If we want to get rid of this clown of a President this is the subject area as nothing threatens the very foundation of our Democracy more than this. Put on your seat belts and brace for the ride. Here is the time line we now have.
1-26-2017 Yates warned White House counsel Donald McGahn that Trumps National Security Advisor Mike "lock her up" Flynn might be “compromised” by Russia. Are we to assume that McGahn did not brief the President on this matter? Of course he did. The next day...
1-26-2017 ...Trump signs a hastily written travel ban order. Was this done in an attempt to possibly incite AG Yates? The next day...
1-28-2017 ...Flynn takes part in a conference call between President Trump and his boss Vladimir Putin. Also on the call Reince Priebus, Mike Pence, Sean Spicer, and Steve Bannon. Nothing fucking unusual or coincidental here two days after the McGahn briefing by Yates.
The next day...
1-28-2017 Trump signed an executive order elevating Bannon to the National Security Council and removing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of national intelligence. This is a move most found rather unusual and is unprecedented. Now, it does not seem so unusual does it? Two days later...
1-30-2017 Yates is fired as acting attorney general. Hmmmm... all these coincidences coming from the most corrupt Administration and indecent human beings we have seen in quite some time. Oh, and let us not forget Trump's constant barrage of the media as fake news. The Administration thinks they have dodged a major bullet aimed at exposing their deceit and corruption. With Yates out of the picture things are quiet for a while on this front. But do not underestimate the will of the American people and the 5th estate to get to the truth.
2-13-2017 Flynn resigns amid pressure after the Washington Post reported that Yates had warned the White House counsel about Flynn. The real question is why did it take the White House 18 days to seek Flynn's resignation. That is really not a tough question to answer.
A) The media reporting the leak forced their hand;
B) All of them knew exactly what Flynn was doing. For goodness sakes people, how many Trump people do we need connected to Russia before we conclude the obvious?
The very next day...
2-14-2017 The New York Times reports that intercepted phone calls showed Trump’s campaign team and other campaign associates, including Flynn and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort had been in regular contact with senior Russian intelligence officials a year before the election. The Trump Administration continue to lie and downplay the incident.
2-15-2017 Chief of staff Reince Priebus asked FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe what the agency knew about Russian ties to the Trump campaign. McCabe had told Priebus that the previous day’s New York Times report was wrong, and the White House chief of staff asked the law enforcement officials to push back on reports linking Trump associates to Russia. Both Comey and McCabe decline to publicly comment on the matter.
Let us pause for a minute here. We now have have hindsight on our side, and hindsight is 20-20. We now know that there is an active investigation into the Trump campaigns possible collusion with the Russian government during the election. Why would McCabe, the second in command at the FBI advise Chief of Staff Priebus "to push back on reports linking Trump associates to Russia"? [Update: Comey was fired as the FBI Director on 5-9-2017 and McCabe is now in Charge]
2-20-2017 Mike Pence, who knows about Flynn's involvement with Russia lies in answering a question about Flynn.
3-1-2017 Justice Department officials revealed Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke twice
with the Russia ambassador the previous year. He was asked about this in his hearing and
lied!
3-2-2017 The Wall Street Journal reports that AG Sessions used campaign funds to travel to
the Republican National Convention where he meets with Russian ambassador Kislyak,
contradicting Trump administration lies that his conversations with the Russian ambassador were in his role as a U.S. Senator. How are we supposed to know when the Trump administration is lying? Simple... are their lips moving or tRrumps stubby little thumbs are moving.
3-1-2017 Sessions calls a ill planned news conference to announce that he has recused himself from overseeing the probe of Trump-Russia ties. He only does this amid the reporting that has come out that they cannot deny because the evidence is black and white. Wait, listen, can you hear the sound of the swamp being drained.
3-1-2017 Devin Nunes, head of the House Intelligence committee responsible for investing Russia's involvement in our election urges reporters to “be careful” about contacting Russian embassies to comment on possible contacts between Trump associates and Russia.
3-7-2017 Trump accuses his predecessor, President Barack Obama, of wiretapping Trump Tower just ahead of the election. Comey and former CIA Director James Clapper both denied the president’s allegations. Nunes was a Trump campaign staffer. More fucking swamp draining sounds. Getting hard to hear oneself think.
3-20-2017 FBI Director Comey confirms under oath before the House Intelligence Committee that the FBI has been investigating possibly coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian Government since July of 2016. This begs asking the question why Directory Comey publicly came out 11 days before the election that the FBI was looking into newly discovered emails from Clinton's server found on Anthony "the gift that keeps on giving" Weiner's estranged wifes laptop. We find out 3 days before the election that nothing new if found.
Clinton wins the popular vote by 3 million votes but loses the electoral college by losing 3 states by a total of 80,000 voters from a handful of counties that went for Obama. Comey does not tell the public about the Trump investigation. Why? We are supposed to believe that this election was fair?
In all fairness to Comey this letter was leaked hours after it was received by the Republicans that received this letter. You know the ones always bitching about leaks :-).
3-21-2017 Flynn confidants, Ellis and Ezra Cohen-Watnick, still under employee with Trump, share classified documents with Nunes that showed Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by U.S. intelligence agencies. To get these in true Inspector Clouseau fashion Nunes is busted showing up at the White House in the dead of night. Then he returns the next day to hold a press conference at the White House revealing these findings in order to help vindicate crooked President Trump. The documents turn out to be totally fabricated. But, does this really matter? Why would someone who is supposed to be in a different branch of government, leading an investigation into Russian influence in our election do this?
A. He is an idiot.
B. He is bought and sold by the crooked Trump Administration.
C. He has access to intelligence on Trump and knows the truth.
D. He has involvement in this scandal.
E. All of the above.
The most correct answer is likely E. Wait, hear that sound. Swamp draining.
3-24-2017 Nunes abruptly canceled House Intelligence Committee hearings hours after the former acting attorney general, Sally Yates, notified the White House she would testify about Flynn.
3-30-2017 Flynn offers his testimony on possible Trump campaign ties to Russia in exchange for immunity, but the FBI and congressional investigators declined. This is a thread that will likely bare more fruit as things evolve.
4-5-2017 Bannon is removed from the National Security Council, and the CIA director, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and director of national intelligence are back in.
4-6-2017 Nunes steps down from leading the House investigation into Russia influencing our election.
4-8-2017
Lying sack of shit and Melissa McCarthy impersonator, Sean Spicer, holds a press conference prior to Yates testifying and continues the total bullshit spin in the land of alternative facts. This is must see TV.
4-8-2017 In an attempt to divert the news cycle the Trump Administration releases that we may need to ramp up the War in Afghanistan.
4-8-2017 Sally Yates testifies and tells us that the Trump Administration knew Flynn was in deep with the Ruskies.
The testimony was fucking stunning. Here is a taste.
When weighing evidence to determine guilt or innocence here is the legal standard for "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt"
"The standard that must be met by the prosecution's evidence in a criminal prosecution: that no other logical explanation can be derived from the facts except that the defendant committed the crime, thereby overcoming the presumption that a person is innocent until proven guilty."
Still waiting for that logical explanation.
How much more evidence do we need people? Why are these people still in the White House? We need more outrage over this. Among all the big deals this really should be in the top spot.
