‘Blow It Out’: How The Trump Campaign Mobilized Around Russian-Hacked Emails | Talking Points Memo

A bipartisan Senate intelligence report offered bountiful insight into the degree to which the Trump campaign mobilized around WikiLeaks’ release of Democratic emails hacked by Russia in a messaging push only described in broad strokes by special counsel Robert Mueller.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1326913

Simply put, the Trumps and their lackeys are thieves of American democracy. They should be frog marched off the continent in January.

29 Likes

So this means he will be impeached and thrown out of office, right?

11 Likes

I think the majority of Americans who use critical thinking and common sense KNEW that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russians when tRump on camera asked Russia to release Hillary’s emails. So NOTHING in the report surprises me except the Putin love letters.



26 Likes

Also, the fact that the Republican Senate more than likely KNEW about what was in the intel report didn’t vote to remove tRump and his stain from office is also NO surprise.

46 Likes

Is anyone still arguing that Robert Mueller is anything other than a sellout?

10 Likes

I read a bit of the report last night, starting with the section on the Agalarovs (III.C, p. 259). Those people are straight-up gangsters. And that is who the trump organization lashed themselves to.

Turds of a feather flush together.

23 Likes

There is a reason this report comes out now.

14 Likes

Bannon offered the committee this assessment of the episode: “I’d describe Don Junior, who I think very highly of, as a guy who believes everything on Breitbart is true.”

hahaha. A gullible moron.

26 Likes

This is the trailer for an upcoming documentary on the insanity of the Rump.

19 Likes

Damn! Nice trailer.

6 Likes

Remember these names:

Maco Rubio
Richard Burr
James Risch
Susan Collins
Tom Cotton
John Cornyn
Ben Sasse

These individuals (Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee) should be for tried for treason in a court of law. They knew the available data, they had access to the facts, they lied to the US citizens, and they were involved in a coverup. They owe their allegiance to the citizens of these United States (and Commonwealths), NOT to their party leader. Their oath does not state they are responsible to Trump, but to the authority of the Senate as a key member of the legislative branch of the US government. They are supposed to be intelligent individuals, and if shown data indicating a violation of US laws, they owe their voice to what is right, NOT to protect the Right. They allowed our country to be undermined by a foreign enemy. They could have stopped it with their votes during their hearings on numerous occasions, but chose not to do so.

They are responsible and need to be tried in public. In all seriousness, a line was clearly crossed. They are all pathetic.

And unfortunately, I find I can no longer support Mr. Mueller’s handling of his investigation. He fell short on too important a responsibility.

42 Likes

The film Firefox:

Clint Eastwood’s character: “Don’t you people ever get tired of fighting City Hall?”

Russian: “Fighting City Hall, as you say, Mr. Gantt, is a luxury we do not enjoy.”

More people should have paid attention to that exchange. Then Trump would have never been allowed to run for President…even with the overwhelming racism present in this country:

There are other, safer, ways to get conservative judges, Mitch.

10 Likes

Judging by the Senate report it’s almost as if it describes a criminal enterprise. Imagine that!

29 Likes

When Paul Manafort is the adult in the room . . .

14 Likes

For sure, Eric Cartman is president.

7 Likes

Instead of reporting the crime, the Trumps mobilized and coordinated to increase its impact.

There is more than enough information to put a whole lot of Trumps in jail for crimes from aiding and abetting use of mail and wires in crimes, conspiracy, campaign violations, collusion with foreign power to interfere in the elections, treason (the war on terror is ongoing and our troops are dealing with bounties on their heads), misprision of treason and misprision of felonies, just to name a few off the top of my head.

Putin is enemy No. 1. We are under attack from Russia and we need to mobilize for the war and take Putin out, whatever the means.

If Biden and the Dems do not put the Trumps and all their enablers on trial when the next Democratic administration takes power, Putin will have won.

20 Likes

DJTJR is about as stupid as they come. Trump was right to worry about his having the same name if he turned out to be a loser.

4 Likes

So a conspiracy with Russia was actually the heart of their campaign, with Stone and Wikileaks acting as nominal cutout. Stone ended up having to lie, with a pardon as his reward, to preserve the transparent fiction that there wasn’t direct collaboration. Knock me over with a feather.

24 Likes

For me that confession on national TV was all the proof I needed. All of this kabuki with the Mueller report and smoking guns was nonsense. The documentation and evidence is all there, and then his own words sealed it.

14 Likes