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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by basso, Sep 14, 2020.

  1. basso

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    Except there hasn't been any substantial evidence that happened. There has been a concerted effort by one side to make it appear that it happened.

    Most of the charges don't make any sense.
     
  4. basso

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    you should bookmark this post so you can refer to it later.
     
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    Oh, once I see actual proof instead of people misrepresenting intelligence work and what a dossier even is, then it will be interesting.
     
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    Steve Bannon’s indictment, which claims that he, along with three others, defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors to the “We Build the Wall” fundraising scheme for personal profit, makes him the third and final campaign manager involved in Trump’s 2016 election to have faced criminal charges.

    Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign head starting from January 2015, was arrested on misdemeanor battery charges for grabbing the arm of Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields in March 2016, whose allegations, though proven by video footage, were later dropped.

    Lewandowski’s charges were dwarfed by those against successor Paul Manafort, who was sentenced to more than seven years in prison in 2019 for a slew of charges from Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference, including tax and bank fraud, and conspiracy against the United States.

    The Mueller probe resulted in 100 charges against 34 people, six of whom were Trump associates, while the other 25 were Russians accused of interference.

    Rick Gates, a Trump campaign deputy, was sentenced to 45 days in jail on a plea bargain for charges of conspiracy against the U.S. and making false statements; Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security advisor, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, though his case is currently in limbo as the Department of Justice is attempting to withdraw his charge; and George Papadopoulos, Trump’s former foreign policy advisor, was sentenced to 14 days in prison with a year of supervised release, for lying to FBI agents about his contacts with Russian intermediaries during the 2016 campaign.

    Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, was sent to prison in 2018 for tax evasion, fraud and lying to Congress about his dealings with Russia on behalf of the president, and has pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations for making hush money payments to women to keep quiet allegations Trump engaged in extramarital affairs.


    Where's your criticism of these fine folks? I sure haven't heard any from Trump supporters or conservatives on this forum condemning them and that's just the ones that show up in a simple Google search...:rolleyes:
     
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    ...and Obama's admin is still indictment free. :cool:
     
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    there will never be a report.

    there are likely already indictments that haven’t been made public.

    this is not about the election.
     
  10. bobrek

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    What will come first... these indictments or Trump's health care plan?
     
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    the timing here is important. as Herridge note, by December 2016, everyone new the Steele Dossier was a lie, and the primary source was a Russian agent and national security risk.

    Still, on January 5th, 2017, Comey was still peddiling the story Flynn was a potential risk, and later in March 2017, he and Schiff used the dossier as the primary justification for the russia investigation.

     
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    Good lord,, you are hopeless.

    The Steele Dossier was never the justification of the Russia investigation.
     
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    Benghazi?
     
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    As long as you show that you don't understand an intelligence dossier or the previous investigation, nobody is going to be holding their breath.
     
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    Even with all of this garbage going on behind the scenes, Obama kept the transition peaceful to Trump's face. Take notes dRumph
     
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    Or his new tax cut.
     
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    helluva take.
     
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    Ok Goebbels.
     
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    It continues to be what I don't understand. Why are they so obsessed with it? Sure it was primarily funded by Clinton/DNC, but they never went public with it. The dossier was always considered to be rough intelligence and not necessarily accurate (probably why they didn't take it public).

    The concerns about Trump and Russia was primarily the DNC hack, and then there were so many communications between team Trump and Russia, plus Trump's fawning over Putin that it was impossible to not dig deeper.
     
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