Christmas in Washington DC

THE DEUCE said:

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-committee-kremlin-used-the-nra-to-help-trump

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The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is reportedly investigating whether the NRA accepted illegal contributions from Russians in the 2016 campaign. The NRA and its lobbying arm spent $30 million in support Trump's campaign.

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Inspector General Michael Horowitz notified lawmakers in a Wednesday letter that the draft report was complete and being made available to the agencies and individuals examined in the probe.


The report is expected to blast former FBI director James Comey for various steps he took in the investigation, particularly his announcing in July – without telling his Justice Department bosses what he was about to say – that the FBI was recommending that Clinton not be charged, and for revealing to Congress just weeks before the presidential election that the bureau had resumed its work.

It also will likely take aim at others at the FBI and Justice Department, and provide President Donald Trump, a frequent a vocal critic of the department and Comey in particular, political ammunition to press his case that law enforcement has been out to get him. Trump last month blasted former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe after the inspector general released a separate report accusing the ex-No. 2 official of inappropriately authorizing a media disclosure, then lying several times to investigators about it.

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palmab03 said:

Who cares? Clinton raised $1.2 billion in the campaign. Trump raised $600 million. If some Russian gave the NRA 1 or 2 million, does it matter?

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidential-campaign-fundraising/

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Under John Brennan, the CIA operated as an opposition research outfit for the Hillary Clinton campaign. It appears from leaked news stories in the British press that Brennan’s oafish spying on Trump began around April 2016, right after Trump’s biggest primary victories. As it became urgently clear to Brennan that Trump was going to face off against Hillary, Brennan turned to “intelligence partners” in Europe for dirt on Trump. But they didn’t have any, save some pretty skimpy material on “contacts” between Trump campaign officials and Russians.

Whatever Brennan collected was so insubstantial that Robert Mueller hasn’t even interviewed him about it. Consider that for a second: Mueller was supposedly appointed to complete the counterintelligence probe into Trumpworld, and he hasn’t felt the need to talk to the father of it. Brennan has tried to explain this astonishing discrepancy away by vaguely saying that whatever Mueller needs he could find in “CIA files.”

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During these months, he was “personally briefing” Obama on “Russian interference” — Brennan’s euphemism for spying on the Trump campaign — and was practically camped out at the White House. So in all likelihood Obama knew about and had given his blessing to Brennan’s dirt-digging.

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