What party supports a candidate who tried to overturn a free and fair election? If you don't like Biden, then don't vote for him. BUT don't try to subvert our gov when the election goes against the losing side.

The ballot box is sacred. Trump and his backers made a mockery of the one thing the world admires most about the USA. The peaceful transfer of power.

 

Trump 'can't risk angering' Vladimir Putin: Liz Cheney

Matthew Chapman
February 19, 2024 5:50PM ET



Vladimir Putin (Shutterstock)




Former President Donald Trump appears to be dependent on Vladimir Putin, at the same time he is seeking powers like those Putin currently enjoys over Russia, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) argued in a scathing post to X Monday.

This comes after Trump finally broke his silence on the death of Russian political dissident Alexei Navalny in a remote prison colony — and didn't criticize Putin, but instead took the moment to say that it reminds him that "Open Borders, Rigged Elections, and Grossly Unfair Courtroom Decisions are DESTROYING AMERICA."

"Donald Trump still won’t condemn the Navalny killing or blame Putin," Cheney wrote. "At the same time, Trump is claiming Putin- style tyrannical immunity in his US Supreme Court briefs."

"Seems like Trump thinks he needs Putin’s help with something and can’t risk angering him," she continued.

A federal appeals court recently smacked down Trump's claim to be immune from prosecution for his actions taken in office, and the Supreme Court is currently weighing whether to review that decision.

Trump seeming closeness with Putin has long been the subject of U.S. media reports, dating to Russian interference in the 2016 election on his behalf. He has not given a straight commitment to protect Ukraine from the ongoing Russian invasion if elected to another term this year.

For years, former President Trump has avoided agreeing with intelligence assessments that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered on his behalf during the 2016 presidential election.

Most infamously, Trump rejected the American intelligence community's assessment about Russia's actions at a press conference in Helsinki, Finland where he stood next to Putin and said, "President Putin says it's not Russia, I don't see any reason why it would be."

Cheney has been a longtime bugaboo of Trump. She served as vice chairwoman of the U.S. House panel that investigated the events of Jan. 6, 2021.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin-liz-cheney/

 

Huh.
So liz is still trying to curry favor with despicables and still trying to be relevant.

She really should have talked to feinstein and dr. Ford before she joined the nancy antoinette star chamber.

 

I will not have much sympathy for any Americans who are fools enough to stay in Russia.

‘Leave now’: White House warns Americans in Russia as Biden prepares Navalny sanctions

David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
February 20, 2024 1:56PM ET



National Security Council spokesman John Kirby addressed growing speculation over the spate of unidentified objects shot down over North America(AFP)




White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby is reportedly telling Americans in Russia to leave as the Biden administration prepares to unveil strong sanctions in response to the death of Russian political prisoner Alexei Navalny.

Kirby also pressed House Republicans to pass critical foreign aid legislation to help Ukraine in its fight against Russia.

His reinforcement of the existing Level 4 "Do Not Travel" Advisory also comes after last Friday's revelation that Russia may be preparing nuclear weapons for space.

"At President Biden's direction, we will be announcing a major sanctions package on Friday of this week to hold Russia accountable for what happened to Mr Navalny," Kirby told reporters Tuesday. "Whatever story the Russian government decides to tell the world, it's clear President Putin and his government are responsible for Mr Navalny's death."

"If the Ukrainians aren't better supplied," Kirby said, "if they don't get a relief from the shortage of ammunition that they are suffering right now, this move on Avdiivka could actually have a larger effect on the fighting in the east and the amount of territory that the Russians might be able to get over time."

Veteran foreign policy journalist Laura Rozen reports Kirby also said that standing up to Putin was the strongest action that the U.S. could take.

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She also reports Kirby said, "Ukrainian troops were forced to withdraw from the city of Avdiivka …on Saturday…because they practically ran out of supplies, including artillery ammunition."

And: "I believe that the President's comments and willingness to have another conversation reflect a sense of urgency that we all we all believe we're in and frankly, we believe Congress should believe, instead of being on vacation."

NewsNation Washington Correspondent Kellie Meyer reports on the White House's "WARNING TO AMERICANS IN RUSSIA," which she says included this phrase: "You've got to leave right now."

