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In December 2015, Russian spy, Maria Butinaâs Russian gun-rights organization sponsored an NRA delegation to Moscow where attendees met with influential Russian officials ( aka, Russian spies) including former deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin who had been under U.S. sanctions since 2014.
The convoy to Moscow included David Keene, Trump campaign surrogate Sheriff David Clarke, president and CEO of the Outdoor Channel Jim Liberatore, soon-to-be NRA president Peter Brownell and NRA donors Jim Gregory, Arnold Goldschlager and Hilary Goldschlager.
Alexander Torshin â a Russian politician and longtime associate of Butina who has since come under U.S. sanctions â played a key role in the trip, and Russiaâs decade-long operation of infiltrating American conservative groups. A conservative Nashville lawyer named G. Kline Preston IV who has done business in Russia claims that he first introduced David Keene to Torshin in 2011 while Keene was NRA president. Keene and Torshin quickly forged an alliance based on mutual interests.
In 2013, Keene was introduced as an honored guest at the Right to Bear Arms conference in Moscow. Paul Erickson, who became Butinaâs asset, accompanied Keene to the 2013 conference, where he reportedly first crossed paths with Butina.
Senate intelligence and finance committees have requested documents on the NRAâs connections to Russia, including documents related to whether the NRA took Russian money and the 2015 delegation. After spending a record $54.4 million to put Trump in the White House and support Republicans in Congress, the NRAâs membership dues dropped precipitously the following year.
The NRAâs lawyers initially lied about the Russian money, they eventually admitted to receiving âa total of approximately $2,512.85 from people associated Russian addressesâ and âabout $525â from two Russian nationals living in the United States in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). The NRA also acknowledged âmembership duesâ from Alexander Torshin, who has been a non-voting life member of the NRA since 2012 â the year after he first connected with Keene. Butina's partner, GOP operative Paul Erickson, has lawyered up in light of reports that he too may be targeted by federal prosecutors as a covert Russian agent. Signs that Butina has reached a plea deal follows a September filing by federal prosecutors indicating that Butina offered to provide information to the the feds about Ericksonâs illegal activities.
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This is no secret. Trump had already been warned, by the DoJ, President Obama, and others that the FBI was investigating Flynn.
KT McFarland corrected a claim she made to the FBI about what she knew during the presidential transition about Russia sanctions after Flynn's guilty plea in the Russia investigation contradicted her lie.
In court papers accompanying his plea agreement, federal investigators disclosed that Flynn had coördinated his contacts with Kislyak with an unnamed senior transition official, who was later identified as McFarland.
McFarland, who served as Flynn's deputy on the NSC, was first interviewed by the FBI in summer 2017. She said at that time she didn't have a precise memory of whether Flynn had spoken to the then-Russian ambassador or what they may have discussed.
But shortly after Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to investigators about his conversation with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak about sanctions, McFarland spoke to the special counsel's office. She had reviewed her notes and documents by then and walked back what she previously said â this time saying that she did remember from a conversation with Flynn that he had discussed sanctions with Kislyak. đ Well no sh-.t.
On Dec 29 2016, McFarland wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours earlier by President Obama in retaliation for Russian meddling were aimed at discrediting Trump's victory, and would make it hard for Trump to ease tensions with Russia.
âIf there is a tit-for-tat escalation Trump will have difficulty improving relations with Russia, which has just thrown U.S.A. election to him,â she wrote.
Trump was at Mar-a-Lago on December 29 when McFarland â who was also at Mar-a-Lago â and Flynn spoke by phone about Kislyak.
Trump picked Flynn for the fact that he had close ties to Putin. Flynn's crimes and betrayal have been well reported and documented. In a now infamous video, Flynn is seen applauding and toasting Putin, Trump's benefactor, and America's adversary. The video shows that the Dec. 10, 2015 Moscow dinner Flynn attended was swarming with ex-russian spies, Putin's cronies and oligarchs. In the video, Flynn is seated next to Putin at the head table.
