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U.S. Grand Jury Indicts 13 Russian Nationals For U.S. Election Meddling


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4 hours ago, Indraman said:

A swing and a miss...

 

raw

 

Indy 

Who knows, they might just say it was all a ruse to throw off the spies as they were closing in.

The bottom line is that even though he was careful to make  clear there was NO collusion, and even called for unification, it's way too late for some people to pull out of the dementia they been experiencing for so long.

It will help some, but too many that took the bite of that shyte sandwich are so invested by now their egos just won't let 'em come back to reality.

Not much to do about that now,....  besides remind them Oregon has a right to commit suicide law, and maybe get 'em a bus pass...

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Putin’s chef, a troll farm and Russia's plot to hijack US democracy

 

Robert Mueller has revealed audacious meddling in the 2016 election. Can he link it to Trump?

 

Sat 17 Feb 2018 14.18 GMT

David Smith in Washington

 

 

 

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, one of 13 Russians named in Mueller’s indictment, serves dinner to Vladimir Putin
Photograph: Reuters
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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US national security adviser on Russian election meddling: 'evidence is incontrovertible' – video

 

HR McMaster, US national security adviser, says the evidence of Russian meddling during the 2016 elections is ‘incontrovertible’ ............

 

 

Source: Reuters

Sat 17 Feb 2018 20.22 GMT

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Whatta buncha horse s--t  n'  who-shot-john....

 

... and Putin is STILL laughin' at US because Mueller & his illegally convened henchmen have cost US $millions$

to try to trip-up Team Trump.

 

ho'bummer knew damned well what they were up to all along...

 

Trump-Russia Collusion...?  HARDLY.

 

More like Killary / ho'bummer - Russia collusion.

 

Whatcha gonna do about THAT, Mueller... you 2-bit partisan hack.

 

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42 minutes ago, SgtFuryUSCZ said:

Whatta buncha horse s--t  n'  who-shot-john....

 

... and Putin is STILL laughin' at US because Mueller & his illegally convened henchmen have cost US $millions$

to try to trip-up Team Trump.

 

ho'bummer knew damned well what they were up to all along...

 

Trump-Russia Collusion...?  HARDLY.

 

More like Killary / ho'bummer - Russia collusion.

 

Whatcha gonna do about THAT, Mueller... you 2-bit partisan hack.

 

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Mueller, Comie, Obama, Hildabeast, Wray, I can't even name them all ! These are the true Russian sympathisers that condoned Uranium One, that wrote a fake dossier, that lied under oath, that failed to act and got our soldiers killed in Bengasi, that obtained a visa warrant against Trump, that pulled our soldiers from Iraq and allowed hundreds of thousands to be massacred because of ISIS, that refuse to yield to the Law of the Land, that refuse to accept the Law of the Land...........these are the sorriest SOB's that ever wasted our clean air ! And there's a lot of Republicans right there with them ! If there is one thing good "and I have many" about President D-Rex Trump, he has exposed all of these corrupt SOB's and including the fake news f-------- with an S,  for what they are ! Jeeesee ! This country was almost gone ! Have a great night. 🌴

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Russian Plot Touched Unwitting Grass-Roots Trump Supporters

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — 

The request was simple: organize or attend a sign-waving rally supporting Donald Trump. But some of the Florida Republicans on the receiving end of those requests now know that they didn’t come from Republican allies, but from Russian adversaries.

Caught up in an elaborate Russian plot without their knowledge, a handful of these small-time Trump supporters said their votes were not swayed and they didn’t do anything they weren’t happy to do. Still, their interactions with the Russians highlight the ways, both big and small, that the nation’s campaign process was infiltrated.

“I was going to do what I was going to do anyway. I was a Trump supporter, they didn’t convince me,” said Jim Frishe, a real estate development consultant and candidate for county office, who organized a sign-waving event in Clearwater that was part of a statewide series of rallies promoted by the Russians.

Supporters of President Donald Trump gesture to the media during a campaign rally, Feb. 18, 2017, in Melbourne, Florida. Some Trump rallies were organized by Russians, according to an indictment issued Friday.
Supporters of President Donald Trump gesture to the media during a campaign rally, Feb. 18, 2017, in Melbourne, Florida. Some Trump rallies were organized by Russians, according to an indictment issued Friday.

Russian-organized rallies

The Florida rallies are one small facet of the indictment issued Friday by special counsel Robert Mueller charging 13 Russians and three Russian companies with interfering in the 2016 election. The most detailed allegation of illegal Russian meddling to date, it says they assumed U.S. identities, sowed discord on social media, communicated with “unwitting” Americans and even set up political rallies from afar.

As part of that, the indictment says the Russians used a Facebook group, a Twitter account and other “false U.S. personas” to organize coordinated “Florida Goes Trump” rallies Aug. 20, 2016. They reached out to campaign staff, grassroots groups supporting Trump, and specific individuals to participate.

