Russia Collusion Scandal (aka A Leftist fantasy)

In 2015, Mr. Podobnyy was charged with posing as a U.N. attaché under diplomatic cover while trying to recruit Mr. Page as a Russian intelligence source. The criminal complaint filed by U.S. federal prosecutors alleged Mr. Podobnyy was an agent for the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service. The complaint also detailed Mr. Podobnyy’s discussion in April 2013 with Igor Sporyshev, a second alleged SVR agent posing as a Russian trade representative, about efforts to recruit “a male working as a consultant in New York City.” Mr. Podobnyy was afforded diplomatic immunity and left the country.

In a statement last year, Mr. Page confirmed he was the unnamed consultant and said he helped U.S. federal investigators during the case. The complaint charging Mr. Podobnyy said Mr. Page had provided the Russians with documents, which Mr. Page said were “nothing more than a few samples from the more detailed lectures” he was preparing for a course he was teaching at New York University at the time.
 
Six months after prosecutors charged Mr. Podobnyy, Mr. Trump launched his presidential campaign. In January 2016, Mr. Page told the House committee, he had an “initial meeting” with the campaign and began serving as an informal adviser.

In March 2016, in an interview with the Washington Post, Mr. Trump officially named Mr. Page as a member of his foreign policy advisory committee. Also named to the committee: George Papadopoulos, who last year pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his contacts with Russians during the campaign.

A former Trump national security adviser said the campaign wasn’t aware at the time of Mr. Page’s past dealings with U.S. counterintelligence officials.
 
Mr. Page told the House that while in Moscow, he “briefly said hello” to Arkady Dvorkovich, deputy prime minister of Russia, and met with Andrey Baranov, head of investor relations at Russian oil giant Rosneft Oil .

Toward the end of his trip, Mr. Page emailed campaign aides Tera Dahl and J.D. Gordon and told them he would send a “readout soon regarding some incredible insights and outreach I’ve received from a few Russian legislators and senior members of the presidential administration here.”

Mr. Gordon said in an interview that he didn’t recall the email.

That fall, the Justice Department requested a secret court order to monitor Mr. Page’s ties to Russia, using as part of its request information from Mr. Steele, according to people familiar with the matter. It isn’t clear whether the department had previously requested a FISA warrant on Mr. Page.
 
A month after Mr. Trump won the presidential election, Mr. Page traveled to Russia again. There, he met again with Messrs. Dvorkovich and Baranov, among others, Mr. Page told the House panel.

The following spring, Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general appointed by Mr. Trump, approved a renewal of surveillance of Mr. Page.

Editorial comment: The above sentence is sloppily written and misleading. Rosenstein cannot approve a renewal of surveillance. He can approve an application for renewal, which then goes to the FISA court.
 
I'm a little perplexed as to how ploughing up this Carter Page stuff again is supposed to help Trump and hurt Mueller in the court of public opinion.
 
I'm a little perplexed as to how ploughing up this Carter Page stuff again is supposed to help Trump and hurt Mueller in the court of public opinion.

don't be perplexed...this is the gang that couldn't shoot straight...we've seen this the entire time...keystone cops...whatever you want to call it
 
One answer is that it's purely about pushing Rosenstein out as a means of hampering or sinking the investigation.
 
Roaring economy
Finally strengthening the border
Defeated the physical caliphate after it was allowed to flourish for years under Obama
Tax Legislation giving more power to the peope
Locking up pedophile rings all over the country (very underreported thus far)

And there are many other you will scoff at but because you have been in your echo chamber you don't realize just how successful of a year Trump had.

•Brags about trends he didn’t start
•Inherited an economy that was already trending in the right direction, has seen fewer jobs per month added and wages growing at a slower rate.
•Postures as a bipartisan on immigration while implying the country doesn’t need immigrants from countries where most people are brown or darker; though he has consistently hired said immigrants for cheap labor. This is all the while he lies and distorts points from his so-called four-pillar plan.
•Tries to take sole credit for destroying the ISIS caliphate when ISIS had already been forced from well over 90 percent of its previously-held territory, an approach that started under Obama, not exactly “allowing it to flourish.”
•Signed tax legislation that was rammed through way more than he and his party claimed the ACA was; that was stocked with last-minute gifts to corporate donors, lobbyists and other special interests; that is projected to give only very modest breaks to the people who need it most; that will decrease potential revenues to be used to fix the nation’s infrastructure he admits is crumbling; that will likely further destabilize the health insurance market, leading to premium increases or loss of coverage that will eat up the money gained by the people who need the breaks the most.
•Endorsed for the United States Senate a man who is an accused pedophile, believes homosexuality is a crime and believes Muslim-Americans shouldn’t hold elected office. But at least his lawyer is a Jew.

