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SMUT JUNKIES: Mueller Witch Hunt Now Slinking into Naked Selfies and Revenge Porn Territory
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Mueller team failing on collusion, turns to revenge porn!

We reported earlier today that it was uncovered that the Mueller team somehow obtained a selfie of someone in the nude. The attorneys at Concord Management, a firm indicted by the Mueller gang, argue that the method as to how the Mueller team obtained this nude selfie “surely can’t threaten the national security of the United States”?

In the Concord Management case it was uncovered that Mueller has a nude selfie on someone – we don’t know who, and his gang won’t tell how they got it, while running along with a special investigation created on a made up crime, where the individuals prosecuted aren’t even real.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...nto-naked-selfies-and-revenge-porn-territory/
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Franklin Pierce said:
SMUT JUNKIES: Mueller Witch Hunt Now Slinking into Naked Selfies and Revenge Porn Territory
mueller-king--600x434.jpg


Mueller team failing on collusion, turns to revenge porn!

We reported earlier today that it was uncovered that the Mueller team somehow obtained a selfie of someone in the nude. The attorneys at Concord Management, a firm indicted by the Mueller gang, argue that the method as to how the Mueller team obtained this nude selfie “surely can’t threaten the national security of the United States”?

In the Concord Management case it was uncovered that Mueller has a nude selfie on someone – we don’t know who, and his gang won’t tell how they got it, while running along with a special investigation created on a made up crime, where the individuals prosecuted aren’t even real.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...nto-naked-selfies-and-revenge-porn-territory/
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That’s low even for mueller.
 
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New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics

Worth reading the entire article.

Especially the comparison of 2016 presidential election and AL senate election between Roy Moore and Doug Jones

Here's the major bullet points

On every significant metric, it is difficult to square the data with the dramatic conclusions that have been drawn.

• 2016 Election Content: The most glaring data point is how minimally Russian social-media activity pertained to the 2016 campaign. The New Knowledge report acknowledges that evaluating IRA content “purely based on whether it definitively swung the election is too narrow a focus,” as the “explicitly political content was a small percentage.” To be exact, just “11% of the total content” attributed to the IRA and 33 percent of user engagement with it “was related to the election.” The IRA’s posts “were minimally about the candidates,” with “roughly 6% of tweets, 18% of Instagram posts, and 7% of Facebook posts” having “mentioned Trump or Clinton by name.”

• Scale: The researchers claim that “the scale of [the Russian] operation was unprecedented,” but they base that conclusion on dubious figures. They repeat the widespread claim that Russian posts “reached 126 million people on Facebook,” which is in fact a spin on Facebook’s own guess. “Our best estimate,” Facebook’s Colin Stretch testified to Congress in October 2017, “is that approximately 126 million people may have been served one of these [IRA] stories at some time during the two year period” between 2015 and 2017. According to Stretch, posts generated by suspected Russian accounts showing up in Facebook’s News Feed amounted to “approximately 1 out of 23,000 pieces of content.”

• Spending: Also hurting the case that the Russians reached a large number of Americans is that they spent such a microscopic amount of money to do it. Oxford puts the IRA’s Facebook spending between 2015 and 2017 at just $73,711. As was previously known, about $46,000 was spent on Russian-linked Facebook ads before the 2016 election. That amounts to about 0.05 percent of the $81 million spent on Facebook ads by the Clinton and Trump campaigns combined. A recent disclosure by Google that Russian-linked accounts spent $4,700 on platforms in 2016 only underscores how miniscule that spending was. The researchers also claim that the IRA’s “manipulation of American political discourse had a budget that exceeded $25 million USD.” But that number is based on a widely repeated error that mistakes the IRA’s spending on US-related activities for its parent project’s overall global budget, including domestic social-media activity in Russia.

• Sophistication: Another reason to question the operation’s sophistication can be found by simply looking at its offerings. The IRA’s most shared pre-election Facebook post was a cartoon of a gun-wielding Yosemite Sam. Over on Instagram, the best-received image urged users to give it a “Like” if they believe in Jesus. The top IRA post on Facebook before the election to mention Hillary Clinton was a conspiratorial screed about voter fraud. It’s telling that those who are so certain Russian social-media posts affected the 2016 election never cite the posts that they think actually helped achieve that end. The actual content of those posts might explain why.

