22-01-2018, 04:14 PM
I don't think that the Russians colluded with Team Trump to help them win the election; they colluded for the purpose of damaging Hillary Clinton and weakening her Presidency. Hardly anyone thought that Trump would actually win. By all indications, most of Trump's family didn't want him to win and he was preparing to start TRUMP TV with Roger Ailes (who was forced out of Fox News in July 2016).
From Michael Wolff's new book:
Not only did Trump disregard the potential conflicts of his business deals and real
estate holdings, he audaciously refused to release his tax returns. Why should he if he
wasn't going to win?
What's more, Trump refused to spend any time considering, however hypothetically,
transition matters, saying it was "bad luck"but really meaning it was a waste of time.
Nor would he even remotely contemplate the issue of his holdings and conflicts.
He wasn't going to win! Or losing was winning.
Trump would be the most famous man in the worlda martyr to crooked Hillary
Clinton.
His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared would have transformed themselves from
relatively obscure rich kids into international celebrities and brand ambassadors.
Steve Bannon would become the de facto head of the Tea Party movement.
Kellyanne Conway would be a cable news star.
Reince Priebus and Katie Walsh would get their Republican Party back.
Melania Trump could return to inconspicuously lunching.
That was the trouble-free outcome they awaited on November 8, 2016. Losing would
work out for everybody.
Shortly after eight o'clock that evening, when the unexpected trendTrump might
actually winseemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he called
him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania, to whom Donald Trump had made his
solemn guarantee, was in tearsand not of joy.
There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon's not unamused
observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a quite
horrified Trump. But still to come was the final transformation: suddenly, Donald Trump
became a man who believed that he deserved to be and was wholly capable of being the
president of the United States.
Putin was not looking forward to HRC being President, and the best he thought he could hope for was to keep her win a narrow one (like her husband's in 1992) and have a distracted administration spending its time fighting off GOP investigations and right-wing media coverage. At least she might leave Russia alone and stop expanding NATO. It wasn't hard to meddle in certain key swing states, likely with the guidance of some of Trump's people:
"The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has requested that a data analytics company called Cambridge Analytica turn over internal documents as part of its investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. Cambridge Analytica specializes in what's called "psychographic" profiling, meaning they use data collected online to create personality profiles for voters. They then take that information and target individuals with specifically tailored content"
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/...ynn-russia
Now some of you are thinking, "but the deep state, Robert Mueller..." Yeah, I know Robert Mueller's role at the FBI on 9/11 and the anthrax letters investigation as well as anyone. The point is that the national security state of the US is striking back at a man who is a) fundamentally unfit for the Presidency b) a dangerous person to have controlling nuclear weapons c) a proven security risk (his inability to handle classified information carefully) and d) a man who can be blackmailed because of his 30 years of involvement with the Russians:
http://billmoyers.com/story/trump-russia-timeline/
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017...-timeline/
https://www.politico.com/interactives/20...tion-ties/
https://www.alternet.org/election-2016/d...ime-bosses
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017...-dossiers/
https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/t...-syndicate
http://www.citypaper.com/news/mobtownbea...story.html
From Michael Wolff's new book:
Not only did Trump disregard the potential conflicts of his business deals and real
estate holdings, he audaciously refused to release his tax returns. Why should he if he
wasn't going to win?
What's more, Trump refused to spend any time considering, however hypothetically,
transition matters, saying it was "bad luck"but really meaning it was a waste of time.
Nor would he even remotely contemplate the issue of his holdings and conflicts.
He wasn't going to win! Or losing was winning.
Trump would be the most famous man in the worlda martyr to crooked Hillary
Clinton.
His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared would have transformed themselves from
relatively obscure rich kids into international celebrities and brand ambassadors.
Steve Bannon would become the de facto head of the Tea Party movement.
Kellyanne Conway would be a cable news star.
Reince Priebus and Katie Walsh would get their Republican Party back.
Melania Trump could return to inconspicuously lunching.
That was the trouble-free outcome they awaited on November 8, 2016. Losing would
work out for everybody.
Shortly after eight o'clock that evening, when the unexpected trendTrump might
actually winseemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he called
him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania, to whom Donald Trump had made his
solemn guarantee, was in tearsand not of joy.
There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon's not unamused
observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a quite
horrified Trump. But still to come was the final transformation: suddenly, Donald Trump
became a man who believed that he deserved to be and was wholly capable of being the
president of the United States.
Putin was not looking forward to HRC being President, and the best he thought he could hope for was to keep her win a narrow one (like her husband's in 1992) and have a distracted administration spending its time fighting off GOP investigations and right-wing media coverage. At least she might leave Russia alone and stop expanding NATO. It wasn't hard to meddle in certain key swing states, likely with the guidance of some of Trump's people:
"The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has requested that a data analytics company called Cambridge Analytica turn over internal documents as part of its investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. Cambridge Analytica specializes in what's called "psychographic" profiling, meaning they use data collected online to create personality profiles for voters. They then take that information and target individuals with specifically tailored content"
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/...ynn-russia
Now some of you are thinking, "but the deep state, Robert Mueller..." Yeah, I know Robert Mueller's role at the FBI on 9/11 and the anthrax letters investigation as well as anyone. The point is that the national security state of the US is striking back at a man who is a) fundamentally unfit for the Presidency b) a dangerous person to have controlling nuclear weapons c) a proven security risk (his inability to handle classified information carefully) and d) a man who can be blackmailed because of his 30 years of involvement with the Russians:
http://billmoyers.com/story/trump-russia-timeline/
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017...-timeline/
https://www.politico.com/interactives/20...tion-ties/
https://www.alternet.org/election-2016/d...ime-bosses
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017...-dossiers/
https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/t...-syndicate
http://www.citypaper.com/news/mobtownbea...story.html