Media Matters is a George Soros operation, an enemy of the United States. You're one of the fools who can't see the forest for the trees. There is a liberal progressive mutiny going on in the Executive Branch and in congress, bub, it is real and it is dangerous. Wake the fk up.

It isn't necessary for President Trump to read all that classified information, all he needs to know is that it exists.

Trump throws bombshell into Russia investigation, orders release of controversial surveillance documents and Comey texts

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It wasn’t a surprise when the White House announced Monday that it was ordering the Justice Department to declassify a set of material related to the genesis of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 e******n. For weeks, President Trump’s allies on Fox News and in the House had been echoing each other’s calls to do precisely that.

Media Matters even made a compilation of those requests.
So on Monday, that very specific order from Trump: Declassify precisely those pages of the application for a warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page that were mentioned in a news conference held by 12 staunchly Trump-loyal members of the House in September. What’s more, Trump ordered the department to declassify text messages involving a number of names familiar to the Fox News audience. Former FBI agent Peter Strzok, Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and so on.
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Those elected officials and the Fox News hosts who echoed their demand insisted that the declassifications would demonstrate anti-Trump rot in the Justice Department. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) promised that revelation would help Republicans win in November.
It’s odd, though, that Fox News’s Sean Hannity or Lou Dobbs would call for the revelation of classified material, given that neither has security clearance allowing them to know what was actually contained in the documents. They, it seems, were relying on the analysis of people like Nunes and Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mark Meadows (R-N.C.). They were calling for something to be declassified just assuming that it was what was promised.
Trump, of course, does have clearance and could know precisely what he was ordering be exposed to the public. But in an interview with the Hill, Trump revealed that he, too, hadn’t read the material.
“I have not reviewed them,” he said in response to a question about whether he had reviewed “the memos.” It’s not clear how he interpreted that question, but the Hill’s report classifies Trump’s response as addressing “declassifying documents.”
“I have been asked by many people in Congress as you know to release them,” Trump continued. “I have watched commentators that I respect begging the president of the United States to release them. . . . I have had many people ask me to release them. Not that I didn’t like the idea, but I wanted to wait. I wanted to see what, you know, where it was all going. And I think this whole, it’s a h**x. You know Gregg Jarrett wrote a book called the Russian H**x. It actually is a h**x. I call it a witch hunt, but it’s a h**x. Beyond a witch hunt.”
“I have been asked by so many people that I respect,” he added later, “'Please' — the great Lou Dobbs, the great Sean Hannity, the wonderful great Jeanie Pirro.” All three are Fox News or Fox Business Network hosts. Pirro, Trump said, “takes it so personally” because this is “one of the great scandals in the history of our country.”
Trump is known not to be an avid reader of prepared material. His intelligence briefings are presented orally; he eschews written reports. Those reports that he is given often rely on large graphical elements. Trump will also frequently praise books that he almost certainly hasn’t read, given that many of them haven’t been released publicly prior to his promotion of them.
Shortly before the e******n, The Post explored how a president who doesn’t read much would approach the job. He told our Marc Fisher that he has no time to read.
“I never have. I’m always busy doing a lot,” he said in July 2016. “Now I’m more busy, I guess, than ever before.”

While Trump may not read much, he certainly makes time for watching cable news broadcasts. He has in the past insisted that he “[doesn’t] get to watch much television. Primarily because of documents. I’m reading documents.” That claim is regularly undercut by his tweets that sync with Fox News programming.
Trump could certainly have been briefed by his House allies or staff on the contents of the redacted portions of the Page surveillance warrant application and the text messages. But the presentations from his allies on the Hill might be taken with a grain of salt. When Nunes promoted a memo prepared by his staff summarizing ways in which the Page warrant application was riddled with bias, analysis of the memo after its public release suggested that he’d overplayed the significance of his finding rather severely.
Nunes also admitted that he hadn’t actually read the warrant application.
Note, though, that Trump also didn’t indicate that his staff had briefed him and he’d reached the determination that the declassification made sense. He cites only the advice of people in Congress and, by name, several Fox News hosts.
What’s contained in those classified materials is still unknown to the public, of course. Before it’s released, the Justice Department will push for redactions of sensitive information, perhaps encompassing a large percentage of what Trump wants to see made public. But this, really, would serve the ultimate goal of Trump and his allies on TV and in Congress. As long as something’s redacted, they can promote the idea that what’s hidden proves their point.
That bit of sleight-of-hand might have convinced Trump himself.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/analysis-trump-ordered-the-government-to-declassify-information-he-apparently-hasn’t-read/ar-BBNzEDG?ocid=spartandhp

It wasn’t a surprise when the White House announced Monday that it was ordering the Justice Department to declassify a set of material related to the genesis of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 e******n. For weeks, President Trump’s allies on Fox News and in the House had been echoing each other’s calls to do precisely that.

