Clapper: Intelligence community 'cast doubt on the legitimacy' of Trump's victory

[DonViejo]

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Source: The Hill


BY JOSH DELK - 09/23/17 10:50 AM EDT

The former director of National Intelligence said that the intelligence community's conclusion that Russians sought to influence the 2016 election "cast doubt on the legitimacy" of President Trump's victory.

"Our intelligence community assessment did, I think, serve to cast doubt on the legitimacy of his victory in the election," James Clapper said in a CNN interview on Friday night.

Clapper oversaw the January report that concluded, in a consensus between the CIA, NSA and FBI, that Russia carried out a deliberate and multifaceted attempt to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The report found convincing evidence that Russia had specifically worked to aid Donald Trump in winning the presidency.



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[Botany]

1. no shit Jim ... we have President Trump even though every newspaper in America was against him, ....

.... all the former Presidents and their families were against him, and that after 2012
a GOP study said that had to do better w/blacks, hispanics, and women to ever have
a chance in a national election again then they pick Trump who is a cancer to all 3 groups.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/24/russians-suspected-hacking-wisconsin-dems/97023222/

[joanbarnes]

2. Been saying this since 11/8/16

[not fooled]

3. Yeah

agree that it's an obvious conclusion but still, to have such a formerly high-up intelligence official come out at say this is significant. And deleterious to all faux-watching ostriches with their heads still stuck in the sand (or up their asses).

Installing him served not only putin's interests but also that of the kochs and their ilk. They will do everything they can to prop him up as the figurehead for their long-planned corporate coup.

[Nitram]

4. It is very significant that someone of Clapper's experience and profile has come out and said this.

The other shoe has dropped. Trump is going to hate this.

[sarcasmo]

5. Facebook admitting the 3,000 Russian ad buys this week was Huge.

[sandensea]

6. DHS no doubt agrees.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029253229

[Matthew28]

7. It is a fact

with out a shallow of a doubt that Russia gave Trump the elections.

Wis, Mich and Pa hasn't want Republican in at least 30 years. No other way to explain it.

[OliverQ]

8. Sadly nothing we can do to rectify this :(