Below is my column in The Hill on the news that former FBI Director James Comey has been subpoenaed in Florida as part of the Russian collusion investigation. Yes, there was a Russian collusion conspiracy, but not the one that the media relentlessly pushed during the first Trump term.
Here is the column:
This week, we learned that the probe into the Russian conspiracy theory in Florida is moving forward with the disclosure that former FBI Director James Comey has been subpoenaed. What is different in this probe is that it is pursuing the real Russia conspiracy — the creation of a false narrative to kneecap the first Trump administration.
At issue is what could be the greatest political hit job in history. Of course, the growing evidence of this conspiracy continues to be buried by one of its key components: the media. Nevertheless, the “truth will out,” and it appears to be coming out in Florida.
Headed by Jason A. Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, the investigation is building on information uncovered by House and Senate committees that was long buried by the Biden administration. That evidence appears to show a knowing effort to manufacture a Russian conspiracy hoax at the urging of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Ironically, the Washington Post and the New York Times received Pulitzer Prizes for their reporting promoting this Russian conspiracy hoax. The media spent years in wall-to-wall coverage of disproven allegations, including many claims made in the debunked Steele Dossier that had been secretly funded by the Clinton campaign.
The true Pulitzer Prize-worthy story was staring the media in the face the whole time: a conspiracy to create a false conspiracy narrative to elect Clinton and later to derail the Trump administration. The latter effort succeeded with help from top intelligence figures.
New York Times reporter Ken Vogel said at the time that Clinton Campaign General Counsel Marc Elias had denied involvement in the anti-Trump dossier. When Vogel tried to report the story, he said, Elias “pushed back vigorously, saying ‘You (or your sources) are wrong.’” Times reporter Maggie Haberman later wrote that “Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year.”
The key period was shortly before the 2016 election. We now know that the campaign and its surrogates shopped the conspiracy to their contacts in the Justice Department and in the media. They found eager allies.
Shortly before the 2016 presidential election, Peter Strzok, a key figure in the investigation, texted FBI lawyer Lisa Page to assure her “that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected,” adding that they “can’t take that risk.” He added that they had it all in hand because “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
In fact, whether it was known to Strzok or not, there was an insurance policy in the works. In July 2016, then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Barack Obama on Hillary Clinton’s alleged “plan” to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”
Brennan is believed to be a target of the current investigation, including possible perjury before Congress.
In reality, within days of that briefing on how Clinton would create this conspiracy theory, the investigation began, just as the Clinton campaign hoped it would.
Early on, the FBI was told by the CIA that its sources — and the Steele dossier — were unreliable. However, key FBI officials continued the surveillance and the investigation targeting the Trump campaign and key figures. One official later pleaded guilty to lying to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court to continue surveillance without an evidentiary basis.
At the end of 2016, a CIA assessment found that “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent U.S. election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.” That presidential daily brief was scheduled to be published on Dec. 9, 2016, but the office of James Clapper, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, reportedly stopped the publication “based on some new guidance.”
Clapper later joined Obama, along with John Brennan, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe, and others, in a meeting that would ultimately inject the debunked theory directly into the media.
A new assessment was ordered that would detail the “tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.” Brennan reportedly handpicked the analysts who would apparently flip the earlier assessments without any credible intelligence to justify doing so.
Brennan picked Susan Miller to head the effort, a person who admitted she was “not a Trump fan.” In later social media postings, Miller engaged in unhinged screeds like, “This is awful! Further proof that Trump is a dictator.” She also wrote, “Good grief. As if we needed proof that MAGA types are nazis…” She responded to one foreign poster by saying, “Yes….the Hitler analogy is not lost on a bunch of us … sadly.”
Back in 2016, the rewritten assessment was quickly leaked to an eagerly awaiting media. It was the perfect hit job carried out by top Obama administration officials at the very end of their time in power .
In testimony on May 23, 2017, Brennan claimed that the Steele dossier “wasn’t part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. It was not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence community assessment that was done.”
Yet the declassified material appears to contradict that sworn statement. Brennan allegedly not only discussed the dossier but also insisted upon its inclusion in the new assessment Obama had requested.
Brennan and his handpicked team went to extraordinary lengths to revive the conspiracy theory that they knew was the original objective of the Clinton campaign.
Analysts complained that the reliance on the Steele Dossier “ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key judgment.” One CIA analyst told investigators that Brennan “refused to remove it, and when confronted with the dossier’s main flaws, [Brennan] responded, ‘Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?’”
