MOTHER JONES THE RUSSIA CONNECTION Kremlin Love for Fox's Sean Hannity 25JAN18

DESPITE all the political intrigue, rumors, and the Orwellian propaganda campaign of the drumpf/trump-pence administration, russian trolls and bots,  fox FAUX news and the right wing fascist republicans in congress, Special Counsel Robert Muller's investigation continues, relentlessly persuing justice. 

January 25, 2018 Sean Hannity Is Now a Favorite Weapon of Russian Trolls Kremlin propagandists are piling on the Fox News war against the Mueller investigation. (Mother Jones) Jeff Sessions Appears to Be Meddling in the Russia and Clinton Probes Democrats say the attorney general has violated his vows to recuse himself. (Mother Jones) TOP NEWS The NRA connection. The FBI is investigating possible links between a Russian banker, the gun lobby, and the Trump campaign. (McClatchy) Sounding the alarm on bots. Democratic lawmakers urge Facebook and Twitter to investigate a Russian-linked social-media push for #ReleaseTheMemo. (Mother Jones) Support for the Russia probe. Seven out of 10 Americans believe the investigation should continue, and 8 out of 10 say Trump should cooperate with Mueller. (CBS News) Keeping track Follow every turn in the long, twisted, and bizarre history of the Trump-Russia scandal in the always updated Mother Jones timeline. Take a deep dive The Russian Connection is compiled by Bill Buzenberg and Denise Clifton, who ran the election season blog PutinTrump.org. Visit their archive here. Support hard-hitting journalism The Russian Connection and all our reporting is made possible by readers like you. Support our investigations with a tax-deductible donation. WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING "Putin has partially restored the old Stalinist methods. The difference is Stalin used mass repressions. He would imprison and execute hundreds of thousands, millions. In Putin's case, it is more selective: individuals who he finds too hostile or harmful for his rule. Putin has actually put the country back to the authoritarian state; it's not as bloody but just as criminal as Stalin's regime." — Former KGB leader Oleg Kalugin, now living in the United States "Here is a modest prediction: If and when the [classified Republican committee's] memo is ever made public, it is likely to be just one more string of spaghetti tossed onto the wall by the now-familiar alliance of Trump-supporting congressional Republicans and sympathetic conservative media desperate to discredit and distract from the investigations into Russian election interference." — Quinta Jurecic, deputy managing editor of Lawfare —Advertisement— The Russian Connection comes to you from Mother Jones, an award-winning, nonprofit investigative journalism organization.