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    In today's Russian papers: the Russian word for "nut job", plus rumours that Donald Trump "could soon be impeached".

    Remember Russian newspaper only parrot what was repeated the previous day in Russian TV....

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    This is extremely interesting in that this is the exact number of troops mentioned in KSA PRs/tweets/social media videos during a largescale Arabic army exercise held in KSA just after Russian entered Syria....

    Islamic Military Coalition announced a reserve force of 34,000 soldiers to particpate in anti-terror operations in the region


    Appears than now once KSA has swung Trump to the Sunni side with his visit we see this being now announced as a not so subtle warning to Russia, Assad and especially Iran.....

    This Sunni Army was blocked to a degree by Obama policies and their backing off KSA....

    So did Trump inadvertenly in his need to get get "massive jobs" PR commit the US to militarily support Sunni's against Shia?

    He sure did.....

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    Opinion: #Trump trip to #SaudiArabia was "unseemly, unethical and bizarre", says the Wash Post's @anneapplebaum :
    http://tinyurl.com/nxpeeh2

    BTW..all of the Trump statements made during the campaign used to fire up his base against KSA and 9/11, Muslims, "radical" Islam and Obama/Clinton in their visits to KSA were thrown completely overboard in the name of "jobs PR"....

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    I can't remember a single time in which a U.S. secretary of state banned American reporters from a press conference:
    http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/21/medi...s-conference/#

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    Insightful comment from a very astute EU Swedish former FM....about the Trump speech...

    Truly farsighted policy should aim at bridging - not deepening - the dangerous divides of the Islamic world.


    By pounding away on the theme of evil vs good...it really did border on speech made by Crusaders in Strasbourg before they departed for the ME and their Crusades....almost work for word if one can read old German....

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    Under the rubric of "JUST what the h...is this?" Especially when the US has a designated SoS in place and with Trump.....

    WH announced Trump is "exhausted." So Ivanka and Jared -- NOT THE SECRETARY OF STATE -- take over. Acting like Saudi Royals.y

    I personally remember WHEN Trump constantly trashed/bashed Clinton for apparently not having the stamina to do the job of President AFTER travelling more than 930,000 miles in four long years setting record then at DoS...then broken by Kerry....

    Trump exhausted after "flight and two days on the ground"....??

    REMEMBER this is the same President who refused to allow a physical be done to prove his state of health...

    So if he cannot fulfil the duties of the position he can in fact resign due to health reasons....

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    Ivanka gives Saudi speech on female empowerment. Female reporters were kicked out, but were told later it was great!
    http://wapo.st/2q9iTBD

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    Interesting comment concerning a number of postings made here concerning the ongoing FBI CI, criminal investigations and coverup investigation against a "person of interest near Trump"........

    And the comment that the SC has in fact informed Trump of an "intent of impeachment"......

    Reporter said words to the effect of "a bunch of us have this story/stories but no one's running it".

    THIS is the exact reason Russian information warfare is working so well in the US and why social media has been basically outperforming MSM when it comes to investigative journalism...

    IF MSM who had a lot of this Russian connections information prior to the election had in fact released it we would not be where we are today....in a mess....

    MAYBE that is why sources now seem to be tilting to social media journalists and bypassing MSM....

    BTW US MSM sat on the Steel Dossier for literally months...

    What is interesting though is the fact that now both MSM with their sources are talking with social media journalists and comparing notes....as all sources are balancing each other and filling in holes...

    Social media states..
    We are not lawyers and don't theorize legal rationale or precedent but report what reliable sources say happened

    Some say the WH is right now leaking faster than the Maine being sunk in Cuba....
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    This appears to be related to the outcome of the Trump Russian FM WH meeting and Trump telling the FM he is not concerned about activities in eastern Ukraine basically signalling a green light to any future Russian actions there...

    Unconfirmed but if true...IMPORTANT

    There are unconfirmed reports of Russian Forces amassing in two places in eastern #Ukraine: #Donetsk and #Dokuchaevsk.

    OSCE has been seeing a massive build up in these two areas as well...and has reported on them complete with UAV imagery....what is not being seen are tanks and IFVs being stored in every available...barn...empty factory building and open farm shed...

    There are several non-linked sources saying the same thing #Russia concentrating regulars and latest tanks behind the contact line.


    Ideal tank attack weather..ground dry and warm temps...there has been a sudden Russian resupply in the last week as well which was unannounced.....unusual as they always announce them and there has been a strong Russian troop build-up in two locations on the Ukraine Russian border....with one tank convoy spotted and videoed...
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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Many Americans do not quite fully understand the entire impeachment process and many have truly forgotten Watergate which really did not follow this process as Nixon "under the impeachment threat" basically resigned his office before it was started....

    What many do not also fully understand it that the "intent to impeach" has to come from the House and actually the majority party does not need to start it....

    Read the process carefully and one will discover that it takes just a single Congressman declaring from an open House floor formly and publicly stating the President must be impeached....that is it...then the "impeachment process" is then actually started...and the clock runs...