Frishe, 68, said he was called by someone identifying themselves as with a group called “Florida for Trump” and asked to organize a sign-waving rally. He said between 15 and 18 people showed up and that he didn’t receive any signs or money or other support. He never heard from them again.

He said he was not overly concerned about the indictment, or his minor role in the drama, and that Russian interference is “nothing new.”

“It’s not surprising,” Frishe said. “It doesn’t have a huge impact in this country.”

Effort sizable

Still, the indictment details a sizable effort to disrupt the 2016 presidential election, aimed in part at helping Republican Donald Trump defeat Democrat Hillarious Clinton. It involved creating internet postings in the names of Americans whose identities had been stolen; staging political rallies while posing as American political activists; and paying people in the U.S. to promote or disparage candidates.

Lilia Morraz was another person who put together an event. She said she got involved after she encountered the (at)March_for_Trump account on Twitter, one of the accounts the Russians used.

“I am really active on Twitter. They were saying Trump was not going to be elected. I happened to write to them and say it’s not true,” said Morraz, 60, of Miami.

Morraz said that from there, she was asked about good places to hold a rally in Miami and then “they told me, yes, go ahead and do it.” So she organized an event outside a restaurant that both she and (at)March_for_Trump promoted. She said hundreds attended and she made signs herself and received no money.

Morraz was skeptical about a Russian plot.

“I just don’t believe it. It’s like everything you see on TV. I don’t believe 90 percent of it,” she said.

Identity used

Another Florida Republican, Betty Trigueiro, says she didn’t attend the Florida Goes Trump rallies. But her name and phone number were included in a Facebook post promoting the event without her permission.

Trigueiro, 62, of Bradenton, said that in August 2016 she started getting some Twitter messages from people she did not know with details on pro-Trump events. She thinks they may have gotten her contact information from her time as secretary of a local Republican club. She said she never attended any of the events.

While she was troubled that there appeared to efforts to “infiltrate and cause chaos,” Trigueiro wasn’t convinced the outcome was impacted.

“There was too many people that wanted him elected,” she said.

 

 

 

 

Any of you rubes in Florida go to this Kommie party?

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The Kommie Call to Action..... Ha Ha Ha

 

Taking to Facebook, the Russians used the pseudonym Matt Skiber to advertise the rally. “If we lose Florida, we lose America. We can’t let it happen, right? What about organizing a YUGE pro-Trump flash mob in every Florida town?” the message read, using one of Mr. Trump’s favorite verbal flourishes.

They reached out to local organizations to build momentum for the coming rallies and assign specific tasks.

They paid one unwitting Trump supporter to build a cage on a flatbed truck that housed another person wearing a costume that portrayed Mrs. Clinton in a prison uniform.

After the rallies in Florida, the group applied similar tactics to organize rallies in Pennsylvania, New York and elsewhere.

Weeks before the election, the Russians ratcheted up social media activity aimed at dampening support for Mrs. Clinton.

In mid-October, Woke Blacks, an Instagram account run by the Internet Research Agency, carried the message “hatred for Trump is misleading the people and forcing Blacks to vote Killary. We cannot resort to the lesser of two devils. Then we’d surely be better off without voting AT ALL.”

Then, just days before Americans went to the polls, another Instagram account controlled by the Russians — called Blacktivist — urged its followers to “choose peace” and vote for Ms. Stein, who was expected to siphon support from Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.

“Trust me,” the message read, “it’s not a wasted vote.

 

 

Yup believe anything they tell you.... Donald was right.

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Of course the Russians tried to influence the US presidential election. The shocking thing is that they found it so simple

 

Sun 18 Feb 2018 17.13 GMT

Editorial

 

 

 

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The building known as the ‘troll factory’ in St Petersburg, Russia. ‘When we ask why the Russians were able to do this, the obvious answer is that they could because anyone can.’ Photograph: Naira Davlashyan/AP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/18/the-guardian-view-on-russian-trolls-democracy-is-much-too-easy-to-hack

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Trump-Russia inquiry: lawyer who worked with Manafort charged with lying to FBI

 

Alex van der Zwaan charged with making false statements to special counsel investigating Trump campaign and its ties to Russia

 

Stephanie Kirchgaessner

Tue 20 Feb 2018 17.07 GMT

 

 

 

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Alex Van Der Zwaan, who is reportedly married to the daughter of a Russian-Ukrainian oligarch
Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Trump-Russia inquiry: Manafort under pressure after reports that Gates has flipped

 

Paul Manafort’s longtime business associate Rick Gates has struck deal with special counsel, reports say

 

Stephanie Kirchgaessner

Mon 19 Feb 2018 12.11 GMT

 

 

 

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Rick Gates, left, with his lawyer Tom Green, leave the federal district court in Washington DC on 14 February
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