You sound like a really good guy - I respect a lot of what you laid down - however I do believe you rely WAY too much on the mainstream media for your sources and they have absolutely no credibility anymore - after 2 and a half years of RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA - I don’t believe anything they say - look at the country and what’s going on - there’s a reason Biden’s approval rating is at a historic low of 37% and Trump gains strength as the Dems pour on the LAWFARE.
The real danger to Democracy is Biden using the DOJ to take out his political rival - it’s straight from Putin’s handbook and totally in the realm of banana republics around the world.
You do know the trump team did
In 2014-2016
Spring 2014: A Kremlin-linked company that engages in influence operations, known as the Internet Research Agency, devised a
strategy to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Its goal was to spread distrust toward candidates and the American political system.
June 16, 2015: Donald Trump announced candidacy for president.
July 2015: Hackers supported by the Russian government
penetrated the Democratic National Committee’s network, stealing large volumes of data and maintaining access for
about a year.
Mid 2015: Thousands of Kremlin-backed social media accounts began to spread propaganda and disinformation,
establishing a clear preference for Trump.
Oct. 28, 2015: Trump signed a
letter of intent to negotiate the construction of a Trump Tower in Russia, as first reported by
CNN.
January 2016: Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime lawyer,
emailed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov about plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Later, Cohen would falsely testify to Congress that the deal ended this month. In fact, discussions about the project lasted as late as June 2016.
March 19, 2016: The chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, John Podesta, fell victim to an email
phishingscam. It is
believed this is how a group of Russian hackers gained access to his email account.
Early March 2016: George Papadopoulos joined the Trump campaign as an adviser. While traveling in Italy in mid March, Papadopoulos met a London-based professor whom Papadopoulos
understoodto have "substantial connections to Russian government officials."
March 21, 2016: Trump named Papadopoulos and Carter Page as members of his foreign policy team, in an
interviewwith the Washington Post.
March 24, 2016: Papadopoulos met in London with the professor who introduced him to a female Russian national who Papadopoulos
believed to be a relative of Putin with links to other senior Russian officials.
March 29, 2016: Trump
tapped Paul Manafort to manage the Republican National Convention.
March 31, 2016: Papadopoulos
told Trump, Jeff Sessions and other campaign members that he can use his Russian connections to arrange a meeting between Trump and Putin.
April 2016: Papadopoulos’ professor source
told the Trump adviser about a meeting with high-ranking Russian government officials in Moscow who have "dirt" on Hillary Clinton in the form of "thousands of emails."
April 2016: Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak attended Trump’s foreign policy speech in Washington, where he
met Trump’s *******-in-law and campaign adviser Jared Kushner.
May 2016: Donald Trump, Jr.
met with Alexander Torshin at National Rifle Association convention in Louisville. Torshin is a former senator and deputy head of Russia's central bank.
Mid 2016: The Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency
established a strategy of supporting Donald Trump’s candidacy and disparaging Hillary Clinton.
June 3, 2016: Trump, Jr. received an
emailfrom Rob Goldstone, a business associate. Goldstone told the younger Trump that Moscow supported his *******’s candidacy, and said he has a connection to a Russian government official with incriminating evidence against Hillary Clinton.
Goldstone told Trump Jr.: "This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump."
The younger Trump replied that same day: "If it’s what you say I love it."
June 7, 2016: Trump
announced he would soon make a "major speech" on Clinton.
June 8, 2016: Russian intelligence officers
launched DC Leaks, a website used to release stolen emails.
June 9, 2016: Trump, Jr., Manafort and Kushner met with a Russian national and several others at Trump Tower, based on Goldstone’s promise to Trump Jr. that a "Russian government attorney" would deliver damaging information about Clinton. Several
shifting accounts of the meeting were later offered.
June 14, 2016: The DNC
announced, through cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, that it had been hacked by Russian government actors.
June-July 2016: WikiLeaks and DCLeaks
released thousands of documents about Clinton and internal DNC deliberations.
