Selective leftist outrage

"After my election, I have more flexibility."--Barack Obama to Russian President Medvedev on 'hot mic'

It's almost laughable how the left sounds the alarm over an alleged relationship of the Trump administration with the Russians. 

They point out how Paul Manafort was an adviser to the Ukrainian president, a pro-Russian and how Carter Page, another Trump adviser, was involved in energy deals with Russian companies. And how Jeff Sessions actually spoke to a Russian official while on the Senate Armed Services Committee--even though it's a normal part of his job.

And of course, there's Michael Flynn and the speech he gave in Moscow as a private citizen . . . and so on.

As Peter Schweizer said, in an article for Fox News, it's important to examine these relationships, but "Still, those pushing the narrative of troubling ties to Russia lose all credibility by wholly ignoring the far deeper and more troubling relationships the Clintons and their closest aides have maintained with Russian government officials for years, including while they were in public office."

But the big difference here is that the Clinton deals involved enormous favors that benefitted Russian interests and involved hundreds of millions of dollars.

Like the speech Bill Clinton gave in Moscow in 2010 and received half a million dollars. Renaissance Capital, a Moscow firm paid the fee--a firm with close ties to Russian intelligence, and they admit it proudly.

No Russian donor was too embedded in Russian concerns to refuse. Schweizer mentions the following: 

Victor Vekselberg: a Putin confidant and head of Renova Group

Andrey Vavilov: a former Russian government official and Chairman of SuperOx, a research company that was part of "nuclear Cluster" at a government research facility

Elena Buturina: wife of a former Mayor of Moscow. She appeared to donate to the Clintons via JSC Inteco which she controls

And of course we have the 2010 Uranium One deal in which the Clinton Foundation received $145 million in "donations" from a Canadian uranium company that was sold to the Russian government. In order to seal the deal, several U.S. federal agencies needed to approve it, including Hillary's State Department. The Russians ended up with 20 percent of America's uranium which went to Rosatom, an entity that controls Russia's nuclear arsenal.

The fact that some of the Clinton Foundation donations were not disclosed by the Clintons should trouble all of us. President Obama required the Foundation to disclose all contributions as a condition of Hillary Clinton becoming Secretary of State, but she didn't. It was the Canadian tax records that uncovered the deal.

Then there's one of Hillary's closest aides, John Podesta who actually went into business with the Russian government while a Hillary Clinton adviser as Secretary of State.

Podesta was on the executive board of an energy company called Joule Unlimited. The Russian government invested a billion rubles (about $35 million) in the company. The money came from an investment fund called Rusnano, a fund started in 2007 by Putin and described as "Putin's Child" by Russian Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko.

Rusnano investments could also have military applications and it would be surprising if it didn't.

When Podesta went to the White House in 2014, where he served as counselor to Obama, he did not disclose his board membership in one of the Joule entities on his financial disclosure form. 

But the hypocritical left isn't concerned about what appears to be an actual intimate relationship with the Russians because it had nothing to do with Donald Trump.


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Sean Spicer claims no 'conclusive evidence' Russia hacked DNC emails

The Trump team on Monday made it clear that it isn't clear that Russia executed a cyber-attack on the presidential race. "Rushing to judgment on stuff like this is not in anybody's best interest," Sean Spicer, incoming White House Communications Director said on "Fox & Friends" Monday.

Spicer said that Trump isn't disputing statements made by U.S. intelligence officials, but instead is waiting for a final report due later in the week that could provide more conclusive evidence.

"Then I think we'll have a better idea of what to make to the situation," he said. 

Several U.S. intelligence agencies have claimed that Russia was behind the hacking and release of John Podesta's emails from the DNC, but if you know anything about who runs some of these intelligence agencies, you might not be totally convinced that they're telling the whole truth.

Last week, Obama had 35 Russian diplomats expelled who are believed to be spies and involved with the email hack. The Russian compounds, which are large mansions, in New York and Maryland have been since closed.

Hillary Clinton's team and supporters believe the hacked emails, contributed to her upset loss to Donald Trump because the public got to see how little she and her team think of the American people. 

They never disputed the validity of the emails, only where they came from. 

Obama, who only reacted to the email hack after the election but knew about the hacking beforehand, said the investigation and sanctions were in the interest of protecting the U.S. election system especially if the GOP wins.

Spicer suggest that Obama's actions were politically motivated.

When Obama pees, it's politically motivated.

"There is a question about whether there's a political retribution here versus a diplomatic response, he told ABC on Sunday.

Regarding Trump's New Year's Eve comments about "know(ing) things that other people don't know," about the hacking, Spicer said that Trump gets briefed daily and this is "privy to information that nobody else is. What he's driving at is that there doesn't seem to be conclusive evidence."

Spicer also dismissed the FBI and Homeland Security report supporting the accusations against Russia, and called the report a "how-to" manual on basic cybersecurity for Democrats. He said the report isn't even final but is being taken "as gospel."

Interestingly, Spicer pointed out that in 2015 China stole sensitive information from millions of Americans, including federal workers, and Obama failed to issue "a single statement."

Or get off the golf course.

Donald Trump will meet this week with intelligence officials to get more input about the allegations against Moscow.

Trump said, "I know a lot about hacking. And hacking is a very hard thing to prove, so it could be somebody else."

Like that 400 pound couch potato.




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Russian diplomats are gone

The 35 expelled Russian diplomats connected with the cyberattacks during the 2016 presidential campaign have left the country, according to the State Department.

The diplomats (aka spies) and their families left on flights from Dulles International Airport outside of Washington D.C.

Russian news reported the departures earlier Sunday.

President and lame duck, Obama, expelled the diplomats, claiming that they are really spies, and ordered new sanctions on Russian spy agencies for alleged hacking by the Russians of political sites--including the DNC--during the presidential election, which uncovered emails on Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta's server that revealed just how mean-spirited and disgusting the Democratic party can be to the GOP and to each other.

But as usual, I digress.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he will not take retaliatory action right now, but will wait for Donald Trump to take office January 20th.


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Podesta says Putin wants Trump as his lap dog

'Adolf Eichmann Lookalike Contest' winner, and chairman of the failed presidential campaign for Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, claims that Vladimir Putin was "personally involved" in the election email hacking and he knows this because when he hit the link on his computer to see naked photos of the Nigerian princess, and noticed that she looked a lot like Vladimir in drag. It almost made him sick.

The reason Russia did the hacking was because they wanted Trump in office, Podesta whined. They wanted Trump as their "lap dog."

There are plenty of ways one can picture Donald Trump, but as anyone's lap dog doesn't conjure up an image for me. 

Sure, the Donald can be easily manipulated with a kind word, a soft smile, and even a compliment or two, but to get him to do your bidding as your lap dog? Hardly.

"Russia clearly intervened," Podesta complained in a series of carefully worded responses about who was behind the leaked emails that WikiLeaks got its hands on. 

After he was hacked by "the Naked Nigerian Princess," Podesta said the FBI contacted him only once about the hacking. This came 2 days after WikiLeaks began publishing the emails showing the world the kind of scumcrumpets make up the Democratic Party, which is part of the reason Clinton lost.

Podesta wrote "something is deeply broken at the FBI" and said the Russian email hacking was the "political equivalent" of the 9/11 terror attacks, but never said that directly to any of the family-members who lost loved ones that day, shameful POS that he is to make that comparison.

The Russian hacking was bad, very bad, but keep 9/11 out of it unless you're qualified by having been at the targets that day, or lost someone.

Anyway, once Donald Trump takes office, the country may have hope that everything Clinton will go away and hide, including those unethical, immoral people who worked for her.


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