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Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team says Paul Manafort and a Russian colleague were ghost-writing an English-language editorial about Manafort's work for Ukraine, and that colleague is "assessed to have ties to a Russian intelligence service," according to documents filed by the special counsel.

The government said in a brief that the ghost-written draft op-ed would constitute a violation of the court's order banning statements to the press. U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson has already reprimanded Manafort's attorney, Kevin Downing, for talking to the media after Manafort appeared in court for his indictment.  "This is a criminal trial, not a public relations campaign," she said in November.

I've read that Trump will signal his intent/desire on Monday to site the US embassy in Israel in Jerusalem. Is that correct? I see no mention of it on the BBC or Aljazeera.

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You might want to remember that there is nothing even remotely wrong with them having contacts with the Russians.

Then why were such efforts made to hide the fact of these contacts? And if "collusion" is totally above board and proper, why does Trump repeatedly deny that it occurred?

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I wasn't necessarily specifying you as a leftie who is outraged by Putin. The vast majority of those who are are American Democrats.

Nobody should be outraged at Putin. He had an opportunity to prove the US democracy weak and its people stupid, and he seized it. It's incumbent on YOU to protect your own democracy. If you leave it wide open to foreign influence, some people are going to take advantage of that, and not just Netanyahu.

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Call me cynical, but I'm afraid I just don't believe that the Resistance's hue and cry about Russian interference is motivated much by a concern for the purity of our democratic process.

The Republicans and Democrats who resist the hostile takeover of the White House by Kremlin Inc. are doing the right thing. You seemed to agree that such resistance was useful. Are you now saying they do the right thing for the wrong reason? Cause for that I won't call you cynical, but a hard-to-please snowflake maybe.

I won't call you horse's ass anymore because it might get me negatively scrutinized by management.

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Mueller is likely over.

Wishfull thinking.

The notion that Trump is Putin's puppet, installed by the Russian autocrat to betray America couldn't be more melodramatic

and it doesn't even have a basis in solid evidence. The so-called Russian Dossier got the Resistance all worked up because it seemed to tell them what they want to believe and represented a silver bullet with which to take out the monster who had cheated Hillary. Trouble is that the dossier doesn't even rise high enough to be considered melodramatic, it's a load of salacious calumny that all of the resources of the Resistance Media have yet to be able to verify.

Think about the lawsuit.

Trump’s lawyers have the anti-Trump texts between two members of the FBI team, one of them, a primary and powerful lead investigator. He’s already been proven to falsify documents. He changed Comey’s language in the Hillary decision.

It’s a non-starter.

But, if you guys want to take that crap into an impeachment proceeding for a mistrial, go ahead.

Your FBI are total rogue **** ups.