President Trump vs. President Putin

By Linda L Barton

Well, I decided to wait awhile before commenting on the summit between President Trump and President Putin. I must admit when it comes to the Democrats, media, and the weak-kneed Republicans I was not disappointed.

First of all, I've been watching the media pundits on Fox News tripping all over themselves praising Chris Wallace for his interview with Putin. I watched it and I felt Wallace was grandstanding and was only continuing with the big lie of Russia collusion.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Putin is a good guy and should always be trusted. However, I am saying that he is NO worse than some of the other world leaders the US calls friends.  Heck, the meeting with Kim Jung-un wasn't bashed by those on the right the way yesterday's meeting with Putin. Kim Jung-un was threatening to drop Nuclear bombs on the USA, so as far as I'm concerned he was a much bigger threat to us than Russia.

In my opinion, what President Trump did yesterday was proper. I'm sure behind the scenes, he spoke with force. However, you don't bad mouth a potential enemy in public. You need to allow someone like Putin, who has the capacity to nuke our country to save face in the eyes of the public. Are those all butt-chapped about what happened yesterday ready for WWIII??? I sure hope not.

As to the Russia collusion crap, that is just an excuse for Hillary Clinton losing an election that the Democrats were sure was in their hip pocket. They had rigged the primary against Bernie Feel-the-Burn Sanders and made voter fraud much easier by giving illegals drivers licenses in several states and not requiring a valid ID. Also, where is the damn DNC server that Russia was supposed to have hacked into and how does the FBI and other alphabet government organizations know for a fact it was the Russians????

I would LOVE for some media pundit to bring up the fact it would be IMPOSSIBLE for the amount of data stolen from the DNC to go undetected during a download because it would take FOREVER! Yet, if some insider were to use a zip-drive it would only take minutes. Of course, until we get to see the server it will never be known just how all that data made it into the hands of WikiLeaks. Isn't that convenient?

Interesting timing choice by DoJ today (right before Trump-Putin meet), announcing indictments against 12 alleged Russian intelligence officers for allegedly releasing info through DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 13, 2018

So, this is where we are today. President Trump seems to be the only one with a level head when it comes to dealing with Russia. I understand that the Democrats need a boogieman, but the Republicans are playing right into the Dem's hands. Well, this comes as no surprise really. We are dealing with neo-cons in the GOP, or RINO's as they are better known.

Another thing that gets my goat is how it was totally okay for Obama to chum around with Castro, but Trump is bashed for trying to have a dialogue with the Russian leader. Heck, Cuba is a puppet of the Russians.  And don't even get me started on Hillary Clinton and her Uranium One deal with the Russians... talk about collusion!! I must admit that I nearly fell out of my chair yesterday when Putin brought up the money paid to Clinton. LOL

So, my fellow Stinkin' Deplorable Hillbillies (I had to use our new name along with our old one.  LOL), it's up to us to stand strong for President Trump. We need to let our elected officials understand if they bail on President Trump that we'll bail on them.

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Entrapment: Russia Collusion and the Spy

By Linda L Barton

With each passing day more and more dirt is being exposed on the Mueller Russia Collusion case. Of course, the Democrats are still pounding the drum, saying that people involved with the Trump 2016 Presidental campaign are guilty of colluding with the Russians to sway the election. However, the opposite has come to light as the investigation progresses.

As a proud Deplorable, I knew from the beginning it was the Democrats who colluded with the Russians. Heck, there wasn't a country, friend or foe, that Hillary Clinton didn't gladly do a little pay for play. She took MILLIONS from the Russians for 20% of our Uranium, but NO ONE said a thing. Isn't that colluding with Russia? I think so.

Now the latest shoe to fall in the Mueller investigation is the name of the Democrat spy who attempted to infiltrate the Trump campaign. When I first heard about this mysterious person, my mind ran wild with WHO is this traitor to President Trump. The only problem was, I couldn't decide who would do such a horrible thing. I did a mental checklist and prayed some of my favorite people weren't the person set on destroying President Trump. 

Stefan Halper is only the tip of the iceberg in Obama spy scandal https://t.co/KKzNdkmJ7K

— Conservative Review (@CR) May 21, 2018

I must admit, there was even a time I believed it was Jeff Sessions. Heck, with the way he's allowed this mess to continue it wasn't much of a reach, right?

It ended up being a player I'm sure most of us had never heard about though. It was Stefan Halper, a professor at Cambridge University. Let's take a look at the order of events involving Mr. Halper and individuals from the Trump campaign.

• Cambridge University academic Stefan Halper tried to get three Trump campaign aides to trust him in 2016.
• Paid George Papadopoulos $3,000 to write energy policy paper and flew him to London to talk about it.
• While there, Halper asked him what he knew about Russians hacking Hillary Clinton's emails; he was reportedly annoyed to hear Page knew nothing.
• Halper has since been fingered as a CIA asset who was probing Trump campaign insiders for information that might establish Moscow ties.
• He also chatted up Carter Page, and Sam Clovis – the senior aide who recruited Papadopoulos and Page.

So, let's see, Stefan Halper sought out 3 of Trump's campaign aides and worked to get them to trust him. Unfortunately, when they said they didn't know of the Russians hacking Hillary's emails, Mr. Halper got upset. Hmmm...

This puts a whole new spin on this investigation as far as I'm concerned. It appears Mr. Halper was trying to set up the aides with leading questions. Isn't that entrapment? 

Those on the left have laughed at President Trump when he has claimed he was wiretapped, but we found out he was. Now we've learned he was spied on during the campaign. Talk about stacking the deck against him.

