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    `Now there is a hashtag #Trumpriot and Russian Propaganda Agency RT tries to stoke the fire

    Russia's so protective of its Trump. RT loves showing US protests, but when against Putin or Trump, suddenly they're illegit & Soros funded

    Anonymous accuse Assange of corrupting @wikileaks, conspiring w/ #Russia to promote #Trump, hide certain SyriaFiles
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...&v=-t2Gj0dDz8c

    Interestingly it is Anonymous calling out Wikileaks as proRussian controlled…
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    It would be nice to have an update on this FBI investigation into Russian hacking of electoral systems of FL, WI, AZ etc.

    FBI: 'Russian hackers' accessed Florida voter info, possible breaches in WI and AZ
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    Henry Kissinger, Cold War era strongest hardballer, predicts Trump's temper calls for terrorists to attack America.
    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...utm_source=twb

    MUST READ “The choice is between cowardice and absolutism”
    https://medium.com/letters-code/the-...bb8#.woaxqev76
    Calling out modern fascism…..

    THIS man claims to be this fantastic highly successful businessman and YET they cannot build their own website without stealing from others....just as the speech of his wife at the RP Convention was "lifted".....

    .@realDonaldTrump transition website lifts passages from nonpartisan nonprofit
    http://politi.co/2eTq1zT

    Trump tried to "buy positive coverage with gifts"
    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/...overage-gifts/
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    RP controls now the Presidency...SC....both houses of Congress and then potentially....

    Democrats now control only 13 state legislatures (26%). If they lose 1 more they fall below the % needed to stop constitutional amendments.


    THEN they can change the entire US Constitution at will.......remember I mentioned the concept of the US slipping into fascism...."with a friendly face"?

    We are now not far from that happening in the coming years are we????
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    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/op...=tw-share&_r=1

    SundayReview | Editorial
    The Danger of Going Soft on Russia
    By THE EDITORIAL BOARDNOV. 12, 2016

    Among the first world leaders to congratulate President-elect Donald Trump was Vladimir Putin. And why shouldn’t he?

    Just when relations between Russia and the West are at their most precarious point since the Cold War, Mr. Trump has been Russia’s defender and the beneficiary of Moscow’s efforts to influence the presidential campaign.

    At times he has seemed almost intoxicated by the Russian president, praising Mr. Putin’s firmness and insisting that the two could resolve any differences if they met. Meanwhile, he has shown little concern that Russia poses a major strategic challenge.

    Few experts believe that Russia wants war with the West, but many worry that Mr. Putin’s aggressive behavior as he tries to revive Russian greatness (thus masking problems at home) could result in the kind of dangerous miscalculations that often lead to armed conflict.

    Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign to interfere in the election was brazen. Even worse were actions that threatened human life and global stability, like Mr. Putin’s airstrikes against civilians in Syria, his positioning of nuclear-capable weaponry near Poland and the Baltic States, his annexation of Crimea and the war he waged in eastern Ukraine.

    He violated the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty by producing a ground-launched cruise missile and canceled a 16-year-old accord on reducing stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium.

    Despite this behavior, despite the obvious need for the next president to be alert to Mr. Putin’s mischief and to be willing to resist it, Mr. Trump has so far been Mr. Putin’s apologist.

    Mr. Trump has dismissed the intelligence community’s finding that Russia was behind the hacking, displaying a disrespect for the facts and for the security institutions that compile them. On Thursday, a senior Russian official admitted that the Kremlin had been in contact with Trump allies during the campaign. While it’s not unusual for presidential campaigns to be in touch with foreign leaders, the situation raises heightened concerns given the hacking and the connections between a former senior Trump campaign official and the pro-Russia former president of Ukraine.

    NOTE: WHY is the Trump campaign and Trump himself so adamant there was never any contact..COULD that lone server in Trump Tower and in the Russian Alpha Bank in Moscow be far more important that many think....it certainly was a connection between two people used for potentially intelligence reasons...WHO used it is the next question.....

    WHEN MSM should have been chasing the Russian connections before the election which they somehow strangely did not BUT social media kept the story alive .....NOW it is a true US Intelligence Community CI issue....

