Comrade Trump

[Uncle Ted]

LOL... Is Big Brother watching?

Also in March, Page seems to be concerned about whether the things they say about Mr. Trump can be found out. "So look, you say we can text on that phone when we talk about Hillary because it cant be traced," she wrote.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/here-ar...e-about-trump/

You have to love it when government spying bites the spies in their own butts. Yes, Big Brother is always watching.

[Uncle Ted]

Whoa... this is starting to get good. Is the FBI conspiring against a candidate to prevent them from becoming President of the United States?

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It seems like there was definitely some collusion going on in this last presidential election. Now we just have to find the Russians.

[Shaka]

Whoa... this is starting to get good. Is the FBI conspiring against a candidate to prevent them from becoming President of the United States?

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It seems like there was definitely some collusion going on in this last presidential election. Now we just have to find the Russians.

This will be considered a nothingburger by many in this thread all the while they will be screaming Russia, Russia, Russia! When the Russia stuff doesn't work out they will just have to bang the sexual harassment drum harder.

[Jeff Lebowski]

This will be considered a nothingburger by many in this thread all the while they will be screaming Russia, Russia, Russia! When the Russia stuff doesn't work out they will just have to bang the sexual harassment drum harder.

Hey dude. Sorry your guy lost last night.

[Shaka]

Hey dude. Sorry your guy lost last night.

I think you're mistaking me for someone that lives in Alabama.

[Uncle Ted]

This will be considered a nothingburger by many in this thread all the while they will be screaming Russia, Russia, Russia! When the Russia stuff doesn't work out they will just have to bang the sexual harassment drum harder.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is getting his ass grilled hard over these "nothingburger" text messages live and in color on CNN right now.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I think you're mistaking me for someone that lives in Alabama.

Oh. You were referring to Trump's sexual harassment. Never mind.

[BlueK]

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is getting his ass grilled hard over these "nothingburger" text messages live and in color on CNN right now.

I thought he answered all the questions very well. Very professional.

These kinds of hearings mostly just remind us all why Congress has such a terrible approval rating. Mostly a bunch of idiot windbags.

[Uncle Ted]

I thought he answered all the questions very well. Very professional.

These kinds of hearings mostly just remind us all why Congress has such a terrible approval rating. Mostly a bunch of idiot windbags.

Yeah, the optics of this is going to cause a lot of folks to pull out the rusty pitch forks on the FBI...

The text messages makes it looks like the FBI is a bunch of biased dumdums.

[Uncle Ted]

Jailed Russian hacker: I hacked Democrats 'under the command' of Russian intelligence agents

A Russian hacker told a Moscow court in August that he was ordered to hack the Democratic National Committee by Russian intelligence agents at the FSB.
The hacker was arrested in mid-2016 on charges relating to his work with a notorious hacking collective.
Kozlovsky's work with the FSB could undermine the Kremlin's repeated claims that it had nothing to do with DNC hacks in late 2015



http://www.businessinsider.com/russi...igence-2017-12

Hey Frank, is this the same russian hacker?...

Russian charged with breaching U.S. firms says FBI attempted to coerce confession over Clinton hack

A Russian man wanted by the Justice Department on charges connected to hacking U.S. companies now claims the FBI offered him immunity in exchange for accepting responsibility for cyberattacks targeting former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.


Yevgeny Nikulin, the alleged hacker, laid the claim to Russian media Thursday in a letter sent from a Czech Republic prison cell amid an international extradition battle currently underway between Washington and Moscow.


FBI agents promised Mr. Nikulin money, American citizenship and a free apartment for taking the fall over hacking Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, he alleged in a letter published Thursday by Nastoyashchoe Vremya, a Russian-language website.


“[They told me:] you will have to confess to breaking into Clinton’s inbox for [President Trump] on behalf of [Russian President Vladimir Putin],” Mr. Nikulin wrote, as translated by The Moscow Times.


