Expect more of this, because fire-starting and gaslight come from major arsonists. NYT: A video of a Bible burning in Portland that was amplified by conservatives originated with a Kremlin-backed video news agency. The video now appear to be one of the first viral Russian disinformation hits of the 2020 presidential campaign. https://t.co/fArdppcPkl — Kyle…
Category: Russia
Russia and China at Odds Over Trump, Iran Too.
It’s long been obvious that Putin favors Trump and wants to keep him in the White House where he can continue to destroy the United States, both because we’ve been blocking Russia’s ambitions and because Putin wants revenge for the breakup of the Soviet Union and other things we may or may not have done….
where dat “full and complete” health care plan that Trump has promised he'd sign by August 2nd
August Surprise possible tomorrow, x Looking forward to seeing that “full and complete” health care plan that @realDonaldTrump has promised he will sign by Aug 2. pic.twitter.com/m2OEBoAGps— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) July 20, 2020 x Trump’s searching for his health plan, which he said he’d sign today, out on the golf course. pic.twitter.com/AxMACs2cI8 — Jason Sparks…
Trump's upcoming Axios interview looks as bonkers as his Chris Wallace face-plant
Wherein Donald Trump inflates the size of his paltry Tulsa crowd, says he doesn’t need to accept the upcoming election results because Hillary never did, claims that all sorts of people say you can administer too many COVID tests, and insists that he’s sitting down for a lengthy interview with the “fake news.” In other words, pretty much…
China May Interfere in Our Election – Against Russia
Two stories on the news tonight: First is that Joe Biden put out a statement tonight warning foreign governments, and Russia in particular, that if they try to interfere with our November election, they will pay a heavy price for doing so. (Assuming Biden wins in spite of their interference.) Second story is that China…
Eight World Leaders Take a Swipe at Trump [Update: Putin Out to Steal Vaccine Research]
Not in so many words, but eight world leaders wrote an op-ed in today’s Washington Post calling for any Covid-19 vaccine to be available worldwide: The international community must guarantee equal global access to a covid-19 vaccine [W]e must urgently ensure that vaccines will be distributed according to a set of transparent, equitable and scientifically…
'Bounty-gate' won't go away, Trump still claims he knew nothing after being briefed
So many hoaxes, so much evidence. Money transfers, middle-men. The issue is less about the bounty since it likely is SOP, but more that Trump has denied it. One expects that reciprocity will happen, but even SecDef Esper admitting knowing the existence of the reports is troubling, despite the (usual) Trumpian ignorance. Esper said he didn’t…
After Russia Put Bounties on U.S. Troops, Trump Struck Back – At White House Leakers
Among the criticisms most often leveled at Donald Trump is that he has been a negligent president who spends the bulk of his time on self-serving trivialities like golf, Twitter, and watching Fox News. As it turns out, that may be an unfair analysis. Trump isn't nearly as lazy as the past three and half…
Denial Don says that Joe Biden is the harbinger of far-left fascism, what? Next Superspread in NH
Next Saturday will feature an outdoor rally in Portsmouth New Hampshire to re-infect the northeast. x Trump has visited his properties 366 times since becoming president and today is the 274th time at one of his golf clubs, per CNN tally. @tru62 captures Trump from afar at his Virginia club today pic.twitter.com/WTBYFTSPtx— Manu Raju (@mkraju)…
Trump's petulance reportedly led to fewer verbal briefings on Russia
So if you bristled every time someone at your office brought you key information that was crucial to your job performance — and you did it so often that they eventually stopped giving you that information — you’d be fired, right? Of course you would. That’s called being a below-average (i.e., stubborn and stupid) child….
The Lincoln Project addresses you in Russian
with appropriate subtitles, in a new ad titled “Fellow Traveler” Given the title, the fact that Putin thinks the greatest tragedy of the 20th Century was the fall of the USSR, his role as a KGB figure, and supported by the music of the ad, this is another winner. Oh, and for those of you…
Trump's own Iran-Contra: blurting a Reaganesque “I didn't know anything” over 15 months
Russia Bounty (gate) now has some receipts as both parties in Congress have gotten their security briefings. Trump still maintains ignorance which is not hard to imagine because of his complicit cooperation with Russia, which only makes the timeline of briefings since 2019 even harder to reconcile, reminding ourselves of 2019’s Ukraine antics. Claiming ignorance…
Reddit might be able to delete its Trumpist subreddits but can't stop Trump's arrest #ResignNowTrump
Yesterday r/The_Donald group got banned by Reddit. Not so easy for the rest of us. x In 2017, we used subreddit algebra to dissect r/The_Donald and filter out commenters’ interest in politics. The results supported the theory that at least a subset of Trump’s supporters were motivated by racism. (*On Monday, Reddit banned r/The_Donald.) https://t.co/bAPK4qOAQ8…
No Schvitz: “the president himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States”
Trump’s phone calls with world leaders has probably been a source of much entertainment for the SIGINT community, considering how leaky his channels of communication have been. The current revelations about the frequency and timing of calls with Putin probably has been interesting as probably have been the ability of security agencies to archive WhatsApp…
Hoo-boy, did this Trump tweet age badly
Trump in 2013: x Ignorance is inexcusable; it’s the surest way to fail. No acceptable reason exists for not being well informed. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 26, 2013 Trump now: x Nobody briefed or told me, @VP Pence, or Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by…
Trump Committed Treason
Article III of the US Constitution defines treason: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in…
'He would have been briefed instantaneously': WH veteran slams Trump's comical BountyGate denials
David Gergen, who you probably know as an analyst for CNN, also served as an adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. So he knows how a (functional, anyway) administration operates. And he’s calling extreeeeeeme bullshit on the Trump administration’s new claim that Donald Trump and Mike Pence were never briefed…
Bolton says Trump told China to “Make sure I win”
Reading the Bolton book is a tough slog. although it is amusing to read how he wanted to settle scores including obliquely allowing Rex Tillerson to call Nikki Haley a c***. If there’s a takeaway so far, it is how badly edited it is, and how absent any consideration of national policy other than pushing…
Russia's 2020 reelection interference: Trump could absolve the IRA but get a secondary infection
More monkey business. One hopes the USIC is working hard on protecting the 2020 election, especially from unnamed other malign actors. Forgeries, interference, and attacks on Kremlin critics across six years and 300 sites and platforms. Secondary Infektion is a series of operations run by a large-scale, persistent threat actor from Russia that worked in…
