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Democratic Party Files Suit Alleging Russia, the Trump Campaign, and WikiLeaks Conspired To Disrupt the 2016 Election (cnbc.com)

The Democratic Party is suing Russia, the Trump campaign and the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks for conspiring to disrupt the 2016 presidential election. From a report: The multi-million-dollar lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court says that "In the Trump campaign, Russia found a willing and active partner in this effort" to mount "a brazen attack on American Democracy," which included Russian infiltration of the Democratic Party computer network. The Trump campaign, according to the lawsuit, "gleefully welcomed Russia's help." The suit says that "preexisting relationships with Russia and Russian oligarchs" with Trump and Trump associates "provided fertile ground for [the] Russia-Trump conspiracy." The common purpose of the scheme, according to the Democratic National Committee, was to "bolster Trump and denigrate the Democratic Party nominee," Hillary Clinton, while boosting the candidacy of Trump, "whose policies would benefit the Kremlin." Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said the party's suit "is not partisan, it's patriotic."

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  1. Re:And hilarity ensues!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I honestly hope she will be in prison by that time

    Of course you do, Democrat. But if Trump works hard, he can deny you your wish, thereby easily winning re-election. And Trump is doing everything he can think of, to make crime-fighters look at him instead of his greatest ally ever (Clinton).

    He's winning.

  2. Re: And hilarity ensues!!!! by Nidi62 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If a significant portion of the people you personally selected (by your own claims!) to work under you/advise you/etc have been caught doing something illegal

    Everyone you work with and are friends with has been doing illegals things. What does that say about you?

    That I probably shouldn't be president?

    --
    The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
  3. Re:The democratic party did itself in by nedlohs · · Score: 3, Funny

    When "the socialist isn't on the ballot so I'll vote tor the libertarian instead" doesn't seem completely insane you know the main candidates were truly terrible :)

  4. Re:The hostility towards Bernie by tsqr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't be a grammer Notsie. Irregardless, if you're going to tow that line you will have a hard roll to hoe. For all intensive purposes, it doesn't make any deference; it's a mute point.