Wired.com: Russian interference means Trump is a Russian agent but Bernie is not

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You have to see this.

It just cracks me up. Wired.com was all over Trump for being a Russian agent

2018

Did Russia Affect the 2016 Election? It’s Now Undeniable

In the indictment, Trump campaign officials are referred to as “unwitting” participants in Russian information warfare. This gives the White House an out—and a chance to finally act against what the Kremlin did. But the evidence presented in the indictment makes it increasingly hard to say Russian efforts to influence the American mind were a failure.

2019. The hysteria grows

Trump Must Be a Russian Agent; the Alternative Is Too Awful

What we haven’t seen in any of these instances (and many others) is the “why.” That’s where we’ll ultimately learn the truth about which scenario we face: an incredibly hapless and easily coopted president—or an active criminal conspirator. Why was Manafort funneling campaign polling data through Konstantin Kilimnik? Why does Mueller believe Kilimnik is tied to Russian intelligence? Why does the US believe the Russian president himself approved the attack?

Well, a month ago Bernie Sanders was briefed that Russia was trying to help his campaign

Wired.com: 2020 Russia? Did someone say Bernie?

Russia Doesn’t Want Bernie Sanders. It Wants Chaos

If there’s one line intelligence officials have stuck to about Russian interference in US elections, it’s that it never stopped. Not after the 2016 election, not after the 2018 midterms, and certainly not now, well into the 2020 primary season. Which is why it should be no great surprise that, as The Washington Post first reported Friday, US officials warned Bernie Sanders that Russia is “attempting to help” his presidential campaign. It also shouldn’t be read as any kind of endorsement.

This is really amusing. Wired.com has it this way- Russian interference meant Trump was a Russian agent, but when it came to Bernie, it was something other than Bernie being a Russian agent, despite the fact that Bernie Sanders’ philosophies are much more aligned with Russia’s than Trump’s ever were.

They actually finally got it right but only because their ox was being gored.

The Russian goal is and always was the same

“The strategic goal of this alleged conspiracy, which continues to this day, is to sow discord in the U.S. political system and to undermine faith in our democratic institutions,” said U.S. Attorney Zachary Terwilliger.

Russia does want chaos. That includes duping the feeble minded into believing the idiocy that Donald Trump is a Russian agent.

Russia was very successful at that.

Those who still believe it have their brains wired wrong.

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Mike will get it done—Trump will look the fool as he did today in his ridiculous news conference—I would have laughed uncontrollably if it wasn’t so serious—-lets see if he can prop the markets down 2500 points in 3 days.

@Richard Wheeler: What exactly will Mike get done?
Its like Hope and Change meaningless.
I didnt think the presser was especially well done, but it is certainly better than causing fear by saying They have no plan. There is a plan for nearly all major situations. As it was said dust them off follow the plan. Questions or lost your copy call the CDC.
Panic is no way to handle an emergency, tossing extra billions at germs, they cant be bribed. Trump will take the money.

@Richard Wheeler: Markets are down due to the coronavirus, spawned in a communist state, the risks and dangers covered up as long as they could (as totalitarian states do) until it began to spread around the world. Then, Democrat “leaders” stoke fear and panic in order to try and exploit the crisis for their personal political benefit (as those who support a totalitarian state would do). The only way Bloomberg could improve on that is that his party and the party’s media would not be spreading rumors to incite panic.

The same goes for their promises to end divisiveness if only they can win; this is possible because THEY are the divisive ones, THEY generate the divisiveness and, like in a totalitarian government, if THEY stopped being divisive, there would be no divisiveness.

Again, how easily you can overlook the misogyny and racism of Bloomberg’s actions shows how none of that ever mattered to you; just another weaponization of an issue by intolerant liberals.

Maybe your lawyer for the ducks will run again so you can really get behind someone.

@Deplorable Me: Political news from the state of Mississippi may prove there is reason to worry.

Eight political officials who were Democrats or independents have reportedly switched to Republicans. They have no stomach for Socialism taking over their party.

@kitt: The DNC isn’t worried about Bernie’s socialism; they’re only worried his socialism will cost THEM the election. That party is circling the drain. They no longer can offer viable policies to help the US citizen; all they can do is try to exploit a crisis or tragedy to collect support.