Keep in mind that Obama ordered the new assessment at the very end of his term. There was a rush to complete the report before Trump took office after defeating Clinton. The effort seeded the Russian collusion hoax that would go on to consume much of Trump’s first term.
In other words, the scheme worked. But it required Brennan’s involvement, as well as that of others, including allegedly then-FBI Director James Comey. It also needed a fully invested media.
None of this will get anyone a Pulitzer, because the politics is wrong. However, it might just force the truth into the open. With Democrats promising to resume impeachments and investigations if they retake power in the midterms, it would be useful for the public to have a full understanding of what actually occurred last time.
It is time for the public to learn whether top Obama officials and the media pulled off the greatest political hoax in history.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
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What exactly, miss mouth, did they do to turn the election in his favor? u pathetic MORON
Watson v. RNC was heard today, election day. The mail-ballots scheme was a planned fraud opportunisticly implemented during the illegal covid lockup.
Present an ID on Election Day, vote. Mail in ballots are specific military etc. and counted if a race is too close to call. With this rabble does it really matter? Free elections must have honesty, good faith as a pre-requisite.
^^^ Sotomayor gave a bit of historic absentee ballots. Soldiers DURING the Civil War gave their ballots to a military person for delivery.
A drone is delivering mine, whatever. Just login by computer from home. DMV has livescan but what the hay.
Toodles
sotopopper left an innocent man in prison for years because his lawyer was a day late filing a document.
In 2005, a panel including then-appellate judge Sonia Sotomayor upheld a procedural ruling that denied hearing an appeal from
Jeffrey Deskovic, an innocent man wrongly convicted of rape and murder, because his paperwork was filed four days late. Deskovic spent 16 years in prison before DNA evidence exonerated him in 2006.
Probably computer home voting wouldn’t be any more fraudulent than picking up ballots by UPS or FedEx. Boxes of dumped ballots in ravines have been found. It’s possible to submit thumbprint with ballots using a scratcher method.
The arguments weren’t convincing nor the questions. Computer voting has time stamps. If there’s a way to cheat they’ll find it and use it. Counties haven’t purged voter registrants in years. Death cert info is sent to registrars the same day and registration after moving and re-reg also. The hubs are laughable. Slackers…
Sonia Sotomayor Gets SCHOOLED By RNC Lawyer After Trying to Embarrass Him With a Not-So-Wise Zinger to Justify Endless Mail-In Voting
Sotomayor tried to entrap Clement by equating the counting of military votes in the 2000 Presidential election in Florida after receipt to what mostly Democratic states have been doing with their late-arriving election ballots.
“Maybe we should have another president now, because wasn’t it in Florida that they were counting military votes after receipt?” She quipped.
But RNC attorney Paul Clement promptly nuked Sotomayor’s not-so-clever argument, explaining why it was the “reddest of red herrings.”
He pointed out that Florida was violating the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), which requires states to provide absentee ballots to voters 45 days in advance.
Because of this, courts had to create a consent decree to provide a remedy.
Because Florida was violating the principal provision of UOCAVA (The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act), which says you have to give the absentee ballots to overseas voters 45 days in advance.
Because Florida was violating that, there had to be a consent decree to create a remedy that was not provided.
The problem with the three women liberal Justices is they don’t know our law or study our law before oral arguments because they don’t vote constitutionally but do vote politically based on ‘their feelings’. The Supreme Court decides cases on constitutionality, not on feelings.
Oh sure. Voting via home computer would be really secure, and certainly prevent voter fraud. *SARCASM*
That’s the dumbest idea I’ve heard yet.
It is likely possible to create a system of voring by online computer that is perfectly secure.
It is NOT possible to create one that would be transparent and trusted.
The core issue in elections is NOT whether there is elction fraud – contra the left – there is ALWAYS atleast some election fraud.
The issue is NOT whether elections are conducted perfectly.
The core issue is whether elections are conducted such that people DO trust the results.
Systems that have “black boxes” – will have major trust problems – regardless of how perfectly what is inside the black box is implimented.
We have elimitated the paperless voting terminals that sprung up after the 2001 HAV act.
Again that was NOT because of actual proof of significant fraud – it was because people did not Trust the termials.
All or nearly all states require that there is some paper record of each persons vote now. Because that is what people trust.
Most place I am aware of vote only on paper ballots.
Regardless, it is possible to design a system of voting that is perfectly secure arround almost any means of voting that you wish.
