And the coincidence that the raid happens as search warrants and indictments are being requested. Again yeah, could all just be coincidental. We’re making connections that may not exist.
vyshka
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TPM is going with the story that I was seeing reported from the president of SCG.
Everyone in the entire GOP has connections to Stone;
Also Stone has been involved in a million different dubious activities over the years. There’s probably a long list of things the FBI might find interesting about him that don’t relate to Trump and Russia at all.
Even if this is related to Stone but not at all related to Trump I imagine it would make Trump quite nervous. And I consider anything that keeps Trump off balances net positive.
JMR
2698
Anything that gets him closer to the big one baby
This is about as real as Roswell, right? It’s fun to imagine though. All these fuckers going to prison.
Lantz
2700
Less real than Roswell. Would have better if they claimed Bernie will be the President.
vyshka
2701
Hey now, if you don’t agree with Mensch you are a Putin goon (at least that appears to be what she declares of anyone that doubts anything she posts).
Russian’s troll the whitehouse
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/opinions/trump-gets-duped-in-russia-photo-op-ghitis/.
First Lavrov responds to the reporter’s questions about Comey. By saying “He was fired you’re kidding, you kidding?”
Then.
Trump had reportedly promised Putin that he would meet with Lavrov, who had been iced out by then-President Barack Obama. This was Lavrov’s first visit to Washington in four years. Trump went ahead with the meeting, apparently expecting it to go softly under radar.
Ah, but Russia had other plans. Before long, photos of the President jovially interacting with the Russians were splashed all over the internet.
Trump was reportedly furious: The Russians “tricked us,” one unnamed official told CNN. “That’s the problem with the Russians – they lie.”
White House officials had allowed a Russian photographer, described by the delegation as Lavrov’s photographer, to record the meeting. They claimed they didn’t know the photographer also works for the state-run news agency Tass. So: Russian state media had an exclusive on the Oval Office meeting from which American journalists had been barred.
The Russian embassy kept trolling the White House all day, tweeting invitations for the public to see more pictures on the foreign ministry’s Flickr account.
Timex
2703
Negative dimensional chess.
I’m hoping that’s where the money laundering probes lead. Actual criminal activity within the Trump organization.
And someone found the connection. I had seen earlier that SCG had created a superpac for John Bolton. Well, John Mercer paid millions of dollars into that Superpac.
It could be a coincidence…sure Mercer has money all over the place. Guess we will see eventually.
vyshka
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The reasoning, if you are talking about the Sarah Smith person that was retweeted by Taylor, seemed extremely weak. Basically saying they raided today about 2013, but are really looking for info related to trump/russia.
Probably also just leverage to flip people amd get them to testify under oath.
Don’t disagree, but we might not have the whole picture. From what I’ve read of Cambridge Analytica, they used a number of smaller outfits such as this one for various things. It’s possible there’s more to it. Maybe where that money ended up is important. Makes more sense to me than the 2013 angle. Just speculating here. Maybe it’s all a big nothingburger. Don’t know.
Edit: just noticed Taylor called out the Sarah Smith thread for the meaning of the raid ¯_(ツ)_/¯
This is from the 03/30/17 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia/the election
I’m getting this second hand — but did Spicer claim that Grassley told Trump he wasn’t under investigation???
Isn’t Grassley getting the sensitive briefings?
Bear in mind that the Trump Administration likes to misconstrue statements like “The President himself is not being directly investigated at this time” as, “There’s no reason to think the President himself will ever in a million years be under investigation.” Which does not follow, especially as Trump keeps doing more investigation-worthy things every day.
He’s still insisting that Elijah Cummings said “You will go down as one of the great presidents in the history of our country.”
