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  1. #91
    Donald Trump and Russia: a web that grows more tangled all the time

    Frank Mermoud, a key figure at the recent Republican convention, has strong business ties with Ukraine, to which others in Trump’s orbit have been linked as questions grow over the candidate’s interests in Russia and view of its president



    A key figure at the Republican national convention where Donald Trump was nominated for president has strong business ties with Ukraine, the Guardian has learned.

    The party platform, written at the convention in Cleveland last week, removed references to arming Ukraine in its fight against pro-Russia rebels, who have received material support from the Kremlin. Trump’s links to Russia are under scrutiny after a hack of Democratic national committee emails, allegedly by Russian agents.

    The coordinator of the Washington diplomatic corps for the Republicans in Cleveland was Frank Mermoud, a former state department official involved in business ventures in Ukraine via Cub Energy, a Black Sea-focused oil and gas company of which he is a director. He is also on the board of the US Ukraine Business Council.

    Mermoud has longstanding ties to Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who in 2010 helped pro-Russia Viktor Yanukovych refashion his image and win a presidential election in Ukraine. Manafort was brought in earlier this year to oversee the convention operations and its staffing.

    Three sources at the convention also told the Guardian that they saw Philip Griffin, a long-time aide to Manafort in Kiev, working with the foreign dignitaries programme.

    “After years of working in the Ukraine for Paul and others, it was surprising to run into Phil working at the convention,” one said.

    The change to the platform on arming Ukraine was condemned even by some Republicans. Senator Rob Portman of Ohio described it as “deeply troubling”. Veteran party operative and lobbyist Charlie Black said the “new position in the platform doesn’t have much support from Republicans”, adding that the change “was unusual”.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...sia-putin-ties
    “I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul



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  3. #92
    Russia scholar Stephen Cohen shuts down CNN shill host who tries to link Trump to Putin: Trump Wants To Stop The New Cold War, But The American Media Just Doesn't Understand


  4. #93
    These threads are really getting pathetic. Copy and paste an article about "ties to" and "links to" something spooooky. Conveniently ignore the fact that Mermoud also has "links to" essentially every major GOP candidate in recent history -- Ford, Reagan, Dole, Bush, McCain, etc. He worked for all of them. Why should we be afraid of him now?

    Hard-hitting, compelling journalism. We Loose Change Nao.



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    Yea and Hilary let Russia buy 20% of America's uranium mines.

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    “I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul



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  9. #97
    Trump is so pro Putin and Russia that when the media and the feds made an unfounded accusation that Russia was behind the DNC hacking, he doesn't even ask for proof that the Russia govt was involved in any hacking, he instead ran with the accusation and asked the Russians (read Russian govt) to do more hacking. Read my lips, Trump is NOT pro Russia/Putin, he sometimes pays lip service to it but his actions show that he isn't serious at all.

  10. #98
    “I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul

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    Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and the Polls

    You have to go back 40 years to find a presidential candidate saying something quite as loony about Russia as the many things Donald Trump said in his press conference Wednesday. I’m thinking of Gerald Ford’s famous claim—toward the end of a debate with Jimmy Carter in October 1976—that there was “no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.” President Ford, not known for oratorical skill, apparently meant to say that Moscow’s control over its neighbors was not legitimate. No matter: The pundits, the politicians, and the public held his gaffe against him anyway. Some even thought it cost him the election. At the height of the Cold War—and with Henry Kissinger’s détente policy a hot campaign issue—it did not pay to seem unaware of Soviet imperialism.

    But what about today? If Mr. Trump’s advisers wanted to find some solace in the polls, could they? The Cold War, after all, is a quarter-century in the past, and some people—the Republican nominee included, it seems—think the U.S. should take a more relaxed view of Russia. Does the public agree?

    The bad news for the Trump campaign is that the American people have become increasingly hostile toward Russia since the Ukraine crisis became acute in early 2014. Consider the responses over time to Pew Research Center questions about Russia. In the fall of 2013, 40% of respondents described Russia as “not much of a problem.” By March 2014 (just days after Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea) that share had fallen to 22%. By the summer (right after MH17, a Malaysian Airlines flight, was shot down over separatist-held territory), only 15% felt that Russia was not much of a problem.

