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No doubt that Bill Barr improperly, at times illegally, worked with Donald Trump to cover up Trump's crimes. Bill Barr was a partisaan AG, to put it mildly.
I want to begin my story at the beginning back in 2016 when Trump was running for president and cybersecurity experts discovered a server at Trump Tower that was connected to Alfa bank in Russia, a Putin bank. The only communications from Trump Tower server went to Alfa bank, no communications went to any other location. The cybersecurity experts wanted the FBI/CIA to do more investigations into the server, instead we got John Durham who investigated the Russian investigation.
"The text of that email shows Mr. Dagon was forcefully supportive. He proposed editing the paper to declare as fact that it was clear that there are hidden communications between Trump and Alfa Bank, and said he believed the findings met the probable cause standard to open a criminal investigation."
Hopefully the intended audience are officials with subpoena powers, who can investigate the purpose of the apparent Alfa Bank connection, Mr. Dagon wrote.
In the end, Mr. Durham came to investigate them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/us/politics/trump-alfa-bank-indictment.html
2naSalit
(102,780 posts)Waiting for this issue to come back around. The fire an that tenant's death were very suspicious.
K&R
Martin68
(27,741 posts)something when you look at the Nixon and Reagan administrations.
jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)in the eternal contest of governmental corruption. But you can count on Trump to surpass them in this, no matter how low the "Barr".
gab13by13
(32,318 posts)Merrick Garland, where is the SC investigating Bill Barr? To the contrary, Garland appoints special counsels for Hunter Biden so as to show Magats that he is not partisan.
dchill
(42,660 posts)jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)Many have drowned in the attempt.
getagrip_already
(17,802 posts)The statute of limitations has sailed on all but the very last of bill barrs crimes.
Certainly it has past on anything related to this server, the Mueller Era investigations, and the inauguration investigations.
5 years is all you get.
Botany
(77,323 posts)2,500 + link ups between Alfa bank in Russia and Trumps campaign server in Lititiz, PA
from February until Oct. 2016 and another 200 + to Betsy DeVoss / Erik Prince in Michigan
@ the same time.
The FBI was well aware of the Alfa Bank/Trump/Russia connections prior to the elections
but talked about Hillarys emails instead.
Backseat Driver
(4,671 posts)ex-Congressional Rep. Anthony Weiner's salacious sexting investigation, a ready-made useful GOP distraction.
Botany
(77,323 posts)People need to be in prison. Olge Deripaska
. I think was paying him in 2016, Deripaska bank rolled
Tony DeVolders (santos) 2022 campaign, and Bill Barr dropped Muellers charges against Olge too,
ancianita
(43,307 posts)Is the NYT trying to do a hit on the current DOJ for what Barr did/didn't do?
gab13by13
(32,318 posts)I am doing the hit because it bugs me how criminals get away with rewriting history.
It bugs me when Merrick Garland goes public and states that he will not be partisan when the vast majority of the new Magat party is working to overthrow our democracy.
We have special counsel investigating Hunter Biden, no special counsel investigating Jared Kushner.
We have a special counsel investigating President Biden having classified documents, no special counsel investigated Mike Pence.
It just bugs me.
We were told when Kristen Clarke was confirmed that steps would be taken to curb all of the thousands of threats being made to honest election officials, librarians, NARA employees, school board members, and on and on. The threats have only increased since Jan. 6th, the insurrection has grown since Jan. 6th. People at the top behind this insurrection need to be held accountable.
Members of Congress like Scott Perry, Ron Johnson, need to be held accountable, we don't need an attorney general saying he will not be partisan because that is being partisan in favor of the traitors. Until I see Scott Perry has been indicted I will keep saaying that members of Congress have immunity.
ancianita
(43,307 posts)masmdu
(2,648 posts)BadgerMom
(3,417 posts)wiggs
(8,812 posts)onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)dalton99a
(94,113 posts)dweller
(28,409 posts)Ponietz
(4,330 posts)A massive Federal RICO/espionage case is what itll take to restore sanity. Kick the can will kill us.
jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)than to go after internal corruption in national law enforcement. And that's kind of a serious thing for any news cycle.
flying_wahini
(8,275 posts) Reported computer activity between Spectrum Health and a server affiliated with the Trump Organization has been brought into the spotlight as an investigation continues into whether a connection was made between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank, CNN reported this week.
According to CNN, internet data shows a computer server owned by Russian-based Alfa Bank looked up the contact information for a computer server being used by the Trump Organization, mail1.trump-email.com. The bank is reported to have looked up the address 2,820 times, while a Spectrum Health server reportedly looked up the address 714 times.
Botany
(77,323 posts)And who did a Russian agent meet with in January of 2017 to set up a secret back channel
contact network between Russia/Putin and Trump? Erik Prince. I have always wondered
if Fox News was in this loop?
The meeting was on an island 900 miles off the coast of east Africa in the Indian Ocean
.
Random Chance.
ScratchCat
(2,740 posts)This issue of Russian money being directed secretly to members of the Senate and House is simply too easy to uncover to think this wasn't known about at most levels at DOJ.
Russia "isn't stupid". If they compromised some Republicans, they also compromised Democrats because it would make little sense otherwise.
That is why this hasn't been "investigated" and won't.
Bill Barr and John Durham's job's were to keep quiet the Russia money connection. Few Democrats are "screaming from the rooftops" about this because they have been told an investigation will lead to Democrats having taken money(maybe even unknowingly) as well.
Unfortunately, DOJ probably let Trump get away with all those Russians in Trump Tower for so many years simply because it was easier to "keep tabs" on them if you knew where they were.
This is simply deductive reasoning on my part. Others have speculated about whether DOJ/CIA/NSA knew about what had been going on with Trump and Russian Oliagarchs for years, and this is not a unique theory. There was a reason why this was never fully investigated even before Trump ran for POTUS.
jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)Claw on!
AllaN01Bear
(29,486 posts)gab13by13
(32,318 posts)there is no evidence of Russia funneling money to Democrats. Claiming that the lack of investigation/prosecution is because democrats are complicit is just pure speculation, without a shred of evidence.
kentuck
(115,406 posts)...how it went silent all of a sudden.
Captain Zero
(8,905 posts)Flood at Mara Lago, fire at Rump tower.
Things tend to happen on Trump properties when evidence is involved.
praxEs
(84 posts)And we all have seen the evidence. It galls me to no end that he prances around lying about his crimes and nobody in the media is calling him out. He's just pretending now that he was not a dirty criminal all along just like the last time for Bush. He merits prosecution before we finish up the the Trump prosecutions writ large.
republianmushroom
(22,323 posts)praxEs
(84 posts)And we all have seen the evidence. It galls me to no end that he prances around lying about his crimes and nobody in the media is calling him out. He's just pretending now that he was not a dirty criminal all along just like the last time for Bush. He merits prosecution before we finish up the the Trump prosecutions writ large.