Moose & Squirrel v Boris & Natasha: what's the deal with the rooskies and trumpland?

[Bang]

I wish i could feel optimism that anything will happen.
But i have no reason to. He could get his legal advice from Bazooka Joe comics and still nothing would happen to him.

 

~Bang

[China]

Legal Experts Shred Trump's 'Utterly Hopeless' Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton

 

A new lawsuit filed Thursday by former President Donald Trump has been torn apart on Twitter by legal experts.

 

Trump is suing 2016 Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and 26 others that he claims conspired to undermine his 2016 campaign by “fabricating” a narrative that he colluded with Russia to win the election.

 

Years later, Trump continues to rail against what he calls the “Russia hoax,” even though multiple investigations found that Russia worked to hurt Clinton and help Trump. Many accusations in the 108-page lawsuit were already debunked in a 2020 bipartisan report from the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee.

 

Multiple past lawsuits filed by Trump have been ridiculed for myriad spelling and grammatical errors, flimsy legal arguments and self-implicating admissions. Several prominent lawyers highlighted flaws in the new lawsuit.

 

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor, said, “It’s difficult to put into words just how deeply flawed and utterly hopeless this lawsuit is.”

 

Mark S. Zaid, founding partner of a Washington, D.C., law firm, said Trump’s lawyers should be embarrassed that they filed the lawsuit.

 

 

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[TheGreatBuzz]

They should be thrilled that he filed it.  Now they have a perfect reason to sit him down as part of discovery.

[Larry]

12 hours ago, China said:

Mark S. Zaid, founding partner of a Washington, D.C., law firm, said Trump’s lawyers should be embarrassed that they filed the lawsuit took a retainer from Trump. 

Proposed edit. 

[Bang]

check that.. more likely "promise of a retainer".

 

~Bang

[China]

On 3/24/2022 at 8:28 PM, China said:

Trump sues Hillary Clinton, DNC and others, alleging conspiracy to link his campaign to Russia

 

Former President Donald Trump filed a sprawling federal lawsuit on Thursday against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and 26 other people and entities that he claims conspired to undermine his 2016 campaign by falsely tying him to Russia.

 

The lawsuit names a wide cast of characters that Trump has accused for years of orchestrating a "deep state" conspiracy against him -- including former FBI Director James Comey and other FBI officials, the retired British spy Christopher Steele and his associates, and a handful of Clinton campaign advisers.

"Under the guise of 'opposition research,' 'data analytics,' and other political stratagems, the Defendants nefariously sought to sway the public's trust," says the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida. "They worked together with a single, self-serving purpose: to vilify Donald J. Trump."

Over 108 pages, the lawsuit rails against many of Trump's political opponents and highlights the grievances that he has complained about for years. It claims Democrats and government officials perpetrated a grab bag of offenses, from a racketeering conspiracy to a malicious prosecution, computer fraud and theft of secret internet data. The lawsuit asks for more than $24 million in costs and damages.

The suit also contains some factual inaccuracies and some of the same grandiose or exaggerated false claims that Trump has made dozens of times.

The civil suit alleges that Clinton and top Democrats hired lawyers and researchers to fabricate information tying Trump to Russia, and then peddled those lies to the media and to the US government, in hopes of hobbling his chances of winning in 2016. Trump claims they were assisted by "Clinton loyalists" at the FBI, who abused their powers to investigate him out of political animus.

John Podesta, the chairman of Clinton's 2016 campaign and one of the lawsuit's defendants, tweeted that part of the suit might be a "hoot."

"Do you think Trump filed this case with the hope of calling Vladimir Putin as a character witness? Trump deposition ought to be a hoot," Podesta wrote.

 

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Citing ‘Security Threats,’ Judge Orders Trump Lawyers to Remove ‘Sensitive’ Home Addresses of Ex-FBI Agents and Leaders in Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton

 

A federal judge in the Southern District of Florida on Monday agreed to redact a bevy of subpoenas and other material filed by attorneys for Donald Trump in a sprawling lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and a lengthy list of his other perceived enemies — documents that purported to reveal the personal home addresses of many of the defendants in the case.

 

Attorneys for the U.S. government late Friday filed court papers in an effort to restrict the addresses of federal agents from appearing in the record. Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, the Bill Clinton appointee assigned to the case, agreed that the “security threats cited by the United States” in a Friday motion were valid and ordered certain documents to be stricken and removed from the record by the Clerk of Court’s office. Trump’s attorneys were also ordered to re-file “redacted copies” of certain docket entries.