It is not possible to do so in a way that people will trust the results if there are “black boxes” that are part of the process.
Preventing election fraud – no matter how voting is done will require dilligence.
But having elections that people trust is easy – no black boxes, and do everything with public oversight.
As an example, vote only on election day, only at precincts, count ballots by hand under public supervision, immediately make public tallies of small batches of ballots.
This BTW is the way the french vote.
19th century elections had MASSIVE fraud. Examples from the 19th century are how NOT to do elections. This culminated in the disasterous mess of 1876 which looked alot like 2020, with the results of multiple states being contested at certification in congress. It was AFTER this election that states started cleaning up their act. It was after this that 38 states passed secret ballot amendments to their state constitutions. Mailin voting is unconstitutional in a state with Secret Ballot constitutional requirements.
Regardless in the 19th century the NORM was that political machines preprinted ballots and voters just put their mark on the ballot – on average getting paid $3/ballot that is roughly the equivalent of $300 today.
There is pretty much no form of voting that is unconstitutional under the federal constitution.
Several states had public voting – where who you voted for was not secret through the middle of the 20th century.
There is nothing in the constitution that presents voting by show of hands
O T – Two days ago, JT wrote a post about the destructive fiscal policies of Chicago which seem likely to drive away wealthy taxpayers. As proof of his point, he may want to cite the experience of Massachusetts, which raised taxes on wealthy taxpayers and has discovered that the state has now lost $2.4B in taxable income. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/massachusetts-loses-4-2b-in-income-after-millionaire-tax-as-wealthy-exodus-to-lower-tax-states-raises-tax-base-fears/ss-AA1Zddvx
It’s much worse, Ed. You’ll find huge chunks of lost money in Somalia, Swiss banks, etc. Big money bought villas and moved.
Oh don’t worry, Pritzker has a plan to not lose any revenue after the billionaires and millionaires leave. Tax the hell out of the middle class and poor who can really afford to move, and give that extra revenue to the only people that vote for him in Illinois, the illegals.
Trump Sided With Putin Against U.S. Intelligence
In the aftermath of the 2016 election, it was widely reported that Russian trolls had made an all-out effort to influence the election on behalf of Trump.
Ironically, it was the Bernie Bros who were most influenced by the Russian trolls. The Bros kept constantly posting memes and and fake news articles intended for Trump supporters. That is, in fact, where the term ‘fake news’ came from. By constantly posting those fake news stories and false memes, the Bros functioned as a fifth column for Trump to damage Hillary’s campaign.
At the same time, Trump dirty trickster, Roger Stone, served as a middleman between the Trump campaign and Wikileaks. Stone, acting on Trump’s behalf, arranged for the constant drip-drip of DNC files by Wikileaks during that campaign season. And those DNC files had been hacked by Russian trolls. Trump even called on Vladimir Putin to release those hacked files in a very public, prime time speech.
That following spring, after Trump fired James Comey as FBI Director, for refusing to halt the Russian investigation, Trump was asked by the international media if U.S. intelligence on Russian election interference was correct. This all occurred onstage in Helsinki Finland where Trump had been meeting with Putin. Putin was standing right there as Trump answered the question.
Trump had the mendacity to say U.S. intelligence was incorrect and Russia had never interfered on his behalf. Yet Putin, in a follow-up question, cheerfully admitted that he had hoped Trump would be elected because he believed that Trump would better represent Russian interests as opposed to NATO’s.
So when Johnathan Turley tries to tell us that the ‘Russia hoax’ was all a mean plot by the Clinton campaign, Turley pressumes that none of us have ever followed this story outside rightwing media.
See the Helsinki moment on this link below.
https://youtu.be/mBtsNNXjBPw?si=-pHg47jck14YBuAS
“In the aftermath of the 2016 election, it was widely reported that Russian trolls had made an all-out effort to influence the election on behalf of Trump.”
This is how media hoaxes are started. “Reports in the media” are treated as evidence.
“Trump even called on Vladimir Putin to release those hacked files in a very public, prime time speech.”
Count on the demonic woke cult to be unable to figure out what humor is. They cannot laugh. Cannot giggle. Not even a tee-hee. Unless someone’s been harmed. That is always hilarious to the god-haters.
What exactly, miss mouth, did they do to turn the election in his favor? u pathetic MORON
Not only that but when they make that claim it doesn’t work because Trump was talking about missing e-mails from her government account, But she no longer had a government account.
Exactly!
“Trump had the mendacity to say U.S. intelligence was incorrect and Russia had never interfered on his behalf.”