Media Matters even made a compilation of those requests.
So on Monday, that very specific order from Trump: Declassify precisely those pages of the application for a warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page that were mentioned in a news conference held by 12 staunchly Trump-loyal members of the House in September. What’s more, Trump ordered the department to declassify text messages involving a number of names familiar to the Fox News audience. Former FBI agent Peter Strzok, Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and so on.
Subscribe to the Post Most newsletter: Today’s most popular stories on The Washington Post
Those elected officials and the Fox News hosts who echoed their demand insisted that the declassifications would demonstrate anti-Trump rot in the Justice Department. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) promised that revelation would help Republicans win in November.
It’s odd, though, that Fox News’s Sean Hannity or Lou Dobbs would call for the revelation of classified material, given that neither has security clearance allowing them to know what was actually contained in the documents. They, it seems, were relying on the analysis of people like Nunes and Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mark Meadows (R-N.C.). They were calling for something to be declassified just assuming that it was what was promised.
Trump, of course, does have clearance and could know precisely what he was ordering be exposed to the public. But in an interview with the Hill, Trump revealed that he, too, hadn’t read the material.
“I have not reviewed them,” he said in response to a question about whether he had reviewed “the memos.” It’s not clear how he interpreted that question, but the Hill’s report classifies Trump’s response as addressing “declassifying documents.”
“I have been asked by many people in Congress as you know to release them,” Trump continued. “I have watched commentators that I respect begging the president of the United States to release them. . . . I have had many people ask me to release them. Not that I didn’t like the idea, but I wanted to wait. I wanted to see what, you know, where it was all going. And I think this whole, it’s a h**x. You know Gregg Jarrett wrote a book called the Russian H**x. It actually is a h**x. I call it a witch hunt, but it’s a h**x. Beyond a witch hunt.”
“I have been asked by so many people that I respect,” he added later, “'Please' — the great Lou Dobbs, the great Sean Hannity, the wonderful great Jeanie Pirro.” All three are Fox News or Fox Business Network hosts. Pirro, Trump said, “takes it so personally” because this is “one of the great scandals in the history of our country.”
Trump is known not to be an avid reader of prepared material. His intelligence briefings are presented orally; he eschews written reports. Those reports that he is given often rely on large graphical elements. Trump will also frequently praise books that he almost certainly hasn’t read, given that many of them haven’t been released publicly prior to his promotion of them.
Shortly before the e******n, The Post explored how a president who doesn’t read much would approach the job. He told our Marc Fisher that he has no time to read.
“I never have. I’m always busy doing a lot,” he said in July 2016. “Now I’m more busy, I guess, than ever before.”

While Trump may not read much, he certainly makes time for watching cable news broadcasts. He has in the past insisted that he “[doesn’t] get to watch much television. Primarily because of documents. I’m reading documents.” That claim is regularly undercut by his tweets that sync with Fox News programming.
Trump could certainly have been briefed by his House allies or staff on the contents of the redacted portions of the Page surveillance warrant application and the text messages. But the presentations from his allies on the Hill might be taken with a grain of salt. When Nunes promoted a memo prepared by his staff summarizing ways in which the Page warrant application was riddled with bias, analysis of the memo after its public release suggested that he’d overplayed the significance of his finding rather severely.
Nunes also admitted that he hadn’t actually read the warrant application.
Note, though, that Trump also didn’t indicate that his staff had briefed him and he’d reached the determination that the declassification made sense. He cites only the advice of people in Congress and, by name, several Fox News hosts.
What’s contained in those classified materials is still unknown to the public, of course. Before it’s released, the Justice Department will push for redactions of sensitive information, perhaps encompassing a large percentage of what Trump wants to see made public. But this, really, would serve the ultimate goal of Trump and his allies on TV and in Congress. As long as something’s redacted, they can promote the idea that what’s hidden proves their point.
That bit of sleight-of-hand might have convinced Trump himself.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/analysis-trump-ordered-the-government-to-declassify-information-he-apparently-hasn’t-read/ar-BBNzEDG?ocid=spartandhp

The hit piece you posted makes this logic > Hillary was supposed to win > Russia tried to disrupt our e******n > Hillary didn’t win > ergo Russian intervention was intended and was designed to help Trump.

I am aware that schools haven’t taught classical ‘logic’ as a subject for 20 years or more, but your reasoning is not logical.

Putin didn’t care who won, he probably favoured Hillary because he could game her some more, like the U1 deal, but his game is to weaken his enemy. His goal was payback for the US meddling in many e******ns worldwide that disrupt other countries and plans he had. There is plenty of evidence that Russian interference acted against both candidates. The goal was simply to cause a loss of faith in the v****g system and the political system. Given that Russian social media attempts were pretty wimpy actually, that effort has been wildly successful - the country has never been so distrustful of the political system as now.

The second thread here is that Putin wants a strong Russia, he doesn’t want the success of a New World Order run by the bankster families. So given the chance to kick them in the ghoulies and weaken them a bit, he’ll take it - regardless of what that does to US politics. Any common cause he has made with Trump since the e******n will be rooted in that line of thinking, not for Trump’s sake.

At this juncture, Russia’s goals align more with the goals of the patriots, which makes Russia a perfect boogeyman for scaring the lefty base.