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In reply to the discussion: Sanders promoted false story on reporting Russian trolls [View all]Cha
(297,532 posts)65. I already knew it.. What's surprising
to me.. is that the story came out.
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So then, a Sanders campaign worker did NOT contact the Clinton campaign with this info?
George II
Feb 2018
#7
Let's get back to the subject and premise of the OP. Contacting the Obama administration...
George II
Feb 2018
#13
Correct. And yet now more than a year later, even though everyone knows that...
George II
Feb 2018
#19
No the article isn't about blame, it's about taking credit for something someone didn't do.
George II
Feb 2018
#40
The first part has been explained over and over again with respect to Obama.....
George II
Feb 2018
#34
That's terrible. I bet he's the first Presidential candidate to make such a mistake.
jalan48
Feb 2018
#35
So no one actually spoke to the person (Mattes) directly, just read it in an article? Plus.....
George II
Feb 2018
#93
The staffer contacted a pro-Clinton Super PAC in September, and then "just before the election"...
George II
Feb 2018
#21
Nonsense word salad. Bernie Sanders brought this all up himself this past Wednesday.
yardwork
Feb 2018
#125
This is a matter of federal law. Sanders' campaign is required by law to understand this.
yardwork
Feb 2018
#114
Yes, that's the only surprise...but it just another confirmatoon of what we've known all along
lunamagica
Feb 2018
#68
Can you, and others, please add in parenthesis which Sanders? The candidate or the mouthpiece?
question everything
Feb 2018
#22
Ha Ha. The White House mouthpiece. Otherwise known as huckelberry (nt)
question everything
Feb 2018
#87
The Politico is not a Russian bot. Quoting Sanders what Bernie said the other day isn't BS
emulatorloo
Feb 2018
#57
This is a developing story in Feb 2018, based on an interview Sanders gave to Vermont NPR a few days
emulatorloo
Feb 2018
#59
Bernie Sanders said this during an interview broadcast by Vermont Public Radio.
yardwork
Feb 2018
#115
+1000 I just finished rereading "The Crucible" - these anti-Bernie threads read like scenes right
diva77
Feb 2018
#136
Moral, Sanders did not realize that some of his "grassroots" was "astroturf"
McCamy Taylor
Feb 2018
#44
Sorry, Bernie already said he knew about Russia in an interview on MSNBC in July 19 2017
emulatorloo
Feb 2018
#64
+1, if Sanders knew he should've been publicly speaking up even before the convention. This is
uponit7771
Feb 2018
#102
Really? How so? This story is clearly about "inaccurate" boasts that were spoken in 2018.
NurseJackie
Feb 2018
#49
Actually no, it is about an interview that happened on Vermont radio a couple days ago. 2018.
emulatorloo
Feb 2018
#55
As Sarah Sanders said, This Has Already Been Litigated and Answered Many Times Before...
TomCADem
Feb 2018
#80
I am giving Bernie the benefit od the doubt. I can't see him being malicious in any of this
wasupaloopa
Feb 2018
#56
A politician's "lack of malice" is not a good enough reason to give him/her a free pass...
NurseJackie
Feb 2018
#69
I stand by my post. My guess is Bernie was trying to inform people of Russian intrusion
wasupaloopa
Feb 2018
#74
If Bernie knew about it then he should have came out and said it publicly.
herding cats
Feb 2018
#112
Unnnn, read his account, he said they knew Russia was trying to cause riffs in the dem
uponit7771
Feb 2018
#103
Inflamatory title for what actually happened here. Politico reporting certainly wouldn't have a
JCanete
Feb 2018
#100
"He didn't say that he had contact with this person." that's the point, why claim they did ...
uponit7771
Feb 2018
#105
Bernie brought this all up himself this past Wednesday. He called out Hillary Clinton by name.
yardwork
Feb 2018
#116
My worry is the same people who relentlessly attacked Hillary are not going to
Eliot Rosewater
Feb 2018
#119
If that was the only mistake it could be forgivable- but the heart of his statement - her campaign
bettyellen
Feb 2018
#126