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Jul 21 2018 12:16pm
Quote (ThatAlex @ Jul 21 2018 12:05pm)
What does Hillary Clinton and the DNC's wrongdoing have to with potential Russian interference and Trump?


Uh, everything?
You know, considering the reason Putin interfered in the election was as payback for Hillary Clinton's actions in 2011?
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Jul 21 2018 12:28pm
Quote (Goomshill @ 21 Jul 2018 13:16)
Uh, everything?
You know, considering the reason Putin interfered in the election was as payback for Hillary Clinton's actions in 2011?


Is that true? Putin interfered with the 2016 election because of Hillary Clinton's actions in 2011?

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Also, you must rationalize the theory by figuring out how it all managed to stay secret this long. With every journalist in the western hemisphere digging desperately to try to find collusion, and an intelligence community so leaky that the public gets to know what Trump eats for breakfast, there's no way such a conspiracy could be kept hidden for so long. Same problem as the 9/11 crackpots, Maddox had a good piece on debunking conspiracies back when everyone screaming about it now was in diapers.


I agree that collusion is unlikely, but what about obstruction of justice or conspiracy? Keep in mind that Watergate took over 2 years to unravel. The Special Counsel was appointed 14 months ago.
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Jul 21 2018 12:29pm
Quote (Goomshill @ 21 Jul 2018 19:16)
Uh, everything?
You know, considering the reason Putin interfered in the election was as payback for Hillary Clinton's actions in 2011?


look like theres is 2 different things:

the investigation run by your country

the investigation run by Goonshill
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Jul 21 2018 12:41pm
Quote (ThatAlex @ Jul 21 2018 01:05pm)
What does Hillary Clinton and the DNC's wrongdoing have to with potential Russian interference and Trump?

first i will have to state that this question is hard to respond to as the word placement is incriminating no matter what answer.
potential russian interference is already known. you would more be asking, what does this have to do with potential criminal charges on trump including the involvement of russia and the 2016 election?

to this i would say, nothing.
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Uh, everything?
You know, considering the reason Putin interfered in the election was as payback for Hillary Clinton's actions in 2011?

if the question asked of you was written properly, i would have to disagree with this. although it's not untrue, so i can't disagree with it as the question was asked of you.

this is my collective response:
a cause may have an effect, but that effect does not justify the next cause.
i should also state that i speak only of justice, not social justice. social justice this phrase does not apply

Quote (ThatAlex @ Jul 21 2018 01:28pm)
Is that true? Putin interfered with the 2016 election because of Hillary Clinton's actions in 2011?



I agree that collusion is unlikely, but what about obstruction of justice or conspiracy? Keep in mind that Watergate took over 2 years to unravel. The Special Counsel was appointed 14 months ago.

perhaps some of it, but a good deal had to with clinton's agenda particularly around syria, to my understanding.
it would have pushed usa and russia to war, i believe partly to eliminating viable air-space for russia in the region.
i would have to research and refresh to really say, but i do remember a bit on this.

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Jul 21 2018 12:57pm
Quote (Goomshill @ Jul 21 2018 02:16pm)
Uh, everything?
You know, considering the reason Putin interfered in the election was as payback for Hillary Clinton's actions in 2011?


you don't think the magnitsky act has anything to do with it?
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Jul 21 2018 01:14pm
Quote (Horford @ 21 Jul 2018 19:57)
you don't think the magnitsky act has anything to do with it?


those journalists deserve it anyway, all are fake news ;)
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Jul 21 2018 01:21pm
Quote (Horford @ Jul 21 2018 01:57pm)
you don't think the magnitsky act has anything to do with it?

that's definitely 1 thing. it is global though, not just russia.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/09/13/us-global-magnitsky-act
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What is President Trump’s stance on the Global Magnitsky Act?

