EXCLUSIVE: Jared Kushner now under FBI scrutiny in Russia investigation, officials tell NBC News
http://nbcnews.to/2r10EAE
Another confirmation by US MSM that social media reporting on Kushner are in fact correct....they reported this five weeks ago....
Rick Wilson
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The theory that Euro IC gloves are off also extends to a very senior GER govt contact of mine.
White. Hot. Fire.
NOTE Trump did himself np favors with his comments and attitude shown members of NATO yesterday......
He forgets that they have been watching him as long as the US IC and are extremely good at SIGINT and still have spies working the Russian areas....
AND leaking for them is far easier than in the US....
A now who wants to admit openly that Trump is in fact in bed with Putin....he has been trying since his election to fulfil the dream of Putin since sanctions were place on him...remove them...as they are in fact hurting Putin....
EU pointed this out yesterday....After Trump's NATO remarks WH econ adviser Gary Cohn tells AF1 pool: "Right now, we don’t have a position" on Russia sanctions.
This is what I have from a source with knowledge of the investigation:That's the full statement I received."Flynn has begun the proffer process with U.S. Atty Office. This involves him sitting down with the FBI & USAG and proferring what he could offer in a trial against his co-conspirators. If his proffered info is deemed reliable, the government will file a 5k1.1 motion, requesting a downward sentencing departure. This is absolute fact. His proffer statement has begun"
Flynn had been seen earlier this week in the EDVA elevator with is lawyers.....
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Gary Cohn. Dir. of Natl Economic Council.
President Trump is weighing changes to U.S. sanctions against Russia, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn said Wednesday.
"I think the president is looking at it," Cohn told reporters aboard Air Force One, when asked about the president's position on Russian sanctions. "Right now, we don’t have a position."
Trump arrived in Sicily on Thursday, where he will attend a G7 summit. Cohn said Russia is likely to be a topic of discussion at the meeting. Cohn also said that that Russian sanctions came up earlier in the day, while Trump was in Brussels meeting with NATO leaders.
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said his panel could take up an effort to slap new sanctions on Russia over the country's efforts to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had reportedly asked Corker for an opportunity to demonstrate that U.S.-Russia relations were improving. Corker said that unless Tillerson could soon prove to the committee that relations were changing, he would recommend tougher sanctions.
Former President Barack Obama imposed new sanctions on Moscow in December amid revelations that Russia had sought to influence the presidential election. He also expelled dozens of Russian agents from the U.S.
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So this Trump anti German attitude voiced publicly yesterday opens up an interesting question is Trump actively working with Russia to cut US German relations????
Severing the US-Germany tie has been the supreme goal of first Soviet and now Russian policy in Europe since 1945.
https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...urope/507773/#
Montenegro's Markovic after being shoved away by Trump: "it is natural that the president of the United States is in the front row."
Evidently Trumps advisors did not brief him on the following....
Russia plotted to assassinate the PM of Montenegro, Duško Marković. Instead of rallying NATO to punish Russia, Trump pushed Marković bodily aside in order to get to the front for the photo op and did not even apologize to him for it.
@MarkHertling Trump's "obsolete" NATO brought peace to Bosnia, Kosovo in 90s. Alliance soldiers died, shed blood protecting civilians, keeping the peace.
And Trumps advisors knew all of this prior to allowing Trumps comments yesterday????
If so then his comments could be viewed as provocative and proRussian leaning which is exactly what many European MSM comments this morning are pointing to.
CNN
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Trump NATO remarks unsettle some: "Diplomatically, the speech was inept at best and deliberately insulting at worst"
http://cnn.it/2qUJ0A3
Washington (CNN)When President Donald Trump lectured NATO members on their contributions to the trans-Atlantic alliance, he demonstrated a lack of understanding about how the group works and potentially alienated the US' closest allies, analysts said.
The speech comes at a time when Washington's longstanding partnerships with the UK and Israel have endured friction over intelligence gaffes by the new administration.
