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Raw Story - Trump praises Putin's 'genius' plan to invade Ukraine: 'You gotta say that’s pretty savvy'





You'd expect nothing less out of Putin's man and ideological twin.







NY Times - Donald Trump Says NATO is 'Obsolete' [and is fine if the alliance breaks up],' UN is 'Political Game' (2016)
Donald J. Trump on Saturday went further than ever before in his criticism of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, telling a crowd here that he would be fine if NATO broke up.

Mr. Trump had previously questioned the need for the organization, and on Saturday he reiterated his criticism that other NATO countries were “not paying their fair share” in comparison with the United States.

“That means we are protecting them, giving them military protection and other things, and they’re ripping off the United States. And you know what we do? Nothing,” Mr. Trump said at a subdued rally here on the outskirts of Milwaukee. “Either they have to pay up for past deficiencies or they have to get out.”

“And if it breaks up NATO, it breaks up NATO,” he concluded.
The Washington Post - Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine (2016)
Republican delegates at last week’s national security committee platform meeting in Cleveland were surprised when the Trump campaign orchestrated a set of events to make sure that the GOP would not pledge to give Ukraine the weapons it has been asking for from the United States.
NY Times - Trump Bars U.S. Press, but Not Russia’s, at Meeting With Russian Officials (Published 2017)

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Russia’s official news agency photographed President Trump’s meeting with Sergey V. Lavrov in the Oval Office on Wednesday. The American press was denied access.

Trump publicly sides [against U.S. Intelligence Agencies] with Putin on election interference [at Helsinki conference] (2018)

Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017 | CNN Politics (2019)
Washington CNN — In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.

A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.

The decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The intelligence, concerning ISIS in Syria, had been provided by Israel.

Wikipedia - First impeachment of Donald Trump (2019)


Just Security - United States v. Donald Trump
A "Model Prosecution Memo" on the Conspiracy to Pressure Vice President Pence

CNN - Supreme Court officially ends Trump's recent legal fight to block document turnover to January 6 probe

Raw Story - [U.S. Army Lt. Col.] Alex Vindman explains how Trump's coup attempt encouraged Putin's Ukraine invasion

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Tick tock Oath Breakers. Tick tock Roger Stone. And if there's any justice in the world, tick tock for Donny Demento.

Trump adviser Peter Navarro skips scheduled deposition with January 6 committee - CNNPolitics

NBC News - Accused Oath Keeper to plead guilty in Capitol riot case
Joshua James, 34, of Arab, Alabama, was charged with seditious conspiracy along with 10 others said to be members of the far-right Oath Keepers.



ABC News - Justice Department unseals charges against 2nd Oath Keeper seen with Roger Stone (2021)
ABC News - Authorities arrest Oath Keeper seen with Trump adviser Roger Stone on morning of insurrection (2021)


Trump and right-wing lawyer were part of 'criminal conspiracy' to overturn 2020 election, January 6 committee alleges | CNN Politics
Former President Donald Trump and a right-wing lawyer were part of a "criminal conspiracy" to overturn the 2020 presidential election, the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot alleges in a court filing Wednesday.

The filing is part of an attempt to convince a judge to allow the panel access to emails from lawyer John Eastman, who is claiming attorney-client privilege. The committee says he helped orchestrate the plot.

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Business Insider - Trump calls on supporters to 'lay down their very lives' to defend US against Critical Race Theory

RepubliQans are going around in the states (with big state players like FL governor Ron DeSantis and TX governor Gregg Abbott who have their eye on the presidency) eliminating black history, gay history, banning books, banning the transgendered, and passing laws restricting voting rights and women's reproductive rights all under their false idea about a rare college course. The ideal they believe in is straight cisgender white male supremacy - not just in politics but the entertainment industry as well - that's why you have seen them oppose female, gay, trans, and/or non-white leads in movies and TV shows.

Vanity Fair - Trump “Admired” Putin’s Ability to Kill Whomever He Wanted: Ex-Staffer

Political Wire - Trump Never Picked Winner In Donor Contest

Another grift like Melania's contest.

The U.S. Considered Declaring Russia a State Sponsor of Terror, Then Dropped It — ProPublica (May 2018)
After an attack on a former spy, the State Department pondered placing that label on Putin’s government. Instead, the Trump administration continued a longtime U.S. policy of treating Russia as a partner in fighting terrorism even as evidence of its misbehavior mounts.

Buzzfeed News - How Russia’s Top Propagandist Foretold Putin's Justification For The Ukraine Invasion Through This Dramatic Film
“Putin’s chef” Yevgeny Prigozhin’s network of state media sites used commissioned Cameo videos from Donald Trump Jr. and Rudy Giuliani to publicize another film that reimagines Russia’s role in the 2016 election.

