Donald Trump Jr.'s Russia email scandal shakes the presidency, v4: Cover of TIME

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"No contact with Russians," Michael Caputo, ex-Trump adviser, testifies
CBS News said:
"I had no contact with Russians and I never heard of anyone in the Trump campaign talking with Russians," said Caputo, who met with House investigators for nearly four hours on Friday. He said he testified that he had zero contacts with Russians during his time on the campaign.
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Ex-Trump adviser denies any campaign contact with Russians
CNN said:
(CNN)Michael Caputo, a former top adviser to Donald Trump's campaign with strong ties to Russia, firmly denied having knowledge of any alleged contacts between the campaign and Russia after testifying privately to the House intelligence committee Friday.

"I spent my time in front of the committee detailing the fact that I had no contact with Russians, that I never heard of anyone with the Trump campaign talking with Russians, that I was never asked questions about my time in Russia, that I never even spoke to anyone about Russia, that I never heard the word 'Russia,' and we did not use Russian dressing," Caputo told reporters in a press conference after the closed-door testimony. "There was absolutely no discussion of Russia on the Trump campaign 'til the day I left."
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Caputo resigned from the campaign on June 20, 2016 after celebrating the dismissal of then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski with a tweet that said, "Ding Dong the witch is dead." Paul Manafort, who brought Caputo onto the campaign in November 2015, replaced Lewandowski as chairman.

The session before the House intelligence committee on Friday lasted three and a half hours -- an hour and a half longer than expected, Caputo's lawyer told reporters at the start of the press briefing, citing repetitive questions from lawmakers as the reason for the length.

Caputo was strongly critical of California Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier, who in March said he was part of a "tarantula web" of links to Russia and called him Russian President Vladimir Putin's "image consultant."

"There was no way I was Vladimir Putin's image consultant," Caputo said. "You have to be very naive and uninformed or have a team of really bad interns to come up with that analysis."

Sounding emotional, he also said his family received threats in the aftermath of Speier's comments and said he expects an apology from Speier.

Caputo said he has distanced himself from Trump because his name has been brought up in regard to the federal investigation into Russia's efforts to influence last year's election and any potential collusion by the Trump campaign.

"Nobody in the administration or the White House needs my telephone number on their call list, needs me on their visitor logs, or needs emails from me," he said.

Caputo said he would like to get back in touch with the White House down the road.

Florida Republican Tom Rooney, California Democrat Adam Schiff, California Democrat Eric Swalwell, and Washington Democrat Denny Heck attended, Caputo's lawyer, Dennis Vacco, said.

Heck told CNN's Jim Acosta shortly after the hearing that it was "probably the most fascinating three hours of time I've spent in my nearly five years in the United States House of Representatives."

"I'm not going to comment on the content of that exchange because the truth of the matter is that could conceivably compromise this investigation," Heck said. "And if there is anything I think we can conclude about this entire matter, it is that at the end of it, the American public needs to have confidence that it was conducted with integrity."

Caputo posted his opening and closing statements on Twitter.
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Gotta watch those optics! They're the most important thing when you've committed a cornucopia of crimes!



LOL, do these guys actually believe anyone will fall for this shit, anymore? "Never once, never once..."

Uh...you work for Gazprom! You were hired to improve the Russian President image! And you were brought onto the campaign by Paul Manafort himself! One of the very people who was in the room at Trump Tower!!
 
If the first meeting with Russian operatives, in an attempt to gain compromising info while discussing the future of US sanctions went down like this, I have to wonder how the rest of the meetings went down.

#thisisalongprocess
 
I loathe Rachel Maddow, and I never watch MSNBC, but I think I'm gonna microwave me a batch of Oroville Redenbacher, and pull up a fucking lazyboy tonight, ROFL!!! Look, she's even ready to take a bite!!!

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#Impeachburger

Hold on tight, Donny!!!

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Throw that "Zionist Scum" under the bus! This is about your manhood, brah!! He's fucking your woman!! You can't let him keep cucking you!!


