Trump violates seven norms just within the last week and the Right says nothing

[Valerie]

Full transcript: FBI Director testifies on Russian interference in 2016 election

So We Find Out FBI Has Been Investigating Trump Since July


"The Russian active measures campaign may have begun as early as 2015, when Russian intelligence services launched a series of spear fishing attacks designed to penetrate the computers of a broad array of Washington based Democratic and Republican party organizations, think tanks and other entities. This continued at least through the winter of 2016.

While at first the hacking may have been intended solely for the collection of foreign intelligence. In mid-2016 the Russians weapon eyes the stolen data and used platforms established by the Intel services, such as D.C. leaks in existing third-party channels like WikiLeaks to dump the documents. The stolen documents were almost uniformly damaging to the candidate Putin despised, Hillary Clinton. And by forcing her campaign to constantly respond to the daily drip of disclosures, the releases greatly benefited Donald Trump's campaign.

None of these facts is seriously in question. And they're reflected in the consensus conclusion of our intelligence agencies.

We will never know whether the Russian intervention was determinative in such a close election. Indeed, it is unknowable in a campaign to which so many small changes could have dictated a different result. More importantly, and for the purposes of our investigation, it simply does not matter.

What does matter is this, the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy and our intelligence agencies have concluded they will do so again. Ours is not the first democracy to be attacked by the Russians in this way. Russian intelligence has been simile interfering in the internal and political affairs of our European and other allies for decades.


What is striking here is the degree to which the Russians were willing to undertake such an audacious and risky action against the most powerful nation on Earth. That ought to be a warning to us that if we thought that the Russians would not dare to so blatantly interfere in our affairs, we were wrong.

And if we do not do our very best to understand how the Russians accomplished this unprecedented attack on our democracy and what we need to do to protect ourselves in the future, we will only have ourselves to blame.

We know a lot about the Russian operation, about the way they amplified the damage their hacking and dumping of stolen documents was causing through the use of slick propaganda like R.T., the Kremlin's media arm. But there is a lot we don't know.

Most important, we do not yet know whether the Russians have the help of U.S. citizens including people associated with the Trump campaign. Many of the Trump's campaign personnel, including the president himself, have ties to Russia and Russian interests. This is of course no crime. On the other hand, if the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it aided or abetted the Russians, it would not only be a serious crime, it would also represent one of the most shocking betrayals of democracy in history."




What we know about the 21 states targeted by Russian hackers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ut-the-21-states-targeted-by-russian-hackers/


10 Months After Election Day, Feds Tell States More About Russian Hacking

 

[kwc57]

Thanks one and all for aiding and abetting the success of the Trump presidency to date. Good job and stick around as there’s lots more work for you to do. Thanks again!

Wow, guilt by association, how authoritarian of you.

The FBI dug it's own hole, Trump is just laughing at them as they try to climb out of it.

Do you have confirmation of this, or is this just your best pitch at telling a lie?

Do you have any actual factual basis for articles of Impeachment?

They have what if, imagine, allegedly and reportedly.

and all from anonymous sources.

If they are anonymous sources, then you should have no problem in debating those claims right? But you won't, because you can't. And that's the beauty of it. Your own line of bs won't help you.

Anonymous sources tend to get ignored except by those looking for confirmation of their bias. Anonymous sources say that Obama frequented gay bathhouses and that Huma is Hillary's personal fluffer. Can we take those claims as fact? Let's debate it.

 

[martybegan]

awww poor donny is upset the FBI knew when his admin was lying to the American people.

waaaa the FBI is "leaking" the truth to the American people!!!

The mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners; and to perform these responsibilities in a manner that is responsive to the needs of the public and is faithful to the Constitution of the United States.

Organization, Mission and Functions Manual: Federal Bureau of Investigation | DOJ | Department of Justice


NSA chief says Trump hasn't told him to confront Russian cyber threat

This is going to end badly for them in so many different ways. I'm with Lawrence O'donnell on this. Rosenstein is basically letting Trump play into his hand, because Rosenstein knows that he is playing with a child with evil on the brain. Trump, in this stunt thought he could get him to resign, but instead what Trump will get, is an IG report that reveals nothing. Lawrence: DOJ adapts against Trump attacks

You really are a sad bunch of pathetic losers.

And you are a poor soul with your finger up your ass eating sour grapes, so helpless to debate these impeachable offenses.

what offenses?????

You keep just spouting opinions instead of concrete accusations.

