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If this sounds quite a bit like the scheme that unfolded four years ago around this time, it's not your imagination.

The Washington Post also reported overnight that U.S. intelligence agencies "warned the White House last year that President Trump's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence." U.S. officials "raised concerns that Giuliani was being used to feed Russian misinformation to the president."

The article added, "The former officials said Giuliani was not a target of U.S. surveillance while in Ukraine but was dealing with suspected Russian assets who were, leading to the capture of some of his communications."

In other words, U.S. officials weren't spying on Giuliani; they were surveilling suspected Russian assets -- who ended up having interactions with the American president's personal attorney.

As Rachel summarized on the show last night, "So this is where we are: 19 days to the election. At least 15 million Americans have already voted. The president`s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has been picked up by the U.S. intelligence community in intercepts because he has been talking to Russian intelligence about a Russian intelligence operation to dump fake documents into the U.S. bloodstream right before the election to try to re-elect Donald Trump."

This week's revelations were supposed to make Joe Biden look bad. Instead, they're proving to be a far bigger problem for his GOP accusers.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow...ws-signs-backfiring-n1243707?cid=sm_fb_maddow
 
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(Newser) – US intelligence agencies warned the White House that Rudy Giuliani was the target of a Russian intelligence operation, and had contact with Russian assets, while in Ukraine last year, according to reports from the Washington Post and New York Times. Giuliani visited the country in December seeking information he thought would show wrongdoing by former vice president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. But US intelligence—based on intercepted communications, among other things—raised concerns that Giuliani was being used to get misinformation to President Trump, former officials told the Post. When national security adviser Robert O'Brien privately warned Trump that Giuliani's information might be tainted, the president, in the midst of impeachment, "shrugged it off," per the Times. He later admitted directing Giuliani to go to Ukraine.

In August, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Andriy Derkach—a pro-Russian lawmaker Giuliani met in Ukraine on Dec. 5 and again in New York two months later, describing him as "very helpful"—was involved in a campaign to influence the 2020 election by sullying Biden. Last month, the US Treasury Department sanctioned Derkach, saying he was "an active Russian agent for over a decade." But Giuliani told the Post that he wasn't informed Derkach was a Russian agent. The report comes after a controversial New York Post story that claims Hunter Biden arranged a meeting between his father, who was then vice president, and an executive at Ukrainian energy firm Burisma—which the Biden campaign denies. The story is apparently based on information a tech shop owner pulled from a laptop and shared with Giuliani, though there are problems with the story.
https://www.newser.com/story/297511/reports-trump-knew-russian-assets-were-using-giuliani.html

So, it may be that the democrats knew the full story back in August, and put it out now, precisely to derail Trump's new conspiracy theory, and to reinforce the finding that he's being promoted by Putin and Russian intelligence services.
 
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The vaccine Trump promised to be here by election day?

Pfizer said that it would likely seek emergency approval for a COVID-19 vaccine in late November, citing recent federal guidance that toughened approval standards for a vaccine, despite President Trump’s efforts to push for a shot by the “special day” of Nov. 3.

In an open letter released Friday, Pfizer CEO and Chairman Albert Bourla said that “assuming positive data, Pfizer will apply for Emergency Authorization Use in the U.S. soon after the safety milestone is achieved in the third week of November.”

President Trump has boosted the prospect of a pre-election vaccine as Nov. 3 inches closer, saying that one would be ready by that “special day” and that a preventative COVID-19 shot would be available “within weeks.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckr...-about-pre-election-day-vaccine-campaign-prop
 
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