03-22-2017, 03:49 PM
Another nattering nabob of negativity, this one a former Clinton cabinet member, weighs in:
From Facebook:
Robert Reich
1 hr ·
The noose tightens. New information about former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort links him ever more directly to Putin.
According to the AP – based on authenticated documents -- Manafort was paid to boost the interests of Russian Putin. This wasn’t just in Ukraine but in all the former Soviet republics. Starting in 2006 and lasting at least through 2009, Manafort received $10 million a year from Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska, described by U.S. intelligence officials as one of Putin’s closest allies, to tip the scales in favor of Putin in former Soviet republics.
We don't know what techniques Manafort used, but this sounds like the same kind of enterprise Russian operatives engaged in during the U.S. presidential election of 2016 on behalf of Trump.
Takeaway: It’s becoming less and less likely Republicans in Congress will want to wait until the 2018 midterms – and a finding by U.S. intelligence agencies that Trump or his associates collaborated with Russian operatives in throwing the 2016 – before moving to dump Trump. By that time Trump’s presence in the White House could mean vast GOP losses. At the rate things are going now, I’d wager that congressional Republicans will find a way to impeach him within the year.
What do you think?
From Facebook:
Robert Reich
1 hr ·
The noose tightens. New information about former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort links him ever more directly to Putin.
According to the AP – based on authenticated documents -- Manafort was paid to boost the interests of Russian Putin. This wasn’t just in Ukraine but in all the former Soviet republics. Starting in 2006 and lasting at least through 2009, Manafort received $10 million a year from Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska, described by U.S. intelligence officials as one of Putin’s closest allies, to tip the scales in favor of Putin in former Soviet republics.
We don't know what techniques Manafort used, but this sounds like the same kind of enterprise Russian operatives engaged in during the U.S. presidential election of 2016 on behalf of Trump.
Takeaway: It’s becoming less and less likely Republicans in Congress will want to wait until the 2018 midterms – and a finding by U.S. intelligence agencies that Trump or his associates collaborated with Russian operatives in throwing the 2016 – before moving to dump Trump. By that time Trump’s presence in the White House could mean vast GOP losses. At the rate things are going now, I’d wager that congressional Republicans will find a way to impeach him within the year.
What do you think?
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
