The timeline of Trump's ties with Russia lines up with allegations of conspiracy and misconduct
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The timeline of claims made in an unsubstantiated dossier presented by top US intelligence officials to President Donald Trump and senior lawmakers last month has increased scrutiny of events that unfolded in the final months of the Trump campaign.
The dossier alleges serious misconduct and conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia's government. The White House has dismissed the dossier as fiction, and some of the facts and assertions it includes have indeed been proven wrong.
Other allegations in the dossier, however, are still being investigated. According to a recent CNN report, moreover, US intelligence officials have now corroborated some of the dossier's material. And this corroboration has reportedly led US intelligence officials to regard other information in the dossier as more credible.
Importantly, the timeline of known events fits with some of the more serious alleged Trump-Russia misconduct described in the dossier. And questions about these events have not been fully answered, including the sudden distancing of Trump associates from the campaign and administration as the events and Russia ties became public.
[B]The dossier's allegations of Trump-Russia ties and conspiracy
[/B]The dossier was compiled by veteran British spy Christopher Steele, who was hired to investigate Trump's ties to Russia by the Washington, DC-based opposition research firm Fusion GPS. Steele developed a network of sources while working on the Moscow desk of UK intelligence agency MI6.
Steele, citing these sources heavily, wrote a series of memos detailing alleged coordination between the Kremlin and Trump's campaign team. Fusion then compiled the information into a 35-page dossier that has been circulated among lawmakers, journalists, and the US intelligence community since last year. The dossier was published in January by BuzzFeed.
Fusion was initially hired by anti-Trump Republicans to conduct opposition research on Trump in late 2015, and Democrats took over funding for the project after the Republicans pulled out. Fusion's cofounder, Glenn Simpson, a former investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, continued the project with Steele even after Democrats pulled funding when Trump won the election.
Trump and his inner circle have condemned the dossier as "fake and fictitious."
But US investigators, who have opened investigations into several members of Trump's inner circle and their ties to Russia over the past year, say they have been able to corroborate some of the details in the dossier by intercepting some of the conversations between some senior Russian officials and other Russians, CNN reported on Friday.
That has given the investigators "greater confidence" in the credibility of the some aspects of the memos, CNN's sources said.
Events that unfolded in the final months of the election — especially as they related to key players linked to and within Trump's inner circle — are illuminated by some of the allegations contained in the dossier. Four of these players and their role in these events warrant closer examination.
[B]Paul Manafort: A language change on Ukraine, and a resignation
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An American consultant named Paul Manafort, who was mentioned throughout Steele's dossier, served as Donald Trump's campaign manager until August 2016. He is said to have close ties to Ukraine and Russia.
[B]What the dossier says[/B]
The dossier alleges that the Trump campaign made a secret deal with Russia in which Trump "agreed to sideline" the issue of Russian intervention in Ukraine. In return, the document claims, Russia promised to feed the emails it stole from prominent Democrats' inboxes to WikiLeaks to damage Hillary Clinton's candidacy.
The "well-developed conspiracy of cooperation between [the Trump campaign] and the Russian leadership was managed on the Trump side by the Republican candidate's campaign manager, Paul Manafort," the dossier says.
Manafort had advised Russia-friendly Ukraine leader Viktor Yanukovych, who he helped win the Ukrainian presidency in 2010. The dossier alleges that Manafort was still receiving "kickback payments" from the former Ukrainian leader last year, a charge Manafort has denied.
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I [B]highly[/B] suggest reading the entire article.
That's only the smallest part. How do you think, why all the Socialist parties won the elections in Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova? I can say that Republican Party from USA acts the same as a Socialist Party. But it's only the name that is reflected, but in fact, they carry a totally different dogma.
I honestly can't wait for more info about this ongoing story. It has the potential to be gigantic.
[QUOTE=Llamaguy;51812607]I honestly can't wait for more info about this ongoing story. It has the potential to be gigantic.[/QUOTE]
Would you say that this story could be huge by any chance?
but seriously, I still find it bizarre that trump became the american president
[QUOTE=Valiantttt;51812609]Would you say that this story could be huge by any chance?
but seriously, I still find it bizarre that trump became the american president[/QUOTE]
Bigly.
Well, when you combine angry and confused people who get their news from FOX and a demagogue who has no wishes to fulfill the promises he makes, with a lackluster Democratic candidate who had the primaries rigged for her, you get Trump.
[QUOTE=Llamaguy;51812615]a demagogue who has no wishes to fulfill the promises he makes[/QUOTE]
What do you mean? There are news articles going "Trump is actually doing what he promised". He is trying to repeal Obamacare, he left the TPP, he's pushing for his silly wall, he tried to ban immigrants from several muslim countries.
Whether those are good or bad is a different discussion but he is trying to fulfill his promises.
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looks like a god-damn lizard embellishing in the shadows...
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looks like a god-damn lizard embellishing in the shadows...[/QUOTE]
Hey, don't say that. Lizards are cute and adorable, not old and disgusting :<
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Look at dose cute leetle eyes
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