Trump's resistance led intel agencies to brief him less and less on Russia - CNNPolitics (July 2020)

Newsweek - Trump Says 'Lot of Love' Behind Putin Wanting to 'Make His Country Larger'









NY Times - Democratic Group Says Trump Is Breaking Campaign Law by Not Declaring for 2024
The complaint to the Federal Election Commission accuses Donald Trump of improperly using his existing political committees to advance a presidential run.

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The Guardian - Trump White House aide was secret author of report used to push ‘big lie’
Report on Dominion voting machines produced after 2020 election was not the work of volunteer in Trump’s post-election legal team
The publicly available version of the Dominion report, which first surfaced in early December 2020 on the conservative outlet the Gateway Pundit, names on the cover and in metadata as its author Katherine Friess, a volunteer on the Trump post-election legal team.

But the Dominion report was in fact produced by the senior Trump White House policy aide Joanna Miller, according to the original version of the document reviewed by the Guardian and a source familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The original version of the Dominion report named Miller - who worked for the senior Trump adviser Peter Navarro – as the author on the cover page, until her name was abruptly replaced with that of Friess before the document was to be released publicly, the source said.

The involvement of a number of other Trump White House aides who worked in Navarro’s office was also scrubbed around that time, the source said. Friess has told the Daily Beast that she had nothing to do with the report and did not know how her name came to be on the document.
Ziegler has also said on a rightwing podcast that he and others in Navarro’s office – seemingly referring to Trump White House aides Christopher Abbott and Hannah Robertson – started working on Navarro’s report about two weeks before the 2020 election took place.

“Two weeks before the election, we were doing those reports hoping that we would pepper the swing states with those,” Ziegler said of the three-part Navarro report in an appearance last July on The Professor’s Record with David K Clements.
The Independent - Trump cuts ties with Pence and rules him out as 2024 running mate

Trump appeals to those who want to 'hang Mike Pence' for not stealing an election for him.



CNBC - North Carolina investigating Trump [Chief of Staff] Mark Meadows over voter fraud allegations
  • * North Carolina authorities have opened an investigation into possible voter fraud by Mark Meadows when he was serving as White House chief of staff to then-President Donald Trump.
  • * Meadows claimed in 2020 that his legal residence was a mobile home, which The New Yorker magazine says he never owned or apparently ever stayed at.
  • * “The allegations in this case involve potential crimes committed by a government official,” wrote Macon County DA Ashley Hornsby Welch in a letter to the state attorney general’s office.
  • * Trump, who lost his bid for re-election to President Joe Biden, has falsely claimed since that he was swindled out of a second term in the White House by widespread ballot fraud in several swing states.


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This guy did everything for Trump including his stupid January 6 rally/attack and Trump repaid him recently by rescinding his endorsement.

In other news...snake on and off a plane:

TIME - How [2016 Trump campaign manager] Paul Manafort Helped Elect Russia's Man in Ukraine (2017)



Dubai welcomes Russian oligarchs as world turns its back
Finance center caters to global pariahs even after sanctions

NY Times - Trump Is Guilty of ‘Numerous’ Felonies, Prosecutor Who Resigned Says
Mark F. Pomerantz, who had investigated the former president, left after the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, halted an effort to seek an indictment.

Salon - New research on Trump voters: They're not the sharpest tools in the box
Now there's proof: Trump's voters lack "cognitive sophistication," often believe Bible is literal word of God

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Associated Press - Witness: [Michigan Democratic Governor] Whitmer kidnapping aimed at stopping Biden win
A man who pleaded guilty to planning a kidnapping of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told jurors Wednesday that he and his allies wanted to attack before the 2020 election to prevent Joe Biden from winning the presidency.
January 6 committee has text messages between [SC Justice Clarence Thomas's wife] Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows - CNNPolitics

Salon - MAGA purge: Jan. 6 organizer [Ali Alexander] labels former ally Rep. Mo Brooks as "LOSER" and "piece of crap"

The Daily Beast - Ginni Thomas’ Election Fraud Guru Claims He Arrested Pope
Ginni Thomas name-checked Steve Pieczenik, a little-known conspiracy theorist, in texts to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about overturning the 2020 election.





Politico - Trump likely committed felony obstruction, federal judge rules
A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump “more likely than not” attempted to illegally obstruct Congress.



Associated Press - Jan. 6 panel missing roughly 8 hours of Trump's phone calls
The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has identified a roughly eight-hour gap in official records of then-President Donald Trump’s phone calls as the violence unfolded and his supporters stormed the building, according to a person familiar with the probe.