You are such an idiot!
Actually you bought into the fake story. LOL. You obviously stopped following the story in 2017. Trump fired Comey because he was pursuing a conspiracy theory. Trump was impeached twice. Exactly how many articles of impeachment addressed any kind collusion or conspiracy? Not a one. Odd that a whole lot of Democrats still believe “collusion” was real but their own party didn’t give a single article of impeachment over it. Robert Mueller couldn’t even find one American, let alone a Trump campaign staffer that conspired or colluded with Russia in the 2016 election.
The only “evidence” Democrats and progressives cling to is that in the annex of a committee report that said Manafort talked to a friend whom he worked with, who was suspected of having ties to Russian intelligence. Which is ironic given the man who gave the Steele Dossier the most salacious snippets in the Dossier was…. suspected of being a Russian spy.
The FBI lied to the FISA court. When Trump was in that debate he was making a joke. At the time there were supposedly a ton of missing e-mails from her government account. This wasn’t a call for Russia to hack her government account because she didn’t have a government account at that time.
Did you even read Turley’s article? The intelligence community was about to put out a report that Russia didn’t have any real effect on the election, and their aim seemed to be sowing chaos with out picking a side. It only changed after Obama met with Susan Rice (a serial liar), and James Comey. They didn’t suddenly find any evidence within that time frame ( and to this day they haven’t found any evidence). As for not trusting his own Intelligence community why would he. They were part of a plot against him. You don’t generally trust people that plot against you and make up lies about you.
Anonymous 9:34:
Facebook testified ‘Russian troll farms’ spent less than $100,000 on ads to appear on its platform to try to influence voters. Some of those ads were still being run as late as May 2017 – 6 months AFTER the election. Many had no user engagement.
So in an election where literally several $BILLION was spent on ads, the people who tell you what to think want to rile you up about less than $100,000 of ads; some that ran after the election; and some were not even seen. Those influencing you think you are a moron willing to swallow and puke up whatever nonsense they manufacture.
In addition…
Per AI Overview
Recent disclosures and declassified records from 2025–2026 have fueled significant allegations regarding the actions of former intelligence officials during the 2016 election and the early part of Donald Trump’s first term.
According to information released during this period, particularly by then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and in investigations spearheaded by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, there are claims that high-ranking Obama-era officials—including James Clapper, John Brennan, James Comey, Susan Rice, and John Kerry—manufactured or politicized intelligence to create a false narrative of collusion between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.
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Allegations of Misconduct (2016–2017)
The 2016 PDB Decision:
Reports indicate that a Dec. 9, 2016, Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) initially stated that Russia did not impact the 2016 U.S. election results. This report was reportedly stopped from being published by James Clapper’s office.
Manufactured Narrative: Newly declassified records in 2025 suggested that Obama officials, including Clapper, Brennan, and Rice, met to order a new assessment aimed at creating a narrative that Russia interfered specifically to aid Donald Trump, despite earlier intelligence not supporting this conclusion.
Steele Dossier Usage:
Evidence revealed that John Brennan reportedly pushed for the inclusion of the discredited Steele Dossier in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) regarding Russian interference, even after the CIA viewed it as “internet rumor”.
Criminal Investigations:
Due to these findings, the Department of Justice (DOJ) launched criminal investigations into John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey in 2025 for potential wrongdoing, including making false statements to Congress and collaborating to fabricate a narrative.
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Perspectives on Trust and Credibility
Arguments Against Trust:
Critics argue that the actions of these officials, described as “politicized intelligence” and a “soft coup,” indicate that information coming from them is tainted by a political agenda rather than objective analysis. Investigations have alleged a “grand conspiracy” to undermine the Trump administration.
Arguments for Accountability:
The investigations and declassifications are viewed by proponents of this view as crucial to uncovering a “collusion hoax”. Reports from 2026 suggest that these investigations are directly aiming to hold these officials accountable for their actions.
Counterarguments and Context:
During the time in question, many of these individuals defended their actions, with Brennan, for instance, calling Trump’s statements “treasonous”. Supporters of these officials have argued that investigations into them are attempts to “silence a critic” and constitute an “enemies list”.
Democracy Docket
As of March 2026, the investigation into these actions is ongoing, with subpoenas served to former FBI Director James Comey regarding his role in the 2017 Russia intelligence assessment.
