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catbyte

(34,544 posts) Fri Jan 25, 2019, 09:40 AM Jan 2019

Kyle Griffin:CNBC reporting Bannon reached out to Stone

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CNBC is reporting that, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter, one of the senior Trump campaign officials who reached out to Roger Stone was Steve Bannon. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/25/us-special-counsels-office-trump-ally-roger-stone-arrested-in-florida.html …

8:25 AM - Jan 25, 2019

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Kyle Griffin:CNBC reporting Bannon reached out to Stone (Original Post) catbyte Jan 2019 OP

Nice. Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #1

I hope trump is hearing that in his head this am Docreed2003 Jan 2019 #2

He's weirdly silent on Twitter this morning. catbyte Jan 2019 #9

You're nicer than I am... Docreed2003 Jan 2019 #12

All the swamp creatures are being exposed from the Trump swamp still_one Jan 2019 #3

Steve Bannon NewJeffCT Jan 2019 #4

That tick tock graphic cracks me up! lilactime Jan 2019 #5

Love your tick/tock trixie2 Jan 2019 #6

And Steve Bannon is linked to the Mercers and Cambridge Analytica Botany Jan 2019 #7

Indictment Duck is REAL! MontanaMama Jan 2019 #13

Cambridge Analytica, who came up with "the wall" and "lock her up" nt elmac Jan 2019 #22

Cambridge Analytica "bath targeted voters" w/misinformation" Botany Jan 2019 #25

It would do my heart good Frances Jan 2019 #23

From the indictment: UpInArms Jan 2019 #8

Holy shit!! angrychair Jan 2019 #14

Yes it's Wikileaks and Julian Assange FakeNoose Jan 2019 #16

Everyone on "Morning Joe" seemed to think so. John Brennan was especially damning. catbyte Jan 2019 #17

Yes, Wikileaks. marylandblue Jan 2019 #18

To to be to tongue in cheek angrychair Jan 2019 #19

Of course, but I am just talking about indictments and pleas marylandblue Jan 2019 #21

Likely angrychair Jan 2019 #27

Does this work? UpInArms Jan 2019 #24

....from far left talking heads like Glen Greenwald and Jordan Chariton LovingA2andMI Jan 2019 #20

Yes angrychair Jan 2019 #26

thanks for the link! Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #28

They're not reporting it On MSNBC. hedda_foil Jan 2019 #10

It's a bullet point in CNBC article. See attached link: catbyte Jan 2019 #11

Love the GIF Firestorm49 Jan 2019 #15

This gets better and better! What a great day it is! akraven Jan 2019 #29

Well, at least Bannon will be safe in prison AJT Jan 2019 #30

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)

1. Nice.

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 09:41 AM

Jan 2019

Love the 'tick-tock.'

Docreed2003

(16,905 posts)

2. I hope trump is hearing that in his head this am

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 09:41 AM

Jan 2019

catbyte

(34,544 posts)

9. He's weirdly silent on Twitter this morning.

Reply to Docreed2003 (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 10:12 AM

Jan 2019

He's probably cowering in a corner, rocking back and forth in the fetal position, somewhere in the East Wing. Well, a gal can dream, can't she?

Docreed2003

(16,905 posts)

12. You're nicer than I am...

Reply to catbyte (Reply #9)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 10:22 AM

Jan 2019

I was picturing him bowing a gasket on his golden toilet and going full Elvis....

still_one

(92,525 posts)

3. All the swamp creatures are being exposed from the Trump swamp

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 09:42 AM

Jan 2019

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)

4. Steve Bannon

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 09:43 AM

Jan 2019

your time in the barrel is coming soon as well.

Maybe Bannon just won't come home after promoting far right causes in Europe?

lilactime

(657 posts)

5. That tick tock graphic cracks me up!

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 09:43 AM

Jan 2019

trixie2

(905 posts)

6. Love your tick/tock

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 09:44 AM

Jan 2019

Botany

(70,654 posts)

7. And Steve Bannon is linked to the Mercers and Cambridge Analytica

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 09:46 AM

Jan 2019

The indictment duck has landed.

MontanaMama

(23,368 posts)

13. Indictment Duck is REAL!

Reply to Botany (Reply #7)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 11:23 AM

Jan 2019

elmac

(4,642 posts)

22. Cambridge Analytica, who came up with "the wall" and "lock her up" nt

Reply to Botany (Reply #7)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 12:00 PM

Jan 2019

Botany

(70,654 posts)

25. Cambridge Analytica "bath targeted voters" w/misinformation"

Reply to elmac (Reply #22)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 12:34 PM

Jan 2019

Lock 'em up.