    Since Mr. Trump has refused to criticize the Kremlin, it’s important that Mr. Obama figure out, before he leaves office, how to punish Russia for the hacking in a way that demonstrates Washington’s determination to resist cyberattacks without further escalating the conflict. Getting the balance right will not be easy. Mr. Obama should also keep talking with Russia on mutually acceptable cyber-deterrence guidelines that set rules for regulating, defending against and deterring malicious intrusions in cyberspace.

    The deteriorating relationship between Moscow and Washington is a long way from what was envisioned when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and there were high hopes that Russia would become a democracy integrated with the West. In 2009, Mr. Obama authorized Hillary Clinton, his first secretary of state, to “reset” relations, aiming to foster cooperation.

    The two sides worked together on an arms control treaty and the Iran nuclear deal, but on the whole the reset failed, largely because of Mr. Putin. Restoring Russia to power and to a central role in world affairs turned out to be more important to Mr. Putin, and the Russians, than peaceful or profitable ties with the West. His foreign policy is a fairly consistent continuation of Soviet policy — preventing Western encirclement by moving into Ukraine; fighting proxy battles to support Russian interests, as in Syria; and challenging American power wherever possible.

    Continued....
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    Oh great, @RT_com is spending its time hyping up fear, instigating an image of total chaos & insecurity in #Europe ahead of #French election
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    I know Slapout and 60M others that voted for Trumpkin might not like the following but if we take the SWC posted comments of Winston Churchill to heart....HERE goes a rant that will definitely not be liked by many who voted for Trumpkin.....

    IF we look at just how populism has unfolded over the last say SIX years across the globe and especially in the US....we need urgently to honesty be willing to admit that those that voted for Trumpkin have no earthly idea what ethno nationalism is...no earthly idea what fascism is...no earthly idea that the Us still is entrenched in racism directed at blacks and minorities and no earthly idea many do not support women's rights and her reproductive rights...AND those civil liberties and human rights..WELL not for non Whites is the answer....

    AND for the US those that voted for Trumpkin failed to distance themselves from the KKK with their media outlet The Klansman and the US Neo Nazi Party and their media outlet The Stormer and the countless media outlets on the neo right and extreme right ie radio stations that drove home the messaging/narrative of the reemerging "alt Right"..."and white supremacy"....

    BY not distancing themselves from this element within the Trumpkin voting mass...they actually inadvertently support ethno nationalism BUT what might be far more crazy is DO they in the end "identify" with those messages from the extreme right????

    A history lesson for those that did not have much to do with Europe theses days.....

    Hungary under Orban started out as a relatively strong supporter of a pro EU Party and who ever so gently moved that pro EU party to the far right ie "populist party" WHERE now he is formally known for his tight Putin connections and his "populist party" is now currently more and more anti EU....ALL the while still taking EU financial handouts to the tune of millions of Euros....WE are seeing the same exact maneuvering in France with Le Pen and in Poland..while at least Poland remains tightly committed to the EU and NATO

    JUMP forward to the US...it is the general consensus that no independent can win in US elections...Trump was a and is still a closeted racist hidden in the garments of a "populist".....knowing he could not get elected as "independent populist" he needed a "populist party"...EXACTLY as Oran needed one before he shifted.....

    SO Trumpkin started running in the RP primaries and if one really followed him he countless times stated he was not really a "true Republican" and played then the media and his constant racist..sexist and bigoted statements to a vaster audience than he has ever had....AND the messaging resonated....

    THEN after winning the primaries he stood "legally alone" as the winner of the RP and then became the RP candidate for President WITHIN the RP.....

    NOW kicks in the current Hungarian Orban model....Trumpkin never changed his rhetoric of racism...sexism. and bigotry......

    NOW suddenly the old line political RP is now the new populist party led by a populist still using the same racist...sexist and bigoted messaging that he started with....

    BUT now the so called old line RP is really no longer the true RP BUT the WHITE NATIONALIST PARTY.....

    BTW..posted here was a Bannon tweet indicating he was moving his operations from Breitbart to Germany and France....THEN he was pushed back and told to shut up....in that SWJ posted tweet EVEN Bannon wrote the words...to create a WHITE NATIONAL PARTY....UNQUOTE...think that term through very carefully ...

