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Cont: All things Trump + Russia Part 3

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Since some have recently opined that the Logan Act is obsolete, it's worth posting this article, which describes the ways it's been enforced and affirmed over the years, including as recently as 2006.
 
 
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/996759730491199488

P. 26-28: Don Jr. "believes" on the day of the Trump Tower meeting he spoke with Emin Agalarov (this call was also described in House Intel report).

Following that, Don Jr. had a call lasting 4-minutes to a blocked number. Don Jr. couldn't remember to whom he spoke.
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/996766105975906304

Ike Kaveladze says that Don Jr. asked Rinat Akhmetshin and Natalia Veselnitskaya "if they got anything on Hillary" during the Trump Tower meeting. (Page 45)
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/996777312317333504

Interesting that Don Jr. can't seem to remember Rinat Akhmetshin even being present at the Trump Tower meeting (left, P. 37-38) but Ike Kaveladze makes a point of saying he remembers how surprised he was with Akhmesthin's "highly inappropriate" pink attire (right, P. 49).
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Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation

Article in the NYT about the early days of the FBI investigation about Trump campaign links with Russia.

And, better late than never I guess, the NYT grudgingly admits that its infamous article Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia, published a week before the election, was not the newspaper's finest hour.

In late October, in response to questions from The Times, law enforcement officials acknowledged the investigation but urged restraint. They said they had scrutinized some of Mr. Trump’s advisers but had found no proof of any involvement with Russian hacking. The resulting article, on Oct. 31, reflected that caution and said that agents had uncovered no “conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government.”

The key fact of the article — that the F.B.I. had opened a broad investigation into possible links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign — was published in the 10th paragraph.

A year and a half later, no public evidence has surfaced connecting Mr. Trump’s advisers to the hacking or linking Mr. Trump himself to the Russian government’s disruptive efforts. But the article’s tone and headline — “Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia” — gave an air of finality to an investigation that was just beginning.

Democrats say that article pre-emptively exonerated Mr. Trump, dousing chances to raise questions about the campaign’s Russian ties before Election Day.

Just as the F.B.I. has been criticized for its handling of the Trump investigation, so too has The Times.
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Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation

Article in the NYT about the early days of the FBI investigation about Trump campaign links with Russia.

And, better late than never I guess, the NYT grudgingly admits that its infamous article Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia, published a week before the election, was not the newspaper's finest hour.
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You might want to read this. Check out Kimberly Strassels tweets at the bottom.
 
Also from the Judiciary Committee, the NRA connection:

Russia’s Connection to the National Rifle Association
The Committee has obtained a number of documents that suggest the Kremlin
used the National Rifle Association as a means of accessing and assisting Mr. Trump and
his campaign. Two individuals involved in this effort appear to be Russian nationals
Alexander Torshin and Maria Butina. Mr. Torshin is a Putin ally and the Deputy
Governor of the Central Bank of Russia,125 and Ms. Butina served as his assistant. She
also founded Right to Bear Arms, the Russian equivalent of the NRA, and started a
business with former Trump supporter and adviser Paul Erickson

Both Mr. Torshin and Ms. Butina have longstanding ties to ex-NRA president, David Keene, and in 2013,
hosted him in Russia for a pro-gun conference. During the campaign, Mr. Torshin, Ms. Butina, and their intermediaries
repeatedly offered the campaign back channels to Russia and relayed requests from
President Putin to meet with Mr. Trump. The Kremlin may also have used the NRA to
secretly fund Mr. Trump’s campaign. The extent of Russia’s use of the NRA as an
avenue for connecting with and potentially supporting the Trump campaign needs
examination. Requests for documents and staff interviews have been sent to Ms. Butina,
Mr. Erickson, and Mr. Keene, but they have refused to cooperate.
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Linky.
 
WilliamSeger said:
Name one other president who did it.



Do you have a dictionary? They not only didn't tell the FBI; they lied about it, knowing the risks of doing so.



Probably not true and not really relevant to anything except Trump's enormous ego problems, which we are all now forced to suffer through. If TrumpCo gave up significant concessions in return for what they expected to be significant, election-altering dirt, then they're going down.



LOL, no, because calling that perfectly legal oppo research "colluding with Russians" is idiotic, and so is comparing it in any way to exchanging sanctions relief for stolen documents. You don't seem to have a very good grasp of the legal issues here.
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I am aghast at people like Logger.

I would have thought that there had been found to be any, and I mean any sniff that there had been attempts to subjugate their democracy, the Make Merica Great Again bone heads would be angry and the first to march in the streets waving flags and want it investigated, fully and properly and quickly.

They bang on about being the leaders of the free world, of wanting minimum government control, of being good Christians. You would think that if a foreign power, and Russia of all countries, was found to be messing with that, they would want it stopped and protected.

I understand the attraction of what (you think) Trump stands for. But he is a liar and moron. For goodness sake find a another Candidate that is at least a real Patriot (if thats what floats your boat).

I think it has gotten to the point that if Trump personally said to Logger that he really didn't care about America or Americans, he only cared about himself and getting rich, he would still support him.
 
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