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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInteresting Twitter thread on Don Jr, blocked call, Lorber, DJT, Russian media coverage.
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Scott Stedman
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Very interesting point here. Trump brags that the Trump Jr blocked phone call around the time of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting wasnt with him, but was with Howard Lorber instead.
Hours later, Russia releases old video of Trump with Lorber in Moscow.
Scott Stedman added (video here)
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VERY INTERESTING thread follows
matt819
(10,749 posts)I don't think these guys really understand the concept of "cut-out."
When you use a cut-out, you really want more than one degree of separation between the two conspiring parties. And that one degree shouldn't be another member of the conspiracy.
Think about it this way.
On one side is the primary foreign agent. Call him Spy. On the other side is the Traitor (in this case a certain president of the US and his family members, collectively).
Another foreign agent, working at the direction of the Spy, recruits the cut-out. Maybe he's a shopkeeper. Maybe he's a consultant. Maybe he's a miscellaneous, but trustworthy, guy who, for a few hundred or few thousand dollars will take a message from Spy or Traitor. Maybe, as in The Americans TV series, this guy is an illegal. He has nothing overt to do with the conspiracy. He's "just a guy." Call him Guy 1.
Add a level of security and have another foreign agent recruit another cut-out. Call him Guy 2.
Traitor communicates with Guy 1 securely. Then (optional) Guy 1 passes information to Guy 2. Then Guy 1 (or, optional, Guy 2), passes the information to Spy. Obviously, the same can happen in reverse. The method of communication is secure - phone, text, verbal, whatever, but certainly not by blocking numbers while using personal phones.
This way there's no direct, visible connection between Spy and Traitor.
Of course, when the rest of the the Trump team has had more than 100 documented contacts with Russian nationals, maybe covert communication is a bit much. But when you've recruited the many who may be the next American president, someone along the way might have suggested a more secure form of communication.
Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)Isn't that what we must conclude?
The Russians putting the screws to Trump. When he commits treasonous acts, the Russians expose them/him to Americans.
His private parts in a vice grip of Putin.