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Nevilledog

(51,170 posts)
Fri Aug 21, 2020, 01:38 AM Aug 2020

The Trump Campaign Accepted Russian Help to Win in 2016. Case Closed.

“Cooperation” or “collusion” or whatever. It was a plot against American democracy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/opinion/trump-russia-2016-report.html

From the start, the Trump-Russia story has been both eye-glazingly complex and extraordinarily simple.

Who is Oleg Deripaska? What’s the G.R.U. again? Who owed what to whom? The sheer number of crisscrossing characters and interlocking pieces of evidence — the phone calls, the emails, the texts, the clandestine international meet-ups — has bamboozled even those who spend their days teasing it all apart. It’s no wonder average Americans tuned out long ago.

A bipartisan report released Tuesday by the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee cuts through the chaff. The simplicity of the scheme has always been staring us in the face: Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign sought and maintained close contacts with Russian government officials who were helping him get elected. The Trump campaign accepted their offers of help. The campaign secretly provided Russian officials with key polling data. The campaign coordinated the timing of the release of stolen information to hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

The Senate committee’s report isn’t telling this story for the first time, of course. (Was it only a year ago that Robert Mueller testified before Congress about his own damning, comprehensive investigation?) But it is the first to do so with the assent of Senate Republicans, who have mostly ignored the gravity of the Trump camp’s actions or actively worked to cast doubt about the demonstrable facts in the case.

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Sorry if this was posted before. I just read it and thought maybe some of you had also missed it.

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The Trump Campaign Accepted Russian Help to Win in 2016. Case Closed. (Original Post) Nevilledog Aug 2020 OP
Yep.. & Putin is helping him again.. only the Puppet Cha Aug 2020 #1
... Nevilledog Aug 2020 #2
.. Cha Aug 2020 #3
Same for me. It helps my psyche. Nevilledog Aug 2020 #4
It does.. we're still Cha Aug 2020 #5

Cha

(297,503 posts)
1. Yep.. & Putin is helping him again.. only the Puppet
Fri Aug 21, 2020, 02:37 AM
Aug 2020

Needs MOAR HELP this time.

After 4 years of his Puppet's Treason, Killing, & HATE Fest.. Many More know what a fucking, Lying Psycho he is.

TY for verification from the NYT, Nd.

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