“Trump even called on Vladimir Putin to release those hacked files in a very public, prime time speech.” 😂
I watched that speech. Trump made that comment sarcastically. Something Leftists to this day have never been able to, or are willfully blind to, is the ability to distinguish when Trump is being serious or sarcastic.
It used to be funny, now it’s just annoying that y’all *still* are blind to his sarcasm!
Per AI Overview;
that event occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign (prior to his first term).
On July 27, 2016, during a news conference in Doral, Florida, then-candidate Donald Trump addressed Russia directly regarding the missing emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server.
Key details of that moment:
The Quote:
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”.
The Context:
The remark was made in response to questions about the hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails, which were leaked to the public just before the Democratic National Convention.
The Sarcasm Claim:
The following day (July 28, 2016), after intense criticism from both Democrats and Republicans, Trump stated that he was being sarcastic, saying on Fox News: “Of course I’m being sarcastic”.
The Timing/Significance:
A later indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicated that on that same day (July 27, 2016), Russian intelligence officers made their first efforts to hack into Hillary Clinton’s personal office email accounts.
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That’s PROOF! Arrest that man.
In the entire history of communist Russia no one has gotten them to do anything, ever, even once.
Woke is so stupid and vain, I love making utter fools out of them (which ain’t hard.)
ATS – please get your facts straight.
First – there is a significant overlap between Sanders and Trump voters. Both Sanders and Trump are populist pro labor candidates – while their specific policies are sometimes different, their goals are not.
There was little of no Bernie pros spoofing pro Trump memes – there were just voters that found either Sanders or Trump acceptable choices.
I for one find Bernies policies to be dangerous garbage – but the destruction of our education system has made it possible for far to many voters to beleive their is little difference between how well Trump’s policies work, and how well Bernies would work.
Next, there was NO connection between Roger Stone and Wikileaks. Roger WANTED a connection, but he had no contacts inside of Wikileaks and instead went through a talk show host who claimed to have connections to wikileaks who admitted under oath that he LIED to stone, that he never forwarded anything from Stone to Wikileaks or visa versa.
There was also no “constant drip” from Wikileaks – there was a massive dump of DNC Emails showing that Clinton had conspired with the DNC to sabotage Sanders.
I would further note that Wikileaks did not need motivated by Roger Stone. Hillary Clinton has a huge axe to grind with Julian Assange after Wikileaks released her communications as Sec State to foreign leaders – communications in which she frequently berated and insulted other foreign leaders. Clinton Hates Assange and is high on the list of people responsible for trying to put him in Jail. Wikileaks was ACTIVELY after Clinton – not just in 2016 – but in every way possible. That had NOTHING to do with Trump or Stone.
You do not seem to grasp how many people Hillary has gone after and how many people there are out there who HATE Hillary viscerally.
As to Trump choosing not to believe US intelligence – of course Trump would choose NOT to believe people who had actively tried to perpetrate a soft coup against him.
Why in the world would Trump trust a bunch of people whose job it is to lie, and who lied repeatedly about him ?
Next you keep framing your nonsense as false binaries.
There is no question Putin and Russia interfered in the 2016 election – they interfere in EVERY US election.
There is also no question that there was no UNUSUAL interferance in 2016, That russian interferance was NOT to advance a specific candidate but to undermine trust in US elections and cause chaos, and that to the extent Putin had a preference – it was for Hillary. Putin was not going to favor Trump when Trump’s entire platfor was against Russia’s national interests.
Further Putin did NOT invade anyone during Trump’s term.
Putin’s agression has ALWAYS been entirely predictable. When Western nations start messing arround int he politics of nations bordering Russia, Particularly when the west starts talking about their joining NATO – Putin takes military action.
Trump has “left Putin Alone” – ie. NOT meddled in the politics of Russia’s neigbors and not sought to bring NATO to Russia’s borders, focussing entirely on PRO US policies that are not in Russia’s interests.
As a result Putin did not invade anyone under Trump.
ATS – aside from getting facts wrong, shilling multiple red herrings and beating straw men to death, and massive spin.
There is a germ of truth to some of what you argue – but when you REMOVE the spin and fallacy, that germ of truth that remains nothing consequential.
While you are correct that Stone sought influence in Wikileaks, you are incorrect that he actually had any.
You presume that Wikileaks was motivated by Stone – which si lunatic – Wikileaks leans HARD LEFT. But it is absolutely correct that there was massive animus between Wikileaks and Hillary.
Further you are completely unable to understand the positions of people other than yourself.