• Covert or Clickbait Operation? Far from exposing a sophisticated propaganda campaign, the reports provide more evidence that the Russians were actually engaging in clickbait capitalism: targeting unique demographics like African Americans or evangelicals in a bid to attract large audiences for commercial purposes. Reporters who have profiled the IRA have commonly described it as “a social media marketing campaign.” Mueller’s indictment of the IRA disclosed that it sold “promotions and advertisements” on its pages that generally sold in the $25-$50 range. “This strategy,” Oxford observes, “is not an invention for politics and foreign intrigue, it is consistent with techniques used in digital marketing.” New Knowledge notes that the IRA even sold merchandise that “perhaps provided the IRA with a source of revenue,” hawking goods such as T-shirts, “LGBT-positive sex toys and many variants of triptych and 5-panel artwork featuring traditionally conservative, patriotic themes.”

• “Asset Development”: Lest one wonder how promoting sex toys might factor into a sophisticated influence campaign, the New Knowledge report claims that exploiting “sexual behavior” was a key component of the IRA’s “expansive” “human asset recruitment strategy” in the United States. “Recruiting an asset by exploiting a personal vulnerability,” the report explains, “is a timeless espionage practice.” The first example of this timeless espionage practice is of an ad featuring Jesus consoling a dejected young man by telling him: “Struggling with the addiction to masturbation? Reach out to me and we will beat it together.” It is unknown if this particular tactic brought any assets into the fold. But New Knowledge reports that there was “some success with several of these human-activation attempts.” That is correct: The IRA’s online trolls apparently succeeded in sparking protests in 2016, like several in Florida where “it’s unclear if anyone attended”; “no people showed up to at least one,” and “ragtag groups” showed up at others, including one where video footage captured a crowd of eight people. The most successful effort appears to have been in Houston, where Russian trolls allegedly organized dueling rallies pitting a dozen white supremacists against several dozen counter-protesters outside an Islamic center.
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volprof said:
******UPDATED REFERENCE GUIDE*******

The Matryoshka

So, two motivations for creating this thread:

1. I get asked often what my proof and/or argument is, and I can't regurgitate an entire essay in response. So, this thread can now become a nice, tidy repository of circumstantial evidence and claims concerning Trump's ties to the Kremlin.

2. Potentially the biggest story in the entire history of American presidential politics doesn't even have a specific thread here, so I will create it. It's past due.

All of you by now know how I think about Trump, unless you've been living under a rock. I think he is a traitor, and I think that, in time, if the right people do their patriotic duty, then we will know the truth.

So, let me just begin the thread by posting the following (which is in no shape or form the extent of my claims or argument):

Six agencies â including FBI, CIA, Treasury â probing possible Russian aid to Trump's campaign: sources - Chicago Tribune

Finally, let me just go ahead and add that, should the evidence come together in a certain way, this has the potential not only to take down Trump but also to take down high-ranking FBI officials (including Comey) and possible even the Republican Party. Those are big "ifs," of course, but it will all be determined by who knew what and when, and by who buried what and when.

This has the potential to completely change our entire political system. It's important, no matter how you feel on the matter right now, and it needs to be given proper treatment.
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You mean get rid of Trump just like they did Kennedy?
What kind of person or animal are you?
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Ignorant... see my post #20,808. I don't think any of you have even read the damn Steele dossier. The focus of it (Russia's meddling into the 2016 campaign to assist Donald Trump) has been thoroughly corroborated. You are in denial if you think otherwise, at this point.
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Why does Michael Isikoff disagree?

Reporter Who Met With Christopher Steele Now Doubts The Infamous Dossier

Reporter Who Met With Christopher Steele Now Doubts The Infamous Dossier
2:54 PM 12/17/2018 | US
  • Michael Isikoff, the journalist who was first to report allegations from the Steele dossier, said in a new interview that many of the salacious allegations in the document are “likely false.”
  • “All the signs to me are that Mueller is reaching his end game, and we may see less than many people want him to find,” Isikoff said in a December interview.
  • Isikoff met with dossier author Christopher Steele during the 2016 campaign and published a report alleging that Trump aide Carter Page had secret meetings in Moscow with two Kremlin insiders.
The investigative reporter who broke the first story based on allegations from Christopher Steele offered a surprising assessment of the former British spy’s infamous dossier, which alleges a vast conspiracy of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.