It's mental masturbation, nothing more.

 

[martybegan]

Full transcript: FBI Director testifies on Russian interference in 2016 election

So We Find Out FBI Has Been Investigating Trump Since July


"The Russian active measures campaign may have begun as early as 2015, when Russian intelligence services launched a series of spear fishing attacks designed to penetrate the computers of a broad array of Washington based Democratic and Republican party organizations, think tanks and other entities. This continued at least through the winter of 2016.

While at first the hacking may have been intended solely for the collection of foreign intelligence. In mid-2016 the Russians weapon eyes the stolen data and used platforms established by the Intel services, such as D.C. leaks in existing third-party channels like WikiLeaks to dump the documents. The stolen documents were almost uniformly damaging to the candidate Putin despised, Hillary Clinton. And by forcing her campaign to constantly respond to the daily drip of disclosures, the releases greatly benefited Donald Trump's campaign.

None of these facts is seriously in question. And they're reflected in the consensus conclusion of our intelligence agencies.

We will never know whether the Russian intervention was determinative in such a close election. Indeed, it is unknowable in a campaign to which so many small changes could have dictated a different result. More importantly, and for the purposes of our investigation, it simply does not matter.

What does matter is this, the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy and our intelligence agencies have concluded they will do so again. Ours is not the first democracy to be attacked by the Russians in this way. Russian intelligence has been simile interfering in the internal and political affairs of our European and other allies for decades.


What is striking here is the degree to which the Russians were willing to undertake such an audacious and risky action against the most powerful nation on Earth. That ought to be a warning to us that if we thought that the Russians would not dare to so blatantly interfere in our affairs, we were wrong.

And if we do not do our very best to understand how the Russians accomplished this unprecedented attack on our democracy and what we need to do to protect ourselves in the future, we will only have ourselves to blame.

We know a lot about the Russian operation, about the way they amplified the damage their hacking and dumping of stolen documents was causing through the use of slick propaganda like R.T., the Kremlin's media arm. But there is a lot we don't know.

Most important, we do not yet know whether the Russians have the help of U.S. citizens including people associated with the Trump campaign. Many of the Trump's campaign personnel, including the president himself, have ties to Russia and Russian interests. This is of course no crime. On the other hand, if the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it aided or abetted the Russians, it would not only be a serious crime, it would also represent one of the most shocking betrayals of democracy in history."




What we know about the 21 states targeted by Russian hackers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ut-the-21-states-targeted-by-russian-hackers/


10 Months After Election Day, Feds Tell States More About Russian Hacking

Nothing but a ton of assumptions, guesses and wishful thinking.

Brought to you by the MSM, created by the deep state, and eaten with a smile on the faces of the gullible idiots like you.

 

[WTP]

awww poor donny is upset the FBI knew when his admin was lying to the American people.

waaaa the FBI is "leaking" the truth to the American people!!!

The mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners; and to perform these responsibilities in a manner that is responsive to the needs of the public and is faithful to the Constitution of the United States.

Organization, Mission and Functions Manual: Federal Bureau of Investigation | DOJ | Department of Justice


NSA chief says Trump hasn't told him to confront Russian cyber threat

This is going to end badly for them in so many different ways. I'm with Lawrence O'donnell on this. Rosenstein is basically letting Trump play into his hand, because Rosenstein knows that he is playing with a child with evil on the brain. Trump, in this stunt thought he could get him to resign, but instead what Trump will get, is an IG report that reveals nothing. Lawrence: DOJ adapts against Trump attacks

You really are a sad bunch of pathetic losers.

And you are a poor soul with your finger up your ass eating sour grapes, so helpless to debate these impeachable offenses.

what offenses?????

You keep just spouting opinions instead of concrete accusations.

It's mental masturbation, nothing more.

What offenses would you like to start with? The violation of the emoluments clause in that we don't know how many offenses there are? But I will give the example of Trump having the advantage of enriching himself by way of the Chinese investing $500 million dollars on Trump. That is a violation of office by serving "HIM", not "SERVING THE PEOPLE". The people get nothing out of that deal. Now, I want your counter argument as to exactly why and how that is not impeachable?

 

[WTP]

Thanks one and all for aiding and abetting the success of the Trump presidency to date. Good job and stick around as there’s lots more work for you to do. Thanks again!

Wow, guilt by association, how authoritarian of you.

The FBI dug it's own hole, Trump is just laughing at them as they try to climb out of it.

