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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt is time to release the whole un-redacted Muller Report. A.G. Garland why the delay?
The Trump campaign had > 2,500 computer contacts with Vlad Putins Alfa Banks computer
server and Alfa Banks computer server also had 300 + contacts with Betsy DeVoss computer
server in W. Michigan too. This put Russia in contact with DeVoss brother Blackwaters Erik
Prince. This happened in 2016 from late winter until October.
America needs to seed the truth about just how deep into American politics and the Trump
Campaign Vlad/Russia were contacted. And Russia is still conducting a cyber war on America
right now. See vaccine and C-19 disinformation.
Trump is owned by Russia as are many of the Republicans who are trying to block support for
our alley Ukraine and just look @ Trumps giving a 1970s Soviet Union talking point about NATO
Countries not paying their fair share.
Starting in 2014* Russia installing Trump into the White House was part of the biggest crime
in Americas history.
*. Vlad had been working Trump for many years.
getagrip_already
(17,004 posts)So he can't do that.
(Yes, this is sarcasm)
bucolic_frolic
(46,234 posts)If they revealed the truth of Russian money's influence, we might not have a country anymore. Or no quorum in Congress.
Monied interests are often more allied with foreign monied elites than US political interests. Recall how our businessmen and corporations did business with a rising Third Reich.
Think. Again.
(16,471 posts)Bettie
(16,822 posts)it might be viewed as political by Republicans and he has to appease them wherever he can.
It's probably because most of those who should be charged with crimes against the US are still in office.
republianmushroom
(16,902 posts)And , if, you have noticed he doesn't do anything that makes him look political.
gab13by13
(24,281 posts)And, if, you have noticed he doesn't do anything that makes him look political towards Republicans.
FIFY
he seems to be leery of anything that might help Dems
usaf-vet
(6,719 posts).....party.
Wake up, people. We have been promised aggressive AGs who will get to the bottom of the latest right-wing outrage.
And from what I have seen, the only time the non-GOP-appointed AGs get to the bottom is ONCE, and that is to see where it is and how to avoid it.
It's like a scuba diver who wants to calculate how much time they can spend on the bottom without a complex decompression on the way up and out. The short version DON'T GO THERE. Stay in safe water.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,345 posts)Do as little as possible against any prominent Republican, no matter how serious the crime, so that Fox News doesn't yell at you.
Garland had to be shamed into finally investigating Trumps role in Jan 6th by a Republican, Liz Cheney after his lethargy compelled her and others to hold Jan 6th hearings in the House before it was assimilated by magats.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/garland-doj-resisted-investigating-trump-january-6
A.G. Merrick Garland Resisted Investigating Trumps Connection to January 6: Washington Post
"The Department of Justice delayed plans to investigate Donald Trump and his associates links to January 6 and attempts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a bombshell investigative report by The Washington Post.
It took nearly a year after the Capitol attack for a DOJ inquiry to commence, and the FBI only opened its investigation into the fake electors' plot in April 2022."
mopinko
(71,446 posts)im wondering if the office of wh counsel is gonna do anything about this debacle. they do have the transcripts of his interview.
but yeah, cant the prez declassify anything? go ahead and redact names of those not charged, but
Justice matters.
(7,382 posts)Naming names would not do anything to them not-redacted except to shame them.
We live in an era where some politicians (Repugs) are in-fact above the law (treason).
bigtree
(89,217 posts)...if he intended it.
I'm not actually someone who buys the insinuation that Garland holds a different view than the president on this issue - who shows no intention of asking for them.
As far as anything like this is concerned, including the SCs appointed to investigate the president and his son, they serve at the pleasure of Pres. Biden, and the release of the report is ostensibly in his hands, to an even greater degree than his AG.
Hell, I'm old enough to remember when Democrats were hollering at Trump to release it. Now it's this backdoor shit, pretending Garland is some rouge republican blocking what the president should be able to do, if that was his intention.
I must have missed the articles about Pres. Biden calling on his AG to make the report public, or anything like that.
I do remember Kamala Harris before she became VP calling on Barr to release them.
Mr. Evil
(2,961 posts)actually has on TFG. I'd also wonder why, whatever they have, they just sit on it. He is the biggest and clearest danger to the USA. There must be a mountain of shit he's into and been into for at least three decades with Russian crimes and whatnot. I just cannot understand why he's so goddamned protected.
ScratchCat
(2,320 posts)Remember the Ukraine phone call? Counsel for either the NSA or CIA filed a criminal complaint with DOJ and Barr said "it was filed incorrectly" and refused to follow-up on it. What ever happened to that? What was the exact crime the complaint referenced? Why did Garland's DOJ not look into it and open an investigation? Why has this individual never been interviewed in public by any committee?
My theory: CIA/NSA was well aware of what was going on in Trump Tower regarding Russian oligarchs and decided that it was easier to keep tabs on them if they knew where they were and essentially let Trump get away with it all for years because he's one of the "wealthy class" and they never figured he'd really run for and win POTUS. That an Russian money likely can be traced to both (R)'s and (D)'s. There are just not too many potential explanations as to how nobody could have known what was going on. Even Crowdstrike's investigation concluded that there was a trail of money laundering from South Florida to Canada involving Trump properties. I guess that went down DOJ's memory hole too, right?
Mr. Evil
(2,961 posts)mountain grammy
(27,102 posts)and by yesterday I mean Jan 21, 2021
redqueen
(115,164 posts)Not sure what they're getting out of it but I hope it's worth it
progressoid
(50,532 posts)Trump's convoluted schemes from nearly a decade ago are lost in today's noise.
Most Americans have no idea what you're even talking about.
Camaromjr
(43 posts)Deutsche Bank lent Trump ~$400 Million and Trump defaulted on $287M of these loans. Deutsche Bank was a money launderer for Russian funds. Take these two data points and the questions about the over 140 meetings between Trump staffers and Russian assets during the 2016 election and this would seem to be an area for further exploration.
capechacon
(91 posts)....hasn't yet finished his humming, hawing and ruminating.
Just what the he!! was Biden thinking when he appointed this dud to his cabinet??