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m52nickerson said:
I give you credit. @Madmick keeps utterly embarrassing you and you are willing to fly you antisemitism proudly.
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Just as Netanyahu claims the UN is anti-semitic for acknowledging the human rights violations Israel commits.

Just as zionists claim every single credible human rights organization in the world is anti-semitic.

False accusations are easily dismissed.

To be a humanitarian is to be an "anti-semite" in the eyes of you Zionists.

Your propaganda doesn't work in the real world where 99% of us see you lying scoundrels for who are.

Semite=/= Zionist
Jew=/=zionist

Btw- this is your one reply on the topic. I don't need to defend myself from blatantly false accusations.
 
Madmick said:
I loathe Rachel Maddow, and I never watch MSNBC, but I think I'm gonna microwave me a batch of Oroville Redenbacher, and pull up a fucking lazyboy tonight, ROFL!!! Look, she's even ready to take a bite!!!

o-MADDOW-PALIN-570.jpg


darth_vader_burger.jpg

#Impeachburger

Hold on tight, Donny!!!

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Throw that "Zionist Scum" under the bus! This is about your manhood, brah!! He's fucking your woman!! You can't let him keep cucking you!!


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This is the definition of triggered.


Lmao
 
Madmick said:
I loathe Rachel Maddow, and I never watch MSNBC, but I think I'm gonna microwave me a batch of Oroville Redenbacher, and pull up a fucking lazyboy tonight, ROFL!!! Look, she's even ready to take a bite!!!

o-MADDOW-PALIN-570.jpg


darth_vader_burger.jpg

#Impeachburger

Hold on tight, Donny!!!

gettyimages-617806568.jpg


Throw that "Zionist Scum" under the bus! This is about your manhood, brah!! He's fucking your woman!! You can't let him keep cucking you!!


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Microwave popcorn is fake, get the real stuff Mick.
 
Cake4Breakfast said:
meh, she is stepping back which was inevitable given her ties to Mueller, but not a good week to announce.
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The great @DrSatanDracula(pbuh) once shared with me a profound quote from the even greater Marcus Aurelius. Now I shall share it with you.

"All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you."
 
WiolentOne said:
The great @DrSatanDracula(pbuh) once shared with me a profound quote from the even greater Marcus Aurelius.

"All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you."
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"life's a bitch, but keep on trucking." Dave Grohl and Kyle Gass
 
KaNesDeath said:
What a hell of a week!
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WiolentOne said:
Oh man even the Breitbart is attacking Kushner.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...-jared-kushner-mothership-for-global-elitism/
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LOL@"even" Breitbart. You mean the paper directly under the control of Stephen Bannon? Man oh man, this disdain for Jared Kushner must be a COMPLETE 180! I bet they've never been anything but besties throughout Trump's entire campaign and term. They were potato sack champions from the start-- the hard right prince Stephen Bannon and the lifelong Democrat Jared Kushner!!!



Donald Trump's aides heard 'yelling' in White House office as presidency descends into chaos
Chaos in West Wing
The White House has been engulfed by fresh chaos over allegations Donald Trump revealed classified information to Russian officials, sparking bizarre scenes as aides reportedly turned up televisions to drown out shouting between top aides.

Dozens of reporters crowded into the hallway outside Sean Spicer’s office after the Washington Post published its report on Mr Trump’s discussions with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

Press officers walked through the pack in silence as journalists asked for more information, while televisions in the press area picked up on the story, just days after the furore over the sacking of FBI director James Comey.

Trump says he has 'the absolute right to share facts with Russia'
“This is the last place in the world I wanted to be,” said national security adviser HR McMaster, as he stumbled into the crowd of waiting journalists in the West Wing. “I'm leaving. I'm leaving.”

He was dispatched to deliver a 45-second statement to waiting television cameras, without answering questions.

Mr McMaster dismissed claims Mr Trump had relayed sensitive information to the Russians from a foreign intelligence agency - a move that allegedly put cooperation with a partner “that has access to the inner workings of Isis” at risk.

