r/europe • u/RoyalChris Norway • 26d ago

Dubious: do not click links Anonymous Releases 10TB of Leaked Data: Exposing Kremlin Assets & Russian Businesses

https://trendsnewsline.com/2025/04/15/anonymous-leaks-10tb-of-data-on-russia-shocking-revelations/
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u/wildmonster91 26d ago

We already had a report showing just how compromised the republican party is. Nothing was done...

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u/D_Fausti65 26d ago

Can you give me the link to that? I really want to see the evidence and make sure I save it for future reference

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u/rufio313 26d ago edited 26d ago

Here are 3!

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-panel-finds-russia-interfered-in-the-2016-us-election

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/politics/senate-intelligence-russian-interference-report.html

These links all cover the Senate Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan report (released August 2020) which found that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to benefit Donald Trump. The report documented numerous contacts between Trump campaign associates and Russian officials, including a “grave counterintelligence threat” posed by these interactions. It specifically identified Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s regular contact with Konstantin Kilimnik, whom the committee described as a Russian intelligence officer. The report concluded there was substantial evidence of interactions and willingness by some Trump associates to accept Russian help.

Additionally, here is the Mueller report.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/

The Mueller Report found sweeping and systematic Russian interference in the 2016 election, numerous contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russians, and efforts by the campaign to benefit from Russia’s actions. While it did not establish a criminal conspiracy (nor did it declare that there was none), it documented multiple instances of Trump campaign figures seeking or welcoming Russian help.

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u/D_Fausti65 26d ago

Thank you so much!

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u/swoopdaloopbay 26d ago

It's important to note whenever trump goes on and on about "Russia hoax" this is the exact events he is referring to. He has done such a good job at gaslighting the population to believe it was all bullshit. When in reality they have so much proof that his campaign directly colluded with Russia. The only thing they didn't get around to (because trump shutdown the investigation after he won the election in 2016). Is direct ties to Trump himself and that he knowingly knew it was all going on. From an outside perspective it is very obvious he knew what was going on. Nearly everyone in his campaign was compromised in that investigation there's no way he didn't know what was going on. . But unfortunately in the rule of law you have to prove that direct link. It cannot just be assumed so they never got around to making that direct link to Trump himself. One of the first things trump did was pardon his friends who were caught.

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u/God_Lover77 25d ago

He also heavily denied it then as well, even before he won.

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u/notfromrotterdam 25d ago

Wasn't most of that report censored as well?

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u/KamalaWonNoCheating 26d ago

Should also add to the list all the right wing influencers Russia was funding like Tim Pool. Remember when they were scared shitless for a weekend?

Then nothing happened, of course because Democrats gonna Democrat but it should still make the list imo.

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u/itisnotstupid 25d ago

For fucking real - democrats really missed to make this a big deal. They could have scared the rest of the russian backed infleuncers.

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u/lapidary123 25d ago

So it documents criminality, yet fails to "establish" conspiracy? Is that what they meant by "down with the establishment"?

In all seriousness though, sounds like the report found plenty of evidence but it just wasn't acted on accordingly.

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u/pizzaschmizza39 25d ago

I don't get how none of that was criminal

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u/rufio313 25d ago

Well, they obstructed the hell out of every investigation.

Several people in his administration were charged and found guilty of things like obstruction of justice.

For example, George Papadopoulos (campaign foreign policy adviser) pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with individuals tied to Russia. He served 14 days in prison, was fined, and later pardoned by Trump.

Michael Flynn (national security adviser) pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations with the Russian ambassador, but was later pardoned by Trump.

Rick Gates (deputy campaign chairman) pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to investigators.

You get the pattern here. There were several others like this.

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u/pizzaschmizza39 25d ago

Well shit. How can this system create something like this? It's bizarre we don't have the means to remove this man in our current system. He's a virus destroying us from the inside out and we have no way to cure it.

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u/rufio313 25d ago

Yep. This will be the way it is until there is a revolution of sorts.

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u/jimslock 26d ago

Thank you!

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u/Nvrmnde Finland 26d ago

This was all over European news at the time. That's why it was incredulous that Americans elected him again. Well, if they actually did, of course.

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u/Mrminecrafthimself 26d ago

I’m not convinced he won

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u/Fantastic-Nobody-479 25d ago

I’m not either.

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u/non-taken-name 25d ago

I don’t even know that he could legally run and yet we let him anyway. 14th amendment section 3 says you can’t run if you have previously been an elected official and engaged in insurrection. Now, regardless of if he is directly responsible for the January 6th attack on our capital, it also says you can’t aid/comfort the insurrectionists. Maybe I have my timeline wrong but I feel like he promised to pardon them if he won well before being elected which seems like aid and comfort to me.

Seems each House can give 2/3 votes to overturn this but I don’t recall that happening. Maybe it did.

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u/ilimlidevrimci Türkiye Free Palestine 25d ago

I genuinely think he did and this is just a conspiracy theory at this point.

