This week in the Russian scandal has produced several blockbuster revelations.
Gradually the picture of the social media aspect of Russia’s attack on the U.S. has come into fuller relief as Facebook has admitted that there were $150,000 worth of fake ads posted by Russia intended to influence U.S. public opinion by hyping stories about dangerous Immigrants and violent Black Lives Matter protests. Facebook has turned over this information to the Mueller investigation, but Mueller has also turned around and issued a warrant for Facebook’s information on hundreds of fake Russia accounts which had pretended to be Americans who would stage anti-immigrant rallies, like and repost the stories pushed by the ads, as well as similar ones pushed by RT, Sputnik News, Fox News, Breitbart and InfoWars showing that there was a near hand-in-glove relationship between Russian propaganda and Right-Wing False News. Reports are that Mueller is looking closely into whether this relationship was facilitated by Kushner’s Voter Targeting operations with Cambridge-Analytics.
The FBI has now requested RT employees to register as foreign agents, which can cause various types of civil and criminal actions to be brought against them for their behavior, and the Sputnik News WH correspondent has stepped down claiming that he was severely micro-managed by the Kremlin right down to which questions he could ask in the White House briefing room and what stories he should cover including a request to try and get ahold of copies of hacked emails which had been taken from the CIA Director.
The most explosive revelation however is that beginning in 2015 Michael Flynn had flown to Egypt and illegally collected $25,000 while attempting to create a deal involving both U.S. and Russian construction companies to build 16 Nuclear Reactors for Saudia Arabia. This plan had continued forward after the election leading to a meeting including Flynn, Kushner and Bannon with the King Abdullah of Jordan at the Four Seasons Hotel in NYC where the plan had expanded to 40 power plants and security concerns for the spent fuel and nuclear material had been assigned to a sanction Russian company, which is again a violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act, in addition to Felix Sater and Michael Cohen’s attempt to complete a Trump Tower Moscow deal during the campaign with yet another sanctioned Russian Company, VTB Bank.
Meanwhile the White House continues to lash out first at James Comey then at ESPN anchor Jemele Hill, even though Comey remains a key witness in the Mueller investigation and Hill had far more than a sliver of evidence for her claim that Trump is a White Supremacist and his voters had enabled Racism by supporting him. WH Press Secretary Huckabee-Sander’s comments generate an Ethics Complaint from Scott Dworkin head of the Democratic Coalition Against Trump. Perhaps Hill though may have fallen into a trap of being “triggered” by Trump which Steve Bannon laid out during his 60 Minutes interview, one which the Right gleefully uses to proclaim “media bias” and “race card-ism”, just as the right has begun to widely adopt “Antifa” as the new left wing bogeyman and Homeland Security has declared their actions “Terrorism”. but as yet haven’t done the same with “Unite the Right” or other Alt-Right, Neo-Nazi groups.
[This post is part of a larger series including my original Master Timeline which begins in 1986 when Trump first began talking about becoming a diplomat/negotiator with Russia so he could “end the Cold War in an hour” which has been split due to length into Master List Vol 2 beginning in Mid-June and then current Master List Vol 3 beginning in Late-August.
There are also view previous incremental updates for Sept. 11th, Sept 4th, August 24th, August 17th, August 4th, July 28th, July 14th, July 10th, July 9th, July 4th, June 21st, June 18th, June 14th, June 12th, June 9th, June 6th, and June 2nd.]
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September 12th —
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September 13th —
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CNN reports that House Democrats have sent special counsel Robert Mueller evidence that Flynn failed to disclose that, in 2015, he helped broker a $100 billion deal between the government of Saudi Arabia and a Russian state-owned company, pocketing $25,000 from the deal. The Guardian further notes that this deal continued to be worked by the Trump Admin even after Flynn was fired, and that it had involved building joint US-Russian Nuclear Reactors utilizing sanctioned Russian weapons exporter Rosoboron.
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DOJ refuses to allow the Senate to interview members of James Comey’s FBI staff as they may be active witnesses to Trump’s attempts at obstruction, meanwhile Congress continues to slow-roll allowing Mueller access to the full transcripts of interviews with Manafort, Don Jr. and Kushner.`
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TPM reports that various Twitter troll accounts run out of St. Petersburg Russia not only sent out repeated pro-Trump messages they also frequent generated anti-Black Live Matter and anti-Immigrant links and message during the election.
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Mike Flynn refuses to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee for the second time since May, unless his demands for immunity are met.
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Daniel Craig Trump’s selection for the #2 spot a FEMA drops out of his nomination because of his alleged falsification of travel records and timekeeping records while a member of the Bush Admin in 2005.
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Michael Flynn’s son — who accompanied him on his paid trip to Moscow in 2015 — is reportedly under FBI investigation for his role in his father’s actions.
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NBC’s Katy Tur writes in her book about covering the Trump campaign that he gave he gave her an unwanted and unexpected kiss on the cheek backstage before an appearance on Morning Joe.
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Congress sends Anti-White Supremacy measures to Trump to be signed, there are doubts that he will.
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Don Jr. slams Democrats because it took 5 allegations of sexual misconduct to oust the Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, “It took 5?” he says, meanwhile his dad is still in the White House after allegations of unwanted sexual advances and assault from 12 women. Now 13, including Katy Tur.
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Watchdog group American Oversight sues the DOJ for information regarding their response to the revelations that Jeff Sessions met with Kislyak three separate times and failed to disclose all them during his confirmation hearings or on his SF86 forms.
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Susan Rice says she had the ID of Trump officials — Kushner & Bannon — “unmasked” after they met secretly with the Crown Prince of the UAE which was on the behest of Kislyak as part of their “back channel” efforts with Russia.
