Jill Stein says Americans need to 'see the evidence of Russian culpability' in election meddling

[estefanyo]

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Source: Fox News

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein told Fox News Thursday night that Americans "have yet to see the proof" that Moscow meddled in last year's election.

Stein confirmed earlier this week that the Senate Intelligence Committee had contacted her campaign to request documents, including emails, as part of its investigation into Russian activities and alleged collusion between campaigns and foreign interests.

"I think there are legitimate aims here in the investigation," Stein told Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight." "Interference in our election is much bigger than the Russians and ... I would like to see the evidence of Russian culpability here."

Stein compared the Russia investigation to the run-up to the Iraq War, saying, "We didn’t get to really see the evidence [then] ... We are still paying that price -- $5.5 trillion and counting. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me a gazillion times, shame on all of us."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/21/jill-stein-says-americans-need-to-see-evidence-russian-culpability-in-election-meddling.html#

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I don't think speaking to Fox News about Putin's innocence will do Jill Stein any favor among investigators.

[Lithos]

1. Was not sure if she was guilty or stupid

Now I know it is both.

[icymist]

2. Comparing this to the buildup to the 2003 Iraq War?! Really?

Jill Stein! My God! I don't even try hard and find this:

[tomp]

7. I thought that comparison was lame also, but...

...but I agree with her that our election problems are way bigger than just Russian interference. Russian interference is simply a special case of a problems added to all the usual problems in 2016.

I would add that the wait for the full revelation of evidence is excruciating.

[estefanyo]

12. You just agreed with Jill Stein

Read your comment.

[DetlefK]

3. Google "Heart of Texas" and click the links that are not about the song.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/10/17/how-the-russians-pretended-to-be-texans-and-texans-believed-them/?utm_term=.b128241d5707

That was how I eventually found my way to the “Heart of Texas” Facebook page (and its @itstimetosecede Twitter feed as well). Heart of Texas soon grew into the most popular Texas secession page on Facebook — one that, at one point in 2016, boasted more followers than the official Texas Democrat and Republican Facebook pages combined. By the time Facebook took the page down recently, it had a quarter of a million followers.

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At one point the page’s organizers even managed to stir up its followers into staging an armed, anti-Islamic protest in Houston. As gradually became clear, this was part of a broader strategy. The sponsors of the page were keen to exacerbate America’s own internal divisions. At certain moments they lent support to Black Lives Matter, while in others they would play to the latent (or obvious) racism of Donald Trump’s base.

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Even the page’s calls for an early November protest across the state – part pro-secession, part anti-Clinton — were garbled.

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And then, in August, it was gone. Just like that, the most popular Texas secession page on Facebook was revealed to be a Russian front, operated by the notorious Internet Research Agency, with Facebook removing all of the posts from public view.



http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/05/politics/heart-of-texas-russia-event/index.html

http://www.businessinsider.de/facebook-group-russia-texas-anti-immigrant-rallies-2017-9?r=US&IR=T

[JustAnotherGen]

4. She's cancelled

Simply cancelled.

[deminks]

5. She wants to know what the feds have on her? Most criminals do. nt

[get the red out]

6. People say Hillary needs to go away

But Jill Stein really needs to go away!

[FakeNoose]

9. She should start by staying off Faux News

Just sayin'

[get the red out]

14. Yep

Green Party my ass, showing up on Fox News like any old anti-environment enemy of the little guy.

[still_one]

8. Stein is as deplorable as the republicans and trump. If the green party wanted to assume

any legitimacy they would disavow any association with her, but they won't

[Corgigal]

10. But we do.

Too bad , you didn't. I guess those wire transfer helped. Happy Holidays...weasel.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Stein's non-Green "Green Party" got Russian help. Now she's helping Trumpanzees shit on Mueller. .nt

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Fuck off, Jill Stein.

Get lost, you maggot.

[janterry]

15. I'm afraid that's my first thought, too.

n/t

[DonViejo]

16. Locking....

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