“He was offered to falsely testify that he was cooperating in the attack on the Democratic Party,” defense attorney Martin Sadilek said Thursday, the Associated Press reported.


The FBI declined to comment.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...r-claims-fbi-/

[beefytee]

So help me understand the FBI issue.

I haven't looked very far into it, so tell me what is so horrible.

Here's what I understand. One of the agents working on the investigation seemed to really hate Trump. Said a bunch of dumb disparaging/dumb things. Doesn't have any financial interest or other real interest in taking down Trump beside really not liking the guy (AFAIK, correct me if I'm wrong). Muller finds out about the dumb things the guy said and removes him from the investigation in the Summer.

Is that an accurate description of the situation?

If so, this is a huge nothingburger. The process is working as it is supposed to.

For the record, the collusion investigation so far only has nothingburgers. Lying to the FBI is dumb and serious but there isn't anything related to collusion yet.

[Jeff Lebowski]

So help me understand the FBI issue.

I haven't looked very far into it, so tell me what is so horrible.

Here's what I understand. One of the agents working on the investigation seemed to really hate Trump. Said a bunch of dumb disparaging/dumb things. Doesn't have any financial interest or other real interest in taking down Trump beside really not liking the guy (AFAIK, correct me if I'm wrong). Muller finds out about the dumb things the guy said and removes him from the investigation in the Summer.

Is that an accurate description of the situation?

If so, this is a huge nothingburger. The process is working as it is supposed to.

For the record, the collusion investigation so far only has nothingburgers. Lying to the FBI is dumb and serious but there isn't anything related to collusion yet.

Sounds about right. Seems like UT is blowing it way out of proportion to imply there is some conspiracy against his boy Trump.

[creekster]

Sounds about right. Seems like UT is blowing it way out of proportion to imply there is some conspiracy against his boy Trump.

Either that or he is making the comparison to underscore the nothingburgerness of the whole thing

[frank ryan]

So help me understand the FBI issue.

I haven't looked very far into it, so tell me what is so horrible.

Here's what I understand. One of the agents working on the investigation seemed to really hate Trump. Said a bunch of dumb disparaging/dumb things. Doesn't have any financial interest or other real interest in taking down Trump beside really not liking the guy (AFAIK, correct me if I'm wrong). Muller finds out about the dumb things the guy said and removes him from the investigation in the Summer.

Is that an accurate description of the situation?

If so, this is a huge nothingburger. The process is working as it is supposed to.

For the record, the collusion investigation so far only has nothingburgers. Lying to the FBI is dumb and serious but there isn't anything related to collusion yet.

I'm not sure why you'd call it a nothing burger. There has not been anything conclusive yet, but there is plenty that demands further scrutiny and plenty that feeds the suspicion that something happened, including the 9 or 10 Trump with ties to Russians, meetings where dirt on client was discussed, and promises of enacting Russia-favorable promises before being in office. Flynn alone is a big deal. He is cooperating with Mueller. If Mueller is allowed to finish his investigation (a huge if at this point) I'm confident something damning in regards to Trump will come to light.

Either that or he is making the comparison to underscore the nothingburgerness of the whole thing

That makes zero sense. You are giving him far to much credit. Ted just regurgitates outlets like Alex Jones and Breitbart.

[beefytee]

I'm not sure why you'd call it a nothing burger. There has not been anything conclusive yet, but there is plenty that demands further scrutiny and plenty that feeds the suspicion that something happened, including the 9 or 10 Trump with ties to Russians, meetings where dirt on client was discussed, and promises of enacting Russia-favorable promises before being in office. Flynn alone is a big deal. He is cooperating with Mueller. If Mueller is allowed to finish his investigation (a huge if at this point) I'm confident something damning in regards to Trump will come to light.

While there isn't anything conclusive yet, and there is plenty of suspicious activity, I'm not near as confident as you that something damning will come out of the investigation.