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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWa Po has an interesting new article out today but I am unable to read it.
Something about a Russian social media executive offer to help Trump in 2016.
Anyone have access please post.
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Wa Po has an interesting new article out today but I am unable to read it. (Original Post)
triron
Jan 2018
OP
Rob Goldstone, and british music promoter and trump Jr were involved, and Mueller is on it.
lindysalsagal
Jan 2018
#9
samnsara
(17,635 posts)1. i cant either..everytime i try to it fades out and the last thing i see...
...is something about democracy fading in the darkness..
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)2. Clear your browser cookies and try again.
pnwmom
(108,994 posts)4. You could at least post the link without reading it. n/t
lindysalsagal
(20,730 posts)5. I found this but w no explanation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/01/04/what-weve-learned-about-trumps-campaign-and-russia-since-trump-first-denied-collusion/?utm_term=.510659438bf6
Again: This is only what weve learned since the Trump administration first offered its there was no collusion defense things that impartial observers might think undercut the claim that there is no evidence of the Trump team working with Russian actors. Weve left out things that were already known when Spicer first addressed the subject, including campaign adviser Carter Pages repeated trips to Moscow in 2016 and Trump Jr.s speech to a pro-Russian group a month before the election. It also excludes a number of things weve learned since last March that are less direct: outreach by a Russian social-media company to the Trump campaign, for example, and contacts between one source of documents stolen by Russia and Trump ally Roger Stone.
Cato Institute senior fellow Julian Sanchez articulated an alternative reading of this new information in tweets after the Times report about Papadopoulos being the trigger for the FBIs investigation.
The campaign got advance word that Russia had thousands of hacked Dem emails, yet consistently feigned doubt publicly, he wrote. When the DNC e-mail hack became public, did they call the FBI and say hey, we actually got a heads up about this over a month ago we have strong evidence Russia was probably responsible? They did the opposite, trying to shift blame to a 400lb guy in his basement. Even if that were the end of it, that would be pretty egregious. Giving cover to actors whove committed felonies to help you disparaging the IC consensus that Russia was responsible despite having inside knowledge that they were? Seems absolutely fair to call that collusion.
Its been noted repeatedly that collusion is not a legal term. Theres no standard to be reached to establish the fact or fiction of collusion. Its subjective. Trumps subjective position has always been that there was no collusion; his subjective position is also that there was collusion between the Russians and the Democrats. Meadows and Jordan, Trump supporters, also hold the subjective position that there is no evidence of collusion.
Maeve
(42,288 posts)6. this one?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/russian-social-media-executive-sought-to-help-trump-campaign-in-2016-emails-show/2017/12/07/31ec8d90-db9a-11e7-b859-fb0995360725_story.html?utm_term=.739e8f045a16
An executive at a leading Russian social media company made several overtures to Donald Trumps presidential campaign in 2016 including days before the November election urging the candidate to create a page on the website to appeal to Russian Americans and Russians.
The executive at Vkontakte, or VK, Russias equivalent to Facebook, emailed Donald Trump Jr. and social media director Dan Scavino in January and again in November of last year, offering to help promote Trumps campaign to its nearly 100 million users, according to people familiar with the messages.
It will be the top news in Russia, Konstantin Sidorkov, who serves as VKs director of partnership marketing, wrote on Nov. 5, 2016.
The executive at Vkontakte, or VK, Russias equivalent to Facebook, emailed Donald Trump Jr. and social media director Dan Scavino in January and again in November of last year, offering to help promote Trumps campaign to its nearly 100 million users, according to people familiar with the messages.
It will be the top news in Russia, Konstantin Sidorkov, who serves as VKs director of partnership marketing, wrote on Nov. 5, 2016.
Maeve
(42,288 posts)7. And another paragraph, since I only posted 3
The emails, which were read to The Washington Post and confirmed by people with knowledge of their contents, show a new point of direct contact between an influential Russian and advisers to Trump during the 2016 race. Investigators for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and several congressional committees are scrutinizing those contacts as part of their examinations into Russias meddling in the 2016 campaign
lindysalsagal
(20,730 posts)9. Rob Goldstone, and british music promoter and trump Jr were involved, and Mueller is on it.
I don't want to break the paragraph rule, so, I'll just paraphrase. Trump aid Rhona Graff was involved, and trump met the russian through his moscow miss universe pageant connections. Sidorkov is connected to putin, publicly. Natalia Veselnitskaya, Manfort and Kuschner are also involved. Goldstone was in trump tower and there were follow-up emails.
Lots of connections, and offers to let russian readers get to know trump through the site. Apparently, trump is good for their image in russia.
Ugly. But Mueller is on it.
Glad I joined WAPO today.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)10. do this
Go to news.google.com
search "What weve learned about Trumps campaign"
Click that