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U.S. Senate committee concludes Russia used Manafort, WikiLeaks to boost Trump in 2016 by: Mark Hosenball
ReutersAugust 18, 2020, 9:57 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort, the WikiLeaks website and others to try to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help now-U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign, a Senate intelligence panel report said on Tuesday.
WikiLeaks played a key role in Russia's effort to assist Republican Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton and likely knew it was helping Russian intelligence, said the report, which is likely to be the most definitive public account of the 2016 election controversy.
The report found President Vladimir Putin personally directed the Russian efforts to hack computer networks and accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party and leak information damaging to Clinton.
The panel, formally called the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, also alleged Manafort collaborated with Russians, including oligarch Oleg Deripaska and an alleged Russian intelligence operative, Konstantin Kilimnik, before during and after the election.
The panel found Manafort's role and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence, saying his "high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services... represented a grave counterintelligence threat."
It was not clear what effect, if any, the report might have on the current U.S. presidential campaign in which Trump faces Democrat Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 U.S. election.
Opinion polls show former vice president Biden has built an expansive lead in nearly every battleground state that Trump won narrowly in 2016, as the Republican's approval numbers tumble amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Russia's alleged election interference, which Moscow denies, sparked a two-year-long U.S. investigation headed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Mueller found no conclusive evidence of coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign in a report released last year. He pointed at 10 instances in which Trump may have attempted to impede his investigation but did not say whether this amounted to obstruction of justice.
Trump and his supporters have consistently bristled at suggestions foreign interference helped his upset 2016 victory and sought to discredit the intelligence agencies' findings as the politically charged work of a "deep state."
Founded by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks published thousands of emails hacked from Clinton's campaign and a top campaign aide in the weeks before the 2016 election, yielding a drum beat of negative coverage about the Democrat.
"WikiLeaks actively sought, and played, a key role in the Russian campaign and very likely knew it was assisting a Russian intelligence influence effort, the report said, saying the panel found "significant indications that Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have benefited from Russian government support."
As Russian military intelligence and WikiLeaks released the hacked documents, the report said Trump's campaign sought advance notice, devised messaging strategies to amplify them "and encouraged further theft of information and ... leaks."
"The Trump campaign publicly undermined the attribution of the hack-and-leak campaign to Russia and was indifferent to whether it and WikiLeaks were furthering a Russian election interference effort," the report added.
The committee could not establish the extent to which Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone had real inside access to WikiLeaks materials, the report said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wikileaks-likely-knew-helped-russian-135743115.html
We should get rid of glass windows as well. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen birds fly into a window and die. We should use plywood instead of glass.
No reflection to fly into
Do you mean when you’re in Jim? Maybe a condom as well!
She voluntarily got fucked
Your cult leader fucks everybody including you but your not smart enough to catch on! Sad
Are all the dump supporters as stupid as you?
I wonder how her pussy feels? Your cult leader dump probably knows.
Reminds me of Abbot and Costello.
Who’s on first?
This is funny.
Lincoln Project type funny!
You’re either very naive or fucking stupid!
Please advise!
Kidding!
I agree with 11
Economic lesson for today...
$7.00 Sex
An Arizona couple, both well into their 80's, go to a sex therapist's office.
The doctor asks, 'What can I do for you?'
The man says, 'Will you watch us have sexual intercourse?'
The doctor raises both eyebrows, but he is so amazed that such an elderly couple is asking for sexual advice that he agrees.
When the couple finishes, the doctor says, 'There's absolutely nothing wrong with the way you have intercourse..'
He thanks them for coming, he wishes them good luck, he charges them $50 and he says good bye.
The next week, the same couple returns and asks the sex therapist to watch again. The sex therapist is a bit puzzled, but agrees.
This happens several weeks in a row
The couple makes an appointment, has intercourse with no problems, pays the doctor, then leave.
Finally, after 3 months of this routine, the doctor says, 'I'm sorry, but I have to ask. Just what are you trying to find out?'
The man says, 'We're not trying to find out anything.
She's married; so we can't go to her house.
I'm married; and we can't go to my house.
The Holiday Inn charges $98.
The Hilton charges $139.
We do it here for $50, and
Medicare pays $43 of it, leaving my net cost of $7.
Awesome!
The wealthy people I understand .
For them it’s all about their money.
It’s the working class that baffles me.
Is our America that racist to side with these GOP assholes?
Right on!
Putin has president dump by the balls while rubbing shit in his face.
I approve!
God damn phone
per capita
By the way president dump, what does per capital mean?
Does he know?
What a fucking dope!
Since they have no intention of earning your vote, they will buy it.
McConnell Expects New Virus Relief Bill by End of Month
(Bloomberg) -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted Congress will pass one final coronavirus rescue package later this month and appealed to everyone in public life to urge people to wear masks to control the spread.
“This is not over. We are seeing a resurgence in a lot of states,” McConnell said at one of three press conferences he held Monday in Kentucky. “I think the country needs one last boost.”
McConnell said he’s “pretty sure” that a bill will come together in the next couple of weeks. He said it will be crafted in his office with consultation from the administration and then negotiated with Democrats, who endorsed a $3.5 trillion package approved by the House in May. Senate Republicans have dismissed that plan and are discussing a package of as much as $1 trillion in total spending.
Whatever the final number, McConnell said it will be harder to get the unanimous Senate support that accompanied the last bill, the $2.2 trillion Cares Act. “The atmosphere has become a bit more political than it was in March,” he said.
