Thread: Mueller's Russian Interference investigation

I wonder how these headlines are going to play out with trump....

Originally Posted by CSFFan

how these headlines are going to play out with trump.

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My regular hotel in Prague offers Russian interference ....






$100 per 30 minutes, and may actaully be Ukranian I've never needed that urgent translation 'services' rolling in from bar next door at 2am

A must see. How to watch?

Cambridge Analytica working to stop undercover report on its practices from airing: report

Cambridge Analytica is trying to prevent an undercover report by London’s Channel 4 News that shows the firm’s CEO Alexander Nix speaking candidly about the firm’s practices from airing, according to the Financial Times.


Reporters for Channel 4 posed as prospective clients and secretly filmed a number of meetings with the firm.


Financial Times' report did not make clear how the data firm was working to stop the report from airing.


Cambridge Analytica, which was used by President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was suspended by Facebook of Friday for breaching its privacy policy.



The firm had obtained the private information of more than 50 millionpeople from Aleksandr Kogan, a University of Cambridge professor. Kogan got the information through his app which uses a Facebook login.


About 30 million of the profiles Kogan shared had enough information for the firm to create psychographic profiles, according to The New York Times. Only 270,000 users gave permission for their data to be collected.


Facebook had discovered that Cambridge Analytica had violated its policies in 2015 and demanded that it certify that it had destroyed the data. The firm provided the certification but recent reports show that the form had not deleted all the data.


Cambridge Analytica and Facebook tried to sue The Guardian to keep them from publishing an expose focusing on the whistleblower who released the data breach, according to CBS News.


The whistleblower has also said that Facebook suspended him after he revealed the information he claims Facebook was aware of for two years.


Special counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly requested all emails between the Trump campaign and Cambridge Analytica. The House Intelligence Committee has also reportedly interviewed Nix.

Cambridge Analytica working to stop undercover report on its practices from airing: report | TheHill

^ Thanks for reminding me. I started reading it but had things to do and left it. Then forgot.

This whole rusher thing...

Originally Posted by misskit

I started reading it but had things to do and left it.

You really need to read the entire article. For me it just reinforces what I already knew and have been saying in my posts for years and this is damning evidence that a propaganda machine controlled by oligarchs exists on the right. I can not wait until tomorrow when this all blows up and trust me it will in a big way.

I did read it all.

Russia, Facebook, Trump, Mercer, Bannon, Brexit. Every one of these threads runs through Cambridge Analytica. Even in the past few weeks, it seems as if the understanding of Facebook’s role has broadened and deepened. The Mueller indictments were part of that, but Paul-Olivier Dehaye – a data expert and academic based in Switzerland, who published some of the first research into Cambridge Analytica’s processes – says it’s become increasingly apparent that Facebook is “abusive by design”. If there is evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, it will be in the platform’s data flows, he says. And Wylie’s revelations only move it on again.


and

Millions of people’s personal information was stolen and used to target them in ways they wouldn’t have seen, and couldn’t have known about, by a mercenary outfit, Cambridge Analytica, who, Wylie says, “would work for anyone”. Who would pitch to Russian oil companies. Would they subvert elections abroad on behalf of foreign governments?


It occurs to me to ask Wylie this one night.

“Yes.”
Nato or non-Nato?
“Either. I mean they’re mercenaries. They’ll work for pretty much anyone who pays.”


Boom.

Originally Posted by misskit

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“Either. I mean they’re mercenaries. They’ll work for pretty much anyone who pays.”

Precisely why he is doing the right thing in trying to take them down. Clearly he is regretful since as was stated in the article it was a Frankenstein of his creation. My hope is that Cambridge Analytica will be put out of business and that some of them will wind up in prison. So now we wait for the next big shoe to drop when the Channel 4 piece airs.

So all the not-so-subtle hints about sacking Mueller are obviously in response to him investigating baldy orange cunto's company.

Which I would suspect is where the money laundering evidence will be found, hence baldy orange cunto's wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Trying to denigrate McCabe's notes which he's given to Mueller.

Can't wait for Comey's book to come out.

