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Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

Somewhat related: Karen Kwiatkowski has a very kind essay out today on structural issues that Trump has in going against the Deep State. Very much worth a read.

She also has the best charactezisation of Trump that I have ever seen: Trump is a brick-layer, not an architect.

https://karenkwiatkowski.substack.com/p/seven-lessons-trump-learned-incompletely

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Incisive

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D F Barr's avatar

Thank you. Carter Page was the insurance policy, eh? That one always stumped everyone. Including the vaunted Bongino. Somehow, in a strange way, I’m glad to finally know the answer to that question today all these years later.

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

You powered through it all again. Good job bringing the readers back up to speed especially since we’ll hear more in the coming months.

Reminds me the FISA judges are so weak and pathetic. Perkins Coie and those two goober middlemen from Fusion paying off Steele too.

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ROBERT Incognito's avatar

As always Mark your insight and explanations are spot on. There needs to be prosecution of all the people involved in order to have deterrence against future malfeasance. Deterrence is a favorite term used by the US MIC against its enemies and it must be instituted against the FBI and all participants of this hoax.

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Joanne C. Wasserman's avatar

Thank you for writing, again, one more article explaining the size of illegality taken by members of the legal organization that exists to stop illegal deeds. Each time that your writing unravels a knot in the weaving of a false situation, I can better understand why the woven fabric looks so corrosive.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Looking back now, I can see more clearly that Manafort's role--whether he knew it or not--may have been more central than any of us realized at the time.

https://www.justsecurity.org/46464/timeline-paul-manaforts-relationship-trump-world/

https://www.albawaba.com/news/trump%E2%80%99s-man-middle-east-slumlord-real-estate-investor-who-owns-neverland-ranch-and-speaks-fluen

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Joanne C. Wasserman's avatar

Thank you. I've just finished reading both articles, and with so much information to digest, it'll take me a while; but I will remember what I've read, and remember the names and places reported on. I don't know who is heading up the Inaugural committee, but I haven't seen Tom Barrack's name in the news, this cycle. That he's a Lebanese American with royal Middle East relationships, as well as a super-king in the world of real estate, perks my interest. A couple of years ago (?) the All In Podcast's guest was Jared Kushner. He observed that the leadership of the Palestinian people didn't have the skills to govern, no skillfulness as administrators that provided a pathway to prosperity for their people. Kushner was explaining to the All in guys his own reasoning for why the Gaza and West Bank lands were not developed like Israeli populated properties....Then, since the Israeli war to the death for all Palestinians is ongoing, and those snarky scattered comments that I've read which refer to the Gaza Strip as "prime beach front property" to be invested in/developed...well, who knows, maybe Tom Barrack could be a protector/defender of Palestinian lands for the Palestinian people, or else, he could be a demolition king in the erasure of the Palestinian "home land", even though the homeland is not nurtuing of life but, rather, it's an "open air prison" and a death trap.

The second article, regarding Paul Manafort's presence from time to time in "Trump World", offers much inter-operating information about many persons who remain relevant to Trump's outlook towards resolution of disputes + conflicts (M.A.G.A., wars, downsizing national security policy away from world hegemon obligation, trade prosperity, full employment in prosperous jobs for U.S. citizens... )

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Hello Joanne, perhaps the reason those "poor" Palestinians did not develop their land was due to Israel's harassment and while the USoA was shifting billions of dollars in aid and investment to Israel, what were they doing for Palestinians? Nothing, but disparagement, justified or not while we funded terrorism ourselves along with the Israeli's. With the discovery of huge deposits of natural gas and oil off the shoreline, allowing Israel to take it was our goal, never peace.

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Joanne C. Wasserman's avatar

Good morning, Cosmo, you are spot on in calling Israeli harassment as a blockage to Palestinian land development for the betterment of Palestinian lives; but it worse, because Israel, USA, and United Nations have been pouring annual mega-bucks into the coffers of the authorities who hold leadership positions on behalf of the people of Palestine---mega monies for food, education, infrastructure development, medical coverage for actual nurturing of quality of life, et cetera, which was stolen for personal gain by the same Palestinian authorities, year after year. This has been known by the USA, United Nations, and Israel governments and Non-governmental organizations from the beginning of the yearly issuance of monetary aid to "the cause of the Palestinian People". It's been grift, outright fraud, serial theft, in the name of "helping others to help themselves". No one is a good guy in this tragedy of people and place; but the fact of Zionist Israel being the perpetual aggressor in the lands of Middle Eastern NATIONS (regardless of internationally recognized statehood) reveals the State of Israel as an evil poison in the body of the Middle East, geographically, strategically, and most importantly: as a fanatical, FALSE RELIGION premise for its war-mongering statecraft, this un-true country, Israel, which pretends to be the true heritage of The Lord's Old Covenant People Israel.

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