Russia is a hostile foreign power; hostile to America’s values, aims and policies. Russia, known to have tampered in European elections for years, sought to acquire internal campaign-data that the Trump-team paid Cambridge Analytica and Israeli tech-experts to obtain. Russia acquired that data through Manafort, to better shape and weaponize that information, to cyber-hack our 2016 electoral systems. Putin ever seeks to expand his arena of influence.
After Donald Trump’s 4 or 5 U.S. bankruptcies, he was unable to obtain loans from American banks; he turned to Russian oligarchs to fund his activities. By the mid-1980s, Russians purchased several premium condos, probably initiating their money-laundering activities with Trump. Those dealing in casinos and high-end real estate often have connections with organized crime figures. Why does Trump hold the views he holds on Russia? Why is he so Putin-friendly? Why is he so adversarial to our Allies? Why does Trump seem to put Russia’s concerns ahead of those of the U.S.A.? Amidst all that pro-Putin, campaign-trail rhetoric, Manafort influenced the GOP to alter its platform on Ukraine. Trump tried to dial back the Russian sanctions. After firing FBI-head, James Comey, DJT, cavorted with GRU officials in the Oval Office, bragging that he’d relieved himself from some pressure of a Russian-investigation. What of the many back-channels to Putin: Flynn, Manafort, Cohen, Erik Prince, Jared Kushner? The FBI opened a counter-intelligence inquiry into Russian interference with our 2016 election, and if president Trump were possibly an unwitting pawn in Putin’s game of thrones.
The firing of Comey, prompted the appointment of Special Investigator, Robert Mueller. Trump conducted an on-air interview with Lester Holt, declaring that the Russian investigation was on his mind when he fired Comey. Putin sought to end the U.S. sanctions on Russia. The 2-hour, private Trump-Putin meeting in Helsinki last year, where Trump confiscated notes of that discussion, was alarming, and remains so; there’s a Presidential Records Act. Trump and Putin each claim to have had many private conversations. A Trump-Putin alliance is obvious; many facts have played out in plain sight. Collusion with malign foreign nations, abuse of power, and obstruction of justice go hand-in-hand. The partial federal government shutdown affects some federal cases from going forward. The 2018 blue-wave swept Dems back into a majority in the House, to be a check on this president; and we intend to utilize that power to fulfill the demands of voters, for an alternate vision of America.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Jan 21 2019
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Working for Putin 1/19/19
Russia is a hostile foreign power; hostile to America’s values, aims and policies. Russia, known to have tampered in European elections for years, sought to acquire internal campaign-data that the Trump-team paid Cambridge Analytica and Israeli tech-experts to obtain. Russia acquired that data through Manafort, to better shape and weaponize that information, to cyber-hack our 2016 electoral systems. Putin ever seeks to expand his arena of influence.
After Donald Trump’s 4 or 5 U.S. bankruptcies, he was unable to obtain loans from American banks; he turned to Russian oligarchs to fund his activities. By the mid-1980s, Russians purchased several premium condos, probably initiating their money-laundering activities with Trump. Those dealing in casinos and high-end real estate often have connections with organized crime figures. Why does Trump hold the views he holds on Russia? Why is he so Putin-friendly? Why is he so adversarial to our Allies? Why does Trump seem to put Russia’s concerns ahead of those of the U.S.A.? Amidst all that pro-Putin, campaign-trail rhetoric, Manafort influenced the GOP to alter its platform on Ukraine. Trump tried to dial back the Russian sanctions. After firing FBI-head, James Comey, DJT, cavorted with GRU officials in the Oval Office, bragging that he’d relieved himself from some pressure of a Russian-investigation. What of the many back-channels to Putin: Flynn, Manafort, Cohen, Erik Prince, Jared Kushner? The FBI opened a counter-intelligence inquiry into Russian interference with our 2016 election, and if president Trump were possibly an unwitting pawn in Putin’s game of thrones.
The firing of Comey, prompted the appointment of Special Investigator, Robert Mueller. Trump conducted an on-air interview with Lester Holt, declaring that the Russian investigation was on his mind when he fired Comey. Putin sought to end the U.S. sanctions on Russia. The 2-hour, private Trump-Putin meeting in Helsinki last year, where Trump confiscated notes of that discussion, was alarming, and remains so; there’s a Presidential Records Act. Trump and Putin each claim to have had many private conversations. A Trump-Putin alliance is obvious; many facts have played out in plain sight. Collusion with malign foreign nations, abuse of power, and obstruction of justice go hand-in-hand. The partial federal government shutdown affects some federal cases from going forward. The 2018 blue-wave swept Dems back into a majority in the House, to be a check on this president; and we intend to utilize that power to fulfill the demands of voters, for an alternate vision of America.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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