Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Richard Smith]

This is tin foil hat stuff.  An unreal alternative reality while the world burns and crumbles into ruin under Old Joe. 

Record crime - check. 
Record inflation - check. 
Record number of virus deaths - check. 
Record numbers of cases - check. 
Record number of illegal immigrants pouring across the border - check. 
Ukraine invasion - check.
Possibility of WWIII - check. 
Record gas prices - big check on that one. 

But Rick is concerned with a chess tournament in 2016! 

[Rick Plant]

This is tin foil hat stuff.  An unreal alternative reality while the world burns and crumbles into ruin under Old Joe. 

Record crime - check. 
Record inflation - check. 
Record number of virus deaths - check. 
Record numbers of cases - check. 
Record number of illegal immigrants pouring across the border - check. 
Ukraine invasion - check.
Possibility of WWIII - check. 
Record gas prices - big check on that one. 

But Rick is concerned with a chess tournament in 2016!

Criminal Donald's collusion with his puppet master Putin allowed this Ukraine invasion to happen.

Criminal Donald left President Biden with an economic crisis, covid disaster, inflation, high crime, failed immigration policy with no border wall. Those are all of his disasters and failures he handed off to Biden.

78% of Americans approved of President Biden's State of the Union speech and support his policies to clean up Criminal Donald's disaster. President Biden already created the greatest economy on record and for the second time got COVID under control.       

[Rick Plant]

@PressSec Jen Psaki White House Press Secretary

We took note of Russia’s false claims about alleged U.S. biological weapons labs and chemical weapons development in Ukraine.  We’ve also seen Chinese officials echo these conspiracy theories.

This is preposterous. It’s the kind of disinformation operation we’ve seen repeatedly from the Russians over the years in Ukraine and in other countries, which have been debunked, and an example of the types of false pretexts we have been warning the Russians would invent.

The United States is in full compliance with its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention and does not develop or possess such weapons anywhere.

It’s Russia that has a long and well-documented track record of using chemical weapons, including in attempted assassinations and poisoning of Putin’s political enemies like Alexey Navalny.

It’s Russia that continues to support the Assad regime in Syria, which has repeatedly used chemical weapons. It’s Russia that has long maintained a biological weapons program in violation of international law.

Also, Russia has a track record of accusing the West of the very violations that Russia itself is perpetrating. In December, Russia falsely accused the U.S. of deploying contractors with chemical weapons in Ukraine.

This is all an obvious ploy by Russia to try to try to justify its further premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified attack on Ukraine.

Now that Russia has made these false claims, and China has seemingly endorsed this propaganda, we should all be on the lookout for Russia to possibly use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, or to create a false flag operation using them. It’s a clear pattern.

https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1501676234773831685

[Richard Smith]

Criminal Donald's collusion with his puppet master Putin allowed this Ukraine invasion to happen.

 

That is exactly the kind of fake propaganda that created this situation.  A hoax that got a feeble, old man elected president.  Putin sensed his chance after the Afghanistan fiasco.  Biden put his head in the noose with his woke energy policy that put the US at the mercy of folks like Putin and Iran.  Now here we are with no good options.

[Rick Plant]

The fraud grifter is always begging his cult members for money. Wouldn't a "real billionaire" be able to afford his own new plane? Donnie is broke and sending out more emails to get money from his suckers. So pathetic!

Trump begs for money for his plane after 'emergency landing'



Donald Trump was flying from New Orleans back to Palm Beach when he was forced to make an emergency landing. Now, he's asking supporters to send him money.

In an email to supporters mere hours after the news broke on his travel issues, Trump was asking them to pay for Trump Force One.

"Do you remember Trump Force One?" the email asks. "Before becoming the greatest President of all time, I traveled the Country in my plane, known as Trump Force One. I have a very important update on my plane, but I need to trust that you won’t share it with anyone: my team is building a BRAND NEW Trump Force One."

According to the email, paid for by Save America JFC, the work on the plane has been "under wraps." He claims that the media doesn't know about it, which is false given the reports that he purchased a new engine for the plane and that it had to make an emergency landing last year in Nashville.

Trump's plane was his personal ride, likely paid for by his company. So, it's unclear if the campaign PAC will be paying for the repairs. If the PAC pays for the repairs it's unclear if that means the Trump Organization can use it for its travel.

