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https://politicalwire.com/2020/08/28/penn-professor-wants-probe-of-trumps-admission/Penn Professor Wants Probe of Trumps Admission
August 28, 2020 at 7:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Botany
(70,489 posts)new evidence
The Senate just dropped a massive Russia bombshell
* Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort's "high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services" was regarded as a "grave counterintelligence threat," and his "presence on the Campaign and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on.
* Manafort was working directly with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian intelligence officer, and tried to share internal campaign information with him. The committee says it obtained "some information suggesting Kilimnik may have been connected" to Russia's 2016 hacking operation of Hillary Clinton's emails and the Democratic National Committee.
* Roger Stone was tasked by the campaign with finding all he could about what information WikiLeaks had about Clinton and Democrats more broadly, and "Trump and the Campaign believed that Stone had inside information and expressed satisfaction that Stone's information suggested more releases would be forthcoming."
* Two other Russians who took part in the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with the top brass of the President's campaign had "significant connections to Russian government, including the Russian intelligence services."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/politics/russia-investigation-fbi-paul-manafort-donald-trump-jr-donald-trump/index.html
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Botany
(70,489 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)long game. Hope that a treason like indictment, with tons of publicity, comes up before long.
And not a fking thing being done about it!
Botany
(70,489 posts)The information that Manafort and Gates gave Kilimnk (Russian Agent) wasn't just polling data but
data analytics that allowed Russia/Putin to put a fine point on their rat fucking of our elections.*
* election plural .... Russ Feigold was at > 90% chance of winning back his senate seat.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Botany
(70,489 posts).... connections to rig the 2016 elections and still voted to let him off when the Senate voted on
his removal after his impeachment. I wonder how many and how deep the Russian US Senate
Republican connections were and still are?
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)They should be living in secure cages.
certainot
(9,090 posts)2008 manafort was mccain's campaign co-chair and he and kilimnick had been hooked up back in 2006
they used limbaugh to force palin on mccain because without limbaugh's blessing mcccain didn't have a chance. limbaugh wouldn't support mccain untill minutes after palin was announced. palin had been wooed by russian oil and gas interests
limbaugh as talk radio leader has been deciding what is and isn't acceptable for GOP for 30 years - when did putin figure out how to feed him?
ancianita
(36,021 posts)There are at least twelve who qualify as Russian assets as of 2019:
Money from Leonard Blavatnik:
Mitch McConnell $2.5 M
Marco Rubio $1.5 M
Scott Walker $1.1 M
Lindsey Graham $800,000
John Kasich $250,000
Donald Trump ???
Ten who knew the contents of The Senate Intel Comte. Report when they voted to exonerate Trump:
Richard Burr, North Carolina, Chairman
(until May 15, 2020)
Marco Rubio, Florida, Acting Chairman
(from May 18, 2020)[1]
Jim Risch, Idaho
Susan Collins, Maine
Roy Blunt, Missouri
Tom Cotton, Arkansas
John Cornyn, Texas
Ben Sasse, Nebraska
Ex officio
Jim Inhofe, Oklahoma
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky
Add eight senators who visited Moscow on U.S. 4th of July:
Richard Shelby, Alabama
Ron Johnson, Wisconsin
Steve Daines Montana
John Hoeven, North Dakota
John Kennedy, Louisiana
Jerry Moran, Kansas
John Thune, South Dakota
Kay Granger, Texas
These are only the Fifth Column that we know of.
crickets
(25,962 posts)ancianita
(36,021 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,723 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)He got into Fordham out of high school, NOT Penn. he transferred to Penn after two years at Fordham
Botany
(70,489 posts)n/t
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)but, back in the 60s, elite schools would often let in sons, nephews or grandsons of wealthy donors and/or famous alums - or potential wealthy donors like the Trump family was at the time. I think Trump's older brother put in a call on Donny's behalf at the time, or maybe it was an uncle that called on Donny's behalf? (Let Don into Wharton's real estate program and multi-millionaire Fred Trump will be pleased and maybe donate $$ to get his name on a building...)
And, once Donny gets into Penn, he skates by with the Gentleman's C
(Oh, and many schools still let in children/grandchildren/nephews/nieces of famous/wealthy alums now still, but I think the bar has been raised, which led to the recent admissions scandals of parents bribing coaches & others to get into the school)
panader0
(25,816 posts)Don't have a probe that won't come out after the election, do it now. How hard can it be?
bucolic_frolic
(43,124 posts)I think academia has some cracks in it. Not that I went to an elite school, but from what went on.
Affairs, graduate students burnishing one another's grades, upgrades and downgrades, instances of self-grading, shortened classes. Is it worth it? A big disappointment to me anyway. Hardly worth the time. I could see where working 9 to 5 for awhile and putting aside a sampling of shares of future growth companies - tech, steady, resource - has far more potential financially and doesn't carry the financial burdens of education.