    Even before the Ukraine crisis, of course, many Americans were on guard when it came to President Putin. Still, the 36% who described Russia as a “serious problem but not an adversary” in the fall of 2013 had expanded to 49% in the summer of 2014. And the 18% who had seen Moscow as a clear “adversary” even in 2013 had grown to 26% the following summer. The American public, in other words, was now wary-to-hostile toward Russia by a margin of 75% to 15%—a five-fold difference.

    These numbers have softened in the past two years, but they don’t provide much comfort for the Trump campaign. Some Trump advisers may seek refuge in the thought that their candidate has made preposterous and uninformed comments in the past and paid no price for it. But in key states Mr. Trump has to win—Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin—outrage at his remarks among voters with Eastern European roots will be greater still.

    If Jerry Ford, remembering 1976, were sitting down with Donald Trump, his verdict would be very, very grim.
    http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/0...and-the-polls/
    “I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul

  13. #101
    Quote Originally Posted by silverhandorder View Post
    You are so sad. No wonder you find your self on the same side as leftists.
    You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to silverhandorder again
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  14. #102
    U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin

    U.S. intelligence officials are seeking to determine whether an American businessman identified by Donald Trump as one of his foreign policy advisers has opened up private communications with senior Russian officials — including talks about the possible lifting of economic sanctions if the Republican nominee becomes president, according to multiple sources who have been briefed on the issue.

    The activities of Trump adviser Carter Page, who has extensive business interests in Russia, have been discussed with senior members of Congress during recent briefings about suspected efforts by Moscow to influence the presidential election, the sources said. After one of those briefings, Senate minority leader Harry Reid wrote FBI Director James Comey, citing reports of meetings between a Trump adviser (a reference to Page) and “high ranking sanctioned individuals” in Moscow over the summer as evidence of “significant and disturbing ties” between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin that needed to be investigated by the bureau.

    Some of those briefed were “taken aback” when they learned about Page’s contacts in Moscow, viewing them as a possible back channel to the Russians that could undercut U.S. foreign policy, said a congressional source familiar with the briefings but who asked for anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject. The source added that U.S. officials in the briefings indicated that intelligence reports about the adviser’s talks with senior Russian officials close to President Vladimir Putin were being “actively monitored and investigated.”

    A senior U.S. law enforcement official did not dispute that characterization when asked for comment by Yahoo News. “It’s on our radar screen,” said the official about Page’s contacts with Russian officials. “It’s being looked at.”

    Page is a former Merrill Lynch investment banker in Moscow who now runs a New York consulting firm, Global Energy Capital, located around the corner from Trump Tower, that specializes in oil and gas deals in Russia and other Central Asian countries. He declined repeated requests to comment for this story.

    Trump first mentioned Page’s name when asked to identify his “foreign policy team” during an interview with the Washington Post editorial team last March. Describing him then only as a “PhD,” Trump named Page as among five advisers “that we are dealing with.” But his precise role in the campaign remains unclear; Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks last month called him an “informal foreign adviser” who “does not speak for Mr. Trump or the campaign.” Asked this week by Yahoo News, Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller said Page “has no role” and added: “We are not aware of any of his activities, past or present.” Miller did not respond when asked why Trump had previously described Page as one of his advisers.
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    https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-s-intel...175046002.html
    “I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul

  15. #103
    Pfizer Macht Frei!

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  16. #104
    Quote Originally Posted by enhanced_deficit View Post

    Trumpster is one lucky sog to be running against disgraced DGP-SWC tag team.
    Hmm,,

    and I thought he was trolling the GOP to guarantee her victory.
    now watch her kick the bucket and upset everyone's plans. /evilgrinsmiley

    What happens when he gets stuck with a job he never really wanted?
    Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
    Ron Paul 2004

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