 

Prosecutors were quick to criticize the way Trump’s attorney filed the paperwork and argued that Trump’s attorney(s) failed to heed their informal warnings that revealing the addresses could be problematic.

 

“The United States of America—by and through the undersigned counsel and pursuant to Rule 5.2(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—hereby moves for an order redacting, from the public record, the addresses of the former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employees named as defendants in this action,” the Friday request states.

 

Just some of the named defendants in the 108-page civil lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in the Southern District of Florida, include the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party law firm Perkins Coie, that firm’s indicted former partner Michael Sussmann, Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele, former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI attorneys Lisa Page and Kevin Clinesmith, and former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe. Also sued were several “John Does” and unknown corporations.

 

The attorneys for the government wrote that Trump’s attorneys revealed the addresses of some of the named defendants by filing publicly available summonses. Those documents, which were fully public without any restriction as of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday mornings, contained what were purported to be precise street addresses for some of the defendants.

 

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[China]

 

[Ball Security]

For all you Tulsi Gabbard fans.

 

 

 

 

[China]

RANTING: Trump freaks out over criticism of his plea to Putin for Hunter Biden dirt

 

Neither the media nor the public has been kind to Donald Trump after he called on his old crony Vladimir Putin to release any incriminating information that he may have on President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.

 

Trump’s nemeses on MSNBC‘s Morning Joe program — former GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough and his wife and co-host Mika Brzezinski — fell squarely in the disgraced former president’s crosshairs as he vented his fury over the pair’s refusal to give oxygen to his slanderous conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden’s involvement in illicit deals in China and Ukraine.

 

Given Trump’s permanent ban from Twitter, he was once again forced to retaliate by issuing a raging press release through his social media surrogate, press representative Liz Harrington.

 

 

The release was about as defensive as Trump could possibly get, demonstrating the former president’s sensitivity to the massive criticism that his entreaties to the Russian war criminal have brought down upon him.

If Trump thought that his latest whiny statement would put a halt to the barrage of derision aimed his way since he invoked the further assistance of his autocratic mentor, he was sadly mistaken.

 

 

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[Bang]

OooOoOoOo  another road map.

 

Surely SOMETHING might happen now.

 

Right?
 

 

 

..right?

~Bang

[China]

Russia State TV Considering Reinstalling Trump as President

 

A Russian state television host suggested that Russia is weighing whether to "reinstall" former President Donald Trump "again" as the United States' leader in a future election.

 

State television Olga Skabeeva host alleged in the clip that Trump "promised" the other day to "destroy the Russian Federation, to destroy [Russia President Vladimir] Putin's hegemony, as he put it," according to an English translation provided by Julia Davis, a columnist for The Daily Beast.

 

Alexander Kamkin, who was identified as a political scientist, responded: "That is excellent, if Trump becomes the president, we will know his geopolitical goals." But Skabeeva interjected that Russia will "have to think whether to reinstall him again as the American president," adding that the country has not "decided yet."

 

Newsweek was not able to locate any instances in which Trump recently, or ever, promised to destroy Russia and "Putin's hegemony."

 

When Trump first ran for president in 2016 and won against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, Russia was accused of meddling in the vote in Trump's favor. The U.S. intelligence community concluded that Russia did, in fact, meddle in the election, an assessment that was backed up by a bipartisan Senate report.

 

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[CousinsCowgirl84]

Seems like if they are installing presidents Marjorie Taylor Greene would be a lock….

[China]

Trump responds to Pulitzer rejection of demand to revoke reporting awards

 

Former President Trump on Monday cast the Pulitzer Prize board’s rejection of his demand to revoke awards given to The New York Times and The Washington Post as “running cover” for “the biggest reporting failure in modern history.”

 

The board earlier Monday said it would not fulfill multiple requests by Trump to rescind awards to the staff of the two newspapers in 2018 for reporting on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election because it saw no reason to do so.

 

“The Pulitzer Board has taken away any shred of credibility it had left with its ‘response’ regarding the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, which was awarded to The New York Times and The Washington Post for blatant fake news,” Trump said in a statement.

 

“Instead of acting with integrity and providing transparency, the Pulitzer Board is running cover for the biggest reporting failure in modern history: the fake Russia Russia Russia collusion hoax,” he added.  

 

Trump then suggested that the only Pulitzer the two newspapers should be awarded was if a new category called “disinformation” was created.