Some more:
•Has done more damage to the U.S. reputation around the world in his first year than any other president in modern times.
•Has told more lies in his first year than any other president in modern times — ranging from lying about why he fired an FBI director to whether his inauguration crowd was the biggest ever and whether more people watched his SOTU speech than any other previous one.
•Fired an FBI director investigating him and people tied to him after asking for a loyalty pledge and trying to influence him to end said investigation, then changed his story about why he did so. Immediately after firing the FBI director, he held a meeting with a Russian official, closed the meeting to the U.S. press, invited the Russian press and told said official he had finally gotten rid of the “nutjob.”
•Has tried to influence an active investigation every step of the way, flipped out on his AG, who is part of the investigation, for recusing himself.
•Had more first-year turnover in his administration than any other president. Tom Price, the CDC director who just had to quit, on and on and on and on.
•Has no interest in environmental science.
•Called people marching alongside Nazis “very fine people.”
•Was mostly unresponsive to many more mass shootings, except the one from a far-left lunatic who targeted Republican Congressmen.
•Calls for investigations targeting political opponents.
•Pardoned a criminal after asking the AG for the case against said criminal to be dropped.
•Characterizes American press in the same way oppressive dictators characterized the press.
•Refuses to impose overwhelmingly bipartisan sanctions against a country that interfered in our elections, ignores the advice of and contradicts the statements from his own intelligence community.

This is just the **** I can remember. There are many other ones I can list, but it’s impossible to get through to you because you’ve been insulated in the right-wing, Trumpite echo chamber.

Edit: Forgot one: played more golf in year one than any other president. And supposedly is a cheater at that, too.
 
I'm a little perplexed as to how ploughing up this Carter Page stuff again is supposed to help Trump and hurt Mueller in the court of public opinion.

his deluded base will latch on to something.
page was being watched since 2014, i believe.
the watch was renewed in 2017..meaning there was still growing evidence that allowed it to continue.
trump hired a bunch of foreign agents to his campaign...a coincidence, i'm sure..and they were being watched. the deluded want to (or, need to) believe it was simply to "spy" on trump. perhaps if he didn't hire some of the worst possible people to his campaign...
 
Michael Cohen‏ @speechboy71

According to my sources on Capitol Hill, this is the memo


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•Brags about trends he didn’t start
•Inherited an economy that was already trending in the right direction, has seen fewer jobs per month added and wages growing at a slower rate.
•Postures as a bipartisan on immigration while implying the country doesn’t need immigrants from countries where most people are brown or darker; though he has consistently hired said immigrants for cheap labor. This is all the while he lies and distorts points from his so-called four-pillar plan.
•Tries to take sole credit for destroying the ISIS caliphate when ISIS had already been forced from well over 90 percent of its previously-held territory, an approach that started under Obama, not exactly “allowing it to flourish.”
•Signed tax legislation that was rammed through way more than he and his party claimed the ACA was; that was stocked with last-minute gifts to corporate donors, lobbyists and other special interests; that is projected to give only very modest breaks to the people who need it most; that will decrease potential revenues to be used to fix the nation’s infrastructure he admits is crumbling; that will likely further destabilize the health insurance market, leading to premium increases or loss of coverage that will eat up the money gained by the people who need the breaks the most.
•Endorsed for the United States Senate a man who is an accused pedophile, believes homosexuality is a crime and believes Muslim-Americans shouldn’t hold elected office. But at least his lawyer is a Jew.

Some more:
•Has done more damage to the U.S. reputation around the world in his first year than any other president in modern times.
•Has told more lies in his first year than any other president in modern times — ranging from lying about why he fired an FBI director to whether his inauguration crowd was the biggest ever and whether more people watched his SOTU speech than any other previous one.
•Fired an FBI director investigating him and people tied to him after asking for a loyalty pledge and trying to influence him to end said investigation, then changed his story about why he did so. Immediately after firing the FBI director, he held a meeting with a Russian official, closed the meeting to the U.S. press, invited the Russian press and told said official he had finally gotten rid of the “nutjob.”
•Has tried to influence an active investigation every step of the way, flipped out on his AG, who is part of the investigation, for recusing himself.
•Had more first-year turnover in his administration than any other president. Tom Price, the CDC director who just had to quit, on and on and on and on.
•Has no interest in environmental science.
•Called people marching alongside Nazis “very fine people.”
•Was mostly unresponsive to many more mass shootings, except the one from a far-left lunatic who targeted Republican Congressmen.
•Calls for investigations targeting political opponents.
•Pardoned a criminal after asking the AG for the case against said criminal to be dropped.
•Characterizes American press in the same way oppressive dictators characterized the press.
•Refuses to impose overwhelmingly bipartisan sanctions against a country that interfered in our elections, ignores the advice of and contradicts the statements from his own intelligence community.

This is just the **** I can remember. There are many other ones I can list, but it’s impossible to get through to you because you’ve been insulated in the right-wing, Trumpite echo chamber.

Edit: Forgot one: played more golf in year one than any other president. And supposedly is a cheater at that, too.

So all the negatives basically didn't hurt Americans at all.

Got it.
 
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