'It's just insane': MSNBC's Rachel Maddow breaks down the Trump administration's latest Russia scand

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‘It’s just insane’: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow breaks down the Trump administration’s latest Russia scandal

On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow delved into the latest stunning revelations surrounding Maria Butina, the admitted Russian agent at the heart of a plot to infiltrate the National Rifle Association and the Republican Party — and the connections to a high-ranking State Department official in charge of arms negotiations with Russia.

“Josh Rogin at the Washington Post reports tonight that Maria Butina also turned up at the wedding of Mike Pence’s national security adviser,” said Maddow. “Mike Pence’s national security adviser, Andrea Thompson, got married that summer of 2017, first summer of the Trump Administration. She’s got that awesome new job. Getting married and Maria Butina was at the wedding. Why was she at the wedding? U.S. Person One, her boyfriend, Paul Erickson, was officiating the wedding. Oh. It also turns out that the man who Mike Pence’s national security adviser, the man who Andrea Thompson was marrying at the wedding that day, he had recently given Paul Erickson $100,000.”

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“You want to know what you do when you have that job?” Maddow added. “You negotiate with Russia. You negotiate with the Russians on arms control treaties. That’s your job … when the person who marries you gets into trouble with the Russians, and your job is to negotiate with the Russians, you have to disclose that. Everybody within an intelligence clearance knows that.”




https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/its-just-insane-msnbcs-rachel-maddow-breaks-down-the-trump-administrations-latest-russia-scandal/

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[MBS]

4. "Scandal" is way too inadequate a word to describe

the depth and gravity and depravity of Republican betrayal of our country. Please, make this STOP
Thank you, Rachel, for staying on this.

[Achilleaze]

5. Butina is the pinup girl/mole for KGOP republicans

in their ongoing war against honesty, decency, and loyalty to the USA.

[get the red out]

6. Overwhelming

The Russia links are like Thanksgiving day, more than imaginable was served up and it's hard to look at one more bite.

[Farmer-Rick]

7. So, did Mueller know this?

This so clearly indicates Trump, his campaign personnel and his administration is/was knowingly playing patty cakes with Russians in exchange for money, power and cover.

Did the FBI know before Trump took over control of our federal government? They certainly were willing to run around with their hair on fire over e-mails involving Hillary. Why did they drag their feet on this? Why did Mueller pass the buck and FAIL to charge Trump with the crimes he so clearly committed? I think that the OPINION of the Justice Department that you can't indicate a sitting president for treason is an excuse for Mueller to wimp out...I think the FBI is in deep with this Russian Trump treason.

[triron]

16. I posted about this yesterday evening.

Yeah, where Why is Rachel the only program talking about this??

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. Just ANOTHER coincidence. Wait for it, wait for it....

"Lock HER up!" - "Lock HER up!" - now that's a real scandal to 30+% of the dumbass American voting public.

[Botany]

9. This "thing" is bigger than anyone of us could imagine

"Maria Butina also turned up at the wedding of Mike Pence’s national security adviser,”

“Mike Pence’s national security adviser, Andrea Thompson, ... "

And who chose Mike Pence to run as Trump's V.P.? That would be Russian asset Paul
Manafort.

https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-was-handpicked-paul-manafort-696412

MIKE PENCE COULD BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT AND HE WAS HANDPICKED BY PAUL MANAFORT

[renate]

14. I wonder whether we're ever going to know half of the crap that's going on

I just can’t believe what’s happened to our country. It’s like an outlandish spy novel.

[Botany]

15. I think the big thing will not be the Russian/international mob/republican help in the rat ...

... fucking of the 2016 elections but the way "they" have programed into the voting machines
and central tabulators' hardware and software the ability to change the data without leaving
any "fingerprints" and in some cases the access could have been done remotely. Ever since
they passed the HAVA (help America vote act) we have seen a "red state shift" in the vote that
does not reflect the changes in the demographics and how the overall majority of Americans
feel about the social issues.

This is Alexander Torshin who was Maria Butina's boss looking @ an EES voting machine in 2012 ...
Torshin was very busy in PA in 2016 too. Luzerne County, PA which has voted blue ever since 1988
went to Trump by something like 20 points in 2016 and then went back to voting blue in 2018.

Link to tweet

[renate]

17. That is chilling

I’ve always thought it was at least a 50-50 chance that the voting was hacked... I mean, to eke out tiny wins in exactly the states he needed to win? I’m not a conspiracy theorist in any way but Russia knows what it’s doing when it comes to cyberwarfare.

[Botany]

18. The Russians even left their "calling cards" in Wisconsin

https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2017/01/23/russians-suspected-hacking-local-dems/96965824/

While no one can prove beyond doubt that Russians also were involved in the local hack job, two hackers left “calling cards” with Russian email addresses on the local websites in an apparent gesture of contempt or braggadocio, Ginnebaugh said. Green Bay police were notified and have forwarded information to the FBI, she said.

[Kitchari]

23. That's why I believe

Kellyanne and her husband are totally on the same page: cultivating the circumstances for Pence to be sworn in. It's all about Russian influence, and Pence is in the thick of it.

[jalan48]

10. Another outrage in the long list of outrages. What can we do?

[watoos]

13. We have 2 choices

Impeach Trump or
Allow Trump to delay the court cases until after the election. Oh, if he loses he will reject that outcome and declare martial law.

Every time I see “Its too soon, I shudder.”

[Cetacea]

25. It's sad

How many do not get it.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Like a permaswamp.

That goes all the way to Moscow.

[jayschool2013]

12. Rachel summarizes reporting done by the Washington Post

She may explain it well, but the Post did the hard work.

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21. K & R

In Pennsylvania our Governor Tom Wolf has ordered all new electronic voting machines before the next election. This shit has been going on for way too long!



Edited to add: this is in reply to Botany's post #15

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