Do you have confirmation of this, or is this just your best pitch at telling a lie?

Do you have any actual factual basis for articles of Impeachment?

They have what if, imagine, allegedly and reportedly.

And you have?

The greatest president since Reagan.

Lol!

 

[WTP]

Full transcript: FBI Director testifies on Russian interference in 2016 election

So We Find Out FBI Has Been Investigating Trump Since July


"The Russian active measures campaign may have begun as early as 2015, when Russian intelligence services launched a series of spear fishing attacks designed to penetrate the computers of a broad array of Washington based Democratic and Republican party organizations, think tanks and other entities. This continued at least through the winter of 2016.

While at first the hacking may have been intended solely for the collection of foreign intelligence. In mid-2016 the Russians weapon eyes the stolen data and used platforms established by the Intel services, such as D.C. leaks in existing third-party channels like WikiLeaks to dump the documents. The stolen documents were almost uniformly damaging to the candidate Putin despised, Hillary Clinton. And by forcing her campaign to constantly respond to the daily drip of disclosures, the releases greatly benefited Donald Trump's campaign.

None of these facts is seriously in question. And they're reflected in the consensus conclusion of our intelligence agencies.

We will never know whether the Russian intervention was determinative in such a close election. Indeed, it is unknowable in a campaign to which so many small changes could have dictated a different result. More importantly, and for the purposes of our investigation, it simply does not matter.

What does matter is this, the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy and our intelligence agencies have concluded they will do so again. Ours is not the first democracy to be attacked by the Russians in this way. Russian intelligence has been simile interfering in the internal and political affairs of our European and other allies for decades.


What is striking here is the degree to which the Russians were willing to undertake such an audacious and risky action against the most powerful nation on Earth. That ought to be a warning to us that if we thought that the Russians would not dare to so blatantly interfere in our affairs, we were wrong.

And if we do not do our very best to understand how the Russians accomplished this unprecedented attack on our democracy and what we need to do to protect ourselves in the future, we will only have ourselves to blame.

We know a lot about the Russian operation, about the way they amplified the damage their hacking and dumping of stolen documents was causing through the use of slick propaganda like R.T., the Kremlin's media arm. But there is a lot we don't know.

Most important, we do not yet know whether the Russians have the help of U.S. citizens including people associated with the Trump campaign. Many of the Trump's campaign personnel, including the president himself, have ties to Russia and Russian interests. This is of course no crime. On the other hand, if the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it aided or abetted the Russians, it would not only be a serious crime, it would also represent one of the most shocking betrayals of democracy in history."




What we know about the 21 states targeted by Russian hackers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ut-the-21-states-targeted-by-russian-hackers/


10 Months After Election Day, Feds Tell States More About Russian Hacking

Nothing but a ton of assumptions, guesses and wishful thinking.

Brought to you by the MSM, created by the deep state, and eaten with a smile on the faces of the gullible idiots like you.

If they are assumptions, then prove that they are. Assumptions are presently making an idiot out of you if you don't do better than that.

 

[WTP]

awww poor donny is upset the FBI knew when his admin was lying to the American people.

waaaa the FBI is "leaking" the truth to the American people!!!

The mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners; and to perform these responsibilities in a manner that is responsive to the needs of the public and is faithful to the Constitution of the United States.

Organization, Mission and Functions Manual: Federal Bureau of Investigation | DOJ | Department of Justice


NSA chief says Trump hasn't told him to confront Russian cyber threat

This is going to end badly for them in so many different ways. I'm with Lawrence O'donnell on this. Rosenstein is basically letting Trump play into his hand, because Rosenstein knows that he is playing with a child with evil on the brain. Trump, in this stunt thought he could get him to resign, but instead what Trump will get, is an IG report that reveals nothing. Lawrence: DOJ adapts against Trump attacks

You really are a sad bunch of pathetic losers.

And you are a poor soul with your finger up your ass eating sour grapes, so helpless to debate these impeachable offenses.

what offenses?????

You keep just spouting opinions instead of concrete accusations.

It's mental masturbation, nothing more.

What offenses would you like to start with? The violation of the emoluments clause in that we don't know how many offenses there are? But I will give the example of Trump having the advantage of enriching himself by way of the Chinese investing $500 million dollars on Trump. That is a violation of office by serving "HIM", not "SERVING THE PEOPLE". The people get nothing out of that deal. Now, I want your counter argument as to exactly why and how that is not impeachable?

