Q-ANON Cleaning out the "SWAMP" & Related Stuff VOL 4

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MARK LEVIN WITH

LARA LOGAN

LIFE, LIBERTY & LEVIN 7 APR 2019 FOX NEWS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=zYeA4v5KHzg

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PRAYING MEDIC THREAD ABOUT TROLLS

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1115315690137739264.html?utm_source=email&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=internal

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=103&v=7LIzKEc4n_w

https://twitter.com/qspiracy/status/1072721661563207681

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1114604475682099201

https://twitter.com/BardsOfWar/status/1114523892616450049

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1115011563558191105.html?utm_source=email&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=internal


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nunes-files-150m-lawsuit-against-mcclatchy-alleging-conspiracy-to-derail-clinton-russia-probes

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BRENDEN DILLEY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8DzOv3WzMw

Dilleys Daily Dose. Nielson OUT, Randy Goes Viral, Iran in the Crosshairs and Criminal Referrals

Informative Info

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TUCKER CARLSON

OCRAZIO-CORTEX MOCKED FOR 'ACCENT' AT SHARPTON EVENT

MARK STEYN


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOuotnPP4h8


APR 8 2019

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JOHN SOLOMON RE UKRAINIAN

https://twitter.com/MrX_U812/status/1115425855340208129

JOHN SOLOMON WITH SOME FACTS & CONJECTURE RE NEAR TERM TIMING/SEQUENCING RE DECLAS & COURT REFERRALS:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1115011563558191105.html?utm_source=email&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=internal

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https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/in-the-news/tom-fitton-doj-has-been-rogue-agency-part-of-coup-effort-against-president-trump/

Tom Fitton: DOJ has been ‘Rogue Agency’ Part of Coup Effort against President Trump

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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/04/candace-owens-nukes-the-democrats.php

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https://prayingmedic.com/2019/04/09/post-this-on-research-board/


Apr 9, 2019 | 112 comments

Denise and I have an inside joke about the chorus of a song made popular by The Animals:

I’m just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood

For most of my life, I’ve felt that no matter what I did, no one understood me. One reason I took up writing was to communicate my thoughts and experiences to the world in an attempt to be understood. The feeling that no one understood me ended the day I met my wife, Denise. She understood nearly everything about me, immediately. The destruction of the lie that no one understood me allowed me to live life on my own terms. It no longer mattered if anyone else understood me and perhaps more importantly, I was no longer motivated by the opinions of others. The demands of others if you let them, can become a cruel taskmaster. For years I jumped through the hoops others set before me in the hope of gaining their acceptance. If you do this long enough, you’ll learn that no matter what you do to please others, you’ll never do enough. Being accepted by God and then by my wife made me realize I didn’t need the acceptance of anyone else. I didn’t need to acquiesce to anyone’s demands. Which brings us to the point of this message.

For months, people have demanded that I respond to various accusations on social media (and 8chan) that call into question my integrity. That is a request I’m not accustomed to receiving or responding to. I’ve been writing publicly for ten years. In that time, most of you have come to know me pretty well. I’ve either established my integrity with you years ago or I did not. If I did, you stuck around. If I did not, you likely moved on. There are new readers (and listeners) here since I began posting about Qanon. Readers who don’t know my history and who I haven’t established credibility with. So let me address a number of concerns. If my answers seem credible, I hope you’ll consider sticking around.

There is the suspicion that I do not have a legitimate non-profit church ministry. That concern is understandable since most ministers avoid politics like the plague but I talk about politics extensively. The Johnson amendment prohibits 501(c)(3) churches and their ministers from endorsing political candidates or parties. For that reason, many pastors shy away from politics. My calling involves the discussion of politics and current events. That’s why Denise and I did not incorporate as a 501(c)(3) but rather, as a 508(c)(1)(a). Churches and their ministers that incorporate under 508(c)(1)(a) are not subject to the Johnson amendment. They’re free to participate in political discussions and are allowed to endorse political candidates and parties.

Another concern has to do with my decision to remove the Paypal button from this website. Those of you who have been around a while know that’s not an unusual thing. Sometimes an element of the website won’t load properly. (Currently, the mobile menu isn’t functioning which is one reason why I’ll be redesigning the website in the coming weeks.)

