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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Donald Trump on Monday reiterated a belief that sent shockwaves through Washington in 2018 when he first famously described it while standing next to Vladimir Putin.

The former president was roundly denounced by both Republicans and Democrats at the time for denigrating the work of America’s intelligence community and in particular for taking the word of Russia’s president over his own Director of National Intelligence.

But on Monday he proved that his beliefs were changed little if at all by the wave of criticism he received at the time with a post describing members of the intelligence community, presumably including the CIA, NSA, FBI and cybersecurity agencies, as “lowlifes”.

“Remember in Helsinki when a 3rd rate reporter asked me, essentially, who I trusted more, President Putin of Russia, or our ‘Intelligence’ lowlifes[?]” wrote the former president on Truth Social in a Monday morning post.

He continued: “My instinct at the time was that we had really bad people in the form of James Comey, McCabe (whose wife was being helped out by Crooked Hillary while Crooked was under investigation!), Brennan, Peter Strzok (whose wife is at the SEC) & his lover, Lisa Page. Now add McGonigal & other slime to the list. Who would you choose, Putin or these Misfits?”

It’s an example of the kind of comment that will gin up excitement and agreement from Mr. Trump’s hardcore base of supporters but will alienate potential allies in Washington as he pursues a third bid for the presidency.

Mr. Trump is likely to face a cadre of Republican rivals for the 2024 GOP nomination including, potentially, former CIA director Mike Pompeo who could very well take issue with his former boss’s words during the campaign.

The former president was loathe to acknowledge the conclusion of US intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 election — apparently on his behalf, or to Hillary Clinton’s detriment — throughout his four years in the White House.

The involvement of Russia in the election sparked a years-long and politically damaging investigation into Donald Trump and his inner circle, headed up by special counsel Robert Mueller of the Justice Department, which eventually resulted in no criminal charges for the President (though others were convicted of unrelated charges in the course of the probe).

Mr. Trump has long held a grudge against the FBI and Justice Department for that reason, a feud which spilled back into vocal maligning of the agency’s personnel and mission last year after FBI agents raided his residence and resort at Mar-a-Lago and seized documents including materials marked classified which he had retained without permission.

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porterdavis · 2 years

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Trump using the full powers of the government to punish his foes.

This is how fascists roll.

#irs #trump will die in jail #james comey #andrew mccabe

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kp777 · 9 months

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#sarah palin #civil war #andrew mccabe #republicans

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makingdonalddrumpfagain · 2 years

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#irs investigation #james comey #andrew mccabe

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gwydionmisha · 2 years

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#IRS #James Comey #Andrew McCabe #Donald Trump #News

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gettothestabbing · 1 year

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“Upon receipt of unevaluated intelligence information from Australia, the FBI swiftly opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. In particular, at the direction of Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Peter Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane immediately. Strzok, at a minimum, had pronounced hostile feelings toward Trump.”

“The matter was opened as a full investigation without ever having spoken to the persons who provided the information. Further, the FBI did so without (i) any significant review of its own intelligence databases, (ii) collection and examination of any relevant intelligence from other U.S. intelligence entities, (iii) interviews of witnesses essential to understand the raw information it had received or (iv) using any of the standard analytical tools typicallv employed by the FBI in evaluating raw intelligence,” the report concluded.

“Had it done so … the FBI would have learned that their own experienced Russia analysts had no information about Trump being involved with Russian leadership officials, nor were others in sensitive positions at the CIA, the NSA, and the Department of State aware of such evidence concerning the subject. In addition, FBI records prepared by Strzok in February and March 2017 show that at the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the campaign anyone in the Trump campaign had been in contact with any Russian intelligence officials,” it said.

“In the eighteen months leading up to the 2016 election, the FBI was required to deal with a number of proposed investigations that had the potential of affecting the election. In each of those instances, the FBI moved with considerable caution. In one such matter… FBI Headquarters and Department officials required defensive briefings to be provided to Clinton and other officials or candidates who appeared to be the targets of foreign interference,” it said. “In another, the FBI elected to end an investigation after one of its longtime and valuable CHSs went beyond what was authorized and made an improper and possibly illegal financial contribution to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a foreign entity as a precursor to a much larger donation being contemplated.”

“And in a third, the Clinton Foundation matter, both senior FBI and Department officials placed restrictions on how those matters were to be handled such that essentially no investigative activities occurred for months leading up to the election. These examples are also markedly different from the FBI’s actions with respect to other highly significant intelligence it received from a trusted foreign source pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server,” it said.

“Within days after opening Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI opened full investigations on four members of the Trump campaign team: George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn. No defensive briefing was provided to Trump or anyone in the campaign concerning the information received from Australia that suggested there might be some type of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, either prior to or after these investigations were opened. Instead, the FBI began working on requests for the use of FISA authorities against Page and Papadopoulos.”

“Our investigation determined that the Crossfire Hurricane investigators did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations contained in the Steele reporting. Nor was Steele able to produce corroboration for any of the reported allegations, even after being offered $1 million or more by the FBI for such corroboration.

“The FBI learned that Steele relied primarily on a U.S.-based Russian national, Igor Danchenko, to collect information that ultimately formed the core allegations found in the reports. Specifically, our investigation discovered that Danchenko himself had told another person that he (Danchenko) was responsible for 80% of the ‘intel’ and 50% of the analysis contained in the Steele Dossier.”