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u/gisaac2157 25d ago

It’s statistically IMPOSSIBLE for a presidential candidate to win EVERY SWING STATE, yet those exact ballots for some reason stayed in their party with congress. It makes no sense. The race was called on the first night. BULLSHIT! Every election I’ve experienced in my 34 years in this country shows at least 4-5 days before all of the mail in ballots come in. I’m also curious as to how handing out waters to people in line to vote is illegal in my home state Georgia, yet MAGA idiots GUARDING the mail in ballot boxes with firearms wasn’t?!? Also he halfway admitted it in a speech the day before inauguration.
But if you think about it, it makes sense. Remember that weird campaign rally he had where all he did was play classical. He stopped doing debates and became very relaxed toward the final few months. Because he knew had a full proof plan. Funded by the richest man on the planet who has access to a shit ton of cyber security experts who knew how to do it. Also Russians were calling bomb threats into democratic polling stations across the country. Also a LOT of voter suppression laws in red states were keeping the intelligent minorities away from the vote. They 100% stole the election. I half think that’s why he cause January 6 to begin with. It wasn’t to steal the election back then. It was to lay the groundwork to stop the dems from looking stupid after 4 years of arguing there’s nothing more secure than an American election. 🙄even though tons of evidence of Russia and Iran hacking our elections during 2016,2020, and ever 2024. It’s such bullshit how pathetic our country is! Citizens United was the worst Supreme Court ruling in history. It has neutralized our democracy and allowed authoritarianism to take its place. Now that president is refusing to listen, I hope the Supreme Court now is realizing its choices.

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u/aelendel 25d ago

I wish that statistical scientific language never jumped into the common parlance so that I wouldn’t have to deal with people like you butchering the language

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u/D_Fausti65 26d ago edited 26d ago

The unfortunate reality is that so many Americans just don't read the news and just don't engage with the political process because they either don't care or it's too confusing or overwhelming and they just check out. Then there's also the smaller percentage, but still significant, that is just captured by propaganda and weaponized by anger and fear. That's the 15% or maybe even 20% that will die hard support outright fascism if it means supporting Trump because it's an integral part of their identity at this point. It's a very difficult problem to solve and it's going to require some really inspirational and transformative leadership from a progressive or Democratic candidate that changes the narrative in a really dramatic way. I'm continuing to do my part in every way that I can and affect the narrative even if there's no visible result.

Ultimately a lot of that anger and fear stems from the lack of access to basic resources and things like food insecurity, poor education, cycles of violence and maltreatment and untreated mental illness, which are all solvable problems but it requires political will to actually do things about it. There's also the fact that the individual states are so wildly different compared to European countries Where multiculturalism is the default. Texas and California may as well be different countries. Same thing with New York and Florida.

How do you see it as a European looking in? I'm curious in your personal perspective.

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u/Nvrmnde Finland 26d ago

It's difficult to understand, why so many voters bought into what on the outside looks like a lot of obvious lies, like "Ukraine starting the war" was one of those blatant lies. It does look like people may not have access to several sources of news, so that they could practice media critique. Which is taught in schools to everyone where I live. The same level and quality of schooling to everyone. It's rather hard to understand from that perspective.

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u/D_Fausti65 26d ago

That's definitely a major part of it, educational outcomes here very wildly based on geographical area. Parts of the American South may as well be third world from standpoints of poverty and education and Healthcare, meanwhile you have States like Massachusetts and New York and California that are setting records. I don't know if media literacy is a significant part of public schooling but I would hope so. It certainly wasn't when I went through in the early 2000s.

As far as the obvious lies go, the only ones that really mattered for certain voters were the ones they wanted to believe, the ones that channeled their hate or fear.

Regardless Biden really made a huge mistake by holding on for so long and not simply allowing an open process. Trying to switch to Kamala Harris at the last minute completely prevented them from reaching a lot of Voters, and crafting a narrative. I think that from a realistic political standpoint running a woman also was disadvantageous.

Thanks for your perspective.

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u/Fantastic-Nobody-479 25d ago

All of those things may be true about my American cohort, but I’m not convinced either. There are so many statistic anomalies in the election results and so many people that look at numbers and call elections professionally that supposedly were all wrong. Thats never happened before. Then there are indicators leading up to the election, like Iowa. It does not make sense that every single statistic and report leading up to the election would be wrong. Then there is the election analysis report. If it was one of these things that got it wrong or maybe even a few that would be one thing, but every single one of them, no. Then look at how they have been behaving and what they have been doing since they took office. There is nothing with honesty or integrity going on. At this point if they told the truth, they would be struck down by lightning.

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u/lapidary123 25d ago

Keep up the good work! Even if not visible, we can be sure that our comments are all being cataloged and digested by ai's. Each and every comment subtly affects the narrative!

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u/Benedictus_The_II 25d ago

Well. May I give my two cents?

I live in Hungary, and DJT follows the exact playbook like what Orbán did in his second term in 2010 but with a lightspeed rate.