The plane Trump was flying on that had the emergency landing over the weekend wasn't his, it was owned by a trustee out of Utah, the Washington Post reported. Trump Force One was repaired in New York after Trump announced last May that he would bring it back. The emergency landing in Nashville was a short stop and it was then flown to Louisiana for other repairs. Trump isn't using it, however.





https://www.rawstory.com/trump-begs-plane-money/

[Rick Plant]

REVEALED: Newly indicted Russian spy was helping to promote Donald Trump



The Justice Department announced that they indicted Elena Branson (a.k.a Elena Chernykh) on five charges Tuesday, calling her a Russian spy. While she had no direct contact with former President Donald Trump, she is yet another alleged Russian spy working to promote him within United States and organize people to attend his rallies.

The Daily Beast first reported in 2021 that the FBI was probing the Coordinating Council of Russian Compatriots of the U.S. (known colloquially by its Russian acronym KSORS). They worked to promote Russian voices and policies through a kind of speakers bureau throughout the country.

"Branson, 61, is also alleged to have tried to get Trump to attend the 2016 World Chess Championship, which was being held at New York’s South Street Seaport," NBC News reported Tuesday evening. "Prosecutors said she emailed a Trump adviser on Nov. 10, 2016, asking that Trump, then the president-elect, attend the event. The FBI said in the court filing that it publicly released photos from the event to show it was attended by Dmitry Peskov, who is now Putin's press secretary. There is no indication that Trump attended."

Investigative reporter Scott Stedman reported for Forensic News that "investigators are also keenly interested in KSORS political activities, including rallying Trump supporters in 2020."

As The Independent report explained, the US Attorney's Office alleges that Branson communicated with high-ranking Russian, as well as Vladimir Putin himself, in an effort to open a "propaganda center" in New York City. She "received tens of thousands of dollars in funding from the Russian government" as she held events and worked on messaging directed by Russian officials the federal complaint says.

The court filing even goes on to explain that the conversations about messaging with Russian officials happened on conference calls that were recorded and then emailed to Branson.

According to the British monthly Byline Times, Branson and colleague Sergey Gladysh promoted the “Trump 2020 Labor Day Cruise Rally” in Portland, Oregon on the KSORS Facebook page. Gladysh created the Russian-American Cooperation Initiative, which promoted Trump and distributed Russian propaganda that are still available on internet archive sites.

"The news website featured articles with the titles such as 'Second Trump term is crucial to prospect of better U.S.-Russia relations, safer world,' and “Biden victory will spell disaster for U.S.-Russia relations, warns billionaire," noted Stedman. "The billionaire referenced by the outlet is Oleg Deripaska, a key figure in the 2016 Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia."

Soviet-born theologian Mikhail Morgulis, who died in Nov. 2021, served on the board of KSORS between 2014 and 2018. He began a 2016 effort to rally Russian-Americans for Donald Trump. It continued in 2020.

The Washington Post reported just days after his death that Morgulis was in touch with another Belarus-born businessman, Sergei Millian, who was trying to connect the Trump campaign and Morgulis together, according to emails given to the Post. George Papadopoulos explained that at one point Millian tried to give him a job working both for Trump and doing some consulting for a wealthy Russian at the same time. Papadopoulos said he "rebuffed" the invitation.

"When Millian’s name first surfaced in connection to Trump two years ago, little was known about any connection between the two men, other than Millian’s assertion that he had sold units at a Trump property in Florida years earlier," the Post also said.

Stedman recalled the Senate Intelligence Committee included in its final report that "much about Sergei Millian resembles activities by a Russian intelligence officer or cooptee," and "Millian exhibited behavior consistent with intelligence tradecraft, and both have significant ties to Russian government and business circles." The committee tried to locate Millian, but was never successful and "his exact role in Trump’s world remains elusive," said the PostS


Page 479 of Vol. 5 of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian involvement in 2016 (Photo: Screen capture)

Morgulis promoted conspiracy theories that Hillary Clinton was a homosexual, according to a 2017 interview with him. In 2020 he claimed to have a letter from fired Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin parroting another conspiracy about the Biden family.

Ultimately, Morgulis, Branson and Millian were all given the Silver Archer Awards in 2015 by the award's founder Igor Pisarsky. He's the same man who was sending money to Maria Butina before she was deported as a Russian spy.

Read the full Justice Department indictment here:

https://www.rawstory.com/russian-spy-trump-ties/

[Rick Plant]

Trump admired dictators’ ability to ‘kill anyone’ they wanted: former White House press secretary



Donald Trump was hardly the first U.S. president to ally himself with despots, tyrants and strongmen, but he was uniquely bad in that he had such obvious admiration for them. When Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon allied themselves with Spain’s fascist dictator Francisco Franco during the Cold War, it wasn’t because they admired him, but because they viewed him as the lesser of the evils and reasoned that at least El Generalíssimo kept Soviet troops out of the streets of Madrid.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reportedly said of Nicaraguan strongman Anastasio Somoza, Sr., “He may be a son of a b**ch, but he’s our son of a b**ch.” Trump, in contrast, flat-out admired and praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other foes of democracy.