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Huckabee-Sanders continues to lay out a criminal case against Comey even though it’s completely inappropriate since that’s Jeff Sessions/Bob Mueller’s job, she says that ESPN reporter Jemele Hill should be fired for saying “Trump is a White-Supremacist” and falsely claims that Trump has been “more bipartisan in the last 8 days, than Obama was in 8 years” which is just plain bullshit,
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Trump’s lawyer Sekulow just “coincidentally” echoes Sanders’ call for Comey to be prosecuted.
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Preet Bharara tweets “One day after POTUS spox says Sessions should investigate Comey, Trump's TV lawyer sends same signal. Hey Sessions! Like your job? Hint hint”
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September 14th —
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Trump signs Congressional resolution condemning White Supremacists, then meets with GOP Senator Tim Scott, the only African American in the Senate, who was concerned about jobs and his response to Charlotteaville. Trump doubles down on his “both sides” attack and again criticizes AntiFA claiming “many people are saying” he was right, or something which may be a vague reference to the intensity of protests against Ben Shapiro speaking at Berkeley.
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Paid Russian Trolls and bots on Facebook and Twitter promoted positive Trump stories about his crowd sizes while bashing Black Lives Matter and Illegal Immigrants.
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Far Right in Congress begin to have a full-on China Syndrome over Trump DACA deal with Democrats meanwhile angry Trumpsters start burning their MAGA Hats in protest “You’ll never make America Great Again.” [Yeah, wake up call there Billy Joe Jim Bob, he was never going to anyway.]
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Thinkprogress reports that ESPN had attempted to pull Jemele Hill from the air after her “White Supremacist” comments about Trump. ESPN disputes the claim.
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Ben Ferguson flailingly tries to justify Huckabee-Sanders comments on Jemele Hill while ignoring the fact that Trump himself called Obama “Racist” — without any justification — and no one in the Obama White House ever said he should be “fired from the Apprentice” because that would have been an ethics violation.
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Carter Page files a $75,000 defamation suit against Yahoo News over stories regarding his contacts with Russians.
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Hannity proclaims to an all White panel — which includes Tomi Lahren — “We’re not Racist, and neither is Trump or the people around him.” [Not Donald “Both Side” Trump, not Lahren who’s railed endlessly against Colin Kaepernick for his method of protesting police brutality, not Gorka who wears a medal for Hungarian Nazi collaborators, not Sessions who was denied a Federal Judge post because of his racism, and not Hannity who spends most of his shows demonizing Black Lives Matter as being the same as the KKK and pretty much any Black person who get shot down in the street by police. Nope, no racists here.]
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September 15th —
- Even after being threated by Devin Nunez with Contempt unless they deliver the Steele documents or else explain why not in open hearing under oath, Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Wray don't show up and no hearing happens. Nunez office is silent about whether they received the documents.
- Scott Dworkin files an ethics complaint against Huckabee-Sanders for his comments supporting ESPN firing Jemele Hill. SHS responds to the complaint claiming “she’s not the one who made outrageous statements.” [Yeah, like have you seen the “@POTUS” twitter feed lately? Or Ever?]
- Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni testifies for two hours before the Mueller Grand Jury, but is completely tight-lipped afterward declining to answer any questions from reporters.
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Trump tweets about “Loser” terrorist who planted a firebomb in a London subway, calls for an even bigger travel ban, and claims he’s “Done more to stop ISIS” in 9 months than Obama did in 8 years, which is stupid because during that 8 years US & Iraqi forces chased ISIS out of Iraq down to just one final town, Mosul. Now they’re out of of Mosul too thanks to the Iraqi Security Forces trained by Bush & Obama’s Army, not Trump.
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Theresa May criticizes Trump for speculating that the London firebomb attacker was “Muslim” because the investigation is still ongoing.
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Trump tweets smack-talk about ESPN losing viewers and demands they apologize for “untruth”. They don’t.
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Historians explain the origin of the 19th century German nationalist crowd chant “Blood and Soil” (Blut und boden).
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Michael Moore calls for NFL boycott as long as Colin Kaepernick remains without a team.
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Like a Walking Dead Zombie Trumpcare begins to lift it’s bug infested head again in the GOP Senate led by Sen. Graham.
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Vanity Fair reports that both the Mueller and congressional investigation are looking more and more closely at whether Kushner’s voter data operation coordinated with Russian bots and Trolls.
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Reporters pull a tag-team repeatedly asking Huckabee-Sanders about her comments that ESPN should fire Jemele Hill every time she tries to cut the question off, another reporter asks about Hill again.
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Buzzfeed reports that Flynn, Kushner and Bannon all secretly met with King Abdullah of Jordan on Jan 5th in the Four Seasons Hotel to discuss their Saudi Nuclear Power Plant “Marshall Plan” using a sanctioned Russian weapons company for security. [I guess Blackwater/Xe is still unavailable then?] Flynn, Kushner and Bannon all deny the Nuclear deal was discussed but law enforcements sources say otherwise.
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Chicago Tribune reports that prosecutors said they had “thousands of intercepts” involving Ukrainian oligarch Dimitri Firtash who has reported ties both to Manafort and Putin, is being held in Austria after being indicted on bribery and money-laundering chargers and has been fighting extradition for 3 years. Manafort denies these ties.
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Protests in St. Louis form in the streets and the National Guard is called after a judge decides a police officer who stated “I’m gonna kill this mother-fucker” during a police chase, then shot Anthony Lamar Smith 5 times after crashing into his car, then is seen on dash cam footage grabbing something from his bag before “discovering” a gun that only has the officer’s DNA on it, should be acquitted on murder charges. Some officers are injured by thrown rocks and some protestors are hurt by SUV which drives through them.
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September 16th —
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September 17th —