“I was in the room, it didn't happen,” he said.

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National Security Adviser HR McMaster makes a statement outside the West Wing of the White House. (AP)


“The President and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries including threats to civil aviation.

“At no time, at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed and the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known.”

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Meanwhile, Breitbart executive Steve Bannon, White House communications director Michael Dubke, Mr Spicer and deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders held an emergency meeting.

Buzzfeed’s White House correspondent Adrian Carrasquillo said journalists in the hallway could soon “hear yelling coming from the room where officials are”.

Minutes later, televisions were turned up “super loud” in an apparent attempt to drown out the shouting and prevent reporters overhearing the heated discussions.

At around 7.30pm local time (12.30am BST), Ms Sanders emerged to announce that White House officials would not be answering any more questions for the evening.

“We've said all we're going to say,” she said, asking reporters to clear the hallway.

A series of short statements were released denying the story, including one from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, which said Mr Trump discussed counter-terror operations with Mr Lavrov but “they did not discuss sources, methods or military operations”.

“This story is false,” said Dina Powell, the deputy national security adviser. “The President only discussed the common threats that both countries faced.”

None of the statements specifically denied that Mr Trump had revealed classified information, sparking allegations that aides were “playing word games”.

Officials refused to answer specific questions, including what precisely the Washington Post report had got wrong, ensuring it would dominate a week that White House officials hoped would be quiet in advance of the President's first foreign trip.

The newspaper cited current and former US officials said Mr Trump had divulged information provided by an ally through an intelligence-sharing arrangement, which was considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the American government.

It did not claim that the President revealed any specific information about how the intelligence was gathered, as Mr McMaster's denial suggested.

The Russian foreign ministry has also dismissed the allegations as “fake news”.

US media outlets were barred from Wednesday's meeting between Mr Trump, Mr Lavrov and Mr Kislyak, although a Russian state media photographer was allowed inside after the White House was apparently misled over his role, sparking security fears.

The allegations are particularly damaging given Mr Trump’s repeated attacks on Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server to handle classified information.

The scandal, which was the subject of an FBI investigation widely credited with swinging the election in Mr Trump’s favour, saw him label his rival “crooked Hillary” and lead chants of “lock her up” at rallies.

Mr Comey, who led that investigation, was abruptly fired from his post last week.

White House statements said he was dismissed over the Clinton email investigation, although the FBI director was also leading a probe into alleged links between the Trump administration and Russia.
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And a month before that....

Robert Reich: What the Kushner/Bannon Brawl Is All About
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This where Trump told Bannon, "You know what I said about my daughter? It wasn't true. You're my real rosebud."

Kushner and Bannon have been at war ever since.
Robert Reich said:
This article first appeared on RobertReich.org.

The White House war between Stephen Bannon and Jared Kushner wouldn’t matter in a normal administration with a normal president. But there’s nothing normal about the Trump White House, whose major occupant exists in a giant narcissistic bubble impenetrable by anyone but close relatives and a few strong personalities.

Which makes this brawl especially important.

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Kushner is Donald Trump's trusted son-in-law, a 36-year-old scion of New Jersey and New York real estate who knows nothing about government but a great deal about Trump, and whose portfolio of responsibilities keeps growing by the day.

Bannon is the rumpled hero of the anti-establishment populist base that drove Trump’s Electoral College victory, but who appears to be losing clout.

Related: Robert Reich: Four (or five) grounds for impeaching Trump

The fundamental difference between Kushner and Bannon is over populism. Kushner is a politically moderate multimillionaire with business interests all over the world—some of which pose considerable conflicts of interest with his current duties—and who’s quite comfortable with all the CEOs, billionaires and Wall Street moguls Trump has lured into his administration.

Bannon hates the establishment. “There is a growing global anti-establishment revolt against the permanent political class at home, and the global elites that influence them, which impacts everyone from Lubbock, Tex., to London, England,” he told The New York Times when he took the helm at Breitbart News in 2014.

