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Remember the Magnificent Orange One tweeting about "spies" in his campaign?
Things that make you go, hmmmmm.
Quote:One day in late May 2016, Roger Stone - the political dark sorcerer and longtime confidant of Donald Trump - slipped into his Jaguar and headed out to meet a man with a Make America Great Again hat and a viscous Russian accent.
The man, who called himself Henry Greenberg, offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton, Trump's presumptive Democratic opponent in the upcoming presidential election, according to Stone - who spoke about the previously unreported incident in interviews with The Washington Post. Greenberg, who did not reveal the information he claimed to possess, wanted Trump to pay $2 million for the political dirt, Stone said.
"You don't understand Donald Trump," Stone recalled saying before rejecting the offer at a restaurant in the Russian-expat magnet of Sunny Isles, Florida. "He doesn't pay for anything."
Later, Stone got a text message from Michael Caputo, a Trump campaign communications official who'd arranged the meeting after Greenberg had approached Caputo's Russian-immigrant business partner.
"How crazy is the Russian?" Caputo wrote according to a text message reviewed by The Post. Noting that Greenberg wanted "big" money, Stone replied: "waste of time."
Stone and Caputo, who did not previously disclose the meeting to congressional investigators, now say they believe they were the targets of a setup by U.S. law enforcement officials hostile to Trump.
They cite records - independently examined by The Post - showing that the man who approached Stone is actually a Russian national who has claimed to work as an FBI informant.
Interviews and additional documents show that Greenberg has at times used the name Henry Oknyansky. Under that name, he claimed in a 2015 court filing related to his immigration status that he had provided information to the FBI for 17 years. He attached records showing that the government had granted him special permission to enter the United States because his presence represented a "significant public benefit."
Trump and his allies previously accused the FBI of unfairly targeting his campaign following revelations that another FBI informant, Cambridge University professor Stefan A. Halper, approached Papadopoulos and two other campaign advisers starting in July 2016 to gather information about their possible ties to Russia.
"If you believe that (Greenberg) took time off from his long career as an FBI informant to reach out to us in his spare time, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I want to sell you," Caputo said in an interview.
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RE: Remember the Magnificent Orange One tweeting about "spies" in his campaign?
Entrapment. Cool. Didn't work on the seasoned guys so they went after the young, inexperienced guys looking to make a name for themselves.
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Remember the Magnificent Orange One tweeting about "spies" in his campaign?
An informal advisor not taking deep state’s bait will definitely be what gets President Trump impeached.
bahahahahaha
Keep up the good work, amazon post.
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RE: Remember the Magnificent Orange One tweeting about "spies" in his campaign?
IIRC, Caputo's the guy who recently said that the special prosecutors investigation has all but ruined him financially. After this fiasco is finally shut down, might be time for DC to take a serious look at the whole process.
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Remember the Magnificent Orange One tweeting about "spies" in his campaign?
(06-17-2018 04:22 PM)TechRocks Wrote: IIRC, Caputo's the guy who recently said that the special prosecutors investigation has all but ruined him financially. After this fiasco is finally shut down, might be time for DC to take a serious look at the whole process.
The most egregious example is General Flynn, an honorable man that served his country, yet had to sell his house because he was framed by mccabe, who altered stork’s 302s to make it look like Flynn lied, despite the fact that comey admitted that he didn’t.
Sick!
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Remember the Magnificent Orange One tweeting about "spies" in his campaign?
Yup, yup and yup.
This isn’t some wild-asss conspiracy theory either.
This ALL needs the disinfectant of sunlight. All needs to be exposed, and dealt with accordingly.
I’m just not real confident Wray, or the saddeningly disappointing Sessions are up to, fit for, or have the chops for the job.
Wray certainly came across as your typical mealy-mouthed bureaucrat-speak duck and cover type last week.
(This post was last modified: 06-18-2018 09:41 AM by JMUDunk.)
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