What takeaways from the R primaries should we have.

[LordBrownTrout]

Biggest takeaways? That d and r are enemies of this country and are antithetical to the constitution.

 

[Cellblock2429]

Putting aside the factual inaccuracy of your assertion, it amazes me that you still obsess after all this time over...............but, but, but, Hunter!

Though I understand why as the trump regime careens from one scandal to another crisis and back to another scandal.

/----/ "it amazes me that you still obsess after all this time "
You mean the way you clowns obsess over Jan 6 after all this time? You mean like that?

 

[jknowgood]

Putting aside the factual inaccuracy of your assertion, it amazes me that you still obsess after all this time over...............but, but, but, Hunter!

Though I understand why as the trump regime careens from one scandal to another crisis and back to another scandal.

Wrong you loons make up scandals daily about Trump. Russian collusion ring a bell?

 

[konradv]

The Democrat Party started this pissing contest of gerrymandering in California and Virginia. As well as Pennsylvania through the state Supreme court a few years ago.

Why do you think that President Trump should just take it and not respond?

What about Texas? That’s what really started it, liar!

 

[konradv]

The message is we are taking out the trash.

But you’re still here!

 

[berg80]

Wrong you loons make up scandals daily about Trump. Russian collusion ring a bell?

Yes, yes it does. Now, try opening your closed mind just a little bit.

The fifth and final volume of the Select Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan report on Russian interference in the 2016 election is an incredibly long and detailed document. At a whopping 966 pages, volume 5 alone is more than twice the length of the Mueller report, and it covers a great deal more ground.

It is important for another reason: Along with the shorter volumes 1-4, the Senate’s report is the only credible account of the events of 2016 to which Republican elected officials have signed their names. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a press release praised the report on the investigation he set in motion way back in December 2016, saying, “I commend my colleagues on both sides for keeping their work out of the partisan spotlight and focused on the facts.” McConnell, in the same press release, echoes the statements of Acting Committee Chairman Marco Rubio, stating that “[t]heir report reaffirms Special Counsel Mueller’s finding that President Trump did not collude with Russia.”

It is a bit of a mug’s game at this point to fight over whether what either Mueller or the Intelligence Committee found constitutes collusion and, if so, in what sense. The question turns almost entirely on what one means by the term “collusion”—a word without any precise meaning in the context of campaign engagement with foreign actors interfering with an election.

So rather than engaging over whether the Intelligence Committee found collusion, we decided to read the document with a focus on identifying precisely what the committee found about the engagement over a long period of time between Trump and his campaign and Russian government or intelligence actors and their cut-outs.

Whether one describes this activity as collusion or not, there’s a lot of it: The report describes hundreds of actions by Trump, his campaign, and his associates in the run-up to the 2016 election that involve some degree of participation by Trump or his associates in Russian activity. In this post—which we are generating serially as we read through the document—we attempt to summarize, precisely and comprehensively, what the eight Republicans on the committee, along with their seven Democratic colleagues, report that the president, members of his campaign and his associates actually did.

A Collusion Reading Diary: What Did the Senate Intelligence Committee Find?

Our summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s final report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

www.lawfaremedia.org

 

[jknowgood]

Yes, yes it does. Now, try opening your closed mind just a little bit.

The fifth and final volume of the Select Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan report on Russian interference in the 2016 election is an incredibly long and detailed document. At a whopping 966 pages, volume 5 alone is more than twice the length of the Mueller report, and it covers a great deal more ground.

It is important for another reason: Along with the shorter volumes 1-4, the Senate’s report is the only credible account of the events of 2016 to which Republican elected officials have signed their names. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a press release praised the report on the investigation he set in motion way back in December 2016, saying, “I commend my colleagues on both sides for keeping their work out of the partisan spotlight and focused on the facts.” McConnell, in the same press release, echoes the statements of Acting Committee Chairman Marco Rubio, stating that “[t]heir report reaffirms Special Counsel Mueller’s finding that President Trump did not collude with Russia.”

It is a bit of a mug’s game at this point to fight over whether what either Mueller or the Intelligence Committee found constitutes collusion and, if so, in what sense. The question turns almost entirely on what one means by the term “collusion”—a word without any precise meaning in the context of campaign engagement with foreign actors interfering with an election.

So rather than engaging over whether the Intelligence Committee found collusion, we decided to read the document with a focus on identifying precisely what the committee found about the engagement over a long period of time between Trump and his campaign and Russian government or intelligence actors and their cut-outs.

Whether one describes this activity as collusion or not, there’s a lot of it: The report describes hundreds of actions by Trump, his campaign, and his associates in the run-up to the 2016 election that involve some degree of participation by Trump or his associates in Russian activity. In this post—which we are generating serially as we read through the document—we attempt to summarize, precisely and comprehensively, what the eight Republicans on the committee, along with their seven Democratic colleagues, report that the president, members of his campaign and his associates actually did.

