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In brief: By now it should be obvious that Donald Trump behaves in all respects like a Russian asset, if not ally. And he has consistently blocked further investigations into his financial dealings with Russian oligarchs. It is high time for a real Russia investigation, unobstructed by Trump.
Oct. 31, 2026,
US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Alico Arena, Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida on October 23, 2026. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)
- Misunderstanding the Mueller investigation
- Tell a Lie Often Enough
- Attempts to Re-write History
- Places to look
At a time when Ukraine was driving Russia out of occupied territory, and taking the war to Russia in a way that had the superpower wobbling, Trump intervened to save Russia and put Ukraine in dire straits – by cutting off Starshield, intelligence sharing, and even delivery of missile interceptors Ukraine has already paid for, while blaming Zelensky for Russian war crimes.
I am reminded of a conversation I had last year with a doctor friend of mine. When I brought up the issue of Trump being compromised and colluding with Russia, my physician friend quickly retorted: “I thought all of that was debunked in the Russia investigation.”
How did America’s ability to assess Trump’s repeated embraces of Putin become paralyzed?
Misunderstanding the Mueller investigation
The most obvious place to start an investigation of trump’s mysterious featly to Putin would be to follow the money. Yet what most people, including the media, do not understand is that the Trump DOJ barredIndependent Counsel Robert Mueller from investigating Trump’s financial connections to Russia.
In addition, Mueller’s small team could not delve into every suspicious circumstance everywhere in the country. There was no investigation of bizarre events that happened right here in Georgia: with the Georgia Election Center servers at Kennesaw State wiped clean after a request to inspect them for evidence of Russian tampering – though I urged Fulton DA Fani Willis to include it in her investigation of Trump election meddling.
It took the subsequent Senate Intelligence Committee investigation, chaired by Marco Rubio, to confirm that 1) Russian intelligence hacked or attempted to hack into all 50 state election systems in 2016, and 2) the Russian government representatives the Trump campaign was meeting with were actually Russian intelligence agents who were part of the attack Putin ordered on American elections after Obama placed sanctions on Russia for invading Crimea in 2014.
Tell a Lie Often Enough
Trump AG Bill Barr withheld the Mueller Report while lying that it cleared Trump of any wrongdoing. In fact, without drawing conclusions, Mueller laid out facts supporting numerous crimes committed by Trump and said he could not reach firm conclusions on others because Trump and his associates lied to investigators and hid and destroyed evidence. Trump infamously pardoned campaign manager Paul Manafort for refusing to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
Still, even legitimate news organizations falsely repeat Barr’s misrepresentations today.
They also repeat the Trumpish mantra that the whole Russia investigation hinged on the supposedly discredited Steele Dossier – forgetting that the central, then-revelatory premise of the former head of the Russia desk at British intelligence was that Putin had ordered a comprehensive attack on the 2016 US election. Regardless of whether a pee-pee tape exists, that central premise proved to be all too true.
Attempts to Re-write History
The MAGA-Fox News disinformation machine has worked overtime to change the Trump-Russia narrative, and even blame those who called attention to Trump’s obvious alignment with Russia.
In each of his terms, Trump has mandated an investigation with the advance purpose of absolving Trump from any malign Russia connection and actually blame Hillary Clinton, Obama – and even Ukraine!
The first, the Durham investigation, strained to conclude that there never should have been a Russia investigation because the FBI did not have sufficient predication to open one (when Trump went on national TV and asked the Russians to hack Hillary Clinton) – even though Durham concedes the investigation confirmed Steele’s premise and Mueller’s conclusion that Russia launched a massive influence operation to get Trump elected. In other words, US law enforcement and intelligence should have left our country undefended against this attack by a foreign adversary.
Trump’s second-term whack at re-writing history with a grand jury investigation in Florida has fallen apart as Trump’s appointed allies have abandoned the effort for lack of any evidence supporting the theory that Trump is blameless and Obama and Hillary Clinton concocted the whole “Russia Russia Russia hoax.”
