A conservative operative trumpeting his close ties to the National Rifle Association and Russia told a Trump campaign adviser last year that he could arrange a back-channel meeting between Donald J. Trump and Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, according to an email sent to the Trump campaign.
A May 2016 email to the campaign adviser, Rick Dearborn, bore the subject line “Kremlin Connection.” In it, the N.R.A. member said he wanted the advice of Mr. Dearborn and Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, then a foreign policy adviser to Mr. Trump and Mr. Dearborn’s longtime boss, about how to proceed in connecting the two leaders.
Russia, he wrote, was “quietly but actively seeking a dialogue with the U.S.” and would attempt to use the N.R.A.’s annual convention in Louisville, Ky., to make “‘first contact.’” The email, which was among a trove of campaign-related documents turned over to investigators on Capitol Hill, was described in detail to The New York Times.
Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign, secured a guilty plea on Friday from President Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, for lying to the F.B.I. about contacts with Moscow’s former ambassador to the United States. But those contacts came after Mr. Trump’s improbable election victory.
The emailed outreach from the conservative operative to Mr. Dearborn came far earlier, around the same time that Russians were trying to make other connections to the Trump campaign. Another contact came through an American advocate for Christian and veterans causes, and together, the outreach shows how, as Mr. Trump closed in on the nomination, Russians were using three foundational pillars of the Republican Party — guns, veterans and Christian conservatives — to try to make contact with his unorthodox campaign.
As the New York Times points out this is just another of the numerous attempts to get Putin and Trump together, by both people outside of the campaign, and people inside of the campaign.
Also keep in mind that the NRA was one of Trump's biggest donors ultimately donating tens of millions of dollars.
Which makes one wonder if perhaps certain members of the NRA are not also on Robert Mueller's list of potential witnesses?We found out today an NRA member invited Trump to the Kremlin on behalf of Putin before the election.— Scott Dworkin (@funder) December 3, 2017
Right before that the NRA sent a delegation to meet with Putin allies in Russia before investing $30.3 million into Trump’s campaign.
It’s like, a conspiracy, or something. 🤔
RIP "JIM NABORS SINGING ' THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM ON THE GOMER PYLE SHOW."
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5KeGccP9Jk
Outstanding.
DeleteAs the dotard has said in the past: Republicans are easily duped, because they are stupid.
ReplyDeleteTrump + trump voters/ supporters= ignorance,hate,greed,lies,treason.
Hang them high!
We aren't even close to all the ppl that helped in the cover ups. That will be interesting.
Deletewe are going to get the NRA, too? oh, what a happy Christmas! this is why i love your blog, Gryphen. you think as i do and you never miss anything. thank you.
ReplyDelete;-)
DeleteIt's all beginning to resemble a fragile house of cards, or a domino set up... waiting for a jiggle or a push...
Deleteso let's push...
DeleteSB>“honey badger don’t give a shit" referred to himself as a “Leninist” whose goal was to “destroy the state.” with a seat on the National Security Council—leading him to be described as possibly the “second most powerful man in the world.”MILO
ReplyDeleteNot long after this came Yiannopoulos’s big break: GamerGate.
"apparently liberal “social justice warrior” agendas. The movement, which in reality was often viciously sexist, began as one man’s angry revenge on his games journalist ex-girlfriend and spiraled into an internet hate campaign against female technology writers and their supporters."he wrote in The Kernel. “I’m in my late twenties, and even I find it sad. And yet there are so many of them—enough to support a multi-billion dollar video games industry. That’s an awful lot of unemployed saddos living in their parents’ basements.”GamerGate expanded and metastasized into the movement that became known as the alt-right,"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/milo-yiannopoulos-is-the-walking-embodiment-of-bullst?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
Is there any non-progressive party faction that DIDN'T begin with revenge? Trump himself would approve, as that's his default position.
DeleteNo More $$$?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/a-government-shutdown-could-delay-a-trump-impeachment-vote/
That's all they got. Shrug.
DeleteLA Times
ReplyDeleteKushner has described himself as an overworked and inexperienced campaign aide who was “forced to make changes on the fly” when it came to Russia.
Boo fucking hoo
JARED KUSHNER CAN’T PASS HIS SECURITY CLEARANCE INVESTIGATION, OFFICIALS SAY
ReplyDeleteExperts from seven of the nation’s leading law firms specializing in security clearance reviews say Jared Kushner’s access to classified information should be withheld until a final decision can be made on his official application.
http://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-security-clearance-white-house-access-ivanka-donald-trump-723993