McConnell reiterated his insistence that the bill must include liability protections for businesses, schools and others that reopen. He said more broadly that he was focused on measures that would help reopen schools, and boost jobs and health care.
That could include additional payments to individuals, McConnell said. He added that the people hit the hardest make about $40,000 or less and work in the hospitality industry.
He said lawmakers will be looking at additional state and local aid, but cautioned that the soaring federal debt is a reason the next bill must be the last one.
On masks and the virus generally, McConnell’s tone differed sharply from President Donald Trump, who has avoided wearing masks in public and has repeatedly tried to minimize the pandemic.
“Look, the single most important thing each of us can do to not only help ourselves but protect our friends and neighbors and everyone around us is not complicated — to wear a mask,” McConnell said. “It ain’t confusing. It’s really simple.”
While McConnell didn’t back a national mask mandate, he said everyone in public life should set an example by wearing masks and urging people to wear them.
“We all need to echo that all across the commonwealth and all across the country,” he said.
McConnell blamed soaring case counts on people not taking the virus seriously enough.
“Clearly a lot of people thought when we started opening up the economy again, let the good times roll,” he said. Still, he added, “We can’t shut the economy down again.”
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was asked at her Monday press briefing about Republican lawmakers’ statements that the most important thing Americans can do is to wear a mask in public.
“The president was very clear last week if he were in a situation where he wasn’t tested daily and he was in close proximity and unable to social distance, he would wear a mask,” she said. Trump, who plans an outdoor rally in New Hampshire on Saturday, has made clear that “masks are not only handed out but they are recommended,” McEnany.
Asked about his face-off in November’s election against Democrat Amy McGrath, McConnell noted he is the only congressional leader not from California or New York and said “the fundamental question” for voters is whether they want a senator who will help Kentucky “punch above its weight” or one whose first vote “will be to make Chuck Schumer majority leader.”
Just blows your mind
WTF!
I remember reading that
It wasn’t that long ago when the RW nutjobs believed Obama was creating a zombie army to attack the southern and republican run states.
Nothing they make up to attack the dems surprises me. It’s too bad the stupids on the right so easily fall for this shit.
Maybe?
No
Is definitely
I approve
Thanks
All to please Putin
Not sure who, but didn’t someone say all supporters of dump are assholes!
I would like to add they are big assholes!
This is not mine but was copied from a poster on Yahoo.
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What problems has Donald Trump handled correctly ?
He survived impeachment when guilty.
He cut air travel to Europe (except to his own hotels) on March 13 but
only after the airlines had already canceled all flights on their own.
He successfully increased methane gas pollution over the objections of
Shell, Exxon, and BP.
He successfully lowered car gas mileage and increased their pollution
over the objections of four automobile companies.
He successfully removed the regulations preventing another BP oil spill.
He successfully removed wildlife regulations in Alaska.
He successfully increased mercury pollution from coal plants.
He successfully removed pollution controls on streams and wetlands.
He successfully increased toxic air pollution.
He has successfully contributed to global warming
He successfully lost trade wars with Canada and Mexico.
He successfully assassinated a foreign leader without having to give a
plausible reason.
He successfully broke our treaties with Iran, Japan, and S. Korea.
He successfully took a $ 500 million bribe from China for ZTE. The
money was given for a loan on a non-existent theme park in Indonesia
in May, 2018.
He successfully killed the Trans Pacific Partnership which, it turns
out, was needed.
He successfully put a tariff on steel that costs Americans $ 900,000
per job created.
He successfully reduced safe, legal abortions
He successfully removed separation of church and state
He successfully avoided showing his income taxes and grades
He twice successfully created a farm labor shortage in the US.
He successfully eliminated the United States support of the World
Health Organization.
He successfully stole $ 2 million from 8 different charities.
He successfully paid $ 130,000 and $ 150,000 to two prostitutes.
He successfully made Brazil the world’s #1 soybean producer to replace
the US by sending China to buy their soybeans instead of American
soybeans.
He successfully enriched Brazil and Argentina with pork meatpacking
businesses originally to be bought from America.
He successfully saved Mexico from having to pay any money for the wall.
He has successfully told over 18,000 lies, approximately 23 per day.
Successfully set a new record for golfing, 266 times by May 25, 2020
He successfully set the all time record for staff leaving the White
house (489) in just three years.
He successfully bankrupted four businesses.
He threatened “shooting” and “bullets” against American protestors,
thereby successfully greenlighting China to do the same thing against
Hong Kong protestors the very next day.
She/he is soft as shit!
True and true
Assuming a fair and unhacked election in November, dump has no fucken chance of re-election. Here a few things that will happen with that outcome.
Him and his treasonous criminal cabal will spend the rest of their lives in court or worst, Putin will foreclose on several of his properties and the Republican enablers will contract an amnesia virus.
Whether the GOP has a majority or not, they again will be the party of family values and fiscal responsibility. Then they start to scream about the national debt they incurred and blame it on Biden.
Hopefully, the Dems get the majority in the senate and the abolish citizens united ruling. All the dark and foreign money in politics is a major problem.
So these assholes are willing to go to prison. Now that’s conviction
Correct me if I'm wrong, if one of these people shoot and kill another person, that's murder.
They left out the part where assholes like other assholes like dump.
I meant yes it would hurt her
No
After being AG which I think is a good idea, it will carry baggage that would not be conducive to running and being president
Any controversial move she made would be used Against her by the GOP
If Harris were AG, would that ruin her chance of ever running for president in the future?