We haven’t seen the left this giddy since around 8pm election night, 2016.
They’ve been furiously connecting dots and have not only Trump impeached, but Mike Pence too!
Why?
Because a Russian woman just arrested for espionage had “deep ties” with the NRA. How this translates into a Trump impeachment is anyone’s guess. Perhaps the morons have seen the word “Russia” in the story and that’s all it takes for them to retreat from the window ledge?
Mother Jones has the breathless story, one where it is very difficult to figure out why they have such optimism because the dots are difficult to connect.
Beginning back in 2013, Butina developed a relationship with an unnamed “American political operative” described in the court documents, who has been identified in media reports as GOP activist and NRA member Paul Erickson.
Through Erickson and her connections with the NRA, Butina sought to establish “‘back channel’ lines of communication” to influential political figures. In photos that she posted to her Facebook page, she posed with Republican politicians, including former presidential candidates Scott Walker and Bobby Jindal, and former US Sen. Rick Santorum.
COLLUSION! I call collusion. Get the indictments for Walker and Jindal drawn up!
Then in late March 2015—two days before Butina emailed Erickson a plan for further building political connections—she posted on Facebook that she was again headed for the NRA annual convention.
“Building political connections.” Also known as COLLUSION!!!! Get the indictments.
Butina had traveled to Las Vegas for FreedomFest, an annual conservative event where Trump was speaking. Trump, who had announced his White House run in June, fielded questions from the audience. Butina took a turn at the microphone: “I am visiting from Russia,” she said.
“Ahhhhh, Putin!” Trump interjected, prompting laughter from the crowd as he added a mocking riff about the current president: “Good friend of Obama, Putin. He likes Obama a lot. Go ahead.”
“My question will be about foreign politics,” Butina said, and then asked Trump if he would continue “damaging” economic sanctions against Russia as president. Trump appeared not to know who Butina was. After going off on Obama and digressing into trade talk, he responded that he would “get along very nicely” with Putin. “I don’t think you’d need the sanctions,” Trump said.
This was another misleading and breathless Mother Jones headline-
Trump Spoke to a Russian Activist About Ending Sanctions—Just Weeks After Launching His Campaign.
Wooooooooo scary. Here’s Trump colluding speaking with a Russian activist. (The woman asking the question is the woman just accused of espionage, Maria Butina.)
According to a report earlier this year from McClatchy, the FBI has been investigating whether Torshin (Butina’s business partner-bfh) illegally funneled money to the Trump campaign through the NRA. (The FBI would “neither confirm nor deny” the investigation to Mother Jones.)
The Butina case is being prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the National Security Division of the Justice Department; it is unclear to what degree the case may relate to the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller. But a near certainty is that additional significant details from the case will emerge.
Two weeks after the high school massacre this February in Parkland, Florida, NRA Executive Director Chris Cox met privately in the Oval Office with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, and then announced, “POTUS & VPOTUS support the Second Amendment, support strong due process and don’t want gun control. #NRA #MAGA.”
This is some weird ass dot connecting.
I promise you I did not leave out anything pertinent.
In conjunction with this story, the left is tweeting out that a Russian prostitution ring has been busted in a Miami Trump property.
Also, Trump sold condos to Russians.
GET THE IMPEACHMENT PAPERS, NOW!!!!
Somebody sold somebody some Uranium.
Burner
Fat, ugly Whoopi went all ghetto on The Judge.
They are becoming unwound.
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LOL this is pretty funny. They’ll calm down in a few days and move on to something else worthless.
Bernie’s campaign manager was actually colluding with Russians and these fools aren’t interested in that.
How they can see what 0bama was doing for 8 years and not even blink proves they’re nuts. Muslim brotherhood, uranium, iran deal, Holder’s fast and furious gun trafficking, spying on foreign leaders and interjecting and butting into their elections, and HILLARY!
“investigating whether Torshin (Butina’s business partner-bfh) illegally funneled money to the Trump campaign through the NRA.”
I’m wondering why not a soul on the right leaning shows is asking about Hillary’s $400 million windfall for her campaign that Putin mentioned.
RightWinger- yeah, is hannity on vacation? He’s usually very much into this stuff. Hillary had a lot of illegal campaign donations, obviously. And we know Bernie’s campaign person was cutting deals with a russian spy. Where are those investigations?
Plant, stooge, patsy, whatever. Just part of the churning of the Fake News chum. At least Butina is easier for journos to type than Veselnitskaya
Hey MoJo, where are Stefan Halper and Joseph Mifsud? There’s a couple of dots to connect, if you can find them.
“In conjunction with this story, the left is tweeting out that a Russian prostitution ring has been busted in a Miami Trump property.”
That story has been going around for years.
I’m sure nothing like this happens on any other rich guy’s properties, or even in a motel 6, right? Or the island bill clinton used to fly to? And John conyers in the Dominican Republic? Or how about those problems Bob Menendez -NJ/Dem has? Shaaaaame!
@MJ, I have only one explanation, half the people are under mass hysteria brought on by a steady diet of lies by ugly women. Women who have somehow convinced weak minded people to listen to what they say, not the evidence.
Defense lawyers love those kind of jurors.
It’s the Salem hunt all over again.
And “Lawrence” the troll last night was all aflutter about NY investigation the Trump Foundation’s taxes. Yawn. Anymore, when they come down hard with the Fakeness on something or someone related to Trump, you know that the Deepers/Clintons have been hit harder by real charges or testimony which will never make the news.
You think we are done with Uranium One and William Campbell? I don’t.
If Sessions and Trump aren’t planning a big roundup then Sessions ought to do the right thing a resign and admit he wasn’t the man for the job. Leaving aside the Meuller debacle there are plenty of other smoking guns lying around that would be putting Democrats, liberals and likely a few Republicans and conservatives in the slam but not a damn thing happens under this AG.
OpenTheDoor @ 12:10 pm
I don’t know what that had to do with Whoopi and The Judge, BUT, I Liked It!!
BTW, Butina is being charged under the exact same law that Tony Podesta was allowed to break, i.e. failing to register as a political foreign agent. Podesta was allowed to back date his application by the Obama administration. Now, Podesta is getting immunity.