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The Enemy is In the House
A historic day in Ohio history.
Are they clueless, or collaborators?
The congressman with an office in my home town of Norwalk, Ohio is acting as a Russian asset of Vladimir Putin.
That’s right.
The congressman with an office in my home town of Norwalk, Ohio is effectively acting as a Russian asset for Vladimir Putin, a revelation made public with the confession of the Republicans’ source of information for their impeachment effort.
The Republican impeachment of Biden appears at this time to be a classic Russian disinformation operation with at least 147 accessories in Congress.
Though Trump is a private citizen, he leads the national Republican Party and has forged an alliance with Putin, so in effect Putin controls a significant portion of Congress, when critical funding for Ukraine has been blocked by Republicans.
Jordan has effectively shielded Trump from attacks as the chair of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, and has amplified Putin’s disinformation since the first controversies in 2016.
The confession of the informant comes a mere five days after the earthshaking political assassination of Russian dissident Navolny.
The death of Navolny seems coincident with Trump’s recent brazen announcement of condemnation of NATO, during a critical month of the war in Ukraine, giving a green light for Putin to act.
This dovetails with the recent viral showcasing of a humiliating propaganda exercise by Putin, of the very American weakness of Tucker Carlson, who was filmed pushing an empty shopping cart around an automated shopping center- not another soul in sight- and crowing about the wonders of modern Russia.
Journalist Joan Walsh pointed out Putin’s symbolic castration of Carlson, sent out seemingly alone on such an absurd, awkward adventure to basically nowhere in Moscow.
While it is possible Republicans like Rep Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) are mere accessories of the dictator, opportunists with their own misguided intentions, this follows an unvarying pattern of the attacks on Biden since 2019, all based on fake foreign intelligence with origins in the politics of war-torn Ukraine.
At the very least, Republicans have been publicizing unfiltered information from prestigious and powerful seats in Congress, lending credence to false allegations from Russian operatives in order to undermine the policies and the political infrastructure of the United States.
One can say definitively now that private citizen Trump has directed members of Congress in the disinformation campaign; Trump has assumed total party control and so leads a concerted effort to further amplify falsehoods against the President of the United States, some from sources with ties to Russian intelligence.
Trump has repeatedly proclaimed his willingness to further empower the Russian dictator, attempting to advance Putin’s prestige at every opportunity, with his personal political party in lockstep behind him.
Trump’s allegiance to Putin was made public in an appearance with Putin in Helsinki in 2018, when, then-President Trump, responding to questions from a US journalist, discredited the US intelligence on Russia, with Putin standing smiling just a few feet away.
A brief synopsis:
Trump publicly requested Putin’s interference in the 2016 election.
President Obama in 2016 imposed sanctions on Russia for election interference, without disclosing data that would tilt the election and cause a possible blow-back from Republicans. (You’re welcome, Republicans!)
The Russian Embassy in San Francisco was closed as part of the Obama sanctions. We had seen continuous smoke rise from the chimney of the embassy, and we surmised papers were being burned.
Congressional Republicans famously met with Putin in 2018 on the 4th of July in Moscow.
Trump’s NSA nominee Gen Flynn also made overtures to Russia, after acting as an agent for the repressive prime minister of Turkey, a powerful Putin ally. A federal judge found that Flynn was acting against the interests of the United States when Flynn lied to the FBI concerning contacts with Russia.
The NRA – an arm of GOP fundraising-was a conduit for money laundering and was infiltrated by Russian operative Maria Butina, who was active in the US in 2015 and onward, outsourcing Republicans on Putin’s behalf. She has since returned to Russia.
Trump’s campaign provided election data covertly in 2016 to Russian intelligence, campaign manager Paul Manafort, through Konstantin Kalimnik with links to Russian intelligence and so to Putin himself.
Trump’s top advisor was formerly employed in Ukraine to do political work that benefited Putin.
The effort by Jordan, on behalf of Donald Trump to cover for Putin, extends back to the first impeachment of Donald Trump- when Trump’s henchmen concocted a false story about Ukraine scandals involving the current president’s son.
The case for impeachment of President Biden, based on false allegations of bribery led by the House Republicans including Jim Jordan, was a Russian disinformation operation, according to papers made public yesterday, describing the arrest of the main informant who confessed to Federal officials.
It seems obvious that Putin may calculate his spring offensive with the consent of Republicans in Congress at the bidding of his main asset, Donald Trump. Every relationship of private citizen Trump is known to be transactional, quid pro quo.
Quid pro quo. Fait accompli. Pick your language.
Putin/Trump ’24
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/395719-gop-senators-visited-moscow-on-july-4/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/us/russian-consulate-san-francisco-burning.html
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/29/1196572785/paul-whelan-us-citizen-russia-prison-new-video
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/politics/fbi-informant-biden-impeachment-what-matters/index.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67425906
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/guess-who-came-dinner-flynn-putin-n742696
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/23/reality-winner-sentence-classified-report-leak
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/10/politics/trump-russia-nato/index.html
Republican-led bi-partisan Senate Intelligence Committee: “The Russian government directed extensive activity against U.S. election infrastructure. The Committee found the activity directed at the state and local level began in at least 2014 and carried into at least 2017. The Committee has seen no evidence that any votes were changed or that any voting machines were manipulated.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44825345
Putin’s small town flavor:
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