Meyer also reports Kirby said, "I want to reiterate our very strong warnings about the danger to US citizens in Russia."

NBC News' Peter Alexander reports President Joe Biden will be speaking with foreign leaders of the G7 on Saturday.

Kirby made similar remarks to CNN last year in March, saying, "This is not the time for Americans to be in Russia. If you're in Russia now, whether it's on business or leisure, whatever kind of travel, you need to leave now. This is not a good place for you to be in Russia. Even if you are a working journalist, Russia is a hostile environment for American citizens right now. It's time to go if you're there."



https://www.rawstory.com/leave-now-...n-russia-as-biden-prepares-navalny-sanctions/

 

When I say "treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans" I mean those labels literally and they constantly prove me right.


MAGA is a ‘Russian intel op’: Experts respond to allegation GOP using Kremlin propaganda




David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement

February 21, 2024 1:35PM ET

















Former President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (Image via Mike Johnson/X)




Legal and political experts are responding to Special Counsel David Weiss' allegations that a former top FBI informant, now under federal indictment, had, as one reporter explained, "high-level contact with Russian intelligence operatives," and fed Republicans falsehoods from the Kremlin which they used to attack the Biden family and to try to build a case to impeach President Joe Biden.

"How many intel and legal findings and counter-espionage cases before people are willing to accept that the entire MAGA movement is a Russian intel op?" asks David Rothkopf, the noted foreign policy, national security, and political affairs analyst and author.

The bombshell allegations from the Special Counsel, a U.S. Attorney nominated by then-President Donald Trump, were published in his legal memo asking a judge to detain Alexander Smirnov, the defendant and former FBI confidential human source.

"Russia has fully infiltrated the Republican party. Nice going traitors," alleged Richard Signorelli, a former Asst. U.S. Attorney at the Southern District of New York office. He added: "Trump & @SpeakerJohnson et al are Putin's 'useful idiots.'"

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U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), an attorney who served as the lead counsel for the first Trump impeachment, wrote: "The Comer/Jordan impeachment sham appears to have been a Russian intelligence operation from the start. The only remaining question is whether Rs were witting or unwitting agents of Putin in their desperate quest to get Trump reelected. Will the GOP continue to work for Putin?"










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The Comer/Jordan impeachment sham appears to have been a Russian intelligence operation from the start. The only remaining question is whether Rs were witting or unwitting agents of Putin in their desperate quest to get Trump reelected. Will the GOP continue to work for Putin?












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Former U.S. Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman, a frequent MSNBC commentator, points to a passage from the DOJ's memo: "More from DOJ motion re Smirnov: 'the misinformation he is spreading is not confined to 2020 ...He is actively peddling new lies that could impact U.S. elections after meeting with Russian intelligence officials in Nov.'"

"This guy made be the sole reason for R's Burisma obsessions," Litman says.

Litman continues: "DOJ to court: 'Smirnov transformed his routine & unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against [Joe Biden] and [Hunter Biden], after expressing bias against Joe Biden.' Was the entire R Burisma obsession based on phony intel?"

He adds: "And the big plot point to the Smirnov revelations from [Special Counsel David Weiss] is that the misinformation that Republicans have gone running -- in fact galloping with --originates with, you guessed it, Russian intelligence. i.e part of overall Putin misinformation campaign that so distorted 2016."

Attorney Blake Rutherford, in a social media post "retweeted" by attorney George Conway, wrote: "At what point will the broader American press, and I mean producers, editors, and publishers, wake up to very real fact that Russian propaganda is being normalized in today's @gop. They are all useful idiots. Putin knows it."

Republican turned independent Tim Miller, a political strategist and author at The Bulwark, takes a look at recent events:

"To sum up: RUS/Putin have invaded their neighbor, assassinated the biggest domestic political threat, coopted one of the right's biggest media stars, and seeded a fabricated story about the US President that was echoed by GOP congressional leadership & rightwing media en masse."

But even before the Special Counsel's allegations against the indicted former FBI informant, some were growning increasingly aware of Russia's alleged penetration into the GOP.