Flynnâs lies to the FBI even prompted the DoJ to warn Trump about Flynn. On January 26, 2017, acting AG Sally Yates, personally informed the White House that Flynn lied to the FBI about his calls with Kislyak, and therefore was at risk of being blackmailed by Russia. But instead of immediately taking action against Flynn, Trump decided to reward Sally Yates for doing her job, and for her due diligence in warning him about Flynn, by firing her 3 days later. Let that sink in for a moment..
On Nov 10, 2016, during a White House meeting 2 days after Trumpâs election, President Obama ONCE AGAIN tried to help dumb Donald by warning him about Flynn, but Trump proceeded with hiring Flynn anyway. Longtime Trump confidant Chris Christie also directly advised Trump against hiring Flynn. âIf I were president-elect of the United States, I wouldnât let General Flynn into the White House, let alone give him a job,â Christie said in 2017..
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As we've seen time and time again, Trump, Rudy, Graham, Nunes, Gaetz and others, are wilfully aiding and abetting Putin and his Russian security services in propagating their false narratives and propaganda here in America. What's worse is that they are attacking America's democratic institutions and our intelligence agencies, the very same institutions and agencies that exists to protect America from foreign adversaries like Russia. This constitutes an immediate threat to America's national security. This is something that should concern every American, regardless of party affiliation...
Trump and his republican sycophants had a choice between serving America and it's Constitution, or serving Putin. They have clearly chosen Putin. So in 2020, it will be time for the American people to make a choice. Will we bow our heads in silent defeat, and surrender to the unconstitutional phuckery that Trump and his republican sycophants have been trying to normalize and force upon us? Or will we stand-up and vote for ourselves, for America's future, for our kid's future, and for the future of their kids, and for the democratic ideals that this country and our Constitution were built on. The stakes could not be higher.
Semper Fi...
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A letter of intent forwarded by Russian-born businessman Felix Sater to the Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, outlines the terms of a licensing agreement to purchase property to build a "Trump World Tower Moscow."
 Sater sent the letter of intent - dated October 13, 2015, and signed by a Russian investor named Andrey Rozov - to Cohen for then-candidate Donald Trump's signature.
 Emails exchanged between Cohen and Sater - who have known each other since they were teenagers - weeks later indicated that they were preparing to celebrate not only Trump's election victory, but also the potential Russia deal.
 Sater boasted of his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the emails, which were obtained by The New York Times, telling Cohen that he would "get all of Putins team to buy in" on the Moscow deal.
 Slater email to Cohen: "Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it," Sater wrote. "I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected."
 Two months later, Cohen emailed Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, asking for his "assistance" in pushing the deal through, according to emails submitted to congressional investigators..
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The biggest threat to America is not Iran. The biggest threat to America is the very desperate, panicked, deranged, cornered, and currently impeached man-baby in the Oval Office.
Only someone as criminally incompetent as Trump would believe that going back to having NO inspectors, cameras, check marks, and inspections, is better than the Iran deal. Pulling out of the Iran deal put us back to where we were before, which is exactly where we are today, which is totally blind to what's going on in Iran and NK.
President Obama was able to bring 5 countries together, and secure a deal with Iran. It was something we had never had before, and the deal was working.
In July 2015, Iran had almost 20,000 centrifuges. Under the Iran deal--JCPOA, it was limited to installing no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026. Iran's uranium stockpile was reduced by 98% to 300kg (660lbs), a figure that must not be exceeded until 2031. It must also keep the stockpile's level of enrichment at 3.67%.
Under the deal, the Atomic Energy Agency would have cameras installed to provide 24-hour monitoring at the Natanz facility, and inspectors will have daily access to the facility for 15 years. Within a year, there would be 130 to 150 inspectors in Iran.
By January 2016, Iran had drastically reduced the number of centrifuges installed at Natanz and Fordo. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, continuously monitored Iran's declared nuclear sites and also verified that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location to build a bomb. Iran also agreed to implement the Additional Protocol to their IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which allowed inspectors to access any site anywhere in the country they deem suspicious.
