17 Intelligence Agencies confirmed Russia helped Trump’s Campaign. Reports claim the Trump Campaign colluded with the Russians

 

David Frum On Why Trump-Russia Wasn’t A Hoax

The Atlantic’s David Frum joins Morning Joe to discuss his latest piece ‘It Wasn’t a Hoax,’ on ‘…the suddenly red-hot media campaign to endorse Trump’s fantasy that he was the victim of a ‘Russia hoax.”

 

Many themes of Trump dossier have borne out over time

Rachel Maddow reviews how recent revelations and admissions by Trump team members have shown many of the themes of the Trump dossier to have merit.

 

More Pieces Of Donald Trump Russia Dossier Check Out

Rachel Maddow notes that while the dossier of intelligence about Donald Trump ties to Russia remains unconfirmed, pieces of it have checked out upon investigation by the press, though the primary government investigators are former Trump campaign officials.

 

Trump’s long history of fawning over Putin

More and more Republican lawmakers are siding with Russia, seemingly at the behest of former President Trump, who has a long history of fawning over Vladimir Putin.

 

The Evolution of Russian Meddling in U.S. Elections

 

Russia’s 2016 cyber tactics, explained

Russian trolls and hackers targeted social media networks, political organizations and state election systems during the 2016 election. Here’s what we know about the Kremlin’s playbook for creating division in the U.S.

 

The history of Russia’s 2016 election meddling in 4 minutes

 

Senate Intelligence Committee releases final report on Russian interference in 2016

The report concluded that the 2016 Trump campaign had repeated contacts with Russian operatives, and said campaign chairman Paul Manafort “represented a grave counterintelligence threat.”

 

 

US intelligence report says Russia attempted to interfere in the 2020 election but not China as Trump and his cronies claimed.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its declassified report on foreign threats to 2020 federal elections, which concludes that foreign adversaries including Russia, did attempt to interfere in the 2020 election.

 

Trump Collusion Exposed In 2021: Aide Caught Red-Handed In Russia Back Channel

For the first time ever, the U.S. Government is linking the 2016 Trump Campaign directly to the Russian government. The U.S. Treasury now states that an ally of convicted Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort funneled internal campaign polling directly back to the Kremlin.

 

Putin aspired to help Trump

The US intelligence community found that Russia tried to influence the outcome of the 2016 US election by boosting Donald Trump and harming Hillary Clinton, according to the declassified intelligence report released by the Director of National Intelligence.

 

Title from YouTube: “The Trump-Russia Ties Hiding In Plain Sight”

Description from YouTube: “Trump’s in-plain-sight embrace of Russia gets obscured by the Trump news avalanche. But long before running for president, Trump relied on Russian money. Trump also consistently defends Russia and attacks U.S. officials investigating Russia”.

 

Glenn Kirschner: ‘Vladimir Putin Owns President Donald Trump’

 

How Trump ‘Was Extraordinarily Weak In The Face Of Putin’s Aggression’

Former chief of staff at the CIA and Department of Defense Jeremy Bash and editor-at-large at the Bulwark Charlie Sykes highlight Fiona Hill’s breaking essay in Foreign Affairs where she argues Trump forged dangerous relations with Russia.

 

 

Trump had secret meetings with Putin in which he demanded no notes or records be kept. This has never happen before with past presidents, and raise concerns of inappropriate quid pro quo agreements.

 

Trump & Putin both obtained things they wanted…. Trump got the Presidency, and Putin, a long list of things in return.

Here’s a list of things Putin and Russia has gotten as a result of helping Trump to become President.

Source: themoscowproject.org/reports/putins-payout-10-ways-trump-has-supported-putins-foreign-policy-agenda

Putin’s Goal: Weaken and divide the transatlantic alliance.
Putin’s Payout:Trump undermines US relationships with European allies and calls the US’s commitment to NATO into question.

Putin’s Goal: Degrade the European Union and foster pro-Russian political movements.
Putin’s Payout:Trump attacks the EU and actively supports anti-EU, Kremlin-backed parties.

Putin’s Goal: Disrupt American leadership and dominance of the global economic order.
Putin’s Payout: Trump is eagerly pushing for an all-out trade war with Europe

Putin’s Goal: Build global resentment and distrust towards the US and stoke anti-American sentiment.
Putin’s Payout: America’s closest allies are explicitly suspicious and distrusting of the US because of Trump’s rhetoric and actions.

Putin’s Goal: Relieve economic and domestic political pressure from US sanctions on Russia.
Putin’s Payout: Trump tries to roll back, impede, and blunt the impact of sanctions at every step.

Putin’s Goal: Legitimize his regime in the eyes of the world.
Putin’s Payout: Trump repeatedly praises and defends Putin, lending the credibility of the US presidency to Putin’s standing.

Putin’s Goal: Revive Russia’s status as a great power and gain international recognition for its illegal seizure of Crimea.
Putin’s Payout:Trump publicly says that Crimea is part of Russia and calls for Russia to be welcomed back into the international community with no concessions.

Putin’s Goal: Continue to sow discord in Western democracies and avoid repercussions for interfering in American and European elections.
Putin’s Payout: Trump dismisses Russian interference and has done nothing to prevent future interference, putting him at odds with his own intelligence community.

