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Russia Says it Was in Touch With Trump Campaign During Election (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader shares a CNBC report: The Russian government was in touch with members of President-elect Donald Trump's campaign staff during the U.S. election campaign, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the Interfax news agency on Thursday. "There were contacts," Interfax cited Ryabkov as saying. He did not give details. When asked whether these contacts would now intensify after Trump's election victory, Ryabkov said: "These working moments and follow-up on this or that matter will depend on the situation and the questions which face us. But we will of course continue this work after the elections." Defeated Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton accused Trump of being a "puppet" of President Vladimir Putin during the campaign, and U.S. officials said Russia had hacked into Democratic party emails, something Moscow denied. Trump has said he might meet Putin before his inauguration, but Putin's spokesman has said there are currently no plans for such a meeting.
who did not see that coming ?
Just look at what China did with Clinton:
http://www.scmp.com/news/china...
But it's only "evil" when Trump is involved in something.
Oh, and dealing with other countries diplomatically instead of militarily is now equivalent to Nazism or something all of the sudden. Which is why everybody thought Obama was a Nazi when he was elected... right?
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
This is what happens when close to 50% of eligible voters don't bother to go to the polls.
Russia is still our adversary. They've got their foot in the door right now with Americans suspicious of Trump+Putin they're going to say things like this whether true or not just to continue to disrupt and destabilize us. Take it from someone who lived through the cold war, this is exactly how they operate. Russia does not love Trump as a potential ally, they love being able to shake up the US and Trump gives them a plethora of ways to do that.
This is what happens when close to 50% of eligible voters don't bother to go to the polls.
We get a leader who tries to calm and reassure a potential dangerous adversary?
This partisanship is blinding you to reality. Clinton and Obama were steadily ratcheting up the fear and blame on Russia. They were building moral cover to justify a prolonged campaign of sanctions and possibly war.
It got so bad that Julian Assange publicly stated that Russia was *not* the source of the Podesta E-mails. He *never* gives out information about his sources, that he would do this indicates that he felt there was some danger.
This was all happening over the past two months, and you can't remember it?
Contacting Russia and saying "relax, if I get elected we can work out our problems through diplomacy" is a good thing.
So selling out to Russia is bad, but selling out to Goldman Sachs is tolerable.
Got it. Thanks.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
To roughly half of american voters, that is an absolute zinger of a comeback.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
And yet Hillary has shown to have many of her own flaws including racism and sexism of a different flavor (hating on white males is still discrimination, despite what you think). Not even mentioning all the other problems with her, she's no better, and people still voted for her.
I'm disappointed in 96% of voting Americans. Neither one of these scumbags deserved a single vote.
Don't like Goldman Sachs? Then by all means don't this second go and google who's the leading contender for Trump's treasury secretary.
What, did you actually convince yourself that the billionaire who literally plates everything around him in gold was a "man of the people"? If so:
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It's times like this I wish I had a friend named 'The Professor'.
While Hillary was Secretary of State, she signed off on the sell of part of United States Uranium supply to the Russians leading to financial benefits for the Clintons and their close friends -- like Podesta. That's just the gist. Look for yourself. Look into "Uranium One." The information is public knowledge and was a determent to the US's national security unlike these silly articles spreading Clinton's McCarthyism.
This whole Russian Meme is just silly and needs to be put back in its dusty cold-war shoe box.
47% if the voters. not 47% of the population.
127 million people voted.
The US population is estimated at 324,227,000 in 2016
47% of the voters is 59.6 million people.
47% of the population of the US is 152.3 million people. That's more people than voted in total!
So really, the election told us that 18% of the people next to us in the checkout line are likely to be Trump voters. Some of them aren't even of voting age, so you know they didn't participate in the dumbing down of the presidency (even past the Bush years... it's astonishing, really. The tyranny of the Gaussian come home to roost. Democracy at work: any two idiots outvote a genius. In an environment where geniuses are rare.)
Just saying. :)
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Hey now, don't sell Hillary short! She also sold out to the Russians for $100 million, so she's already proven she's for sale to the Russians AND to Goldman Sachs!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Bernie would have met with them twice as much. Or he wouldn't have met with them at all -- whichever one is the good one.
Congrats idiots in the Democratic party. Trump's election is your fault: you put up a corrupt, dishonest, incompetent loser as a presidential candidate. Don't complain that voters turned away in disgust.
The truth that nearly half (currently 47%) of the population of the United States are deep down a mix, of racist, sexist, hate-filled scumbags and uneducated morons too ignorant to see Trump for what he is.
Do you KNOW anyone who voted for Trump ? Have you talked to any of them ? Chances are, they're a lot like me. Yes, I voted for Trump. I had the choice between a double-decker shit sandwich, and a regular shit sandwich. I chose less shit.
But either way, I knew I was getting a shit sandwich. . .
> But either way, I knew I was getting a shit sandwich. . .
Everyone did. Canada offers its condolences.
FYI we have five parties with members in the house and an independent. Over the last 25 years I've voted for 4 of them. Having a *real* selection results in a whole less nose-holding when you go to the poles.
Which makes the whole Gary Johnson debacle a nice scoop of shit on top of that sandwich. Ugh, my condolences, again.
Trump is a businessman, unlike you, unaccomplished nothingness chewing on a piece of joint
Trump's steps to business success:
1. Be born really rich.
2. ???
3. Profit
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this is true...Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort had to quit because of ties with Russian Mobsters: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/19/...
Idiots are to blame for Trump's victory...all kinds of idiots across the political spectrum contributed along the way, starting with idiot Democrats who voted for Hillary over Bernie....up to the idiot Republicans for being Republican...and of course let's not forget the idiot journalists of the MSM
Idiots are to blame
Thank you Dave Raggett