    Savor the words "white supremacist"

    With the addition to the Trumpkin staff of Bannon who is a declared ultra nationalist...basically a "white supremacist" AND anti Semitic all strategic Trumpkin messaging ie propaganda will be coming through him and directed by him....for the next FOUR years...

    AND those that do not believe it possible to have fascism with a friendly smile get ready for some changes you never expected to see in the US...

    Just some highlights from the the last 18 months to refresh one mind about Trumpkin....and company....


    1. REMEMBER when David Duke KKK leader endorsed Trumpkin..his response...WHO is David Duke...once it was explained to him...DID he push back on The Klansman editor supporting his election..NO he did not.

    2. REMEMBER when he released one of his first anti Semitic ads with the Star of David and he took flak for it...EXPLAINING he though the Star of David was a sheriffs badge....come one guys....

    3. REMEMBER when Trumpkin repeatedly six months ago retweeted anti Semitic tweets from the Klan and the "alt Right" ..his statement..he did not know they wer anti Semitic....come on guys

    4. REMEMBER his last campaign ad...truly anti Semitic and he did not even comment when called out on it...

    5. REMEMBER when his son Eric retweeted countless "alt Right" Tweets and he did not repute them when he was called out....

    6. REMEMBER all is his rally statements that where blatantly sexist....racist and bigoted....NONE of them ever called back....

    LASTLY an all important point...JUST how long did Trumpkin drive the "birther issue" and lead that movement in a direct fashion...STARTING WHEN?????

    THEN his speech where he stated he was going to be the President of all of us and the great uniter...BUT it took him until yesterday to call out the violence of his supporters against minorities and women....being reported literally from all over the US....AND some of it was posted here and some felt it was the work of a "Clinton organized opposition"....

    AND most of ALL did he call out the Neo Nazi media outlet that listed the names of 50 Clinton supporters..mostly women and stated send emails..tweets...calls to this listed individuals and rive them to suicide....

    NOTICE he did not repudiate "The Stomer" did he?

    With the naming of Bannon...and believe me many Europeans fully understand US politics far better than most Americans...the morning headlines in some of the most influential German newspapers and yes German read a lot of newspapers...."Bannon the ultra nationalist" named to Trumpkin's Staff".....

    "Ultra nationalist" is buzz speak for Nazi....


    The debate over what the Trumpkin FP will and or could be has run it's course we now know with Bannon and the neocons that have drifted back towards the WH ..it will be aggressive to anything other than American..it will be Protectionist and it will be Ethno Nationalist in ideology..
    BESIDES his bromance with Putin and his 300% alignment with Putin's FP tells us were we are going with Russia....

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    THIS confirms what I have been posting on SWJ since Brexit and now Trumpkin...immigration and the effects of globalization are just smokescreen for a populist/facist trend .....

    Highly recommended article by @epkaufm. Fear of change most important reason for #Trump and #Brexit, not economy.
    http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpo...onomy-stupid/#
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    ASK anyone who voted for Trumpkin just what is information warfare inside the Russian non linear warfare and you will get a totally blank stare coming back to you......and then ..what do you mean comes next?

    Information warfare is the attempt to change an entire societies way of thinking and to accept your narrative as the "truth" and to distrust actual truth/facts....IT is all about Russian propaganda driving on the 6Ds....dismay...dismiss/deflect...distort....distract ALL designed to create doubt and distrust....

    Editorial Opinion: "Lies in the Guise of News in the #Trump Era," via Nicholas Kristof in the @nytimeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/op...-iphone-share#

    MANY Trumpkin voters would point to the sheer volume on Twitter as "proof" of the Trumping popularity and even Trumpkin mentioned the sheer number of followers on Twitter as proof of his message ebing correct...

    BUT did they and Trumpkin ever comment on the proven information coming out of Europe that over 1/3rd of all proTrumpkin tweet were being generated by a Russian company paying young Macedonians to tweet proTrumpkin comments...THAt means on any given day 33% of Trumpkin social media supporters were Russian paid info warriors....

    THINK about it?????
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    One-Hundred Years of Fear: America Has Abdicated Its Leadership of the West
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    Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister

    My brief comments on jihadist perceptions of #Trump’s victory in the U.S., plus implications for the region:

    http://www.mei.edu/content/article/m...gn-policy-team … #Syria

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    Middle East
    Donald Trump Likely to End Aid for Rebels Fighting Syrian Government
    By DAVID E. SANGERNOV. 11, 2016
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/wo...ump-syria.html

    Military aid to rebels financed & delivered by regional sunni powers, what happens next is a test for GCC-Turk ties.