These opposing views could coexist for a time. For example, Bannon explained to the Conservative Political Action Conference in late February that one of his major goals is the “deconstruction of the administrative state.”

If Bannon meant trimming back regulations emanating from administrative agencies, it’s an idea that Wall Street and CEOs love. Trump has wholeheartedly embraced it. “We are absolutely destroying these horrible regulations that have been placed on your heads,” Trump declared last Tuesday to a group of enthusiastic chief executives from big companies like Citigroup, MasterCard and JetBlue.

But Bannon actually meant something quite different. To Bannon, “deconstructing the administrative state” means destroying the “state”—that is, our system of government.

“I’m a Leninist,” Bannon told a reporter for the Daily Beast a few years back. (He now says he doesn’t recall the conversation). “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”

Related: Robert Reich: Trump's smokescreen cannot hide the Russian link

Under Bannon’s tutelage, Trump has attacked the core institutions of American democracy. He’s lashed out at judges who disagree with him; called the press the “enemy of the American people”; denigrated fact-finding groups such as the intelligence agencies, the Congressional Budget Office and government scientists; alleged without evidence that his predecessor wiretapped him; and repeatedly lied about his electoral victory.

And rather than support a full and independent inquiry into whether anyone in his campaign might have conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, Trump has done everything he can to subvert it.

Does Bannon’s recent demotion and Kushner’s promotion mean we’ve seen the end of these sorts of attacks? I doubt it. After all, Trump originally embraced Bannon because Bannon gave Trump exactly what Trump has sought for decades—controversy, screaming headlines and, above all, the appearance of being an irreverent outsider who rejects politics as usual and rattles Washington to the core.

So it’s doubtful that either Bannon or Kushner will emerge the winner. They’ll both continue to advance their own views and agendas in Trump’s chaotic White House.

Which means we’re likely to be left with—and Trump is already on the way to adopting—the worst of both worlds: Bannon’s brand of anti-establishment populism that seeks to undermine the core democratic institutions of government, and Kushner’s oligarchical Republicanism that empowers and enriches CEOs, Wall Street and billionaires.

This is exactly the reverse of what most Americans want.

Americans hate big money in politics, but have deep reverence for the institutions of government—the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, an independent judiciary, the office of the president (regardless of who inhabits it), freedom of the press, the right to vote and the truth.

Americans are rightfully incensed that the system is rigged against them. But they’re angry at the riggers—not at the system.

Yet Kushner will protect the riggers and Bannon is out to destroy the system. And Trump is quite happy to do both.

Robert Reich is the chancellor’s professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, and Time magazine named him one of the 10 most effective Cabinet secretaries of the 20th century. He has written 14 books, including the best-sellers Aftershock, The Work of Nations and Beyond Outrage and, most recently, Saving Capitalism. He is also a founding editor of The American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and co-creator of the award-winning documentary Inequality for All.
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But don't mind the "fake news"!! Until just today the "Zionist Scum" and Bannon were having a secret love affair! Just ask @WiolentOne!!!

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BREAKING: Bannon/Kushner Secret Love Affair revealed

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The delusional are still harping about a non-crime and are ignoring the 2nd "suicide" this week of one of Hillary's enemies. This 50 year old man was set to testify against the Clinton Foundation for ripping the Haitians off and was found dead in his hotel room. Are people that afraid of court that they keep offing themselves when they are about to testify against the Clintons?

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article160983614.html

The lady that you voted for stole millions from the Haitians and you are outraged about Don Jr. not breaking any laws. Makes sense
 
Hans Gruber said:
The delusional are still harping about a non-crime and are ignoring the 2nd "suicide" this week of one of Hillary's enemies. This 50 year old man was set to testify against the Clinton Foundation for ripping the Haitians off and was found dead in his hotel room. Are people that afraid of court that they keep offing themselves when they are about to testify against the Clintons?

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article160983614.html

The lady that you voted for stole millions from the Haitians and you are outraged about Don Jr. not breaking any laws. Makes sense
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