Campaign disinformation troll houses have become synonymous with Russia. There is no doubt that Russia is interfering in the 2020 elections. But there are other players playing in the social media arena who are also trying to manipulate elections in other countries. Some of them are American. Social media platforms have become voter outreach centers… Read More Russia Is Not The Only Campaign Disinformation Purveyor
The Russians interfered in the 2016 elections. They are also interfering in the 2020 elections. Their preferred platforms are Facebook and Twitter. For their part, Facebook and Twitter are addressing foreign interference in the political process through ever more complex and evolving schemes that have not stopped the political interference via their platforms. What Facebook… Read More How Facebook and Twitter Can End Political Interference Easily
Donald Trump has spent his presidency arguing that Russian collusion was a hoax. On August 18, 2020, the Senate Intelligence Committee released its final 966-page report on Russian active measures in the 2016 election. It did not exonerate Donald Trump. Instead, the bipartisan report added more details to Russia’s interference of the 2016 elections. Two… Read More Russia, Trump and Collusion
Many of you may have noticed that the price of gasoline has gone down considerably over the last few weeks. Readers may be tempted to believe that the Corona Virus as the cause of the low prices of gasoline. It is part of the reason because of reduced consumption. However, the low price of gasoline… Read More The Oil Economy Disaster Under Corona
Twitter and other social media have been in the news lately because of the threat of voter suppression/manipulation in the upcoming elections. U.S. intelligence has said that the Russians interfered in the 2016 elections. There is no question that Donald Trump has put Twitter on the forefront of international and national communications and policy debates.… Read More Twitter Has No Clue
Donald Trump publicly capitulated to Russia yesterday on live television. Yesterday, Trump declared that the cease fire in the Turkish incursion of Syria is now “permanent”. Trump also announced that the United States has lifted sanctions against Turkey. As they say, fiction is stranger than reality. This latest debacle poignantly illustrates this. Let’s see why.… Read More Trump Capitulates to Russia Publicly
If the United States gets attacked again by radical-Muslim terrorists, the resulting bloodshed can be traced right back to Donald Trump. The worst part is that Donald Trump is making it more dangerous for U.S. voters. The dangers will take time to develop but the seeds for America’s future attackers are now roaming free in… Read More The Next 9/11 Is On Trump
Let us face it. Today Robert Mueller is set to testify before Congress. In other words, it is Mueller Time. As such all politics will take a back seat to the spectacle of the crimes alleged against Donald Trump. Because all politics will take a back seat to the show, anything posted today that is… Read More It Is Mueller Time
Stop making excuses or spinning the truth behind the smoke and mirrors of “fake news” because the fact is that Donald Trump is a traitor to America. Donald Trump told you this when he stated that he would accept derogatory information about an opponent from foreign governments. Trump clearly admits to traitorous activities. Sean Hannity… Read More The American Traitor
Yesterday William Barr testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the Mueller Report. This was shortly after a March 27 letter from Mueller to Barr was released publicly. The letter articulated that the Special Counsel does not believe that Barr’s March 24 letter to Congress summarizing the Mueller investigation “did not fully capture the context,… Read More Mueller, Barr and the Politics of Coverups
Unless you are living under a rock or you do not care about politics, you likely know that the redacted Mueller Report is expected to be released today. As soon as it is released I will update this post by linking to a downloadable version. Link to download the report (updated April 18, 2019 at… Read More The Redacted Mueller Report Discussion Group
Time seems to have compressed for me recently with too many projects going on at the same time. The politics of the nation are not standing by as national debates on Russian interference and Donald Trump obstruction continues to dominate the national debate. As if that isn’t enough, the issue of asylum seekers and immigration… Read More Quick Takes – Mueller Report, Veronica Escobar, Asylum Seekers and Border Mic Podcast
Unless you filter out politics completely from your life, which wouldn’t make any sense since you are reading my blog today, you know that Attorney General William Barr sent Congress a letter summarizing the findings of the Mueller Report. The four-page letter offers all sides little nuggets of victory. But the letter is usual American… Read More The Politics of the Mueller Letter
