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BREAKING: Trump Approval Hits 50% Despite 90% Negative Coverage by Leftist Media! – 8/2/18

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BREAKING: Trump Approval Hits 50% Despite 90% Negative Coverage by Leftist Media! – 8/2/18

Nearly half of voters don’t believe Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe is worth what it has spent (more than $22 million as of July, according to one report) investigating allegations of Russian collusion in the 2016 election, and few believe the outcome will benefit the United States.

Just 42% Think Russia Meddled More in 2016 Election Than FBI

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 42% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Russia is more likely than the FBI to have meddled in the 2016 presidential race. But 34% now think the FBI is more likely to have meddled in the election, while one-in-four voters (24%) are not sure which was the bigger meddler.

Sometime in January, 2025, on his way out of office, Trump will pardon himself and all his homeys for any crimes.

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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds
Them numbers will go up to around 90% when the full truth comes out.

(Bloomberg) -- A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation to impose new sanctions on Russia for interfering in U.S. elections, including penalties affecting Russian sovereign debt and energy projects, and requiring a report on President Vladimir Putin’s assets and net worth.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said in a statement Thursday the senators’ goal is to "impose crushing sanctions and other measures against Putin’s Russia until he ceases and desists meddling in the U.S. electoral process," stops cyberattacks and removes Russia from Ukraine.

The measure comes after reports of Russia’s ongoing efforts to sway U.S. elections, new efforts to hack U.S. senators, and intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russia sought to meddle in the 2016 presidential election. Lawmakers from both parties also have been sharply critical of President Donald Trump’s meeting with Putin in Helsinki last month, saying Trump hasn’t done enough to hold Russia accountable.

The ruble extended its drop, falling as much as 0.9 percent against the dollar and bond yields jumped to the highest level since July last year after the sanctions proposal was announced.

Democratic Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey said the measure is the "next step in tightening the screws on the Kremlin" so Putin understands "that the U.S. will not tolerate his behavior any longer."

The measure also would impose new sanctions on oligarchs and political figures who aid corrupt activities on Putin’s behalf, and require the State Department to determine whether Russia should be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism.

The co-sponsors are three Republicans, including Arizona’s John McCain, and three Democrats.

A separate measure proposed by Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democrat Chris Van Hollen has been mentioned by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as a possible vehicle for retaliating against continued Russian interference in U.S. elections. That bill would impose stiff sanctions including on the energy and financial sectors if Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, determines Russia is continuing to interfere.

The Banking and Foreign Relations Committees are planning hearings in advance of legislation coming to the floor. Some senators have expressed concern new sanctions might go too far or not succeed in getting Putin to change course.

The Treasury Department has warned Congress against legislation that would block transactions and financing for Russian sovereign debt in part because of the pain it would wreak across markets outside Russia’s borders.

‘Crushing’ Russia Sanctions Sought in Bipartisan Senate Bill.

Russian is understood to have had full access to secret data during decade at embassy

US counter-intelligence investigators discovered a suspected Russian spy had been working undetected in the heart of the American embassy in Moscow for more than a decade, the Guardian has learned.

The Russian national had been hired by the US Secret Service and is understood to have had access to the agency’s intranet and email systems, which gave her a window into highly potentially confidential material including the schedules of the president and vice-president.

The woman had been working for the Secret Service for years before she came under suspicion in 2016 during a routine security sweep conducted by two investigators from the US Department of State’s Regional Security Office (RSO).

They established she was having regular and unauthorised meetings with members of the FSB, Russia’s principle security agency.

The Guardian has been told the RSO sounded the alarm in January 2017, but the Secret Service did not launch a full-scale inquiry of its own. Instead it decided to let her go quietly months later, possibly to contain the potential embarrassment it could cause.

An intelligence source told the Guardian the woman was dismissed last summer after the state department revoked her security clearance. It came shortly before a round of expulsions of US personnel demanded by the Kremlin after Washington imposed more sanctions on the country.

The order to remove more than 750 US personnel from its 1,200-strong diplomatic mission is understood to have provided cover for her removal.

“The Secret Service is trying to hide the breach by firing [her],” the source said. “The damage was already done but the senior management of the Secret Service did not conduct any internal investigation to assess the damage and to see if [she] recruited any other employees to provide her more information.

“Only an intense investigation by an outside source can determine the damage she has done.”

Asked detailed questions about the investigation into the woman, and her dismissal, the Secret Service attempted to downplay the significance of her role. But it did not deny that she had been identified as a potential mole.

In a statement, it said: “The U.S. Secret Service recognizes that all Foreign Service Nationals (FSN) who provide services in furtherance of our mission, administrative or otherwise, can be subjected to foreign intelligence influence.

“ This is of particular emphasis in Russia. As such, all Foreign Service Nationals are managed accordingly to ensure that Secret Service and United States Government interests are protected at all times. As a result, the duties are limited to translation, interpretation, cultural guidance, liaison and administrative support.

“It was specifically the duties of the FSN position in Moscow to assist our attaches and agency by engaging the Russian government, including the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian Ministry of the Interior (MVD), and the Russian Federal Protective Service (FSO) in furtherance of Secret Service interests. “

It said: “At no time, in any U.S. Secret Service office, have FSNs been provided or placed in a position to obtain national security information.”

The Secret Service is a US federal law enforcement agency that sits within the Department of Homeland Security and has more than 150 offices worldwide. Its mission, it says, is the “protection of the nation’s leaders and the financial and critical infrastructure of the United States”.

If she was picked up in a security sweep in 2016, that means she was hired before 2006 (said to have worked there for more than a decade)--when Baby Bush was president. Partisan blaming is so idiotic, and almost always false.

If she was picked up in a security sweep in 2016, that means she was hired before 2006 (said to have worked there for more than a decade)--when Baby Bush was president. Partisan blaming is so idiotic, and almost always false.