Back In The USSR Timeline Part 2 — Russiagate

The Russians started hacking the United States back in 2015. Trump refused to acknowledge that we were attacked. If he has been a real president he would have seen the cyber attack as an act of war and responded accordingly but instead he refused to defend our sovereignty against a foreign power. They tried hacking into voting machines too — 39 out of 50 states, with heavy hits in targeted blue counties.

The Washington Post called the cyber attack the crime of the century. The plan was to defeat Clinton and make Trump president. Russia should have paid a much bigger price for the attack but since Trump claimed that the election was rigged, Obama worried that it would look like he was helping Hillary and since everybody thought she was going to win, he didn’t think it was even necessary and that it should be left up to her to punish Russia after elected.

“Nobody really knows if Russia did it or not,” Trump would say. 17 intelligence agencies confirmed it but he said they were wrong. After he could deny it no longer he tried to pretend like he just found out about it.

Trump met with Putin for the first time as president at the G20. They met in private while everybody else was at a climate change meeting. Their meeting was expected to take 30 minutes but it went an extra 2 hours. What did they talk about for that long? Nobody knows. The press was not allowed in.

On the flight back from the G20 Summit on Air Force One, Trump told Junior what to say about his meeting with the Russians.

Not confronting Putin about attacking our country was a derelict of duty. Putting his business interests with Russia ahead of the interests of the country was a derelict of duty.

Trump finally relented and signed a Russian sanctions bill but he did it off camera without making a statement against Russia. He blamed Congress for it. The bill targeted the Russian mining and oil industry, punished Putin for interfering with our election, and came down hard on Russia for its military aggression in Ukraine. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was just as mad as Trump was. He refused to use the $80 million allocated by Congress to combat Russian propaganda after sanctioning them. Putin was his friend. He received the Russian Order of Friendship from Putin in 2014 in the name of oil, oil, oil. He was given the job because he was the former CEO of Exxon, even though he had 0 experience in government. He was hired to get Russian sanctions lifted and in return he and his Exxon buddies would make a killing on their oil and gas stocks.

Putin threatened to retaliate if Trump laid down more sanctions which was the most aggressive comment made by Russia towards the US since WWI. Trump never acknowledged that Putin said it.

Russian propaganda continued to infiltrate right wing websites and news outlets, and social media. Russian radio Sputnik took over 105.5 FM in Washington DC thanks to a policy change that happened right after Trump was inaugurated that let foreign countries own American radio stations. Megyn Kelly left Fox News and got the world’s attention by doing a one on one interview with Putin to humanize him, invite him into America’s living rooms, and make her a big bowl of money.

The former director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, was chosen to lead a special counsel into Russiagate. Trump’s first big personal fight as president was getting investigated for criminal obstruction of justice. His lawyer had ties to a Russian oligarch close to Putin as well as a Russian state bank.

Paul Manafort, who was paid $17 million by a Ukraine political party and owed a Russian oligarch millions of dollars until he started running the Trump campaign, registered as a foreign agent retroactively. Then the FBI raided his house and he got indicted. The FBI had had him on surveillance since 2014 because of his relationship with Ukraine. He had been wire tapped before and during Trump’s campaign which he ran pro-bono from March until August of 2016 (he picked Mike Pence for vice president) until he was forced to resign after it was found out that he got paid $12.7 million CASH for “consultant work” that he did for the Kremlin backed former Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych. He also got paid an additional $10 million by Putin’s “associate,” Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. The indictment was 31 pages long. He was charged with 12 counts of conspiracy against the United States, laundering foreign money, false statements, tax fraud, and failure to file financials. Trump’s response was Paul Manafort was a bad guy before he ever met him and then he ended up pardoning him after he did some time in jail.