RELATED: Kremlin Infiltration of Congress Alleged by Ex-Trump Prosecutor: Republicans ‘Duped or in on It’

Former Trump White House Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farah Griffin, now a co-host on "The View," last week wrote: "It’s becoming increasingly clear that Russia is winning the information war within the US. GOP politicians - who know better - are amplifying Kremlin garbage. We are in deep, deep trouble."

Watch the video above or at this link.




https://www.rawstory.com/maga-is-a-...d-to-allegation-gop-using-kremlin-propaganda/

 

American hater must mean like that trump/russian conspiracy thingy and the hunter laptop is a fake story.

No matter.
Shooter doubts anyone but delusional brainwashed lefties believe anything wrong story spews out and he repeats.

 

Bill Barr has 'questions to answer' after GOP witness linked to Russian spies: reporter

Travis Gettys
February 22, 2024 7:54AM ET



William Barr. (Shutterstock.com)




The unmasking of the Republicans' star witness as a potential conduit for Russian disinformation raises questions for the FBI and William Barr's Justice Department.

House impeachment witness Alexander Smirnov was arrested for lying to FBI agents and then admitted to working with officials associated with Russian intelligence, and NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian said federal investigators should explain why they relied on him as a confidential informant for a decade.

"It's not just congressional Republicans that have some questions to answer here, it's the FBI and the Justice Department," Dilanian said. "Although they concluded that there was no evidence to support the bribery allegation [against President Joe Biden], they also said that this confidential human source was a trusted informant. They relied on him for more than 10 years. Only now are they saying, 'Oh, he's a liar, we're indicting him for lying.' They need to explain that. Who was duped within the FBI here by someone who may have been a plant by Russian intelligence? That's very important, because that information infected our political system."

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Smirnov originally made the bribery allegation against Biden after then-attorney general Barr established a process for reviewing information coming from potentially dubious sources turned up by Rudy Giuliani's fishing expedition in Ukraine, and Dilanian wondered how his claims weren't weeded out.

"Leaving aside the question of whether this informant was a Russian intelligence plant, it was clear that his information wasn't true," Dilanian said. "The FBI and the Justice Department under Bill Barr investigated it out of the Western District of Pennsylvania and was unable to corroborate that bribery allegation or any allegations of corruption against Joe Biden. It was pretty clear that this Republican effort was a cynical effort from the beginning. To hear [Rep.] Ken Buck say that [they were warned about Smirnov] underscores what a lot of people already believe. What's really at issue here is when did the FBI, when did the Justice Department, when did Congress start to understand that this informant not only was maybe unreliable but was actually, you know, a fabulist, made up all kinds of things, and was also talking to Russian intelligence? That's a big deal, a momentous development."

Watch the video below or at this link.





https://www.rawstory.com/alexander-smirnov-2667340701/

 

Trump in 'awe' of Putin — and 'the creepiness is palpable': Right-wing ex-Australian PM

Brad Reed
February 27, 2024 7:41AM ET



Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin AFP/File / DON EMMERT, Natalia KOLESNIKOVA




Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, a member of the center-right Liberal Party, says that he's worried about what a second Trump term will mean for Western security.

Turnbull, who had his share of contentious interactions with Trump during his tenure as PM, told Australia's ABC News that the former president is in "awe" of Russian President Vladimir Putin for reasons he doesn't quite fathom.

"When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occasions, he's like the 12-year-old boy who goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team," said Turnbull. "My hero!"

Turnbull went on to explain that Trump is "attracted to dictators and tyrants like Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping" and added that Trump "threatened to undermine or pull out of America's longest standing alliances."



As if to put a fine point on it, Turnbull added of Trump's admiration of dictators that "it is really creepy" and "the creepiness was palpable."

Turnbull also made the case that Trump would present a threat to the security of Australia should he win a second term this November.

""What if Donald Trump forces Ukraine to surrender to Putin?" he asked. "What if Donald Trump pulls out of NATO? Donald Trump has threatened to pull out of NATO. Donald Trump stood up in front of an audience and he said to an unnamed European leader, if you don't spend more money on defense I'm going to encourage Putin to have a go at you. That's more or less what he said."