Early July 2016: Trump campaign adviser Carter Page traveled to Moscow, where he
met with Russia’s deputy prime minister and a high-ranking Russian oil official. Page emailed campaign staffers that the deputy prime minister had "expressed strong support for Mr. Trump," and that he had gleaned "incredible insights and outreach" in Russia.
Mid July 2016: Trump campaign associate J.D. Gordon
successfully lobbied for the GOP platform to be changed to benefit Russia. Language was inserted vowing not to provide lethal aid to Ukrainians in their fight against Russian-backed separatists.
July 18, 2016: Sessions
talked with Kislyak after Sessions’ speech at the Republican National Convention.
July 20, 2016: Sessions talked with Kislyak after a speech. Separately, Trump campaign associates Page and Gordon
metwith Kislyak.
July 22, 2016: WikiLeaks began
releasingDNC emails ahead of the Democratic National Convention. The first tranche — nearly 20,000 emails — revealed an embarrassing glimpse at internal DNC deliberations.
Late July 2016: A senior Trump campaign official was directed to contact Trump’s longtime friend and associate
Roger Stoneabout any additional WikiLeaks releases, and what additional damaging information the group possessed on the Clinton campaign.
July 25, 2016: The FBI publicly
confirmed its investigation into the DNC hack.
July 2016: The FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into links between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee later
confirmed that information from Papadopoulos triggered the investigation.
July 27, 2016: During a press conference, Trump
said of Clinton’s emails: "Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you can find the 33,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."
July 27, 2016: Russians for the first time began to
target Clinton’s emails.
August 27, 2016: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., sent a
letter to FBI Director James Comey asking the bureau to investigate alleged Russian interference in the election. Reid also raised concerns about contacts Trump campaign members reportedly made with WikiLeaks and Russian nationals under U.S. sanction.
September 2016: Kushner received an email concerning WikiLeaks, which he then forwarded to another campaign official, according to the
leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (
Read Kushner’s lawyer’s response.)
September 2016: Sessions
met with Kislyak in his Senate office.
Oct. 7, 2016: The U.S. intelligence community released a
statement saying the release of emails on DC Leaks and WikiLeaks "are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts."
"The U.S. Intelligence Community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations," the statement reads.
Oct. 7, 2016: An Access Hollywood tape was released in which Trump can be heard in a 2005 interview bragging about groping women.
Oct. 7, 2016: Less than an hour after the Access Hollywood surfaces, WikiLeaks
published more than 2,000 emails of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. Between this date and the election, WikiLeaks released more than 50,000 documents stolen from Podesta’s personal email account.
Mid October 2016: Trump Jr.
corresponded with WikiLeaks through Twitter’s private message service. WikiLeaks asked the younger Trump to direct his Twitter followers to its trove of documents. Fifteen minutes later, candidate Trump
tweeted about WikiLeaks. Two days later, Trump Jr.
tweeted a link to WikiLeaks’ archive.
Oct. 21, 2016: The FBI and Justice Department obtained a
warrant to monitor Page based on probable cause that Page is Russian agent. Page
stepped down from the Trump campaign the previous month.
Nov. 8, 2016: Trump was elected president.
Dec. 1, 2016: Kushner and campaign adviser Michael Flynn
met with Kislyak at Trump Tower.
Dec. 13, 2016: Kushner met with Russian banker Sergey Gorkov, the CEO of a state-run Russian bank under U.S. sanction. Gorkov was
described to Kushner as "someone with a direct line to the Russian president who could give insight into how Putin was viewing the new administration and best ways to work together."
Dec. 29, 2016: In the waning days of his presidency, Barack Obama
responded to Russia’s interference in the election by expelling 35 Russian diplomats and issuing new sanctions.
Late December 2016: Following Obama’s move against Russia, Flynn
asked Kislyak to "refrain from escalating the situation." Kislyak later told Flynn that Russia "had chosen to moderate its response to those sanctions as a result of his request."
Dec. 30, 2016: Putin declined to retaliate against the Obama administration’s sanctions.