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Nevilledog

(51,125 posts)
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 05:18 PM Aug 2020

Senate report on Russia blows a hole in Trump's 'hoax' claim





Senate report on Russia blows a hole in Trump’s ‘hoax’ claims

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/senate-report-on-russia-blows-a-hole-in-trumps-hoax-claims








A new, bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee confirms, unambiguously, that the Justice Department had good reason to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election. It also indicates that investigators were right to examine potential conspiracy with the Kremlin by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Again, this is a bipartisan report, not a partisan Democratic attack document. It is endorsed by Republican committee chairman (on leave), Richard Burr of North Carolina, by acting Chairman Marco Rubio of Florida, and by all other Republicans on the committee in addition to the committee Democrats.

The very first substantive words of the report say this: “The Committee found that the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.”

The report “focuses on the counterintelligence threat, outlining a wide range of Russian efforts to influence the Trump Campaign and the 2016 election. In this volume the Committee lays out its findings in detail by looking at many aspects of the counterintelligence threat posed by the Russian influence operation,” with special attention on the multitudinous Russian connections of Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, who for more than a decade had conducted “influence operations” on behalf of a major Russian oligarch named Oleg Deripaska.

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Senate report on Russia blows a hole in Trump's 'hoax' claim (Original Post) Nevilledog Aug 2020 OP
And yet...Pompeo is plowing ahead. Zoonart Aug 2020 #1
They want to drown out this report with their nonsense about Ukraine. crickets Aug 2020 #3
I'd think so. soothsayer Aug 2020 #2

crickets

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3. They want to drown out this report with their nonsense about Ukraine.
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 07:03 PM
Aug 2020

They're cooking up something with their little sekrit 'for Repubs only' document requests.

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