Never forget .... Slate Magazine, "it exposes him (Trump) as a Russian asset."

[Botany]

A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset
He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.

Donald Trump was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the United States. That’s been documented in Republican-led investigative reports, and now it has been updated with new evidence, thanks to the U.S. Intelligence Community’s assessment of the 2020 election. The report, drafted by the CIA, the FBI, and several other agencies, was released in unclassified form on Tuesday, but it was presented in classified form on Jan. 7. In other words, it was compiled, written, and edited during Trump’s administration. It destroys his lies about the election, and it exposes him as a Russian asset.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

[sop]

1. "That makes Trump more than a Russian asset. It makes him...an agent of a foreign power."

When will Trump be held accountable? I know, I know...be patient.

[Botany]

2. Everytime TFG said "fake news" as per connections between Trump/Trump Campaign and Russia ....

... he was lying. I wonder how much top secret material he gave Putin? And what were in those
boxes he took from the White House? I'm willing to bet all your money and home that Putin had
promises from Donny that in his second term he would get the U.S. out of NATO.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16470016

[gab13by13]

10. Not all of the classified documents have been recovered.

This seems to me to be a situation where DOJ should be acting immediately, our national security is at risk.

I'm talking like search warrants for Mar-el-Loco, probably too late now.

[onetexan]

61. +1 -K&R

[PatSeg]

42. And what was said in his private meetings with Putin?

Where are the translator's notes? In the toilet?

[Botany]

45. Where is the translator now?

I want to rub Trump's selling out the United States and its allies in the MAGA(T)s faces.

[PatSeg]

50. Oh yes, that too

Hopefully the translator is alright.

[agingdem]

41. how many here think Trump was smart enough to

know he was being played?..this is an idiot who wanted to buy Greenland, thought Finland was part of Russia...for Trump, it was the promise of a Trump hotel in Moscow...I do agree he was enthralled with Putin, the power, the control, the state run media, the ability to kill his adversaries from a distance, a massive army at his disposal, coterie of yes men doing Putin's bidding...power, money revenge..that's what drives Depraved Donnie..

[Eyeball_Kid]

44. Trumpy-Boy wanted admission to an exclusive club of super-wealthy billionaires.

His attempts to receive admission to an elite community of wealth fell flat in NYC. But he knew that Russians were willing to play with him, and he knew that he could land a lot of dough in the land of the Oligarchs. All he needed was gift-giving of government secrets to Putin (to show his loyalty), and he'd be getting that hotel in Moscow, and he'd gift Putin a suite on the top floor to show his gratitude. Then fame and real riches would be his.

So he decided that he'd leverage the security of the United States for guaranteed wealth and status on an international level. It didn't matter to him that the US would be weakened. He saw a shifting of alliances in the world order, with autocrats taking the lead and dominating world affairs. North Korea, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey, Syria, China, Hungary-- so many autocrats were and are still on the rise. Trump anticipated a big windfall as he buddied-up to all of them. He'd sell the United States for money and power. And with a second term, his alliance with Putin would be complete and he'd become Putin's partner in denuding the United States and allowing Russia to virtually annex the US. He'd give Putin everything, including the country, and in return, Trump would have everything he ever wanted.

[agingdem]

49. always the useful idiot...

Trump's most admired despots are smart enough to know how to hold onto power...Trump trips over his mouth...they don't...

[SleeplessinSoCal]

52. Once he was trapped in the office of POTUS,

... he began efforts to win re-election. Calling the growing loss of the popular vote count "rigged", stolen by illegal voters.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-votes-idUSKBN13M0XZ

Why choose the road of claiming he won the popular vote in 2016? Partially because he had no intention of actually winning and governing.

But, will we ever truly know if he had any intention of trying to win votes from the majority of this country? All appearances say no.

There is something in the con brain that leaves no room for compromise today. Dirty tricks and lying is their only course of action.

[yonder]

56. He officially began his reelection campaign the day after his inauguration,

if I remember right.

[robbob]

57. That, and started grifting...

We still don’t have the whole story on the inauguration slush fund…

[cilla4progress]

3. Quelle

surprise...