    This could also force all factions including JFS and FSA to unite and fully merge when the moderate-radical limitations becomes irrelevant

    THIS means 100,000 rebel fighters merging into JFS.....

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    Future Trump FP being driven by cash.......????

    Trump’s Top Military Adviser Is Lobbying For Obscure Company With Ties To Turkish Government

    Flynn wrote an op-ed on Tues. calling for extradition of Fethullah Gulen. It was a curious piece and unusual for a former DIA Director..........


    http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/11/tr...ser-is-lobbyin...

    An intelligence consulting firm founded by retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s top military adviser, was recently hired as a lobbyist by an obscure Dutch company with ties to Turkey’s government and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

    The revelation of that new lobbying contract, which has not been previously reported, raises several questions given that Trump is said to be considering Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), to take over as either Secretary of Defense or National Security Advisor.

    It also raises questions about disclosure.

    Flynn wrote an op-ed for The Hill on Tuesday, just before Trump’s stunning upset of Hillary Clinton, in which he heaped praise on Erdogan and called on the next president, whoever that would be, to accede his request to extradite the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen back to Turkey
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    Putin Says France 'Deceived' Russia On Syrian UN Resolution - Likely False
    http://bit.ly/2eyKRWB

    US info warfare on its self hard at work......fake site could though not be tracked so it could have come from outside the US
    Google's top news link for 'final election results' goes to a fake news site with false numbers
    http://wpo.st/4xBE2
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    Default To Outlaw 09 and Crowbat

    Gentlemen:

    Once Trump assumes that presidency in January, how will the Free Syrian Army be impacted?

    My impression of the current situation is that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are supplying the weapons to the FSA (including the TOWs), and the CIA's role is to vet those units that are being supplied.

    If Trump terminates the CIA operation, it is reasonable to assume that Doha and Riyadh may increase their support for the rebels and do so in an unconstrained manner, supported by Ankara and Amman.

    While Clinton would have imposed a no-fly zone over Aleppo possibly, Trump may well prove less restrictive in practice than Obama...

    Thoughts?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azor View Post
    Gentlemen:

    Once Trump assumes that presidency in January, how will the Free Syrian Army be impacted?

    My impression of the current situation is that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are supplying the weapons to the FSA (including the TOWs), and the CIA's role is to vet those units that are being supplied.

    If Trump terminates the CIA operation, it is reasonable to assume that Doha and Riyadh may increase their support for the rebels and do so in an unconstrained manner, supported by Ankara and Amman.

    While Clinton would have imposed a no-fly zone over Aleppo possibly, Trump may well prove less restrictive in practice than Obama...

    Thoughts?
    Azor...interesting questions that some here at SWJ do not really want to discuss.....to fully understand Trumps FP one must discuss Trump himself and what has he stated during say not the campaign but even earlier..WHAT you hear from Trump is what you get....and people do not take that serious enough...they just think it was campaign rhetoric....

    1. first concern is the serious CI question hanging directly over Trump and a number of his advisors past and current...

    If you thoroughly and some here at SWJ did not want to go down that road. Thoroughly look at the period 2008 and 2012..Trump shifted and shifted hard to a proRussian stance on a number of things...in exactly the 2012/2013 timeframe when he was in Russia SO one must actually ask the core question.... WHY the shift and for what reasons when the RP has had a strong counter Russian policy since Reagan.

    2. take the Ukraine....he shifted with direct influence the RP Platform on Ukraine from what the RP Congressional side wanted...strong support to Ukraine to a position matching exactly what Putin has been stating and then he and his campaign when confronted with the sudden shift denied as usual that they were behind it.....

    3. he then stated the same exact Russian position in numerous rallies and debates

    4. he strictly avoided meeting with the Ukrainian President during the recent UNGA when all candidates were pushing for photo ops..CHECK his statements on the Russian military annexation of Crimea..."he stated I can see me recognizing the Russian Crimea referendum".....CHECK his statements on the continued need to sanction Russia.."he can see eliminating those sanctions"....

