Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "WaPo report shows extent of election meddling" video.
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Trump lies a little bit more than waaaay too much.
Trump's 2015 interview with host Michael Savage, Trump was asked again point-blank whether he'd ever met Putin.
"Yes," Trump said. "One time, yes. Long time ago."
"Got along with him great, by the way," Trump added.
"I got to know so many of the Russian leaders and the top, top people in Russia," he said.
At a July, 2016 press conference, at the height of the general election campaign, Trump denied ever having met the Russian leader.
"I never met Putin, I don't know who Putin is," he told reporters in Florida. "He said one nice thing about me. He said I'm a genius. I said, 'Thank you very much' to the newspaper, and that was the end of it. I never met Putin. Never spoken to him. I don't know anything about him other than he will respect me."
David Letterman asked Trump in 2013 interview if had ever met Putin.
Trump: "Well I've done a lot of business with the Russians," Trump said. "He's a tough guy. I met him once," said Trump.
Feb. 17, 2016: At rally, Trump insists he has no relationship with Putin. “I have no relationship with him other than he called me a genius,” Trump says. “He said, ‘Donald Trump is a genius, and he is going to be the leader of the party, and he’s going to be the leader of the world or something.’”
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The FBI's "Operation Ghost Stories" was a counter-espoinoge operation against Andrey Bezrukov and Yelena Vavilova, a Russian spy couple who were part of the Illegals Program, a network of Russian sleeper agents who were arrested in 2010.. By July 2015,
Donald Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley had been living for two decades
in Canada and then in Europe before they ever set foot in the United States
to start spying for Russia here. We now know that the FBI was on to them
as spies as soon as they got here.
The FBI's "Operation Ghost Stories" was against Andrey Bezrukov and Yelena Vavilova, a Russian spy couple who were part of the Illegals Program, a network of Russian sleeper agents who were arrested in 2010. Andrey Bezrukov, and Yelena Vavilova, were highly trained in terms of espionage, but also in terms of language and accent and mannerisms, which would allow them to blend in.
In the 80s, they arrived in Canada as a couple. They had false identifies that had been stolen from real Canadians. The identities were stolen from a little boy in Montreal in the 1960s,
whose name had been Donald Heathfield and sometime in the 1960s, that
little child had died in infancy. There had also been a little girl named
Tracy Lee Ann Foley who had also died in Montreal in the 1960s in
childhood.
Decades later in the 1980s, these two Russian agents, with their stolen identities, started a fake life in Toronto. They lived in Toronto through the ’80s and into the ’90s. In the ’90s,
Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley, had two sons.
After their sons were born in Canada in the ’90s, the family moved sometime
in the mid to late ’90s to France where the father, Donald Heathfield, went
to grad school. They were both fluent in French and English.
They didn’t speak Russian at home with their boys even though they were
from Russia and were native Russian speakers. Their sons had no
idea that their parents were Russian at all. When the story of their very
unusual family was ultimately told, the boys would ultimately say they had
no inkling their parents were Russian, they never heard their parents speak
Russian. They never heard their parents speak about Russia. They
certainly had no idea their parents were Russian spies.
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