Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

Nah, the real traitors are the Trumpanzees trying and failing to defend Trump's amazing obeisance to Putin and all of the lies told by Trump associates about their contacts with Russians.

No Comey, it's not "the process". It was your bias unfounded origins of your Coup attempt you traitor.

Below are what I believe are called 'predicates' for investigation.

If even 1/10 of the number of documented contacts had occurred between Obama or Clinton and the Russians cries of 'lock them up' would echo throughout the Trumpistanian Reich.

The Fox and Friends chimps would jump up and down on their couch with sufficient enthusiasm to break the springs and you would need to keep some Windex near your device to wipe the drool and spittle from the keyboard and screen.

Regular readers will recognize the above as a cut above my usual high level of sarcasm, ridicule and contempt reserved for Trumpanzee posters. Consider it my Holiday Special, just for you.

For the rest of you Trumpanzees graced to read this, let your poo flinging begin!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials

Overview[edit]

For many years, there has been intensive public scrutiny of Trump's ties to Russia.[18][19] In a book excerpt published in Politico, former Guardian Russia correspondent Luke Harding stated that files declassified in 2016 indicated that Czech spies closely followed Trump and then-wife Ivana Trump in Manhattan and during trips to Czechoslovakia in the time after their marriage in 1977.[20][21]

Natalia and Irina Dubinin, daughters of then-Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin, are cited as indicating that a seemingly chance meeting of their father with Trump in the autumn of 1986, was part of Dubinin's assignment to establish contact with America's business elite and a determined effort by the Soviet government to cultivate Trump in particular.[20]

This effort extended through a series of subsequent events, also documented in Donald Trump's book The Art of the Deal, including a meeting in 1986 between the Ambassador and Trump at Trump Tower and Dubinin's subsequent invitation to Trump to visit Moscow (which was handled via KGB-affiliated Intourist and the future Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin).[20]

Harding also asserts that the "top level of the Soviet diplomatic service arranged his 1987 Moscow visit. With assistance from the KGB... The spy chief [Vladimir Kryuchkov] wanted KGB staff abroad to recruit more Americans."[20] Harding cited Trump as writing in The Art that the trip included a tour of "a half dozen potential sites for a hotel, including several near Red Square" and that he "was impressed with the ambition of Soviet officials to make a deal".[20]

2017[edit]

Several Trump advisers, including former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and former campaign manager Paul Manafort, have been connected to Russian officials, or to Viktor Yanukovich and other pro-Russian Ukrainian officials.[27][28]

Russian agents were overheard during the campaign saying they could use Manafort and Flynn to influence Trump.[where?][when?][by whom?][29] Members of Trump's campaign, and later his White House staff, particularly Flynn and Jared Kushner, were in contact with Russian government officials both before and after the November election,[30] including some contacts which they initially did not disclose. [31]

As of May 2017, the FBI is investigating several alleged links between Trump associates and representatives of the Russian government.[32]

Intelligence services[edit]

British and Dutch intelligence services have given information to their United States counterparts about meetings in European cities between Russian officials, associates of Putin, and associates of then-President-elect Trump. American intelligence agencies also intercepted communications of Russian officials, some of them within the Kremlin, discussing contacts with Trump associates.[33]

As of their last update on April 19, 2019,The New York Times had documented that "Donald J. Trump and 18 of his associates had at least 140 contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks, or their intermediaries, during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition."[22]

As of their last update on June 3, 2019, The Moscow Project — an initiative of the Center for American Progress Action Fund — had documented "272 contacts between Trump's team and Russia-linked operatives ... including at least 38 meetings.... None of these contacts were ever reported to the proper authorities. Instead, the Trump team tried to cover up every single one of them."

Every single fucking one. Got it?