DragonI

I don’t need no Intel bullshit. I don’t need Mueller. Our current pres is a Russian puppet, the beneficiary of a completely rigged election. He the moscovian candidate. Worse, he is transforming this place in Putin’s world view.

Ya like Russia? Move there muthafuckas. 

— Ron Perlman‏ @perlmutations -  July 4, 2018

this man is a #resistance treasure - he has a good heart for people.  A very good heart @perlmutations And he is unafraid to speak out - as we all are, but it must be different when you are famous. #TrumpTreason  #july4th #TrumpRussiaConspiracy Move there you mothafuckas !

— 25thAmendment4Trump‏ @safeagain1 -  July 4, 2018

• WHY VLADIMIR PUTIN’S RUSSIA IS BACKING DONALD TRUMP
• Forget conspiracy theories. This is why Trump’s Russian connection is actually a problem.
• Donald Trump’s Many, Many, Many, Many Ties to Russia
• The Putin-Trump Axis 

Why Russia is backing Donald Trump

Inside Vladimir Putin's complex gambit to weaken NATO.

www.newsweek.com

Western intelligence has also obtained reports that a Trump associate met with a pro-Putin member of Russian parliament at a building in Eastern Europe maintained by Rossotrudnichestvo, an agency under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that is charged with administering language, education and support programs for civilians. While the purpose of that meeting is unclear, and there is no evidence that Trump was aware it took place, it has become another fact that has alarmed officials from at least one NATO ally.

Trump and his campaign have also spread propaganda created as part of the Kremlin's effort, relying on bogus information generated through traditional Russian disinformation techniques. In one instance, a manipulated document was put out onto the internet anonymously by propagandists working with Russia; within hours, Trump was reciting that false information at a campaign rally. The Trump campaign has also spread claims from Sputnik, another news outlet identified by American intelligence as part of the Russian disinformation campaign. For example, almost immediately after the posting of an article by Sputnik attacking this Newsweek reporter, the Trump campaign emailed a link to the piece to American reporters, urging them to pursue the same story.

Both Trump and Clinton were monitored by Russian intelligence during their visits to Moscow over the years, according to American and European intelligence sources, in hopes of gathering kompromat—compromising material about a politician or public figure. The dossier on Clinton mainly contains recordings of conversations and intercepted phone calls; the intelligence source said the dossier has been controlled by Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman. When she was secretary of state, however, Clinton knew her conversations in Moscow might be recorded, so the dossier appears to have been used mainly for intelligence rather than to embarrass her with allies, the source said. The Kremlin also has both video and audio recordings of Trump in a kompromat file. Newsweek could not confirm if there is anything compromising in those recordings.

Despite these qualms, Putin remained satisfied with the campaign, regardless of the outcome of the U.S. election, according to information obtained by the Western intelligence source. Should Clinton win, he has told associates, her administration would be bogged down trying to heal divisions within the United States brought about by releases and misrepresentations of hacked information, and would have little time or political capital to confront Russia’s efforts in Syria, Ukraine and other locales.

By October, “buyer’s remorse” had set in at the Kremlin, according to a report obtained by Western counterintelligence. Russia came to see Trump as too unpredictable and feared that, should he win, the Kremlin would not be able to rely on him or even anticipate his actions.

Trump once again dismissed all of the evidence and came to Russia’s defense. Intelligence and other government officials in Britain were horrified, according to one person with direct knowledge of the reaction there.