I'm still waiting? How and why is it not impeachable? You are getting slow on me. Cat got your keyboard?

 

[skookerasbil]

Full transcript: FBI Director testifies on Russian interference in 2016 election

So We Find Out FBI Has Been Investigating Trump Since July


"The Russian active measures campaign may have begun as early as 2015, when Russian intelligence services launched a series of spear fishing attacks designed to penetrate the computers of a broad array of Washington based Democratic and Republican party organizations, think tanks and other entities. This continued at least through the winter of 2016.

While at first the hacking may have been intended solely for the collection of foreign intelligence. In mid-2016 the Russians weapon eyes the stolen data and used platforms established by the Intel services, such as D.C. leaks in existing third-party channels like WikiLeaks to dump the documents. The stolen documents were almost uniformly damaging to the candidate Putin despised, Hillary Clinton. And by forcing her campaign to constantly respond to the daily drip of disclosures, the releases greatly benefited Donald Trump's campaign.

None of these facts is seriously in question. And they're reflected in the consensus conclusion of our intelligence agencies.

We will never know whether the Russian intervention was determinative in such a close election. Indeed, it is unknowable in a campaign to which so many small changes could have dictated a different result. More importantly, and for the purposes of our investigation, it simply does not matter.

What does matter is this, the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy and our intelligence agencies have concluded they will do so again. Ours is not the first democracy to be attacked by the Russians in this way. Russian intelligence has been simile interfering in the internal and political affairs of our European and other allies for decades.


What is striking here is the degree to which the Russians were willing to undertake such an audacious and risky action against the most powerful nation on Earth. That ought to be a warning to us that if we thought that the Russians would not dare to so blatantly interfere in our affairs, we were wrong.

And if we do not do our very best to understand how the Russians accomplished this unprecedented attack on our democracy and what we need to do to protect ourselves in the future, we will only have ourselves to blame.

We know a lot about the Russian operation, about the way they amplified the damage their hacking and dumping of stolen documents was causing through the use of slick propaganda like R.T., the Kremlin's media arm. But there is a lot we don't know.

Most important, we do not yet know whether the Russians have the help of U.S. citizens including people associated with the Trump campaign. Many of the Trump's campaign personnel, including the president himself, have ties to Russia and Russian interests. This is of course no crime. On the other hand, if the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it aided or abetted the Russians, it would not only be a serious crime, it would also represent one of the most shocking betrayals of democracy in history."




What we know about the 21 states targeted by Russian hackers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ut-the-21-states-targeted-by-russian-hackers/


10 Months After Election Day, Feds Tell States More About Russian Hacking

Meh

The Obama administration didn't think our democracy was at risk.

Meanwhile progressives continue in their exercise of group navel contemplation.

 

[WTP]

Full transcript: FBI Director testifies on Russian interference in 2016 election

So We Find Out FBI Has Been Investigating Trump Since July


"The Russian active measures campaign may have begun as early as 2015, when Russian intelligence services launched a series of spear fishing attacks designed to penetrate the computers of a broad array of Washington based Democratic and Republican party organizations, think tanks and other entities. This continued at least through the winter of 2016.

While at first the hacking may have been intended solely for the collection of foreign intelligence. In mid-2016 the Russians weapon eyes the stolen data and used platforms established by the Intel services, such as D.C. leaks in existing third-party channels like WikiLeaks to dump the documents. The stolen documents were almost uniformly damaging to the candidate Putin despised, Hillary Clinton. And by forcing her campaign to constantly respond to the daily drip of disclosures, the releases greatly benefited Donald Trump's campaign.

None of these facts is seriously in question. And they're reflected in the consensus conclusion of our intelligence agencies.

We will never know whether the Russian intervention was determinative in such a close election. Indeed, it is unknowable in a campaign to which so many small changes could have dictated a different result. More importantly, and for the purposes of our investigation, it simply does not matter.

What does matter is this, the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy and our intelligence agencies have concluded they will do so again. Ours is not the first democracy to be attacked by the Russians in this way. Russian intelligence has been simile interfering in the internal and political affairs of our European and other allies for decades.


What is striking here is the degree to which the Russians were willing to undertake such an audacious and risky action against the most powerful nation on Earth. That ought to be a warning to us that if we thought that the Russians would not dare to so blatantly interfere in our affairs, we were wrong.