HEADS UP: In addition to a redesign of this website, we’re creating a sister website at prayingmedic.org. That site will host resources for kingdom teaching and serve as the hub of our online church. Anyone who wishes to support us financially can do so on that website. This website will focus on politics and current events. We hope to add more features related to Qanon here. (Our online healing class will remain a part of this website).

Since I was going to remove the Paypal button from this website soon, I thought it would be best to do it at a time that would further expose the dishonesty of my enemies. As attacks increased, I removed the Paypal button expecting they would take it as a sign that I feared being exposed. Predictably, they pounced. They now had hard evidence (or so they thought) that I’m nothing but a fraud. Never interrupt an enemy when they’re making a mistake. People have been digging for documents to substantiate the claim that we have a 508(c)(1)(a). Here’s a digging tip: 508s do not register with the IRS the way 501s do and are not required to make available to the public the same forms.

I don’t normally respond to trolls or demands that I publicly address accusations but two nights ago, God corrected me on a stance I’d taken. He asked me to post a timeline of events related to Adam Gingrich and the MAGA Coalition. I posted a timeline with tweets to establish when I first heard of Adam and when we parted ways (and why). The timeline can be found here.

On a related matter, there are accusations that people who were once friends with Adam and members of the MAGA Coalition are still connected to them. Old pictures have been posted on social media attempting to prove that Ann Vandersteel, her husband John, Bill Mitchell, me and Carrie Lockhart are secretly friends with Adam and his crew. Ann, John, Carrie, Bill and I have remained friends with each other but once we learned about the sick games Adam has been playing with his followers, each of us for our own reasons severed ties to him.

I’d like to share the reason why I did. For several years, Adam and a handful of his followers have been running what I can only describe as a personality cult. The group meets on his periscope broadcasts. Followers are fed the latest political insider information. Several leaders will be in the chat on the broadcast to whip the audience to support Adam, financially. They attack anyone who comes into the chat who might have a disagreement. At the time I was following Adam on Twitter, I found myself being added to Twitter chat rooms that were moderated by leaders of the group. They coached followers about their views and attitudes toward Adam. Anyone who expressed concern or a negative opinion was quickly reprimanded. If the negative behavior continued, they would be publicly humiliated, first in the chat room and then on a broadcast. I saw this happen to a number of people. Whenever someone left a chat room, they would be added to a different one that was monitored by one of the leaders so their behavior could be monitored.

The chat rooms also had what I would call spies who took screenshots of messages which were sent to Adam to let him know which followers needed to be corrected. (It’s for this reason that I refuse to have a chat room on Twitter or Telegram and I refuse to be a member of any group chat. I realize group chats can be used for good purposes but they can be used to control and manipulate people.) The hallmarks of a personality cult are undying devotion to a leader, conditional acceptance among the group (as long as you follow the prescribed behavior) and hatred toward anyone who dares to leave the group. I frequently witnessed all three of these. The controlling behavior I witnessed is the main reason why I unfollowed Adam.

Lastly, I’ve been accused of making “fake” Q drops. It began when someone noticed a line had been removed from a post by Q that I included in a twitter thread. Truthers being what they are, some people wondered if I didn’t have an ulterior motive for excluding a line from a post. And not just any line but that particular line. Maybe it’s because I’m secretly a Mossad agent, working against Q.

Occam’s razor would suggest a different explanation.

Unlike most people, I don’t take a simple screenshot of a drop by Q and post it on Twitter. That would be the safest way to do it but my workflow is a little more complex. Because I prefer the pink and lavender color scheme, I go to 8chan to get Q posts. Depending on the length of a post, I may take as many as 2 or 3 screenshots to capture the images and text. I then open MS Paint and begin the process of stitching the screenshots together and editing out unwanted data like the links to responses. I format the images to fit Twitter’s recommended image dimensions. (That’s why nearly all my Q post images are horizontal rectangles.)

You’ll notice on any long post, I’ll cut the text into 4 or 5 sections to make it fit properly. I try to accurately reproduce the text and images to the best of my ability. I try to remember to number the sections before I post them. I try to post them in the correct order but sometimes I do this at 2 am on little or no sleep. With more than 3,000 posts so far and a complex workflow, you might expect that I would make a few mistakes.

