, I have been asking my colleagues how long before the contradictions in Trump's foreign policy approach would start to cause problems - supporting both Israel and Ia key ally of Iran was always going to be problematic. I do have a horrible suspicion it does make sense if you have a fear of Islam as your main concern. Russia - the bastion of Christendom.
 
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