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Yorkie Mom's JournalS.A. web firm might be included in probe of the Trump-Russia ties (Brad Parscale)
S.A. web firm might be included in probe of the Trump-Russia ties
WASHINGTON — The FBI’s wide-ranging criminal investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election may include scrutiny of the Trump campaign’s San Antonio-based digital operation overseen by senior White House adviser Jared Kushner.
http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/S-A-web-firm-might-be-included-in-probe-of-the-11177097.php
That's all I can see because I'm not a subscriber. Can somebody help?
Wire headline:ATTORNEY FOR TRUMP SON-IN-LAW KUSHNER SAYS HAS NO RECOLLECTION OF CALLS WITH RUSSIAN
Wire headline:ATTORNEY FOR TRUMP SON-IN-LAW KUSHNER SAYS HAS NO RECOLLECTION OF CALLS WITH RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR KISLYAK AS REPORTED BY REUTERS
https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/868272657850142721
https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/868269422703759360
Next up, Reuters: Flynn ALSO discussed creating a back channel.
I changed the title of this thread because I think I missed what may be the most important part. Look at the last paragraph I posted.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, had at least three previously undisclosed contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, seven current and former U.S. officials told Reuters.
Those contacts included two phone calls between April and November last year, two of the sources said. By early this year, Kushner had become a focus of the FBI investigation into whether there was any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, said two other sources - one current and one former law enforcement official.
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Conversations between Flynn and Kislyak accelerated after the Nov. 8 vote as the two discussed establishing a back channel for communication between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that could bypass the U.S. national security bureaucracy, which both sides considered hostile to improved relations, four current U.S. officials said.
More: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-fbi-kushner-exclusive-idUSKBN18N018
Russian Once Tied to Trump Aide Seeks Immunity to Testify Before Congress (Deripaska, Russian oligar
Russian Once Tied to Trump Aide Seeks Immunity to Testify Before Congress
Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch once close to President Trump’s former campaign manager, has offered to cooperate with congressional committees investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, but lawmakers are unwilling to accept his conditions, according to congressional officials.
Mr. Deripaska’s offer comes amid increased attention to his ties to Paul Manafort, who is one of several Trump associates under F.B.I. scrutiny for possible collusion with Russia during the presidential campaign. The two men did business together in the mid-2000s, when Mr. Manafort, a Republican operative, was also providing campaign advice to Kremlin-backed politicians in Ukraine. Their relationship subsequently soured and devolved into a lawsuit.
Mr. Deripaska, an aluminum magnate who is a member of the inner circle of the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, recently offered to cooperate with congressional intelligence committees in exchange for a grant of full immunity, according to three congressional officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the issue publicly. But the Senate and House panels turned him down because of concerns that immunity agreements create complications for federal criminal investigators, the officials said.
Mr. Deripaska, who lives in Moscow, has long had difficulty traveling to the United States. The State Department has refused to issue him a business visa because of concerns over allegations that he was connected to organized crime, according to a former United States government official, which Mr. Deripaska has denied.
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/us/politics/oleg-deripaska-paul-manafort.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1
Exclusive: NSA Chief Admits Donald Trump Colluded With Russia
When will Admiral Rogers say publicly what he told his agency’s workforce?
By John R. Schindler • 05/26/17 10:56am
President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey continues to reverberate in the KremlinGate scandal, which threatens to consume the Trump administration. By abruptly removing Comey, then mangling his excuses for why he did so, Trump created a needless crisis for the White House which shows no signs of abating.
The impartial observer might think that Trump fired Comey because he feared what the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of the president’s contacts with Russia might reveal—as the commander in chief has essentially admitted. Moreover, Trump’s inappropriate efforts to secure Comey’s personal “loyalty” had fallen flat—the FBI director rightly assured the president of his honesty but abjured any fealty to Trump personally—after which the president is reported to have developed a palpable fear of the incorruptible Bureau boss. To protect Team Trump, Comey had to go.
But cashiering Comey was insufficient. True to form, Trump seemingly took the offensive against the FBI. According to multiple reports, the president approached top intelligence bosses to coax them into joining Trump’s personal war with Comey. In particular, Trump is reported to have asked Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence (DNI), and Admiral Mike Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, to go public in denying that Team Trump had any ties to Russia during the 2016 election campaign.
