This is why we care about #orban losing in #hungary #project2025

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9MUjDTsNvr4 

Foreign Agents' explores the U.S. citizens lobbying for foreign governments (Dave Davies; Fresh Air podcast)

Author Casey Michel says you might be surprised by who is advocating for foreign interests: lobbyists, law firms, and publicists as well as charitable foundations, major universities and think tanks. 

"...So he [Manafort] had a firm that did political consulting. It helped get people elected to Congress, to the Senate. And then when he came to those same lawmakers who he had helped put in office, saying, hey, I've got a client here from whatever country or whatever firm that needs some help, the lawmaker is talking to the person he depends upon for reelection. So there's this confluence of interest, or you could see it as a conflict of interest, right?"

Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/14/g-s1-16968/foreign-agents-explores-the-u-s-citizens-lobbying-for-foreign-governments

What Paul Manafort did, according to Mueller and a bipartisan Senate report - The Washington Post

Former president Donald Trump is preparing to bring back into his campaign fold a man convicted of multiple crimes and whom a bipartisan Senate report labeled a "grave counterintelligence threat" because of his ties to a Russian spy...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/19/trump-manafort-hiring/

The universe of alleged Trumpworld criminality continues to expand - The Washington Post

This week has already delivered two new developments in the galaxy of alleged and demonstrated criminality that surrounds former president Donald Trump...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/16/trump-investigations-giuliani/

Manafort Owns Up to Passing Campaign Data to Suspected Russian Agent

…The U.S. Treasury Department says the data—which it described as "sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy"—was then passed to Russian intelligence services…

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-chief-paul-manafort-owns-up-to-passing-sensitive-data-to-suspected-russian-agent

Top Secret Confetti (feat. Pete Strzok)(Allison Gill; Mueller, She Wrote podcast)

This week: US intelligence officials accuse Zero Hedge of amplifying Kremlin propaganda; Manafort is writing a book and Andrew Weissman wants to make sure he doesn’t profit from it; plus the Fantasy Indictment League, and a conversation with Peter Strzok about the top secret documents found at Mar-a-Lago.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-349sd-12b78033

Danger is Fun (feat. Peter Strzok) (Allison Gill; Mueller, She Wrote podcast)

This week: 

• a Gaetz investigation update; 
• Chris Steele and the pee tape are back in the news; 
• we have a roundup of foreign straw donations to Trump and Trump PACs from Open Secrets; 
• have federal raids on Manafort’s Russian handler Oleg Deripaska - I’ve dusted my murder board off for that; 
• I welcome Russian spy hunter and author of the book Compromised, Peter Strzok to the show today to discuss the implications of the Deripaska raid AND we speculate a bit together on what it could mean; 
• plus some Sabotage and the Fantasy Indictment League. 

Our Guest: Peter Strzok https://twitter.com/petestrzok https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/Compromised/9780358237068

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-f5wha-10b81aa5

Another "Expert" Witness Unmasked; Bernie's Filibuster Explained (Opening Arguments podcast OA452)

Tons of info in today's New Year's show! First we take a look at Trump's horrendously corrupt pardons, focusing on his attempt to pardon Paul Manafort's money back to him! Then we give you the breakdown on the latest Sidney Powell "expert" to be unmasked. Hope you're sitting down... she's NOT qualified in any way. Finally we talk about what's going on with the COVID relief bill and the National Defense Authorization Act. Far left publications have been critical of Senate Democrats, but Andrew explains why this is completely bad faith.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-wazri-c957b58

Republicans incriminate Trump, decimate his 'Russia hoax' narrative | TheHill

In 2018, Steve Bannon accused Donald Trump’s top campaign officials of “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” conduct, according to author Michael Wolff. Bannon, like a long list of former Trump associates, is now in a world of legal trouble. But thanks to the Republican-led Senate, we know that his characterization of the Trump campaign’s links to Russia was spot-on. In a bombshell report, the GOP-led Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded that Trump campaign contacts with Russian spies amounted to “a grave counterintelligence threat.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/513499-republicans-incriminate-trump-decimate-his-russia-hoax-narrative

The Russia Report returns . . . from the GOP - CSMonitor.com

...But it's pretty hard to read the Senate Intelligence report – approved, remember, by Republican lawmakers – and then agree with Attorney General William Barr that the Mueller probe was based on a "very thin, slender reed."... ... "How exactly could the FBI not investigate such things?" writes Benjamin Wittes, a Brookings Institution senior fellow and editor of Lawfare.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Politics-Watch/2020/0819/The-Russia-Report-returns-.-.-.-from-the-GOP

US Senate report goes beyond Mueller to lay bare Trump campaign's Russia links

"... the Senate committee's report "confirms nearly everything" about Trump's ties to Moscow. He said it vindicated claims by the Democrats and others that the campaign had indeed colluded with the Russians – something Trump has vehemently denied."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/18/donald-trump-us-senate-report-russia-campaign

