• Senate Investigation Concludes Russia interfered to help Trump
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-russia-probe-senate-investigation-us-election-house-probe-a8354786.html "The committee said operation was ordered by Vladimir Putin"
I can smell the new sanctions already... and the rank odor of them not being enforced.
So what does this actually do for punishing the Bear and the Orange?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/russia-favored-trump-in-2016-senate-panel-says-breaking-with-house-gop/2018/05/16/6cf95a6a-58f6-11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html?tid=pm_pop Asked Wednesday about the discrepancy between the two panels’ conclusions, Rep. Devin P. Nunes (R-Calif.), the House Intelligence Committee’s chairman said, “That’s nice.” He declined to elaborate.  Listen here, you little fucking quisling, nobody's fooled by your shit except for cult members.
I want to say this means something but I've read "the first domino has fallen" like fifty times this past year that it's hard to stay optimistic.
Okay, so now what are we going to do about it?
It's what the President wants to do, see him firing his cybersecurity head without a replacement lined up AFTER warnings were issued that Russia was going to do it again in the 2018 midterms and practically no response has been implemented to defend against it. However, the Senate contradicting the House majority report is a big deal when it comes to Trump attempting to discredit the FBI and the DOJ. At this point only the President and the House Republicans believe that Russia didn't help Trump, while House Dems and the unified Senate is on the opposite team. They're refusing to play along with Trump's cover up. If the Senate is outright saying Russia meddled for Trump, this also is good news for protecting Mueller, although I'd feel more comfortable if they actually passed legislation to protect him instead of just feelgood words as they've mostly offered.
The Senate Intelligence Community, and Mueller, have not yet made a public determination of these facts. Leaks, however, have pointed to absofuckinglutely. The search warrant executed against Michael Cohen's everything is key because Cohen was at the epicenter of the Miss Universe 2013 pageant in Russia, the precise episode covered by the dossier's description of the events leading up to and after the peepee tape. It's why Trump allegedly complains about the Cohen raid "up to 20 times a day" according to aides. And it's likely that Cohen is going to flip before too long -- especially since Trump publicly indicated he was hanging Cohen out to dry and leaving him to fend for himself. And when the President's own problem-fixing """lawyer""" flips and turns states' evidence against his boss, that's the fuse that's going to blow the whole barn apart, if Trump doesn't go full Saturday Night Cheeseburger Massacre and fire Mueller or everyone in the DOJ chain of command who refuses to fire Mueller.
Not gonna say this is a bad idea, but the way things are going the one thing I fear is that even if Mueller is able to show that Trump was directly implicated, or his campaign violated enough rules and that his presidency should be more or less declared illegitimate, that it will either be tied up in court for who knows how long (mostly in regards to formal charges brought against his campaign staff and those involved). Or that congress will refuse to impeach him and just sit on their hands. I am hopeful, but not that optimistic that the mess created over the past two years will be able to be partially cleaned up and that America will be made great again (how ironic) in a few years time, but I wouldn't expect there to be much movement inside of a single year.
It's ultimately going to depend on whether the house switches to the democrats during the midterms. The house republicans have demonstrated that no amount of evidence will ever convince them to impeach. So even if Mueller releases his report and it indicates clear evidence of collusion/obstruction of justice, the house republicans will just call it fake news and move on. The senate republicans are less radical and may in fact fold to pressure if sufficient evidence is raised. Not to mention if the democrats win the house, they'll be able to do the same non-stop inquiries and investigations that the house republicans did to both Clintons.
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