I’ve accidentally posted sections of a post out of order and on one occasion, I completely omitted one section of a multi-part post by accident. I’ve accidentally cut off the end of a word on a line of text, repeated lines of text that should not have been repeated and omitted lines of text that should have been included. The more one edits Q’s posts, the more likely there are to be mistakes.

The advantage of my system is that it provides readable information for social media and Q seems to appreciate my approach. Many of the “Review time” graphics Q has posted regarding the firing of FBI & DOJ personnel are graphics that I created. No one is more aware of my mistakes than me. I’m taking precautions to be more diligent in reproducing Q’s posts accurately while making them as easy to read as possible on social media.

Thanks for listening and thanks for helping the world see the amazing work God is doing through patriots like Q and Donald Trump.
(If someone would consider posting this on the research board, I’d appreciate it.)

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NOTE: FWIW:

I recently received yet another extensive rant against POTUS TRUMP--claiming yet again with their reference to a list of presumed quality sources--that TRUMP has yet again gone off the wall bonkers and is overdue for forcible insertion into the nearest mental hospital.

I STILL BELIEVE THAT FOLKS WHO TAKE THAT STANCE AGAINST TRUMP

FAIL TO HAVE A SINGLE VALID CLUE ABOUT THE MAN.

At this point, his public accomplishments alone should indicate otherwise.

Certainly an extremely long list of nonverbal video data affirms his quality character, psychology, honesty, integrity, honor, charity, compassion, steadfastness, patience, resoluteness, faithfulness to honorable Biblical values, sacrificial servant-hearted doggedness, . . . in doing the job he set out to do as POTUS--to wit--particularly to rescue us from the shove down the slippery slide to hell that the CABAL-CRAT globalist oligarchy has had us on for decades.

And, . . . to restore the Constitution to its rightful place in guarding our freedoms and prosperity.

Sometimes I'm mystified that normally bright people--even some mental health professionals--can so totally misconstrue the realities of a person as much as they do TRUMP's.

It doesn't take too much digging to watch the youtube's with his kids. The kids are authentic, candid, practical, honest, etc. about their Dad. And they paint an extremely more positive & congruent picture of him than the MSM.

There are similar narratives available about TRUMP's employees and long term staff. They also laud his compassion, generosity, integrity, kindness etc. etc. etc.

All that is VERY CONGRUENT with how I read the non-verbal cues from even his public communications. Evidently I'm better at or give more proper weight to the thousands of tiny nuances that tend to contribute to an understanding commonly characterized as 'intuitive.'

There is a bit of a problem with a lot of TRUMP's evident strategy. HE USES HIMSELF & his public persona very extensively in his Sun Tzu Art of War strategies. He particularly seems to enjoy using the brash, blustery, etc. parts of his character in such regards.

None of that phases me or puts me off. I enjoy it all. He's delighful across his whole range of traits & habits.

He evidently learned Korean for his dialogues with Kim. That's gathered because he knew clearly before either translator spoke, what Kim had just said--TWICE.

Sounds like something he might do.

However, I could also imagine that he's such a fiercely attentive observer of human behavior and listens so well, he might have deduced a lot of accurate meaning just from watching Kim so closely.

I am a bit delighted that the naysayers & rock throwers will end up with rotten eggs on their faces.

I agree with Mark Taylor, Kim Clement & other prophetic sources that TRUMP IS God's chosen & anointed man for the USA in this critical hour. I believe, with them, that he will be in for a full 8 years and that God will keep him alive and achieving good things for the USA and for the Body of Christ.

If 1/10th the accusations of the rock throwers had been true about TRUMP, he would have already crashed and burned and turned into a sniveling mass of incoherent protoplasm cowering in some dark corner somewhere. What an absurd construction on reality to even think in such a direction.

We do well to pray earnestly for his protection, wisdom, humility, family relationship of strong connection etc. That is our part.

He did not have to bow to such a hazardous job--incurring, evidently AT LEAST 12 MAJOR assassination attempts so far. Evidently OThuga's staff discussed assassinating him, too.

