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Official Russian Election Interference Thread

DistrictDeacon said:
Totally disagree. People just need to learn that the blue check means nothing when it comes to credibility. It just means that the person is who they say there are.
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Well I totally disagree with you. Obviously our citizens are not smart enough to check credibility and maintain skepticism. Claude Taylor had a lot of people thinking this would be over in February.

Professional societies set the ethical stands for all sorts of professions. We have one for ornithology. Here's what they currently have: https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp and a brief reading indicates to me that it is out of date for the Twitter age. For example: "Provide context. Take special care not to misrepresent or oversimplify in promoting, previewing or summarizing a story." Doesn't often jive with 140 characters. So they should either not do journalism through twitter and figure out a way to be more ethical about it.
 
Longtime Trump bodyguard to face questions about 2013 Moscow trip

One of President Trump's most trusted confidants, a security chief who served as his sounding board for nearly two decades, will face questions from congressional investigators next week about Trump's 2013 trip to Moscow, according to people familiar with their plans.

The excursion is at the center of some of the most salacious allegations in a now-famous dossier, which contains unverified charges that Trump has vehemently disputed.

The House Intelligence Committee has called former longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller to appear for an interview Tuesday as part of its probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Investigators plan to press Schiller about allegations in the 35-page dossier that Russian officials obtained compromising information about Trump's personal behavior when he visited Moscow for the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, according to people familiar with the investigation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...be4ff0-c0a6-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html
 
Add another one to the list...


Trump Campaign Adviser Met With Russian Officials in 2016


WASHINGTON — Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump presidential campaign, met Russian government officials during a July 2016 trip he took to Moscow, according to testimony he gave on Thursday to the House Intelligence Committee.

Shortly after the trip, Mr. Page sent an email to at least one Trump campaign aide describing insights he had after conversations with government officials, legislators and business executives during his time in Moscow, according to one person familiar with the contents of the message. The email was read aloud during the closed-door testimony.

The new details of the trip present a different picture than the account Mr. Page has given during numerous appearances in the news media in recent months and are yet another example of a Trump adviser meeting with Russians officials during the 2016 campaign. In multiple interviews with The New York Times, he had either denied meeting with any Russian government officials during the July 2016 visit or sidestepped the question, saying he met with “mostly scholars.”

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/...an.html?referer=https://t.co/tAVcCQdx1d?amp=1
 
So for the record, here's the list of members of Trump's campaign who have now admitted to meeting with Russian government officials during the campaign.

Don Trump Jr.
Jared Kushner
Carter Page
Jeff Sessions
George Papadapolous
Paul Manafort
Roger Stone (admitted to communicating with Russian hacker Guccifer)
Mike Flynn (don't think he's admitted to meeting with anyone during the campaign but fired for lying about communications with Russia following Dec 2016 sanctions)

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what's going on here...
 
Paul Manafort is finally facing justice — and we Ukrainians couldn’t be happier


"It is the taxpayers of Ukraine who ended up paying the price for the services of Yanukovych’s champion political fixer. But Ukraine will never have full answers to the many remaining questions about Yanukovych’s network of corruption without information from Paul Manafort. While we understand the huge potential consequences of the current investigation for America’s own political system, we, too, would be grateful for the help of the FBI.

That Manafort is now being brought to account for his actions offers hope not just to Ukrainians, but to other transitional democracies around the world. America’s political mercenaries clearly feel little sense of responsibility for the ills they perpetuate in other parts of the world. Perhaps now that will start to change."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...justice-and-we-ukrainians-couldnt-be-happier/
 
Newenglanddeac said:
Paul Manafort is finally facing justice — and we Ukrainians couldn’t be happier


"It is the taxpayers of Ukraine who ended up paying the price for the services of Yanukovych’s champion political fixer. But Ukraine will never have full answers to the many remaining questions about Yanukovych’s network of corruption without information from Paul Manafort. While we understand the huge potential consequences of the current investigation for America’s own political system, we, too, would be grateful for the help of the FBI.

That Manafort is now being brought to account for his actions offers hope not just to Ukrainians, but to other transitional democracies around the world. America’s political mercenaries clearly feel little sense of responsibility for the ills they perpetuate in other parts of the world. Perhaps now that will start to change."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...justice-and-we-ukrainians-couldnt-be-happier/
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From last summer:

How The Trump Campaign Weakened The Republican Platform On Aid To Ukraine


http://www.npr.org/2016/08/06/48887...ned-the-republican-platform-on-aid-to-ukraine
 
From Jennifer Rubin.

 
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I'm going to go out on a limb and predict Trump resigns by by the end of 2018. This scandal is unsustainable.
 
Newenglanddeac said:
I'm going to go out on a limb and predict Trump resigns by by the end of 2018. This scandal is unsustainable.
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I doubt it. There isn't anyone to put pressure on him to resign, and he has no dignity. I also think you're underestimating how incredible of a job he is doing, in his head.
 
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The end of 2018 is a long time from now. If Republicans get destroyed in the midterms, there may be pressure for him to resign or a movement to impeach. I don't think any movement to impeach will happen as a result of the Mueller investigation.
 
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