Places to look
It is not as though we don’t have any leads to follow. What if Mueller had been allowed to trace Eric Trump’s boast that Trump, when he was hundreds of millions of dollars in defaultto US banks, was able to get all the money he needed to buy golf courses in Scotland from Russia?
Another avenue of investigation could be to examine how and why Trump and Jeffrey Epstein had a falling out. Some suggest it was over competition for Russian oligarch moneythat also financed Epstein’s worldwide child sex-trafficking network. No wonder Trump is blocking release of the Epstein files.
After all the investigations have been detoured, derailed, and misrepresented, it is high time for a real Russia investigation, unobstructed by Trump, to get to the bottom of Trump’s efforts to hand Putin a victory in Ukraine.
Stephen Humphreys
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/88679
A commenter in the DT said that the Tories should do a deal with Reform. (Farage). I replied :
For that to work, a couple of tweaks would be needed.
Kemi would have to formulate a new policy to end completely the practice of allowing dangerous people from primitive cultures to settle in the UK and Farage would have to publicly renounce his long standing support for murderous psychopath Putin.
Someone asked me :
“Where has he demonstrated long standing support for Putin?”
My REPLY :
“In his words.
Plus he took paid work, along with his friend George Galloway, from RT for the best part of 2 decades.
If you work for RT, you are a Russian agent by definition.”
If a pee pee tape exists is may be after all irrelevant……….when you are a Pro-Russian like Trump you can not use it as blackmail anyhow.
Robin Horsfall :
Ukraine is winning, Canada is winning, Europe is winning…
ROBIN HORSFALL
OCT 30, 2026
Full post :
https://robinhorsfall.substack.com/p/ukraine-is-winning-canada-is-winning?r=2td71k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwdGRleAVRojZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBWZkaWQWURRu0LlkrMUnSsLo1JCNf8-DhFXdiXNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR-P_XApVGb1Vh3a_sezGwuoSCx58P3sG05s9-8IwJYdZ_cvvnwKtFPdBEsPug_aem_6xM_CelOjPIVosLnnvmwCw&utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e0_tv2_a1demonrknzhah
Sky News :
UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband confronts Lavrov over war in Ukraine: ‘You are not winning’
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has confronted his Russian counterpart at the ongoing G20 summit.
Miliband addressed Sergei Lavrov directly at the meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, saying: “We all know you are the aggressor.”
He also highlighted the killing of innocent civilians, and said Moscow was “not winning this war” because of the “courage of the Ukrainian people” and help of its allies.
“If you had the courage to tell the truth and to do what is right you would tell Putin that he is not winning this war and will not win,” Miliband added.
Also, in what will likely be viewed as a sideswipe at Donald Trump, who recently blocked sanctions against the Kremlin, Miliband stressed the need for countries to continue to apply pressure and deprive Vladimir Putin “of the revenues that perpetuate this barbaric war”.
Earlier, a planned photocall at the start of the summit was scrapped after Miliband and other European leaders refused to be pictured with Lavrov, a close and longstanding ally of Putin.
The Krasnov Allegations | True Life Spy Stories
Philip Thompson :
Cemil Kerimoglu :
Elon Musk must be prosecuted and imprisoned. He is explicitly on Russia’s side. He clearly supports Russia as it carries out the genocide of a European nation. Such a person should be banned not only from controlling any critical infrastructure, but from having any say at all in a civilized society.
Not only SpaceX/Starlink must be nationalized. All his property must be confiscated, and a significant chunk of that must be directed to supporting Ukraine’s war effort.
DW Phillips :
Julia Mendel Uses Oleshky to Prop Up Putin and Grift Off Trump Administration
It simply does not end for Yulia Mendel, former press secretary to President Zelensky, and present day Kremlin adjacent propagandist. Mendel has found her place in the information war beside Tucker Carlson and hopes to be the new White House favorite after Trump quoted her from the Oval Office.