I think he has sacrificed a lot of freedom and preferences to take the job. I think he enjoys it because he enjoys playing WHACK-A-MOLE with the satan worshiping opposition.

But it has to be trying to work so hard so well in the face of such 24/7/365 assaultiveness--full court press assaultiveness on the part of the MSM.

So, let us cheer him on; support him in prayer; participate in the Q-Anon intel psy-op toward red-pilling our social networks and wage this war of survival successfully, as God gives us aid and direction.

MAGA!

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MILO YIANOPOLIS

SPOOFS ILHAN OHMAR UNTIL YT TAKES IT DOWN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=470&v=QSKGWt-1sZQ

He does a pretty splendid job of it.

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GREAT SOURCE:

CATES:

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ca321e14d8866e9333b263364e6846ee3b07d5220f015fbf7cb55f3cd6f71f00.jpg?w=800&h=407

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CANDICE OWENS TELLS IT LIKE IT IS:

https://mobile.twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1115751244210085891

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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1116067989340581889.html?utm_source=email&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=internal

My Theme: PANIC


2) A wealth of information has been provided by Attorney General William Barr's Congressional testimony during the last few days if you know:

a) How to pick out important details

b) How to read body language

c) How to read between the lines

3) Q noted that Barr's testimony is causing panic among corrupt people who realize the hammer is about to drop.

4) The article Q linked to highlights comments made by AG Barr about his belief that the Obama administration may have illegally spied on the Trump campaign and that the DOJ is looking into the role Stefan Halper played.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-watchdog-fbi-informant-in-russia-probe

5) Barr's comment on spying.

6) Additional:

Q previously gave us the order of events in the exposure and prosecution of corruption at the end of a long post from February 21:

MUELLER > DECLAS > OIG > TRUTH > JUSTICE

7) AG Barr gave us a clue to the approximate timing of one of those events yesterday when he said the OIG report should be out in May or June.

Since the Mueller report has been completed and declass comes before the OIG report, we ought to see the declass in the coming weeks.


8) The flowchart looks like this:

MUELLER > (past)

DECLAS > (next)

OIG > (Per Barr: May-June)

TRUTH > (Future)

JUSTICE (Future)

9)


10) Just a hunch:

I suspect Q may have paid us a visit this morning for no other reason than to troll the Q haters who were celebrating his death.

Important point:

AG Barr indicated that investigations into illegal spying by Obama administration have already been underway and are continuing.

Those reporting that the investigations are beginning now under Barr are either ignorant or deceitful.

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Occupation:
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The Quix Rabbit is based on the Trix Rabbit cereal mascot.

from

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3740162/posts?q=1&;page=1441

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WE THE PEOPLE INSIDER 1776.COM

66 NEWS SOURCES

SF CALI,

He claims his video has SOME BIBLICAL PROPHETIC STUFF OF SOME IMPORTANCE

I agree his stuff has some significance I just don't think his timing is right. Sometime after Trump--more likely. I don't think it is likely before then.

SOMETHING BIBLICAL IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN WORLDWIDE! (2019--INSIDER INSIGHTS)

I disagree that the more dramatic BIBLICAL END TIMES stuff is about to happen before the end of TRUMP'S terms. Some precursor bits--perhaps. But not the narrative postulated in this video.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23uPqe_MEx8

Doesn't it seem chaotic geopolitically, & climate-wise?

Mass animal death lists growing all around the world.

. . . 123 tons of salmon . . . etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

putting at risk food sources

not a matter of human interference, per se

Large sized hail storms (golf ball sized) . . .

Sounds from deep within the ocean . . .

Tornadoes in unusual places . . .

Flooding . . .

Chemtrails dumped into the Northern Lights . . .

Strange booms & trumpet like sounds from the sky or wherever . . .

Cosmic rays, plasma increases . . .

Talks about scientists ferreting out facts related to "planet 9" . . .

Talks about John Moore's "Navy flood maps" . . . .

Explosions at chemical plants in diverse places . . .

Gets into Biblical END TIMES prophecies--which I disagree as to their application to these months as entirely as he is convinced they do.

