Wa Po has an interesting new article out today but I am unable to read it.

[triron]

Something about a Russian social media executive offer to help Trump in 2016.
Anyone have access please post.

[samnsara]

1. i cant either..everytime i try to it fades out and the last thing i see...

...is something about democracy fading in the darkness..

[bettyellen]

2. Clear your browser cookies and try again.

[lisa58]

3. Link?

[pnwmom]

4. You could at least post the link without reading it. n/t

[lindysalsagal]

5. I found this but w no explanation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/01/04/what-weve-learned-about-trumps-campaign-and-russia-since-trump-first-denied-collusion/?utm_term=.510659438bf6

Again: This is only what we’ve learned since the Trump administration first offered its “there was no collusion” defense — things that impartial observers might think undercut the claim that there is no evidence of the Trump team working with Russian actors. We’ve left out things that were already known when Spicer first addressed the subject, including campaign adviser Carter Page’s repeated trips to Moscow in 2016 — and Trump Jr.’s speech to a pro-Russian group a month before the election. It also excludes a number of things we’ve learned since last March that are less direct: outreach by a Russian social-media company to the Trump campaign, for example, and contacts between one source of documents stolen by Russia and Trump ally Roger Stone.

Cato Institute senior fellow Julian Sanchez articulated an alternative reading of this new information in tweets after the Times report about Papadopoulos being the trigger for the FBI’s investigation.

“The campaign got advance word that Russia had thousands of hacked Dem emails, yet consistently feigned doubt publicly,” he wrote. “When the DNC e-mail hack became public, did they call the FBI and say ‘hey, we actually got a heads up about this over a month ago — we have strong evidence Russia was probably responsible’? They did the opposite, trying to shift blame to a ‘400lb guy in his basement.’ Even if that were the end of it, that would be pretty egregious. Giving cover to actors who’ve committed felonies to help you — disparaging the IC consensus that Russia was responsible despite having inside knowledge that they were? Seems absolutely fair to call that collusion.”

It’s been noted repeatedly that “collusion” is not a legal term. There’s no standard to be reached to establish the fact or fiction of collusion. It’s subjective. Trump’s subjective position has always been that there was no collusion; his subjective position is also that there was collusion between the Russians and the Democrats. Meadows and Jordan, Trump supporters, also hold the subjective position that there is no evidence of collusion.

[Maeve]

6. this one?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/russian-social-media-executive-sought-to-help-trump-campaign-in-2016-emails-show/2017/12/07/31ec8d90-db9a-11e7-b859-fb0995360725_story.html?utm_term=.739e8f045a16

An executive at a leading Russian social media company made several overtures to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 — including days before the November election — urging the candidate to create a page on the website to appeal to Russian Americans and Russians.

The executive at Vkontakte, or VK, Russia’s equivalent to Facebook, emailed Donald Trump Jr. and social media director Dan Scavino in January and again in November of last year, offering to help promote Trump’s campaign to its nearly 100 million users, according to people familiar with the messages.

“It will be the top news in Russia,” Konstantin Sidorkov, who serves as VK’s director of partnership marketing, wrote on Nov. 5, 2016.

[Maeve]

7. And another paragraph, since I only posted 3

The emails, which were read to The Washington Post and confirmed by people with knowledge of their contents, show a new point of direct contact between an influential Russian and advisers to Trump during the 2016 race. Investigators for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and several congressional committees are scrutinizing those contacts as part of their examinations into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 campaign

[triron]

8. yes

[lindysalsagal]

9. Rob Goldstone, and british music promoter and trump Jr were involved, and Mueller is on it.

I don't want to break the paragraph rule, so, I'll just paraphrase. Trump aid Rhona Graff was involved, and trump met the russian through his moscow miss universe pageant connections. Sidorkov is connected to putin, publicly. Natalia Veselnitskaya, Manfort and Kuschner are also involved. Goldstone was in trump tower and there were follow-up emails.

Lots of connections, and offers to let russian readers get to know trump through the site. Apparently, trump is good for their image in russia.

Ugly. But Mueller is on it.

Glad I joined WAPO today.

[jberryhill]

10. do this

Go to news.google.com

search "What we’ve learned about Trump’s campaign"

Click that