    5. take his position now on Syria ..your original question...you can match exactly what Putin has been pushing since their first proposal to work jointly with the US against supposedly IS to the exact same statements made repeatedly by Trump.

    Trump is a perfect fit to the same Russian position even down to potentially fully supporting the Kurdish drive for statehood...AND check his comments on Israel and the Palestrian's where he stated he will move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.

    He wants to fight IS jointly with ASSAD and Putin...will he go down that path? Check my first comments...he is for some strange reasons joined at the hip of Putin and the question is why....

    If the US pulls it's connections ...one you have great resistance right now inside DoD to work jointly with Russia with good reason....IMHO I do believe the CIA has the same security concerns a number of current and former CI types have....Trump has been compromised during his 2012/2013 trips to Moscow and his great reliance on Russian oligarch monies and his 249 Trump companies inside Russia.

    This concern was voiced by two former CIA/NSA Directors who went even further than I do and they called Trump directly "a Russian agent of influence"....buzz words for "he has been badly compromised security wise"....

    BUT actually it might not be so bad for the anti Assad forces...as the Obama group has been influencing the delivery of TOWs/MANPADs and that restriction would come off and the rebels have been easily getting them into Syria....

    Secondly...what has been strange is that Israel flatly told the Russian PM when he was just in Israel....Iran out of Syria BUT then we hear that while Trump wants to cancel the Iran Deal...which is dead anyway because Iran has seriously violated several critical parts....recently again confirmed by UNSC KSA wants the agreement held in place...WHY...I think the KSA is fearful that they will have to then drive to develop a nuclear counterweight to Iran and then you have an instant nuclear arms race...remember KSA does not have to develop one they just purchase one from Pakistan which that have supported for years in their nuclear developments....

    With the US out of the picture then KSA..Qatar and their other Sunni sponsors are free to drive fully against Assad....question is what is the Turkish position and how much financial support does Erdogan then gets from the Sunni Front States....

    There has been a floating rumor among the FSA groups that Turkey and Russia have "an agreement on Aleppo"...meaning Russia "allows Turkey to control the entire border area blacking the YPG/PKK in exchange for giving up Aleppo to Assad"...do not believe this as Aleppo has always been a red line publicly stated by Turkey....

    Without US involvement the rebels and their sponsors are then free to drive against Assad which the US has under Obama been basically blocking for the last two years...something the Russians do not want...

    The biggest problem though for Trump is he hangs himself onto Putin is that he would be highly successful in driving approx. 100,000 relatively well trained and combat experienced fighters into the open arms of JFS (AQ) and that would not be the "victory he promised the Trump supporters"....

    You can sense the mutual joy by both IS and AQ in the Trump election..in one fall swoop Trump has confirmed their propaganda narrative about the West and the US and they both feel vindicated in their fight against the West and the US.....

    Again my central concern is the Trump Russian connection and is the President of the US CI wise badly compromised to the point that US FP is Russian FP....

    Just my opinion.....BTW back to the Trump security clearance and access issue...Trump announced that his entire businesses all 500 of them will be placed into a blind trust run by his family...and that will guarantee surely he does not hear a thing about the businesses for four long years...come on....

    NOW he wants TS/SCI clearances for the exact same family members....IF you have been either in the military and or government TS/SCI and being read on is strictly on a need to know basis.....so are they also going to participate in his intelligence briefings and decisions AND at the same time not talk to him at all about his 500 businesses????

    Also I posted initially on the Trump thread that got shut down the fact that while he was bashing Muslims daily in his rallies and debates HE via back channels informed Araba countries..." do not pay attention to the anti Muslim Arab rhetoric it is just campaigning rhetoric"...WHY because he has a lot of businesses in the entire ME and needs their investment monies to finance his so called empire because he is cut off from US banks...SO will in the end will his businesses determine his FP...IMHO I truly think so....BUT did he state that to his supporters and hundreds of rallies..no he did not....he just kept on bashing Muslims....

    BUT again why do his children need TS/SCI clearances????

    BTW..this goes in general for other FP areas and Trump.....

    Chinese activists fear they will be forgotten as reality show president prepares extreme makeover of US-China ties
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ical-roadkill#

    QUOTE from social media....
    And they're still running his businesses -- so he's giving his businesses free access to trillions in dollars of American intelligence.