“Would you agree that a lot of what’s in the Steele dossier has been somewhat vindicated?” Mediaite columnist John Ziegler asked Michael Isikoff, a co-author of the book “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story on Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump.”

“No,” Isikoff responded in an interview released Saturday.

“You would not?” asked Ziegler.

“No,” Isikoff repeated.

Isikoff’s views about the dossier are significant because of his central role in advancing the narrative that the Russian government conspired with Trump associates.

Isikoff is the journalist who wrote the Sept. 23, 2016 article at Yahoo! News laying out Steele’s allegations that Trump campaign adviser Carter Page met secretly in Moscow with two Kremlin insiders. Isikoff’s co-author, David Corn, is the only other reporter to have written about Steele’s claims prior to the 2016 election.

Isikoff and Corn are two of a small handful of reporters who met during the campaign with Steele. The former British spy put the dossier together while working for Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm that investigated Trump on behalf of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

The FBI cited both the dossier and Isikoff’s article in four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants to spy on Page. Republicans have accused the FBI of abusing the FISA process by relying heavily on the unverified Steele dossier and failing to reveal that the Clinton team and DNC funded the salacious report.

“When you actually get into the details of the Steele dossier, the specific allegations, we have not seen the evidence to support them, and in fact, there is good grounds to think that some of the more sensational allegations will never be proven and are likely false,” Isikoff told Ziegler.

Isikoff said that while Steele’s claims about collusion have a “mixed record at best,” he asserted that Steele was “clearly on to something” with his allegations of Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election.

Isikoff’s remarks come amid two other major developments on the dossier front, neither of them good for Steele’s report.

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Carter Page, former foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign, speaks to the media after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on Nov. 2, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
A top national security reporter at The Washington Post claimed in October that FBI and CIA sources have told the newspaper that they do not believe that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen traveled to Prague during the campaign to arrange payments to Russian hackers, as Steele reported. (RELATED: WaPo Reporter: FBI And CIA Doubt Major Claim In Steele Dossier)

“We’ve talked to sources at the FBI and the CIA and elsewhere — they don’t believe that ever happened,” WaPo’s Greg Miller, who has a written a book about the Trump-Russia affair, said at an event in October that aired Saturday on C-SPAN.

Lanny Davis, an adviser to Cohen, vehemently denied Sunday the dossier’s allegations about Cohen.

“No, no Prague, ever, never,” Davis told MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt when asked about the dossier.

Davis has disputed the dossier’s allegations in the past, but had refused to comment on the matter since Cohen began cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller.

“After you get through the pee tape the Michael Cohen allegation in the Steele dossier may be the most important one,” said Isikoff.

Davis’ comments suggest that Cohen has made the same denials to Mueller and that prosecutors believe the former Trump fixer. Cohen pleaded guilty in the special counsel’s probe on Nov. 29 to lying to Congress during his testimony in 2017 about his attempts to negotiate a deal to build a Trump Tower Moscow during the campaign. He also pleaded guilty in New York federal court on Aug. 21 to tax evasion, bank fraud and making illegal campaign contributions by paying off Stormy Daniels, the porn star who claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006. (RELATED: Michael Cohen Pleaded Guilty To Lying To Congress, But Not About The Dossier)

Cohen claimed that he paid off Daniels at Trump’s direction. The president has disputed that the payment was illegal or related to the campaign.

As Isikoff noted, Cohen vehemently denied the dossier’s claims during that same congressional testimony, but he was not charged with lying about those matters.

“Why wasn’t he charged with lying about it? That would have been as serious a lie as the lie he told about the Trump Tower Moscow project,” said Isikoff. “All the signs to me are that Mueller is reaching his end game, and we may see less than many people want him to find.”

Isikoff was not asked about his views about the dossier’s assertions regarding Page.

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