With things that make me uncomfortable on and a lot of things make me uncomfortable on tv. Youre probably aware of that about me and my failures as a tv host. That said, i think that gives me impact on why some things take off and some things dont. Ever since that piece was published in the new yorker, i truly believe as a prude, part of the reason it didnt take off, why it didnt become one of the things Everybody Knows about his Business History and his potentially serious trouble in the Business History, i think one of the reasons that story has stayed kind of obscure instead of becoming part of the trump legal trouble pantheon that everybody talks about, i think part of the trouble with that one is because this is what that hotel looks like that is the subject of the business story in the new yorker two years ago. And honestly, i mean, its just i think this is part of it. I know we are safe to put this on tv right now, because its 9 00 p. M. Eastern or whatever, but would you even w
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. And that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through russian efforts. In terms of how the russians did what they did and why they did it precisely the way they did it . This part right at the start of the report stands out to me still like it is written in light in the night sky. The Internet Research agency ira carried out the earliest russian interference operations identified by the investigation. A social Media Campaign designed to provoke and amplify political and social discord in the United States. The i. R. A. Used social media accounts and Interest Group
Bus tour or any other kind of political event somewhere out in the country, trying to sell the elements of his state of the Union Address from last night. President s always used to do that. I mean, successfully or not, they would at least try. You remember like george w. Bush trying to sell his privatized Social Security plan, right . He did this traveling road show on that. Which ended up making that idea less popular every time he did a new event. But at least he tried. You might remember president obama and Vice President biden going off on a road trip and making appearances with preschoolers to try to promote the prekindergarten initiative from one of the obama state of the Union Addresses at the start of his second term. And who knows if these kinds of hammer home the message tours actually do anything after a state of the Union Address in terms of persuading congress to pass legislation to effectuate that president ial idea and pass appropriations to fund it. But at least those
Foreign agent without led registering and lying to federal investigators and others about that. Sam paton pled guilty last year. Prosecutors have since said he started cooperating with prosecutors even before he signed his formal plea agreement, even before he pled guilty. They say hes been very helpful. Judge Amy Berman Jackson in washington, d. C. Today explained she would have considered a prison sentence for sam paton were it not for his considerable cooperation with prosecutors. But given the nature of his crime and his lack of a previous criminal record and prosecutors wholehearted endorsement and appreciation for whatever it is hes been helping with them all these months the judge ultimately gave sam paton today three years probation and a 5,000 fine. And again we think that may be the lightest sentence of anybody thus far as a mueller defendant. That said with sam patons case now coming to a close and him walking out of the courtroom today a free man, we the people, we the obse