Trump, the man with a dream of a Wall

[Seabass]

Here it comes...

Trump’s Lawyer: It’s Time to End the Mueller Probe

President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, John Dowd, told The Daily Beast on Saturday morning that he hopes Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will shut down Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s election interference.

Reached for comment by email about the firing of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Dowd sent The Daily Beast the text of Trump’s most recent tweet on the subject, which applauded the dismissal.

“I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia Collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt Dossier,” Dowd then wrote.

In making the statement, a senior member of Trump's legal team joins the calls from his base to end the probe. As late as mid-December, another Trump lawyer, Ty Cobb, had brushed aside talk of stopped Mueller’s investigation, stressing that there was "no consideration at the White House of terminating the special counsel." The president himself has called the Mueller probe a “witch hunt,” but has not publicly urged Rosenstein to shutter it.

When The Daily Beast initially asked Dowd if he was speaking on behalf of the president, he answered, “Yes as his counsel.” After publication of this story, however, Dowd emailed to say he was actually speaking in his personal capacity, and not on the president’s behalf.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-la ... rt-mueller

[Tero]

Of course. Boy are the FBI and congress thick. Trump will fire as many people as necessary.

[Brian Peacock]

And the traitorous Republicans will let him.

[Seabass]

Does he keep his pension? One assumes that being sacked (2 days before he retired) means he'll lose some of his benefits? That looks a bit suspicious - punitive.

No pension, according to the article.

[Brian Peacock]

Yeah, I thought so. It sends a certain message to the FBI and others doesn't it?

[Sean Hayden]

Yeah, they can get fucked like the rest of us. Or why else suppose this will anger the "working stiff"? --business as usual

[Seabass]

Cambridge Analytica! Information warfare!

Guardian: The Cambridge Analytica Files—‘I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower

For more than a year we’ve been investigating Cambridge Analytica and its links to the Brexit Leave campaign in the UK and Team Trump in the US presidential election. Now, 28-year-old Christopher Wylie goes on the record to discuss his role in hijacking the profiles of millions of Facebook users in order to target the US electorate

Russia, Facebook, Trump, Mercer, Bannon, Brexit. Every one of these threads runs through Cambridge Analytica. Even in the past few weeks, it seems as if the understanding of Facebook’s role has broadened and deepened. The Mueller indictments were part of that, but Paul-Olivier Dehaye – a data expert and academic based in Switzerland, who published some of the first research into Cambridge Analytica’s processes – says it’s become increasingly apparent that Facebook is “abusive by design”. If there is evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, it will be in the platform’s data flows, he says. And Wylie’s revelations only move it on again.

“Facebook has denied and denied and denied this,” Dehaye says when told of the Observer’s new evidence. “It has misled MPs and congressional investigators and it’s failed in its duties to respect the law.It has a legal obligation to inform regulators and individuals about this data breach, and it hasn’t. It’s failed time and time again to be open and transparent.”

Facebook denies that the data transfer was a breach. In addition, a spokesperson said: “Protecting people’s information is at the heart of everything we do, and we require the same from people who operate apps on Facebook. If these reports are true, it’s a serious abuse of our rules. Both Aleksandr Kogan as well as the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica certified to us that they destroyed the data in question.”

Millions of people’s personal information was stolen and used to target them in ways they wouldn’t have seen, and couldn’t have known about, by a mercenary outfit, Cambridge Analytica, who, Wylie says, “would work for anyone”. Who would pitch to Russian oil companies. Would they subvert elections abroad on behalf of foreign governments?

full article:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/m ... nnon-trump



ETA: Interview with Wylie:

[Brian Peacock]

Posted that in the 'alt-right' thread too.

[pErvinalia]

He dresses funny and has red hair. Clearly Antifa.

[Brian Peacock]

And he used to work for a tiny far-left UK political group called The Liberal Democrats - obviously a false flag put up job.

[pErvinalia]

Is his middle name "Anonymous-Source"?

[Hermit]

When speaking of Christopher Wylie it is important to keep in mind that it takes a lot longer to walk from his London office to his Cambridge office than it takes to fly from London to an fundamentalist Islamic terrorist training camp in Somalia. I'm not saying Christopher Wylie has ever flown from London to an fundamentalist Islamic terrorist training camp in Somalia, just that when speaking of Christopher Wylie it is important to keep in mind that it takes a lot longer to walk from his London office to his Cambridge office than it takes to fly from London to an fundamentalist Islamic terrorist training camp in Somalia.

[pErvinalia]

Didn't he once say something nice about Hillary?

[cronus]

Will it return to normal, whatever normal might be, or continue its slide into a satellite of Russia both ideologically and politically? Can things get worse? or better?

[pErvinalia]

I suspect things can, and probably will, get worse. As scary as it sounds to say that.