That was a good speech. By far the best I've heard from him.

I hope this is a sign of things to come and that he is shaping up as a true candidate, in a formal sense. That kind of speech shows that he can harness his no-nonsense mode of speaking into a real speech and not just off-the-cuff one-liners. I like that, and hope we see more of it.

...and he was either using a teleprompter, or reciting from memory. My vote is for the latter, as there were a couple of very brief hesitations one might expect from a recitation from memory, and not from reading.

But, yes, Trump looked more presidential yesterday, and we are now rolling.

Happy Birthday President Trump

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Originally posted by Dresden:
Now back to Trump. He has lost 6 points to Hillary in one poll today and the Salt Lake Trib (not exactly the NYT) had this to say, "Donald Trump's brash swagger and outlandish behavior have made him so unpopular in Utah that a new poll shows the state could swing to Hillary Clinton in November, potentially becoming the first time in 52 years that a Democrat has won the Beehive State."

Utahns won't vote for Hillary instead of Donald, but many Republicans may not vote. Oddly there is a significant impression amongst some Mormon's that Donald is an anti-Christ of some sort. Glenn Beck was ranting on this for quite a few weeks. I am not on the inside and don't understand all the details, but it is a real phenomenon here.

The Trib is just hoping. I bet they limited that poll to S Temple and eastward. There's no way this state is going Hillary.

So - are they going to release it to hurt Trump, or use it to show how slimy the Dems are? or both?


Russian government hackers penetrated DNC, stole opposition research on Trump

By Ellen Nakashima June 14 at 11:30 AM

Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database of opposition research on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to committee officials and security experts who responded to the breach.

The intruders so thoroughly compromised the DNC’s system that they also were able to read all email and chat traffic, said DNC officials and the security experts.

The intrusion into the DNC was one of several targeting American political organizations. The networks of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were also targeted by Russian spies, as were the computers of some GOP political action committees, U.S. officials said. But details on those cases were not available.

A Russian Embassy spokesman said he had no knowledge of such intrusions.

Some of the hackers had access to the DNC network for about a year, but all were expelled over the past weekend in a major computer cleanup campaign, the committee officials and experts said.

The DNC said that no financial, donor or personal information appears to have been accessed or taken, suggesting that the breach was traditional espionage, not the work of criminal hackers.

The intrusions are an example of Russia’s interest in the U.S. political system and its desire to understand the policies, strengths and weaknesses of a potential future president — much as American spies gather similar information on foreign candidates and leaders.

The depth of the penetration reflects the skill and determination of the United States’ top cyber adversary as Russia goes after strategic targets, from the White House and State Department to political campaign organizations.

[National intelligence director: Hackers have targeted 2016 presidential campaigns]

“It’s the job of every foreign intelligence service to collect intelligence against their adversaries,” said Shawn Henry, president of CrowdStrike, the cyber firm called in to handle the DNC breach and a former head of the FBI’s cyber division. He noted that it is extremely difficult for a civilian organization to protect itself from a skilled and determined state such as Russia.

“We’re perceived as an adversary of Russia,” he said. “Their job when they wake up every day is to gather intelligence against the policies, practices and strategies of the U.S. government. There are a variety of ways. [Hacking] is one of the more valuable because it gives you a treasure trove of information.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken favorably about Trump, who has called for better relations with Russia and expressed skepticism about NATO. But unlike Clinton, whom the Russians probably have long had in their spy sights, Trump has not been a politician for very long, so foreign agencies are playing catch-up, analysts say.

“The purpose of such intelligence gathering is to understand the target’s proclivities,” said Robert Deitz, former senior councillor to the CIA director and a former general counsel at the National Security Agency. “Trump’s foreign investments, for example, would be relevant to understanding how he would deal with countries where he has those investments” should he be elected, Deitz said. “They may provide tips for understanding his style of negotiating. In short, this sort of intelligence could be used by Russia, for example, to indicate where it can get away with foreign adventurism.”

Other analysts noted that any dirt dug up in opposition research is likely to be made public anyway. Nonetheless, DNC leadership acted quickly after the intrusion’s discovery to contain the damage.

“The security of our system is critical to our operation and to the confidence of the campaigns and state parties we work with,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the DNC chairwoman. “When we discovered the intrusion, we treated this like the serious incident it is and reached out to CrowdStrike immediately. Our team moved as quickly as possible to kick out the intruders and secure our network.”

The Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign referred questions to the Secret Service.

DNC leaders were tipped to the hack in late April. Chief executive officer Amy Dacey got a call from her operations chief saying that their information technology team had noticed some unusual network activity.

“It’s never a call any executive wants to get, but the IT team knew something was awry,” Dacey said. And they knew it was serious enough that they wanted experts to investigate.

That evening, she spoke with Michael Sussmann, a DNC lawyer who is a partner with Perkins Coie in Washington. Soon after, Sussmann, a former federal prosecutor who handled computer crime cases, called Henry, whom he has known for many years.

Within 24 hours, CrowdStrike had installed software on the DNC’s computers so that it could analyze audit data that could indicate who had gained access, when and how.

The firm identified two separate hacker groups, both working for the Russian government, that had infiltrated the network, said Dmitri Alperovitch, CrowdStrike co-founder and chief technology officer. The firm had analyzed other breaches by both groups over the last two years.

One group, which CrowdStrike had dubbed Cozy Bear, had gained access last summer and was monitoring the DNC’s email and chat communications, Alperovitch said.

The other, which the firm had named Fancy Bear, broke into the network in late April and targeted the opposition research files. It was this breach that set off the alarm. The hackers stole two files, Henry said. And they had access to the computers of the entire research staff — an average of about several dozen on any given day.