And if we do not do our very best to understand how the Russians accomplished this unprecedented attack on our democracy and what we need to do to protect ourselves in the future, we will only have ourselves to blame.

We know a lot about the Russian operation, about the way they amplified the damage their hacking and dumping of stolen documents was causing through the use of slick propaganda like R.T., the Kremlin's media arm. But there is a lot we don't know.

Most important, we do not yet know whether the Russians have the help of U.S. citizens including people associated with the Trump campaign. Many of the Trump's campaign personnel, including the president himself, have ties to Russia and Russian interests. This is of course no crime. On the other hand, if the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it aided or abetted the Russians, it would not only be a serious crime, it would also represent one of the most shocking betrayals of democracy in history."




What we know about the 21 states targeted by Russian hackers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ut-the-21-states-targeted-by-russian-hackers/


10 Months After Election Day, Feds Tell States More About Russian Hacking

Meh

The Obama administration didn't think our democracy was at risk.

The FBI did, and they warned the Trump campaign before the election about the interference.

 

[Valerie]

Full transcript: FBI Director testifies on Russian interference in 2016 election

So We Find Out FBI Has Been Investigating Trump Since July


"The Russian active measures campaign may have begun as early as 2015, when Russian intelligence services launched a series of spear fishing attacks designed to penetrate the computers of a broad array of Washington based Democratic and Republican party organizations, think tanks and other entities. This continued at least through the winter of 2016.

While at first the hacking may have been intended solely for the collection of foreign intelligence. In mid-2016 the Russians weapon eyes the stolen data and used platforms established by the Intel services, such as D.C. leaks in existing third-party channels like WikiLeaks to dump the documents. The stolen documents were almost uniformly damaging to the candidate Putin despised, Hillary Clinton. And by forcing her campaign to constantly respond to the daily drip of disclosures, the releases greatly benefited Donald Trump's campaign.

None of these facts is seriously in question. And they're reflected in the consensus conclusion of our intelligence agencies.

We will never know whether the Russian intervention was determinative in such a close election. Indeed, it is unknowable in a campaign to which so many small changes could have dictated a different result. More importantly, and for the purposes of our investigation, it simply does not matter.

What does matter is this, the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy and our intelligence agencies have concluded they will do so again. Ours is not the first democracy to be attacked by the Russians in this way. Russian intelligence has been simile interfering in the internal and political affairs of our European and other allies for decades.


What is striking here is the degree to which the Russians were willing to undertake such an audacious and risky action against the most powerful nation on Earth. That ought to be a warning to us that if we thought that the Russians would not dare to so blatantly interfere in our affairs, we were wrong.

And if we do not do our very best to understand how the Russians accomplished this unprecedented attack on our democracy and what we need to do to protect ourselves in the future, we will only have ourselves to blame.

We know a lot about the Russian operation, about the way they amplified the damage their hacking and dumping of stolen documents was causing through the use of slick propaganda like R.T., the Kremlin's media arm. But there is a lot we don't know.

Most important, we do not yet know whether the Russians have the help of U.S. citizens including people associated with the Trump campaign. Many of the Trump's campaign personnel, including the president himself, have ties to Russia and Russian interests. This is of course no crime. On the other hand, if the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it aided or abetted the Russians, it would not only be a serious crime, it would also represent one of the most shocking betrayals of democracy in history."




What we know about the 21 states targeted by Russian hackers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ut-the-21-states-targeted-by-russian-hackers/


10 Months After Election Day, Feds Tell States More About Russian Hacking

Nothing but a ton of assumptions, guesses and wishful thinking.

Brought to you by the MSM, created by the deep state, and eaten with a smile on the faces of the gullible idiots like you.

gullible idiots swallow anti-American russian troll-farm talking points wholesale.

way to own it, idiot.




in the USA we live by rule of law and due process of the law, sorry traitor!


Old KGB spy manual reveals origin of fake-news strategy

Before ‘fake news,’ there was Soviet ‘disinformation’

Vladimir Putin’s Political Meddling Revives Old KGB Tactics

 

[martybegan]

awww poor donny is upset the FBI knew when his admin was lying to the American people.

waaaa the FBI is "leaking" the truth to the American people!!!

The mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners; and to perform these responsibilities in a manner that is responsive to the needs of the public and is faithful to the Constitution of the United States.