Putin’s Goal: Soften America’s adversarial stance toward Russia.
Putin’s Payout: Trump is shifting the Republican Party’s generations-long hawkish views on Russia.

Putin’s Goal: Destabilize the US from within.
Putin’s Payout: Trump attacks US institutions while driving divisive politics and eroding democratic norms.

Putin’s goal: Advance the Kremlin’s narrative to shape global perceptions.
Putin’s payout: Trump has repeatedly, and inexplicably, parroted Kremlin talking points across a range of global issues.

Putin’s goal: Undermine international norms and democratic values abroad.
Putin’s payout: Trump has repeatedly failed to respond to human rights violations or support democracy abroad, creating a more permissive environment for autocrats to crack down.

 

Did Russia help elect Trump?

 

Revelation of Trump-Russia Collusion via Manafort/Kilimnik is a Sign we are Trending Toward Justice

The Biden administration just revealed additional proof that the Trump campaign colluded with Russian intelligence to cheat/gain unfair advantage in the 2016 presidential election. It turns our that Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, provided confidential polling data and campaign strategy information to Konstantin Kilimnik who then provided it to Russian intelligence. But even more important than the substance of the information is the Biden administration’s decision to release the information to the American public.

 

Proverbial ‘Smoking Gun’ Of Trump Camp Giving Info To Russia Seen In Documents

Rachel Maddow reports on what is revealed in newly removed redactions for court documents in the case of Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, showing Manafort giving campaign polling data to Konstantin Kilimnik, who U.S. intelligence now says gave that information to the Russian government, which was trying to help Donald Trump get elected.

 

New documents released by a federal judge show the “degree of collusion” between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Russian operatives, says Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).

 

‘When Did US Government Figure This Out?’: Collusion Revelation Raises New Questions

Michael Schmidt, Washington correspondent for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the newly connected dot in the 2016 Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia changes what we know and sharpens the questions about what we don’t yet know.

 

Trump Camp Cooperation With Russia Explicated In New Senate Intel Report

Rachel Maddow reports on some of the highlights of the fifth and final installment of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the 2016 election that provides new insights on how the Donald Trump campaign cooperated with Russian efforts to help Trump win. Aired on 08/18/2020.

 

Report Sheds Light On Timing Of Wikileaks’ Release Of Emails

A bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee also sheds some light on the timing of Wikileaks’ release of emails belonging to then-Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. The panel discusses.

 

Senate Intel Report, Vol. 5: Trump Lied, Manafort Spied, Democracy Nearly Died

 

What Senate Intel Report Reveals About Paul Manafort

Former U.S. Attorneys Joyce Vance weighs in on the bipartisan from the Senate Intelligence Committee and it what it reveals about Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager.

 

Mueller Prosecutor Calls Senate Intel’s Report On Russian Interference ‘A Remarkable Document’

Andrew Weissmann, who served on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team, reacts to the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s final report on Russian interference in the 2016 election where they describe a vast web of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia, and call Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort a “grave counterintelligence threat”.

 

Defiant Trump Seeks Putin Meeting After Report Finds He Lied To Mueller About Russia

As Trump seeks a meeting with Vladimir Putin just months before the election, the Senate Intelligence Committee finally published a sweeping report on what went down between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.

 

Collusion Back In Focus As Robert Mueller Connects President Trump Campaign To Russian Agent

MSNBC analyst Elise Jordan and NYT’s Nick Confessore on the many secretive connections between the Trump campaign and Russian officials

 

Trump campaign rhetoric aligned with Russian propaganda

Clinton Watts, former FBI special agent, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Donald Trump’s parroting of Russian fake news and propaganda aided the Russian effort to interfere in the U.S. election.

 

Political Strains In West Serve Vladimir Putin Goals

Rachel Maddow looks at the role of NATO and the European Union keep Russian power in check and how the weakening of those institutions serve Vladimir Putin’s global power strategy.

Russian Report Confirms Attack On US Election

Rachel Maddow shares the details of a Russian media report that explains that the reason Russian intelligence cyber experts were arrested for treason a year ago is that they were the sources that helped the U.S. figure out who was responsible for the DNC hack.

 

17 Intelligence Agencies Has Confirmed Russia Engaged in Hacking to Influence the 2016 Election, yet TRUMP denies it.

 

Trump’s Hidden Calls with Putin

 

ABC News In-depth – It’s the story of the century: The US President and his connections to Russia.

In part one of this three-part series, Four Corners follows the money trail from New York to Moscow, tracking the ties between Donald Trump, his business empire and Russia.

 

Trump/Russia: Secrets, spies and useful idiots (2/3) | Four Corners

In episode two of this three-part series, Four Corners speaks to key protagonists at the centre of the unfolding drama over members of Donald Trump’s team accused of being compromised by Russia.

 

Trump/Russia: Moscow rules (3/3) | Four Corners

Four Corners investigates Russia’s endgame and the motivation behind its extraordinary interference in the US Presidential elections.

 

Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say

Researchers say sophisticated tools were used to boost Trump and undermine Clinton.