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dirtbanker 09-12-2017 07:27 PM

Mell is like the wackadoodle, happy to talk to themselves...

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mellincf 09-13-2017 10:37 AM

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Actually I am using this as an online diary. The timeline will be interesting, whatever the outcome. That's what happens when one is an historian. And maybe I'll be able, someday, to write a book. If this turns out as I think it will, it certainly would be the scandal of the century. Nine months, nine prominent Russians dead - CNN

CowBubba 09-13-2017 10:44 AM

I see the investigation as a way too prove trumps criminal activity. Lock him up!

8notes 09-13-2017 12:21 PM

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I see the investigation as a way to prove trumps criminal activity. Lock him up!

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mellincf 09-13-2017 08:03 PM

Republicans with close links to the White House increasingly believe that special counsel Robert Mueller is “going for the kill” in his investigation into links between President Donald Trump and Russia, according to a report from Axios Tuesday. Members of the GOP are said to have come to that stark conclusion based on Mueller’s hiring of lawyers experienced in dealing with money laundering crimes and the Mafia, as well as the intensity of his pursuit of both witnesses and evidence. Trump has previously warned that investigation of his financial dealings is a red line that Mueller should not cross. But that is thought to be exactly what Mueller is doing, including looking into a proposal made during the 2016 campaign to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Trump was lying when he tweeted, shortly before his inauguration, that “I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA — NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!” The truth is on the same day he participated in a GOP candidates’ debate, he signed a letter of intent for the Moscow Trump Tower project.

mellincf 09-13-2017 08:12 PM

Despite Trump’s repeated insistence that he has been told he is not personally under investigation, the president is possibly facing very real personal consequences. Based on conversations with White House aides, Axios says that Mueller is narrowing in on a possible charge of obstruction of justice against the president. At the moment, speculation is swirling about the original draft letter Trump wrote regarding his reasons for firing Director Comey. The "angry, meandering" draft White House justification for firing Comey — which was never released, but obtained by Mueller — could be used as evidence of Trump's unvarnished thinking when venting to staff. It is no secret that Trump wanted Comey to drop all investigations into any evidence of Russia's interference in the election. Firing Comey to stop such an investigation is prima facie evidence of obstruction of justice.

mellincf 09-13-2017 08:26 PM

Regardless of the obstruction of justice investigation, I believe the real story is in the finances. Trump is known not to "sweat the details" and is uninterested in reading the fine print. The funding of his many properties is tangled and difficult to follow, but Mueller has hired experts in fraud, foreign bribery, and organized crime. The New Yorker Magazine has done an excellent job of untangling a few of Trump's questionable deals. Trump’s Business of Corruption | The New Yorker

Donald Trump’s Worst Deal | The New Yorker

mellincf 09-14-2017 06:42 PM

As investigators try to figure out how Russia carried out its election interference, they’re asking how they happened to identify the right voters to bombard with the right messages, and how they got access to that kind of information. Using email, Facebook and Twitter, political advertising can be tailored very precisely: individual messaging for individual voters. Russian bots were targeting Clinton voters at the precinct level to suppress their vote with fake news. The Congressional committee is interested in determining how the Russians knew which voters to target with their disinformation campaign. Investigations are probing not just Russia’s role but whether Moscow had help from the Trump campaign. Sources familiar with the investigations say they are probing two Trump-linked organizations: Cambridge Analytica, and Breitbart News. It’s worth remembering that when Comey testified before Congress on March 20, he did not use the word “COLLUSION” to describe what he was investigating. Instead he said the FBI is investigating “whether there was any COORDINATION between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.” The letter appointing Robert Mueller as special counsel uses the same language. Cambridge Analytica worked on campaigns in several key states for a Republican political action committee. Its key objective, according to a memo the Guardian Observer has seen, was “voter disengagement” and “to persuade Democrat voters to stay at home”: a profoundly disquieting tactic. It has previously been claimed that suppression tactics were used in the campaign, but this document provides the first actual evidence.

mellincf 09-15-2017 06:44 AM

9/17/17 The Republican-led Senate judiciary committee now plans to take the first steps on legislation that would make it harder for President Donald Trump to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the latest sign that Trump could face a backlash from Capitol Hill if he sought to dismiss the special counsel.

MDLNB 09-15-2017 09:12 AM

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9/17/17 The Republican-led Senate judiciary committee now plans to take the first steps on legislation that would make it harder for President Donald Trump to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the latest sign that Trump could face a backlash from Capitol Hill if he sought to dismiss the special counsel.


Want to make a bet that Hillary is indicted before Trump?

mellincf 09-18-2017 05:33 PM

An attorney working on the Justice Department’s highest-profile money-laundering case recently transferred off that assignment in order to join the staff of the special prosecutor investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia, POLITICO has learned. Attorney Kyle Freeny’s background in examining potential money-laundering is significant given the money-laundering questions surrounding this controversy.

mellincf 09-18-2017 05:34 PM

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Want to make a bet that Hillary is indicted before Trump?

Really? Just who is investigating her? Robert Mueller is Trump’s worst nightmare. Mueller is a lifelong Republican, a former FBI Director, and he was a Marine in the Vietnam War, where he earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. Mueller is as tough as steel, and he will not back down when it comes to investigating any crimes by Trump and his comrades. Lawman Mueller is a 21st Century Untouchable.

Chi-Town 09-18-2017 06:00 PM

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Want to make a bet that Hillary is indicted before Trump?

The song remains the same.

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MDLNB 09-19-2017 04:21 AM

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Really? Just who is investigating her? Robert Mueller is Trump’s worst nightmare. Mueller is a lifelong Republican, a former FBI Director, and he was a Marine in the Vietnam War, where he earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. Mueller is as tough as steel, and he will not back down when it comes to investigating any crimes by Trump and his comrades. Lawman Mueller is a 21st Century Untouchable.


Mueller takes orders. Mueller was culpable in Hillary's sale of uranium to Russia. And you claim he has no bias? So, he chose Hillary donors to work on his team, at random? And you believe he will be fair in his investigation? I'll believe that when he manages an indictment for Hillary's crimes, that by the way are very obvious.

mellincf 09-19-2017 06:19 AM

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Mueller takes orders. Mueller was culpable in Hillary's sale of uranium to Russia. And you claim he has no bias? So, he chose Hillary donors to work on his team, at random? And you believe he will be fair in his investigation? I'll believe that when he manages an indictment for Hillary's crimes, that by the way are very obvious.

So I guess you think Hillary walked into that secure military base, stuffed her purse with uranium and mailed a radioactive Christmas present to Putin? How naive are you? That story has been debunked over a million times. In 2010, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States approved the sale (uranium cannot leave the USA, by the way). The State Department was one of nine agencies on the committee that approved the deal. The deal was also separately approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. There is no evidence Clinton herself got involved in the deal personally, and it is highly questionable that this deal even rose to the level of the secretary of state. Hillary is walking around freely because she is innocent of Trump's lies and all that Russian propaganda, and Trump is the one going down. No, Hillary Clinton did not "give Russia 20 percent of the uranium” in the US - Vox

The facts behind Trump’s repeated claim about Hillary Clinton’s role in the Russian uranium deal - The Washington Post


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