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Showing Original Post only (View all)Schindler's Latest: Team Trump Just Blew Its Cover [View all]
http://observer.com/2018/01/sanctions-nunes-memo-reveal-donald-trump-sean-hannity-ties-to-russia/By John R. Schindler 01/30/18 10:45am
In a recent column I noted how President Donald Trump seemingly can bend time in a near-supernatural fashion. Our commander-in-chiefs fine-honed ability to make days seem like weeks and weeks seem like months, even years, I observed, has the remarkable effect of nullifying even grave mistakes by jam-packing them into short periods of time so they blur into each other inside the news cycle and soon melt into the morass of Trumpism.
Even by Trumpian standards, yesterday was one for the record books. Cover is an espionage term that means a spy is pretending to be something hes not to do his job: most often a diplomat, but there are many covers. This features prominently in spy novels and films yet in practice is frequently mundane and far from exciting. At root, cover exists because you will quickly be unmasked and probably arrested if you let everyone know youre not the insurance salesman you pretend to be, rather a spy. Cover exists because it must.
Yesterday, after months of slippage, Team Trump finally blew its cover, exposing that it possesses a strange and unsettling fealty to the Kremlin for which there is no longer any benign explanation. Any one of yesterdays bombshell developments would overtake the news cycle for weeks in any normal White House, yet this administration is anything but normal.
First, it was reported in the Swiss media, then picked up by The Daily Beast, that President Trumps inner circle can be firmly linked to Russian intelligence. For months, speculation has swirled about the June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan between top members of Team Trump and a Russian delegation led by Natalya Veselnitskaya, a Moscow attorney with high-level Kremlin connections. Donald Trump, Jr. and Paul Manafort (who is currently under indictment) attended the meeting, which they implausibly insisted was about Russian adoptions.
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Sean Hannity has been under investigation because of clandestine ties to Russia
YessirAtsaFact
Jan 2018
#3
Sounds like Hannity and Assange then are clearly involved in the same conspiracy with the
cstanleytech
Jan 2018
#18
No, there are so many falsehood spouters that want to get into the $ game. Just be more vitriolic,
erronis
Jan 2018
#7
The amazing thing is the Observer is owned and published by Jared Kushner's brother-in-law
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2018
#8
That Su-27 intercept was probably a little reminder to drumpf about who his daddy is. n/t
mobeau69
Jan 2018
#23
So true. I think you could only fail to see it if you were trying really hard
Dark n Stormy Knight
Jan 2018
#34
I read the whole thing. Are they trying to walk back The Memo? Hence all the waiting?
Fred Sanders
Jan 2018
#21