May 21, 2018: A "Spy" Infiltrates the Trump 2016 Campaign - As Do the Russians!

 

5/21/18: Following his Sunday Twitter tantrum, Donald J. Trump in part gets his way. The Department of Justice agrees to look into whether or not the F.B.I. “infiltrated” his campaign or put a “spy” in strategy meetings or set up a hidden camera to watch Melania daube on her makeup. 

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“Donald Trump had more Russian connections than Aeroflot.” 

Gary Kasparov

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Even the nit-wittiest nitwit could figure this out if they devoted five minutes to cogitation. A source, now revealed as a result of right-wing yapping, “inside” the Trump 2016 campaign, talked to three people. One was George Papadopoulos who has since pled guilty to lying to the F.B.I. 

A second was Carter Page, who shows up in the infamous Steele dossier, allegedly for traveling to Russia and talking to individuals with direct links to Vladimir Putin. Page now admits he did go to Moscow during the 2016 campaign. At first, Page denied telling anyone on the Trump team about his trip. Later he admitted he did. Then he said he didn’t meet with any high Russian officials. 

Then he said, okay, I did. 

Carter Page did travel to Russia during the campaign.

The third individual contacted was Sam Clovis. Clovis described the extent of his contacts with the “spy” during the campaign. “The meeting was very high level; it was like two faculty members sitting down in the faculty lounge talking about research. There was no indication or no inclination that this was anything other than just wanting to offer up his help to the campaign if I needed it.” No cloaks were involved. No daggers. The pair talked in a hotel lobby. Clovis didn’t have a hidden gun or a pencil that could spray chemicals. He had a cup of coffee and a notebook. 

According to Clovis he never bothered with notes. Isn’t that convenient, if you might be investigated! 

Clovis then blew a giant hole in the idea that this source was spying on everyone for the run amok F.B.I. “I’m not going to name the individual, I know exactly who it is...but I will say this: That person had nothing to do with the campaign. They were not part of the campaign.” 

So, it would seem the “spy” did not spy on Trump Sr., or Trump Jr. or Ivanka or even Barron Trump.

 

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“I don’t question Bob Mueller’s honesty or his integrity.” 

ANOTHER RABID DEMOCRAT comes to the defense of Robert Mueller and…Oh wait, he’s a Republican. It’s the man who briefly led the Trump transition team, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. 

In a speech at the University of Chicago, he tells the audience, “Bob Mueller himself is not a partisan, he’s an honest guy, he is a hard working guy, he’s smart and you can’t argue that the investigation hasn’t been effective so far.” 

Trump’s biggest problem, says Christie, including the fact he’s a pathological liar, is Trump. “There’s no way to make an investigation like this shorter,” Christie says he warned the president, “but there’s lots of ways to make it longer. He’s executed on a number of those ways to make it longer.” 

“I don’t question Bob Mueller’s honesty or his integrity,” Christie says finally, “never have, and having worked with him for years, I still wouldn’t.” 

 

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“The sad news is propaganda works.” 

SPEAKING AT a conference in New York, former Russian chess champion Gary Kasparov warns that Vladimir Putin will attack our elections again. Putin is not a democratically elected leader, Kasparov says. “He’s a dictator.” For seventeen years, Kasparov notes, the Russians have been trafficking in lies and false stories on the internet and they’re good at what they’re doing. “The sad news is propaganda works,” he told his audience. “Fake news works.” 

Did he believe our president was in the pocket of Putin? “Donald Trump had more Russian connections than Aeroflot,” he replied. “While I believe in coincidences, I also believe in the KGB.”

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE: Right-wing news will eventually begin describing Christopher Steele’s dossier as “discredited.” Bob Woodward, in his book Fear, will note that John Brennan, Director of the C.I.A. “said the information,” in Steele’s report, “was in line with their own sources, in which he had great confidence.” (Fear, p. 64.)