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I'm sure 57 and Julio will make sure to remind us that lying proves that they were hiding something sinister
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I don't know enough to comment on that, except that you seem to be suggesting of that that leak came from the Mueller side. I'm not sure why that should be the conclusion, particularly as it was attributed to a Flynn confidant. If you're wondering why that[/] guy, it would seem more substantial to speculate that he was intentionally burned...the day it happened there was more than one journalist who said that they were going to withhold judgment until it was confirmed because of Ross's history.
Every who read that Flynn was prepared to connect Russia with Trump...in court and under oath...had to be somewhat skeptical. I know I was. I'm also not convinced that he won't give highly damaging testimony about. We're all gonna have to wait and see. This thing is gonna be a slow drip for a long time.
You can bet Trump is worried. That's why he's continuing his attack on the institutions of govt. by saying the FBI was "in tatters". Trying to publicly undermine the people investigating him is trying to obstruct justice, whether it's legal or not.
I'm sure 57 and Julio will make sure to remind us that lying proves that they were hiding something sinister
I guess we should only be 'slightly' concerned about the FBI at this point.
No ..just the people running it. That's who needs to be replaced. It's been a political witchhunt from the very beginning. Keep denying the reality.
Remember when you mocked for e questioning the integrity of Mueller team based on campaign contributions?
No ..just the people running it. That's who needs to be replaced. It's been a political witchhunt from the very beginning. Keep denying the reality.
Remember when you mocked for e questioning the integrity of Mueller team based on campaign contributions?
You remember when I told you that Ty Cobb had also made campaign contributions to Democrats?
But as you and many others on this board have done. Just add bits of pieces of information together to develop a grandiose theory.
I guess we should only be 'slightly' concerned about the FBI at this point.
It was real enough for Mueller to remove him from the investigation. That is very telling.
Russian state actors hacked the DNC/Podesta emails and laundered them through Wikileaks. The Trump campaign's data operation made entreaties to Wikileaks to get access to the data. Russian state actors undertook other efforts to assist his election. Trump's campaign manager was longtime fixer for a pro-Russian political party. He offered to use his position to privately brief an oligarch and confidant of Putin to whom he owed money. Trump's campaign brought on a vocally pro-Russian advisor with manifold financial interests there who had been actively recruited by Russian intelligence. Another foreign policy advisor was used by Russian intelligence to pitch potential dirt on Hillary Clinton to the campaign. Trump's foreign policy was unabashedly, and counterintuitively (considering the party line), pro-Russian. The only change they made to the Republican Party platform was about not arming Ukrainian forces in their conflict with Russia (not a bad decision on its face, but...odd in context). Candidate Trump's son, son-in-law, and campaign manager met with a Russian lawyer who was promising Clinton dirt and the support of the Russian government. Kushner met with a spook who runs a big Russian bank and failed to disclose it. Kushner failed to disclose pretty much everything. Trump's personal lawyer hand-delivered to him a Russia-friendly "peace plan" for Ukraine. Sessions misled congress about meetings with the ambassador. Flynn lied to the FBI about discussing sanctions. Pretty much everyone involved in the campaign lied their asses off about campaign contacts with Russian interests. Trump pressured the FBI director about the Flynn investigation. Trump then fired said FBI director and essentially crowed about it to Sergei Lavrov. Trump's State Department has failed to enact further Russia sanctions passed by Congress now two months past the deadline for doing so.
So, yeah, these are all bits and pieces of information. But I'm not advancing a grandiose theory. These things prove a Russian effort to influence the election, and indicate some degree of willingness to cooperate on the part of people in Trump's orbit. It does not prove a criminal conspiracy nor a concrete quid pro quo. The one thing I think I can say definitively is that Russian entities tried on multiple fronts to penetrate the campaign, and it's worth determining if they had any success.
You're taking much sketchier allegations, with much less factual underpinning, and making concrete conclusions. So, yes, totally the same thing by 2017 standards.