While many Republicans have dismissed Trump's attacks on NATO as simple campaign rhetoric, former Trump national security adviser John Bolton has been warning that the former president is deadly serious about leaving the alliance.

Read the full interview at this link.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin-2667373918/

 

I hope you people don't believe the nonsense coming from the US mainstream media. None of it is true. The collective west is being brainwashed by their governments.

 

This is a great example of pure Putin/Russian false propaganda. In fact US intelligence agencies are warning there will be a big increase in Russian interference in our elections.

 

Sorry but the Russian media is closer to the truth than the US. I'm not pro Russian but it's a fact.
If you recall Russia gate the supposed interference by Russia in the 2016 elections. It was confirmed by the US that Russia gate was a hoax created by Obama and Hillary Clinton with the help of the CIA and FBi. If you don't know this then you are either oblivious or have been living under a rock.
As far as this coming up election if Russia interferes are they going to help Biden. Putin has already stated that he prefers Biden over Trump.
Most people in the west are being brainwashed by their governments. That's the reason I don't think politics should be discussed on this site.
Give me a hands up for anyone than joined this site for politics.

 

You are most definitely pro Putin/Russia and once again are spewing Russian false propaganda that has already been proven false more times than I can count on this thread alone. You are quite laughable spouting your Russian psychological projection. In fact you are so adept at it I don't think it can be just an accident or coincidence.



And here is a really good indication of that.

That's the reason I don't think politics should be discussed on this site.

Give me a hands up for anyone than joined this site for politics.


Really?? Then what are you doing in the politics section and especially on this thread? That fact alone belies what you say.

 

We see this kind of Russian propaganda on this forum all day every day.

Russian disinformation is about immigration. The real aim is to undercut Ukraine aid
Russian state media and online accounts tied to the Kremlin have begun pushing misleading and incendiary claims about U.S. immigration

ByDAVID KLEPPER Associated Press
March 1, 2024, 6:00 AM




In recent weeks, Russian state media and online accounts tied to the Kremlin have spread and amplified misleading and incendiary content about U.S. immigration and border security. The campaign seems crafted to stoke outrage and polarization before the 2024 election for the White House, and experts who study Russian disinformation say Americans can expect more to come as Putin looks to weaken support for Ukraine and cut off a vital supply of aid.

In social media posts, online videos and stories on websites, these accounts misstate the impact of immigration, highlight stories about crimes committed by immigrants, and warn of dire consequences if the U.S. doesn't crack down at its border with Mexico. Many are misleading, filled with cherry-picked data or debunked rumors.

The pivot toward the United States comes after two years in which Russia's vast disinformation apparatus was busy pushing propaganda and disinformation about its invasion of Ukraine. Experts who study how authoritarian states use the internet to spread disinformation say eroding support for Ukraine remains Russia's top priority — and that the Kremlin is just finding new ways to do it.

“Things have shifted, even in the last few days," said Kyle Walter, head of research at Logically, a tech company that tracks disinformation campaigns. While experts and government officials have long warned of Russia's intentions, Walter said the content spotted so far this year "is the first indication that I’ve seen that Russia is actually going to focus on U.S. elections.”



This month Logically identified dozens of pro-Russian accounts posting about immigration in the U.S., with a particular interest in promoting recent anti-immigration rallies in Texas. A recent Logically assessment concluded that after two years spent largely dedicated to the war in Ukraine, Russia’s disinformation apparatus has “started 2024 with a focus on the U.S.”

Many posts highlight crimes allegedly committed by recent immigrants or suggest migrants are a burden on local communities. Some claims were posted by accounts with tiny audiences; others were made by state media sites with millions of followers.

This week the accounts seized on the recent death of a Georgia nursing student and the arrest of a Venezuelan man who had entered the U.S. illegally and was allowed to stay to pursue his immigration case. The killing that quickly became a rallying cry for former President Donald Trump and other Republicans who suggest that migrants commit crimes more often than do U.S. citizens. The evidence does not support those claims.

The content, crafted in English, has quickly found its way to websites and platforms popular with American voters. Footage of a recent anti-immigration protest broadcast by Russian outlet RT, for example, was racking up thousands of views this week on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, and prompting angry replies from other users.

