All Things Trump: the story continues...

[Cunt]

It was supposed to timestamp to about the 8 minute mark

[Joe]

This should maybe go in the Conspiracy Theories thread, but this is what a controlled demolition sounds like.



Buh bye Trump Plaza Tower.

[rainbow]

The process is the punishment. It's really all they have to attack him with.

Who are "they"?

Democrat/media party.

What about Trump's taxes and fraud cases?

These will hurt Trump a great deal more.

In the pocket, and his fragile ego.

[Cunt]

Aw, you miss him.

Don't feel alone. A lot of media folks absolutely wet themselves for the opportunity to say something about him. He's a much bigger character than other politicians, so it's natural you would be drawn to him. Like a father figure.

[JimC]

Aw, you miss him.

Don't feel alone. A lot of media folks absolutely wet themselves for the opportunity to say something about him. He's a much bigger character than other politicians, so it's natural you would be drawn to him. Like a father figure.

So, the usual Cunt sideways step. No actual comment on the straightforward criminal cases he now faces...

[Cunt]

Why am I supposed to comment on that? I already said - the process IS the punishment. It doesn't matter that he got acquitted twice, since he had impeachments fucking up his time anyway. Doesn't matter that the suits were as empty as the politicians filing them.

The process is the punishment.

[rainbow]

Aw, you miss him.

Yes, in the way that I miss explosive diarrhea.

[Tero]

[Cunt]

lol

Hat trick imminent. They MUST impeach him again!

[L'Emmerdeur]

Spreading the Trumpist narrative requires a willingness to modify reality.

'Trump Intelligence Chiefs Hid Evidence Of Russian Election Interference'

Lost in the news on the day of Trump’s Insurrection was a devastating new watchdog report to Congress on the politicizing and distorting of intelligence during Donald Trump’s time in office.

The analytic ombudsman, career intelligence community veteran Barry A. Zulauf, determined that under Trump national intelligence reports had become highly politicized. Important findings were suppressed to appease Trump’s refusal to acknowledge Russian interference in American elections.

Zulauf’s unclassified report paints a frightening picture of just how much the Trump administration skewed intelligence to suppress knowledge of interference by Russia in our 2020 elections.

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Zulauf determined that Trump’s ODNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence] took “willful actions that… had the effect of politicizing intelligence, hindering objective analysis or injecting bias into the intelligence process.”

While Zulauf tried to avoid specifically naming individuals responsible for much of the political heavy-handed rewriting, he repeatedly calls out actions taken by two recent Trump appointees, neither of whom had any chops as intelligence experts.

One is former an acting director, Richard Grenell. He had been a Fox News commentator and Trump-appointed ambassador to Germany, and took over the ODNI in February 2020 then relinquished the post the following May.

The second was the Texas congressman Trump appointed to replace Grenell, John Ratcliffe, best known as a fervent defender of the ex-president in his first impeachment.

In one particularly egregious example, Zulauf wrote, Ratcliffe insisted on highlighting Chinese election interference while downplaying Russian efforts.

“Ratcliffe just disagreed with the established analytic line on China, insisting ‘we are missing’ China’s influence in the US and that Chinese actions ARE intended to affect the election,” Zulauf wrote. “Ultimately the DNI insisted on putting material on China in…. As a result, the final published [assessment], analysts felt, was an outrageous misrepresentation of their analysis.”

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While Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III was barred from investigating Trump’s conduct as a counterintelligence matter, his office did look into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

On July 24, 2019, Mueller told the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees that Russia would continue interfering in our elections. “It was not a single attempt, [Russia’s] doing it as we sit here,” he testified. “And they expect to do it during the next campaign.”

Yet eight months later, on March 10, 2020, in presenting the views of the intelligence community, Bill Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), briefing members of Congress on election interference, said the opposite. He told lawmakers in a closed-door session for which summaries were released that there was no evidence that Russia had taken steps to help any candidate in the 2020 elections.

Analysts refer to talking points in these March statements, as well as subsequent statements in July, August and October of last year, as examples of “gross misrepresentation” of established intelligence community views.

The ombudsman’s report attributes the rationale for these distortions and lies to the opposition they faced “getting their views on election interference across…in a confrontational environment.”

[Cunt]

I've heard a lot about Russian interference, but has anyone ever found CCP interference?

Or is that not popular, because the Biden family does too much business there?

[L'Emmerdeur]

There were election interference efforts by at least two other countries. Both China and Iran were acknowledged in intelligence reports as being involved in such efforts.

That's explained in the article. The issue is the way that Trump's appointees distorted the product of the intelligence analysts to downplay Russia's involvement and highlight the others, primarily China. The link in the first paragraph of the article goes to the actual report from the ombudsman, for anybody who'd like to read it. From the article:

Analysts expressed frustration that political appointees were suppressing the actual intelligence because it was not well received at the Trump White House. The analysts told the ombudsman that their intelligence was being suppressed and politicized as the ODNI leaders cherry-picked intelligence supporting a narrative that Trump wanted rather than presenting facts.

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Zulauf wrote that in May 2020, the acting director of National Intelligence, Grenell, delayed the release of a memo for “politically motivated editing.”

The changes “buried the lead,” Zulauf wrote, regarding known election security threats. Analysts found intelligence community leadership consistently “watered down conclusions” and were “boosting the threat from China.”

Overstating the threat from China also minimized, and distracted from, actual threats from Russia. Instead of speaking on Russia, leaders regularly pivoted instead to China.

[Cunt]

It can all come out now.

Start with the Hunter Biden business connections, etc. It's a lot more relevant than historic corruption.

Unless you still have your crush. I get that. He has a...look.

[JimC]

Oh sure...

There'll be a massive Hunter Biden Scandal.

Any day now...

[Tero]

It can all come out now.

Start with the Hunter Biden business connections, etc. It's a lot more relevant than historic corruption.

Unless you still have your crush. I get that. He has a...look.

How many billion did the Bidens make from China? Where is it?