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In reply to the discussion: Sanders promoted false story on reporting Russian trolls [View all]yardwork
(61,698 posts)125. Nonsense word salad. Bernie Sanders brought this all up himself this past Wednesday.
Sanders called Hillary Clinton out by name in an interview he gave this past Wednesday. He made a claim that has now proven to be false, or "confused" if you want to be kind.
Sanders himself created this scrutiny of his own words this past week.
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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