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About that Russia thing

Post by Sean Hayden » Fri Nov 02, 2018 4:19 pm

What happened? Where did it go? Is the investigation over? Did they find out if Trump worked with Russia to win the election or not?

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Post by Joe » Fri Nov 02, 2018 4:30 pm

It's been really quiet. Some people are speculating Mueller is trying not to influence the election, but others are guessing that he has already subpoenaed Trump.
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Post by JimC » Fri Nov 02, 2018 9:47 pm

Boris and Natasha are still at large, I believe... :tea:
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Post by Sean Hayden » Fri Nov 02, 2018 9:49 pm

:lol: my poor country!

Thanks for the link Joe. :cheers:

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Post by Joe » Fri Nov 02, 2018 9:56 pm

JimC wrote:
Fri Nov 02, 2018 9:47 pm
Boris and Natasha are still at large, I believe... :tea:
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Post by Tero » Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:17 pm

Yeah, Trump had someone murdered for Putin, Putin murdered someone for the Saudis and the Saudis murdered someone for Trump. So it's all set now. Nobody goes to jail. And the bodies are dissolved.
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Post by laklak » Sat Nov 03, 2018 1:47 am

He should sic Vlad on Soros, pointy umbrella the old fuck. What are friends for?
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Post by Cunt » Sat Nov 03, 2018 4:51 am

Wasn't there some claim that the Russians had dug a really deep hole? It's only a dozen centimeters or so across, but with any luck, THAT is where they are going to put the deep state...
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Post by Jason » Sat Nov 03, 2018 3:26 pm

JimC wrote:
Fri Nov 02, 2018 9:47 pm
Boris and Natasha are still at large, I believe... :tea:
...and Fearless Leader? :ask:

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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Tue Jan 31, 2023 3:19 pm

Whatever. It's history. :tut:

'The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016'
It was arguably the most consequential “October Surprise” in the history of American presidential elections. In the waning days of the 2016 race, with polls showing Hillary Clinton clinging to a lead over Donald Trump, two last-minute stories broke that rekindled on-the-fence voters’ ethical doubts about Democrat Clinton and quashed a budding scandal around her GOP rival.

Except the “October Surprise” was no surprise to one key player: Rudolph Giuliani, the ex-New York City mayor and Trump insider who later became the 45th president’s attorney. Late that month, Giuliani told Fox News that the trailing Republican nominee had “a surprise or two that you’re going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, I’m talking about some pretty big surprises.”

Just two days later, then-FBI director James Comey revealed the bureau had reopened its probe into Clinton’s emails, based on the possible discovery of new communications on a laptop belonging to disgraced New York politico Anthony Weiner. The news jolted the campaign with a particularly strong boost from the New York Times, which devoted two-thirds of its front page to the story — and the notion it was a major blow to Clinton’s prospects.

It was later reported that Comey was motivated to make the unusual announcement about the laptop because he feared leaks from the FBI’s New York field office, which, according to Reuters, had “a faction of investigators based in the office known to be hostile to Hillary Clinton.” Indeed, Giuliani bragged immediately after that he had sources in the FBI, including current agents.

The supposed bombshell — it turned out there was nothing incriminating or particularly new on the laptop — wasn’t the only FBI-related story that boosted Trump in the homestretch of the 2016 campaign. On Oct. 31, citing unnamed “intelligence sources,” the Times reported, “Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia.” That article defused a budding scandal about the GOP White House hopeful — at least until after Trump’s shock election on Nov. 8, 2016. In the coming days and weeks, the basis of that Times article would melt, but by then the most unlikely POTUS in U.S. history was ensconced in the Oval Office.

There are many reasons for Trump’s victory, but experts have argued the FBI disclosures were decisive. In 2017, polling guru Nate Silver argued that the Comey probe disclosure cost Clinton as many as 3-4 percentage points and at least 1 percentage point, which would have flipped Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin and handed her the Electoral College.

Clearly, the wrong investigation was reopened.

This week’s stunning corruption charges against a top FBI spymaster who assumed a key role in the bureau’s New York office just weeks before 2016′s “October surprise” — an agent who by 2018 was known to be working for a Vladimir Putin-tied Russian oligarch — should cause America to rethink everything we think we know about the Trump-Russia scandal and how it really happened that Trump won that election.

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