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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI can always tell when they have a cpac convention.
My one uncle and my kid brother both staunch Q loons start with the emails and text.
Hunter Biden
Fauci
Socialism
More bitching about the threat of socialism.
Viktor Orban should be our president.
Januar 6 tourist are prisoners in a democratic Gulag.
The immigrants are pulling a blitzkrieg at the border.
Trump is still fighting for murica from mar a lago.
hlthe2b
(102,990 posts)I wonder how many families have all but split in half over a few members turning Trump/Extremist cultists.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)are holding this festival of loons! Apparently Trump went beyond bizarre last night. "Keynote speaker". These people are crazed and down right frightening!
Lots of reasons to not like North Texas much this summer.
This is icing on a really awful cake!!
Ms7wo7rees
Cosmocat
(14,630 posts)While not in the least surprising, that is a major example of just how far gone the bat shitte crazy is in this country.
Vinca
(50,408 posts)Phoenix61
(17,087 posts)Where Hurricane Michael hit is deeply red and the only complaining theyve done is about how long it took to get their checks. Apparently, its only socialism when someone else gets a check.
Joinfortmill
(14,803 posts)Response to Duncanpup (Original post)
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The Wizard
(12,604 posts)to say knot C (Facebook spelling; you can't spell Nazi on FB as it goes against community standards).
Duncanpup
(13,173 posts)Evolve Dammit
(17,097 posts)Botany
(70,909 posts)... senate intel committee.
Tell 'em that you love 'em but are The republicans on the Senate Intel committee wrong and were the computer
scientists @ I.U., Cambridge, the U of Penn, Columbia and other places all wrong too?
A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset
He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.
Donald Trump was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the United States. Thats been documented in Republican-led investigative reports, and now it has been updated with new evidence, thanks to the U.S. Intelligence Communitys assessment of the 2020 election. The report, drafted by the CIA, the FBI, and several other agencies, was released in unclassified form on Tuesday, but it was presented in classified form on Jan. 7. In other words, it was compiled, written, and edited during Trumps administration. It destroys his lies about the election, and it exposes him as a Russian asset.
The report debunks conspiracy theories, promoted by Trump and his lawyers, that hackers in other countries robbed him of victory. We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to interfere in the 2020 US elections by altering any technical aspect of the voting process, including ballot casting, vote tabulation, or reporting results, says the document. A separate analysis released by the Department of Justice reaches the same conclusion. The IC report adds that evidence of such operations, if they existed, would have shown up in U.S. surveillance or in post-election audits of electronic results and paper backups. The report implicitly mocks insinuations from Trumps lawyers that former Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, somehow rigged Trumps defeat. We have no information, it notes drily, that current or former Venezuelan regimes were involved in attempts to compromise US election infrastructure.
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As to Russia, the report leaves no doubt: In 2020, as in 2016, President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations to help Trump and hurt his Democratic opponent. For example, Shortly after the 2018 midterm elections, Russian intelligence cyber actors attempted to hack organizations primarily affiliated with the Democratic Party. Then, in late 2019, Russias military intelligence service, the GRU, conducted a phishing campaign against subsidiaries of Burisma holdings, likely in an attempt to gather information related to President Bidens family. Throughout the 2020 election, agents connected to the Russian Federal Security Service, FSB, planted negative stories about Biden. Internet operatives working for the Kremlin, including the troll farm that had boosted Trump in 2016, continued to promote Trump and his commentary, including repeating his political messaging.
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Attacks on Biden and his son, Hunter, were part of this operation. Through US officials and prominent US individuals, some of whom were close to former President Trump and his administration, the report says Russias intelligence services repeatedly spread unsubstantiated or misleading claims about President Biden and his familys alleged wrongdoing related to Ukraine. In this way, Trumps circle laundered the Russian-planted stories, which were then recirculatedand promoted by Russias online proxiesas American news.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html
Or this
Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?
A team of computer scientists sifted through records of unusual Web traffic in search of answers.
2,000 contacts between Putins's Run Alfa Bank in Russia a Trump computer server in the little town of
Litiz, PA. Between April and Sept. 2016
As Max and his colleagues searched D.N.S. logs for domains associated with Republican candidates, they were perplexed by what they encountered. We went looking for fingerprints similar to what was on the D.N.C. computers, but we didnt find what we were looking for, Max told me. We found something totally differentsomething unique. In the small town of Lititz, Pennsylvania, a domain linked to the Trump Organization (mail1.trump-email.com) seemed to be behaving in a peculiar way. The server that housed the domain belonged to a company called Listrak, which mostly helped deliver mass-marketing e-mails: blasts of messages advertising spa treatments, Las Vegas weekends, and other enticements. Some Trump Organization domains sent mass e-mail blasts, but the one that Max and his colleagues spotted appeared not to be sending anything. At the same time, though, a very small group of companies seemed to be trying to communicate with it.
Examining records for the Trump domain, Maxs group discovered D.N.S. lookups from a pair of servers owned by Alfa Bank, one of the largest banks in Russia. Alfa Banks computers were looking up the address of the Trump server nearly every day. There were dozens of lookups on some days and far fewer on others, but the total number was notable: between May and September, Alfa Bank looked up the Trump Organizations domain more than two thousand times. We were watching this happen in real timeit was like watching an airplane fly by, Max said. And we thought, Why the hell is a Russian bank communicating with a server that belongs to the Trump Organization, and at such a rate?
Only one other entity seemed to be reaching out to the Trump Organizations domain with any frequency: Spectrum Health, of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Spectrum Health is closely linked to the DeVos family; Richard DeVos, Jr., is the chairman of the board, and one of its hospitals is named after his mother. His wife, Betsy DeVos, was appointed Secretary of Education by Donald Trump. Her brother, Erik Prince, is a Trump associate who has attracted the scrutiny of Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Trumps ties to Russia. Mueller has been looking into Princes meeting, following the election, with a Russian official in the Seychelles, at which he reportedly discussed setting up a back channel between Trump and the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. (Prince maintains that the meeting was incidental.) In the summer of 2016, Max and the others werent aware of any of this. We didnt know who DeVos was, Max said.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/was-there-a-connection-between-a-russian-bank-and-the-trump-campaign
LAS14
(13,869 posts)Raftergirl
(1,294 posts)It seems like there is one every few months.