NYT Report: Russia Is Interfering In The 2020 Election, Putin Still Favors Trump | MTP Daily | MSNBC

National Security reporter for The New York Times Adam Goldman: “The intelligence community told [House intel Cmte.] last Thursday … that Russia is most certainly interfering in the 2020 election … Putin still favors Trump.” Aired on 02/20/20.
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NYT Report: Russia Is Interfering In The 2020 Election, Putin Still Favors Trump | MTP Daily | MSNBC

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  1. Trump simply wants to turn America into his version of Putin’s Russia: a corrupt nation
    controlled by gangsters, all falling over themselves to please Dear Leader, while robbing their country blind.

    1. mary johnson, really? Who’s going to send navy seals to assist in a coup? And what Navy seals would take part in treason? The level of gullibility and poorly informed citizens in our country today is appalling. If it came down to conflict (and judging from the commentary I’ve read from a lot of Bernie supporters, it very well may) the United States military would side with the POTUS and the American people. Militant extremist(Bernie supporters basically) would be considered both the aggressors and the enemy.

  2. Remember people.how the Republican Senate shot down protecting our election integrity. They are all traitors and need to be removed. This is our last chance to stem the tide of the Russian take over of our country.

    1. @Crimdor see the podcast about exit polling proving that voted totals were changed 5% on all the swing States by Russian hackers .you low info fox types don’t know that Putin installed your dictator but we the people do know .

    2. @Death To Ming! fascist Dictator kissers end up badly the dictator boot you kiss now will kick you in the teeth later .

    3. @Death To Ming! on top of everything else the left has to offer, can’t you see how ridiculous you sound? You don’t have a clue about the constitution.

    4. @Death To Ming! start shooting videos of the mass civil disobedience you organize .fight Trump learned helplessness by organizing a marching March to over throw this fascist dictatorship, good luck

  3. GOP: *shrugs*. “The very independence of our nation is under attack by a foreign enemy? Meh, as long as we keep power.”

    1. @Gabe Dudley I don’t see the opposition blowing Putin, selling the Constitution,on a crime spree,treason,your rationalizations is what helped get us in this mess,of course your driven by your selfishness,greed,petty agendas,most likely racism

    2. All these millennials crying for a political revolution against the establishment, and they don’t realize that’s exactly what’s been going since the day Trump took office. No. Instead, these gullible morons are promoting politicians who are loyal to the very establishment Trump defied.

  4. As an Indpendent…. I want a Non-GOP candidate that doesnt have personal business interests with our national enemies and who will push and enforce sanctions against Russia, help empower and expand NATO, and offer an aggressive, lethal response to any Russian misbehavior including attacks on our elections. Never Trump, never GOP.

    1. @S. Lee Mccauley Wtf are you talking about? “Snacking?” Are you bill cosby trying to make a jello pudding commercial??? Geesh! 🙄

  5. Putin knows a narcissist when he sees one. Help Trump..I win. Game over.
    The sad part is we have a GOP Senate wrapped up in BAD Business dealings called greed and corruption, Putin’s game. He smells weakness.

    1. More specifically, the Russians know the weakest minded of all false leaders are Malignant Narcissists. Their pathology is so predictable you can set a clock to it.

    2. Putin smells the pee from that story the dnc bought from russia. How has logic managed to fail you? Your own narcissistic tendencies perhaps? Denail of logical truth is a perfect example. Power of the ego. Thats how they control you

    3. Trump needs no help. MSNBC, CNN, and their Dems are sending so many to his campaign with their idiotic Communist agenda and vile hatred.

    1. Trump trolls are pathetic. Trump will lose in a landslide come November. That is if he makes it to November. That’s why he needs Russian interference again because he knows he’s in big trouble.

    2. @Tom Waddle It was the vile hate for Trump from people I knew were corrupt that got me to vote for him. The only reason I check MSNBC and CNN is to measure the level of lies and hatred.

    3. No you won’t. Russia had nothing to do with the 2016 election & they won’t have anything to do with this one. You delusional morons can’t believe that more Americans support the same things Trump does than don’t.

  6. How is this considered breaking news? We have known for 4 years at least that Russia is interfering in our elections. Mueller confirmed that they had interfered and were interfering “as we sit.” Since the Senate absolutely refuses to do anything to protect elections, it will only get worse.

    1. @Rod . Lol. Mueller is only person that remembers he lied for gwBush about wmds.. He’s a neocon. Trump is neocon now too..

    2. What are you complaining about? The KGB and Comrade Putin brought us the USSA Union of Soviet Socialist America with “Crazy Bernie” as the Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!

    1. Maybe I like trump, maybe I don’t. “Enemy” and “traitors”? Lolll add “revolution” to the list. You’re sides going to lose, these big bad words don’t mean sh!t. Lol like some pos ankle biting dogs.

  7. This is what happens when despots take over. Massive egos like Gollum looking for more. Every crazy thing he does gets normalized until they come and drag your family away.

  8. 0:44 look at Trumps face and demeaner and then look at Putin as they exit the doors, Trump looks like he just got scolded and Putin is skipping to the podium..WTH???

  9. In Sept, one month before Lev Parnas was indicted on campaign finance charges, his wife received a $1 million wire transfers from a bank account in Russia. The the source was a lawyer for Dmytro Firtash, according to a court filing by U.S. prosecutors.

    Firtash is a Ukrainian oligarch who made a fortune in the natural gas trade, and is perhaps the most enigmatic figure in the scandal related to Trump’s impeachment.

    A billionaire with close ties to the Russian mob, Firtash is facing bribery-related charges here in the U.S. and fighting extradition from Vienna. He once attempted to buy the famous Drake Hotel in NY with the now imprisoned Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager. He’s seen by Ukrainian anti-corruption activists and Western governments as a corrupt instrument of Russia.