The Russian outlet Sputnik ran a story this week about growing calls to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall, a priority for Trump, who failed to complete the job as president. An analysis of other sites that later linked to the Sputnik piece shows than half were in the U.S., according to data from the online analytics firm Semrush.com. Overall, Americans make up the English-language Sputnik's largest audience.


U.S. officials have warned that Russia could seek to meddle in the elections of dozens of countries in 2024, when more than 50 nations accounting for half of the world's population are scheduled to hold national votes. While Russia has a strategic interest in the outcome of many of them — the European Parliament, for one — few offer the opportunity and the prize that America does.

For Russia's bid to conquer Ukraine, this year's U.S. election stakes couldn't be higher. President Joe Biden has pledged to fully back Ukraine. Republicans have been far less supportive. Trump has openly praised Putin and the former president has suggested he would encourage Russia to attack America's NATO allies if they don't pay their fair share for the military alliance.

More than half of Republicans believe the U.S. is spending too much on Ukraine, according to a recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that found Democrats to be much more supportive of additional aid.

Soon after the war started, Russia mounted a disinformation campaign designed to cut into support for Ukraine. Claims included wild stories about secret U.S. germ warfare labs or Nazi conspiracies or that Ukrainian refugees were committing crimes and taking jobs from people who had welcomed them.

That effort continues, but Russia also has shifted its attention to issues with no obvious tie to Moscow that are more likely to create cracks in the unity of its adversaries — for example immigration, or inflation, high-profile topics in the U.S. and Europe.


“They're very savvy and understand the right buttons to push," said Bret Schafer, senior fellow and head of the information manipulation team at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a Washington-based nonprofit. "If your ultimate objective is to reduce support for Ukraine, your inroad might be talking about how bad things are on the southern border. Their path to win this thing is to get the U.S. and the E.U. to stop sending weapons and aid to Ukraine.”

A message left with the Russian Embassy in Washington wasn't immediately returned.

America’s election may also be a tempting target for other authoritarian nations such as China and Iran that, like Russia, have shown a willingness to use online propaganda and disinformation to further their objectives.

The online landscape has dramatically shifted since Russia sought to meddle in America's 2016 presidential race won by Trump. Platforms such as Facebook and Instagram have banned many Russian state accounts and built new safeguards aimed at preventing anyone from exploiting their sites. In one recent example, Meta, the owner of Facebook, announced last fall that it had identified and stopped a network of thousands of fake accounts created in China in an apparent effort to fool American voters.

Other platforms, including X, have taken a different approach, rolling back or even eliminating content moderation and rules designed to stop disinformation. Then there is TikTok, whose ties to China and popularity with young people have set off alarms in several state capitals and Washington.



Artificial intelligence is another concern. The technology now makes it easier than ever to create audio or video that is lifelike enough to fool voters.

Social media is no longer the only battleground either. Increasingly, Russia and other disinformation spreaders use encrypted messaging sites or websites that masquerade as legitimate news outlets.

“A lot of their activity has moved off the major platforms to places were they can operate more freely,” said John Hultquist, chief analyst at Mandiant Intelligence, a cybersecurity firm monitoring Russian disinformation.

Walter, Logically's research director, said he is most concerned about disinformaton on X and TikTok this year, given their lack of controls and their popularity, especially with young voters. TikTok's ties to China have raised national security concerns.

He said that while election years tend to highlight the dangers of disinformation, the most effective information operations are launched years in advance. America's adversaries have spent a long time studying its politics, building online networks and cultivating domestic divisions.

Now comes the payoff.

“They don’t need to put a ton of effort into causing disinformation," Walter said. "They’ve already laid the groundwork leading up to 2024.”


https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...ation-real-aim-undercut-ukraine-aid-107711422

 

Ah.
So the MILLIONS of ILLEGAL MIGRANTS crossing our border since Biden took office is all just more Russian disinformation.

Like the Trump/Russian collusion thingy they tried to sell us.
Like the Hunter Biden laptop thingy they pushed on us.

