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Passover and Easter Eggs<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a bad week in Trump World. Sean Spicer, Presidential Press Secretary, tried to make a comparison between Assad of Syria and Hitler making Hitler the \u201cgood guy.\u201d That normally is a non-starter in any conversation, as Spicer blithely stated that at least Hitler didn\u2019t use chemical warfare against civilians. He was right, except for a large part of the 10 million executed in the gas chamber of Death Camps (Spicer called them Holocaust Centers) by various chemical compounds: OOPS!!! It almost made you feel sorry for him as he tried to walk the statement back again and again and again. <\/p>\n

It does demonstrate three things. First, these guys aren\u2019t as smart as they ought to be. Second, they read way too much alt-right news. newsmax<\/a> This is similar to the Trump \u201cObama wiretapped me\u201d tweet generated from a Breibart article (Washington Post<\/a>).
\nThird, it demonstrates Spicer and a lot of the Trump Administration are insensitive to Jewish history and anti-Semitism. Just so everyone is clear: a concentration camp is where Jews and other minorities and \u201cundesirable\u201d people were sent to work as slave laborers and die. Death camps were places where those same people were executed upon arrival. Holocaust centers are museums or other places commemorating the events of the Holocaust. You don\u2019t die there. It seems pretty basic. That this compounded gaff took place during the Jewish celebration of Passover only makes it worse.<\/p>\n

The second ridiculous statement comes from Eric Trump, son of Donald. Eric stated that firing missiles at Syria was in fact proof that his father did not collude with Putin ( Time<\/a>). It proves nothing of the sort. The United States carefully bombed an airfield, but warned the Russians we were coming well in advance, and carefully avoided putting the airfield out of commission, destroying some buildings and Syrian aircraft. We carefully did nothing that would alter the calculus between the US and Russia, and while the war of words have heated up between the two countries, nothing of substance has changed. This attack was neither evidence for or against a possible collusion between Trump and the Russians.<\/p>\n

But the \u201cEaster Egg\u201d (more in the gaming sense) of the week, was the disclosure that a FISA warrant was issued for surveillance of communications by Carter Page, Trump campaign foreign affairs advisor (Washington Post<\/a>). Months ago we talked about the possibility that Carter Page was the \u201cgo-between\u201d from the Trump campaign to Russian Intelligence (Drip-Drip-Drip<\/a>). <\/p>\n

Page\u2019s role in the Trump campaign is murky at best. At one point, Trump named him as one of his policy advisors, but the campaign later distanced themselves from Page. How he got into the Trump organization in the first place is still obscured. Page\u2019s role in the Russian connection was first identified through the \u201cChris Steele Report,” the incendiary document which outlined the Trump connections to Russia. Steele claimed that Page was the go-between from Russian Intelligence to the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n

The revelation that a FISA warrant was issued means that the FBI had probable cause to believe that a crime was being committed or that an intelligence issue was at stake. The \u201cdrip-drip-drip\u201d continues, as the FBI does a classic investigation, working from the bottom up.<\/p>\n

The second \u201cEaster Egg\u201d was from Trump himself, as he distanced himself from Steve Bannon, calling Bannon a \u201cnice guy\u201d who came into the campaign \u201clate\u201d (New York Post: New York Post<\/a>
\n It may well be that Trump\u2019s loyalty to the folks that work for him will again turn into his favorite phrase: You\u2019re Fired.<\/p>\n

And the final \u201cEaster Egg\u201d week involves Paul Manafort, Trump\u2019s campaign manager from March through August of 2016. Manafort has continued to deny taking any money \u201cunder the table\u201d from pro-Russian Ukrainians. When those same Ukrainians fled their country, a journal was discovered with notes showing $12.7 million in payments to Manafort. Manafort denied that this was correct. The AP news service has reported that they have actual transaction receipts for $1.2 million (AP – AP<\/a>
\nThis validates part of the journal claim, and makes Manafort look like a liar, especially since the money was laundered through dummy corporations set up in Belize.<\/p>\n

Page under surveillance, Manafort laundering illegal money, Flynn hiding ties to Turkey: the drip-drip-drip of the Russian scandal continues. It can be clouded for a time by missiles over Syria, but inexorably the investigation draws tighter and tighter around the Trump campaign. It will take time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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