READ: White House letter to Barr about Mueller report https://t.co/Yg1ioCPyiY pic.twitter.com/pt3WemGN0P
— The Hill (@thehill) May 2, 2019
Tag: Putin’s Russia
Mueller Didn’t Clear Trump
Breaking News: Robert Mueller wrote a letter to the attorney general objecting to his characterization that the Russia inquiry appeared to clear President Trump https://t.co/sApMAxyIhX
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 30, 2019
The letter adds to the growing evidence of a rift between them and is another sign of the anger among the special counsel’s investigators about Barr’s characterization of their findingshttps://t.co/hl9MFjGPCp
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 30, 2019
Among Trump’s caddies:
Here’s a link describing Barr’s employment & investment ties to Russia. As such, Barr should recuse himself as Attorney General. I really believes Robert Mueller should be interviewed ASAP. Impeachment would make doing this a heck of a lot easier!https://t.co/ofeMIOSU2i. (2/2)😒
— RenéeLaChatte (@renfibax) May 1, 2019
Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election
The game goes on.https://t.co/NmLZ9O2FXY
Graphics: https://t.co/SouyUs1txOpic.twitter.com/SiWv35iOQD
— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) April 20, 2019
The report is very interesting. It helps to understand what kind of person the US citizens voted into office.https://t.co/vO8v3kz3k6
— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) April 20, 2019
— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) April 20, 2019
Haunted by Kremlins
Reporting establishes that Trump's campaign manager sold a known Kremlin spy proprietary internal campaign polling data and an offer of private briefings on Trump's foreign policy deliberations for $2.4 million. We'll see what Mueller found—but it certainly wasn't "no collusion."
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
1/ For instance, he could say he was unable to or uninterested in charging Manafort with conspiracy after Manafort wouldn't cooperate with tge SCO but got more than 7 years in prison anyway. That's very different from saying that Manafort didn't actively collude with the Kremlin.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
2/ When I wrote my first book on this subject, I deliberately stuck with the term "collusion." To say collusion simply means "conspiracy" is not only wrong—it does enormous damage to our understanding of what actually happened here and why it's the biggest scandal in our history.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
3/ I've seen non-attorney journalists foolishly boast that they're smarter than most for having figured out that "collusion" is the wrong term to use here—that we should opt for "conspiracy." But when you use the narrowest and hardest-to-prove term for misconduct, you excuse it.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
4/ The result of so many people not understanding the difference between conspiracy and collusion and the *greater* utility of the *latter* term is we have all these Trumper morons on Twitter saying Mueller found no collusion when what they *mean* is he'll *charge* no conspiracy.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
5/ Collusion can occur without criminal conduct. Collusion can occur within criminal conduct not charged as conspiracy. Collusion can be assigned to a campaign, not just—as crimes are—one person. Journalists must say Mueller is likely to find collusion, but not charge conspiracy.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
6/ I'll admit that I'm angry—and have been for some time—at those journalists who've thought so little about the norms we're trying to protect here that they've accepted the Trumper line that everything is *okay* so long as Mueller didn't find 90%+ proof of a criminal conspiracy.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
7/ When Trump had a secret face-to-face conversation with Putin, then hours later crafted a false statement for America to read about a meeting with Kremlin agents in his home—to keep hiding what he's always hidden, the scope of his relationship with the Kremlin—that's collusion.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
8/ When Trump held a national security meeting in his hotel in March 2016 and a member of his tiny NatSec team said he was a Kremlin intermediary trying to set up—backchannel—a secret Trump-Russia summit on foreign policy with the Kremlin and Trump promoted him, that's collusion.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
9/ When Trump—knowing perfectly well that his campaign was engaged in a backchannel conversation with the Kremlin over its support for him—publicly asked for the Kremlin's help in hacking his opponents, and in under 24 hours the hackers acceded to his wishes, that was collusion.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
10/ When Trump directly ordered his NatSec team to make a change to the RNC platform to benefit the Kremlin at a time his campaign was reaching out to Kremlin agents to get them to give him stolen Clinton emails—thereby performing on his half of a quid pro quo—that was collusion.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
11/ When Trump "found out"—assuming he hadn't known all along—his NSA had been secretly negotiating American foreign policy with the Kremlin for months, including during the campaign, and not only didn't fire him but tried to deep-six feds' prosecution of him, that was collusion.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
12/ When Trump was secretly negotiating a multibillion dollar tower deal with Kremlin agents during the 2016 campaign while telling America that he had no business relationship whatsoever with any Russians, that was collusion of the most outrageously obvious and treacherous sort.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
