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Showing Original Post only (View all)Intel says Donald Trump agreed to let Russia have Ukraine in exchange for hacking election [View all]
http://www.palmerreport.com/news/donald-trump-ukraine-russia-hacking-election/808/Donald is going to wet his pants, Tweetstorm at 12 o'clock!
In the hours since an intelligence report about Donald Trump and Russia went public which the FBI, NSA and CIA all thought was credible enough to brief the President on, most of the focus has been on Trumps alleged sexual antics included in the report. It included everything from Trump being involved with Russian prostitutes, to Russia videotaping it all and planning to blackmail him. But theres another, potentially more serious accusation in the report: Trump agreed to let Russia have Ukraine in return for its role in helping him get elected.
The accusations in the intel report in question, which came from a former British MI6 intelligence officer, have not yet been proven. All we know thus far is that the U.S. intel community did consider the report viable enough that it briefed both President Obama and Trump himself on the matter. The most damning passage may be the following, which appears on pages seven and eight:
Inter alia, Source E, acknowledged that the Russian regime had been behind the recent leak of embarrassing e-mail messages, emanating from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), to the WikiLeaks platform. The reason for using WikiLeaks was plausible deniability? and the operation had been conducted with the full knowledge and support of TRUMP and senior members of his campaign team. In return the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue and to raise defence commitments in the Baltics and Eastern Europe to de?ect attention away from Ukraine, 3 priority for PUTIN who needed to cauterise the subject.
If this particular detail of the intel report can be proven, it represents treason and it would almost certainly result in Trumps eventual impeachment.
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flamingdem
Jan 2017
OP
So who is the Palmer Report? I never heard of them, and some of the statements are very
napi21
Jan 2017
#2
but hillary's i.t. guy didn't keep up with microsoft security updates and podesta's risotto recipe..
unblock
Jan 2017
#4
was this promise what resulted in that being pulled from the RNC platform prior to his convention?
KewlKat
Jan 2017
#7
I'd love to get Trump. . . . . . Legitimately. Such junk doesn't help us, unless confirmed.
Hoyt
Jan 2017
#12
This guy has the timeline and the characters all together. I don't know how to past an actual
Maraya1969
Jan 2017
#15
Impeachment...by the GOP Congress...which is implicated in covering it up pre-election?
Crash2Parties
Jan 2017
#17
If that doesn't meet the definition of 'Aid and Comfort' then I don't know what the fuck does.
Volaris
Jan 2017
#18
Former British intelligence officer with relationship w/Russian insiders is saying it's pretty legit
iluvtennis
Jan 2017
#20
Buzzfeed said that document had been passed around the media for weeks
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2017
#35