Donald Trump Flashcards
“CrowdStrike had already long since proven how biased and sloppy they were after falsely claiming Russia had hacked artillery apps on Ukrainian soldiers’ smart phones (54), which they were forced to retract after resounding criticism from various computer security experts. (55)”
Footnote 55?
Oleksiy Kuzmenko and Pete Cobus, “Cyber Firm Rewrites Part of Disputed Russian Hacking Report,” Voice of America, March 24, 2017
Who is Dmitri Alperovitch?
Cofounder of CrowdStrike. Russian expat. Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council.
p.379
“Again, we are unaware of ANY Trump advisors, engaging in conversations with Russian intelligence officials. There is no known affiliation, and little if any GOR affiliation. FBI investigation has shown past contact between Carter Page and the SVR, but not during the Trump campaign.”
Declassified notations by FBI agent Peter Strzok on New York Times article, “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence”
(Article by Michael S. Schmidt, et al., February 14, 2017)
“In the main, it was not true.”
Former FBI Director Comey on the NYT piece, “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence”
“The FBI’s handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the OIG report, was antithetical to [their] heightened duty of candor… The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable.”
John Kruzel, “Judge blasts FBI over misleading info for surveillance of Trump campaign advisor,” The Hill, December 17, 2019
p.401
How many ads paid for by the alleged Russian election interference operation did Mueller identify?
“Mr. Mueller identified 13 digital advertisements paid for by the Russian operation. All of them attacked Mrs, Clinton or promoted Mr. Trump.”
Katie Benner and Sharon LaFraniere, “Justice Dept. Moves to Drop Charges Against Russian Firms Filed by Mueller,” New York Times, March 16, 2020
p.418
“For years, Serhiy Leshchenko, a top Ukrainian anti-corruption campaigner, worked to expose kleptocracy under former president Viktor Yanukovich. Now, he is focusing on a new perceived pro-Russian threat to Ukraine: US presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The prospect of Mr Trump, who has praised Ukraine’s arch-enemy Vladimir Putin, becoming leader of the country’s biggest ally has spurred not just Mr Leshchenko but Kiev’s wider political leadership to do something they would never have attempted before: intervene, however indirectly, in a US election.”
Roman Olearchyk, “Ukraine’s leaders campaign against ‘pro-Putin’ Trump,” Financial Times, August 28, 2016
https://www.ft.com/content/c98078d0-6ae7-11e6-a0b1-d87a9fea034f
“Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.
Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.”
Kenneth P. Vogel and David Stern, “Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire,” Politico, January 11, 2017
Note that the story was published two months after Trump’s victory.
What was New Knowledge
Democratic activists and former Justice Department, CIA, and NSA agents calling themselves “disinformation experts”. Renee DiResta was one of them.
- Involved in creating the Hamilton 68 dashboard hoax.
- Perpetrated “Project Birmingham” - a false flag operation making it appear that Russian bots were being deployed to support Alabama Senatorial candidate Roy Moore.
- Helped fuel the anti-Tulsi “Kremlin favorite” McCarthyite smear campaign
Now known as “Yonder”
pp 432-33
“Mr. Trump’s claims of no collusion are, in a word, hogwash. The only questions that remain are whether the collusion that took place constituted, criminally, liable, conspiracy, whether obstruction of justice occurred to cover up any collusion or conspiracy, and how many members of ‘Trump Incorporated’ attempted to defraud the government by laundering and concealing the movement of money into their pockets.”
John Brennan, “President Trump’s Claims of No Collusion Are Hogwash,” New York Times, August 16, 2018
p.435, footnote 601
List all NATO enlargements since the fall of the USSR.
1999: Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary
2004: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia
2009: Croatia and Albania
2017: Montenegro
2020: Northern Macedonia