13/ When Trump disclosed classified Israeli intel in the Oval Office at a meeting with top Kremlin agents that he'd forbidden any Americans from attending or even photographing—and bragged to them about ending investigation into secret US-Russian coordination—that was collusion.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
14/ When Trump secretly crafted a plan to drop all sanctions on the Kremlin even as his presidential campaign aides were having countless secret meetings with Russian nationals about sanctions policy—a plan that, when revealed, *terrified* the State Department—that was collusion.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
15/ Proof that I could go on and on in this vein ad nauseum is that I've written two books—about 1000 pages—on Trump's collusion. Never let journalists tell you that there shouldn't be a *word* for all this until it's "conspiracy" beyond a reasonable doubt. It's *collusion*. /end
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 24, 2019
Bрексита
By Anne Applebaum
Columnist [The Washington Post]
March 8 at 6:23 PMElements of the 2016 British referendum campaign have long seemed familiar to Americans. There was a close, controversial election, full of rancor and anger. There were a lot of wealthy men talking about “the people” and their “will.” There were targeted advertising campaigns, stolen data and fake social media accounts. But now, with only a few days left until Britain is due to face the consequences of that vote, the Brexit story suddenly looks even more familiar: One of its protagonists turns out to have much deeper Russian business connections than previously suspected. He also tried to conceal them. […]
The world is now churning out #AlternativeWar as surprise news two years down the line. Depressing really. https://t.co/ahazwMQt2o
— James Patrick 🐐 (@J_amesp) March 9, 2019
Leave Has More Clout in Social Media than Remain
"We've reached the point where there is no good conclusion to Brexit and Britain faces a choice: take one for the team or be willing participants in the fall of Europe. And no, you are not going to like this." – @J_amesp #Brexit #NoDealBrexithttps://t.co/TtY4OZv6Bs
— Byline (@Byline_Media) February 25, 2019
Putin’s project works well for Putin.
https://www.byline.com/column/67/article/2428:
[…] Brexit is a disease and Britain is a contagion risk which could unpick the fabric of the whole of Europe and leave millions more people facing much worse than even no deal. […]
Robert Mueller Has Stitched Together a Russia Report in Plain View
Indictment by indictment, special counsel Robert Mueller has stitched together a Russia report in plain view. https://t.co/4giqodTony
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 23, 2019
THE MEMO: Mueller report won’t end Trump’s legal woes https://t.co/bPqObe9R1Z pic.twitter.com/R11qgGogyz
— The Hill (@thehill) February 23, 2019
Italy: A Little Help from Putin
Huge story breaking in Italy. Putin agreed to a request from Lega Nord leader Matteo Salvini to covertly finance his Euro election campaign. The plan was to conceal the payment behind an apparently normal business deal. Sound familiar?
https://t.co/9nVuDKXzyq via @espressonline— David Clark (@David_K_Clark) February 22, 2019
Now it's available in German too. Publisher is an Austrian social-democratic magazine. https://t.co/3uIMXSy7gj
— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) February 22, 2019
In English. https://t.co/JJ2jE0Ogvb
— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) February 22, 2019
Hacking Europe
Microsoft spots a hacking campaign, believed to be sponsored by the Russian government, ahead of the European Union elections https://t.co/1MOsSup0Uj
— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 20, 2019
How Anti-Europeans Plan to Wreck Europe
No time to read our brand new scorecard on how anti-European parties will incapacitate the European Parliament after the #EUelections2019? Listen to @markhleonard, @sd270 and @PawelZerka discussing the results of this EU wide study. https://t.co/58vJdUFZu1 #podcast #WorldIn30
— ECFR (@ecfr) February 12, 2019
Just published: Our latest report finds that anti-European parties are on course to win the third of seats in @Europarl_EN #EUelections2019 necessary to paralyse
the #EU: https://t.co/0fcQFpSch1@sd270 @PawelZerka @ECFRPower pic.twitter.com/2ZCYXsOGof— ECFR (@ecfr) February 11, 2019
The 2019 European election: How anti-Europeans plan to wreck Europe and what can be done to stop it
European Council on Foreign Relations
Authors: Susi Dennison and Pawel Zerka
Published: February 2019
Summary:
- With anti-Europeans on their way to winning more than one-third of seats in the next European Parliament, the stakes in the May 2019 election are unusually high.
- While there are significant divides between them on substance, anti-European parties could align with one another tactically in support of a range of ideas: from abolishing sanctions on Russia to blocking the EU’s foreign trade agenda, to pulling the drawbridge up against migration. This would put at risk Europe’s capacity to defend its citizens from external threats at exactly the time when, given global turmoil, it needs to show more resolve, cooperation, and global leadership.
- This paper marks the start of ECFR’s campaign to strengthen Europe in the face of efforts by anti-European parties to divide it and make it weaker. We analyse, in detail, the political situation in each of the EU’s 27 member states ahead of the 2019 EP election.
- For supporters of an outward-looking Europe, we offer a strategy to fight back: by driving a wedge between anti-European parties, exposing the real-world costs of their key policy ideas, and identifying new issues that could inspire voters: from the rule of law and the environment to prosperity and Europe’s foreign policy goals.
- In the coming months, ECFR will explore these issues at a more granular level through quantitative and qualitative surveys across the EU27.
Link: https://www.ecfr.eu/specials/scorecard/the_2019_European_election