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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 03:21 AM Jul 2020

I don't understand how its legal for American politicians @SenRonJohnson @LindseyGrahamSC to work w


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I don't understand how its legal for American politicians @SenRonJohnson @LindseyGrahamSC to work w Russian agent Telizhenko / KGB mafia thug Derkach to launder russian fabricated intel from a Ukrainian fugitive and Yanukovych ally to attack our elections

Anyone else doing that would he charged w conspiracy against United States

The rest involved are Giuliani, Donoghue, Brady, Nunes, Jordan, Barr, Sessions, Manafort. On the Ukrainian side its Yanukovych's (fled to russia after committing treason against Ukraine) people, Kolomoisky, Shokin, etc. This is really insane
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I don't understand how its legal for American politicians @SenRonJohnson @LindseyGrahamSC to work w (Original Post) soothsayer Jul 2020 OP
I Don't either. Rtx3 Cha Jul 2020 #1
I think there is a scary and very disappointing lack of actual 'laws' against this sort of thing ... mr_lebowski Jul 2020 #2
I wish all countries would wake up and take notice to how much of a danger Putin really is. Jamastiene Jul 2020 #3
Conspiracy requires knowing law breaking Cicada Jul 2020 #4
So much of the evil doings, are so 'out there' and obvious, - in public no less. empedocles Jul 2020 #5
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
2. I think there is a scary and very disappointing lack of actual 'laws' against this sort of thing ...
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 04:06 AM
Jul 2020

Not that if there WERE such laws, Barr would enforce them.

But I doubt there actually are explicit laws against it. More of an 'expectation' that Senators don't conduct themselves this way.

Now ... should Dems get back Senate ... perhaps these dudes can be penalized by the Body.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
3. I wish all countries would wake up and take notice to how much of a danger Putin really is.
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 04:11 AM
Jul 2020

He is a danger to democratically elected governments and all citizens of countries with democratically elected governments. He needs to be stopped, but none of the governments so far have bothered to notice it. In America, Republicans are cozying right up to him to help him usurp the will of the voters, because Republicans always cheat. They cheat because no one ever punishes them for it or stops them.

So, we just sit back and let it happen. Surely with all the great minds in the Democratic Party and law degrees galore, someone can figure out how to stop Putin and stop Republicans from getting away with cheating so much. I don't understand why no one is the least bit alarmed by all this. Are any of them working on this? Do they even realize how much of a danger Putin is already and how much worse it will get if he is allowed to continue? He cannot even treat his own neighbors right, got his whole government to resign so he could reinstall himself permanently, for the most part, as leader forever in Russia, and now he is deciding elections in our countries too. Why is no one else angry about this? I feel like a lone voice no one will listen to sometimes.

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
4. Conspiracy requires knowing law breaking
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 04:21 AM
Jul 2020

Gathering lies from people abroad is not illegal

Also the first amendment protects distributing info, especially related to elections

The remedy is demonstrating the info is false

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
5. So much of the evil doings, are so 'out there' and obvious, - in public no less.
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 06:25 AM
Jul 2020

However, so many, seem incapable of even getting the blatantly visible Covid threat.

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