    AZOR...this is in fact a serious issue inadvertently raised.....there are tons of business and economic intelligence passed on a daily basis from embassies around the world AND Trumps has over 500 businesses worldwide...
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    What a @realDonaldTrump Presidency Means for the Middle East. @ACmideast→
    http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs...e-middle-east#

    Russia Is About To Send $10 Billion Worth Of Weapons To The Leading State Sponsor Of Terrorism –
    http://defconwarningsystem.com/2016/...of-terrorism/#

    My @NewStatesman analysis on what the Kremlin wants from the first Trump-Putin summit.
    http://www.newstatesman.com/world/eu...eady-big-deal#

    AZOR....this is a serious concern for me personally as I have been posting repeatedly on the Ukraine thread from the very beginning....PUTIN wants badly a Yalta 2.0 agreement giving him total "influence over eastern and western Europe" and that is then recognized officially by the US".....that has been his goal since Georgia...Moldavia and now eastern Ukraine/Crimea .....he has been pushing and pushing the EU and Obama to do just such a deal.....SINCE 2006 he and his FM have repeatedly stated they wanted to see an economic region under Russian "influence" from Portugal to the Russian Far East and both have never come off of this "dream"...WITH Trump they see this as now being possible....WITH Clinton it would have never happened in their lifetimes....

    If you think that this is not possible go back to the Trump statements about his abilities to do deals and then seriously relook Trumps Russian comments since 2012...THIS deal is coming.....

    THIS confirms the Russian drift inside Trump's inner circle and one has to wonder why that is so...WHEN the Reagan RP has a clear vision of the Russian threat to the US.......?

    Giuliani thinks Russia's invasions of its neighbors (Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova) and aggression against the Baltics, etc. etc are our fault?

    Giuliani is rumored to be the coming next DoS...REMEMBER it was Guiliaini who in fact leaked the additional Clinton emails two full days before the FBI announcement about more emails.....as he has deep friends still inside the FBI and the FBI Director worked for the Giuliani law firm before becoming FBI director...
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    Azor...this is exactly what I am saying here ...

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...cid=spartandhp

    What we never heard in the campaign is that Trump owns and or controls 249 Russian companies he has never explained to the voters....SO will his FP say with Putin reflect a desire to protect and improve his Russian business bottom lines or will he act in the interests of the US electorate and potentially lose tons of money in that decision????

    Same goes for virtually the entire planet were he has business interests...especially the ME and their cash assets he needs to service a 650M USD debt load...

    Trump has not released his tax returns especially those since 2012...and we do not know for sure... is his bromance with Putin due to say a large Russian bank loan at great low interest rates to service a massive debt load or has the business empire profited heavily from strong Russian oligarch property purchases one of their selected methods to launder untraceable black monies...AND that is the reason for his early rejection of Ukrainian US interests and his early drive to support both Putin and Assad in Syria ....this is a serious conflict of interest until resolved....

    BUT Trump and his surrogates say ..."trust Trump he is rich so he will not be greedy"...BUT at the same time Giuliani stated on a Sunday talk show Trump is above the US conflict of interest laws and does not have to answer to them as President ....BUT is this not exactly how rich oligarchs think and act.....for them it is all about making even more money.....REMEMBER in a 2000 Fortune Magazine interview Trump stated that if he ran for President "he could make money at it"....

    SO in the future instead of debating why a FP is strategic for the US will we see FP decisions made on the business bottom line of the Trump Empire or in the true interests of the US and YES even in the ME.....

    Azor...this is exactly what I mean......read the Russian wording of the FM stated..current US discredited anti Russia policy"..SO does the Russian FM know in this statement that the coming Trump FP is "a friendly Russian policy"...based on Trumps initial statements I believer they believe that actually.???

    MFA Russia ����

    @mfa_russia
    #Ryabkov: #US expanded list of #sanctions reflect discredited anti-#Russia policy of outgoing Obama administration
    http://sptnkne.ws/cG96


    SIX Crimean Duma reps were placed on the sanctions list...

    QESTION is will Trump continue them since he favors recognizing the Russian referendum as it was "legal"....he seems to have completely missed the "little green men" Russian invasion of Crimea....
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 11-15-2016 at 11:00 AM.

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