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Odd how little coverage the report received.

From the OP article:

As to Russia, the report leaves no doubt: In 2020, as in 2016, “President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations” to help Trump and hurt his Democratic opponent. For example, “Shortly after the 2018 midterm elections, Russian intelligence cyber actors attempted to hack organizations primarily affiliated with the Democratic Party.” Then, in late 2019, Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, “conducted a phishing campaign against subsidiaries of Burisma holdings, likely in an attempt to gather information related to President Biden’s family.” Throughout the 2020 election, agents “connected to the Russian Federal Security Service,” FSB, planted negative stories about Biden. Internet operatives working for the Kremlin, including the troll farm that had boosted Trump in 2016, continued to promote “Trump and his commentary, including repeating his political messaging.”

Attacks on Biden and his son, Hunter, were part of this operation. Through “US officials and prominent US individuals, some of whom were close to former President Trump and his administration,” the report says Russia’s intelligence services “repeatedly spread unsubstantiated or misleading claims about President Biden and his family’s alleged wrongdoing related to Ukraine.” In this way, Trump’s circle “laundered” the Russian-planted stories, which were then recirculated—and promoted by Russia’s online proxies—as American news.

One section of the report zeroes in on two Russian agents, Andriy Derkach and Konstantin Kilimnik, along with their associates. It says they met with and passed materials to people linked to the Trump administration to advocate for government investigations. Derkach peddled audio recordings that were edited to make Biden look corrupt, and he “worked to initiate legal proceedings in Ukraine and the US related to these allegations.” The report doesn’t name the Americans who collaborated with the Russian agents, but it’s easy to identify them from news reports. Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, met with Derkach twice. Donald Trump Jr. promoted Derkach’s tapes. Trump’s 2016 campaign manager, Paul Manafort, gave Kilimnik inside information on the campaign. Trump, in a 2019 phone call, pressed Ukraine’s president to open an investigation of Biden, as Derkach proposed. And congressional Republicans, led by Reps. Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes, parroted a Russian-planted narrative “to falsely blame Ukraine for interfering in the 2016 US presidential election.”

Continues…

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

And people wonder why President Biden’s popularity poll numbers are low.

[Botany]

8. And so much out of Trump and or Fox News' mouth are straight from Russia and Russian pys oops.

Hunter Biden, Woke, "election rigging" by other countries, Joe Biden is feeble, and on and on.

[Native]

9. Not odd at all considering all the stuff that was coming out in March of '21

[not fooled]

54. Oh, there's a guy in my neighborhood who

dismisses any idea that red don works for putin. He buys barr's spin that "the Mueller Report shows there was no Russian interference."

No point even talking to him. He knows he's right.

[SheltieLover]

5. Kicking for visibility

[Jim__]

6. That is a great picture. - n/t

[Poiuyt]

14. I guess Trump sitting at his big desk with others standing behind him makes him feel powerful

What an insecure ass.

[maddiemom]

34. Maybe piling a few cans of Goya beans on the Resolute desk in front of him....

would help even more.

[NCjack]

43. I like the fotoshopped version, with a Trump on Putin's dog leash.

[we can do it]

7. This article is a year old!

[Botany]

23. And still worth reading now in light of the Russia & Ukraine news

[we can do it]

26. I agree, just noticed when I finished reading.

[Botany]

30. Why when the Republican controlled Senate Intel Committee finishedits report on Russian and Trump ..

... that it wasn't national news 24/7 is an indictment on our "liberal media." They sure covered
HRC and her emails enough.

[kcr]

33. "never forget"

A clue it's not a recent article.

[mountain grammy]

12. A vote for Trump was a vote for Putin..

and in 2020, 74 million Americans made that choice. Pretty fucking scary.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

20. Mueller report made that clear...is this Mueller Report Unredacted, with a different book cover?

That would be yet another awesome move by the President.

