Breaking -two weeks before the inauguration Don the Con was shown

[malaise]

Details that Putin ordered the hacking.
NYT

Bwaaaaaaah! The fucker has been lying - collusion and conspiracy.

Don't fuck with the intelligence agencies.

[htuttle]

1. Boom!

[malaise]

3. Mess with intelligence agencies at your peril

Turn on Lawrence now

[HipChick]

9. Exactly....

[Haggis for Breakfast]

61. Did they also show this same material to Mitch McConnell ?

[malaise]

75. The gang of eight saw it

So yes and to 'keep it secret' Ryan as well.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

86. Then they all should be indicted as well.

Because they acted in bad faith to uphold their Constitutional oaths.

What is wrong with these people ? Did they think we would just roll over and forget ?

[Mrs. Overall]

2. Wow!

Link to tweet

[malaise]

11. Wow is right

He knew about this from the intelligence agencies January 6. Of course he knew - he helped them steal it.

[busterbrown]

57. I saw it on Lawrence Tonight..

I think this might be it.. Wa da ya thinK? He Knew since Jan 2017..

Fucking A!

[malaise]

76. Nice that he now says he has faith in the intelligence agencies as

currently constituted. So heck did not accept their views when Comey, Brennan et al were st the helm. There is no other interpretation.

[highplainsdem]

4. Bombshell. Listening to Lawrence and Rachel talk about it now.

[triron]

25. Yeah Rachel said it might be aiding and abetting after the fact.

[malaise]

44. After

Nah

[manor321]

5. Not sure how new this is

We've heard this already, specifically that our intelligence agencies have evidence that Putin ordered this attack.

Not sure why the NYT is classifying it this way.

[Garrett78]

14. Yeah, I thought this was known long ago.

[iluvtennis]

64. Intelligence agencies knew Russia interfered in our elections in summer 2016. But, those

summer 2106 news articles never said Putin ordered it - that is new to me. Although as you say, critical thinking would infer that Putin would have ordered it.

[Garrett78]

65. And on Lawrence's show, they were talking about the amount of detail...

...that was presented to Trump is what makes his denials all the more outrageous. I can see that, though it's been clear for a long time that Trump would have been briefed. And, as you say, it's a given that Putin ordered the attack.

[iluvtennis]

67. So, wonder how Don the Con will deny this...guess it will be he didn't have his reading glasses on

[Garrett78]

68. He'll say he was briefed, and he'll repeat the lie he's been telling the last couple days...

...which is that he's said many times before that he trusts US intelligence agencies. When asked why he referred to Russian interference as a hoax or a witch hunt, he'll say he wasn't referring to Russian interference but only to the notion that he colluded with Russia. Or, who knows, maybe he'll just say he left out the word "not" in front of 'a hoax' and 'a witch hunt'.

If asked why he kept insisting that it could have been anyone and not necessarily Russia, I suspect he'll double down on his "there may have been others involved--we just don't know" nonsense.

[iluvtennis]

70. Word salad, exactly. :-)

[Ccarmona]

16. Trump Knew and It's Confirmed

Proves he’s been lying all these months. Even his most ardent supporters can’t deny that now.

[SergeStorms]

62. " Even his most ardent supporters can't deny that now."

If Trump can deny it, his brain-dead supporters can deny it, and will! They're not what we call, "grounded in reality", 'ya know?

Never "misunderestimate" the stupidity and mental density of a Republican.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. What's new about it is the report that Trump was specifically briefed before the inauguration

and was shown texts and emails from Russian agents proving it. He's been lying his ass off ever since.

WASHINGTON — Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the 2016 American election.

The evidence included texts and emails from Russian military officers and information gleaned from a top-secret source close to Mr. Putin, who had described to the C.I.A. how the Kremlin decided to execute its campaign of hacking and disinformation.

Mr. Trump sounded grudgingly convinced, according to several people who attended the intelligence briefing. But ever since, Mr. Trump has tried to cloud the very clear findings that he received on Jan. 6, 2017, which his own intelligence leaders have unanimously endorsed.