Organization, Mission and Functions Manual: Federal Bureau of Investigation | DOJ | Department of Justice


NSA chief says Trump hasn't told him to confront Russian cyber threat

This is going to end badly for them in so many different ways. I'm with Lawrence O'donnell on this. Rosenstein is basically letting Trump play into his hand, because Rosenstein knows that he is playing with a child with evil on the brain. Trump, in this stunt thought he could get him to resign, but instead what Trump will get, is an IG report that reveals nothing. Lawrence: DOJ adapts against Trump attacks

You really are a sad bunch of pathetic losers.

And you are a poor soul with your finger up your ass eating sour grapes, so helpless to debate these impeachable offenses.

what offenses?????

You keep just spouting opinions instead of concrete accusations.

It's mental masturbation, nothing more.

What offenses would you like to start with? The violation of the emoluments clause in that we don't know how many offenses there are? But I will give the example of Trump having the advantage of enriching himself by way of the Chinese investing $500 million dollars on Trump. That is a violation of office by serving "HIM", not "SERVING THE PEOPLE". The people get nothing out of that deal. Now, I want your counter argument as to exactly why and how that is not impeachable?

People better at the law than me have already answered the emoulments clause thing

Opinion | Does the emoluments clause lawsuit against President Trump stand a chance?

and as for the Chinese thing, it Involves Trump branded parts of the properties, Trump has no actual connection to the $$.

China Contributes $500 Million to Trump-Linked Indonesia Project | National Review

 

[WTP]

Full transcript: FBI Director testifies on Russian interference in 2016 election

So We Find Out FBI Has Been Investigating Trump Since July


"The Russian active measures campaign may have begun as early as 2015, when Russian intelligence services launched a series of spear fishing attacks designed to penetrate the computers of a broad array of Washington based Democratic and Republican party organizations, think tanks and other entities. This continued at least through the winter of 2016.

While at first the hacking may have been intended solely for the collection of foreign intelligence. In mid-2016 the Russians weapon eyes the stolen data and used platforms established by the Intel services, such as D.C. leaks in existing third-party channels like WikiLeaks to dump the documents. The stolen documents were almost uniformly damaging to the candidate Putin despised, Hillary Clinton. And by forcing her campaign to constantly respond to the daily drip of disclosures, the releases greatly benefited Donald Trump's campaign.

None of these facts is seriously in question. And they're reflected in the consensus conclusion of our intelligence agencies.

We will never know whether the Russian intervention was determinative in such a close election. Indeed, it is unknowable in a campaign to which so many small changes could have dictated a different result. More importantly, and for the purposes of our investigation, it simply does not matter.

What does matter is this, the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy and our intelligence agencies have concluded they will do so again. Ours is not the first democracy to be attacked by the Russians in this way. Russian intelligence has been simile interfering in the internal and political affairs of our European and other allies for decades.


What is striking here is the degree to which the Russians were willing to undertake such an audacious and risky action against the most powerful nation on Earth. That ought to be a warning to us that if we thought that the Russians would not dare to so blatantly interfere in our affairs, we were wrong.

And if we do not do our very best to understand how the Russians accomplished this unprecedented attack on our democracy and what we need to do to protect ourselves in the future, we will only have ourselves to blame.

We know a lot about the Russian operation, about the way they amplified the damage their hacking and dumping of stolen documents was causing through the use of slick propaganda like R.T., the Kremlin's media arm. But there is a lot we don't know.

Most important, we do not yet know whether the Russians have the help of U.S. citizens including people associated with the Trump campaign. Many of the Trump's campaign personnel, including the president himself, have ties to Russia and Russian interests. This is of course no crime. On the other hand, if the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it aided or abetted the Russians, it would not only be a serious crime, it would also represent one of the most shocking betrayals of democracy in history."




What we know about the 21 states targeted by Russian hackers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ut-the-21-states-targeted-by-russian-hackers/


10 Months After Election Day, Feds Tell States More About Russian Hacking

Meh

The Obama administration didn't think our democracy was at risk.

The FBI did, (you know, the deep state). And they warned the Trump campaign before the election about the interference.

 

[martybegan]

Full transcript: FBI Director testifies on Russian interference in 2016 election

So We Find Out FBI Has Been Investigating Trump Since July


"The Russian active measures campaign may have begun as early as 2015, when Russian intelligence services launched a series of spear fishing attacks designed to penetrate the computers of a broad array of Washington based Democratic and Republican party organizations, think tanks and other entities. This continued at least through the winter of 2016.