Yes, they really do think we're that stupid.
Facing pressure in NY, Biden officials are helping migrants eligible for work - POLITICO
Facing pressure in NY, Biden officials are helping migrants eligible for work
In call with reporters, senior Biden administration officials say few people able to work legally are applying to do so

NEW YORK — The White House on Tuesday stepped up its efforts to beat back criticism that it isn’t doing enough to help New York with an influx of migrants, vowing to aid those eligible find work and planning to meet with business leaders.

Facing intense lobbying from fellow Democrats, Biden officials said they will be focused on the “critical mass” of migrants already able to obtain work permits, saying too few have actually applied.

“There’s a tremendous opportunity to help people right away,” a senior administration official told reporters on a conference call.


Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams have demanded that the federal government expand work eligibility for migrants, using the rallying cry, “Let them work!”

Hochul, Adams and a growing coalition have been more forcefully urging that President Joe Biden and congressional leaders get some of the 60,000 migrants in the city’s care legally employed. There is persistent demand for workers in industries like health care and construction, union leaders in the coalition have stressed.

 

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Trump won't give money to Ukraine if elected, says Hungary's Orban
Reuters
Mon, March 11, 2024 at 3:02 AM MDT·1 min read
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Hungarian Prime Minister Orban speaks during an economic forum in Budapest

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Former U.S. leader leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Donald Trump will not give money to help Ukraine fight Russia if he wins the presidency again and that will hasten an end to the war, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said after meeting him.

Nationalist premier Orban, who is backing his long-time ally's bid to return to White House, met Trump in Florida on Friday.

"He will not give a penny into the Ukraine-Russia war and therefore the war will end," Orban told state television late on Sunday. "As it is obvious that Ukraine on its own cannot stand on its feet."


"If the Americans do not give money and weapons, and also the Europeans, then this war will be over. And if the Americans do not give money the Europeans are unable to finance this war on their own, and then the war will end."

Orban has refused to send weapons to Kyiv and kept up close economic ties with Moscow since Russian forces invaded Ukraine in 2022. He last met Russian President Vladimir Putin in October in China despite European Union efforts to isolate Moscow.

Orban said it was "another matter" how the war will be closed with peace talks after a truce, and how a stable and safe Europe would be created, but first peace must be achieved and "he (Trump) has the means for that."

A statement from Trump's campaign did not mention Ukraine, saying the pair discussed issues affecting both nations including their respective border security.

European leaders have long been nervous that another Trump presidency would mean waning U.S. support for both Ukraine and the NATO transatlantic military alliance.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-wont-money-ukraine-elected-090221152.html

 

Putin is putting his Trump campaign back together. And just in time too. Trump can't come up with the $459 million bond in the NY fraud case.



Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is in discussions to help with reelection effort

By Kristen Holmes and Jack Forrest, CNN
2 minute read
Updated 3:15 PM EDT, Mon March 18, 2024








In this 2019 photo, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort arrives to his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court, in New York City.
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CNN —
Former President Donald Trump’s team is in discussions with Paul Manafort, his 2016 campaign chairman whom he later pardoned, to potentially help with the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, three sources familiar with the ongoing conversations told CNN.

Manafort, who was one of several individuals who ran Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was pardoned by Trump after being found guilty of several financial crimes in 2018.

One source indicated that Manafort would be helping with fundraising around the July convention but noted that no final decisions had been made.


Trump has told allies he wanted to bring Manafort back into the fold, but it was unclear in what capacity.

The Washington Post first reported Manafort’s potential involvement with Trump’s 2024 election effort.

Manafort spent close to two years of a 7.5-year sentence in prison for bank and tax fraud, illegal foreign lobbying and witness tampering conspiracies before being released in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, spending the remainder of his sentence under home confinement prior to his pardon.

The former Trump campaign staffer was found to have committed financial fraud in 2019. Those convictions were obtained by special counsel Robert Mueller as he investigated Manafort’s alleged collusion with the Russian government in 2016 – though Manafort’s crimes did not relate directly to his work as Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman.

As part of his plea deal with Mueller’s team, he agreed to cooperate with the prosecutors on the then-special counsel’s team – before lying during those interview sessions.