Two events happened in the last few days that got me thinking about how guerilla warfare works and how time-proven techniques may be employed by Donald Trump and/or cohorts. Anyone who has studied guerrilla warfare, or its theory/application knows that guerrilla warfare is political war. Understanding that the target of guerrilla warfare is not the… Read More Beware of the Provocateur
Two reports about the use of social media by the Russians to interfere with the 2016 elections were released yesterday. The reports give us greater insight into how social media platforms were used to influence the election in favor of Donald Trump. Much of this isn’t new to most readers, however the details prove that… Read More The Trump-Russian Troll Factory
On Thursday, Maria Butina, a Russian citizen pleaded guilty in an American federal court to conspiracy to act as an illegal foreign agent for Russia. In her plea, Butina acknowledges being “under the direction” of Alexander Torshin, a Russian with strong ties to the Russian government. Maria Butina is accused of forging unofficial lines of… Read More Russian Agent Cooperates with Mueller
If you listen to Sean Hannity, you will note that Hannity has been spinning the Special Counsel investigation into a hoax perpetuated upon the American people. Hannity argues that there is a two-tiered legal system in America; one for Trump and another for Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump, for his part, argues that it is all… Read More Cohen Sentence Proves It Is Not a Hoax
Because of the Russian interference in the 2016 elections, Facebook and Twitter are now requiring individuals buying advertising for social media posts that Facebook or Twitter deem as political to certify. It’s not like I’ve being buying thousands of dollars in advertising. It’s not as if my blog’s audience could have any effect on the… Read More Facebook Political and National Importance Verification
Unless you completely ignore all political news, you likely know that Paul Manafort plead guilty to several crimes late last week. As part of his guilty plea, he has agreed to cooperate with the Russia investigation. The talking heads have been talking about the ramifications of the plea agreement. They range from it has nothing… Read More Trump Junior is the Next Mueller Target
Since the Space Shuttle program was retired in 2011, American astronauts have been at the mercy of Russian spaceships to get to the International Space Station (ISS). American astronauts (Expedition 56) Richard R. Arnold, Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor and Andrew Feustel are dependent on the Russians to return to Earth after their stint on the ISS… Read More America Has No Manned Space Capability
Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on my project: Inconvenient Truths which I’ll unveil in a few days. In doing the research for the project I’ve come across some facts that have left my head spinning as to how incestuous politics have become. Many believe that Paul Manafort is an island unto himself… Read More The Incestuous Manafort Links
“La tirada” is Mexican slang for why something is happening. As the Paul Manafort case is proceeding there are many thoughts of what the Mueller investigators are after by prosecuting Manafort. The Trump supporters love to point out that the first Paul Manafort case – the ongoing one – does not involve Donald Trump or… Read More La Tirada With Paul Manafort
Unless a last-minute plea deal is made, or some legal technicality is brought up, the trial against Paul Manafort is scheduled to start today. Manafort faces two trials, the one slated to start today and another one in September. Today’s trial in Alexandria was pushed back until today after Manafort’s defense team argued that it… Read More The Paul Manafort Trial
For obvious reasons, Michael Cohen has been in the headlines over the last few days. Depending on your point of view, Cohen is either America’s savior, Cohen is a traitor or Cohen is just another blip in the Donald Trump saga. Everyone has their own opinion about what Cohen’s tapes, information and comments could mean… Read More The Inconvenient Fact About Michael Cohen
It is time that Donald Trump and his die-hard supporters stop pretending that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election that elected Trump into office. It is not a hoax. It is something that every American should be concerned about because the government should govern as a representative of the people and not of… Read More Stop Pretending that Russia Did Not Interfere in the Trump Election
Before anyone gets too upset about the title it will all make sense once you read the post. Tucker Carlson, like many Donald Trump supporters, tried in vain to defend Trump’s performance with Vladimir Putin. The problem for most is that Trump refused to hold Putin to account over Russian interference in the 2016 elections.… Read More Tucker Carlson is Stupid
