In advance of Trump's summit with Putin, we have indictments of 13 Russian officials for their hacking and meddling in the U.S. elections. Live stream: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein holds press conference Rod Rosenstein announced indictments of Russians in U.S. election meddling Rosenstein announces indictment of 13 Russian suspects Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis See if Trump brings this up in his meeting with Uncle Vlad.
Russia indictments undercut Trump's denials Dylan Stableford Senior Editor Yahoo News July 13, 2018 Russia indictments undercut Trump's denials excerpt: "According to the charges released Friday, the defendants accessed the email accounts of volunteers and employees of the Clinton campaign, including Chairman John Podesta, beginning in March 2016. “They also hacked into the computer networks of a congressional campaign committee and a national political committee,” Rosenstein said. “The defendants covertly monitored the computers, implanted hundreds of files containing malicious computer code, and stole emails and other documents.” The Russian operatives “created fictitious online personas,” including “DCLeaks” and “Guccifer 2.0,” Rosenstein said, adding that the group falsely claimed DCLeaks was started by a group of American hackers and that Guccifer 2.0 was “a lone Romanian hacker.” “In addition to releasing documents directly to the public,” Rosenstein added, “the defendants transferred stolen documents to another organization” and “discussed timing the release of the documents in an attempt to enhance the impact on the election.”"
And at least one person running for congress contacted the Russians and ask to be sent the stolen documents and the Russians did send the documents. That is collusion.
So a double bonus for Trump faithfuls. He gets to insult the U.K. and May so that he looks tough to his base, then the next day he gets to cry "fake news". This is what I was saying about being gullible.
The Russians started hacking Hillary Clinton on or about July 27, 2016. Why is this date important? It's the day Trump asked them to. This date is specifically mentioned in a new 29 page indictment of 12 Russian operatives.
At a press conference in the U.K. today Trump refused to take a question from John Acosta of CNN. He then turned to FOX: This was after he denied the SUN report of him attacking Theresa May. SUN posted a recording of the interview proving what he said.
The House right wing nuts have now indicated they will push for Rosenstein impeachment...what ever that means? They did so hours after he announced the new Russian charges from the Grand Jury.
Bring it on! Trump has the power to fire Rosenstein. Why doesn't he? Could it be because he senses that would set off a chain reaction possibly leading to his downfall? Maybe he or his aides remember what happened when Nixon tried something similar in the "Saturday Night Massacre". Last I looked, impeachment requires an impeachable offense, defined as "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." What has Rosenstein done that could possibly be construed as fitting into any of those categories? And by opening that Pandora's box, would the Republicans not risk establishing the standard that a possible Democrat majority down the road could apply to their beloved leader? And wouldn't it seem strange that the Republicans in Congress would be going down that road when Trump himself has the authority to pick up the phone and say to Rosenstein those signature words of his Apprentice show: "You're fired!"
Trump apparently didn't do his homework ahead of his visit to England. It's against protocol to walk in front of The Queen, so naturally he does it almost immediately. Whether he's kissing Putin's ass or insulting Queen Elizabeth II Trump never misses an opportunity to embarrass The United States.
If the GOP reads the definition of impeachment they would all be in shock...over their friggin leader.
I've never liked the idea of a tyrant or a royal governing a nation. The best we ever had in America were presidents like Jimmy Carter and FDR...who cared about the people. World history tells us all leaders can be cruel, enough to send Christians to the lions, Jews to Death Camps, Iraqis to Abu Ghraib, Vietnamese to Mei Lai Ditch. Machiavelli wrote The Prince, because he was afraid of what would happen to him had he written The King! John Locke wrote about the exercise of arbitrary power over another human being. No political scientist has ever written about a dumbshit president of a superpower nation.
It looks similar to Trump's inauguration day when he exited the limo and bolted up the White House steps leaving Melania behind with the gifts for the Obama family. Trump might as well have shoved the Queen out of the way like he did the leader of Montenegro to get in front for the photo-op.
Far from holding Putin and Russia accountable for the election meddling, Trump says the Democrat and Obama are responsible, and that the Demos should be ashamed of themselves for allowing the hacking to happen. Talk about blaming the victim!
Trump calls the EU a "foe of the United States" Trump, in interview with CBS News, says "I think the European Union is a foe" ahead of Putin meeting in Helsinki - CBS News
Latest news, Trump told Theresa May to sue the EU and then later he called the EU America's foe. This as he prepares to meet with Putin by playing golf.