You presume you know what motivates Sanders voters and are oblivious of the fact that Sanders and Trump share a number of voters who have the same disdain for the establishment of either party.
You do not provide Actual quotes, instead telling us what others MEANT by what they have said, and then are stupid enough to believe that world leaders – whether Trump or Putin can be taken literally.
Woke regrets Patton was a general. In reality, he was a big meany and he had no right to instill fear of him in nazis. (He slapped a U.S. soldier!)
Mr. Green Jeans was more than adequate!
Patton was a bully. He slapped a soldier who had suffered a nervous breakdown after surviving a traumatic battle involving heavy shelling. The man had what we now call PTSD. He didn’t just slap the man, he verbally berated him, called him a coward, told him he wasn’t worthy to be present in the sick ward with men who suffered physical injuries and commanded the doctors to return him to the front lines.
Nowadays we are sensitive to soldiers suffering from PTSD. You may call that “wokeness”, but doctors don’t agree. Everyone does not have the same capacity to handle the stress of battle, seeing fellow soldiers get hurt and killed, having bombs dropped nearby and being close to sudden death. Some of these soldiers were drafted, too. They didn’t choose to be exposed to the dangers of battlefield fighting.
doctors destroy human life inside women
doctors cut apart teenagers
doctors cheat and defraud medicaid and medicare
doctors commit malpractice
doctors push harmful, dangerous drugs
doctors slap an innocent newborn to compel breathing
faced with the nazi threat, i have no doubt you would have done a much better job than Patton, especially with the illegal immigrants. LAKEN Riley’s blood calls out
“Putin was afraid of Hillary.”
you bet
shakin just at the mere mention of her name
ooops. i meant bill, that paragon of virtue, strength, truthfulness and the American Way
In all of this stupid debate, everyone forgets that Trump is a Russian asset. That is why Russia helped and still helps him.
LOL
Trump went to Russia in 1987 and then paid $100k to run a full page pro-Russian ad in the New York times.
Trump spoke to Putin alone, with no US translator during a meeting.
Trump has consistently made pro-Russian and pro-Putin comments.
Russia helped Trump in 2016 (this is a fact, I am not saying that the Trump campaign was involved)
Trump has lied about Russia invading Ukraine.
The Trump DoD told it’s Cyber Command to stand down in regards to Russia. And there are more.
Trump is taking the side of Russia in the Ukraine war.
Trump is ok with Russia aiding Iran.
Ya, this looks a hell of a lot like Trump is a Russian asset.
“Trump spoke to Putin alone, with no US translator during a meeting.”
Excellent point! I always knew Trump was fluent in Russian and Pukin’s second language is street english. yea, baby! i’m laying out sound, u dig?
Dear Jon, I’m begging you, raise the IQ cut off to 5.
“Russia helped Trump in 2016,” There is no evidence of that. The intel community (outside it’s political actors, determined Russia wasn’t favoring anyone, their goal was just to sow chaos, and it worked because to this day many on the left can’t bear the fact that they were so duped into believing the Russia hoax.
“. . . a full page *pro-Russian* ad in the New York times.” (emphasis added)
Which, of course, is a lie. (As is the rest of your smear comment.)
That ad has nothing to do with Russia. Trump criticizes foreign countries, e.g., Japan and Saudi Arabia, for relying on the U.S. for their defense.
Danny Boy is 9 years old!
Dear Prof Turley,
Obviously, ‘The Democrats’ are presently powerless, if not worthless&useless. What’s left of their surrogates in media are little more than a disorganized pig in a poke, leaving the reader to root-hog, or die, in the circle of [media] life.
Hearts, minds and all that jazz.
‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ was never logical to begin with. As if Putin/Russia could collude with Trump. It’s not clear to me Trump can be colluded with, or that Russia would want to try.. . Russia’s geopolitical positions are usually crystal clear.
Perhaps, the threat from the use of nuclear weapons in the Mid East and/or Ukraine will focus the nation, if not Trump’s attention.. . but I wouldn’t count on it.
Is it possible to negotiate, in good faith, with Trump? Can Trump be bargained with? Does Trump feel pain or pity or remorse? And, if you reached an agreement, would Trump honor it?
*these are the dark clouds floating across my clear, sky-blue mind.
Here is a list of Turley weasel words and phrases that attempt to set forth “facts”. These words and phrases prove he has NO evidence to back up the title of today’s MAGA hit piece, that he calls “The Real Russian Collusion Conspiracy”:
“is believed”
-“possible perjury”
-“could be”
-“evidence appears to show”
-“alleged plan”
-“reportedly”
-“appears to contradict”
-“allegedly”
Notice that the title of this piece does NOT contain any qualifiers. That’s why a piece like this is below someone claiming to be a law professor.