 

“The truth is that the 2018 Pulitzer Prize was handed out for reporting that merely parroted political disinformation—disinformation that we know was fabricated by foreign operatives and my political opponents,” Trump said.

 

“If the Pulitzer Prize has become a blatant acknowledgement of false, liberal political propaganda, then the Pulitzer Board should just say so,” he added.

 

The board said it conducted a review and found no reason to revoke the news outlets’ rewards. 

 

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[Dan T.]

The malignant narcissistic sociopath actually thinks he can bend reality to fit his warped, aggrieved world view.

[CousinsCowgirl84]

On 3/31/2022 at 3:53 PM, Bang said:

OooOoOoOo  another road map.

 

Surely SOMETHING might happen now.

 

Right?
 

 

 

..right?

~Bang

Not till after 2024. I’m sure democrats want to keep the “keep us in charge so we can prosecute trump” grift going as long as they can. It is what it is.

Edited July 19, 2022 by CousinsCowgirl84

[Dan T.]

3 hours ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

Not till after 2024. I’m sure democrats want to keep the “keep us in charge so we can prosecute trump” grift going as long as they can. It is what it is.

Wow, this is an awful take. Turn off Newsmax. 

[CousinsCowgirl84]

1 hour ago, Dan T. said:

Wow, this is an awful take. Turn off Newsmax. 

Uh huh. Sure we all hope the charges come sooner but I certainly wouldn’t expect it and since the midterms are a lost cause I doubt democrats (specifically and limited to democratic leadership) will move with much speed till perhaps the summer prior to 2024 or later. 
 

which by the way, you shouldn’t be mad about.

 

I guess your mad because I called it a grift. It is what it is.

 

 

edit: sorry guys, I forgot…

 

Edited July 20, 2022 by CousinsCowgirl84

[China]

GOP civil war on Ukraine builds between MAGA, Reagan Republicans

 

A GOP civil war is building over U.S. policy toward Russia and Ukraine, pitting Reagan Republicans against more isolationist “MAGA” Republicans who take their political cues from former President Trump. 

 

The Reagan Republicans have been winning the battle, but the continued fight could shape future U.S. policy if the GOP takes the House or Senate in this fall’s midterms.   

 

 

GOP lawmakers who want to continue U.S. support for Ukraine are sending out warning signals, calling for the U.S. to keep up its backing for Kyiv regardless of which party holds the congressional majorities.  

 

“If freedom is under assault by dictatorship and we don’t back up freedom, then what message does that send?” Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), who sits on the House Intelligence and House Foreign Affairs committees and who worked in Ukraine as an FBI agent, told The Hill in an interview.

 

Most GOP lawmakers have backed military aide to Ukraine, but Fitzpatrick said he senses support waning.  

 

Worries the U.S. could become fatigued with the fighting in Ukraine, or distracted by domestic problems, have never been far from the minds of policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic. High inflation and the prospect of a recession is another danger.  

 

In May, 57 House Republicans voted against a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine. The “no” votes included some of Trump’s most loyal allies, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Matt Gaetz (Fla.). 

 

Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.), a Trump ally who voted against certifying President Biden’s election victory, is one of 11 Senate Republicans who voted against the $40 billion aid package for Ukraine in May. 

 

He told The Hill that his vote against the aid “clearly” showed he was in the minority “in the caucus,” but added, “In the party, no.” 

 

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[Larry]

4 hours ago, China said:

A GOP civil war is building over U.S. policy toward Russia and Ukraine, pitting Reagan Republicans against more isolationist Russia-loving “MAGA” Republicans who take their political cues from former President Trump. 

Proposed change that might better explain the various motivations better. 

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[China]

Russian National Charged with Conspiring to Have U.S. Citizens Act as Illegal Agents of the Russian Government

 

An indictment was unsealed today in Tampa, Florida, charging a Russian national, working on behalf of the Russian government and in conjunction with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), with allegedly orchestrating a years-long foreign malign influence campaign that used various U.S. political groups to sow discord, spread pro-Russian propaganda, and interfere in elections within the United States.

 

As alleged in the indictment, from at least December 2014 until March 2022, Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, a resident of Moscow, together with at least three Russian officials, engaged in a years-long foreign malign influence campaign targeting the United States. Ionov is the founder and president of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (AGMR), an organization headquartered in Moscow and funded by the Russian government. Ionov utilized AGMR to carry out Russia’s influence campaign.