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In his town hall talk, Rogers reportedly admitted that President Trump asked him to discredit the FBI and James Comey, which the admiral flatly refused to do. As Rogers explained, he informed the commander-in-chief, “I know you won’t like it, but I have to tell what I have seen”—a probable reference to specific intelligence establishing collusion between the Kremlin and Team Trump.
More: http://observer.com/2017/05/mike-rogers-nsa-chief-admits-trump-colluded-with-russia/
Donald Trump Angled for Soviet Posting in 1980s, Says Nobel Prize Winner
Evidently Donald has always been Donald. Short attention span and grandiose ideas.
In 1986, the future president met with one of the few Americans who knew Mikhail Gorbachev, seeking information about the USSR's new leader and revealing plans to ask Ronald Reagan to post him to Moscow.
Donald Trump, in the mid-1980s, aggressively pursued an official government post to the USSR, according to a Nobel Peace Prize winner with whom Trump interacted at the time.
"He already had Russia mania in 1986, 31 years ago," asserts Bernard Lown, a Boston-area cardiologist known for inventing the defibrillator and sharing the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize with a top Soviet physician in recognition of their efforts to promote denuclearization. Lown, now 95 and retired in Newton, Mass., tells The Hollywood Reporter that Trump sought and secured a meeting with him in 1986 to solicit information about Mikhail Gorbachev. (Gorbachev had become the USSR's head of state — and met with Lown — the year before.) During this meeting, Lown says, the fast-rising businessman disclosed that he would be reaching out to then-president Ronald Reagan to try to secure an official post to the USSR in order to negotiate a nuclear disarmament deal on behalf of the United States, a job for which Trump felt he was the only one fit.
"He said to me, 'I hear you met with Gorbachev, and you had a long interview with him, and you're a doctor, so you have a good assessment of who he is,'" Lown recalls. "So I asked, 'Why would you want to know?' And he responded, 'I intend to call my good friend Ronnie,' meaning Reagan, 'to make me a plenipotentiary ambassador for the United States with Gorbachev.' Those are the words he used. And he said he would go to Moscow and he'd sit down with Gorbachev, and then he took his thumb and he hit the desk and he said, 'And within one hour the Cold War would be over!' I sat there dumbfounded. 'Who is this self-inflated individual? Is he sane or what?'"
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
More: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-trump-angled-soviet-posting-1980s-says-nobel-prize-winner-1006312
Sen. Whitehouse: Circumstantial evidence to suggest Mike Flynn is cooperating w/ Justice Dept
CNN Digital Expansion DC Manu Raju
By Manu Raju, Senior Congressional Reporter
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, the top Democrat on a Judiciary subcommittee, told CNN Thursday that it's possible Flynn is cooperating with the Justice Department -- and that Capitol Hill has not been kept in the loop. He warned that congressional probes that have subpoenaed Flynn for records could undercut Mueller's investigation if the former national security adviser is secretly working with the Justice Department as part of its broader investigation into possible collusion between Russian officials and Trump associates during the campaign season.
"There is at least a reasonable hypothesis that Mike Flynn is already cooperating with the DOJ investigation and perhaps even has been for some time," said Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat.
Whitehouse added he had no direct evidence to suggest that Flynn is cooperating with the Justice Department. But he said there is circumstantial evidence to suggest that it could be the case, saying Mueller must immediately detail the situation to "deconflict" with probes on the Hill to "make sure that congressional investigations aren't inadvertently competing DOJ criminal investigations."
Flynn's attorney declined to comment when asked if his client was cooperating with the Justice Department.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/politics/robert-mueller-capitol-hill/index.html
Senate Intel gives Burr & Warner "blanket authority" to issue subpoenas in Russia investigation
I saw this because Maddow retweeted it.
Senate Intel gives Burr & Warner "blanket authority" to issue subpoenas in Russia investigation
https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/867836691800883200
From John Schindler
National security columnist @observer,
security consultant, author, provocateur, bon vivant, polyglot, counterintelligencer, cat guardian.
Formerly NSA, NAVSECGRU, NWC.
Just got this msg from a pal who's a snr Europe scty official: "After [Trump NATO speech] it's obvious he's Putin's boy. Now we will act."
https://twitter.com/20committee/status/867789245292961792
Tweet that Trump should see from NY Attorney General
Courts across the country continue to make clear: @realDonaldTrump is not above the Constitution.
Eric Schneiderman is the New York State Attorney General
How do you spell RICO again?
https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/867810818389417985
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