Trump’s affinity for despots is the focus of a scathing March 8 column by Vanity Fair’s Bess Levin, who notes that Trump praised everyone from Putin and Erdogan to “sadistic strongman Rodrigo Duterte” (president of the Philippines).

“Just why is Trump so fond of these legitimately terrible people?” Levin writes. “The long answer would probably require numerous dissertation-length analyses by leading psychiatrists, with possibly, many chapters on Fred Trump. But the short answer is that he quite clearly wishes he could get away with everything they have. No need to go to the trouble of trying to overturn free and fair elections when the elections have already been decided. And dissent? Not an issue for these guys!”

Levin notes that when former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham made a Tuesday, March 8 appearance on ABC’s “The View,” she had a lot to say about Trump’s admiration for tyrants.

Grisham told “The View’s” co-hosts, “I think (Trump) feared (Putin). I think he was afraid of him. I think that the man intimidated him. Because Putin is a scary man, just frankly, I think he was afraid of him. I also think he admired him, greatly. I think he wanted to be able to kill whoever spoke out against him. So, I think it was a lot of that. In my experience with him, he loved the dictators; he loved the people who could kill anyone, including the press.”

"BREAKING: Stephanie Grisham, Trump's Press Secretary says Trump feared Putin. She also adds that Trump admired Putin for just being able to kill journalists or whoever. Dictator-loving Trump wanted to do the same."

Grisham went on to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine, praising President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as courageous. The former White House press secretary said, “Just in watching all of this with Zelenskyy, Donald Trump would be 57 feet below ground hiding. And Zelensky has been out there fighting for his country.”

https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/trump-putin-2656882322/

[Rick Plant]

Another MAGA criminal goes down!

Colorado's MAGA clerk Tina Peters indicted by grand jury in election system security breach case



A Mesa County grand jury on Tuesday indicted Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters on 10 counts related to an investigation into election equipment tampering that led to a system security breach last summer.

The indictment is on a combination of misdemeanor and felony charges, including attempting to influence a public servant and criminal impersonation. The grand jury also indicted Deputy Clerk Belinda Knisley on six counts.

Peters had been under investigation over allegedly enabling a security breach in the Mesa County elections system during a “trusted build” process, which involves a secure software update. She routinely spreads baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and that Colorado’s entire election system is insecure. She aligns herself with far-right figures including MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and Colorado podcaster Joe Oltmann.

The grand jury took up the investigation in January.

“The grand jury, randomly selected from the same pool of citizens that elected Clerk Tina Peters and chosen months before any of these alleged offenses occurred, concluded there is probable cause that Clerk Peters and Deputy Clerk Knisley committed crimes,” reads a joint statement from Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein and Attorney General Phil Weiser.

Both Peters and Knisley are innocent until proven guilty. Arrest warrants have been issued for the charges.

Peters is charged with the felony charges of three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, criminal impersonation, two counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation and one count of identity theft, as well as the misdemeanors of first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state, according to the Mesa County District Attorney’s Office.

Knisley is charged with three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state.

“This investigation is ongoing, and other defendants may be charged as we learn more information,” Rubinstein and Weiser said.

Mystery about Gerald Wood

The indictment recounts that Peters allowed an unauthorized person — previously identified as Gerald Wood — into the room during an election system software update conducted by the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. After that update, system passwords and other sensitive information was posted online.

The indictment, however, reveals that Wood testified he never attended the update and never used his access badge, which he turned over to Peters a few days before the update on the same day it was created. Access keys assigned to Wood, Peters and Sandra Brown were used to access the secure elections office.

The indictment does not reveal who Peters introduced to a state elections worker as Gerald Wood actually was.

Separately, Peters was cited with contempt of court for allegedly recording a court hearing for Knisley with an iPad and then lying to the judge about it. She is also facing charges of obstructing a peace officer and obstructing government operations when investigators tried to seize that iPad.

Peters is running for secretary of state to unseat Democratic incumbent Jena Griswold.

A Peters spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a statement, Griswold said she is committed to upholding the state’s election infrastructure.

“Every eligible Coloradan — Republican, Democrat, and Unaffiliated alike — has the right to make their voice heard in safe, accessible, and secure elections. To do that, we need election administrators who are committed to following the law and election rules. Officials tasked with carrying out elections do so in public trust and must be held accountable when they abuse their power or position,” she said.

Indictment:





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https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/mesa-county-clerk-tina-peters-indicted-by-grand-jury/