“In December 2016, the FBI identified Danchenko as Steele’s primary sub-source. Danchenko agreed to meet with the FBI and, under the protection of an immunity letter… the FBI conducted multiple interviews of Danchenko regarding, among other things, the information he provided to Steele,” it said. “Danchenko was unable to provide any corroborating evidence to support the Steele allegations, and further, described his interactions with his sub-sources as ‘rumor and speculation’ and conversations of a casual nature. Significant parts of what Danchenko told the FBI were inconsistent with what Steele told the FBI during his prior interviews in October 2016 and September 2017. At no time, however, was the FISC informed of these inconsistencies. Moreover, notwithstanding the repeated assertions in the Page FISA applications that Steele’s primary sub-source was based in Russia, Danchenko for many years had lived in the Washington, D.C. area.”

“The FBI knew in January 2017 that Danchenko had been the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation from 2009 to 2011. In late 2008, while Danchenko was employed by the Brookings Institution, he engaged two fellow employees about whether one of the employees might be willing or able in the future to provide classified information in exchange for money. According to one employee, Danchenko believed that he (the employee might be following a mentor into the incoming Obama administration and have access to classified information. During this exchange, Danchenko informed the employee that he had access to people who were willing to pay for classified information.”

“The FBI converted its investigation into a full investigation after learning that Danchenko (i) had been identified as an associate of two FBI counterintelligence subjects and (ii) had previous contact with the Russian Embassy and known Russian intelligence officers… at that earlier time, Agents had interviewed several former colleagues of Danchenko who raised concerns about Danchenko’s potential involvement with Russian intelligence. For example, one such colleague, who had interned at a U.S. intelligence agency, informed the Office that Danchenko frequently inquired about that person’s knowledge of a specific Russian military matter.”

You can read the report here.

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sneaky-salty-bitch · 2 years

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So I just watched Tumbledown and noticed that IMDb has Jason’s characters last name wrong. Well… being an actor and having to manage my IMDb page, I have IMDbPro. So…. You bet your bottom dollar I’m fixing that shit. Now we wait.

I’m just doing the lords work. Truly. For the people.

#jason sudeikis #ted lasso #jsuds #tumbledown #rebecca hall #andrew mccabe #sneakysaltyposts

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antebellumite · 11 months

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hey read my trump administration fic where I was probably overly sympathetic to reince priebus?

#fic #modern politics #reince priebus #james comey #andrew mccabe

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aaronjhill · 2 years

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Yes, yes, and yes. But it isn’t just him. The DOJ and FBI have made serious, stupid, and costly mistakes. The raid should never have happened. People need to work with Trump, instead of pursuing, persecuting, and possibly prosecuting. Unless you do the same with Hillary Clinton, John Brennan. James Clapper, John Kerry, Andy McCabe, Peter Strzok, James Comey, and any other officials who have committed crimes, then this reeks of partisan political selective justice. Justice is supposed to be blind — impartial and fair. As is the case so often with Trump, it rarely is. He has been convicted by so many before any charges have been filed, before any trials, before any due process. That seems to be the purpose of all of this.

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filosofablogger · 2 years

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The Return of the Snarky Snippet

It’s been a while since I’ve done a ‘snarky snippets’ post. Actually, I’ve started a few, but then the first snippet as often as not turns into a full-length post on its own. So, let me try again … Biggest story of the day … The biggest news of the day yesterday was not about gas prices, President Biden, the January 6th Committee, or the former guy … what’s his name again? It wasn’t even…

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#Andrew McCabe #Boris Johnson #FBI Director James Comey #Internal Revenue Service #Jeff Bezos yacht #Shinzo Abe #the former guy

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bi-peanut · 10 months

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the fact that conan grey, daniel ricciardo, Katie McCabe and George Russell were all at the same concert doesn't translate in my brain

#friday’s chaos #andrew's chaos #all my worlds colliding #conan grey #daniel ricciardo #george russell #katie mccabe #tomorrowland

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andrew-buchan-fansite · 3 months

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...and did he tell you where to find the lace?

#andrew buchan #garrow's law #1.3 #peter mccabe

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ecoamerica · 2 months

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suncrayon · 2 years

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McCabe's *voice* in 2.07

#RJ mccabe #it's. REALLY good acting kudos to mx andrews #tscosi #chatter

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1634archive · 11 months

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TORONTO, ON - APRIL 20: Mitchell Marner #16 of the Toronto Maple Leafs celebrates his second goal of the game against the Tampa Bay Lightning with teammates Jake McCabe #22. TJ Brodie #78, Auston Matthews #34 and Calle Jarnkrok #19 during the second period in Game Two of the First Round of the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Scotiabank Arena on April 20, 2023 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Photo by Andrew Lahodynskyj

#2023 #04.20.23 #andrew lahodynskyj #celly #game #lightning #playoffs #fans #brodie #mccabe #jarnkrok

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gwydionmisha · 2 years

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#Donald Trump #Michael Schmidt #James Comey #Andrew McCabe #News

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virtualdavis · 1 year

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Upcycled Christmas Gifts

These handsomely upcycled Christmas gifts created by Pam, Hroth, and Tony encapsulate Rosslyn's intriguing past and future. Thank you!

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ecoamerica · 1 month

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