"Diplomatically, the speech was inept at best and deliberately insulting at worst," said Jeff Rathke, deputy director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Trump's remarks Thursday, alongside his continued misrepresentation of how the alliance works and his failure to reaffirm US commitment to the group, is likely to further unsettle US allies, sowing doubt about US leadership and possibly making it harder for NATO leaders to convince their people of the need to spend more on defense.
Ivo Daalder, a former US ambassador to NATO, said that "this was a perfectly scripted event to deliver a very simple message that every president of the United States has delivered at the first possible opportunity, which is that the United States stands firmly behind its commitment to the defense of NATO."
"We signed a treaty, we uphold it. It was really easy," Daalder said. "And the fact that he didn't do it was disturbing and will take a long time to overcome in Europe."
Trump was making his first visit to the alliance in Brussels, where leaders had carefully scripted his visit, unveiling a memorial to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to mark the only time NATO has invoked Article 5, which holds that all members will defend any one of them that's attacked.
The NATO-led alliance that came to the United States' aid in Afghanistan and Iraq sent more than 3,000 soldiers home in body bags.
A damaging first
Against this backdrop, the President accused NATO allies of shortchanging US taxpayers by not meeting the shared target of spending 2% of GDP on defense -- a misunderstanding of how the funding system works.
Trump also scored a damaging first, according to Nick Burns, a former US ambassador to NATO under President George W. Bush, by becoming the first president since the group's founding to fail to reaffirm the US commitment to collective defense, the principle that glues the alliance together.
"This is the first president since 1949 not to mention Article 5," Burns said. "Every president has reaffirmed collective defense and today was the day for him to do it."Burns said he was "stunned" by the speech. "It was really disappointing," he said. "I support him on asking allies to spend more on defense. But there is a time and a place. And this wasn't it. The lecture was the wrong tone and this was the wrong time."
It could also damage the US leadership position in NATO, said Burns. The other nations "were looking for a tight embrace and they didn't get it," Burns said. "NATO looks for the US president to lead the alliance... (Trump) doesn't understand that. People now think of Angela Merkel as the leader of the West."NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at his closing news conference after the summit defended Trump's message, which he admitted was "blunt."
Asked if he was disappointed that Trump didn't explictly express support for Article 5, he said just by dedicating the 9/11 and Article 5 display he was doing that.
Stoltenberg said there has been a clear message of support for NATO from the President, as well as Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis. Tillerson and Mattis have also recently delivered tough public messages on the need for NATO members to increase defense spending.
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For once, Trump stays silent about Nato unity – and US allies are disappointed
Trump’s speech was scolding and ignorant, avoiding a US pledge to commit to collective security, adding force to rumors Russia has influenced him
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...P=share_btn_tw
@MarkHertling NATO isn't just an agreement.It is an alliance w/shared resources,airbases,hardware, personnel and perhaps most importantly,trusted intelThomas Wright, the director of the Centre on United States and Europe and the Brookings Institution, described the Nato leg of Trump’s European tour as “a policy failure of epic proportions” that “increases the risk that Putin will test him in the years ahead.”
It was not just the words. Trump’s body language (including his shoving of Markovic and his macho hand wrestling with Emmanuel Macron) showed him to be ill at ease among this gathering of allies, especially compared to his evident delight at being flattered by the Saudi royal family. It certainly suggested that gilded palaces and absolute rule were more his scene.
ALL of this evidently not known to Trumps own advisors...or if so then why the full Russian tilt????
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Also totally overlooked by Trump advisors...
On this day in May 26th 2014 the battle for Donetsk airport began. The longest battle in history..longer than in fact Stalingrad....242 straight days of fighting.....and never really reported in MSM.....