 

“As court documents show, Ionov allegedly orchestrated a brazen influence campaign, turning U.S. political groups and U.S. citizens into instruments of the Russian government,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “The Department of Justice will not allow Russia to unlawfully sow division and spread misinformation inside the United States.”

 

According to the indictment, Ionov — working under the supervision of the FSB and with the Russian government’s support — recruited political groups within the United States, including U.S. Political Group 1 in Florida, U.S. Political Group 2 in Georgia, and U.S. Political Group 3 in California, and exercised direction or control over them on behalf of the FSB. Specifically, Ionov provided financial support to these groups, directed them to publish pro-Russian propaganda, coordinated and funded direct action by these groups within the United States intended to further Russian interests, and coordinated coverage of this activity in Russian media outlets. Ionov also relayed detailed information about this influence campaign to three FSB officials.

 

“Secret foreign government efforts to influence American elections and political groups threaten our democracy by spreading misinformation, distrust and mayhem,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “The department is committed to ensuring U.S. laws protecting transparency in the electoral process and the political system are not undermined through foreign malign influence.”

 

According to the indictment, Ionov allegedly targeted U.S. Political Group 1 based in St. Petersburg, Florida. In May 2015, Ionov funded an all-expense paid trip to Russia for the leader of U.S. Political Group 1 (Unindicted Co-Conspirator-1, UIC-1) in order to “communicate on future cooperation” between U.S. Political Group 1 and AGMR. Following that trip, and for at least the next seven years, Ionov exercised direction and control over senior members of U.S. Political Group 1.

 

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[Ball Security]

Related to the post above…

 

 

 

[Dan T.]

We knew this. Trumpsters tried to deny it. And now the culprit himself admits it:  Paul Manafort, Trump's 2016 campaign chairman, shared confidential internal polling data with a Russian intelligence officer right at the time Russia was interfering in the election on Trump's behalf:

 

Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort admits sharing info with Russians (yahoo.com)

[China]

Team Putin Airs Insane Offer to ‘Help’ America and ‘Save’ Trump

 

The search of former U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s Florida estate provided yet another opportunity for the Kremlin’s top propagandists to besmirch the United States. Russian state television incorporated endless clips of Trump and his allies on Fox News and Newsmax, using them to corroborate their longstanding narrative that American democracy is a sham.

 

In a surreal twist, news of the raid even prompted some state media bullhorns to suggest that America’s “failing” democracy should be placed under Russia’s wing.

 

“We need to officially tackle the American democracy, American society, American economy,” Evgeny Popov, the host of state TV show 60 Minutes who also happens to be a member of Russia’s State Duma, said in his Wednesday segment. One of his guests, military expert Igor Korotchenko, proposed that Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry should “form a special group that would prepare reports evaluating the status of democracy in the U.S., like statements that used to be created by the U.S. State Department.”

 

Popov then graced Russian airwaves with his own bizarre suggestion on how to “help” America.

 

“There are more homeless children in America than anywhere else in the world. These are the official statistics. There aren’t that many impoverished neighborhoods, with medieval levels of poverty, not seen anywhere else—not even in Somalia,” he said. “Clearly, we have to help Americans to deal with this disaster. Of course, we can take those homeless children and raise them—normally, without gays and transgenders, in normal, classic culture. We need to start dealing with this right away.”

 

The desire of Russian propagandists to “help” the United States was also expressed in their concern for Trump’s well-being and safety. Korotchenko, who previously informally endorsed Trump’s candidacy in the 2024 presidential election, claimed to believe that the former president’s life is in grave danger. In reality, he was simply regurgitating a point made by former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik on Newsmax, one day earlier. Kerik baselessly suggested to host Eric Bolling that he was worried about the potential “assassination” of Trump in the event he runs for president in the next election.

 

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[EmirOfShmo]

Mueller Memo Advising Barr on Trump Findings Is Ordered Released

• DOJ must release memo guiding Barr on handling report on Trump
• Appeals court upholds judge who found DOJ description was off

The US Justice Department must release a 2019 memo advising then-attorney general Bill Barr on how to handle the conclusion of the Mueller investigation and the department’s decision not to charge Donald Trump, a federal appeals court ruled.

The 3-0 decision Friday, by a panel of judges of the appeals court in Washington, upholds a lower court that ordered the department to make the March 2019 document public after finding that DOJ lawyers failed to accurately describe it from the start. 

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-19/mueller-memo-from-justice-department-to-barr-is-ordered-released