    Firtash provided documents to Giuliani that he used to further his discredited claim that Joe Biden engaged in wrongdoing in Ukraine. The question over Firtash’s role in the effort to smear Biden deepened when Parnas said the oligarch’s involvement came from an explicit quid pro quo. In exchange for Firtash’s help in their effort to damage Biden, Parnas assured the oligarch they (Rudy, Trump, and Parnas) would make his U.S. legal troubles disappear.

    In other words, according to Parnas: Guiliani, was so eager to help Trump and hurt Biden, that he turned to a man Ukrainian activists call their country’s most dangerous oligarch — and offered the equivalent of a get-out-of-jail-free card.

    “Some folks might wonder what Mr. Giuliani was thinking. The better question is whether he WAS thinking,” said Chuck Rosenberg, a former federal prosecutor and senior FBI official. “This is so foolhardy and so reckless, that it is difficult to fathom what he was doing or how he thought it could succeed.”

    Firtash lived up to his end of the alleged bargain: His lawyers provided a now-discredited affidavit from a Ukrainian prosecutor accusing Biden of wrongdoing. But Giuliani’s team did not deliver.

    According to Parnas and a senior U.S. official, Firtash’s lawyers, Giuliani associates Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing, were unable to convince Attorney General William Barr to intervene in the Firtash case. The alleged scheme, one former U.S. official said, was stunning in its audacity.

    “Think of it this way,” said the official, who has deep knowledge of Ukraine’s politics and Firtash’s history. “You have the president’s personal lawyer trying to get the president’s official lawyer, the attorney general, to get the Justice Department to drop charges against an oligarch supported by Russia. That’s what was happening.”

    “Firtash is at dead center of the greatest corruption operation in Ukraine’s history,” said a former senior U.S. diplomat who served in the region. “He managed the flow of natural gas from Russia to Ukraine and beyond and it kept Ukraine dependent on Russia’s gas supplies.”

    Anders Aslund, a former Swedish diplomat who has studied Ukraine’s economy for years, said Firtash is more of a purveyor of bribes than a proper businessman. “He has essentially been used by the Russians to buy political power in Ukraine,” said Aslund.  “He’s the person who has spent the most money on behalf of the Kremlin on Ukraine’s politicians.”

    In 2013, as the  Obama administration was pushing an anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine, federal prosecutors in Chicago indicted Firtash, charging him with a scheme to bribe Indian officials to obtain a lucrative mining deal to sell titanium to Boeing for the 787 Dreamliner. He was arrested in Vienna in March 2014, and released on $174 million bail and has been contesting his extradition to the U.S. ever since.

    The $174 million bail, said to be the largest in Austrian history, was paid by the Russian billionaire Vasily Anisimov, who is also under U.S. sanctions.

  10. Richard Grenell, Trump’s inexplicable pick for the Director of National Intelligence,  has less than zero experience in intelligence or national security. He had even less experience in diplomacy when Trump named him as the Ambassador to Berlin. What Grenell does have however, are shady connections to Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs, who are connected to the Russian mob, and the Kremlin. And this is the man that Trump’s wants to trust with the entire treasure trove of Amercan intelligence and classified information.

    In interviews, Lev Parnas described a meeting he and Rudy had in London where they met two associates of indicted Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, one of whom was on his legal team. The Washington Post reported on that meeting, and a Firtash lawyer confirmed that a meeting with Giuliani happened. Parnas said he was in the meeting, and that Giuliani used it to try to get material from the oligarch that would bolster his attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Trump.

    Firtash is wanted in this country on multiple felony corruption and bribery charges. DOJ prosecutors say Firtash is an “upper-echelon associate” of Russian Organized Crime.

    “Firtash is at dead center of the greatest corruption operation in Ukraine’s history,” said a former senior U.S. diplomat who served in the region. “He managed the flow of natural gas from Russia to Ukraine and beyond and it kept Ukraine dependent on Russia’s gas supplies.”

    In 2013, as the  Obama administration was pushing an anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine, federal prosecutors in Chicago indicted Firtash, charging him with a scheme to bribe Indian officials to obtain a lucrative mining deal to sell titanium to Boeing for the 787 Dreamliner. He was arrested in Vienna in March 2014, and released on $174 million bail and has been contesting his extradition to the U.S. ever since. The $174 million bail, said to be the largest in Austrian history, was paid by the Russian billionaire Vasily Anisimov, who is also under U.S. sanctions.

    After the meeting, two of Giuliani’s allies joined Firtash’s legal team. Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova began representing Firtash in the summer of 2019, and worked to score political gifts for Trump from Firtash. Parnas said they also tried to leverage their Trumpworld connections to help Firtash. 

    “During the situation that was going on with the Firtash case, Victoria called Ric Grenell because he was the ambassador to Germany and Vienna was in the same orbit there,” Parnas said. “She basically asked him, if he sees any pressure coming from DOJ to extradite Firtash, if he could let us know. She told me that Grenell said he would.”

    1. Hey do will any details how Russia is interfering? Their answer NO. Then what’s the news about. Dumb news media with its gullible folliwers

    2. @JBE Multimedia Just because you didn’t receive a text message from the Intelligence community doesn’t mean that they don’t have evidence, do you understand we have the best intelligence in the world? When they say they got something which comes from several of our allies, it’s not fake. Seems as if your one of those people who believes there are very fine people on both sides. Do your fellow Americans a favor and go purchase a home in Moscow since that’s where your loyalty lies. Oh and by the way do yourself a favor in 2020 and cancel your membership with Cult!

  11. You have an “acting” president too.
    He swore an oath of office but didn’t mean a word of it as he works for Putin.

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