Trump-Russia: FBI probed whether Trump was working for Moscow - NYT

[JacksinPA]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46849343

The White House has condemned a New York Times report that the FBI opened an inquiry into whether President Trump was secretly working for Russia.

Law enforcement officials became concerned by Mr Trump's behaviour in May 2017, when he sacked FBI director James Comey, the paper says.
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The FBI is concetned that Trump is a threat to national security.

A string of incidents led upo the FBI action:

1. His calling for Russia's help in finding Clinton's lost emails during the campaign.

2. His campaign aides like Papadopoulous, Manafort, Page & Flynn having close contacts with the Russians.

3. After the election, his firing James Comey.

4. His poor performance after the closed-door summit meeting with Putin in Helsinki.

5. His continuing erratic behavior.

6. The sudden & unexplained lifting of sanctions on Oleg Deripaska, a close ally to Putin..

7. Kushner trying to set up secret back channel communications links with the Kremlin via the Russian embassy.

8. His closing the Government as a distraction in front of the Mueller report.

9. The not-so-secret Trump Tower meeting that he lied about.

It's like Trump is & his people are working for the Russians & are a Russian intelligence asset while running the United States. This calls for either his resignation or the opening of an inquiry into his impeachment.

 

[Barnacle]

From the original NYT article:

"... No evidence has emerged publicly that Mr. Trump was secretly in contact with or took direction from Russian government officials. An F.B.I. spokeswoman and a spokesman for the special counsel’s office both declined to comment. ..."

Having had a **** storm of leaks from the FBI via the NYT and CNN in the last 2 years, it would stand to reason that had the FBI found something, it would have been leaked by now.


Take a chill pill.

 

[JacksinPA]

From the original NYT article:

"... No evidence has emerged publicly that Mr. Trump was secretly in contact with or took direction from Russian government officials. An F.B.I. spokeswoman and a spokesman for the special counsel’s office both declined to comment. ..."

Having had a **** storm of leaks from the FBI via the NYT and CNN in the last 2 years, it would stand to reason that had the FBI found something, it would have been leaked by now.


Take a chill pill.

As far as leaks go, you must not have been watching TV over the past year or more.

 

[Conservative]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46849343

The White House has condemned a New York Times report that the FBI opened an inquiry into whether President Trump was secretly working for Russia.

Law enforcement officials became concerned by Mr Trump's behaviour in May 2017, when he sacked FBI director James Comey, the paper says.
=====================================================
The FBI is concetned that Trump is a threat to national security.

A string of incidents led upo the FBI action:

1. His calling for Russia's help in finding Clinton's lost emails during the campaign.

2. His campaign aides like Papadopoulous, Manafort, Page & Flynn having close contacts with the Russians.

3. After the election, his firing James Comey.

4. His poor performance after the closed-door summit meeting with Putin in Helsinki.

5. His continuing erratic behavior.

6. The sudden & unexplained lifting of sanctions on Oleg Deripaska, a close ally to Putin..

7. Kushner trying to set up secret back channel communications links with the Kremlin via the Russian embassy.

8. His closing the Government as a distraction in front of the Mueller report.

9. The not-so-secret Trump Tower meeting that he lied about.

It's like Trump is & his people are working for the Russians & are a Russian intelligence asset while running the United States. This calls for either his resignation or the opening of an inquiry into his impeachment.

You people are truly radicals bent on destroying this country anyway you can, 24/7 Trump bashing with biased, partisan anti Trump articles. A true description of most of the radicals in this forum

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/democrats_a_plague_on_the_nation.html

 

[JANFU]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46849343

The White House has condemned a New York Times report that the FBI opened an inquiry into whether President Trump was secretly working for Russia.

Law enforcement officials became concerned by Mr Trump's behaviour in May 2017, when he sacked FBI director James Comey, the paper says.
=====================================================
The FBI is concetned that Trump is a threat to national security.

