Red Don, Russian mobsters and Putin's Playground

[Tracy Riddle]

Let's get to the bottom line, folks. Does anyone care to venture a guess how this Trump-FBI confrontation will end. Will the FBI succeed in deposing the elected President.

You can already see the National Security State staking out their new territory.

(1) Judges are now looking at overturning Republican gerrymandering because personal freedom is now being backed by Republicans, no longer Democrats.
(2) Big corporations are now entertaining the pushing of strict gun control. Obviously, if there were a total takeover of the government and it turned into an FBI led police state, they wouldn't want any guns on the street.
(3) The FBI intrusion into the NCAA seems to be designed to create an image that the FBI can handle even miniscule everyday stuff (and implicitly everyone will benefit, even sports fans). This NCAA problem has been around forever. Why is the FBI pushing it now?
(4) For the umpteenth time the FBI had received advance information about a shooter or bomber and did nothing. They never do anything. This feeds in to the narrative that the National Security State actually wants to encourage school shootings in order to scare the public into abandoning their personal Constitutional freedoms. Some people thing they even STAGE shootings for this purpose.
(5) The Federal Courts have unabashedly begun to TOTALLY RULE about such things as the travel ban and DACA because this directly impacts cheap labor for Silicone Valley. The old economy capitalists have abandoned the field to the COASTAL ELITE BILLIONAIRES in Silicone Valley, Hollywood, Wall Street, CNN and DC-Virginia.
(6) Because the power of the coastal elites is so concentrated in Google, Facebook, CNN and is so global in nature and overwhelming, it looks like the coastal elites have in mind an actual, out-of-the-closet, frank POLICE STATE where the people feel better about the FBI (and other secret agencies) running the country than their elected officials.
(7) The worries about Russian hacking are really just a preliminary to limiting or eliminating national elections or giving them over to the Federal Courts to be reviewed and overturned when necessary.
(8) Prosecuting the President in a State Court is such a bizzare concept, it belongs in Poland in the 1700''s or the Weimar Republic.

Please, if you will, put your predictions about all this in writing. It's great to see whose predictions come true. And things seem to be happening so fast, it will soon come out in the wash.

James Lateer

Republican gerrymandering is a good thing, James? The Republicans believe in personal freedom? That may be true if you're rich, white, Christian and male. Otherwise, forget it.

The FBI did not cook this up. Trump and his people brought this on themselves.

"The FBI also apparently interviewed Page about his contacts with Russian intelligence agents "multiple times,"including in March 2016, the month Page joined the Trump campaign. In fact, the FISA application includes information about Page's activity prior to joining the Trump campaign at all. All of that previous interest and activity helps dispel the notion that the focus on Page amounted to a "witch hunt"targeting Trump; it was surveillance into an individual with business ties to Russia whom the country had also spent years trying to recruit…"In fact, the FBI's closely-held investigation team only received Steele's reporting in mid-September." The memo also emphasizes that the Steele dossier was extensively vetted and largely contained information that the FBI had either already obtained during its investigation or that it later corroborated. "
https://www.wired.com/story/democratic-m...age-trump/

And what's going to happen? This comes from a source who has been correct for the last year. You don't have to like it or agree with it, but when a source has been consistently right, you'd better pay attention to it.

John Schindler ‏Verified account (ex-NSA officer with many intel sources) @20committee
https://twitter.com/20committee/status/9...5898335233

Look, folks: CI [counterintelligence] people in the IC [intelligence community] were in complete panic in 2016 -- not that Obama WH listened much -- since they KNEW who Trump really was.
2/ OK, time for a mini-rant cum tweetstorm on this since Planet Fox is up in arms now trying to crush the Muller investigation and the FBI. CI professionals in the IC have known for MANY YEARS that Trump possessed strange, disconcerting ties to the Kremlin. Going back to 80s.
/3 After Trump's USSR visit in 1987, he was viewed as a KGB "agent of influence" to use the proper Chekist term. Widely known in CI circles.
/4 From 1987, Trump was -- at best -- a Useful Idiot of the Kremlin's. Not a "spy" in a conventional sense, but not a loyal American either.
/5 Coupled with Trump's shady financial ties to Russian mobsters since the 1990s -- which CI folks knew about too -- this was disturbing.
/6 OF COURSE CI pros were totally freaked out in 2015-16 when Trump, whom they knew was under Moscow's thumb, ran for POTUS & got #GOP nom.
/7 Right now, Trump WH & its lie machine want you to focus on everything but who POTUS really is & who his real friends are. Don't let them.
/8 The sordid truth about our 45th President is coming out, no matter what. It will rock the USA to its core. As it damn well should. /End

https://twitter.com/20committee/status/9...1488568320
Since Big News in #KremlinGate is looming, it's time for a brief tweetstorm on what's really going on behind scenes with Team Mueller. /1
If you're surprised that # MoscowMisha is cooked, you've not been paying attention. Sr & Jr are both going down on a bunch of charges. /2
Flynn, like Manafort, desperately wanted a deal from Mueller, but they had 0 to offer that DoJ didn't already have. So, they're screwed. /3
The Team Mueller + FBI/IC joint investigation here is truly massive; a CI inquiry this expansive hasn't been seen in DC since VENONA. /4
Together, they're investigating HUNDREDS of targets for poss ties to Russian spies & mobsters. Public will be shocked when it comes out. /5
These CI targets include WH officials; Trump associates, friends & family; journalists and lobbyists; even bloggers. It's a wide net. /6
It will take years for this CI inquiry to be concluded -- VENONA ran from 1943 to 1980, folks -- but the answers will stun the public. /7
Anticipate a bunch of indictments in the next year or 2, perhaps many more in the long run; it depends how indictments rounds 1-5 go. /8
The Russian conspiracy in DC took years to metastasize, it will take years to unravel it all. Marathon not sprint, as I say. Patience. /End