Manafort, a Reagan-era political operator, was largely credited with securing Trump the Republican nomination in 2016. His deep ties in the Republican establishment and tireless organizing to win the GOP delegate fight helped propel Trump over his primary rivals at the time.

But he was pushed aside months before the general election in favor of other Trump loyalists and amid reports of his financial connections to pro-Russia Ukrainian politicians. Even after resigning as chairman of Trump’s campaign, he was still involved with the former president’s transition to the White House, CNN reported at the time.




https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/paul-manafort-trump-reelection/index.html

 

Maddow wonders 'why today of all days is the day we learn' about Paul Manafort

Maya Boddie, Alternet
March 19, 2024 8:38AM ET



Former Donald Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort faces 18 counts related to tax and bank fraud (AFP Photo/MANDEL NGAN)




Amid Donald Trump's ongoing public allyship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, The Washington Post reported Monday that the MAGA hopeful is eyeing the possibility of bringing back former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to join the ex-president's 2024 campaign team.

Per The New Republic, the ex-Trump staffer "was found guilty of hiding millions of dollars that he made lobbying for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians in overseas bank accounts," and then "convicted of tax and bank fraud in 2018 under Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election."https://www.alternet.org/manafort-coming-back/

Manafort was pardoned by Trump near the end of his presidency in December 2020.

READ MORE: Paul Manafort reveals he secretly advised Trump while awaiting pardon

The former Trump campaign manager would "likely focus on the Republican convention in July and on fundraising for Trump’s campaign," The New Republic reports, according "to four anonymous sources. Those four people said that nothing has been officially decided yet, but Trump is determined to bring Manafort back onto his team and is widely expected to hire him."

During the latest episode of The Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow pointed to the fact that Donald Trump lawyers said Monday that the former president has not been successful in getting the $464 million bond for the judgement in the New York civil fraud case against him — which goes against Trump's claims that he's a billionaire.

"I would just ask you to consider is the very specific timing, as in what happened today," Maddow said. "What Paul Manafort went to prison for — what he was found to have done, when he inexplicably rose up out of Russian Oligarchville to return to Washington to become the 'Trump for President' campaign chairman in 2016 — what was his purpose in life at that time?"

Maddow continued, "His purpose in life at that time was extracting money from Russian interests — from pro-Kremlin interests, to serve the interests of Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. That was his life's work. Paul Manafort has announced today as coming back to the Trump campaign again on the same day that Donald Trump also announces that he is out of money and he cannot secure a bond to pay the half billion dollar court judgment that is due from him one week from today. That is a court judgment. That's not some bank being please pay us back. That's a court judgment. If he doesn't pay it, the New York attorney general can start padlocking his buildings and taking everything he owns. As of one week from today."

READ MORE: Ex-Trump campaign manager ordered to pay $3.2 million settlement for tax-dodging charges

The MSNBC host emphasized, "Donald Trump has never been more desperately in need of money than he is right this second today — the day it is reported that this guy, for all his baggage, for all his ex-con sparkle, this guy is coming back, the guy who specializes in extracting money from Kremlin-aligned interests to serve Vladimir Putin's long-term goals. I wonder why today of all days is the day we learn that Paul Manafort is coming back."

Watch the video below or at this link.





https://www.rawstory.com/rachel-mad...-is-the-day-we-learn-that-paul-manafort-is-c/

 

We see Russian false propaganda posted on this forum all day every day.


GOP House Intel chair reveals Republicans using Russian propaganda in US Capitol

David Edwards
April 7, 2024 9:59AM ET




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House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-OH) on Sunday accused fellow members of Congress of repeating Russian propaganda.

During an interview on CNN, host Jake Tapper noted that Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said that Russian propaganda had "infected a good chunk of [his] party's base."

"He singled out primetime shows on conservative channels," Tapper pointed out. "Do you agree with him? And how big is this problem?"

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"Oh, it is absolutely true," Turner agreed. "We see directly coming from Russia attempts to mask communications that are anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor."

"I mean, there are members of Congress today who still incorrectly say that this conflict between Russia and Ukraine is over NATO, which, of course, it is not," he added. "Now, to the extent that this propaganda takes hold, it makes it more difficult for us to really see this as an authoritarian versus democracy battle, which is what it is."

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