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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. Russian derangement syndrome is fatal by KiviPall · · Score: 0, Troll

    Russian derangement syndrome is fatal.
    How long are those libr-clowns going to milk that dead cow?

  2. Re: Hypocrites by CoolDiscoRex · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sometimes, I ask people if we would be doing all of this Russia stuff had Hillary won? When I do, I get the strangest look as if they'd never even thought of it before. You kind of see the facial expression as they progress from suprised, to the realization that the answer is "no, we wouldn't care about any Russian collusion had our chosen candidate won." All this hand-wringing about Patriotism and American Democracy ... had said interference been in their favor, not a word would be uttered. In fact, we all know they'd be shouting down anyone who brought it up as a bunch of backwoods tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists. SNL would be running end-to-end sketches about redneck Republicans crowing about "Russian Collusion". It's also ironic that this time, it's the Democrats decrying that foreigners are influencing our elections. These are the same people who think having to present ID at the polling place is xenophobic. Affluent Democrats used to be our intellectual elite. Now, they're just as easily lured down the path of blatant hypocricy, and they are just as blind to it as the religious right has ever been. Self-interest and nraccisim completely surpress what should be the ability to see contradictions with clarity, and reduce all people, regardless of political afliliation, to defacto tools of whichever powerful interest seeks to use them. The USA no longer has an intellectual elite. We no longer have any identifiable party which can can establish a claim to the moral high ground. Instead, we have two intensely self-interested factions taking positions and feigning endless outrage to establish themselves within the heirarchy of the (usually inherited) idiology group. As cliche' as it is to reference the movie Idiocracy, it's becoming increasingly clear that it was an extremely optimistic portrayal of this nation's future.

  3. Clinton just continues to ruin her name by p51d007 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not that it can be ruined much longer. Liar, cheater, "strong" woman that hid & covered up her husbands BJ's, rapes and everything else, mocked the woman that accused him of rape & sexual assault. Where's the (pound)#METOO bunch? Why do you not believe them, but, people would believe a "porn actress"? Fair is fair.. if you believe the allegations against Trump, equal treatment should be given to the Bill bunch that Hillary was in charge of destroying. A strong woman HA! Attempting to further her rise on the political ladder on the back of her husband. This "lawsuit" is just another attempt to bring down Trump. Ain't gonna happen.

  4. Re:And hilarity ensues!!!! by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Clinton is running again,

    Maybe the crazy old bat thinks this time she'll win by even more than 3,000,000 votes.

    But it won't work because the video of her torturing and raping an adolescent girl is about to come out. You think I'm kidding?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    #QAnon
    #StormysComing
    #FolllowTheWhiteRabbit
    #PatriotsDay
    #AprilShowers

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  5. Re: And hilarity ensues!!!! by tbannist · · Score: 0, Troll

    Err...what in the world is racist about asking ID to prove who you are?

    It's simple, when it comes time to decide what ID is sufficient to prove who you are, the Republicans always seem to also look at which form of ID black voters are least likely to have because they rarely get most of the black vote. Then then repeat the process for other groups they can identify that don't vote for them. The goal is always to find the id combination that allows the most white voters to cast their vote without trouble, while allowing the fewest non-white voters to do the same. Then they boast about it how it helps them win elections.

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