Schindler's Latest: Team Trump Just Blew Its Cover

[fleur-de-lisa]

http://observer.com/2018/01/sanctions-nunes-memo-reveal-donald-trump-sean-hannity-ties-to-russia/

By John R. Schindler • 01/30/18 10:45am

In a recent column I noted how President Donald Trump seemingly can bend time in a near-supernatural fashion. Our commander-in-chief’s “fine-honed ability to make days seem like weeks and weeks seem like months, even years,” I observed, has the remarkable effect of nullifying even grave mistakes by jam-packing them into short periods of time so “they blur into each other inside the news cycle and soon melt into the morass of Trumpism.”

Even by Trumpian standards, yesterday was one for the record books. “Cover” is an espionage term that means a spy is pretending to be something he’s not to do his job: most often a diplomat, but there are many covers. This features prominently in spy novels and films yet in practice is frequently mundane and far from exciting. At root, cover exists because you will quickly be unmasked and probably arrested if you let everyone know you’re not the insurance salesman you pretend to be, rather a spy. Cover exists because it must.

Yesterday, after months of slippage, Team Trump finally blew its cover, exposing that it possesses a strange and unsettling fealty to the Kremlin for which there is no longer any benign explanation. Any one of yesterday’s bombshell developments would overtake the news cycle for weeks in any normal White House, yet this administration is anything but normal.

First, it was reported in the Swiss media, then picked up by The Daily Beast, that President Trump’s inner circle can be firmly linked to Russian intelligence. For months, speculation has swirled about the June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan between top members of Team Trump and a Russian delegation led by Natalya Veselnitskaya, a Moscow attorney with high-level Kremlin connections. Donald Trump, Jr. and Paul Manafort (who is currently under indictment) attended the meeting, which they implausibly insisted was about Russian adoptions.

More at link.

[mia]

1. Says it all: "The bottom line is that President Donald Trump cares more about ....

"...placating Vladimir Putin than following U.S. law or the will of Congress."

http://observer.com/2018/01/sanctions-nunes-memo-reveal-donald-trump-sean-hannity-ties-to-russia/

[bdamomma]

2. he is a treasonous bastard.

we are in deep shit right now.

[workinclasszero]

20. Let's face it

Vladimir Putin is now the actual ruler of the USA.

Conquered the USA without firing a shot. Just got his asset elected president and the traitor republican party and Fox 'news'/hate radio takes care of the rest.

I really have to wonder if Dear Leader will allow the fall election to proceed at all seeing as how the democrats will at a minimum take back the House and start impeachment proceedings against Putin's dog.

[YessirAtsaFact]

3. Sean Hannity has been under investigation because of clandestine ties to Russia

The report called him “a witting conduit of lies crafted by Russian spies”.

So, Faux News is directly implicated.

Hopefully a bunch of wingnuts hang.

[erronis]

6. Catch the murdoch family, please. The don/capo and children/spawn/spouses.

They've polluted real news and real reporting for way too many years.

[Beartracks]

12. "Witting conduit of lies" sums up Hannity well. n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Hannity -- Assange pipeline to Putin

From the article:

Sean Hannity has never hidden his relationship with Assange, whom he admires, but this mistake demonstrates that the men have been in regular contact, exchanging dirt on President Trump’s enemies. Given Hannity’s role as a top media booster of Team Trump, this merits scrutiny. Moreover, Hannity and Assange have been in touch frequently enough that Assange could refer to “other channels” of communication without further explanation. In other words, this is a clandestine relationship, as spies worldwide would call it.

[cstanleytech]

18. Sounds like Hannity and Assange then are clearly involved in the same conspiracy with the

other Repugnants.
What we need is an audit of the Repugnants in Congress, their spouses and immediate family members for any sources of income that are questionable.

[getagrip_already]

16. at the end of the article....

