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canetoad

(17,164 posts)
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 05:00 PM Nov 2017

Please re-read this article, in light of what we now know.

By Seth Abramson. First published in HuffPo, updated several times until March.

The Domestic Conspiracy That Gave Trump The Election Is In Plain Sight
01/17/2017 11:19 pm ET Updated Mar 29, 2017

Information presently public and available confirms that Erik Prince, Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump conspired to intimidate FBI Director James Comey into interfering in, and thus directly affecting, the 2016 presidential election. This conspiracy was made possible with the assistance of officers in the New York Police Department and agents within the New York field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. All of the major actors in the conspiracy have already confessed to its particulars either in word or in deed; moreover, all of the major actors have publicly exhibited consciousness of guilt after the fact. This assessment has already been the subject of articles in news outlets on both sides of the political spectrum, but has not yet received substantial investigation by major media.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-domestic-conspiracy-that-gave-trump-the-election_us_587ed24fe4b0b110fe11dbf9

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Please re-read this article, in light of what we now know. (Original Post) canetoad Nov 2017 OP
I hope Muellers team is on this. N/t spooky3 Nov 2017 #1
" ... that Erik Prince, Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump conspired to intimidate FBI Director ... Botany Nov 2017 #2
More. More like this! ENCORE! ffr Nov 2017 #3
Oh, I remember that. I want to print that out next time I'm at the library... liberalla Nov 2017 #4

Botany

(70,509 posts)
2. " ... that Erik Prince, Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump conspired to intimidate FBI Director ...
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 07:38 PM
Nov 2017

... James Comey into interfering in, and thus directly affecting, the 2016 presidential election."

So what are the penalties for these un-American acts? Supermax in Colorado?

ffr

(22,670 posts)
3. More. More like this! ENCORE!
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 07:50 PM
Nov 2017
2. The effort to intimidate Comey into publicly commenting on the Clinton case—a win-win scenario for Trump, as either a comment from Comey or silence from Comey (the latter coupled with inaccurate, Hatch Act-violative leaks by the FBI, NYPD, and/or the Trump campaign) would sink Clinton—began concurrent to Comey’s October 26th briefing on the Clinton case.
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5. By the time Christopher Steele, the former head of MI6’s Russia desk, disseminated his research into Donald Trump’s ties with Russia to American journalists and the American intelligence community—something he did, tellingly, when he was no longer being paid for the work—he had come to believe, per The Independent, that “there was a cover-up, that a cabal within the Bureau blocked a thorough inquiry into Mr. Trump, focusing instead on the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.” Evidence substantiating this concern is legion: that the FBI had Steele’s memos as early as mid-summer of 2016, after the Clinton investigation was closed, but appeared to do no work on the case (which involved alleged treasonous conduct by the Republican nominee in collusion with a hostile foreign actor) between that time and Election Day; that FBI Director Comey was intimidated into revealing the status of the Clinton case on October 27th but would not, even in the face of numerous allegations of federal crimes against the president-elect, reveal anything about the Bureau’s investigation into that matter; or that the Clinton and Weiner investigators at NYPD and the FBI appear to have leaked repeatedly to the Trump campaign, yet there have been no leaks whatsoever regarding the FBI and CIA’s ongoing investigation into Trump’s ties with Russia. It is thus clear that better understanding the scope, purpose, and players of the domestic conspiracy to elect Donald Trump will also shed light on how the FBI and CIA managed to conduct little or no investigation of criminal allegations exponentially more serious than any of those leveled against Hillary Clinton.

But what can now be done about it, an election stolen and a golden opportunity for America to move forward instead of backward into oblivion?

liberalla

(9,249 posts)
4. Oh, I remember that. I want to print that out next time I'm at the library...
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 08:56 PM
Nov 2017

I really hope Giuliani and Prince face some kind of criminal charges.

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