Time to repent, acknowledge God, Yeshua The Christ, Holy Spirit (AGREED)

Shadow over Europe . . .

Ezek 38, 39 . . . line-up is in place . . . true . . .

True Red heifer first time since Christ . . .

Rev 12 sign in the heavenlies . . .

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atj0zH9dNUY

WHY TRUMP FIRED HIS SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR

"I don't want a Secret Service Director who . . . . "

Great points.

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http://time.com/5198200/donald-trump-fired-rex-tillerson-analysis/

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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/04/10/rep-doug-collins-releases-testimony-from-fbi-legal-counsel-james-baker-day-2/

Rep Doug Collins Releases Testimony from FBI Legal Counsel James Baker Day #2….
Posted on April 10, 2019   by sundance

Georgia Congressman Doug Collins releases transcripts of day #2 testimony from former FBI chief legal counsel James Baker (full pdf below).  Baker was the legal advisor to FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe during the investigation candidate Donald Trump; a key FBI small group insider during the soft-coup construct.

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PRAYING MEDIC'S LATEST VIDEO

Q-ANON 11 APRIL 2019

PANIC

Good insights, as usual.

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BRIAN CATES

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1116098733983305728.html?utm_source=email&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=internal

Turns out DOJ Inspector General Horowitz has been investigating the Flynn phone call leaks all this time. But because there were NO LEAKS about that leak investigation, *some people* assumed it wasn't being investigated... 🤷‍♂️



Reminder of how DOJ does it business:

It *can*, if it *chooses to*, inform the public & media & Congress it has begun an investigation of something.

DOJ can *also* choose NOT to inform the public and the media & Congress it has begin an investigation into something.
Do you know how many EXAMPLES there are in just the last year of the DOJ *not* making any public statement about an investigation it had started until that investigation was finished and indictments were ready to be unsealed & arrests made?

How about DOZENS?
Right here in THIS column I wrote back in February, I provided SIX specific examples of investigations where the DOJ never said a word about what it was doing. In FOUR of these cases, we only found out when ARRESTS were made.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/matthew-whitaker-is-owed-an-apology-by-the-fake-news-media-on-both-sides_2811628.html

Matthew Whitaker Is Owed an Apology by Fake News Media on Both Sides


Quick, find me ANY press conference or public statement by the DOJ announcing or admitting ANY of these four people were subjects of a criminal investigation before their indictment was unsealed & they were arrested.

James Wolfe
James Fry
Natalie Edwards
Meng Wanzhou

Quick, find me ONE official statement confirming and/or admitting either Andrew McCabe or James Baker are the subject of criminal investigations by the DOJ.

Go ahead, I'll wait.

[hums to himself]

You know how we KNOW James Baker is the subject of a criminal prosecution being led by US Attorneys at the DOJ?

Because he and his lawyer ADMITTED THIS when being questioned by members of Congress.

It's right THERE in Baker's transcripts.

Did he & his lawyer LIE under oath?

Well my goodness, how can former FBI General Counsel James Baker be under criminal investigation by the DOJ when the DOJ has never ANNOUNCED that he was, and there had been NO LEAKS about this? 🤔

"If anything was happening, they'd tell us."

"If anything was happening, there'd be leaks. Our cool inside sources would have the scoop!"

Sure, bro. Keep telling yourself that. You're track record of telling yourself this over the past 2 years is clear, so why change it now?

How about this?

Stuff was happening, and they didn't tell you.

Stuff was happening, and there were no leaks. Your cool inside sources were either lying to you or being fed disinformation. In other words, your sources were shit.

A whole lot of people were confidently asserting for the past 2 years 'nobody' was investigating who leaked that classified intel intercept about Flynn's phone calls to the Washington Post.

What was I saying?

It's being investigated, they're just not talking or leaking.

Now that Barr is in place and is gearing up to launch what Sessions set up for him, it can all start 'leaking' now. Now they can reveal that Horowitiz has been investigating the Flynn leak and Fusion not registering under FARA to lobby on behalf of Russian clients.