IT IS FUNNY. Tis only God’s grace that no one knocks out your teeth.
“One beautiful morning, Chicago!”
– Gov. JB Pritzker
https://twitter.com/i/status/1970855748054774167
“Venezuelan migrant arrested after Loyola Chicago student fatally shot near campus”
“Sheridan Gorman, 18, was shot in the head near Chicago’s lakefront”
– Fox News
OT. The Turing Test and we’re all familiar with it. I’m human not machine. Please identify yourselves, commenters.
Marco Rubio will be testifying in a trial of a Mr. Rivera, former congressman. It’s interesting because evidence shows code names. President Maduro was the bus driver and money was melons. Evidence presented also shows how money is laundered. Meanwhile Dick Durbin is traveling to Venezuela? Just corruption…
A. Human
You got me wondering if Biden could pass a Turing test.
Now Young!
That Depends….
I don’t know what he said. I don’t think he does either.
A. Human
CHATgpt4 passes. The way to trip it up is it can’t read visuals. >>/[]() can’t be rewritten by AI, I think, as example. It does have face recognition if the face conforms to a flattened size, so people look strange.
A. Human
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Trump is claiming that the Iranians want to negotiate an end to the conflict
The Iranians emphatically deny that any contact has been made either directly or indirectly regarding negotiations.
So, who are we to believe ?
The reason that I believe Iran when they say they aren’t negotiating is because the last time they agreed to negotiate Trump murdered them when they showed up to negotiate.
That be the same Iranians who murdered some 20-30,000 of their own? And then denied it.
That be the same Iranians who put out a AI video of a US aircraft carrier getting hit by Iranian missiles and sinking?
If that is the case, I got some ocean front property to sell you in KS.
Also, the thugs who have lorded over Iranians are a minority. They don’t want to relinquish the iron grip they’ve had on the populace.
I pray they can gain their freedom from the IRGC.
I traveled through Iran, coincidentally fifty years ago. There were a combination of women wearing western clothes, traditional Burkes, and other moderate Mideast clothing. Tehran was a vibrant and very interesting place to visit with excellent food.
How does change the fact that Trump is lying ???
Do you know, with first hand knowledge, that is a fact?
Do you know with first hand knowledge that it is false?
Listen up ding dong. Of course i trust the Iranians. They just hanged a champion 17 year old wrestler because he stuck his tongue out at an Iranian police terrorist.
Do you know, with first hand knowledge, that you are an actual adult?
How does change the fact that You are lying ???
Briefly, Iran has reported just over 3k were killed in the recent protests. 300 were police and most were civilians not involved in the protests.
Iran has denied any responsibility for launching missiles at the USS Abraham Lincoln, much less sinking it. .. although they clearly claim the right to do so.
*if you have ocean front property in KS .. . I’ll eat my hat.
Exactly which Iranian are you referring to as most of the known Iranians are dead and this one will likely be joining his predecessors soon I mean if he even actually exists.
Well, if all the Iranian leaders are dead, then that is absolutely unequivocal evidence that Trump is lying, unless the negotiations are bein conducted by seance.
Answer the question.
Exactly which Iranian are you referring to that issued a denial?
Could you provide his address?
The Speaker of the Iranian parliament, M.B. Ghalbaf denied that there have been any negotiations with Trump of Netanyahu.
Here is what he posted on X.
“No negotiations have been held with the US, and fake news is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets and escape the quagmire in which the US and Israel are trapped.”
https://x.com/mb_ghalibaf/status/2036108700524347420
Trump has not murdered anyone. Having the US military kill an enemy of the USA is not murder.
Trump bombed Iran because Israel wanted the US to use our weapons, military personnel and power to kill its enemies. Even Gabbard admitted that Israel’s goals were not the same as those of the United States.
Contrary to Trump’s lies, Iran was not ready to nuke us, and Trump has yet to come up with any valid reason for starting this war. He has no coherent plan to end this conflict and no exit strategy. He claims we already “won”, but is sending in thousands more marines. He says Iran is begging him to make a deal— something Iran denies.
The endless lying about everything is exhausting. The endless costs to the American taxpayers is staggering— costs of everything will go up. When it’s finally all over, we will not be safer, we will have even more people over there who hate us and travel overseas will not be safe or pleasant. Americans are not even welcome in Europe, much less in the Middle East. Why?