But the best part about it was that President Obama didn't have to praise the Ayatollahs or the Iranian leadership. He didnât demean himself, or the office of the presidency, by meeting with them, which would have only given them the perception of being on the same footing as a US President. Trump on the other hand, disgraced himself, and the office of the presidency, by meeting with the most despotic and maniacal dictator on the planet....not once, but twice.
He then proceeded to compliment him, and wax poetically about how he and Kim Jung Un fell in love after exchanging letters. And what does Trump have to show for disgracing himself and the office of the presidency? NOTHING....other than love letters, a photo-op, and heightened tensions with Iran and NK. Trump is simply an agent of chaos, mind blowing ineptitude, and corruption. Trump doesn't solve problems, he only creates them..
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Trump's entire campaign was practically being controlled by the Russians. And Trump, Jared, Flynn, Manafort, Don Jr, and Roger Stone were all in on it..
Michael Hayden, the former head of the CIA and National Security Agency, said Kushner, who discussed plans with the Russan Ambassador, to establish a secret communication channel with the Kremlin â using Russian facilities â without any monitoring by the U.S. was âoff the mapâ and like nothing he has seen in his lifetime. âWhat manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or an appropriate idea?â Hayden stated.Â
On December 13th, 2016, at Russian Ambassador Kislyakâs urging, Kushner met with Sergey Gorkov, a Russian banker who is close to Putin. Again, what jumps out from Kushnerâs account of the meeting is the easy access that the Russians had to Trump's people ââI agreed to meet Mr. Gorkov because the Russian Ambassador has been so insistent,â and âsaid he had a direct relationship withâ Putin, Kushner notedâand the obvious attempts to soften up Trumpâs closest aides and family members. Gorkov, whose bank, Vnesheconombank, was affected by the Obama Administrationâs sanctions against Russia..
Hayden was also convinced Don Jr's Trump Tower meeting, and Kushnerâs secret meetings with the Russian Ambassador was a classic âsoft approachâ by Russian intelligence. Hayden argued that the meeting âis in line with what intelligence analysts would expect an overture in a Russian influence operation to look like,â and that it may have been the âgreen light Russia was looking for to launch a more aggressive phase of intervention in the U.S. election.â
Hayden explained that the Russians would have learned several things from the approach.
No. 1 âWould they take the meeting? So, then you get the willingness.. No. 2, would they report the meeting?â Hayden suggested that Russian intelligence was sophisticated enough to know whether the Trump campaign reported the meeting to the F.B.I., which it didnât. Not only did they not report the meeting, they lied about the meeting when asked. Kushner even lied about the meetings on his security clearance application. So, while Kushner and Don. Jr claimed that the meetings were irrelevant, from a Russian intelligence perspective it would have been seen as a clear signal. âAt the end, they have established that these guys are willing,â Hayden said, pausing. âHow do I put this? They did not reject a relationship.â
When the full extent of Trump's treachery, crimes, and betrayal of this country are revealed, it will be far worse than most people ever imagined...
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
And ye shall know the TRUTH, and the truth shall make you free...
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Last year during an interview with Tucker Carlson, Trump was asked about his opinion on Article 5, NATOâs joint defense agreement, in relation to NATOâs newest member, Montenegro.
Trump: âMontenegro is a tiny country with very strong people. They have very aggressive people. They may get aggressive and congratulations, youâre in World War III, now I understand that. But thatâs the way it was set up.â
Trump's comments about Montenegro were perplexing at best, and at worst, they were dangerous and provocative. Montenegro has a population of only 630k, with practically no military to speak of. Naturally Trump's comments drew criticism.
Fabrice Pothier, formerly NATOâs director of policy planning stated: âOnce more I think President Trump is doing Putinâs job.â
John McCain had a similar reaction. âBy attacking Montenegro and questioning our obligations under NATO, the President is playing right into Putinâs hands,â McCain wrote on Twitter the next morning.
Andrew Weiss, the vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the President was âparroting Kremlin talking points.â
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