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(12,422 posts) Sun Feb 25, 2018, 02:19 PM Feb 2018

Confused About the Trump-Russia Probe? Read This Memo

If you feel lost amid the various smokescreens and conspiracy theories surrounding Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Donald Trump, his presidential campaign, his advisers and his family, then the memo the House Intelligence Committee minority released late Saturday afternoon may help clarify your thinking.

A refresher on the history of the memo: It’s a rebuttal by the committee’s Democrats, led by California Representative Adam Schiff, to a memo that the Republican staff of the committee’s chairman, Devin Nunes, drafted and released to the public earlier this month.

The Schiff memo has some jarring facts in it, including revelations that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had reason to believe that a Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page, was acting as an agent of the Russian government, and that Russian agents told Page and another Trump adviser, George Papadopoulos, that the Kremlin wanted to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign.

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/view/articles/2018-02-25/schiff-memo-offers-welcome-clarity-on-trump-russia-probe

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Confused About the Trump-Russia Probe? Read This Memo (Original Post) pbmus Feb 2018 OP

Take out a few words here and there and, presto, Schiff memo actually supports Trump! Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #1

Nunes is a treasonous scum! How much money have the Russians given him? chuckstevens Feb 2018 #2

One thing is undeniable and destroys the propganda campaign of Nunes and Shitler. Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #3

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

1. Take out a few words here and there and, presto, Schiff memo actually supports Trump!

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Sun Feb 25, 2018, 02:23 PM

Feb 2018

When a President warps words to change their meaning on purpose so as to protect himself....when will the mass media, for once, realize they are being trolled by a monster?

chuckstevens

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2. Nunes is a treasonous scum! How much money have the Russians given him?

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Sun Feb 25, 2018, 02:26 PM

Feb 2018

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

3. One thing is undeniable and destroys the propganda campaign of Nunes and Shitler.

Reply to chuckstevens (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 25, 2018, 02:33 PM

Feb 2018

"But the Schiff memo is most certainly not a “nothing.” And the reality is that while the Nunes and Schiff memos are wildly different documents, they concur on a crucial fact -- that the FBI’s investigation began long before the Steele dossier found its way to the bureau."

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