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Lawrence On President Donald Trump And Rod Rosenstein's ‘Strangest’ Meeting | The Last Word | MSNBC

"Maddow: President Trump Isn't Attacking Critics, He's Going After Witnesses | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC"

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Published on Oct 8, 2018

Lawrence O'Donnell explains why President Trump's meeting with Rod Rosenstein was "the strangest meeting in
history between a President and a Deputy Attorney General" and how it fits in the big picture of the Mueller probe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFWODtlQoDg

Related:

Comey: Lynch's Private Airplane Meeting With Clinton Spurred Email Disclosure
The attorney general's meeting with Bill Clinton in late June forced the FBI to distance itself from the Justice Department, the bureau's director said.
By Alan Neuhauser, Staff Writer May 3, 2017, at 2:28 p.m.
[...]
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch's private meeting with former President Bill Clinton aboard his airplane last year ultimately led to James Comey's decision to go public with the results of the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, the agency's director said Wednesday.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-05-03/comey-loretta-lynchs-private-meeting-with-bill-clinton-aboard-airplane-spurred-email-disclosure

Conservative outrage then, their/Trump's heads flew into conspiracy over-drive. Now the current president meets the head honcho of the FBI investigation into him. No conspiracy. Good chat. We get along. Trump offered nothing more. Then said no changes will be made. Guess one day he'll say he didn't make any - today. Oh, we got his no collusion, all a Democrat hoax, the Democrats colluded with Russia rant, for the 100th time. Or is it now the 110th?

From the video:

Trump Campaign Aide Requested Online Manipulation Plans From Israeli Intelligence Firm

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Rick Gates, a top Trump campaign aide, expressed interest in an Israeli company’s proposal for a social
media manipulation effort in 2016, documents and interviews show. Damon Winter/The New York Times

By Mark Mazzetti, Ronen Bergman, David D. Kirkpatrick and Maggie Haberman

Oct. 8, 2018

WASHINGTON — A top Trump campaign official requested proposals in 2016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities, to use social media manipulation and to gather intelligence to help defeat Republican primary race opponents and Hillary Clinton, according to interviews and copies of the proposals.

The Trump campaign’s interest in the work began as Russians were escalating their effort to aid Donald J. Trump. Though the Israeli company’s pitches were narrower than Moscow’s interference campaign and appear unconnected, the documents show that a senior Trump aide saw the promise of a disruption effort to swing voters in Mr. Trump’s favor.

The campaign official, Rick Gates, sought one proposal to use bogus personas to target and sway 5,000 delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention by attacking Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Mr. Trump’s main opponent at the time. Another proposal describes opposition research and “complementary intelligence activities” about Mrs. Clinton and people close to her, according to copies of the proposals obtained by The New York Times and interviews with four people involved in creating the documents.

Continued - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/politics/rick-gates-psy-group-trump.html

It's risky to use American firms for our shady tricks, so why not Israel. Hell yeah!