On this day in 2014 Ukrainian armed forces destroyed a group of Russian mercenaries who entered Airport Donetsk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd-XQN51zYQ#
At times the battle reminded many of the fight at the Alamo......with a small unit called Cyborgs holding out against everything the Russian invasion army threw at them until overcome with posion gas...used by Russian GRU forces.....Chechen fighters were involved in this battle and Kadyrov has denied he sent them but the fighters claimed they got direct orders to go to Ukraine.
Overlooked by Trump in his WH discussions with the Russians....
Ru aggression continues unabated. Escalation in Donbas. 57 attacks by Ru&proxies, Grads, tanks, and artillery used. 5 UAF servicemen WIA.
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Trump’s talk of befriending Putin doesn’t just rattle the NATO alliance. It also unnerves European Union officials.
http://politi.co/2qkCqjs
APPEARS now the US SoS is not on the same sheet of music as his boss is and now will those in Europe really listen and or simply ignore him???
Simply put...Trump gave up Western leadership yesterday and has now caused the remaining 27 members of NATO to rethink their positions in reference to a EU Army...“Of course we support Article 5,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters Wednesday, adding that the only time the provision had been invoked was after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
This cartoon is being punted around all of European social media this morning....referencing Trump from yesterday....
From a senior Finnish defense official.....
.Putin is emboldened now. He will push some to test NATO.
That will be the defining moment.
If left unchecked, all bets are off
REMEMBER Trumps own comment in the Russian meeting in the WH ...he had no opinion on Ukraine fighting ...that was the first signal to Putin...NATO meeting was the second signal...the sanctions lifting the final signal...THUS the comment above .......
Russian state-controlled TV dismisses alleged FBI probe into Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner as part of a "witch hunt" against the president
Not so sure who told Trump about those millions of German cars being sold in US that makes Germany really "bad"......
Trump reportedly wants to stop Germans from selling so many cars here, where they’re made.
http://slate.me/2qkYj24
BUT WAIT....seems that when the WH suddenly realizes the massive mistake of the Trump comment WHICH was confirmed by two EU Presidents they dog paddle a new excuse of the comment.....Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn on Friday clarified President Trump’s recent remark that “the Germans are bad, very bad.”
“[Trump] said they’re very bad on trade,” he said in Sicily, Italy, according to Bloomberg. “He said, ‘I don’t have a problem [with] Germany. I have a problem with German trade.’”
NOTE this is not being confirmed by the EU what was stated above is in fact what was actually stated by Trump....
Der Spiegel on Thursday reported that Trump voiced significant displeasure over Germany’s trade surplus during a meeting with European Union leaders in Brussels that day.
“The Germans are bad, very bad,” he said, according to meeting participants. “See the millions of cars they are selling to the U.S. Terrible. We will stop this.”
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker reportedly defended Germany, arguing that free trade benefits everyone.
Meeting participants told Der Spiegel that Juncker remained uncompromising on his point during the roughly hour-long meeting.
Trump initially met with Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk, Der Spiegel reported, before others including the European Parliament’s president and the EU’s chief diplomat joined later.
The president has repeatedly criticized global trade deals, arguing that they favor foreign nations at the expense of U.S. workers.
Trump also voiced frustration with Germany’s trade surplus during his 2016 presidential bid, vowing to slap punitive tariffs on German automobiles during an interview with Bild.
“I would tell BMW if they think they’re gonna build a plant in Mexico and sell cars in the U.S. without a 35 percent tax, it’s not gonna happen,” he told the German publication before his January inauguration. “It’s not gonna happen."THEN one must truly wonder about this further comment from Cohn........During a meeting with top leaders of the European Union, President Donald Trump said“the Germans are bad, very bad,” according to participants in the room who spoke to German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel.
Trump’s specific criticism was that Germany’s auto industry exported cars. “See the millions of cars they are selling in the U.S. Terrible,” Der Spiegel reports he said. “We will stop this.”