A string of incidents led upo the FBI action:

1. His calling for Russia's help in finding Clinton's lost emails during the campaign.

2. His campaign aides like Papadopoulous, Manafort, Page & Flynn having close contacts with the Russians.

3. After the election, his firing James Comey.

4. His poor performance after the closed-door summit meeting with Putin in Helsinki.

5. His continuing erratic behavior.

6. The sudden & unexplained lifting of sanctions on Oleg Deripaska, a close ally to Putin..

7. Kushner trying to set up secret back channel communications links with the Kremlin via the Russian embassy.

8. His closing the Government as a distraction in front of the Mueller report.

9. The not-so-secret Trump Tower meeting that he lied about.

It's like Trump is & his people are working for the Russians & are a Russian intelligence asset while running the United States. This calls for either his resignation or the opening of an inquiry into his impeachment.

2 thread on this. Why do you do that?

https://www.debatepolitics.com/brea...her-trump-secretly-working-behalf-russia.html

https://www.debatepolitics.com/brea...her-trump-secretly-working-behalf-russia.html

 

[jimbo]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46849343

The White House has condemned a New York Times report that the FBI opened an inquiry into whether President Trump was secretly working for Russia.

Law enforcement officials became concerned by Mr Trump's behaviour in May 2017, when he sacked FBI director James Comey, the paper says.
=====================================================
The FBI is concetned that Trump is a threat to national security.

A string of incidents led upo the FBI action:

1. His calling for Russia's help in finding Clinton's lost emails during the campaign.

2. His campaign aides like Papadopoulous, Manafort, Page & Flynn having close contacts with the Russians.

3. After the election, his firing James Comey.

4. His poor performance after the closed-door summit meeting with Putin in Helsinki.

5. His continuing erratic behavior.

6. The sudden & unexplained lifting of sanctions on Oleg Deripaska, a close ally to Putin..

7. Kushner trying to set up secret back channel communications links with the Kremlin via the Russian embassy.

8. His closing the Government as a distraction in front of the Mueller report.

9. The not-so-secret Trump Tower meeting that he lied about.

It's like Trump is & his people are working for the Russians & are a Russian intelligence asset while running the United States. This calls for either his resignation or the opening of an inquiry into his impeachment.

President Trump is or was secretly working for Moscow? You've got to be kidding. I thought yesterday's story was Moscow was secretly working for candidate Trump.

 

[Fletch]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46849343

The White House has condemned a New York Times report that the FBI opened an inquiry into whether President Trump was secretly working for Russia.

Law enforcement officials became concerned by Mr Trump's behaviour in May 2017, when he sacked FBI director James Comey, the paper says.
=====================================================
The FBI is concetned that Trump is a threat to national security.

A string of incidents led upo the FBI action:

1. His calling for Russia's help in finding Clinton's lost emails during the campaign.

2. His campaign aides like Papadopoulous, Manafort, Page & Flynn having close contacts with the Russians.

3. After the election, his firing James Comey.

4. His poor performance after the closed-door summit meeting with Putin in Helsinki.

5. His continuing erratic behavior.

6. The sudden & unexplained lifting of sanctions on Oleg Deripaska, a close ally to Putin..

7. Kushner trying to set up secret back channel communications links with the Kremlin via the Russian embassy.

8. His closing the Government as a distraction in front of the Mueller report.

9. The not-so-secret Trump Tower meeting that he lied about.

It's like Trump is & his people are working for the Russians & are a Russian intelligence asset while running the United States. This calls for either his resignation or the opening of an inquiry into his impeachment.

Thats an incredibly weak 'string of events' some of which happened AFTER the FBI supposedly launched this probe.

 

[JacksinPA]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46849343

The White House has condemned a New York Times report that the FBI opened an inquiry into whether President Trump was secretly working for Russia.

Law enforcement officials became concerned by Mr Trump's behaviour in May 2017, when he sacked FBI director James Comey, the paper says.
=====================================================
The FBI is concetned that Trump is a threat to national security.

A string of incidents led upo the FBI action:

1. His calling for Russia's help in finding Clinton's lost emails during the campaign.

2. His campaign aides like Papadopoulous, Manafort, Page & Flynn having close contacts with the Russians.

3. After the election, his firing James Comey.

4. His poor performance after the closed-door summit meeting with Putin in Helsinki.

5. His continuing erratic behavior.

6. The sudden & unexplained lifting of sanctions on Oleg Deripaska, a close ally to Putin..

7. Kushner trying to set up secret back channel communications links with the Kremlin via the Russian embassy.

8. His closing the Government as a distraction in front of the Mueller report.

9. The not-so-secret Trump Tower meeting that he lied about.

It's like Trump is & his people are working for the Russians & are a Russian intelligence asset while running the United States. This calls for either his resignation or the opening of an inquiry into his impeachment.

