ahhhh, i understand now. thats a question i cant answer, only know that Putin has never had really any credibility. and tensions with him have been high all the way back to Bush2 iirc.

I've heard Navalny's name from those protests. If he really was on the NED payroll, that makes the connection to the US pretty direct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny
https://journal-neo.org/2015/08/03/national-endowment-for-democracy-is-now-officially-undesirable-in-russia/
>Among NED projects in Russia has been to finance Russian anti-Putin opposition activist Alexei Navalny, member of a group called Russian Opposition Coordination Council. Navalny received money from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
https://www.thenation.com/article/despite-his-politicized-trial-aleksei-navalny-still-divisive-figure-russia/
>A number of incidents from Navalny’s past, eagerly disseminated by pro-Kremlin media, have likely also influenced the negative perception of the anti-corruption activist. These include e-mail correspondence allegedly showing that a political analyst paid Navalny $50,000 for a smear campaign against the aluminum company Rusal, as well as Navalny’s participation in the six-month Yale World Fellows Program and acceptance of a grant from the National Endowment for Democracy.

I'm no expert on all this, the russian opposition is all pretty complex and involves a bunch of people with names I can't keep track of, but I think its reasonable to say that the US had its tentacles wrapped up in the 2011 russian protests, whatever degree between supporting, agitating and full blown astroturfing.

Trump lawyers reject interview terms sought by special counsel in Russia probe
.... Weird, wasn't Trump. claiming he wanted to be interviewed, some days or weeks ago? I'm nearly sure of this.

He has done that a few times now, either he or someone on his team will float the idea that he wants a sit down and they'll walk it back the next day.

A smart lawyer wouldn't let someone who is incapable of telling the truth to sit down for an interview unless forced into it. So don't expect one until that time comes.
I mean just the other day a host on fox made the comment "How in the world could he ever cooperate and sit down with Mueller for an interview knowing that if you tell one lie to Bob Mueller, he will move to file charges?”
I guess telling the truth is out of the question, heh.



A gem from trump's team. They also consider questioning the president about possible obstruction of justice to be legally inappropriate. Ha.

This post was edited by Arsenic_Touch on Aug 8 2018 11:01pm

cmon just 1 little lie, thats not much....

Trump is a world class liar and bullshitter... he doesn't want to be interviewed, so he'll hide behind his lawyers. Mueller won't be making any noise 60 days out from the midterms per DOJ policy. I think the longer this goes on without Americans being indicted for charges related to conspiracy, the worse it is for Mueller, so he may not want a dragged out legal battle over subpoenaing Trump.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/christopher-steele-communicated-with-doj-official-while-compiling-dossier/



This is a strange story.

What do you make of it?

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier

Apparently it was already known one of Orbis's clients was Deripaska... hard to remember every single piece of information for this Russiagate shit. Still interesting he was communicating with Bruce Ohr about that though.

This post was edited by IceMage on Aug 9 2018 10:53am

This is absolutely fascinating to me:


https://crooksandliars.com/2018/08/rudy-giuliani-admits-if-trump-sticks-his