An upcoming memoir from former FBI Director James Comey became an instant hit overnight, reaching the number one spot on Amazon on Sunday. Comey touted the book on Twitter while trading verbal punches with his former boss.
The book, which is set to be released on April 17, titled ‘A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership,’ took Amazon by storm over the weekend, surging from number 15 on the bestseller list on Saturday to number one on Sunday morning. The meteoric rise in interest of the book, a month before it is set to become available to readers, was helped by a very public spat unfolding between Comey and US President Donald Trump on Twitter.

At what point does trump's public condemnation of the Russia investigation constitute willful obstruction of justice?

Seriously, Mueller must have ticked off a few more boxes over the weekend.

I love the way Mueller says nothing and just gets on with it.

So do I, you can bet he's taking note of it all though.

Here's an interesting profile and comparison on the two: https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.8e51c132b231

They actually have a bit in common. Both from wealthy families, similar ages... But differences are huge.

For all the Trump and the Trumptards try to attack Muellers reputation he's not the self-interested draft-dodger.

Russia investigation may tturn to Ivanka Trump as Mueller examines empire

Robert Mueller has issued a subpoena for documents from the Trump Organization, where Ivanka Trump has played a leading role.

Ivanka Trump is likely to face new legal scrutiny by Robert Mueller following reports that the special counsel has demanded documents from the Trump Organization, where she served as a senior executive.


Trump, who is married to Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser who was recently stripped of his security clearance, has been described by her father as a “natural-born dealmaker” and was known to have played a leading role in deals between the Trump Organization and a Russian national who has come under scrutiny and bragged about his ties to top Kremlin officials.



Mueller, the former FBI director who is leading an independent criminal investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, has issued the Trump Organization with a subpoena for documents in recent weeks, including documents related to Russia, according to a report in the New York Times.


While it is not clear precisely what deal or deals Mueller is examining, Democratic congressional investigators this week claimed in a memo that they had learned that the Trump Organization was “actively negotiating” a deal in Moscow during the election campaign that involved a Russian bank that was under US sanctions. The deal never went through and it is not clear which bank the congressional investigators were referring to.


The president has repeatedly denied having had any business dealings with Russia when he has been asked about it by reporters, and has described the criminal investigation into his campaign as a “witch-hunt”.


Ivanka Trump served as a senior executive at the Trump Organization, with a special focus on acquisitions, before leaving her post to serve her father in the White House last year. By all accounts, including in flattering business profiles of the first daughter, she has been described as an integral part of her father’s empire.


That role has also led to legal trouble in the past.

In 2006, when she was 24 years old, Ivanka Trump and her brother Donald Trump Jr, signed a licensing deal to build the Trump SoHo with two businessmen who would go on to be close business partners of the Trump Organization, Felix Sater and Tevfik Arif. Sater and Arif ran a real estate group called Bayrock and were born in the former Soviet Union.


The SoHo deal is an area of focus for Mueller, according to Bloomberg. Sater, a felon who became an informant against the mafia, did not respond to requests for comment.


Last year, the New York Times published emails that showed the Russian emigre boasting in 2015 that he could arrange a deal for the Trump Organization to open a new property in Moscow with the help of Vladimir Putin. In the emails, Sater recalled how he had arranged for Ivanka Trump to “sit in Putin’s private chair” during a visit to Moscow that they took together in 2006.


The revelation was interesting in part because it showed that Sater had remained in the Trumps’ orbit even after Donald Trump said in a 2013 deposition that he barely knew Sater.


Ivanka Trump has said she was not involved in any discussions about a property deal in Moscow in 2015 – at the time of the presidential election – and has not commented on the claim that she once sat in the Russian president’s chair.


An attorney for the Trump Organization said the company was fully cooperating with Mueller’s subpoena request.


Although the Trump SoHo project was launched with fanfare and was meant to mark Ivanka Trump and her brother Donald Jr’s full entry into their father’s business, it has been heavily scrutinised by prosecutors and the press since it opened in 2010. A report by the New Yorker, ProPublica and WNYC in 2017 alleged that the Trump project was closely investigated by prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney’s office in 2012.


