Russian Influence Considerations

[KeithE]

On the Russian election influence issue, it would be interesting to see how many (if any) contacts there were between close Hillary surrogates and Kislyak (or other Russian state actors) during the campaign, remembering:

(1) Clinton was favored throughout (thus you would think that Russian initiated contacts would be more prevalent to her campaign),

(2) it has already been concluded (by 17 intel agencies) that the Russians provided deleterious info about Hillary found in her emails through Wikileaks. And was a close election.

(3) and Trump has expressed admiration to both and . Strange for any candidate. But I guess that was overlookable to the that voted Trump in the heat of anti-Hillary fervor.

I googled "Clinton campaign contacts with Russia” and only got stories about Trump campaign contacts.

Contacts after election are less suspicious (getting a head-start on a relationship is understandable) but still can have Logan Act issues (as Flynn found out).

[Jim]

Here’s a clip from the Daily Caller: . Obama was a Clinton surrogate (remember those rousing speeches) at the time he was playing footsie with the Russian ambassador. A great deal more dirt will be coming forth as Obama and his “organizers”—from his residence office—continues to attempt to destroy the administration. Eventually, the democrats will regret opening this can of worms. The Russkie visited Sessions once in Sessions’s office. Hillary’s vanished and worldwide-readable emails will once again come under scrutiny, the last thing she needs in her new campaign for 2020. The most damning evidence, though, is in that Internet-provided clip of Obama telling Medvedev to tell “Vlad” that he (Obama) would be more flexible after the 2012 circus ended in his victory.

[Dave Roberts]

[KeithE]

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[Jim]

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[Haruo]

[Haruo]

When I was a ninth-grader, the Kirkland chapter of the JBS distributed leaflets warning that my school, Kirkland Junior High, was "making the kids take off their clothes and get under the wrestling mats and feel each other." Sadly, that must have been one of the other gym classes. But it did provide part of the impetus for my first foray into journalism, and for my campaign to have the school adopt a dress code of "jock straps for the boys and gownless evening straps for the girls" (dress codes were a hot topic at that moment, because the diabolical leftist sorts were trying to get girls to be permitted to wear pants to school.

[Sandy]

[Jim]

[Sandy]

Trump is a liar, a pathological liar. His credibility went to zero with the birther nonsense, for which he never provided a shred of evidence to back up his pathetic lie, and since then, he has lied without providing a shred of evidence for anything. This latest wiretapping accusation of President Obama is just more diversion away from what is really happening. This has nothing to do with any trauma over Hillary's electoral loss. The orange haired buffoon won't even provide his tax returns. He keeps talking, but has yet to provide a single piece of evidence to back up his claims. On the other hand, the media, whom he keeps attacking, has gathered a mountain of credible and verifiable evidence for everything that swirls around him, which is why his attacks on them have become vitriolic and hostile. Fodder for his followers, which also demonstrates his contempt for their intelligence. This isn't the first election that the Russians attempted to sway in a direction to their favor. What makes this one more serious is the number of Trump campaign people who had direct connections to them. The intelligence services already have plenty of evidence of Russian interference, the job now is to connect the dots to the Trump people who were involved, and find out to what extent they were involved, including the orange haired buffoon himself.

Watch for continued diversionary tactics. Trauma over Hillary not winning, yeah, that's a good one. It's also confirmation that the Trump administration realizes it is in serious deep weeds over the "Russian influence."