The Independent - Ex-Trump adviser [John Bolton] claims Trump knew about ‘burner phones’ despite denial
Amb John Bolton says Mr Trump’s claim to not know the slang term for a disposable, untraceable mobile phone is false

Vanity Fair - Trump’s Missing Phone Logs Mean We Don’t Even Know Half the Illegal Shit He Did on 1/6

Talking Points Memo - Trump Was 100% Making Phone Calls During The Jan. 6 Attack: Here’s The List


NY Times - New Focus on How a Trump Tweet Incited Far-Right Groups Ahead of Jan. 6
Federal prosecutors and congressional investigators are documenting how the former president’s “Be there, will be wild!” post became a catalyst for militants before the Capitol assault.



Trump is still colluding with Putin's Russia and asking for help and Russia already has answered him through the use of Fox News, which Putin's mouthpiece Lavrov has recently praised and Russian state media has been directed to feature Fox personalities as much as possible for their support of Russia and Russia's war.

The Guardian - ‘Smartest one gets to the top’: Trump again praises Putin at Georgia rally

Politico - Trump calls on Putin to release dirt on Hunter Biden

It’s the latest example of the former president soliciting foreign governments to intervene to damage his domestic political rivals.

CNN - Donald Trump just can't stop praising Vladimir Putin - CNNPolitics

The Guardian - Why do Putin, Trump, Tucker Carlson and the Republican party sound so alike? | Robert Reich
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Russian TV is owned and operated by their government. Everyone is a government employee if not also a clandestine Russian intelligence agent. Popov is also a member of their Potemkin Parliament called the Duma.

Mediate - Russian TV Host [Evgeny Popov] Calls For ‘Regime Change’ in US – and ‘Our Partner’ Trump to Be Put in Power

The Moscow Times - Biggest Names Among Russia’s Election Winners (2021)
A first female mayor, a TV host [Popov] and Chechnya’s strongman

The Daily Beast - ‘Unfair!’: Kremlin Journo [Evgeny Popov] Barred From Biden Presser Implodes (2021)

Politico - Putin: I wanted Trump to win the election (2018)

ABC News - NY attorney general wants subpoena enforced against Trump, eldest children in civil investigation
The Trumps have asked for the subpoenas to be quashed.

The Wrap - Trump’s Truth Social App Plummets in Traffic, Sees 93% Drop in Signups Since Launch Week (Exclusive)

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Associated Press - House panel's possible options for alleging Trump 1/6 crimes
  • * CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES
  • * OBSTRUCTION OF AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING
  • * COMMON LAW FRAUD
  • * DERELICTION OF DUTY
  • * FINANCIAL CRIMES

NY Times - Justice Dept. Investigation of Jan. 6 Confronts Sprawling Cast of Characters
The wide net being cast by prosecutors as they move beyond charging rioters could encompass scores of potential witnesses from inside and outside of government.

Mediaite - Whopping 71 Percent of Americans Say Officials Supporting Trump’s Election Lies Are Committing a ‘Crime’
A stunning 71 percent of Americans say officials who support former President Donald Trump’s election lies are guilty of a “crime,” and similar majorities want the Justice Department to take action.

NY Times - Justice Dept. Investigation of Jan. 6 Confronts Sprawling Cast of Characters
The wide net being cast by prosecutors as they move beyond charging rioters could encompass scores of potential witnesses from inside and outside of government.

The Washington Post - False election claims dominate party for Trump, allies at Mar-a-Lago

The Guardian - House votes to hold Trump duo Navarro and Scavino in contempt of Congress
The approval of the contempt resolution, by a vote of 220 to 203, sets the two Trump aides on the path toward criminal prosecution by the justice department as the panel escalates its inquiry into whether Trump oversaw a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.

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NPR - Justice Department is investigating Trump's possible mishandling of government secrets

SFGate - 'Disaster': Even more bad news for Devin Nunes, Truth Social









The Atlantic - THE ELECTION THAT COULD BREAK AMERICA (September 2020)
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?
Trump may test this. According to sources in the Republican Party at the state and national levels, the Trump campaign is discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority. With a justification based on claims of rampant fraud, Trump would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote and exercise their power to choose a slate of electors directly. The longer Trump succeeds in keeping the vote count in doubt, the more pressure legislators will feel to act before the safe-harbor deadline expires.
NBC News - Leading Proud Boys member pleads guilty to Capitol riot charges
Charles Donohoe, the leader of the group’s North Carolina chapter on Jan. 6, 2021, agreed to cooperate with prosecutors as they prepare for trial against other Proud Boys defendants.

NPR - Proud Boy leader pleads guilty to Jan. 6 conspiracy, agrees to cooperate with DOJ

NY Times - Jan. 6 Panel Has Evidence for Criminal Referral of Trump, but Splits on Sending
Despite concluding that it has enough evidence, the committee is concerned that making a referral to the Justice Department would backfire by politicizing the investigation into the Capitol riot.

The Guardian (U.K.) - Liz Cheney [R] disputes report January 6 panel split over Trump criminal referral

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