While at first the hacking may have been intended solely for the collection of foreign intelligence. In mid-2016 the Russians weapon eyes the stolen data and used platforms established by the Intel services, such as D.C. leaks in existing third-party channels like WikiLeaks to dump the documents. The stolen documents were almost uniformly damaging to the candidate Putin despised, Hillary Clinton. And by forcing her campaign to constantly respond to the daily drip of disclosures, the releases greatly benefited Donald Trump's campaign.

None of these facts is seriously in question. And they're reflected in the consensus conclusion of our intelligence agencies.

We will never know whether the Russian intervention was determinative in such a close election. Indeed, it is unknowable in a campaign to which so many small changes could have dictated a different result. More importantly, and for the purposes of our investigation, it simply does not matter.

What does matter is this, the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy and our intelligence agencies have concluded they will do so again. Ours is not the first democracy to be attacked by the Russians in this way. Russian intelligence has been simile interfering in the internal and political affairs of our European and other allies for decades.


What is striking here is the degree to which the Russians were willing to undertake such an audacious and risky action against the most powerful nation on Earth. That ought to be a warning to us that if we thought that the Russians would not dare to so blatantly interfere in our affairs, we were wrong.

And if we do not do our very best to understand how the Russians accomplished this unprecedented attack on our democracy and what we need to do to protect ourselves in the future, we will only have ourselves to blame.

We know a lot about the Russian operation, about the way they amplified the damage their hacking and dumping of stolen documents was causing through the use of slick propaganda like R.T., the Kremlin's media arm. But there is a lot we don't know.

Most important, we do not yet know whether the Russians have the help of U.S. citizens including people associated with the Trump campaign. Many of the Trump's campaign personnel, including the president himself, have ties to Russia and Russian interests. This is of course no crime. On the other hand, if the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it aided or abetted the Russians, it would not only be a serious crime, it would also represent one of the most shocking betrayals of democracy in history."




What we know about the 21 states targeted by Russian hackers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ut-the-21-states-targeted-by-russian-hackers/


10 Months After Election Day, Feds Tell States More About Russian Hacking

Nothing but a ton of assumptions, guesses and wishful thinking.

Brought to you by the MSM, created by the deep state, and eaten with a smile on the faces of the gullible idiots like you.

gullible idiots swallow anti-American russian troll farm talking points wholesale.

way to own it, idiot.




in the USA we live by rule of law and due process of the law, sorry traitor!


Old KGB spy manual reveals origin of fake-news strategy

Before ‘fake news,’ there was Soviet ‘disinformation’

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Considering you can't even prove what laws were broken, the rule of law is working just fine.

Trump is still President and you clowns are still spinning in neutral.

twat.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Congressional Republicans who stick by Trump and protect him will be remembered as the villains of Washington’s unfolding drama. They are the ones enabling an epic White House end run around the constitution.


Instead of holding Trump to account, Republicans are joining him in a cynical attempt to tarnish the FBI and undermine the criminal investigation into Russian election meddling.


Trump's attack on the FBI is an attack on the US constitution itself

Actually President Trump is trying to restore our constitutional democracy that the idiot Barry Obama almost destroyed.
Obama illegally used the IRS, NSA, FBI and DOJ as political weapons.
Hillary was illegally $influence peddling$.
Obama used his "phone and pen" to pass laws.
Wrong Barry, we have a legislator that passes the laws.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Trump violates norms, is met with 'tepid' response: Boot

And by the way, some of these examples are illegal. The one that sticks out the most for me, is the $500 million dollar investment paid to Trump's interests from China. But now, you have Trump enriching himself, violating the Emoluments clause, (ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_of_Nobility_Clause) and Congress says nothing or does nothing about it?

, the Republican party along with Trump, continue to prove to us . The country and the house that holds it together are on fire right now, and the pyromaniac Trump and his goons keep pouring gas on it.

The house is on fire because of Trump; House GOP to review classified info on FBI source

Trump, some in GOP work to politicize rule of law
Trump and the entire Republican party should .

The Dummy's Blonde

If you watch Mika's mouth closely, you'll realize that she is a ventriloquist throwing her voice into Joe's hollow mouth. That's what sex toys are for.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Thanks one and all for aiding and abetting the success of the Trump presidency to date. Good job and stick around as there’s lots more work for you to do. Thanks again!

Congressional Republicans who stick by Trump and protect him will be remembered as the villains of Washington’s unfolding drama. They are the ones enabling an epic White House end run around the constitution.