Yesterday, in her post laced with fawning to the White House, absolution to the Kremlin, and hatred to Kyiv, Mendel claims that Zelensky did not want to see a ceasefire for the people in Oleshky, lest it led to a lasting peace.
“The messages of the Ukrainian propaganda machine are manipulative. They reveal how little the leadership, starting with Zelenskyy himself, actually wanted this ceasefire. A small, functioning pause is dangerous for them precisely because it might open the door to something larger. If even a limited ceasefire produces real results—people getting out of hell and humanitarian aid beginning to arrive—then the argument that no pause is ever possible becomes much harder to sustain.”
Mendel is becoming Ukraine’s own Lord Haw-Haw.
The U.S. has several Haw-Haws : Carlson, Alex Jones (infowars), Steve Bannon, Jim Hoft and the entire Krasnov regime.
Shaun Pinner :
Trump’s administration is shielding Putin as Russia directly targets civilians. I can’t be any plainer than that.
Their media messaging, political framing, whitewashing of war crimes, withholding of military support, throttling of Starlink and Starshield all help enable Putin’s war.
In my view, they have serious blood on their hands.
Mykhailo Rohoza :
During negotiations in the United States, an incident occurred that literally left the American delegation speechless.
When the Ukrainian representatives learned that sanctions against Putin were being lifted and that Washington was demanding an end to strikes on Russian oil refineries, Budanov and Umerov reacted extremely harshly.
At the very end of the meeting, when the participants had already risen from the table and were heading toward the exit, they threw these words straight in the Americans’ faces:
“Now we’re going to fucking burn every Russian oil refinery and port to the fucking ground. Every last one!”
According to reports, the Americans were so stunned by what they heard that they couldn’t find anything to say in response.
No objections, no threats, no usual diplomatic language. Just silence.
Washington received an unmistakable message: Ukraine has no intention of asking permission to defend itself against Russian aggression.
I think the quote is attributed to Budanov.
Good man!
Joni Askola :
At the end of this war, Russia, as the defeated aggressor, will be forced to pay reparations.
Amen to that Joni.
Trump Tower in Georgia to be built on land part-owned by son of US sanctions-hit leader.
Links between Trump Organization and Ivanishvili family for Tbilisi skyscraper raise new conflict of interest concerns
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/trump-tower-georgia-tbilisi-land-part-owned-son-us-sanctions-leader
Some Georgians think that this Krasnov tower will make them safer from putinaZi attack.
More likely it’s a move to consolidate putinaZi control over the country : Ivanishvili becoming a new Lukashenko,
If God is willing, we will have a better government soon that is willing and able to initiate a massive investigation campaign into the dark dealings of Trump and his just-as-corrupt family and close circle of friends.
The United States has a huge dung pile to clear out, created by the worst president in U.S. history. Hopefully, we’ll see Trump and his criminal cohorts face stiff prison terms.
So richly deserved!
A reminder for our resident MAGA cultist:
The Mueller report found that, “The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.”
“the Special Counsel’s investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election principally through two operations. First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Second, a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the Clinton Campaign and then released stolen documents. The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign.”
“the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome”
“the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts”
(All the above quotes are from the Mueller report.)
Later, the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed that Russian operatives engaged in a widespread social media campaign to improve his chances in the race.
A Russian troll farm central to the election campaign supported “Donald Trump at the direction of the Kremlin,” the committee said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/business/senate-report-russia-election.html
And after that, following a 4 year investigation, special counsel John Durham agreed under oath that the facts of the Mueller report and the Senate Intelligence Committee report were correct: Russia interfered in the 2016 election for the benefit of Trump, Trump’s campaign welcomed the help and shared information and secret meetings with Russian operatives, and the FBI was justified in investigating that interference.
This is also the assessment of every U.S. intelligence agency.
Krasnov’s loathing and contempt for Ukraine and all
Ukrainians except Iulia Mendel, has evolved into psychotic, murderous hatred.
That’s why he’s got to be put in the funny farm and the once GOP’s putler wing has got to be cremated.