When it comes to trying to take Trump down, by this point it would seem he has provided plenty of substantial grounds even in three short weeks. However the MSM and the Deep State are concentrating on pushing the story of a connection with Russia, which allows them to kill three birds with one stone:
1) It delegitimizes the Trump presidency.
2) Shifts the blame for Clinton's loss away from the candidate and the party.
3) Opens the door for war with Russia, which Deep State seems so eager for.
Do read Robert Parry's cautions below, where he carefully puts the relationship between the US and Russia into perspective.
But then I'm reminded that when Hillary was Secretary of State, the Clintons were connected with the sale of a company, Uranium One, which gave the Russians control of 20% of all US uranium production capacity. Because uranium is a “strategic asset, with implications for national security” the sale required oversight by the State Department. Then shortly before the sale, Bill Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock. Further, Uranium One’s chairman gave $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation, a contribution that was not revealed despite Hillary’s agreement with Obama to identify all donors. Not that I approve of anything Trump does, but this makes vague revelations of his associates’ phone calls to unidentified Russian personages look like small potatoes indeed.
Democrats, liberals and media pundits – in their rush to take down President Trump – are pushing a New McCarthyism aimed at Americans who have talked to Russians, risking a new witch hunt.
In the
anti-Russian frenzy sweeping American politics and media, Democrats, liberals and mainstream pundits are calling for an investigative body that could become a new kind of House Un-American Activities Committee to hunt down Americans who have communicated with Russians.
The proposed commission would have broad subpoena powers to investigate alleged connections between Trump’s supporters and the Russian government with the apparent goal of asking if they now have or have ever talked to a Russian who might have some tie to the Kremlin or its intelligence agencies.
Such an admission apparently would be prima facie evidence of disloyalty, a guilt-by-association “crime” on par with Sen. Joe McCarthy’s Cold War pursuit of “communists” who supposedly had infiltrated the U.S. government, the film industry and other American institutions..(
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Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal--New York Times, 4/24/15
The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when its precursor served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”
The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.
But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one...(
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