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A detailed timeline of entire Clinton-Trump-collusion-story

Link here. You want to get a good idea about this whole scandal, you have to spend a little bit of your time reading through this timeline.

The following take-aways to me seemed the most important:

  • Though the whole Mueller investigation and scandal is supposedly centered on collusion between Trump’s campaign and the Russians to rig the election, the timeline once again shows no such collusion. Some members of Trump’s campaign do have ties to Russian sources, but it is not clear if this has any significance. Regardless, as soon as Paul Manafort’s ties are made public he was immediately forced out of the Trump campaign.
  • The timeline does document a great deal of collusion between the Democratic Party and Ukrainian sources, some from within its government and some not. This collusion is all aimed influencing the election by swinging voter support away from Trump.
  • The timeline also shows a lot of internal conflicts of interest in the FBI aimed at helping Democrats and hurting Republicans. Some of these conflicts are downright blatant, designed to foil any investigations into Clinton’s illegal activities, while expanding investigations (without evidence) against Trump and Republicans.
  • Beginning in 2011 and throughout the Obama administration, the timeline documents an exponential increase in spying on Americans, much of it unconstitutional, and suggestive of having political motives. Two quotes:

    From 2011: U.S. intel community vastly expands its surveillance authority, giving itself permission to spy on Americans who do nothing more than “mention a foreign target in a single, discrete communication.”

    From 2016: Obama officials vastly expand their searches through NSA database for Americans and the content of their communications. In 2013, there were 9,600 searches involving 195 Americans. But in 2016, there are 30,355 searches of 5,288 Americans.

    The timeline also reveals that once Trump took office this spying was immediately cut back.

  • Obama is clearly caught in a number of outright lies designed to hide his participation in many aspects of this scandal. Similarly, Comey, Lynch, McCabe, Rice, Clapper and many other Obama officials are also caught in outright and well documented lies.

Finally, and most important, the timeline shows that shortly after Trump’s election the spying of Republicans and Trump’s transition team by Obama administration officials accelerated, and was aimed at sabotaging the newly elected administration as well as hiding certain things from that administration. This quote especially stands out:

Fifteen minutes after Trump becomes president, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice emails memo to herself purporting to summarize the Jan. 5 Oval Office meeting with President Obama and other top officials. She states that Obama instructed the group to investigate “by the book” and asked them to be mindful whether there were certain things that “could not be fully shared with the incoming administration.” [emphasis mine]

In other words, hired employees of the executive branch were now conspiring to work against the newly elected Republican president, and were going to do so under orders from the outgoing Democratic president.

There is a lot more. In general, the timeline reflects very badly on Obama and everyone in the executive branch, especially those in charge at the FBI. Rather than doing their jobs as an investigative federal police force, the top management of the FBI had become Democratic Party operatives.

Read it all. If you want to understand the corruption that has taken over Washington and now wishes to wield great power over your life, you need to read this.

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

4 comments

  • Joe

    The insanity that the Meuller investigation has become has exceeded the initial question of Russian collusion on an order of magnitude, going after President Trump on any infraction that he can find and finding only collusion with the Democrats and Russia, as has been said so many times, this is a witch hunt!

  • Cotour

    WHERE ITS ALL GOING

    This and the associated videos that proceed it are the most important 15 plus minutes of video that any American will be watching over this weekend and possibly in the history of the United States. This is the true beginning and the I.G. Horowitz report will be supporting it and it may be out on Friday.

    https://youtu.be/10r53JPDYHc

    If you have been anxiously waiting for some level of strong justice to show up in our country, this video is the setting off of that event. The only thing guaranteed that Government and those empowered within can and will produce is abuse of power and corruption, this is what our Constitution was designed to counter balance.

    Our Constitution is operating as per specification and although these wheels turn slowly, turning they are.

    Now these Republicans describe the events and actions by these IMO anti / un American players and they propose a 10 on a scale of 1 out of 10. Like I have stated before, I will be happy with a 7 or and 8 allowing for certain political accommodations that will be necessary in the political realm. But doubt me not, IT IS COMING, AND IT IS BADLY NEEDED, AND IT WILL BE GOOD.

    A good weekend to you all. MAGA

  • Cotour

    BEFORE THE I.G. REPORT IS RELEASED

    https://youtu.be/F28WxfKXEQ0 7MIN.

    Sorry Democrats, short and sweet, this is where and what the Inspector generals report will in time lead to. As Trump continues his accumulation of accomplishments from the economy to international trade and peace treaty rearrangements and hopefully a truer form of “world peace” (What ever that truly means) the I.G. report is due out in only a couple of hours from now. And I am fairly certain it will reveal the depths of corruption that political party’s can sink in the quest for the acquisition of and the retention of power. In this case the political party that was in power before the Trump administration.

    This is the nature of man (And woman) related to power and governance.

    “IT” draws near.

  • Cotour

    Then we have this from the Washington Post:

    “ITS TIME TO INDICT THE PRESIDENT.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/time-for-mueller-to-bring-out-the-big-guns/2018/08/09/df77b0d2-9b31-11e8-b55e-5002300ef004_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f53f47dec7ca

    The Mueller investigation from the jump is fraudulent, a set up. Mueller himself should have no part in it for the many obvious reasons from Hillary to the Russians to his being rejected by Trump for the head of the FBI job. And all of the government officials involved from FBI head, Comey on down and through to the DOJ are all conflicted and should have no involvement in any investigation involving the president, Hillary Clinton or the “Russian collusion”. They themselves need to be investigated for their conspiratorial and even seditious activities with foreign agents against a private citizen and then a duly elected president.

    Its funny that the MSM is unable to detect any of these clearly prejudicial facts related to all of these players. They just despise and even hate Trump because he is not one of them and there is no cost that they will not pay to remove him.

    Be careful what you wish for.

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