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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.
Not a puppet. You're the puppet. You're the puppet.
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.
Trump was in touch with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. I saw it on television!
Here's what they really had to say:
Big deal.
Too late. I'm already there. And in Murica we call it a "basement" you damn foreigner!
Moles are bad enough, but when they're Russian, they're drinking vodka while they tunnel and they are all over the place!
Then they pop out of their tunnels, puke all over the lawn, sing really loud and off key, and back into the tunnel zigging and zagging making a huge mess!
At least the Mexican moles keep it to just the holidays - although their music can be obnoxious!
I hope we up deportations. I think we could use spare space on container ships after we unload the shit from China, fill it up with foreigners and whiny protesters, ship em out. If they get mouthy when feeding - throw em overboard.
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.
Sure. Because Kremlin says so... Except, they don't even claim that... It is all a product of hypotheses, suggestions, and unsubstantiated — usually anonymous — claims.
Meanwhile, a few facts about Clinton's recent past:
The only thing, that can be done to address the above accusations by your kind is down-modding them — facts are stubborn. So, apply some Vaseline, charge your Prius and head for Canada as you promised.
The Beautiful Wickedness finally had some water splashed on her, and us, the deplorable munchkins, are rejoicing.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
No, he is Muslim born in Africa. Read it on the Internet.
We just elected a pathological liar supported by people spreading completely made up news through social media. So, yeah?
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'.
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.
But he wears a trucker hat with "Make America Great Again!". I'm confused. Am I going to get a jerb and move into a new double-wide trailer or not?
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!
Judging from what they look like (as well as the looks of the offspring), he gets a great return on his purchase!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
It's voter turn out that ruled the day. Why didn't the Democrats vote?
Dude, you are udderly ridiculous. Seriously. Don't you feel like you have a steak in this coversation? It be hooves you to take a more serious approach to the forum, no matter what you've herd elsewhere. It's time to stop milking this for all it's worth and get with the program, before the mods decide to put you out to pasture, see?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Instead of jumping to conspiracy, how about Russia reaching out to say that they were not involved in the hacks? Considering the amount of venom Hillary was sending to Russia, the threats of war by Joe Biden, indirect action by Clinton claiming she would establish no-fly zones over Syria, perhaps Russia was simply saying "Hey, we didn't do that and are keeping our distance."
There is certainly a different position to be had by a candidates spouse taking hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign interests, which Trump was accused of but Bill Clinton actually did.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
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. . .
Trump is a businessman, unlike you, unaccomplished nothingness chewing on a piece of joint and having no clue where to start fixing economy, except complain when others try
> 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.
Um, do you not understand just about everything Trump did was equally staged? He knows how Television works.
Yes, exactly precisely this. The man has been in front of a TV camera for decades. He's a reality TV star. He knows how to make a false drama engaging. He's very good at it. It doesn't matter if anything he said was true or not, it was entertaining! Who cares if they don't do abortions in the 9th month? Who cares if we've only found about a few dozen actual cases of voter fraud? Play it up! Make it dramatic and absolutely nobody will care.
America, you just elected this guy.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Spend less time worrying about who you vote for and your skin color and write a better resume.
Clinton did not sign off, the State Department did, as did 8 other Federal departments. The person at the State Department who was in charge of it has expressly said that Clinton was never involved in that discussion, and never expressed any opinions on it, as the process was not important or controversial enough to warrant it. And while it did wind up with a Russian company owning a good chunk of the Uranium mines in North America (primarily in Canada), there are export restrictions that prevent any of the product mined there from going to Russia (among most every place).
And she and her close friends did not benefit financially, the accusation is that it was the Clinton Foundation (a charitable organization) that got the money. So far there have been some vague accusations that "the Clintons used the Foundation as their personal piggy bank", but no case of that ever happening has come to light. The Foundation is regularly audited, and that would have shown up by now. The Foundation is generally accepted as being a very good user of its money in doing good around the world.
So explain to me how something she was not involved in, and did not benefit financially from personally was somehow a strike against her.
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
You know, it's quite a coincidence that these attacks only occur during Presidential elections and only when Democrats are having a hard time 'motivating' black voters tiger to the polls and vote...
Except that burning down African-American churches is not something that only occurs during presidential elections. In fact, it happens all the time. We just notice it more during elections.
Here, for example are some stories from early 2015: http://www.theatlantic.com/nat...
and https://www.washingtonpost.com...
and https://www.washingtonpost.com...
and https://www.splcenter.org/hate...
http://www.factcheck.org/2015/06/where-does-clinton-foundation-money-go/
6% is what is paid out in external grants, the Clinton Foundation does most of its work via internal staff.
http://www.factcheck.org/2015/06/where-does-clinton-foundation-money-go/
"Considering all of the organizations affiliated with the Clinton Foundation, he said, CharityWatch concluded about 89 percent of its budget is spent on programs. That’s the amount it spent on charity in 2013, he said.
We looked at the consolidated financial statements (see page 4) and calculated that in 2013, 88.3 percent of spending was designated as going toward program services — $196.6 million out of $222.6 million in reported expenses.
We can’t vouch for the effectiveness of the programming expenses listed in the report, but it is clear that the claim that the Clinton Foundation only steers 6 percent of its donations to charity is wrong, and amounts to a misunderstanding of how public charities work.
— Robert Farley"