MORE THINGS DONALD TRUMP THE PROOF IS IN THE PUTIN
MORE THINGS DONALD TRUMP THE PROOF IS IN THE PUTIN’
On Monday, July 16, 2018 if you viewed the live
television feed regardless of network the Trump/Putin Helsinki Summit press
conference, as a viewer you have access to the raw data to form your opinion to
an unprecedented historic event. The
immediate and overwhelming reaction of Congress, White House and Intelligence
agencies came to a consensus. This was an absolute failure of a U.S. President
to stand, defend our democratic process. With Vladimir Putin standing to his
left, Trump accepted his denial of election “meddling” and refused to issue any
form of a reprimand or an ultimatum to Russia.
As the week progressed, the networks dissected every
word, facial expression and body language of both world leaders. And, as if you
did not notice certain segments of the press conference and the Trump walk back
(would versus wouldn’t) have aired as in a continuous loop on your wide screen.
However, there are
facts to be gleaned from the network’s assiduous dissection of the tape. The
observations also included many credible members of former and current
government officials.
The media performed an exceptional role in their
questioning of members of Congress of the Intelligence Community including NSA,
FBI, CIA, Homeland Security and the Department of Justice.
THE UNEQUIVOCAL
FACTS BRINGING RUSSIAN TAMPERING TO LIGHT
During the Helsinki press conference a Reuters reporter, Jeff Mason who seized the opportunity and courageously
ask Putin the $60,000 question. This was an act of courage as Vladimir Putin
does not routinely entertain inquiries from foreign press. As any native Russian
who investigates or opposes Putin face arrest. Many have disappeared,
imprisoned, murdered on the street. They act with impunity and his reach goes
beyond borders as we have seen a rogue agent poisoned over tea in London.
The Atlantic picked up on
what is now a controversy. Mason rose and asked, “President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election and
did you direct any of
your officials to help him do that?”
Here is where the Atlantic
concluded from the actual video and the transcript of the English translation
of Putin’s reply.
“Yes,
I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russian
relationship back to normal.” This rendering of Putin’s remarks leaves open the
possibility that he’s stating “Yes, I did” in reference not just to wanting
Donald Trump to win the 2016 presidential race, but also to ordering Russian
officials to help Trump win.”
Even as I viewed the event as televised live, I thought
this is an ‘aha’ moment as the proof was in the pudding that Russia was
responsible for election tampering. You could see the small smirk emerge on
Putin’s face.
In one moment Putin unwittingly came to reveal to the
world that Russian intelligence made cyber inroads into American intelligence
and cyber inroads of other nations in the West.
Later when others in the media complimented Mason for
asking the right question he said he
could feel Putin’s disdain. Putin looked Mason in the eye during his response
as if he would have preemptive removal of this reporter if given the chance. One
man was forcibly removed by Russian security just moments from the start of the
event.
Another telling question touched a nerve when Putin was
asked if the Kremlin had gathered “damaging information of Donald Trump or his
family.” Here, Putin regained his KGB
skills by cleverly avoiding the actual topic by his reference to the year
2006 where he cited 500 American and foreign businessman attended a conference
in Russia and he smiled when discounting the ability of his agencies as they
could not possibly follow this number of delegates. Further, he stated he did
not know Donald Trump was even in Russia.
Putin cleverly avoided giving a complete answer as to say
that was true then, but since that time his agents began collecting information
on all of Trump’s following visits to Moscow paying close attention to any
compromising situations. This particular data was gathered and now known as the
“Steele
Dossier” or Russia’s compilation of tactics deemed “kompromat.”
Two days later a shocking story appeared in a New York Times article on July 18,
2018. From the Start, Trump
Has Muddied a Clear Message Putin Interfered by David
E. Sanger and Matthew
Rosenberg
This well documented article reveals the events occurring
on January 6, 2017, two weeks prior to the Inauguration of President-Elect
Trump. Here is what Sanger and Rosenberg wrote.
“The Jan. 6, 2017, meeting, held at Trump
Tower, was a prime example. He was briefed that day by John O. Brennan, the
C.I.A. director; James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence;
and Adm. Michael S. Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency and
the commander of United States Cyber Command.
The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, was also
there; after the formal briefing, he privately told Mr. Trump about the “Steele
dossier.” That report, by a former British intelligence officer, included
uncorroborated salacious stories of Mr. Trump’s activities during a visit to
Moscow, which he denied”
The most persuasive
evidence included emails and text messages among the Russian members recently
indicted by Mueller that confirmed Russian interference and that the order came
directly from Vladimir Putin.
These communications were intercepted or stolen other sources
including British, Dutch and our own American Intelligence services.
On that day Trump
begrudgingly accepted the intelligence report as presented by our top
official experts. These two reporters no doubt followed a cardinal rule of
journalists. That rule is to obtain at least two credible sources to confirm
the story or facts as known. In this case there were up to seventeen sources.
America has been subjected to the Trump strategy to
follow upon taking office. It has been a constant denial of the intelligence he
had no reason to doubt. Each and every day since Trump has presented some
statement, tweet, and public appearances has denied the facts. This President
takes advantage of every situation where he will run contrary to the facts he
knows to be true. This is a “witch hunt", "how sad" and “No
collusion.” The biggest affront occurred at the Helsinki press conference when
he rejected the conclusion offered by his own appointee Dan Coates and accepted
unabashedly the “strong, powerful denial” told to him in the privacy of that
day. He accepted the word of Vladimir Putin, the world’s most corrupt leader
who has orchestrated and ordered the assassination of anyone he perceives as a
threat to his authoritarian rule.
These are bold-faced lies by the President to the
American People. Trump must know the true extent of Russia’s interference in
his election. What may emerge or may be suppressed by the Mueller investigation
is that Putin’s infiltration went much further than posting phony stories on Face
book and Twitter. Russia hacked into the count of votes in at least three
States to overturn the actual voting giving Trump the victory.
This
President’s denial and his failure to order counter measures to protect future
elections borders on treason.
One week later, I heard the results of polls that
indicate somewhere between 41 and 49% of Americans approve of the President’s
behavior and handling of Vladimir Putin. These are incredible numbers in my
estimation. Sadly, there remain these large numbers who continue to believe the
President in face of overwhelming contrary facts. They are misinformed,
ignorant and uneducated as Donald Trump in the History of America and our
democratic process. They are the same “useful idiots” poisoned by foreign and
in some cases domestic enemies of the United States.
On July 25, 2018
there is discussion of both the Kremlin and the White House altering not only
the written transcripts but also the release of an official U.S. video on You
Tube where the Trump
administration has deleted portions of the Helsinki pertaining to the Mason
question. This is a tactic one expects
from other authoritarian rule and not near any sense of transparency in our
government.
The ignorance of the American people requires a follow-up
as to what danger they present to this nation.
Updated and Revised July 25, 2018 10:18AM
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