According to the New Yorker account, both Ivanka and Donald Jr were close to being indicted following an investigation into whether the pair misled investors about how well condos in the building were selling. The article alleged that prosecutors had evidence, including emails between the siblings, that showed they were aware they were using inflated figures to lure buyers to purchase condos. The issue also became a subject of a civil lawsuit by investors, which was settled by the Trump Organization.


Neither Ivanka Trump nor Donald Jr were ultimately indicted after the New York district attorney, Cy Vance, decided not to move ahead with the charges, according to the New Yorker account. It also described how, weeks after Vance’s office said it would drop the investigation, a top attorney for the Trump family, Marc Kasowitz, contacted Vance about hosting a fundraiser for the district attorney. The lawyer would later donate over $30,000 to Vance’s campaign.


Jarvanka out? Kushner’s business problems add to talk of DC exit
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“We did the right thing,” Vance told the New Yorker, defending his decision to drop the case. Trump SoHo went into foreclosure in 2014 and was taken over by a creditor.


There is no suggestion that Ivanka Trump is under criminal investigation.


A separate report by CNN early this month said that US counterintelligence officials were scrutinising one of Ivanka Trump’s other deals: the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver. Officials who spoke to CNN said that the scrutiny could be a hurdle for Ivanka Trump as she tries to obtain security clearance for her role in the White House. The Vancouver property is one of a few properties that have opened since Trump took office.


Alan Garten, executive vice-president and chief legal officer for the Trump Organization, told CNN that the company’s role in the property was limited to licencing and managing the hotel, but was not involved in financing.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ation-subpoena

That Family has close ties to Russia that's for sure.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

So do I, you can bet he's taking note of it all though.

Here's an interesting profile and comparison on the two: https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.8e51c132b231

They actually have a bit in common. Both from wealthy families, similar ages... But differences are huge.

For all the Trump and the Trumptards try to attack Muellers reputation he's not the self-interested draft-dodger.

Good article, thanks. Can't green you at moment, gotta spread the love and stuff. Maybe a red for NZdickhead.

Originally Posted by bsnub

So now we wait for the next big shoe to drop when the Channel 4 piece airs.

i wonder about the credibility of the whistle blower.

could it be a set up?

Originally Posted by raycarey

i wonder about the credibility of the whistle blower.

Pretty impeccable did you read the article? Also the Chan 4 video is now out and I posted it over in the Cambridge Analytica thread. A must watch.

Originally Posted by raycarey

i wonder about the credibility of the whistle blower.

could it be a set up?

Doubts about Christopher Wylie, oh my, how is that possible?

Ray you aren't trying to suddenly grow a brain, are you?

Personally I like the pink hair...
On ladies mostly....

saw this on twitter yesterday or the day before.....

there is only one person on the planet that can fully exonerate trump, and that's mueller.

if trump is innocent, why are he and his lawyers determined to undermine and stop the investigation?

Originally Posted by raycarey

saw this on twitter yesterday or the day before.....

there is only one person on the planet that can fully exonerate trump, and that's mueller.

if trump is innocent, why are he and his lawyers determined to undermine and stop the investigation?

That's the question that should be on everyone mind if not lips.

I read an interesting bit this morning that Trump could conceivably get away with firing Mueller.

The basic premise was that as opposed to Nixon's 'Saturday Night Massacre' where censure and repercussions had bipartisan support, the GOPers who currently control the house are a pack of spineless party-before-country fcukwits.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

The basic premise was that as opposed to Nixon's 'Saturday Night Massacre' where censure and repercussions had bipartisan support, the GOPers who currently control the house are a pack of spineless party-before-country fcukwits.

but as i'm sure you're aware, all signs point to a dem wave in november that will give them control of the house....they can take up impeachment then...and they'll definitively have the votes if they have the gavel.

IMO, the senate is another matter altogether. there are many republican senators who:
1. put country first
2. hate russia
3. hate trump

but they would need 20 odd republicans to convict, and i don't know if they can muster that amount.....it all depends on what mueller has discovered.

i still think he's going to quit late summer/early fall.