The shifting narrative underscores the degree to which Mr. Trump regularly picks and chooses intelligence to suit his political purposes. That has never been more clear than this week.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/world/europe/trump-intelligence-russian-election-meddling-.html

[triron]

29. By continuing to deny and obfuscate he is aiding and abetting the commission of a crime.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

37. And covering up a crime that was already committed.

And the cowed, complicit GOP will do nothing.

[dalton99a]

41. Yep.

[oasis]

19. As the President elect, Jan 6 '17 Trump was briefed on every detail.

Putin was named. Trump bullshitted the public for all this time since.

[HipChick]

6. Cover up...Collusion..

[oasis]

7. Trump knew. He's been a lying traitor for 1 1/2 years.

IMPEACHMENT.

[riversedge]

42. Repugs don't seem to care!

[oasis]

48. They'd better start caring. The shit is about to come down. Hard.

[malaise]

73. That no longer matters

The law is not dependent on the base

[babylonsister]

8. All those chumps who believed him.

It's funny yet terribly sad.

This guy needs to go; such a disgusting liar, always.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Wow, my dear malaise! What a big surprise.............NOT!

Collusion and conspiracy indeed.

Nail all of them to the fucking wall!

[malaise]

28. The end is coming

He is going down

[OliverQ]

46. No he isn't. Republicans wont' care about this. There is literally nothing

that will come out that will get him removed from office.

[Freethinker65]

12. Trump knew DURING his campaign. Trump knew the US government knew 2 weeks before the inauguration

[malaise]

17. True n/t

[ggmac0427]

58. Exactly correct!! n/t

[uponit7771]

71. +1, whats different is the details in which he knew and the text and emails as evidence

[bdamomma]

13. Yeah

he was shown the reports but did he ever read it???

almost like daily briefing in August 2001, Osama Bin Laden determined to strike in the US, and no one did shit.

[RandomAccess]

47. They didn't just drop off some multipage report --

they SHOWED him actual emails and texts. He didn't have to read much if anything.

[Chickensoup]

15. Trump is a TRAITOR along with the republicans. All who agree say yes.

THE YES HAVE IT. Impeachment on the way.after NOV.2018

[RKP5637]

24. And it extends far beyond just Trump IMO. n/t

[Generic Brad]

30. We still have a compromised election coming up

They are laying the groundwork to steal the outcome in November and steal it they will.

[dalton99a]

45. +1. The traitor is enabled and protected by a GOP supporting cast

[voteearlyvoteoften]

20. Freight train coming down the tracks this week.

Getting louder and closer. Blasting the horn. Faster and faster the facts are running over the soon to be former President.

[babylonsister]

54. From your lips. nt

[RobinA]

79. Yeah...

the freight train that never seems to get there and then goes whizzing by on a parallel track.

[bearsfootball516]

21. Trump. Knew.

[Blue Owl]

22. Hey Don -- time to Putin your two-week notice

[malaise]

80. I see what you did there

Nicely done.

[RKP5637]

23. And it goes far beyond Trump IMO. I think there is some type of GOP Coup going on, and that it's

been in place for some time. There are just too many avenues being explored ... and far too many characters involved. And in other areas far too much quietness. Many will do anything for power and money, we've seen it all throughout history. Many politicians IMO in the US are no exception.

[malaise]

33. Absolutely

Ryan - keep it secret
Don't fuck with the intelligence folks and lie about Obama.

[roamer65]

26. DUMP...RESIGN NOW.

[DeminPennswoods]

27. Another DUer asked in a seperate thread if Ryan

and McConnell knew, too. They were briefed by Brennan and Jeh Johnson along with the rest of the gang of 8.

