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still_one

(92,190 posts)
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:37 AM Jun 2017

Part of me is giggling: Green Party activists cheer Trump and dismiss Russia hacks

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has no regrets about her possible spoiler role in last year’s election, and she dismissed concerns about Russian interference as “pathetic excuses” for the Democrats’ loss.

"Stein said she would welcome an opportunity to testify before Congress about her campaign and her 2015 trip to Moscow, where she dined with Russian President Vladimir Putin at an event hosted by the government-funded RT network, reported Politico.

Mike Flynn, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign who lasted less than a month as national security adviser, also attended that dinner and gave a speech, for which he was paid $45,000 that he later failed to disclose.

Stein told Politico she was not offered any speaking fees, and she said she declined RT’s offer to pay for her travel costs — which the candidate said was paid by her presidential campaign.

“I am certainly not aware of any ties whatsoever, financial or otherwise, to the Russian government,” Stein told the website.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/part-of-me-is-giggling-green-party-activists-cheer-trump-and-dismiss-russia-hacks-as-pathetic-excuses/?comments=disqus

Stein is a terrible person, and this comment regarding Stein says it all:

"Unless that chuckling you're doing is nervous laughter, you aren't human, Stein. Children and seniors are about to lose their health coverage, entire towns are losing 15 feet of coastline per year, the ultra-rich are about to get a historically huge tax break off the backs of the poor and middle class, and we are destroying our alliances and openly supporting dictators (yes, we supported dictators before but at least we pretended we were against what they were doing, now we are outright praising them for being dictators). How can ANYONE find this amusing in the least?"

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Part of me is giggling: Green Party activists cheer Trump and dismiss Russia hacks (Original Post) still_one Jun 2017 OP
K&R!!!! n/t RKP5637 Jun 2017 #1
A vote for stein or Johnson was a vote for trump Gothmog Jun 2017 #2
She's a piece of work JustAnotherGen Jun 2017 #3
no, she is a piece of shit snooper2 Jun 2017 #4
AND JustAnotherGen Jun 2017 #5
ms stein hasn't explained this..... spanone Jun 2017 #6
She said this in that article: Voltaire2 Jun 2017 #7
but she had no problem breaking bread with Putin at a celebration honoring his still_one Jun 2017 #8
trolls and agitprop merchants Blue_Tires Jun 2017 #9
The only thing green about the Green Party Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2017 #10
She was part of the plan dreamland Jun 2017 #11

Voltaire2

(13,027 posts)
7. She said this in that article:
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 11:13 AM
Jun 2017

“Putin is an authoritarian and has a very troubled, disturbing record,” she said.

Wtf?

Oh wait.

still_one

(92,190 posts)
8. but she had no problem breaking bread with Putin at a celebration honoring his
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 12:28 PM
Jun 2017

propaganda news outlet, nor saying that "Hillary was worse than trump", nor expressing satisfaction that trump won.

She can take her millions and go to hell

dreamland

(964 posts)
11. She was part of the plan
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 01:04 AM
Jun 2017

I don't trust her one bit. I think she was a setup to help the Repugs take the election. Who really funded her campaign? I wouldn't be surprised to see Russian money there too.

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