moldyoldy wrote:
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/james-comey-russia-investigation-started-with-four-americans-with-ties-to-trump-russia/507-622350141
Yup, 2 clintons, podesta, bo and the rank and file group~~
Last January, Politico reported that the Democratic National Committee, acting on behalf of Hillary, actually contacted officials in the corrupt government of the Ukraine seeking opposition research against Trump. "Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office," Politico said. "They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton's allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisors."
Is that not collusion? By the way, Ukrainian-supplied information about Manafort meeting with Russian officials led to him being fired by Trump. So the DNC actually used the information.
OK, but what about Russia? The media did very little due diligence on reports of Hillary's collusion with Russia. As we reported in May, not only did Bill Clinton get $500,000 in 2010 for giving a speech in Moscow, paid for by a company with ties to Russian intelligence, but he did so while Hillary was the nation's top diplomat.
We noted the overwhelming stench of collusion between the Clintons and Russia, noting that Viktor Vekselberg, a "Putin confidant," and other Putin cronies gave money to the Clinton Foundation. The Clinton charity also took in millions from Uranium One, which was sold to the Russian government in 2010. With its acquisition, Russia gained control of 20% of the U.S.' uranium deposits. Hillary's State Department approved the sale.
John Podesta: Hillary's campaign manager didn't disclose during the campaign that he had received 75,000 shares of stock from Joule Unlimited, which was financed by the Kremlin. Podesta served as a director of the company from 2010 to 2014, when he joined the Obama White House. He hid the holdings from public scrutiny by transferring them to a shell company called Leonidio Holdings, that he incorporated a mere week and a half before taking a post in the White House.
Oh, and don't forget Tony Podesta, John's brother, who was paid $24 million in fees as a lobbyist in 2016, much of it from foreign governments. He lobbied for Sberbank, a Russian financial firm, that was trying to get U.S. sanctions removed that had been imposed after Russia took the Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
President Obama: Famously, President Obama met with then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, a protege of Vladimir Putin, at a 2012 conference in Seoul. In comments he thought weren't being picked up by a microphone, Obama said he needed time, "particularly with missile defense," until he was in a stronger political position.
Here's the ensuing conversation. You can decide whether it amounts to collusion.
Medvedev: "I understand your message about space."
Obama: "This is my last election. … After my election I have more flexibility."
Medvedev: "I will transmit this information to Vladimir."
And, of course, there was the fact that Obama did virtually nothing as Putin ransacked the Crimea, threatened Poland and the Baltic nations, while Obama himself outsourced the fight against ISIS to Russia, leading to the mass murder of civilians there. This too is collusion, the inevitable result of someone who cravenly promised "flexibility" to a dictator.
DNC/Russia: The DNC used disinformation from a highly questionable source linked to the Russians to discredit Trump last year. Former British spy Christopher Steele produced a dossier containing lots of salacious charges against Trump, including some obscene in nature. Steele handed the dossier over, but only after being paid by Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm that was itself being paid by a Hillary Clinton supporter.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/democrats-real-pervasive-collusion-with-russia-somehow-lost-in-medias-hysterical-anti-trump-campaign/