The computers contained research going back years on Trump. “It’s a huge job” to dig into the dealings of somebody who has never run for office before, Dacey said.

CrowdStrike is not sure how the hackers got in. The firm suspects they may have targeted DNC employees with “spearphishing” emails. These are communications that appear legitimate — often made to look like they came from a colleague or someone trusted — but that contain links or attachments that when clicked on deploy malicious software that enables a hacker to gain access to a computer. “But we don’t have hard evidence,” Alperovitch said.

The two groups did not appear to be working together, Alperovitch said. Fancy Bear is believed to work for the GRU, or Russia’s military intelligence service, he said. CrowdStrike is less sure of whom Cozy Bear works for but thinks it might be the Federal Security Service or FSB, the country’s powerful security agency, which was once headed by Putin.

The lack of coordination is not unusual, he said. “There’s an amazing adversarial relationship” among the Russian intelligence agencies, Alperovitch said. “We have seen them steal assets from one another, refuse to collaborate. They’re all vying for power, to sell Putin on how good they are.”

The two crews have “superb operational tradecraft,” he said. They often use previously unknown software bugs — known as “zero-day” vulnerabilities — to compromise applications. In the DNC’s case, the hackers constantly switched tactics to maintain a stealthy presence inside the network and used built-in Windows tools so that they didn’t have to resort to malicious code that might trigger alerts. “They flew under the radar,” Alperovitch said.

The two groups have hacked government agencies, tech companies, defense contractors, energy and manufacturing firms, and universities in the United States, Canada and Europe as well as in Asia, he said.

Cozy Bear, for instance, compromised the unclassified email systems of the White House, State Department and Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2014, Alperovitch said.

“This is a sophisticated foreign intelligence service with a lot of time, a lot of resources, and is interested in targeting the U.S. political system,” Henry said. He said the DNC was not engaged in a fair fight. “You’ve got ordinary citizens who are doing hand-to-hand combat with trained military officers,” he said. “And that’s an untenable situation.”

Russia has always been a formidable foe in cyberspace, but in the last two years “there’s been a thousand-fold increase in its espionage campaign against the West,” said Alperovitch, who is also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. “They feel under siege.”

Western sanctions, imposed after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in Ukraine, have hurt the economy and led the government to increase its theft of intellectual property to limit the impact of import restrictions, he said. And Russia’s growing isolation has increased the need for intelligence to understand and influence political decisions in other countries, he added.

CrowdStrike is continuing the forensic investigation, DNC lawyer Sussmann said. “But at this time, it appears that no financial information or sensitive employee, donor or voter information was accessed by the Russian attackers,” he said.

The firm has installed special software on every computer and server in the network to detect any efforts by the Russian cyber spies to break in again. “When they get kicked out of the system,” Henry predicted, “they’re going to try to come back in.”

Tom Hamburger contributed to this report.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...c1998b7a0_story.html

Good move by DT in telling the Koch brothers he doesn't need their effin money.

http://donsurber.blogspot.com/...-dont-need-your.html

Trump live 6-14-2016 Greensboro NC 7pm

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Originally posted by Dresden:
Now back to Trump. He has lost 6 points to Hillary in one poll today and the Salt Lake Trib (not exactly the NYT) had this to say, "Donald Trump's brash swagger and outlandish behavior have made him so unpopular in Utah that a new poll shows the state could swing to Hillary Clinton in November, potentially becoming the first time in 52 years that a Democrat has won the Beehive State."

Utahns won't vote for Hillary instead of Donald, but many Republicans may not vote. Oddly there is a significant impression amongst some Mormon's that Donald is an anti-Christ of some sort. Glenn Beck was ranting on this for quite a few weeks. I am not on the inside and don't understand all the details, but it is a real phenomenon here.

I am married to a Mormon and you are correct and it isn't just in Utah.

Many are pulling for Trump but others swear he is the Devil........

Hopefully we will hear the pop of their heads coming out before the election.

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I'm sure he wishes it was under different circumstances, but Trump is probably taking Florida after this. The GOP may even hold onto Rubio's seat as well.

Trump has always had Florida regardless of what the polls say. Nobody likes Hillary down here.

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So - are they going to release it to hurt Trump, or use it to show how slimy the Dems are? or both?

Maybe they just wanna dangle everyone with it.

Donald, Really?

Removing 2nd amendment rights with no due process and no recourse.

Then, vote for fucking Hillary if you want. He said he's meeting with the NRA. Tell us what happened in the meeting- what was proposed, what was said, etc.

I'm not advocating either way, just posting what I thought Ronin was trying to post. No one knows what the meeting will entail, but Donald has endorsed the idea in the past and McConnell said he was willing to entertain gun control ideas yesterday.

Doesn't change my vote. I'm in the never Hillary camp, so there's only one realistic choice.

I'm not changing my vote - obviously.

Just frustrated by his Twitter post -

Maybe the NRA will lay it out and help him see what's wrong with that position.

I can guarantee you that this morning, I am not in any mood to listen to any fucking whining, especially, gentlemen, when there is no alternative.

Guys...this is a BIG political year. I believe a lot of this noise is being created to turn the spotlight off the current failed policies. Bozo & Co. are in a pinch. They drag the gun control thing out knowing its gonna suck all the air up in the room. ANYTHING to talk about something besides the blood on this administrations hands.

THAT should be the story. Think about how many lives the left pinned on GWB in Katrina.

Stay the course.

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there is no alternative.

get it?

^ ^ ^ YES ! "Stay the course."

Yes, and it is well past time to turn the tables on the gd commie bastards.

Remember, barry and its comrades are all about the smoke and mirrors.

We are being mislead at every turn.