Instead of holding Trump to account, Republicans are joining him in a cynical attempt to tarnish the FBI and undermine the criminal investigation into Russian election meddling.


Trump's attack on the FBI is an attack on the US constitution itself

Wow, guilt by association, how authoritarian of you.

The FBI dug it's own hole, Trump is just laughing at them as they try to climb out of it.

Do you have confirmation of this, or is this just your best pitch at telling a lie?

Do you have any actual factual basis for articles of Impeachment?

There are many factual basis for impeachment of a president outlined here; Impeachment in the United States - Wikipedia

As for Trump, any of the norms in my OP that Trump violated, qualify for impeachment. They all violate his oath of office. Can you intelligently argue a good reason why he shouldn't be impeached by any of these violations?

Googooing Gotcha Gang

You infantile snowflakes would have to earn our respect before expecting us to take your impeachment obsession seriously.

 

[WTP]

This is going to end badly for them in so many different ways. I'm with Lawrence O'donnell on this. Rosenstein is basically letting Trump play into his hand, because Rosenstein knows that he is playing with a child with evil on the brain. Trump, in this stunt thought he could get him to resign, but instead what Trump will get, is an IG report that reveals nothing. Lawrence: DOJ adapts against Trump attacks

You really are a sad bunch of pathetic losers.

And you are a poor soul with your finger up your ass eating sour grapes, so helpless to debate these impeachable offenses.

what offenses?????

You keep just spouting opinions instead of concrete accusations.

It's mental masturbation, nothing more.

What offenses would you like to start with? The violation of the emoluments clause in that we don't know how many offenses there are? But I will give the example of Trump having the advantage of enriching himself by way of the Chinese investing $500 million dollars on Trump. That is a violation of office by serving "HIM", not "SERVING THE PEOPLE". The people get nothing out of that deal. Now, I want your counter argument as to exactly why and how that is not impeachable?

People better at the law than me have already answered the emoulments clause thing;

Opinion | Does the emoluments clause lawsuit against President Trump stand a chance?

and as for the Chinese thing, it Involves Trump branded parts of the properties, Trump has no actual connection to the $$.

China Contributes $500 Million to Trump-Linked Indonesia Project | National Review

There is nothing in that article that suggests Trump is not a qualifier for impeachment, while his brand is associated, along with his family, in this deal.

 

[WTP]

Congressional Republicans who stick by Trump and protect him will be remembered as the villains of Washington’s unfolding drama. They are the ones enabling an epic White House end run around the constitution.


Instead of holding Trump to account, Republicans are joining him in a cynical attempt to tarnish the FBI and undermine the criminal investigation into Russian election meddling.


Trump's attack on the FBI is an attack on the US constitution itself

Actually President Trump is trying to restore our constitutional democracy that the idiot Barry Obama almost destroyed.
Obama illegally used the IRS, NSA, FBI and DOJ as political weapons.
Hillary was illegally $influence peddling$.
Obama used his "phone and pen" to pass laws.
Wrong Barry, we have a legislator that passes the laws.

If you are making the claims, you will be called out to prove them. I am calling you out. And if you do not, then you are a friggin liar?

 

[WTP]

Thanks one and all for aiding and abetting the success of the Trump presidency to date. Good job and stick around as there’s lots more work for you to do. Thanks again!

Congressional Republicans who stick by Trump and protect him will be remembered as the villains of Washington’s unfolding drama. They are the ones enabling an epic White House end run around the constitution.


Instead of holding Trump to account, Republicans are joining him in a cynical attempt to tarnish the FBI and undermine the criminal investigation into Russian election meddling.


Trump's attack on the FBI is an attack on the US constitution itself

Wow, guilt by association, how authoritarian of you.

The FBI dug it's own hole, Trump is just laughing at them as they try to climb out of it.

Do you have confirmation of this, or is this just your best pitch at telling a lie?

Do you have any actual factual basis for articles of Impeachment?

There are many factual basis for impeachment of a president outlined here; Impeachment in the United States - Wikipedia

As for Trump, any of the norms in my OP that Trump violated, qualify for impeachment. They all violate his oath of office. Can you intelligently argue a good reason why he shouldn't be impeached by any of these violations?

Googooing Gotcha Gang

You infantile snowflakes would have to earn our respect before expecting us to take your impeachment obsession seriously.

And you would have to present intelligent counter arguments to get out of the idiot hole you all find yourselves in.