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Trump's dirty tricks department

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Trump's dirty tricks department

Post by TC Talks » Thu May 13, 2021 6:16 pm

You would expect a criminal enterprise would have hit men. Here are Trump's trolls...
NY Times WASHINGTON — A network of conservative activists, aided by a British former spy, mounted a campaign during the Trump administration to discredit perceived enemies of President Trump inside the government, according to documents and people involved in the operations.

The campaign included a planned sting operation against Mr. Trump’s national security adviser at the time, H.R. McMaster, and secret surveillance operations against F.B.I. employees, aimed at exposing anti-Trump sentiment in the bureau’s ranks.

The operations against the F.B.I., run by the conservative group Project Veritas, were conducted from a large home in the Georgetown section of Washington that rented for $10,000 per month. Female undercover operatives arranged dates with the F.B.I. employees with the aim of secretly recording them making disparaging comments about Mr. Trump.

The campaign shows the obsession that some of Mr. Trump’s allies had about a shadowy “deep state” trying to blunt his agenda — and the lengths that some were willing to go to try to purge the government of those believed to be disloyal to the president.

Central to the effort, according to interviews, was Richard Seddon, a former undercover British spy who was recruited in 2016 by the security contractor Erik Prince to train Project Veritas operatives to infiltrate trade unions, Democratic congressional campaigns and other targets. He ran field operations for Project Veritas until mid-2018.

Last year, The New York Times reported that Mr. Seddon ran an expansive effort to gain access to the unions and campaigns and led a hiring effort that nearly tripled the number of the group’s operatives, according to interviews and deposition testimony. He trained operatives at the Prince family ranch in Wyoming.

The efforts to target American officials show how a campaign once focused on exposing outside organizations slowly morphed into an operation to ferret out Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies in the government’s ranks.

Whether any of Mr. Trump’s White House advisers had direct knowledge of the campaign is unclear, but one of the participants in the operation against Mr. McMaster, Barbara Ledeen, said she was brought on by someone “with access to McMaster’s calendar.”

At the time, Ms. Ledeen was a staff member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, then led by Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa.


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Re: Trump's dirty tricks department

Post by hanson » Fri May 14, 2021 12:42 pm

he didn't get to be the nation's number one prick by being Mr. nice guy



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Re: Trump's dirty tricks department

Post by MotorCityRadioFreak » Fri May 14, 2021 11:57 pm

I presume we will find more and more of these plots as intelligence wakes up and realizes Donald is gone(and hopefully never coming back).


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Re: Trump's dirty tricks department

Post by screen glare » Sat May 15, 2021 5:14 pm

Trump never coming back. Will go to prison, instead.



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Re: Trump's dirty tricks department

Post by G G » Tue May 18, 2021 2:45 am

Trump scares you because he was right.


Donald Trump was and is the best president this country has ever had. And he will return to glory as our leader again.

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Re: Trump's dirty tricks department

Post by hanson » Wed May 19, 2021 10:11 pm

G G wrote:
Tue May 18, 2021 2:45 am
Biden scares me because he is right.



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