    That is why this Congressman has been getting hate mail and demands that he be lynched.....from proTrump supporters.

    WHAT is far more important..with this single statement from the floor of the House and publicly made...the President is then blocked from issuing a single pardon on anyone involved in any Federal investigations....as it would be in theory legally possible for Trump to issue if anyone close to him in is in fact indicted "Presidential pardons"...but once the "intent" is stated he is legally blocked...

    BUT what is more interesting is that the process requires two of the three pillars of American democracy to publicly state the President is under "intent to impeachment"...

    First went the House with the single Congressman standing up and declaring it and then that is what some of these postings have pointed out...the Marshall of the Supreme Court is being reported that he informed Trump prior to his leaving the US and that "intent to impeachment statement" came from the SC Head Justice Roberts...

    Thus the process requirement of two of the pillars of government informing the President of "an intent to impeach" has been made thus no pardons can be issued.....

    Now the next step would be the majority party brining in the articles of impeachment officially at the House level as the investigations move forward..and indictments issued and court dockets/warrants registered and issued.

    If though nothing comes out of the Federal investigations that can be used as an impeachment issue against Trump then the "intent to impeachment" notices are withdrawn....
    This should help readers understand this process...BTW..if the SC is involved directly it might be a solid indication of how advanced the FBI CI investigation is as the SC has control over FSIC who issued the FISA warrants to begin with and if it involves indictments for treason and or espionage then it is automatically a SC thing....
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    This tweet has aged very well from a proTrump alt right ie white nationalist and heavy twitter account in the world of fakes news...and was involved in the support to Le Penn


    2 weeks ago they finally pulled the Muslim Ban off his website and now @realDonaldTrump's changed his header to this.

    Anyone notice the hyprocrisy.....
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    Manafort who was Trump's unpaid campaign manager in the beginning for four months has a long history in Ukraine....and that is at the Center of the FBI CI investigation and possible money laundering.......

    Interesting overview of Paul Manafort's decade long work for a pro-Kremlin party in #Ukraine
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...-russia-probe#

    Ukrainians have passed to the FBI copies of a black book that contained 12M USDs in payments to Manafort through Belize/Cyprus off shore accounts....from the now deposed former Ukrainian President and his political party the Party of Regions....

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    Ukrainian oligarch money is everywhere in recent GOP campaign....

    New leak via @funder: reportedly Mitch McConnell-linked super PAC took $2.5m from pro-Putin Ukrainian businessman Leonard Blavatnik
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    TRUMPLEAKS DOCUMENT LEAK:

    419 docs—Trump lawsuits-contracts-leases-settlements—all legally obtained.

    AND legally verified....not fake news as many proTrump supporters will argue...

    Link to docs:https://drive.google.com/drive/mobil...?usp=sharing#…

    It's gonna be a very long week for:

    McConnell
    Ryan
    Burr
    Sessions
    DeVos
    Nunes
    Mnuchin

    & our focus: Mike Pence

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Ukrainian oligarch money is everywhere in recent GOP campaign....

    New leak via @funder: reportedly Mitch McConnell-linked super PAC took $2.5m from pro-Putin Ukrainian businessman Leonard Blavatnik
    Sen. McConnell's father-in-law owns cargo ship that got busted w/90 lbs of cocaine

    Mitch's wife=Trump Transport Sec Elaine Chao

    Docs: Mitch McConnell linked super PAC took $40,570,000 from 4 of Trump's largest backers last election cycle

    No wonder McConnell has been basically dragging his feet in pushing a Senate investigation....for 40M I would drag as well....
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    Court Docs: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was major player in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme & made millions off it
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    Actually, Kushner had direct contact with a straight-up KGB officer:
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...bank-of-spies#


    APPEARS he did not include that small fact under the Foreign Contacts and businesses on his security form SF 86...

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    Overheard in German Foreign Office: If Saudi had invested $320b in Iraq & Syria instead of US arms, would Iran have as much influence there

    Very valid comment....

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    In response to Senate subpoena, Mike Flynn plans to invoke the 5th amendment.
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-fl...na-1495462069#

    So what exactly was he going to incriminate himself on???? If as he and the Trump WH say...there was nothing wrong in his conversations with the Russian Ambassador.....

    AND he and the Trump WH says are no Russian connections and or businesses and or money....

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    In response to Senate subpoena, Mike Flynn plans to invoke the 5th amendment.
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-fl...na-1495462069#

    So what exactly was he going to incriminate himself on???? If as he and the Trump WH say...there was nothing wrong in his conversations with the Russian Ambassador.....

    AND he and the Trump WH says are no Russian connections and or businesses and or money....
    During the campaign, Flynn criticized the technology specialist who set up Hillary Clinton’s private email server for invoking his Fifth Amendment rights 100 times during a court case.
    NOTE at least he went to court...

    Trump has also blasted Clinton associates for pleading the Fifth, arguing, “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”

    There are indications that he is facing a FARA indictment as well as several other indictments.....rumors have it that he is trying to get an immunity deal from DoJ-FBI thus not testifying ......
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