sombear said:
HuMcK said:
whiterock said:
sombear said:
HuMcK said:
Married A Horn said:
So, legit question here...
This has to go through Biden's administration for prosecution, right?
First thing to realize is, despite the (deliberately) inflammatory language used by Kash Patel (not Durham), there is no crime being alleged regarding the DNS lookups (characterized as an "infiltration", lol).
What could have been criminal is if Sussman lied to FBI/CIA about his source for the DNS info, but that brings me to the next realization: the statute of limitations for charging those lies ran out just 2 days before this filing. In other words, Durham is subtly letting us know he's not charging anything to do with that meeting, and the only value he sees in the info is dropping it in an unrelated filing to generate the kind of headlines that gets the Trumpies who aren't sophisticated enough to know any better riled up.
In the end it doesn't change what was uncovered: Trump's campaign manager got caught having clandestine meetings with a Russian intelligence agent so they could share internal info and coordinate strategies, plus Trump's son accepted an explicit offer of assistance against Hillary from the Russian government, among many other things. And that's only dealing with 2016, in 2020 Giuliani got caught dealing with yet another officially sanctioned Russian agent in his quest to manufacture some Ukrainian dirt against Hunter Biden. Wild how a Russian crawls out from under just about any rock you turn over with these Trump people.
C'mon man . . . . Manafort giving a long time client polling info that became public the next day is collusion? Trump Jr. meeting with a Russian lawyer who even according to NYT was "not well known in Russia?" What the Clinton campaign did was 100 times worse, paying a fraud to go to Russia for dirt on Trump. You need to move on. Jan 6 is much more fertile ground.
It's not just that his epistemology is comically wrong each of those things in bold, it's that he so fervently believes what he's saying that it's impossible for him to perceive it any other way.
Parts in bold are not what I "perceive", they are objective interpretations of the available evidence. I'm sorry the facts trigger you people so much. I really dont understand why it's so hard to admit: Trump got caught, he personally has a bare minimum of plausible deniability but it is fact that members of his campaign had extremely suspicious contacts with Russian intelligence while the Russians were working to help his campaign against Hillary. Even Trump's own intel agencies were forces to admit as much a long time ago.
This song and dance is tiresome. I post some facts or some primary source, the Trumpers here flat out ignore it then declare "see, I told you no evidence!". But the result stays the same: you are shilling for a pack of unrepentant criminals, for whom no tactic is too low down if it means they might obtain power. If not for some corrupt pardons, basically all of the 2016 Trump campaign leadership group would be sitting in prison right now...
Actually Trump didn't get caught … despite years of Gov and media "investigation." And now you've negotiated down to others on his team having "suspicious" contacts. I guess I'll grant you that if you grant what Hillary and others did was 100 times worse.
That second paragraph was aimed at your laughable spin on the subject, btw. "Long time client", lol. Ask yourself how someone who had longstanding relationships with Russian spies ended up working as Trump's campaign manager
for free, while the Russians were coincidentally hacking the DNC servers. The Senate Intel Committee report actually went a step further and insinuated that Kilimnik had some involvement in the hacks themselves. And that Russian lawyer "no one has heard of" (as if that is somehow a valid defense, lol) is an officially sanctioned Russian agent.
And no, Hillary commissioning an investigation into Trump is not somehow worse than Trump's agents coordinating with Russian agents, but your contrary belief is a good example of that alternate reality I was talking about. If what Hillary did was wrong, did you ever stop to think what that implies about what Trump/Giuliani did to Hunter Biden (which, coincidentally, again put them in contact with sanctioned Russian agents)?
Never forget, when a Russian billionaire's lackey representative explained his offer of assistance to Don Jr thusly: "This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is
part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump", instead of going to US authorities Jr replied "I love it". Those emails literally spell it out for you in black and white, they accepted campaign help from the Russian government, but your partisan blinders won't let you see it.