Officials say that a major inquiry by US intelligence agencies, headed by the FBI, is continuing to seek evidence that associates of President Donald Trump may have ties with Russian officials, and are suing a cache of intercepted Russian communications to do so.
Reports do not make it clear if this is directly related to the election investigations, but name Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, as one of the targets of the inquiry, because of his significant past business ties to Ukraine and Russia.
Manafort insisted that the investigation amounted to a “Democrat Party dirty trick,” insisting he’s never had contact with any officials of the Russian government, and that his only knowledge of the hacking of the DNC is “what I have read in the papers.”
Officials also suggested Roger Stone and Carter Page were targets of the investigation. Stone insisted he’s never even been to Russia, while Page accused his political enemies of “pulling a page out of the Watergate playbook.”
The revelation of this investigation is likely to add further tension to the relationship between the newly inaugurated Trump and the US intelligence community, which has been deeply investigating him and his team throughout the campaign, something Trump has alleged to be politically motivated.
There is no hard evidence. I believe Roger Stone is a patriot and nothing will come of this investigation. Trump should make him an official adviser.
Roger Stone is a shambling human-shaped bag of feces. There should be a bucket of tar, a bag of feathers and a rail waiting for him in any town he approaches.
Why? For being in contact with the Russians/ Sure he was but it’s a safe secret now because the spook agencies belong to the president.
And I’m definitely not suggesting that it could have anything to do with cooperation between Trump and Putin. Only that it’s sor of left over demonization of Trump by the Dems that’s always going to play well in the minds of the warmongrers. Warmongers of both paties now!
geeezus scary! We’re supposed to believe that Trump is ready to understand this stuff already?
Better learn fast. I do suppose Trump has seen a number of dirty / semi-dirty business deals, so he’s like Nixon to the power of two, with even bigger ego.
Trump can get by with knowing nothing on foreign policy, and that’s likely what he’ll do. His vanity can be saved by allowing him to make announcements and proclamations on what his country will do as regards foreign policy.
I see it as a complete waste of time to attempt to take Trump all the way from zero knowledge, up to the level of the supposed level of understanding that a commander in chief would be supposed to have.
And trust me; Trump is starting at absolute zero, as has been witnessed in his complete contradictions of himself on all issues of foreign policy.
luv from Canada.
p.s. Required reading:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/
Scurrilous feces slinging devoid of facts or background.. Et too Thomas..?? Why not tell us what he did which causes you to post this unconstructive comment. If I made that comment, Jason would send it down the memory hole.. i.e. the “standards” for comments should be the same for everyone… P.S. I have no idea who this is, or what they did…
“If I made that comment, Jason would send it down the memory hole”
No, he wouldn’t. He doesn’t moderate comments.
Roger Stone is a former Richard Nixon dirty tricks operative who’s spent the last few election cycles trying to destroy the Libertarian Party. In this cycle, he did a lot of what looked like trying to attach himself to Trump. Hard to tell whether or not he was successful.