The legal definition of treason is “the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of one’s country or of assisting its enemies in war: the act of levying war against the United States or adhering to or giving aid and comfort to its enemies by one who owes it allegiance.” Treason is the only crime… Read More Donald Trump Is A Traitor
One thing that has always annoyed me about American jurisprudence is that criminal prosecutions are based on process rather than a search for the truth. Anyone that has watched any legal proceeding or a television or movie about the legal system has heard the use of “the truth and nothing but the truth.” It creates… Read More Whatever Happened to the Search for the Truth
The thing about liars is that the truth is always bubbling on the surface ready to come upon the scene when the liar least expects it. It’s come to the point that almost everyone agrees that Donald Trump is untruthful. Some would call that being a liar while others call it exaggerations. The fact remains… Read More Did He or Did He Not Spend the Night in Russia
I’ve unfortunately met my share of attorneys whose job it is to intimidate anyone that gets in the way of their masters. Some longtime readers may remember back in the day when Ike Monty’s attorney-brother attempted to silence me by filing a lawsuit against me. It was nothing more than an attempt to silence me.… Read More The Bully Just Got Bullied
Over the last few days we’ve gone over how campaigns generally target the voters they try to influence to vote for their candidates. We’ve looked over how the old technique was to create a list of voters from the county’s voter rolls to build a list of likely voters. The idea being that if a… Read More Profiling Your Target Voter
Many of you know that there is some controversy over a memorandum written by House Republican David Nunes. According to the news reports, the Nunes Memo discredits the Russian interference investigation into Donald Trump as a conspiracy to end the Trump administration. Few people have read the actual memorandum, but the innuendo as to what… Read More Release the Memo Already
The war against the news media from the presidential office started over 40 years ago under the mistaken belief that the presidency must be respected by keeping the news media at bay. The belief that the news media must leave Donald Trump alone was first argued in the 1970’s. Interestingly, the players are the same… Read More Richard Nixon, Donald Trump and the News Media
Two people were arrested yesterday on federal charges of interfering in the 2016 presidential elections. Former Donald Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and a Manafort business associate, Richard Gates, found themselves in front of a federal judge. Both pleaded not guilty. George Papadopoulos was arrested earlier in the month, arriving from overseas on charges related… Read More And the First Domino Falls
I am often asked why is it that I do not believe that radical Islamic terrorists can use México as a gateway to attack the United States. Contrary to popular belief there is no proof that terrorists have used the México-U.S. border to mount an attack against the United States. Popular thought believes that the… Read More Another Reason Why Terrorists Do Not Use Mexico to Attack the US
At about 5:30 in the afternoon on August 20, 1940, a blood-curdling scream was heard coming from the nearby home office. This was followed by more screams and scuffling. Within a minute, or two, the bodyguards sprang into action and charged into the study. As they entered the room, Leon Trotsky lay on the ground… Read More The Soviet Assassin in Mexico
To understand the Russian affair with Donald Trump it is important to understand how kompromat works. Kompromat is two Russian words, compromising materials, put together. It is the art of blackmail, using information to force someone to comply to a demand. Kompromat is not uniquely Russian when it comes to politics. In U.S. politics, opposition… Read More How Kompromat Works
The Donald Trump apologists have been circling the wagons around the notion that the left and the Democrats have launched a sustained attack on the Donald Trump presidency through corrupt news media and fake news. Any piece of factual information is distorted, misdirected or outright lied about with the blame shifted away from Trump. You… Read More Foreign Agent in Donald Trump’s Circle
Donald Trump supporters can generally be characterized as patriots. As a matter of fact, they seem to gravitate towards Trump’s America First doctrine. Because of this I am somewhat amazed that Trump supporters seem to be blind to the dangers the U.S. is facing under a sustained ideological attack that could change the fundamental values… Read More Donald Trump and The Russians