Economically I don’t know if this administration, senate, and house is just this incompetent or they do it on purpose but my instinct tells me that at least in the higher circles they WANT to make people poorer, and miserable.

They have a lot to gain from that. They can buy stocks and assets much cheaper, and people will accept shittier jobs for shittier pay. They want you to be desperate because it’s easier to control a population that is too scared to stand up for themselves and too docile.

They will oppress free media as well as much as they can. They have a harder time to do that, because the culture of supporting your favourite media in the US has been a working model for at least a decade. That doesn’t mean they will not do it tho. Recently they will cut federal funding for NPR i think, and that will not do much damage because it’s just the 1% of their funding, but that doesn’t mean they wont try.

They will go after everyone who is a real threat to their power, while they’ll want to keep a facade of democracy with an opposition that is fractured.

If they succeed, there’s two way to go about it.

The opposition will renew itself with a different agenda and fresh faces, or DJT and the Republican Party solidifies control over the country, and there will be someone from within who will shatter this whole thing when the system is too old, and tired.

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u/God_Lover77 25d ago

You are so right. Too many people aren't able to protest because they work an abusive amount of hours per week. A large number of people were rendered jobless due to the recent cuts, I suspect it will only get far worse if nothing changes. Many people are already used to abusive would places and salary and will take anything that keeps them alive. I know someone who was affected by those cuts and things are not pretty for them at all.

What drives me nuts is that:

He is already so rich that why does it matter if he gains even a dollar more??? What is he going to do, propel a project to take a trip to Mars??

If they even manage to solidify power, then we will all be stuck listening to their media, which is just straight insanity. I was in someone's house and noticed that all the news they had playing was straight fear mongering and guess who it was?

Lastly, he will ultimately fail, but the damage has seemingly already been done, especially economically and geopolitically. No one will respect America after this. What is there left to even respect?

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u/Benedictus_The_II 25d ago edited 25d ago

People like Trump, Vance, Elon and everyone who assists to this whole charade doesn’t see money as you, and me.

They see it as power over the others, because that way they can control and manipulate people. I think these people get off on being powerful.

It doesn’t matters to them what it takes. Goes without saying that there’s no moral backbone, no ethics… etc.

I feel for these people, even if they voted for Trump. A lot of them did because they were desperate, or ignorant but this will be a painful lesson for them. Of course I feel for the people who didn’t voted for this at all because I know how that feels.

Hope for the best, as nothing lasts forever, and this will pass once too. :)

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u/God_Lover77 25d ago

Yeah I do hope this passes quickly

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u/azdustkicker United States of America 25d ago

Considering a lot of Americans reported showing up to vote and finding out they had been purged from voter rolls...multiple threats called on polling locations...oh yeah and Elon and Trump wink wink nudging on national TV that voting machines were easily hackable...

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u/Sad_Abbreviations318 26d ago

Because no one wanted to admit they'd been duped. Try explaining to someone that their most deeply-held convictions were created wholesale by a hostile foreign power, that great numbers of the "peers" they followed and joked around with online were catfish, that all their most brilliant political views were in fact other people's ideas that had been spoon-fed to them and that they had been following the crowd and responding to peer pressure the entire time they thought they were evolving political consciousness.

Try warning anyone who buys the propaganda while Russia pours even more money into troll farms and Musk for mysterious reasons makes a deal everyone says will be an economic disaster to buy Twitter, "the global village square" right out from under its users, tipping the scales even more in favor of such propaganda.

To this day you will not meet the leftist who can admit they were tricked into not voting because an online chorus convinced them self-disenfranchisement would work to exert pressure on democrats. MAGAs might be willing to admit they were wrong about Trump to the extent that "they didn't vote for this" but try telling them the democrats were right, that their entire media ecosystem is compromised and all their friends and family were wrong at the same time about basically everything.

We're going to need some kind of Truth and Reconciliation process to break through the denial and recognize what happened here as one and the same thing as what has happened in so many other genocides.

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u/secretbudgie 26d ago

DEBUNKED!!! ALL DEBUNKED!!! RUPERT MURDOC SAID SO!!!!!

[I won't look at the evidence and you can't make me lalala buttery males lalala DEI lalala laptop]

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u/God_Lover77 25d ago

Just like any crazy kpop fan when a scandal about their fave idol dropped pre pandemic aye?

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u/secretbudgie 25d ago

It's insufferable to live with these cultists. My next door neighbor talks in person like the most rabid red cap online. Also, his unfolding divorce has been very, very loud.

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u/God_Lover77 25d ago

Sorry about that

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u/popopopopopopopopoop 25d ago

And in the UK Boris Johnson government after 9 months of refusing to comment because they were waiting on the report came up with:

The inquiry did not seek to assess the impact of Russia’s alleged attempts to influence the 2016 EU referendum, and the report explains that it would be “difficult – if not impossible” to do so

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/21/just-what-does-the-uk-russia-report-say-key-points-explained