WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and Russia (all times local):
4 p.m.
President Donald Trump has asked national security adviser John Bolton to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington in the fall.
That’s the latest update Thursday from White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders following Trump’s meeting with Putin earlier this week in Finland.
Sanders says “those discussions are already underway” for a fall meeting between the two presidents.
It presumably would take place at the White House, but Sanders did not say where Trump and Putin would meet.
In a tweet about Putin earlier Thursday, Trump said, “I look forward to our second meeting.”
CNN also just flew this a few minutes ago.
we're being taken over. It's been real guys. what the fuck!
Do we know yet who the guy is that Maria Butina was living with? The guy who thought Butina was his girlfriend and helped her get a U-Haul, when really she was just a spy pretending to be his girlfriend? I am really surprised that hasn't come out yet.
Here is dan coats not being a 45 lap dog. Apparently he is making news with his comments to Andrea Mitchell. To be tin foily, I’m quite suspicious that he is doing an interview. He never does them. Almost like he is nervous and wants us to know.
Here is dan coats not being a 45 lap dog. Apparently he is making news with his comments to Andrea Mitchell. To be tin foily, I’m quite suspicious that he is doing an interview. He never does them. Almost like he is nervous and wants us to know.
He even said he hates doing interviews and being a public figure.
Here is dan coats not being a 45 lap dog. Apparently he is making news with his comments to Andrea Mitchell. To be tin foily, I’m quite suspicious that he is doing an interview. He never does them. Almost like he is nervous and wants us to know.
I hate, as a Hoosier, how proud I am due to his (very possible meaningless) ‘stand’. But dammit, I’m taking what I can get right now...
Do we know yet who the guy is that Maria Butina was living with? The guy who thought Butina was his girlfriend and helped her get a U-Haul, when really she was just a spy pretending to be his girlfriend? I am really surprised that hasn't come out yet.
Thanks! Right after I posted it, I got a news alert - Vox has a great explainer up on her. Apparently Bannon and Priebus thought she was fishy in 2016, but never actually did anything about it....
Man, I'm having a banner day, cause I said there were going to be D's mixed up in this too.
I believe it. I have no doubt that faaaaar more Rs are caught up in this - it’s a lot harder to entice elected Ds to play up the appeal of a white ethnostate when a significant chunk of them are not white - but if the point is to sow discord, then no party will be immune.
Thanks! Right after I posted it, I got a news alert - Vox has a great explainer up on her. Apparently Bannon and Priebus thought she was fishy in 2016, but never actually did anything about it....
I am obsessed with Maria Butina. I think it’s because the story is 100% straight out of The Americans.
Me too. I was listening to the Daily this morning and the guest was talking about how, while she was certainly good at infiltrating groups and networking and stuff, she was a terrible spy because she kept records of her communications lol. I feel like that should be part of Spying 101 - always delete shit.
Man, I'm having a banner day, cause I said there were going to be D's mixed up in this too.
I believe it. I have no doubt that faaaaar more Rs are caught up in this - it’s a lot harder to entice elected Ds to play up the appeal of a white ethnostate when a significant chunk of them are not white - but if the point is to sow discord, then no party will be immune.
Thanks! Right after I posted it, I got a news alert - Vox has a great explainer up on her. Apparently Bannon and Priebus thought she was fishy in 2016, but never actually did anything about it....
Here is dan coats not being a 45 lap dog. Apparently he is making news with his comments to Andrea Mitchell. To be tin foily, I’m quite suspicious that he is doing an interview. He never does them. Almost like he is nervous and wants us to know.
It's not an interview, per se. It was a panel discussion at Aspen Security which is pretty much the biggest cybersecurity/defense event in the world. Here's this year's agenda: aspensecurityforum.org/agenda/ - as you can see it's pretty much every heavy hitter and it's ALL about Russia.
Do we know yet who the guy is that Maria Butina was living with? The guy who thought Butina was his girlfriend and helped her get a U-Haul, when really she was just a spy pretending to be his girlfriend? I am really surprised that hasn't come out yet.
Paul Erickson. The timeline makes this extra curious because it was right after the 2012 election that he supposedly met Butina... and he was a campaign adviser for Romney in 2012.
Do we know yet who the guy is that Maria Butina was living with? The guy who thought Butina was his girlfriend and helped her get a U-Haul, when really she was just a spy pretending to be his girlfriend? I am really surprised that hasn't come out yet.
Paul Erickson. The timeline makes this extra curious because it was right after the 2012 election that he supposedly met Butina... and he was a campaign adviser for Romney in 2012.
I hope he gets interrogated. There’s no way he doesn’t know a lot. What did she tell him about why she was moving??
They'd also be in jail if they were palling around with the Russian government so hopefully at least some of them see that as a bigger crime than e-mails.
I actually tried to report one of my peers as an insider threat one time because of his odd allegiance to Russia.
I know of someone in an Intelligence agency who (IMO) doesn’t belong there thanks to his christofascist beliefs. I wrestle with that. Is that my personal belief or is it a threat?
Rand Paul is going to have the Russian stink all over him too. He was one of the only Senators to vote against more Russian sanctions, he defended Trump after Monday’s romp through Treasonville, and he’s going for his own visit to Russia next month.
Rand Paul also tried to block the ratification of Montenegro into NATO last year.
Rand Paul is going to have the Russian stink all over him too. He was one of the only Senators to vote against more Russian sanctions, he defended Trump after Monday’s romp through Treasonville, and he’s going for his own visit to Russia next month.
Rand Paul also tried to block the ratification of Montenegro into NATO last year.
All these random pieces are starting to look less and less random...