[slightlv]

13. I'd like to know what it would take

for our MSM to actually start reporting news as it exists today... not like what they'd like it to be or as it was when McTrump was jacking around. I wish there was a way we could make them (impress upon them the importance of) reporting and explaining all the criminal charges and evidence on tfg in such a way to make it grab people by the neck, shake them, and make them listen.

I'm afraid if we can't get them tilted away from the treasonous side of the country, we're going to be working in vain on everything else.

[Achilleaze]

15. The Great Wholesale G.O.P. betrayal of America

(and also their betrayal of truth and basic human decency), coupled with the G.O.P. embrace of ruthless totalitarian FaceStomping Russian bile and hate, is The Greatest Betrayal of All Time.

When history is written, the Grand KGOP Republican Moral Collapse is going to rank right up there with Judas and his stinking, treacherous kissyface.

[2naSalit]

16. I'll never forget.

[niyad]

17. F'n, murdering, orange TRAITOR** works for putin and russia, has for decdes. That

top picture always gets me. TRAITOR** had to really slouch to appear shorter than his master.

[alterfurz]

18. long tie, short leash

[dalton99a]

19. Kick

Attacks on Biden and his son, Hunter, were part of this operation. Through “US officials and prominent US individuals, some of whom were close to former President Trump and his administration,” the report says Russia’s intelligence services “repeatedly spread unsubstantiated or misleading claims about President Biden and his family’s alleged wrongdoing related to Ukraine.” In this way, Trump’s circle “laundered” the Russian-planted stories, which were then recirculated—and promoted by Russia’s online proxies—as American news.

One section of the report zeroes in on two Russian agents, Andriy Derkach and Konstantin Kilimnik, along with their associates. It says they met with and passed materials to people linked to the Trump administration to advocate for government investigations. Derkach peddled audio recordings that were edited to make Biden look corrupt, and he “worked to initiate legal proceedings in Ukraine and the US related to these allegations.” The report doesn’t name the Americans who collaborated with the Russian agents, but it’s easy to identify them from news reports. Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, met with Derkach twice. Donald Trump Jr. promoted Derkach’s tapes. Trump’s 2016 campaign manager, Paul Manafort, gave Kilimnik inside information on the campaign. Trump, in a 2019 phone call, pressed Ukraine’s president to open an investigation of Biden, as Derkach proposed. And congressional Republicans, led by Reps. Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes, parroted a Russian-planted narrative “to falsely blame Ukraine for interfering in the 2016 US presidential election.”

Trump also helped Putin discredit American democracy. That was a major goal of Russia’s 2016 and 2020 operations, the report explains: “Throughout the election, Russia’s online influence actors sought to amplify mistrust in the electoral process by denigrating mail-in ballots, highlighting alleged irregularities, and accusing the Democratic Party of voter fraud.” Trump peddled the same fears. After the election, as “Russian online influence actors continued to promote narratives questioning the election results,” Trump duplicated that message. Russia’s agents also hyped “allegations of social media censorship,” as Trump did.

The IC assessment doesn’t address what Trump knew about the Russian influence campaign. But according to former officials who spoke last fall to the Washington Post and the New York Times, he was directly warned. In a December 2019 conversation, then–national security adviser Robert O’Brien told Trump that Giuliani had been “worked by Russian assets in Ukraine.” Trump shrugged and went on promoting the allegations Giuliani was feeding him. That makes Trump more than a Russian asset. It makes him, in technical terms, an agent of a foreign power.

Declassified version of Director of National Intelligence report is at
https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ICA-declass-16MAR21.pdf

[Alexander Of Assyria]

22. Thank you...let's see how the major not much real news networks attempt to cover this up.

[kentuck]

21. It was pretty obvious, from the beginning, imo...

...for those that cared to look.

"Russia, if you're listening..."

[Alexander Of Assyria]

24. Wow...true...This report shows how Republicans used, and continue use of template

handed to them by Putin…it’s diabolical. They veered off course for a few days after Insurrection Day, but they formally forced back on course by Foxy means…Fox is owned by Putin also, isn’t that obvious as well by now?

Fox is a national security threat!

And so plainly in front of our faces…well, all faces except the so called Major news monopolies in America.