@Deplorable Me: I find it encouraging that people can see there is an option to just walk away from the insanity. All are welcome in the party, we must embrace them and assist their recovery.

@kitt: It shows how the DNC is fully controlled by the two coasts and don’t care one bit what anyone in between think. There’s also a lawsuit in Florida seeking to kick Bernie off the ballot there because he’s not a Democrat. One wonders why the DNC hasn’t played this card.

@Richard Wheeler: What exactly will Mike get done?

You know… “IT”. Like all that great hopey, changey stuff we got under Obama.

@Deplorable Me: Most Americans don’t support open borders, medicare for all and late-term abortion and may find it tough to vote for candidates who do. A few non-Bloomberg funded Dems have realistic gun law attitudes and took note what happened in Virginia, there is still talk about many counties joining West VA. Bidens 150 million people killed by guns…really 50 % of Americans… Joe? The DNC is owned and operated by Hillary cronies. They change rules as it suits them.

Having gotten away with it before, who actually believed they wouldn’t do it again?

August 8, 2020 – U.S. Intelligence Says Republicans Are Working With Russia to Reelect Trump

Two weeks ago, William Evanina, director of the United States National Counterintelligence and Security Center, published a somewhat vague warning about various forms of foreign interference in the upcoming election. On Friday, he followed up with a more direct and incriminating one, specifically warning that Russia is working to help reelect Donald Trump. Even more important is what this warning unmistakably implies: that Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are actively cooperating with Russia’s campaign.

Trump obviously tends to respond with rage at the suggestion that Russia wants him to win, let alone that he is accepting the assistance. So Evanina’s summary delicately surrounds the revelations about Trump and Moscow with superficially balancing material. The report highlights three countries that want to influence the election: Russia, China, and Iran. The report notes that the latter two want Trump to lose, while Russia wants him to win.

This seems intended to let Republicans claim that there is foreign interference on both sides. And it’s true, as far as it goes.

But the comparisons end there. What is China doing to defeat Trump? Its government has “grown increasingly critical of the current Administration’s COVID-19 response, closure of China’s Houston Consulate, and actions on other issues.” And Iran’s efforts “probably will focus on on-line influence, such as spreading disinformation on social media and recirculating anti-U.S. content.”

In others words, Iran and China are undermining Trump by criticizing him in public remarks, possibly including some mean tweets.

Russia’s efforts to help Trump include all that. In addition, the statement notes, “pro-Russia Ukrainian parliamentarian Andriy Derkach is spreading claims about corruption — including through publicizing leaked phone calls — to undermine former Vice President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party.”

Derkach and his Russian allies despise Biden, who spearheaded the administration’s efforts to reform Ukraine, rein in its oligarchs, and diminish Russian influence. They have attempted to depict Biden’s reform efforts as a corrupt plot to enrich his son Hunter.

Derkach has been working openly with Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. None of this is a secret. Here are the two of them meeting in Kiev in December:

Dec 5, 2019

Giuliani told the Washington Post earlier this summer that Derkach “doesn’t seem pro-Russian to me.” In case that ruse was fooling anybody, U.S. intelligence has now officially described Derkach as an organ of Russian political interference.

Meanwhile, Senate Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee are holding hearings in an attempt to substantiate this charge — or, more realistically, to insinuate it. They have produced no evidence to advance their charge. The Russians have given Republicans stolen tapes of secret conversations Biden held with Ukrainians during his tenure as vice-president, and pro-Trump media outlets have hyped up the material, but nothing they have is inconsistent with the narrative that mainstream news organizations found. Biden was working to clean up Ukraine.

Senate Republicans tried to be cagey about their activities. After pro-Russian Ukrainians said they’d passed materials on to Republican officials, a Johnson staffer told NBC News in July that it was “‘false’ the committee has received any ‘oppo,’ or opposition research, without responding directly to whether that covers any materials from foreign sources.”

The Washington Post reported that Homeland Security Committee chairman Ron Johnson received secret documents from Ukrainians. And former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas has confessed to putting Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee and perhaps Trump’s most energetic defender on all things Russia, in touch with one of the Ukrainians releasing documents in the United States.

There is hardly any secret to what they’re up to. Johnson says he plans to release his report on Biden in September. It hardly matters if the information Russia gives him actually substantiates his allegations, or even whether it is authentic. The obvious plan is to splash some headlines into news screens in the heat of the campaign that seem to connect Biden to some kind of wrongdoing.

