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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Over the course of nearly 1,000 pages, the Senate report pulverizes President Trump's endless claims that the "Russia collusion hoax is the greatest political scandal in the history of this country."
Indeed, new evidence makes it abundantly clear: Not investigating the vast number of "alarming" Trump connections to Russian intelligence operatives would have amounted to a "dereliction of duty and responsibility" by America's law enforcement agencies.
More importantly, the Senate report shows that the FBI's probe of the Trump campaign and special counsel Robert Mueller did not go nearly far enough. More on that shortly.
First, the collusion. "On numerous occasions," former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort passed "sensitive Campaign polling data and the Campaign's strategy" to a man who - according to the Republican-led committee - was a Russian intelligence officer.
What could possibly justify Trump's top campaign adviser handing highly confidential election information directly to a Russian spy?
It gets worse. The Senate report linked Manafort's Russian spy-confidant directly to the Kremlin's brazen campaign to sway the 2016 election in Trump's favor.
Moreover, the GOP-led committee alludes to two pieces of classified information which "raise the possibility" of "Manafort's potential connection" to Russia's hack and leak of tens of thousands of "sensitive political documents" pilfered from Democrats.
After years of stunning revelations about Trump World links to Russia, the specter of the president's top campaign adviser participating in the most egregious assault on American democracy would be a truly breathtaking development.
As others have rightly noted, Senate Republicans have no incentive to make up such explosive assertions out of thin air.
More importantly, the extent of Manafort's collusion with Russia is likely far worse than publicly known. According to the GOP-led committee, Manafort's "obfuscation of the truth" prevented "direct insight" into "the single most direct tie between senior Trump Campaign officials and the Russian intelligence services."
Why would Manafort willingly "face more severe criminal penalties rather than provide complete answers about his interactions" with a Russian spy?
Why did he use four different encrypted messaging applications, "burner" phones, coded signals and a surreptitious method of passing messages - all hallmarks of espionage tradecraft - to communicate with a Russian intelligence officer? Why did this Russian spy fly to the United States just to discuss ultra-sensitive topics with Trump's top campaign adviser?
What were they hiding?
Since many "interactions between Manafort and [the Russian intelligence officer] remain hidden" and Manafort's motives for lying to investigators are "unknown," one conclusion is glaringly obvious: The FBI's investigation of Manafort did not go far enough.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...sia-hoax-narrative/ar-BB18mE25?ocid=Peregrine
Indeed, new evidence makes it abundantly clear: Not investigating the vast number of "alarming" Trump connections to Russian intelligence operatives would have amounted to a "dereliction of duty and responsibility" by America's law enforcement agencies.
More importantly, the Senate report shows that the FBI's probe of the Trump campaign and special counsel Robert Mueller did not go nearly far enough. More on that shortly.
First, the collusion. "On numerous occasions," former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort passed "sensitive Campaign polling data and the Campaign's strategy" to a man who - according to the Republican-led committee - was a Russian intelligence officer.
What could possibly justify Trump's top campaign adviser handing highly confidential election information directly to a Russian spy?
It gets worse. The Senate report linked Manafort's Russian spy-confidant directly to the Kremlin's brazen campaign to sway the 2016 election in Trump's favor.
Moreover, the GOP-led committee alludes to two pieces of classified information which "raise the possibility" of "Manafort's potential connection" to Russia's hack and leak of tens of thousands of "sensitive political documents" pilfered from Democrats.
After years of stunning revelations about Trump World links to Russia, the specter of the president's top campaign adviser participating in the most egregious assault on American democracy would be a truly breathtaking development.
As others have rightly noted, Senate Republicans have no incentive to make up such explosive assertions out of thin air.
More importantly, the extent of Manafort's collusion with Russia is likely far worse than publicly known. According to the GOP-led committee, Manafort's "obfuscation of the truth" prevented "direct insight" into "the single most direct tie between senior Trump Campaign officials and the Russian intelligence services."
Why would Manafort willingly "face more severe criminal penalties rather than provide complete answers about his interactions" with a Russian spy?
Why did he use four different encrypted messaging applications, "burner" phones, coded signals and a surreptitious method of passing messages - all hallmarks of espionage tradecraft - to communicate with a Russian intelligence officer? Why did this Russian spy fly to the United States just to discuss ultra-sensitive topics with Trump's top campaign adviser?
What were they hiding?
Since many "interactions between Manafort and [the Russian intelligence officer] remain hidden" and Manafort's motives for lying to investigators are "unknown," one conclusion is glaringly obvious: The FBI's investigation of Manafort did not go far enough.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...sia-hoax-narrative/ar-BB18mE25?ocid=Peregrine