[malaise]

39. Ryan told them to keep it secret when McCarthy told them

Putin pays the Con

[Quixote1818]

40. This! nt

[DeminPennswoods]

55. Schiff was just on with O'Donnell

and although he said he couldn't discuss classified info, he did say he and the other "gang of 8" members were kept abreast of what the intel community knew. I took that as meaning, yes, Ryan and McConnell knew Putin was behind the hacking. That makes them just as complicit as Trump.

[malaise]

74. Precisely

[dansolo]

77. Don't forget the Devon Nunes would have been briefed as well

As a member of the "gang of 8", Devin Nunes was also given all of this information. Why aren't people mentioning this more? In his most recent attacks on the FBI and the DOJ he claims that there was no justification for the Russia investigation, when he was actually briefed on all of this at the time.

[DeminPennswoods]

83. True except at the time, it was McConnell and Ryan

who blocked Obama from a joint bi-partisan statement. In light of the NYT story, this now makes sense because the two of them knew if they did so, it would mean 0 possibility of Trump winning.

Nunes is surely also an accessory after the fact and a co-conspirator to obstruct justice (Mueller investigation).

[bdamomma]

84. I remember very early

that Ryan and McConnell were in on it,when the Access Hollywood tape came out when tRump mentioned pu**y gate, and neither McConnell or Ryan said anything. They were involved from the get-go.

[superpatriotman]

31. Accessory after the fact

Indictable, impeachable offense!

[spanone]

32. No wonder Brennan called it treason.....

[Quixote1818]

34. Republicans MUST come together and send Trump packing. It's the only legitimate way forward. nt

[Quixote1818]

35. Putin can obviously wreck him or he would not have been risking all this. nt

[Docreed2003]

36. Boom

[eleny]

38. he's cooked

[PoorMonger]

43. Jesus.

I think this is why he doesn’t read or listen to daily briefings and just flat out admits it. It’s some warped notion of legal protection for plausible deniability when stuff comes out and he’s done nothing about it.

He will argue he never knew shit.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

49. And that will be a LIE too. n/t

[Scurrilous]

50. K&R

[Bernardo de La Paz]

51. Treason. What else to call it? Conspiracy against the United States of America?

[Mr.Bill]

52. We may be handing him a reason to postpone the November election.

Can't have a fair and honest election if it's being compromised by foreign agents, now, can we?

Or a way to nullify it if the Democratic party wins big. Russians hacked the election to aid the Democrats! We have proof!

[B Stieg]

53. Here's a LINK to the article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/world/europe/trump-intelligence-russian-election-meddling-.html

[smirkymonkey]

56. K&R

[DeminPennswoods]

59. ex-Sen Bob Kerry told Williams having a traitor

in the WH is on the same par as the Weathermen bombings in the '70s.

[triron]

60. Laurence Tribe:

Link to tweet

[TeamPooka]

63. message from the CIA: We were here before you and we'll be here after you're gone.

[Garrett78]

66. I'm not a Twitter person. Has Trump tweeted since the news broke?

[uponit7771]

69. *** CONGRESS KNEW TOO !!! ***

[malaise]

72. Absolutely

Gang of eight. Further why did Ryan tell them to keep 'Putin pays the Con' secret?

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

78. Maybe I missed it but from 6 to 7 a.m.

Msnbc and cnn never brought it up?

Little miffed borh channels had crawls that read:

President now accepts Russian meddling.


Did they forget all the other things?

[NCTraveler]

81. Trump knew well over a year before this.

Every single day more and more of our speculation and assumptions are being verified. We started with limited facts and now have a mound of evidence.

I think at some point we should look at the conspiracy theory aspect of all of this. Much of this was being discussed two years ago. At that point much of the talk could have been correctly labeled as a conspiracy theory due to the limited but damning facts that were known. A lot of assumptions were being made with strong yet little evidence. Over the last two years what was a general conspiracy theory has turned to reality.

For now, fuck Trump.

[malaise]

82. He had to know

He was colluding with them. Now we wait for Mueller to show that.
Collusion and Conspiracy - treason.

[blueinredohio]

85. Did everybody just hear about this?

It's been public knowledge since right after the inauguration.