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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 11:43 AM Jan 2017

Did Deplorables at 4Chan create the Peepeegate documents ?

It is the Trump trolls at 4Chan that are saying that one of them created the Peepeegate documents. Cui bono? They are, of course, saying that to discredit the story as apocryphal. If the documents were forgeries they were damn good forgeries because they fooled various intelligence agencies, United States senators, and the president.

There is an interesting news story from the Guardian about the authenticity of the documents:



The Guardian: source for 35 page "dossier" is "consistently reliable, meticulous,

and well informed."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/10/fbi-chief-given-dossier-by-john-mccain-alleging-secret-trump-russia-contacts?CMP=share_btn_tw

Senator John McCain passed documents to the FBI director, James Comey, last month alleging secret contacts between the Trump campaign and Moscow and that Russian intelligence had personally compromising material on the president-elect himself.

The material, which has been seen by the Guardian, is a series of reports on Trump’s relationship with Moscow. They were drawn up by a former western counter-intelligence official, now working as a private consultant.

The Guardian has not been able to confirm the veracity of the documents’ contents, and the Trump team has consistently denied any hidden contacts with the Russian government.

SNIP

An official in the US administration who spoke to the Guardian described the source who wrote the intelligence report as consistently reliable, meticulous and well-informed, with a reputation for having extensive Russian contacts.

Some of the reports – which are dated from 20 June to 20 October last year – also proved to be prescient, predicting events that happened after they were sent.



We will learn soon enough if these documents are what they seem to be. It is in the Deplorables interest that they aren't
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Did Deplorables at 4Chan create the Peepeegate documents ? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 OP
These documents are opposition research, from Jeb and handed off to McCain. So unless KittyWampus Jan 2017 #1
They are trying to gaslight us, again. DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #2
Right... The real story is the collision and the hacking into electoral level ... uponit7771 Jan 2017 #5
It's the collusion, the kompromat (whatever it is) and the hacking KittyWampus Jan 2017 #11
Yes Dem2 Jan 2017 #7
Maybe Russian trolls, regular tRumP trolls aren't smart (dumb) ecstatic Jan 2017 #3
So where is this heading? cilla4progress Jan 2017 #4
Who cares MFM008 Jan 2017 #6
What heading ? DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #8
It obviously pisses the orange man off. MissB Jan 2017 #12
I'm wondering what happens next cilla4progress Jan 2017 #9
All I know is that is in the interest of the Deplorables for the story not to be true. DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #14
I suspect that Clinton will be summoned to testify about Benghazi again Orrex Jan 2017 #15
This is nothing more than misinformation. Lint Head Jan 2017 #10
This isn't a blind document. The MI6 source is known. nolabear Jan 2017 #13
 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
1. These documents are opposition research, from Jeb and handed off to McCain. So unless
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 11:46 AM
Jan 2017

an ex-British Intelligence officer is on 4chan, they are full of crap.

I don't care about the "Golden Showers" nonsense. I care about the FACT that multiple Intelligence agencies and professionals throughout the world are now saying Russia/Putin have some kind of kompromat on Trump.

If it isn't "Golden Showers", according to intelligence in various countries, there's something.

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
5. Right... The real story is the collision and the hacking into electoral level ...
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 11:48 AM
Jan 2017

.... resources that program the smaller machines

Dem2

(8,168 posts)
7. Yes
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 11:50 AM
Jan 2017

Titillation about the golden shower crap is funny, but it is mostly irrelevant. The only good it does is continue to show a pattern that this guy is kind of a Freakazoid. If it causes the Republicans to not be able to take him seriously, he could become a joke, though I'd prefer to find evidence to remove this fool from office before innocent people die.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
8. What heading ?
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 11:50 AM
Jan 2017

All I know is that the report was more likely to have been written by a former British intelligence officer than some four hundred pound guy sitting on a bed somewhere.

MissB

(15,805 posts)
12. It obviously pisses the orange man off.
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 11:59 AM
Jan 2017

He's really angry. His tweets are all caps. If all this does is send him over the edge, I'm fine with that.

For iDJiT, it's important that he is respected and looked up to- and this isn't the way it's going to go.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
14. All I know is that is in the interest of the Deplorables for the story not to be true.
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 11:59 AM
Jan 2017

And therefore it makes sense they would throw up as much smoke as possible.

Orrex

(63,203 posts)
15. I suspect that Clinton will be summoned to testify about Benghazi again
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 12:04 PM
Jan 2017

The American people still have grave concerns about her email server, you know!

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