Roosevelt’s, Truman’s, Lincoln’s exit strategies? LBJ? Wilson?
nice try
War ain’t grocery shopping you stupid, filthy pig. Kennedy promised he would restore the Cuban Flag. Biden promised he was holy. Obama promised America would never be the same in 5 days with him as president and we could keep our insurance. Too stupid. LOL
Figures a ghoul like you would not know any valid reason for starting this war: Sweet Liberty for those Persian souls. They deserve it.
Ha! Trump probably saw that move in the movie “The Fifth Element”. just as hilarious too.
“Anybody else want to negotiate?:”
Greatest political hoax in American history ? . . . . OR, most blatant coup attempt in American history (that would fundamentally transform our constitutional republic) ?
Even more blatant then that actual attempted coup Trump spearheaded in 2020-2021?
The one that never happened outside your diseased imagination?
As opposed to this one by the Democrats, which we all saw happen in front of our eyes.
I’d say, it is likely that Russia was trying to have some contact in the 2016 Trump campaign. Just like the Clinton campaign, or the Obama campaigns, or the Romney, McCain, Gore, Bush, etc etc. campaigns, since the end of WW1. And just like the Chinese, Israel, the entire Middle East, Taiwan, UK, France, Germany, etc etc. would try also. Everyone wants to try and hedge bets that, regardless of outcome, their interests could be represented in the new administration.
Which brings the question, given that the Democrats do everything they can to deflect, but most especially blaming the other side: What did Russia want from the Clinton campaign so badly (or vice versa) that creating a narrative around it was their best bet for tanking the opposing campaign?
Everything we are seeing today, the rise of Antifa, the Transtifa, the Palestifa, the Irantifa, the Illegaltifa, the TDS epidemic, all spawned from initial attempts to tank the campaign, through the Steele Doozy, to 88 million and the “most secure election in history,” to today’s silent filibusters of everything the admin is trying to do, and are just increasingly desperate attempts to recreate the initial high of “orange man bad.”
Jeebus, Mr. Turley: “Time to learn”? We’ve learned, learned and learned, for years–those of us in the general public who were paying attention, anyway. It’s LONG PAST time for the others who can be persuaded with facts. But for clinton, elias, stzrok, page, et. al., there will never be a moment of admission to crimes they believe were committed for the greater good.
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“Good, I’m glad he’s dead.”
– President Donald J. Trump on the Passing of Robert Mueller
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Did the Romanians mourn the passing of Vlad the Impaler?
Did the Persians mourn the passing of Khamenei? The Chinese the passing of Pol Pot? The French the beheading of the aristocracy?
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Trump is possibly the most decisive president in my lifetime and that includes Nixon and Clinton. It seems the rules used on him are just different. I do not think for one whit that Democrats or those that hate Trump are going to care if this all turns out to be true.
Yet, the truth must come out regardless of where it travels. If this turns out to be a true conspiracy, the. people need to go to jail if for no other reason than there is attempt to subvert Democracy.
If this is not true, then it needs to come out to show Trump is nuts.
The truly sad part in all of this is the media is not interested in truth that makes Trump look sane. I can only imagine if this happened during Nixon time or Clinton’s time. Oh wait, it did happen and the press covered it intently and fairly.
Just remember, regardless of where one stands on Trump, it is the larger system that needs to be protected. In the end, it is not about one man or even a party, it is about protecting us all.
The Quiet Man,
Great comment and I agree.
The one thing I find concerning is we have seen to what extent some are willing to go to, to get or maintain power. Louis Learner using her power at the IRS to deny conservatives non-profit status. The Steel dossier. Strzok and his “insurance policy.” Democrats have even said what their plans are to ensure Republicans never win an election again. Our Republic needs protection from the very people who are determined to undermine it.
The can was kicked down the road to President Donald J. Trump.
Confirming the suspicions of many in the international community, on Monday Donald J. Trump revealed that intelligence played “no role” in his decision to go to war with Iran.
“People keep asking me about intelligence,” he told reporters on Air Force One. “I made this call with no intelligence whatsoever.”
“Quite frankly, every decision I’ve ever made in my life I’ve made without intelligence,” he boasted. “Intelligence is for losers.”
Trump added that “I don’t trust people who have intelligence, which is why I love Pete.”
He must love you just as much, then. Congrats on getting on Trump’s good side! Here’s your red hat.