They will do usual about face…nothing to see here!

Fascist enablers.

[L. Coyote]

25. Tucker is a traitor

Link to tweet

[Alexander Of Assyria]

27. Fox is national security threat, in pocket of Putin...shut it down! Let courts sort it.

[Farmer-Rick]

28. The entire Republican party is a Russian asset

They don't call the Senate minority leader Moscow Mitch for nothing.

But come on, couldn't the FBI and CIA catch on before the Russians put TFG in the white house?

No, they were too busy writing letters for public release concerning classified information on Hillary. The FBI, in particular, were used like a fine tool by Putin. And then they release a report only after the Russian asset is removed by "We the People". Of what value are the FBI and CIA if they can't even identify a threat like TFG before the Russians put him into action?????????

Seems to me the FBI and CIA have been compromised.

[bucolic_frolic]

32. I want to read Sarah Kendzior's HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

She had a bit on Twitter on the FBI and Comey's role, and SDNY. Needs to be exposed.

[Farmer-Rick]

35. I'll have to look that up

Comey and his letter was pure Putin manipulation.

[ancianita]

68. Thank you so much for this.

Maybe you'd like to read this...

April 22, 2020, in the last year of Trump, Bitch Media's Andi Zeisler interviewed Sarah Kendzior, author of Hidden In Plain Sight.

This interview with her covers a lot about the weakness of corporate media, and the widely unrespected strength of women who, as whistleblowers and thought leaders, are key to keeping democracy.


https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/sarah-kendzior-hiding-in-plain-sight-interview

[bucolic_frolic]

69. Interesting interview, thanks for looking backward 2 years and finding the reference on DU

That's proof that you never know how long or who your ideas may reach, what change or influence they could engender, or what they might spark. So you post anyway, and run with it .

[Wounded Bear]

29. K & R...nt

[bucolic_frolic]

31. That photo! SHAME AND PRIDE

This country needs to ditch the thugs in suits worship. People think a suit makes one harmless, yet every thug has worn one.

[Farmer-Rick]

36. I know, that oh so very Smug look

On Putin's face. He thinks he's got the world in his hands.

[Blue Owl]

37. To the gallows with Benedict Donald

[liberalla]

38. Bookmarking

[jcgoldie]

39. unfortunately

All he has to say is "I'm no puppet, you're the puppet!" and the racist masses go "see he said he didn't do it so its ok to vote for the guy because the libs hate really hate him and they're worse than Putin anyway...."

[Joinfortmill]

40. When Putin falls, the entire plot will be exposed. And Putin has met his Armaggedon

[Martin Eden]

46. This needs to be common knowledge

Thereafter, anyone who supports Trump knowingly supports Russian interests over the United States.

[usaf-vet]

47. /// Bookmark

[BadgerMom]

48. At this point, unfortunately, this is "dog bites man," not "man bites dog."

It’s more evidence of something that was revealed with a high degree of likelihood in 2016 and earlier. I wish there had been more severe consequences for the traitor by now.

[Cha]

51. KR TY We Noticed!

💙💛

[Achilleaze]

53. Submissive Republican loser sells out America

[Hassler]

55. In Chump's case, he's not a Russian asset so much as he is a Russian asshat.

[YoshidaYui]

58. lock him up

please.

[Stuart G]

60. Thank You for posting...K and R..

[GoneOffShore]

62. Thanks for the link. I reposted on FB.

[Meowmee]

63. Still walking free

[YoshidaYui]

64. Traitors need to be HUNG....

OR at least thrown into a dark prison some where, where no one has to look at his ugly mug again.

[Botany]

66. "They"* all knew about Trump and Russia in 2016 and said nothing.

* McConnell, Stone, Flynn, Paul Ryan, Sessions, Pence, Scalise, McCarthy, Murdoch, Hannity, and
Facebook's Zuck-man.

[Hotler]

65. And TFG still walks free. nt

[2naSalit]

67. See that rolled up magazine in pooty's hand?

I need mind bleach for what it thinks went on in that room!