Plame Wilson: Trump campaign reached out for her support

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Santa Fe New Mexican

Members of the George W. Bush administration, in an infamous act of political retribution, forced Valerie Plame Wilson into the public spotlight 12 years ago when they outed her as a covert CIA operative. Now she says GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign is trying to recruit her for a new bit of political intrigue.

Plame Wilson, who moved to Santa Fe nine years ago, said Friday that a Trump campaign official offered her what was characterized as a chance to get back at former Bush administration adviser Karl Rove, a political adversary of the billionaire businessman as he seeks the GOP nomination for president.

In a Facebook posting, Plame Wilson wrote, “Okay…this actually happened…someone from the Trump camp contacted me to see if I would give The Donald my support as a way of getting back at Karl Rove. You can’t make this stuff up, folks!”

Plame Wilson said she received a short email Thursday that asked her to contact the Trump campaign to aid his candidacy and to get “Justice for Mr. Rove.”


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[AllyCat]

1. Not sure how to feel about this

I'd love to see Rove get some chaos from the crooked actions against Plame and our nation. But Donald Trump is such a snake.

[Scuba]

7. If Trump uses 911/Iraq War as a springboard to getting every conspiracy theorist in the country ...

... to vote for him he could win the general election.

[asjr]

12. True, but I still have the feeling he is doing this in order to

show all of us how stupid the other Republican list is. And he is doing a good job of that. We have no idea who wins the general in the Repub field but we know he or she would not be able to be a president. In all my years I would never have thought I would see my beloved country become a country that could lose it's standing in the world.

[Scarsdale]

2. Cheney

Dickless Cheney had a part in this, one of his closest friends, Scooter Libby went to prison for him. Maybe HIS payback is having his vile daughter Lizard on TV, with the famous Cheney scowl?

[7962]

3. Cheney was the root of a lot of evil. nt

[tetedur]

5. Libby was pardoned by Bush. He did not go to jail.

"On June 5, 2007, the presiding trial judge, Reggie B. Walton, sentenced Libby to 30 months in federal prison, a fine of $250,000, and two years of supervised release, including 400 hours of community service, and then ordered Libby to begin his sentence immediately. On July 2, 2007, when Libby's appeal of Walton's order failed, President Bush commuted Libby's 30-month prison sentence, leaving the other parts of his sentence intact. In commuting Libby's prison term, Bush stated: "I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby's sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison. ... My decision to commute his prison sentence leaves in place a harsh punishment for Mr. Libby. The reputation he gained through his years of public service and professional work in the legal community is forever damaged." After Libby paid his monetary fine and penalty totaling $250,400, Judge Walton queried aspects of the presidential commutation, and lawyers filed their briefs supporting Libby's serving supervised release, resolving the issue and thus clearing the way for Libby to begin the rest of his sentence, the two years of supervised release and 400 hours of community service." from Wikipedia.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. (self-deleting; Zen Dem covered it below)

[Indydem]

10. Are you willfully ignorant or just plain old ignorant?

Libby was an idiot and was eventually charged with a process crime. He had nothing to do with the outing of Plame.

Richard Armitage was responsible for that.

[Zen Democrat]

13. Forget what Fox News said. Cheney was behind that outing.

He had several stooges planting tidbits. That was some nasty business for a sitting vice-president. He was in the position (president regent) to cover up his own crimes. He still hates GWB for NOT pardoning Libby. Bush kept him out of prison, but there was no pardon.

[dembotoz]

4. If the RNC declares total war on trump, he needs a few bombs to throw himself

[BlueMTexpat]

6. She is probably too intelligent to

fall for such blatant pandering from a vicious snake that will turn on her the minute he has achieved whatever objective he may have in his warped mind.

[HFRN]

8. she did spend time in the CIA

so she probably knows a little about agendas, characters and dangers

[BlueMTexpat]

9. Let's hope that she steers well

clear of Trump in any way, shape, or form.

[gordianot]

11. Justice for Rove would be a cell.

Length of sentence ask Don Siegelman.

[red dog 1]

21. + 1

http://www.freedonsiegelman.org/

[Rosa Luxemburg]

14. The GOP didn't anticipate Trump

if Fox news and CNN weren't around they would be toast.

[onehandle]

15. She supports Hillary, you Trumpbag.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251501164

[cosmicone]

16. I'm beginning to feel that Trump is not as stupid as he looks

He probably knew damn well that Valerie Plame would turn him down ... despite that, he got the episode splashed in the news anyway, sending a chill up repukes' spine.

9/11 conspiracy is Repukes' Achilles heel ... and no mainstream politician would use it -- Trump has no such qualms.

(Somehow, I suspect Big Dawg is behind this as well)

[emulatorloo]

18. Rove may have finally met his match.

I'm not going to shed any tears for Rove/GOP establishment/Fox News.

[Sunlei]

19. 'The Donald' seems to pitch easy ones on his fellow Republicans, not sure if he really wants to win

Rove and the 2 old Bushes are not running for President.

Doesn't Mr. Trump have anything current? to use against the others who are running.

His fellow Republican candidates call him an asshole and Trump looks for old rove history?

[brett_jv]

20. Part of me is starting to wonder if Trump isn't doing a Stephen Colbert ...

Not sure if it's ever been brought up here on DU ... probably has & I just missed it ... but I'm actually beginning to wonder if his maybe his whole candidacy isn't an 'act' ala the Colbert Report. Whole thing really bears the markings of a 'satire' in many ways.

I gotta say it would HILARIOUS if the guy won teh GOP primary and became the nominee and then in the end 'ripped off the mask' at his acceptance speech at the GOP Convention and said "SUCKERS!!! I'm a Democrat & I've been f*cking with you idiots this whole time!"

Hey, gotta have A Dream, right?

The one thing that makes me think it can't true is how 'long' of a con he would have had to have been playing. He's been 'in character' for at least 5 years, if so ... pretty tough to do.

[roamer65]

22. This is getting REALLY good.

[red dog 1]

23. K&R...Thanks for posting

I wonder if the Trump campaign will contact former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman to see if he would give The Donald his support "as a way of getting back at Karl Rove"?


"Message From Gov. Siegelman"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026741017

"Will President Obama Ever Pardon Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman?"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025113875

"You Don't Need a Quid Pro Quo to Wind Up in Prison, by Don Siegelman"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016123380

[Hekate]

24. Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson are too intelligent to get involved with Trump...

I also think they are both too ethical. It was Ambassador Wilson's ethics that ran him afoul of the BushCheney administration in the first place.

As for Trump -- he thinks his money (did I mention he has money?) can buy him anything he wants in this life, including people's souls, and the ability to destroy reputations at a word. (He has that much money, or at least he keeps telling anyone who will listen that he does.)

His remark about Hillary Clinton was right down there with what he said about Megyn Kelly. It's a well known political fact of life that billionaire businessmen give money to both sides in the political game, so it's no surprise that at some point in time Trump donated something to Hillary's campaign or that he donated money to the Clinton Global Initiative.

So when asked about the Clintons having been invited to his most recent wedding, what did Mr Charm Offensive say? "I told her to be at the wedding. I gave her money -- and I told her to be there." (Did I mention he has billions?)

Right. Just to be clear, there was no formal invitation in the mail, he just told her she hadda be there, like the wait-staff. What. an. ass.

One thing money cannot buy is class.