In January, Trump threatened to slap a 35 percent tax on German auto imports.#“If you want to build cars in the world, then I wish you all the best. You can build cars for the United States, but for every car that comes to the USA, you will pay 35 percent tax,” he said. “I would tell BMW that if you are building a factory in Mexico and plan to sell cars to the USA, without a 35 percent tax, then you can forget that.”
Trump’s new comments impugning the Germans for exporting cars were made in a meeting with the European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, and the European Council president, Donald Tusk. Juncker, Der Spiegel reports, supported the Germans.
Another German newspaper,Süddeutsche Zeitung, reported that E.U. representatives felt their U.S. counterparts did not understand that the E.U. negotiates trade agreements as a single entity, rather than on a country-to-country basis. That is, the U.S. can negotiate trade deals with the E.U. as a whole, but not individually with the separate members of the E.U.
Der Spiegel reported that Gary Cohn, the director of Trump’s National Economic Council, appeared to believe that the U.S. could negotiate different trade deals with Germany and Belgium.
This is not the first time this basic misunderstanding has cropped up. When German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the White House in March, she had to explain how E.U. trade deals were negotiated almost a dozen times, a senior German official told the Times of London.
“Ten times Trump asked [Merkel] if he could negotiate a trade deal with Germany. Every time she replied, ‘You can’t do a trade deal with Germany, only the EU,’” the official said. “On the eleventh refusal, Trump finally got the message, ‘Oh, we’ll do a deal with Europe then.’”#
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
The revelations came hours after Trump publicly blasted the U.S.’s European partners in the NATO defense alliance, accusing them of owing American taxpayers billions of dollars because they have previously not met the alliance’s defense spending requirements. He also failed to affirm that his administration would meet its commitment to militarily support them if needed.
The president has repeatedly questioned Washington’s relationships in the region, cheering Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and engaging positively with anti-EU politicians like France’s Marine Le Pen. Top political figures and Europe analysts have already labeled his trip a major failure, and it’s not even over yet: Trump is expected to now head to Sicily for a summit of the G7, a group of the world’s most developed economies.
MORE FROM COHN on Trump's German-talk: "He doesn't have a problem with Germany. He said his dad is from Germany." #G7Summit #POTUSAbroad
APPEARS that Trump and Cohn honestly do not understand that a bulk of German cars sold in the US ARE in fact produced in the US by German trained quality assurance engineers thus the great quality of cars being produced...
What does the dad of Trump have to honestly do with German made cars which was the first actual comment made by Trump.....
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Recall Erik Prince's "Putin back channel" Seychelles mtg? RenCap Russn billionre Prokhorov owns North Island:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.29ddeebecfca
Think there is not a Russian connection between Erik Prince and Russians think again....
BREAKING: DOJ traces millions from $230m crime that Sergei Magnitsky exposed to UK account of Renaissance Capital
Renaissance Capital is owned by Russian oligarch Prokhorov and was behind the Erik Prince meeting......that Prince was putting together frrTrump....
NEW: Kushner oversaw data operations for the campaign. You know, the one where Russians helped them with data.
This is exactly why the FBI has named him a major person of interest....goes to the heart of Russian hacking of FOUR state election databases and that data used then by Cambridge Analytical.....a Mercer owned company originally owned by Steve Bannon the Trump Special Asst.
GOP operative used hacked Democratic data in campaign
http://hill.cm/3bCO2y1
Original reporting on this came from a social media investigative journalist who then was recently attacked by a proTrump twitter bot....
Appears MSM (The Hill) did in fact confirm the social media breaking story although a few weeks later...
AND this particular story NOW ties back into the FBI investigation of Kushner...
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 05-26-2017 at 01:23 PM.
If any SWJ commenter and or reader truly believes this then I have a bridge somewhere in the Amazon to sell you...
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Just arrived in Italy for the G7. Trip has been very successful. We made and saved the USA many billions of dollars and millions of jobs.
Last time I checked Ford is laying off 10% of its employees and freezing and or reducing wages....and car sells are declining...
Boeing is laying off 3,000 engineers and workers as well....
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