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Trump Campaign Under Investigation for Potential Guidance of Russia Digital Operation
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RPGCrazied
Member
I have a feeling if anyone gets in trouble over all this it will be him or maybe Manafort. Much as I want it to bring down Trump though.
GrizzleBoy
Banned
Why isn't anyone talking about the Russian lawyers info on Clintons collusion with Russia that Trump jr stated was a nothing burger?
WHY?
WHY?
At some point if every single person working for you is doing something illegal, you can't really get away with "it wasn't me"
Mr. Giggles
Member
Good God, how many investigations is this campaign under now?
RPGCrazied
Member
Also keep in mind, Trump's new FBI director pick is getting hearings, and has ties to Russia! I'm sure he wants to stop all these investigations. Thank god we have Mueller though, until he is fired.
plagiarize
Banned
Manafort and Flynn are 100% in trouble for various things.
Trump Jr and Kushner are looking more and more likely to join them.
Can Trump appoint a FBI director that has ties to Russia? I mean there is a big chance that Trumps pick just closes all investigations and claims it's fake or something like that
RPGCrazied
Member
At this point he probably can appoint anyone. Has the GOP shown any backbone so far?
Trump could nominate Paul Manafort to be FBI Director and the only thing that could stop it is him failing to be confirmed.
SwordStruck
Member
Firing Mueller now, especially with all of the evidence that has been leaking out, would be about as obvious a confession as Jr tweeting the email chain. There's too much fire out there now.
theechrisfox
Member
I wonder if it will even be possible to remove all the Russian agents that are running the White House and various agencies. Its clear that not one clean appointment has been made, which makes sense since its Putin and the Koch brothers behind the whole scheme. Scraping off the presidump, immediate family, the campaign managers, the AG, doesn't seem like enough by a long shot.
If Pence becomes president be could just fire all of them.
DontBeThatGuy
Member
Politics needs a reboot.
Orbis Tabula
Member
Oooh, I had heard people speculate about something to this effect. That things like fake news stories and social media accounts seemed to be clustered in areas where Clinton showed uncharacteristic weakness, and the speculation that Russia couldn't possibly know these weak spots on their own. It was speculation, but I guess now it's investigation.
Who is it? Last guy I remember pulled out
crowphoenix
Banned
I have never heard of McClatchy. Are they a reputable source?
Christopher Wray.
Usually, even when they publish classified information and fuck over anti-terrorism intelligence for years
McClatchy putting some serious work in this morning and its only Wednesday, shit.
Also, Hillary Clinton should be president or should have lost on her own merits and thats clearly not what happened. I really wonder how were going to navigate the next few years of this when more people saying this guy is a fake president, and that one half of mainstream American politics is abandoning all legitimacy to participate in this system.
Also, Hillary Clinton should be president or should have lost on her own merits and thats clearly not what happened. I really wonder how were going to navigate the next few years of this when more people saying this guy is a fake president, and that one half of mainstream American politics is abandoning all legitimacy to participate in this system.
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
Yes, they're like the AP.
Laevateinn
Member
McClatchy is a company that owns lots of newspapers. It's legit.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
Everything he said about Clinton is coming back to him
Circle Jerk
Member
I honestly can't tell what you're asking here.
It's like Bernie Madoff or Enron for the Republican party. As long as money keeps coming in/the stock price keeps going up/they hold on to the house and senate the GOP can just keep on rolling even if they fire everyone.
Greigor The Fellhand
Member
crowphoenix
Banned
Because his boss/father in law has ultimate authority over that.
Because it's up to the president to take it away
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
This has been a theory for a while now, that the Trump campaign (particularly Kushner) had all sorts of info on Americans and gave it to Russia so they could better target people with propaganda.
Cymbal Head
Banned
Given how incompetent they've been at everything they've done, I am skeptical that the Trump team was guiding Russia. I mean, if nothing else the meddling seemed to be well planned.
Given the number of times people were sure that this is it for real this time guys, I propose we retire this gif from Trump threads.
Given the number of times people were sure that this is it for real this time guys, I propose we retire this gif from Trump threads.
Nope. Just another step.
TheCochese
Banned
The ironic thing is that his plan fails. So...
Nazgul_Hunter
Member
I always thought that Trumps Midwest / Pennsylvania campaign was sketchy.
Everybody thought it was a fools errand... and he ended up squeaking by through that route and everyone was shocked that he achieved that.
I dont know if they had the insight to go after the Midwest before or after directing fake news; but now Im convinced theyre related.
Everybody thought it was a fools errand... and he ended up squeaking by through that route and everyone was shocked that he achieved that.
I dont know if they had the insight to go after the Midwest before or after directing fake news; but now Im convinced theyre related.
If they are looking into it, Mueller probably is too.
RPGCrazied
Member
Plus this guy only needs like 50 votes to get confirmed? I mean shit, DeVos got through. They all got through, he will too.