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RE: CNN: No one cares about Russia
January 23, 2018 at 3:45 pm
(January 23, 2018 at 3:41 pm)alpha male Wrote: (January 23, 2018 at 3:36 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I dunno about you, but I think lying to the FBI and "conspiracy against the United States" are both pretty fucking serious.
Lying to the FBI about something that wasn't a crime in itself is in no way serious to Trump, and as the CNN link I gave above notes, the other charges were unrelated to the Trump campaign.
That's why people can't remember them. They're nothingburgers.
Who cares if it's not serious to Trump? The investigation is about Russian interference in the US election. If Trump had absolutely 100% nothing to do with it, but Russian interference still happened, isn't that still serious? This investigation is bigger than Trump, it's about our democracy.
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RE: CNN: No one cares about Russia
January 23, 2018 at 3:48 pm
(January 23, 2018 at 3:43 pm)alpha male Wrote: (January 23, 2018 at 3:16 pm)Tiberius Wrote: The DNC got hacked, the RNC likely got hacked. Emails got leaked, there were meetings between Russians and the Trump campaign. Trump might have more business ties to Russia than he admits to. Several members of the Trump campaign have been accused of being foreign agents working for Russian interests. There's a lot of stuff being investigated.
Most people are far more concerned with the behavior of the DNC, than with the source of the leaks.
Why can't they be concerned with both? I am, and they should be. The fact that the largest political parties of the US can be hacked and their internal emails leaked is a bad thing, regardless of whats in the emails. Next time this happens, it could be the RNC emails getting leaked. I doubt they are squeaky clean either.
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RE: CNN: No one cares about Russia
January 23, 2018 at 3:51 pm
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"Most people" voted for the DNCs candidate. Some People™ are "concerned with the dncs behavior"...you know.... R(the kremlin) types.
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RE: CNN: No one cares about Russia
January 23, 2018 at 3:51 pm
(January 23, 2018 at 3:43 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: That’s a pathological kind of denial right there, Alpha.
The Senate dems didn't just blink because they think they have Trump on the ropes.
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RE: CNN: No one cares about Russia
January 23, 2018 at 3:51 pm
(January 23, 2018 at 3:41 pm)alpha male Wrote: (January 23, 2018 at 3:36 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I dunno about you, but I think lying to the FBI and "conspiracy against the United States" are both pretty fucking serious.
Lying to the FBI about something that wasn't a crime in itself is in no way serious to Trump, and as the CNN link I gave above notes, the other charges were unrelated to the Trump campaign.
That's why people can't remember them. They're nothingburgers.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dic...n-the-dark
The thing about these "unrelated" crimes is that they become leverage to get people to talk as part of their plea deals. This is Criminal Investigation 101.
Sessions's interview this morning probably touched on this subject as well.
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RE: CNN: No one cares about Russia
January 23, 2018 at 3:53 pm
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(January 23, 2018 at 3:51 pm)alpha male Wrote: (January 23, 2018 at 3:43 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: That’s a pathological kind of denial right there, Alpha.
The Senate dems didn't just blink because they think they have Trump on the ropes.
"Dems tossed dreamers under the trump bus, therefore you must acquit" Thanks Johnny. 
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RE: CNN: No one cares about Russia
January 23, 2018 at 3:55 pm
(January 23, 2018 at 3:51 pm)alpha male Wrote: (January 23, 2018 at 3:43 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: That’s a pathological kind of denial right there, Alpha.
The Senate dems didn't just blink because they think they have Trump on the ropes.
You're right, Captain Non Sequitur! They caved because they got together and realized the investigation won't be over anytime soon.
Brilliant.
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RE: CNN: No one cares about Russia
January 23, 2018 at 3:56 pm
(January 23, 2018 at 3:45 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Who cares if it's not serious to Trump?
Most people.
Quote:The investigation is about Russian interference in the US election. If Trump had absolutely 100% nothing to do with it, but Russian interference still happened, isn't that still serious? This investigation is bigger than Trump, it's about our democracy.
It's been a year. How many indictments are there regarding Russian interference in the election?
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RE: CNN: No one cares about Russia
January 23, 2018 at 3:57 pm
(January 23, 2018 at 3:51 pm)alpha male Wrote: (January 23, 2018 at 3:43 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: That’s a pathological kind of denial right there, Alpha.
The Senate dems didn't just blink because they think they have Trump on the ropes.
They blinked because the optics worked against them. It was a politically expedient decision.
I'm unsure why you think it has any bearing on Mueller's investigation, other than you simply trying to muddy the waters.
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RE: CNN: No one cares about Russia
January 23, 2018 at 3:57 pm
(January 23, 2018 at 2:55 pm)Tiberius Wrote: People should care about Russia, which is why the media continue to report on it. If the media just reported on things that people cared about, we'd be reading fluff stories everywhere.
The mere possibility that a foreign power, and a historic adversary at that, could have possibly interfered with our election process is bad for our democracy.
Maybe if the media would stop bungling their Russian collusion stories more people would give their reporting some credibility. The media doesn't like Trump and they always seem to be in a rush to crucify him....and they fuck up.
Quote:Brian Ross, the chief investigative correspondent for ABC News, has been suspended for four weeks without pay after incorrectly reporting that Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, would testify that President Trump had directed him to make contact with Russian officials while Mr. Trump was still a candidate, the network announced on Saturday.
Mr. Trump directed Mr. Flynn to make contact after the election, as president-elect, the network said.
ABC initially issued a clarification after Mr. Ross made the statement during a live broadcast on Friday but later called it a correction.
“We deeply regret and apologize for the serious error we made yesterday,” ABC said in a on Saturday. “The reporting conveyed by Brian Ross during the special report had not been fully vetted through our editorial standards process.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/us/br...d-abc.html
Quote:CNN on Friday corrected an erroneous report that Donald Trump Jr. had received advance notice from the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks about a trove of hacked documents that it planned to release during last year’s presidential campaign.
In fact, the email to Mr. Trump was sent a day after the documents, stolen from the Democratic National Committee, were made available to the general public. The correction undercut the main thrust of CNN’s story, which had been seized on by critics of President Trump as evidence of coordination between WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign.
It was also yet another prominent reporting error at a time when news organizations are confronting a skeptical public, and a president who delights in attacking the media as “fake news.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/busin...mp-jr.html
Quote:Three journalists from CNN’s investigative unit are leaving the network after the retraction of their June 22 story connecting an ally of President Trump to a Russian investment fund.
The story, citing an anonymous source, said Senate investigators were examining a meeting between Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci and an executive for the Russian Direct Investment Fund. The $10-billion fund makes direct investments in Russian companies.
Scaramucci, who founded hedge fund specialist SkyBridge Capital, served on Trump's transition team.
The retracted story appeared on CNN's website and did not air on television.
www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-cnn-resignation-20170626-story.html
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