In a letter sent to members of Congress on April 20, 2017, President Trump affirmed his administration’s “support for this important legislation” and “commitment to its robust and thorough enforcement.” Trump also noted that his administration was in the process of identifying people and entities to whom the act should be applied and “collecting the evidence necessary to apply it.


this is the global version that was passed in 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act
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In November 2012, provisions of the Magnitsky bill were attached to a House bill (H.R. 6156) normalizing trade with Russia (i.e., repealing the Jackson–Vanik amendment) and Moldova.[11] On December 6, 2012, the U.S. Senate passed the House version of the law, 92-4.[8] The law was signed by President Barack Obama on December 14, 2012.[12][13][14][15][16]

In 2016, Congress enacted the Global Magnitsky Act which allows the US Government to sanction foreign government officials implicated in human rights abuses anywhere in the world.[17]


i'm also going to add this from the same wiki page.
Trump campaign–Russian meeting
Main article: Trump campaign–Russian meetings

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In June 2016, a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, who was hired to lobby against the Magnitsky Act in the US, set up a Trump campaign–Russia meeting with Donald Trump, Jr., purportedly to discuss altering the Russian Duma's sanctions against American adoption of Russian children along with other alleged illegal activities. On July 11, 2017, Reuters US reported that at the meeting "[Russia] offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary [Clinton] and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to [Trump Jr.'s] father".[31] Donald Trump Jr. insisted that Veselnitskaya did not reveal any damaging information about Secretary Clinton, contrary to what his correspondence had suggested. Trump Jr. subsequently released to the public via Twitter his personal records and correspondence between the Trump campaign team and Rob Goldstone, a longtime business partner and friend of Trump Sr. who actively represents several Russian interests and who had first pitched the meeting to Trump Jr.[32]

read this last quote slowly please. there are a lot of trigger words used in this.
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Jul 21 2018 01:46pm
Quote (ThatAlex @ Jul 21 2018 12:28pm)
Is that true? Putin interfered with the 2016 election because of Hillary Clinton's actions in 2011?


Yes, yes it is true. Heck, Hillary herself acknowledged it back before the inauguration. Its never been secret.
If you want to read up on it, try these;
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/us/politics/hillary-clinton-russia-fbi-comey.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/putins-revenge/transcript/

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I agree that collusion is unlikely, but what about obstruction of justice or conspiracy? Keep in mind that Watergate took over 2 years to unravel. The Special Counsel was appointed 14 months ago.


Conspiracy is a derivative crime that requires an underlying charge. Someone has to be conspiring to commit a crime
Ie in the Hillary/DNC + Ukrainian embassy collusion (or Hillary -> Perkins Coie -> Fusion GPS -> Steele -> Intermediaries -> Russian agents), even though we can prove there was a secret conspiracy, the underlying action wasn't criminal- sharing information is not a crime and it would be farcical to try to extend campaign finance law to it ala the dumb 'thing of value' theory. Mind, its not something I would put past Mueller especially with Andrew Weissman at the wheel, because its a small jump from using FARA violations to going full blown Logan Act. But the point being, the conspiracy isn't a crime if the action itself isn't a crime.

Obstruction of justice is a whole can of worms where unless someone can show actual concrete steps, flagrant ones, then it becomes a muddled case of intent and selective enforcement. Because there would be an roar of discontent from the Trump supporters if Mueller tries to string up Trump or his allies on some nebulous 'obstruction' charge for taking actions that are within his constitutional roles like firing Comey, while Hillary Clinton was allowed to skate free on destroying evidence even when we had buckets of proof of intent. When the DoJ and FBI just handwave it and say it doesn't count for her, you better have something extremely damning on Trump to try the same thing.
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Jul 21 2018 04:19pm
The cultists have exceeded my expectations putting Russian interests ahead of American ones
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Jul 21 2018 04:37pm
Quote (IceMage @ 20 Jul 2018 15:45)

My question to Trump supporters on PaRD... what level of conspiracy would bother you? If Trump had knowledge of the conspiracy, would you call on him to resign?


None at all. Nope.
/thread.

How did this take 12 pages?

Trump can do no wrong in some people's eyes. It's why we call it the Trump 'cult' and not the Trump base.
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