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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 09:31 AM Jan 2017

Hacking & leaking of Democratic emails was carried out "with the full knowledge & support of Trump"

The memos describe several purported meetings during the 2016 presidential campaign between Trump representatives and Russian officials to discuss matters of mutual interest, including the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee and Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, John D. Podesta.

If some of the unproven claims in the memos are merely titillating, others would amount to extremely serious, potentially treasonous acts.

One of the opposition research memos quotes an unidentified Russian source as claiming that the hacking and leaking of Democratic emails was carried out “with the full knowledge and support of TRUMP and senior members of his campaign team.” In return, the memo said, “the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue” because Mr. Putin “needed to cauterize the subject.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-intelligence.html

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Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
1. How is that any different from paying G. Gordon Liddy to bug the DNC headquarters?
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 09:33 AM
Jan 2017

Inquiring minds would like to know.

Botany

(70,508 posts)
4. Comey strikes again
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 09:55 AM
Jan 2017

Ron Wyden ✔@RonWyden
Director Comey refused to answer my question about whether the FBI has investigated Trump campaign contacts with Russia
3:57 PM - 10 Jan 2017

Botany

(70,508 posts)
8. I am begining to think that Comey is more the Republican hack but that Russia has .....
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 10:24 AM
Jan 2017

.... something(s) on him.

 

HoneyBadger

(2,297 posts)
7. Did you miss the part where Trump has had his own people well placed in the DNC and Democratic Party
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 10:19 AM
Jan 2017

For 8+ years

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