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Back channel communication between Trump and Putin on Ukraine attacks

Remember when President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner  talked with the Russian ambassador in December 2016 about establishing a back channel for communications.  The talk between Kushner and the Russian envoy about communications was focused on the U.S. response to the crisis in Syria and other policy-related matters. The former director of the National Security Agency and the CIA, Gen. Michael Hayden, called Kushner’s request for a communications back channel “off the map."  “What manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt, would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or appropriate idea?” Hayden said.  “This is off the map,” Hayden said. “I know of no other experience like this in our history, certainly within my life experience.”  That was then, but now, Trump is back in the news again h aving a back channel communication with Putin and then praising Vladimir Putin as “very savvy” sh...

Prosecutors in Trump probe quit after new DA seems to abandon plan to seek indictment of former president

NEW YORK — Two prosecutors heading the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal probe into Donald Trump’s business dealings have resigned from their positions — frustrated that after their former boss authorized them to seek an indictment against the former president, the new district attorney appeared uninterested, multiple people familiar with the situation said. © John Raoux/AP Prosecutors in Trump probe quit after new DA seems to abandon plan to seek indictment of former president The new Manhattan DA is a friend of Jerry Kushner. I'm not suggesting that was the reason he dropped the prosecution of Donald Trump, but it could be part and parcel of it. And i t could also be because of the enormous burden placed on black District Attorneys from Georgia to New York, while the Biden DOJ is asleep at the wheel.  There is a pattern here when Trump is not being prosecuted by the DOJ:  1. For ordering his personal attorney before the 2016 election to pay a porn star named S...

Republicans mocked after marking Presidents Day by insulting Biden – and praising Nixon and Trump

  A Presidents’ Day joke from the official  Republican Party  Twitter feed has been ridiculed for disrespecting  Joe Biden  while hailing  Richard Nixon  as among the “great US presidents”. Borrowing the meme of the “ not you ” grid, the party singled out eight past Republican presidents for praise: Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge, Dwight Eisenhower, Nixon, Ronald Reagan, both George Bushes, and of course,  Donald Trump . Mr Biden, meanwhile, is shown wearing a mask designed to stop the spread of Covid-19, which Donald Trump famously contracted late in his presidency. Follow the latest updates on Trump The reaction to the bizarrely pro-Nixon message was swift and caustic, with anti-Republican commentators and tweeters seizing on the implications immediately – and pointing out that unlike Nixon, who resigned from office before being formally ejected by Congress, Donald Trump was in fact impeached twice for alleged crimes committed during his tenur...