A Collusion Reading Diary: What Did the Senate Intelligence Committee Find?

Our summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s final report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

www.lawfaremedia.org

It was a hoax you dumbass.

 

[berg80]

It was a hoax you dumbass.

Wow, you must be a speed reader to have gotten thru the article so quickly. But you didn't absorb anything. The only thing stuck in your puny head is trump's deceitful meme.

D. Trump Tower Moscow, pp. 407-463

Trump Tower in New York, where the infamous June 9 meeting took place, was not the only Trump Tower at issue in the interactions between Donald Trump and the Russians during the 2016 campaign. During the 2016 election cycle, senior members of the Trump Organization received at least three proposals for a Trump Tower in Moscow. Two were made to Michael Cohen, then executive vice president of the Trump Organization and personal attorney to Trump, by Felix Sater and Giorgi Rtskhiladze. One was made to Eric Trump by Boris Epshteyn, a then-Trump Campaign surrogate. Dmitri Klokov also contacted Cohen, through Ivanka Trump, during the 2016 election to set up a potential Trump-Putin meeting, possibly related to the same project.

These outreaches ended up being funneled to Michael Cohen, and he pursued them eagerly. In particular, the report describes in detail the energetic efforts by Cohen—with Trump’s blessing and encouragement—to pursue a real estate deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow through Felix Sater and his Russian-government-and-organized-crime-connected interlocutors. These efforts continued throughout the campaign. Yet Trump reassured Americans throughout the campaign and into his presidency that he had no Russian business interests or other entanglements. As just one example, on July 27, 2016, he said, “I have nothing to with Russia. I have nothing to do with Russia—for anything.”

This was a lie, and for those quick to dismiss the notion that Donald Trump was to any degree compromised by the Russians, consider the lie for a moment. Trump made these comments publicly in a high-stakes situation. He knew when he did so that they were untrue. The Russians also knew they were untrue. And Trump also knew that the Russians knew that they were untrue. The only people who didn’t know they were untrue were the American public. This creates leverage, because Trump also knew at some level that the Russians could expose his lie in a high-stakes situation at any point. Such knowledge creates counterintelligence risk for the simple reason that it creates a powerful incentive on the part of the candidate not to cross the party with leverage.

How powerful was that incentive? This section of the report spends more than 50 pages documenting communications and other machinations about the potential for a Trump Tower Moscow project. Architectural renderings were created. Trump himself signed a letter of intent. And Trump admitted to pursuing the deal only after it became utterly clear, in November 2018, that information about his, Cohen’s and others’ involvement in negotiations for the project would become public—and that denying any involvement with Russia would be impossible.

 

[Man With A Plan]

In Indiana, 6 of the 7 state senators who voted to deny trump's subversion of democracy by blocking the unprecedented, hyper-partisan attempt at mid decade gerrymandering lost their re-election bids.

Defy Trump, lose your seat: Indiana primary delivers a warning to GOP lawmakers​

Indiana Republicans who defied Donald Trump’s gerrymandering push paid for it Tuesday, as primary voters ousted at least five of the seven state senators the president targeted with primary challenges after they voted against his redistricting push — a decisive show of force that suggests his hold on the GOP base remains firm even as his approval rating has hit a new low. The race in one of those primaries has not yet been called by the Associated Press.

Defy Trump, lose your seat: Indiana primary delivers a warning to GOP lawmakers

Indiana’s GOP primaries offer the clearest signal yet that President Donald Trump still commands the fear that built his hold on the party.

www.ms.now

In KY, Thomas Massey, who lead the charge for the release of the Epstein files (the regime is still in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act), lost his primary bid in the most expensive House primary race in history.

In LA, Sen. Bill Cassidy lost in his primary after voting to impeach trump, correctly IMO, in the second impeachment trial.

All the Repubs who were defeated are staunch ideological conservatives. Their crimes having been taking positions that displeased Don so trump endorsed their opponents.

Does this tell us something about R primary voters? Can we surmise that they are in favor of allowing the prez, any prez, to profit from stocks trades made based on government policies set by the President? Should we assume they don't mind being lied to by candidates on the campaign trail? Are they not bothered by trump's tariffs causing inflation? Do they support the notion of using the DoJ to punish perceived enemies of the prez without evidence? Or firing FBI agents for following orders by participating in investigations of trump?

I can't help wondering how they came to hold such ostensibly un-American attitudes? What gives them license to look the other way when the prez awards himself almost $2B to dispense to people who object to being held responsible for their crimes? I confess, I don't understand these voter's motivations.

What you've learned is that Trump isn't going to let you get away with the redistricting crap you've been doing to the GOP for decades! You want to play games? Let's play games! Don't whine when it doesn't go your way though...you wanted this...now you've got it!