Given this, we need to ask questions about Hannity’s relationship with the Kremlin, considering his track record of pushing rancid Russian disinformation on his Fox News program. Hannity is a propagandist, not a journalist, by his own admission, but if he has served as a witting conduit for lies crafted by Russian spies,

[lagomorph777]

27. Excellent. Nail the bastard.

[WhiteTara]

4. If this takes down Sean Hannity, it will

be a major milestone on the path to responsible journalism.

[erronis]

7. No, there are so many falsehood spouters that want to get into the $ game. Just be more vitriolic,

etc. Up the ante each time. Incite violence.

Used to be that the license holders of the airwaves (and cable/etc.) had to follow some fairness rules.

[WhiteTara]

9. It seems there are no more rules for "them"

[Lonestarblue]

5. Glanced at headline and read it as Swindlers List!

How appropriate for this administration.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. The amazing thing is the Observer is owned and published by Jared Kushner's brother-in-law

http://uk.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-steps-down-as-publisher-of-the-observer-2017-1?r=US&IR=T

[sweetroxie]

32. I thought it was a different Observer.

one in NYC and not in the UK

[muriel_volestrangler]

33. Yes, this is the NYC Observer

Their "about page": http://observer.com/about/ "Publisher: Joseph Meyer"

[BobTheSubgenius]

10. Put the shoe on the other foot.

Imagine that a mouthpiece like Hannity was broadcasting pro-American propaganda from a station in Moscow. How long do you think they'd be on the air? I'd be surprised if lit lasted a day.

[lagomorph777]

28. How long would they physically survive?

Hours.

[SunSeeker]

11. Team Trump blew their cover in March of 2016 to anyone paying attention. nt

[byronius]

14. Succinct, straightforward, rings true. Sean Hannity, Patriotic Russian.

Devin Nunes belongs in prison. Certainly we'll throw him out of office shortly, but prison should be his end.

[Nitram]

15. Putin must have Trump's balls in a vise.

A very, very small vise.

[mobeau69]

23. That Su-27 intercept was probably a little reminder to drumpf about who his daddy is. n/t

[calimary]

17. Good stuff. Of course, WE knew the truth already

No “cover” ever fooled us.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

34. So true. I think you could only fail to see it if you were trying really hard

not to.

[2left4u]

19. From the enemy's camp

This comes from Restate a hardcore right wing site. I apologize ahead of time however I think this is important to point out.
If you want to know your enemy this site is very telling. If any of us have any doubts about our position on collusion or the bs "memo" check out the following right wing link.

I realize this is from a Republican site, before getting flamed I think the subject matter is important and validates OUR position; link shows that the intellectual right (if there is such a thing) are starting to see thru him as we always have......the last 2 paragraphs I found most telling and remember THIS IS A RIGHT WING site saying this!

https://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2018/01/30/dont-get-distracted-russia-probe-valid-heres/



My thoughts are this memo thing is building the case against him and now a lot more people are starting to see thru it...even on the other side.
I'm not advocating we trust them or look differently on them, just pointing out that the truth cannot be buried and we need to stay the course reminding are detractors that nobody on the left is writing or posting stuff on how were are wrong or should look at things differently.

Peace

[Fred Sanders]

21. I read the whole thing. Are they trying to walk back The Memo? Hence all the waiting?

And Ryan is walking it back and others...what a total major of public flop.

The fun will be awesome by Friday.

[fleur-de-lisa]

24. The author, John Schindler, is a republican

but he is staunchly ANTI-TRUMP and has been for years. He was sounding the alarm about Russia years before anyone else.

[LudwigPastorius]

22. If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck,...

it's a Kremlin mallard.

[annabanana]

25. Donald Duck!. . . .n/t

[Wwcd]

29. Rofl....Post of the day

[kimbutgar]

26. I remember when rethugs were anti Soviet Union and used the red scare to keep people frightened

Now we find out the president is a Russian asset and the rethugs are shrugging their shoulders.

[barbtries]

30. this needs to be read by everyone.

please. go to the link and read it all.

[Blue_Tires]

31. Is it treason yet?

[dalton99a]

35. And Republicans don't give a shit

as usual