TGHusker Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Romney was right in 2012 - Russian was geopolitical enemy # 1 - Too bad both parties didn't take him serious back then. https://www.wsj.com/articles/romneys-russia-vindication-1519069005 Mitt Romney announced Friday that he’s running for the U.S. Senate from Utah, and the timing on the same day as the Justice Department indictments of Russians for meddling in the U.S. presidential election was apt. Mr. Romney was right about the Russian threat in 2012, and Democrats who are now echoing him when it serves their political purposes against Donald Trump owe the former GOP presidential nominee an apology. Start with Barack Obama, who derided Mr. Romney’s claim that Russia was a major U.S. geopolitical foe in the third presidential debate in 2012. “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years,” Mr. Obama said, to applause from the Democratic media establishment. In its endorsement of Mr. Obama, the Washington Post criticized Mr. Romney for “calling Russia America’s greatest foe” as an example of his lack of judgment. Readers may recall that Mr. Romney made his comments about Russia after Mr. Obama was caught unaware talking on an open microphone with then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in March 2012: “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it’s important to give me space,” Mr. Obama told Mr. Medvedev, the Vladimir Putin stand-in. “Yeah, I understand,” Mr. Medvedev said. Mr. Obama then said, “This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.” Mr. Medvedev: “I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.” The “flexibility” after Mr. Obama’s election turned out to be Mr. Putin’s as he invaded and annexed Crimea, started a war to occupy the Donbas region in Ukraine, intervened to prop up Bashar Assad in Syria, covered for Assad’s use of chemical weapons, and helped North Korea evade United Nations sanctions. Thanks to last week’s indictments, we also know that Mr. Putin’s attempt to meddle in U.S. elections began in 2014, long before Mr. Trump chose to run for President. That interference went unopposed, and as far as we can tell, unanticipated by Mr. Obama, his CIA Director John Brennan and his Director of National Intelligence James Clapper until nearly the end of Mr. Obama’s second term. They did nothing about it until after Hillary Clinton lost. Now, suddenly, amid the Mueller probe of the 2016 presidential campaign, Democrats have become Russia hawks. Some of the more intemperate, like Rep. Jerry Nadler, are calling the Russia indictments the “equivalent” of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Mr. Nadler is poised to lead the impeachment of Mr. Trump as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee if Democrats take the House in November. Link to comment
TGHusker Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Here is another link to BRB's post ^^ The noose is getting tighter. When one reads this story below, it becomes apparent the kind of unsavory type people Trump surrounded himself with. But it is a "birds of a feather' kind of thing. Trump is unsavory in so many ways - his associates just confirm it. I wonder who "Person A" is in the article. I wonder if it is a reference to Trump?? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-20/skadden-arps-lawyer-is-charged-with-role-in-u-s-russia-probe Quote The lawyer is accused of misleading investigators about the last time he talked with Richard Gates, who was indicted in October with ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort over their consulting work in Ukraine. Van Der Zwaan was questioned by U.S. authorities regarding his firm’s work in 2012 on behalf of the Ukraine Ministry of Justice. Van Der Zwaan told investigators that his last contact with Gates was an innocuous text message in mid-August 2016, when they actually spoke the following month about the Tymoshenko report in a call the lawyer secretly recorded, the information says. Prosecutors also accused Van Der Zwaan of lying about his talks with someone else, identified by the government as Person A. The lawyer told investigators he last spoke with Person A in 2014, when in fact they spoke in September 2016 during the secretly recorded call with Gates. Van Der Zwaan also deleted and failed to produce emails sought by the special counsel and a law firm, prosecutors said. 1 Link to comment
commando Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 8 minutes ago, TGHusker said: Here is another link to BRB's post ^^ The noose is getting tighter. When one reads this story below, it becomes apparent the kind of unsavory type people Trump surrounded himself with. But it is a "birds of a feather' kind of thing. Trump is unsavory in so many ways - his associates just confirm it. I wonder who "Person A" is in the article. I wonder if it is a reference to Trump?? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-20/skadden-arps-lawyer-is-charged-with-role-in-u-s-russia-probe person A and family. i wonder what family they could be talking about? hmmmm.... Link to comment
zoogs Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 You can't stump the Trump, because he always wins in the minds of his devotees and no amount of fact, logic, humanity, or discernment will get in the way. 2 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Wonder if he will start spilling the beans before April 3rd. 2 Link to comment
NM11046 Posted February 21, 2018 Author Share Posted February 21, 2018 I'm kinda shocked that nobody's talking about Javanka's last minute "long weekend in the Carribean" this weekend. I think they're hiding money. Would be pretty easy to transport when you don't have to go through security. 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 15 minutes ago, NM11046 said: I'm kinda shocked that nobody's talking about Javanka's last minute "long weekend in the Carribean" this weekend. I think they're hiding money. Would be pretty easy to transport when you don't have to go through security. When people like this "hide money", they don't physically carry it someplace and hide it. Link to comment
schriznoeder Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 19 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: When people like this "hide money", they don't physically carry it someplace and hide it. True. Although I wouldn't put it past Jared. He's not exactly the brightest bulb in the box. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 14 minutes ago, schriznoeder said: True. Although I wouldn't put it past Jared. He's not exactly the brightest bulb in the box. Actually, I think the guy is probably extremely smart. Link to comment
schriznoeder Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 5 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: Actually, I think the guy is probably extremely smart. I agree - he's probably smarter than most of us. He just has a long history of jumping into risky situations with little or no experience, but somehow managing to come out mostly unscathed on the other. Some call it business savvy. Others call it luck. I'm not saying he would actually try to personally smuggle money to some offshore account in the Caribbean. But at some point, I have a feeling his savvy/luck is going to run out and he's going to do some irreversible damage to the Trump family. Link to comment
NM11046 Posted February 21, 2018 Author Share Posted February 21, 2018 (edited) 6 hours ago, BigRedBuster said: When people like this "hide money", they don't physically carry it someplace and hide it. I guess I envision them carrying bars of untraceable gold or something ... the ones they usually keep hidden in the toilet tanks at their various chalets and residences. Edited February 21, 2018 by NM11046 1 Link to comment
commando Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 lol...what can i say? if it was me i would probably have the same problem. 1 Link to comment
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