We've all watched the curtain pulled aside to expose the corruption that runs DEEP in Washington DC. I must say, I always knew it was bad, but I NEVER thought it was as bad as we are learning today.

Apparently, Mr. Halper has been busy working as a spy for past campaigns.

Extremely disturbing information coming to light about Stefan Halper, who appears to have been helping fix elections for the Swamp for decades.

Are they scared because of what Halper knows? 👇 https://t.co/BXk8y4OacM

— REX (@_VachelLindsay_) May 20, 2018

I'm just glad we all pulled together and put Donald Trump in the Oval Office. 

Well, my fellow Deplorables, get the popcorn ready because this is turning into a great show. The more the Democrats bitch and squirm, the closer we are getting to the truth.

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Mueller Screwed Up This Time!

By Linda L Barton

Wow, simply, WOW! When you think things can’t get any stranger in the Mueller Russia Collusion investigation something else pops its ugly head out of the slimy swamp. It appears Robert Mueller may be facing some real problems with his Russia Collusion investigation against President Trump and his 2016 Presidential campaign.

In fact, recently discovered evidence raises new and serious legal issues for special counsel Robert Mueller. This evidence provides a possible conflict of interest in Mueller’s role in overseeing the Russia investigation.

The Hill reports:

In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007. Yes, that’s the same Deripaska who has surfaced in Mueller’s current investigation and who was recently sanctioned by the Trump administration.

More than a dozen participants involved in the Levinson mission confirmed its existence to The Hill and confirmed that Mueller was kept directly informed of the operation. Officials say that Mueller's FBI courted the Russian billionaire in 2009 in a series of secret meetings and persuaded him to finance the operation. "We knew he was paying for his team helping us, and that probably ran into the millions," a U.S. official directly involved with the mission said.

The Hill notes: One agent who helped court Deripaska was Andrew McCabe, the recently fired FBI deputy director who played a seminal role starting the Trump-Russia case, multiple sources confirmed. A lawyer representing Deripaska said the billionaire spent approximately $25 million to assemble a private team that worked with Iranian contacts to try to rescue Levinson before then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton killed the deal. "Deripaska’s efforts came very close to success," said former federal prosecutor David McGee, who represents Levinson’s family.

"We were told at one point that the terms of Levinson’s release had been agreed to by Iran and the U.S. and included a statement by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pointing a finger away from Iran. At the last minute, Secretary Clinton decided not to make the agreed-on statement." The FBI ended the investigation in 2011 and Levinson was never found. The Hill continues: The FBI had three reasons for choosing Deripaska for a mission worthy of a spy novel. First, his aluminum empire had business in Iran. Second, the FBI wanted a foreigner to fund the operation because spending money in Iran might violate U.S. sanctions and other laws.

Third, agents knew Deripaska had been banished since 2006 from the United States by State over reports he had ties to organized crime and other nefarious activities. He denies the allegations, and nothing was ever proven in court. The FBI has since rewarded Deripaska by allowing him entry into the United States multiple times since 2009, once on a rare law enforcement parole visa and at least eight times on a diplomatic passport, even though he is not a government official.

Okay, this is where things get REALLY interesting. Over the past two years, evidence has allegedly surfaced which ties Deripaska to Paul Manafort, who was charged with money laundering and illegal foreign lobbying pre-dating the Trump campaign. It appears Deripaska had previously hired Manafort as a political adviser and then later sued him after a business venture turned sour. He went on to claim Manafort stole money from him. So, this would show there’s no love-loss between the two men.

The Hill report continues:

Mueller’s indictment of Manafort doesn’t mention Deripaska, even though prosecutors have evidence Manafort thought of inviting his old Russian client for a 2016 Trump campaign briefing. In April, the U.S. government-imposed sanctions on Deripaska, one of several prominent Russians targeted to punish Vladimir Putin. This was done using the same sort of allegations that State used from 2006 to 2009. However, between those two episodes, Deripaska seemed good enough for the FBI to ask him to fund that multimillion-dollar rescue mission of our operative and to allow him into the country eight times.

John Solomon of The Hill was alerted about Deripaska’s past relationship with the FBI by U.S. officials who are suspicious that Mueller may have left him out of Manafort's indictments due to his previous work with the FBI. According to Solomon, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz thinks Mueller has a serious conflict of interest because his FBI was working with Deripaska, who is a witness in the ongoing probe. Dershowitz told The Hill, "The real question becomes whether it was proper to leave Deripaska out of the Manafort indictment and whether that omission was to avoid the kind of transparency that is really required by the law."

Former Clinton Justice Department lawyer Melanie Sloan stated an even more significant issue for Mueller is the FBI operation involving Deripaska might have been illegal. “It’s possible the bureau’s arrangement with Mr. Deripaska violated the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the government from accepting voluntary services.”

Solomon also spoke with George Washington University constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley, who said, "If the operation with Deripaska contravened federal law, this figure could be viewed as a potential embarrassment for Mueller. The question is whether he could implicate Mueller in an impropriety."

Well, there you have it, my fellow Patriots. With each layer of this sticking onion peeled away, it only proves just how deep the corruption in DC runs. I'm sure the guilty parties are beginning to worry about the next brick to fall. Okay, the next breaking news should be just WHO was the FBI informant sent to spy on the Trump campaign... any ideas who it will be? Was it just one person, or more?

We've always heard how horrible Watergate was for our democracy. Heck, Watergate is a walk in the park compared to the Mueller Russia collusion investigation. It's LONG overdue to pull the plug on the Mueller Russia Collusion investigation.

It's time to arrest the guilty players and DRAIN THE SWAMP!

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