In reality, it is not a scandal about Biden at all. It’s a scandal about Republican cooperation with a Russian propaganda campaign.

What makes Evanina’s statement on Friday so significant is that it makes clear that the passing of information, real or otherwise, from various Ukrainian figures to various Trump allies is part of a Russian-directed scheme to help Trump win. Republicans could tell Russia that Russian-controlled media are free to say anything they want, but Republicans aren’t going to launder their propaganda for them. Instead, they are doing everything in their power to exploit it.

Update: The unanswered question of why Evanina followed his first, vague statement with a second, more specific one has an answer. On Saturday morning, the New York Times Magazine published a long, devastating story by Robert Draper about Trump’s politicization of intelligence. Draper’s reporting forced Friday night’s release, which directly acknowledged Russia’s active preference to help Trump win.

Draper’s story also helps contextualize the essentially decorative mentions of China and Iran. Intelligence officials are terrified of enraging Trump by confirming that Russia wants him to win, even though the conclusion is obvious. If you want to understand why officials added references to China and Iran to create the illusion of balance — even though those two countries don’t seem to be taking any steps to help Biden, and Biden certainly isn’t cooperating with them — Draper’s narrative explains the intense pressure they’re facing.

Trump has methodically attacked and subverted every U.S. governmental component that could represent a threat of personal exposure, or get in his way. It doesn’t matter in the least that this includes the Department of Justice, the nation’s courts, the State Department, the U.S. Intelligence community, or the Inspector Generals who’s duty it is to keep all of these components functioning honestly, apolitically, and in the best interests of the people of the United States. He has even openly defied the law to neutralize the oversight powers of Congress, having been assured by his tool in the DoJ that he cannot be charged with any statutory violation.

Only the American people can put an end to this by voting him out of office in November, but be aware that even the election is in jeopardy. That process too is threatened by Trump and his enablers from multiple angles of attack. There have been propaganda attacks on the integrity of voting by mail—a process that’s been successful for years with no indications of significant fraud or abuse—when an out-of-control pandemic could render in person voting a serious national health hazard in November, and direct attacks on the U.S. Postal Service itself, including measures recently taken that are calculated to greatly slow mail delivery. That’s in addition to ongoing efforts on the part of multiple republican state legislatures to suppress the vote by shortening early voting hours, reducing the number of available polling places, imposing sometimes unreasonable ID restrictions, etc. As if that were not enough, Trump has publicly hinted at a possible need to delay the November election—which he has no constitutional power to do. He has also suggested that he might not accept the result of the election, should he have some question concerning its legitimacy—a very concerning statement, when he has already floated a variety of crack-brain conspiracy theories about the process.

@Greg: Did you ever stop to think greggie the rock that the Chinese and Russians think that Biden is so bad that at least Trump understands international issues?

Also, William Evanina, director of the United States National Counterintelligence and Security Center. Has worked for the CIA and the FBI during the Bremmer, Comey and Clapper days. What makes anyone think he is anything different that they are. Also , does it seem far out that no civilian organizations not associated with Soros and the DNC has not been able to confirm Evanina’s statements? You should be participating in those peaceful demonstrations in Portland greggie the rock. They are just down your alley!

@Randy:

Also, William Evanina, director of the United States National Counterintelligence and Security Center.

I suppose that will make him another target for removal by Donald Trump, like each of the public servants that you mentioned.

Regarding international issues, Donald Trump clearly doesn’t know his butt from a barn door. One need only honestly tally up all of the results to see how far we’ve slipped. All Trump understands is influence peddling, and how to use power to personal advantage. His most recent effort to have the British Open moved to his private golf resort would have been more than enough to bring down any past administration, but this King of All Swamp Creatures exists in the midst of so many serious, simultaneous scandals that the story is hardly even a blip on the media’s radar.

The man is a national menace, and a national embarrassment. His continuance in office is like a public proclamation of our own collective stupidity.

@Greg: The debunked never gets old with you brother.

@kitt: Remember, a rock like greggie can not think and can only repeat what resisters say no matter the validity. I wonder how many of President Bush’s staff did Obama keep?

@Greg: Um… you DIDN’T get away with making those false allegations. Why would you try it again?