“Drop the Podesta Emails”: Senate Report Sure Seems Like Another Trump-Russia Smoking Gun | Vanity Fair

More details of Roger Stone’s interactions with WikiLeaks and Paul Manafort’s Russian ties don’t look great for the Trump campaign.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/drop-the-podesta-emails-senate-report-sure-seems-like-another-trump-russia-smoking-gun

Takeaways from the Senate intelligence committee’s Russia report - The Washington Post

The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released its fifth and final report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, and the notably bipartisan report raises plenty of new questions about that effort’s links to the Trump campaign. The report, like its predecessors, does not allege a conspiracy or collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. But it does detail significant new information and raises questions about potentially vital information that has been withheld both by Trump allies and the administration — and renders the full picture of what happened obscured to this day. Below are some of the most important things we learned. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/18/senates-big-russia-report-what-we-learned-what-it-means/

Paul Manafort, Trump?s 2016 campaign chair, had contact with Russian intelligence, Senate panel finds - The Washington Post

An exhaustive investigation led by members of President Trump’s own political party portrays his 2016 campaign as posing counterintelligence risks through its myriad contacts with Russia, eager to exploit assistance from the Kremlin and seemingly determined to conceal the full extent of its conduct from a multiyear Senate probe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-intelligence-trump-russia-report/2020/08/18/62a7573e-e093-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html

Roger Stone Told Trump WikiLeaks Was Releasing Clinton Documents

Newly unredacted portions of the Mueller report show that Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and Michael Cohen told investigators Stone had promised the campaign damaging revelations by WikiLeaks. The information was released following a lawsuit by BuzzFeed News. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/roger-stone-warned-trump-wikileaks-clinton-dump

Republicans are pushing a debunked conspiracy theory to exonerate Paul Manafort – Raw Story

Republicans who are desperately pushing back against the impeachment of President Donald Trump have embraced a debunked conspiracy theory whose aim is to exonerate convicted criminal and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/republicans-are-pushing-a-debunked-conspiracy-theory-to-exonerate-paul-manafort/

Giuliani's 'proof' that Biden was corrupt was paid for by an indicted oligarch who funded Manafort - Daily Kos

There is only one scandal. On broad terms, that scandal is how easily Donald Trump is manipulated by anyone appealing to either his ego or his pocketbook. In a more narrow sense, there's only a single scandal because the same people behind the Russia scandal are also the ones that set up the Ukraine scandal. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/18/1893457/-Giuliani-s-proof-that-Biden-was-corrupt-was-paid-for-by-an-indicted-oligarch-who-funded-Manafort

Giuliani accused me of exposing Paul Manafort’s Ukraine deals to help U.S. Democrats. That’s a lie - The Washington Post: Opinion

Ukraine has enough problems. We don't need the U.S. president's lawyer to make more of them.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/21/why-is-rudy-giuliani-trying-drag-my-countrys-president-into-trumps-reelection-campaign/

Chicago bank CEO indicted on accusations of bribing Manafort for administration job - The Washington Post

Stephen Calk, a onetime economic adviser to President Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, was indicted Thursday. Prosecutors said he approved $16 million in loans to Trump's former campaign chairman in exchange for his help seeking a top post in the administration. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/23/chicago-bank-ceo-accused-bribing-manafort-administration-job/

Nielsen v. Preap and Due Process Due Aliens (Opening Arguments podcast OA263)

Today’s breaking news episode contains your guide to the hotly-debated Supreme Court decision in Nielsen v. Preap, regarding how and whether aliens can be detained without due process. What does it all mean? Listen and find out!

We begin, however, with a brief update on the Congressional Investigations we discussed in Episode 259 with the news that Hope Hicks will cooperate. Listen to our past episode if you don’t realize how huge this is.

Then, we move on to some news regarding a recent order handed down by Judge Kollar-Kotelly in the District Court for the District of Columbia with respect to the trans ban. We dive into the unique procedural issues giving rise to this order and tamp down on your enthusiasm that this may put the trans ban in jeopardy.

Then, it’s time for our main segment breaking down Nielsen v. Preap. We tell you exactly what this decision means along with the reasons why the Court reached the result it did.

But that’s not all! After that, we have our weekly trip to Yodel Mountain with two items: (1) an Andrew Was Right about the source of the National Enquirer‘s acquisition of compromising material about Jeff Bezos; and (2) a follow-up on the New York indictment of Paul Manafort.

And if all that isn’t enough for you, well, we end, as always, with a brand new Thomas Takes the Bar Exam Question #119 involving long-term contracts for the sale of wheat. As always, remember to follow our Twitter feed (@Openargs) and like our Facebook Page so that you too can play along with #TTTBE!
Interview:
https://openargs.com/oa263-nielsen-v-preap-and-due-process-due-aliens/