10. Despite having proclaimed publicly on several occasions that he had no business involvement in Russia, Trump was heavily involved with his Trump Tower Moscow project even during the campaign. The one stumbling block was the arranging of financing through the sanctioned Russian bank VTB. Trump stood to make hundreds of millions of $$$ through this deal if it went trough but the lifting of sanctions now became a priority for Trump.

11. The day after firing Comey he had invited the Russians Labrov (Foreign Minister) & Kisliak (Ambassador/spymaster) to meet in the Oval Office. He told them that the firing of Comey had lifted the burden of the ongoing Russia investigation off of him. The U.S. & foreign press were excluded from this meeting, which was very cordial. The Russian photographer was a Russian secret agent who had with him a bag of unknown electronic gadgets.

12. In an interview with Lester Holt a few days later, he was quite open in saying that he had fired Comey over the investigation into Russian collusion.

We should all feel threatened to have an apparent Russian intelligence asset running this country like the autocrat he is. Putin must be laughing his donkey off.

 

[JacksinPA]

JANFU posted:

2 thread on this. Why do you do that?

https://www.debatepolitics.com/break...lf-russia.html (F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia)

https://www.debatepolitics.com/break...lf-russia.html (F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia)
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[JANFU]

JANFU posted:

2 thread on this. Why do you do that?

https://www.debatepolitics.com/break...lf-russia.html (F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia)

https://www.debatepolitics.com/break...lf-russia.html (F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia)
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If my personal perspective on these questions creates a personal problem for you, let the Mods work it out. All inputs should be welcome openly in a debate on such a major question. IMO.

You derail threads by clogging up BN dropping them back a page or 2, why not participate in them.

 

[Saladin4]

From the original NYT article:

"... No evidence has emerged publicly that Mr. Trump was secretly in contact with or took direction from Russian government officials. An F.B.I. spokeswoman and a spokesman for the special counsel’s office both declined to comment. ..."

Having had a **** storm of leaks from the FBI via the NYT and CNN in the last 2 years, it would stand to reason that had the FBI found something, it would have been leaked by now.


Take a chill pill.

As an American I'm going to trust the FBI..Not .Partisan trump supporters who are in denial

 

[Saladin4]

10. Despite having proclaimed publicly on several occasions that he had no business involvement in Russia, Trump was heavily involved with his Trump Tower Moscow project even during the campaign. The one stumbling block was the arranging of financing through the sanctioned Russian bank VTB. Trump stood to make hundreds of millions of $$$ through this deal if it went trough but the lifting of sanctions now became a priority for Trump.

11. The day after firing Comey he had invited the Russians Labrov (Foreign Minister) & Kisliak (Ambassador/spymaster) to meet in the Oval Office. He told them that the firing of Comey had lifted the burden of the ongoing Russia investigation off of him. The U.S. & foreign press were excluded from this meeting, which was very cordial. The Russian photographer was a Russian secret agent who had with him a bag of unknown electronic gadgets.

12. In an interview with Lester Holt a few days later, he was quite open in saying that he had fired Comey over the investigation into Russian collusion.

We should all feel threatened to have an apparent Russian intelligence asset running this country like the autocrat he is. Putin must be laughing his donkey off.

Putin is laughing and plotting......trump is a useful idiot, an asset to be protected until the inevitable fall

 

[iguanaman]

From the original NYT article:

"... No evidence has emerged publicly that Mr. Trump was secretly in contact with or took direction from Russian government officials. An F.B.I. spokeswoman and a spokesman for the special counsel’s office both declined to comment. ..."

Having had a **** storm of leaks from the FBI via the NYT and CNN in the last 2 years, it would stand to reason that had the FBI found something, it would have been leaked by now.


Take a chill pill.

Trump's sedition is all in plain sight. We don't need leaks. We need him out of office.

