Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump consistently broke from political orthodoxy in his effusive praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
His glowing statements on Putin have become central in stoking the suspicion that he and his campaign were somehow connected to Russian interference in the election.
A CNN KFile review of Trump’s public statements — from the years immediately before his presidential campaign to present — reveal that Trump has contradicted himself over the years about the nature of his relationship with Putin.
9. His campaign chairman is a Russian employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/us/politics/paul-manafort-indicted.html
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, announced charges on Monday against three advisers to President Trump’s campaign and laid out the most explicit evidence to date that his campaign was eager to coordinate with the Russian government to damage his rival, Hillary Clinton.
The former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, surrendered to the F.B.I. and pleaded not guilty to charges that he laundered millions of dollars through overseas shell companies — using the money to buy luxury cars, real estate, antique rugs and expensive clothes. Rick Gates, Mr. Manafort’s longtime associate as well as a campaign adviser, was also charged and turned himself in.
8. Has his people ask the Russian government for help beating the Democrats.
https://globalnews.ca/news/3868363/trump-tower-meeting-donald-trump-jr-jared-kushner-russians/
7. trump campaign chairman later calls those meetings "treasonous".
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/donald-trump-russia-steve-bannon-michael-wolff
6. trump himself publicly asks the Russian government to interceded in the 2016 US General Election in his favour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNa2B5zHfbQ
5. Russia releases thousands of DNC emails to assist a very damaged trump campaign after the release of the Billy Bush tape where trump brags about sexually assaulting women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Committee_email_leak
4. trumps first national security advisor turns out to be a Russian employee.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42192080
3. trump attacks NATO allies in an attempt to hurt the alliance.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-europe/trump-directly-scolds-nato-allies-says-they-owe-massive-sums-idUSKBN18K34D
2. trump fires FBI Director James Comey who is investigating his collusion with the Russian government the day before trump is scheduled to meet with his Kremlin handlers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html
President Donald Trump bragged to two top Russian officials last week that firing "nut job" FBI Director James Comey eased "great pressure" on him, The New York Times reported Friday.
"I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job," Trump said, according to the Times. "I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off."
Trump's Oval Office meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak came one day after Comey was fired.
1. When forced to choose where his loyalties lie trump always chooses Putin.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/11/politics/president-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-election-meddling/index.html
President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday he's done confronting Russian President Vladimir Putin over his country's election meddling since it's insulting to the Russian leader.
Trump said he took Putin at his word that Russia did not seek to interfere in the US presidential election last year, despite a finding from US intelligence agencies that it did. The fraught relations between the two leaders was underscored anew when Putin's spokesman initially said election meddling did not come up when they spoke, even though Trump said it did.
President Trump’s touting of a proposed partnership with Russia on cybersecurity drew withering reviews Sunday from lawmakers, including several from his own party, while the president’s aides were left struggling to answer questions about just how hard Trump pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Moscow’s meddling in last year’s U.S. presidential election.
I doubt he’s a mole. He’s not that smart. What I do think is that the russkies have his balls in a sling. They’ve got dirt on him that would put him and his whole family out of business and he knows it. So he goes along.
I doubt he's a mole. He's not that smart. What I do think is that the russkies have his balls in a sling. They've got dirt on him that would put him and his whole family out of business and he knows it. So he goes along.
Pretty much and I think it goes far beyond Russian election interference and any sort of disgusting sex acts trump may have been involved with in Moscow that were videos by Putin's secret police.
In the end this is going to come down to money laundering, the first expert that Mueller chose for his trump/russian collusion investigation was a specialist in money laundering.
trump is clearly biased towards Putin in general and Russia in general, he is a deeply compromised political figure and a true threat to the US. He may be much, much worse than a mere mole.
Round and round she goes, where it’ll stop nobody knows.
DID AN ACCUSED MONEY LAUNDERER FUNNEL MILLIONS TO THE NRA?
Alexander Torshin is a Russian politician accused of financial crimes in Spain, and now the FBI is checking into his ties with the Trump campaign.
SEBASTIAN ROTELLA | JAN 23, 2018
https://psmag.com/news/russian-money-launderer-sending-millions-to-nra
Last week, McClatchy Newspapers reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating whether Torshin,
now a deputy governor of Russia's central bank, funneled money to the National Rifle Association that was subsequently spent in support of the Trump campaign.
The NRA reported spending $30 million on advertisements and other aid to Trump, part of a record $55 million that the group spent during the 2016 campaign cycle,
according to the McClatchy story. ...
... The gregarious 64-year-old Torshin has been able to cut an extraordinary swath through conservative political circles in the U.S. since then. A gun enthusiast and lifetime member of the NRA, he cultivated the gun lobby and political figures including Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-California), according to published reports. Torshin also made contact with the Trump presidential campaign and Trump's inner circle, according to news reports, though at least one of his overtures was apparently rebuffed.
In congressional testimony released publicly Thursday, Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS, the research firm whose investigative "dossier" in the Trump-Russia affair has caused considerable controversy, told the House Intelligence Committee that the Russian connections to the NRA were suspicious.
"It appears the Russians, you know, infiltrated the NRA," Simpson said, according to a published transcript. "And there is more than one explanation for why. But I would say broadly speaking, it appears that the Russian operation was designed to infiltrate conservative organizations." ...
Sorry, a real mole no way. Moles operate deep and quietly. So that alone disqualifies tRUMP as a mole, but as for being a dumb a$$, that’s another ball game.
Sorry, a real mole no way. Moles operate deep and quietly. So that alone disqualifies tRUMP as a mole, but as for being a dumb a$$, that's another ball game.
I didn't say he was a good mole. :)
If he's been compromised by the Russian government and is working for them in any way while still pretending to be the legitimate US president I think he does qualify in a sense as being a Russian mole. Instead of operating in the shadows, trump is just creating endless chaos and trying to hide behind that. In some ways that makes him even more dangerous as one of the major diversions he's using is playing thermonuclear chicken with Kim Jong-un.
I don't think there's any question he's one of least intelligent leaders the US has ever had... but then he's a republican president and for years they have been spiraling down into total stupidity becoming the contrarian party on some of the most important issues the US or any nation now faces.
Like the effects of overpopulation, unsustainable economic policies and denial of climate change.
trump is a natural fit with what the republican party has become and as a whole they don't seem to have a problem at all with a traitor president. They're now that good at denying reality.
The fact that a Russian backed traitor is still in the White House after an entire year is totally on the idiot republicans.
Sorry, a real mole no way. Moles operate deep and quietly. So that alone disqualifies tRUMP as a mole, but as for being a dumb a$$, that's another ball game.
I didn't say he was a good mole. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32B8x0gRGJE