Frances

(8,548 posts)

23. It would do my heart good

Reply to Botany (Reply #7)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 12:15 PM

Jan 2019

To see the Mercer’s in jumpsuits

UpInArms

(51,295 posts)

8. From the indictment:

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 09:52 AM

Jan 2019

STONE’s False and Misleading Testimony About Communications with the Trump Campaign

35. During his HPSCI testimony, STONE was asked, “did you discuss your conversations with the intermediary with anyone involved in the Trump campaign?” STONE falsely and misleadingly answered, “I did not.” In truth and in fact, and as described above, STONE spoke to multiple individuals involved in the Trump Campaign about what he claimed to have learned from his intermediary to Organization 1, including the following:

a. On multiple occasions, STONE told senior Trump Campaign officials about materials possessed by Organization 1 and the timing of future releases.

b. On or about October 3, 2016, STONE wrote to a supporter involved with the Trump Campaign, “Spoke to my friend in London last night. The payload is still coming.”

c. On or about October 4, 2016, STONE told a high-ranking Trump Campaign official that the head of Organization 1 had a “[s]erious security concern” but would release “a load every week going forward.”

https://www.justice.gov/file/1124706/download

angrychair

(8,756 posts)

14. Holy shit!!

Reply to UpInArms (Reply #8)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 11:24 AM

Jan 2019

Is “Organization 1” Wikileaks!?! Sorry if I sound surprised but this arrest is direct evidence of a conspiracy between Wikileaks and the trump campaign.

It blows the argument of “no collusion” to dust, especially with respect to Wikileaks, from far left talking heads like Glen Greenwald and Jordan Chariton.

FakeNoose

(32,917 posts)

16. Yes it's Wikileaks and Julian Assange

Reply to angrychair (Reply #14)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 11:32 AM

Jan 2019

... and yes it blows away the argument of "no collusion." Mueller has been working this angle for quite some time. Steve Bannon was the one who brought Roger Stone into this because they needed somebody who could fly to London and speak directly to Assange. Stone wasn't working for the Trump campaign so he could be the contact and not get noticed. Mueller has tweets, texts, emails, and 3rd party witnesses, so it doesn't matter that Stone lied about it all.

catbyte

(34,544 posts)

17. Everyone on "Morning Joe" seemed to think so. John Brennan was especially damning.

Reply to angrychair (Reply #14)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 11:32 AM

Jan 2019

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)

18. Yes, Wikileaks.

Reply to angrychair (Reply #14)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 11:33 AM

Jan 2019

So a chain leads from Trump campaign to Stone to Wikileaks to Russia. Only link not covered is from Russia back to Trump.

angrychair

(8,756 posts)

19. To to be to tongue in cheek

Reply to marylandblue (Reply #18)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 11:42 AM

Jan 2019

But Putin and the Russian mafia (aka Russian oligarchy) is that direct link. You don’t loan people hundreds of millions of dollars through your money laundering operations at deutsche bank and not expect something in return. The Wikileaks is just “the how”.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)

21. Of course, but I am just talking about indictments and pleas

Reply to angrychair (Reply #19)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 11:59 AM

Jan 2019

The only link that doesn't have one of those is the contact between Trump and Russia. Saving best for last?

angrychair

(8,756 posts)

27. Likely

Reply to marylandblue (Reply #21)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 12:42 PM

Jan 2019

I think the other shoe is dropping soon

UpInArms

(51,295 posts)

24. Does this work?

Reply to marylandblue (Reply #18)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 12:33 PM

Jan 2019

Trump adviser Roger Stone admits contact with Guccifer 2.0 during campaign

dateline March 14, 2017

WASHINGTON -- Trump campaign associates have denied coordinating with the Russians during the presidential election. But one of the president’s close friends and advisers is now acknowledging some contact with a Twitter handle U.S. officials considered a front for Russian intelligence.

“There’s no collusion here,” Roger Stone told CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues, while he admitted to contact with Guccifer 2.0, the Twitter handle that released hacked election information believed stolen from Democratic Party servers.

“At the time I had my one and only communications with it,” Stone said.

“Well wait a second, you had more than just one contact with this person, you had one, two, at least three between August 12th and September 9th,” Pegues said.

“Right, I would refer to it as an exchange,” Stone replied.

That “exchange” appears to have started after Guccifer’s first account was suspended and then re-activated in mid-August.

and EXCLUSIVE: ‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer

Dateline March 22, 2018

Update, 7/13/2018: Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office identified Guccifer 2.0 as a Russian intelligence officer and indicted him along with 11 other officers for crimes related to the alleged hacking of Democrats in 2016.

Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee, was in fact an officer of Russia’s military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily Beast has learned. It’s an attribution that resulted from a fleeting but critical slip-up in GRU tradecraft.

That forensic determination has substantial implications for the criminal probe into potential collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia. The Daily Beast has learned that the special counsel in that investigation, Robert Mueller, has taken over the probe into Guccifer and brought the FBI agents who worked to track the persona onto his team.

LovingA2andMI

(7,006 posts)

20. ....from far left talking heads like Glen Greenwald and Jordan Chariton

Reply to angrychair (Reply #14)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 11:52 AM

Jan 2019

Do ya know both Greenwald and Chariton are in on the ruse too? You got to know that, right?

angrychair

(8,756 posts)

26. Yes

Reply to LovingA2andMI (Reply #20)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 12:39 PM

Jan 2019

I follow Jordan on Twitter and hound him all the time on this stuff. It’s hard to believe they are not beholden to Wikileaks or some other interested party in distributing disinformation.