Read this again:

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 Montana 🕊Agent Applebutt
@_Montana_Bound_

4/10/2019 Thread: (1) Topic -
“Putin Sees Path To Peace As Attorney General Barr Prepares To Make Democrats Bleed”

Putin mocks Mueller report: ‘a mountain gave birth to a mouse’
Russian president again denies any collusion with Trump election campaign

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/09/russia-vladimir-putin-mocks-robert-mueller-report-a-mountain-gave-birth-to-a-mouse-donald-trump


Putin mocks Mueller report: ‘a mountain gave birth to a mouse’

Russian president again denies any collusion with Trump election campaign

Vladimir Putin has mocked the US special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump, saying “a mountain gave birth to a mouse” and the inquiry’s findings validated the Kremlin’s continuous denials of collusion with Trump’s presidential campaign.

In his first comments since Mueller presented his report to the US attorney general last month, Putin said US Democrats’ claims of a campaign conspiracy reflected their failure to accept the outcome of the 2016 election.

“It was clear for us from the start that it would end like this,” the Russian leader said of the Trump-Russia investigation. “A mountain gave birth to a mouse.”

. . .

(2) Putin Hopes For Fresh Start With Trump After "Notorious" Mueller Commission Found Nothing

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-09/putin-hopes-fresh-start-trump-after-notorious-mueller-commission-found-nothing


Putin Hopes For Fresh Start With Trump After "Notorious" Mueller Commission Found Nothing


As a reminder, Trump scored the biggest political victory of his presidency - even as the credibility of the US liberal medial plumbed new lows - last month after AG William Barr published a summary of Mueller’s finding that there was no collusion during the campaign. Trump, who repeatedly - and correctly - condemned the 22-month inquiry as a "witch hunt" said he’d been completely exonerated.

Agreeing with his US colleague, Putin said that witch hunts are "a black page" in U.S. history and "I would not like it ever to happen again" (here the conspiracy nuts should be ready to chime in with a witty rejoinder). The outcome of the Mueller investigation showed that “a mountain gave birth to a mouse,” the Russian president said.

While Putin said when the two leaders met in Helsinki last year that he’d wanted Trump to win the 2016 election because of his pledge to improve relations - and because Hillary Clinton's State Department did everything in its power to set the stage for a war between Russia and Ukraine - he avoided generating more controversy, and said he supports Trump's re-election in 2020.

"We respect the wishes of the American people,” he said. "Whoever is president, we’re ready to work with them."

To be sure, much bad blood remains between the US "deep state" and Moscow: recall that US intelligence agencies "concluded" that Russia was behind hacking aimed at damaging Democratic Party contender Hillary Clinton (which unveiled that the DNC had rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders, and that Hillary Clinton was a professional in saying one thing to the public and something else to Wall Street). Russia, naturally, rejects the allegations. Trump pledged during his campaign to improve ties with Russia and has repeatedly said he wants good relations with Putin.

As for how the former KGB spy and Trump are getting along currently, Putin said he has "plenty of disagreements" with Trump, whose administration has imposed a series of new sanctions on his country, but is ready to work with the U.S. on issues of joint interest including terrorism and arms control.

“We hope that when this situation normalizes, opportunities will emerge for bilateral cooperation on all issues,” Putin said.

* * *

Separately, Putin also said that Russia will dramatically increase its presence in the Arctic region by building new ports and other facilities and expanding its fleet of icebreaker vessels, as the competition for the area's natural resources intensifies.

Putin told the leaders of Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden at the Forum that Russia's efforts will help quadruple the level of cargo shipments across the Arctic sea route.

"This is a realistic, well-calculated, and concrete task. We need to make the Northern sea route safe and commercially feasible," he said.

And here is another irony: climate change is directly benefiting Russia - the shrinking polar ice in the Arctic region is expected to offer new opportunities for resource exploration and the development of new shipping lanes, leading Russia, the United States, Canada, Denmark, and Norway into a competition for jurisdiction in the region.

Putin set a goal for the amount of cargo carried across the shipping lane to rise to 80 million metric tons by 2025 from the 20 million tons transported in 2018, the majority under Russian-flagged vessels. Russia, the only country with a fleet of nuclear icebreakers, is moving to expand its current inventory of four nuclear-powered vessels to a total of nine by 2035, he said. It also has four nonnuclear icebreakers in its fleet, according to RFE.

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