 

[haymarket]

Trump's sedition is all in plain sight. We don't need leaks. We need him out of office.

There are many other nations where somebody in Trumps situation would have been frog marched out of the office last night to protect the nation, its security and its people.

Here you cannot even get an elected Republican to say much about it.

 

[Barnacle]

Trump's sedition is all in plain sight. We don't need leaks. We need him out of office.

 

[iguanaman]

There are many other nations where somebody in Trumps situation would have been frog marched out of the office last night to protect the nation, its security and its people.

Here you cannot even get an elected Republican to say much about it.

Yes they are complicit in this treason and will pay dearly for it.

 

[haymarket]

Yes they are complicit in this treason and will pay dearly for it.

Yes they will.

President Reagan told Gorbachev to "tear down this wall".
President Trump tells Putin to "bend me over this wall".

 

[JacksinPA]

Trump's sedition is all in plain sight. We don't need leaks. We need him out of office.

During that Oval Office meeting he gave classified intelligence documents to our adversary. Trump is both a spy & a traitor.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.25a3a08798e0

Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador

Putin is Trump's paymaster. He is working for the Russians. Our President is on the Kremlin payroll.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/trump-russia-classified-information-isis.html

Trump Revealed Highly Classified Intelligence to Russia, in Break With Ally, Officials Say

WASHINGTON — President Trump boasted about highly classified intelligence in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador last week, providing details that could expose the source of the information and the manner in which it was collected, a current and a former American government official said Monday.

The intelligence disclosed by Mr. Trump in a meeting with Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, and Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, was about an Islamic State plot, according to the officials. A Middle Eastern ally that closely guards its own secrets provided the information, which was considered so sensitive that American officials did not share it widely within the United States government or pass it on to other allies.

A spy & a traitor.

 

[apdst]

Putin is laughing and plotting......trump is a useful idiot, an asset to be protected until the inevitable fall

The Liberals are the useful idiots.

 

[apdst]

Trump's sedition is all in plain sight. We don't need leaks. We need him out of office.

Examples?

 

[iguanaman]

Examples?

Asking the Russians to hack Hillary's Emails
Handing classified information to Russians in the oval office
Taking Putin's side in Helsinki
Spouting Kremlin propaganda about their invasion of Afghanistan
Sowing chaos in foreign and domestic policy and spreading disinformation
Weakening our alliances and disparaging NATO

And one of them are grounds for impeachment together they SCREAM get him out now.

 

[Roadvirus]

Trump's sedition is all in plain sight. We don't need leaks. We need him out of office.

You have evidence (not including hearsay or personal opinions) of this?

 

[iguanaman]

You have evidence (not including hearsay or personal opinions) of this?

Just because you are blind does not mean everyone is. I can't imagine what you guys would do if your room was filling up with smoke, probably just sit there until your ass was on fire. Open your eyes and read #21

 

[Lesh]

Asking the Russians to hack Hillary's Emails
Handing classified information to Russians in the oval office
Taking Putin's side in Helsinki
Spouting Kremlin propaganda about their invasion of Afghanistan
Sowing chaos in foreign and domestic policy and spreading disinformation
Weakening our alliances and disparaging NATO

And one of them are grounds for impeachment together they SCREAM get him out now.

He also spouted weird Russian propaganda concerning Montenegro after the failed Russian backed coup there. Remember him talking oddly about how aggressive Montenegrans are as a people? I doubt Trump even knows where Montenegro is...

And then shouldering the President of Montenegro out of the way at that conference in South America? That was just ...odd. But then if Trump was posturing for Putin...

 

[iguanaman]

He also spouted weird Russian propaganda concerning Montenegro after the failed Russian backed coup there. Remember him talking oddly about how aggressive Montenegrans are as a people? I doubt Trump even knows where Montenegro is...

And then shouldering the President of Montenegro out of the way at that conference in South America? That was just ...odd. But then if Trump was posturing for Putin...

It's like Trump has a radio implanted in his butt with direct line to the Kremlin. He is a real Manchurian Candidate. I never thought I would see that in my lifetime. Thankfully our intelligence services have known this from the start and routinely withhold top secret information from him.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-leaks-us-intelligence-agencies-sensitive-information-2017-2