[–] junesunflower 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago
So this is just ONE investigation. It was following up on a report that Trump's computer servers were being pinged by a system in Russia.
I am not going to expect any of you to be smart enough to fully understand what I just said, and I am too lazy to explain it more.
Umm, no, it actually wasn't, they're referencing a Circa report which details more than one branch of investigation and goes beyond pinging a server:
http://circa.com/politics/fbi-probe-of-donald-trump-and-russia-during-election-yielded-no-evidence-of-crimes
[–] NotAnIdiot ago
Are you talking about the server out of Trump Tower that Vault 7 exposed as actually being run by the CIA?
[–] Big_Willy_Wallace 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
To be fair, and as we've all learned, assertions of guilt or innocence by the FBI are completely irrelevant to the truth of the matter. That said, only a completely oblivious, blazing moron would believe that Russia was controlling Trump or the election. I say this because only a blazing moron would pay attention to and still believe the completely discredited and disgraced organizations pushing that bullshit narrative. Unfortunately, the people pushing the lie have socially engineered a population of blazing morons for the express purpose of believing and supporting them. It's really a tragedy.
[–] bdmthrfkr [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
All of us did, it was just too bizarre to be true. That didn't stop the whores in the media from slinging it night and day, over and over until it almost sounded plausible. That's how they work so the next time you hear something repeated endlessly for months on end there is a huge chance that it is fake news.
[–] Whitemail 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I almost gave in and started talking about it as if it were a possibility, but then I decided to dismiss it as fake news. They're trying to give the left bullshit to feed on to incite them, and it is pretty much serving its purpose. It's the same way they had a bunch of fake polls saying Crooked Hillary was winning.
[–] 8366558? 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
This is the YoungCons reporting on the investigation into Russia interfering with US elections systems. They say there's not enough evidence to criminally charge people and that they didn't find encrypted communications with or money transferred between Russia nad the Trump campaign. On its face, this seems kind of narrow and blown up to fit a point.
They cited the Daily Caller. The daily caller says that there were no connections between the two on this issue, but that they did verify the Flynn connection and that he did talk about sanctions in a way that is illegal under the Logan act. Flynn did do the things he was harassed for and this investigation did find it.
They cited Circa. Circa tells more of the story. This wasn't focussed on Trump. They didn't find anything because they weren't investigating Trump. They were investigating Russia. In the process of that they still found this bit of dirt on a top Trump advisor, and that apparently created the impression they were also looking at Trump, but they weren't at all.
So this doesn't really prove anything.
[–] NotAnIdiot ago
Isn't the Logan Act the one that the government violates all the time and they've prosecuted it like once?
[–] bdmthrfkr [S] 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
What they found on Flynn was extremely minor:
For instance, after the Russian ambassador sent a text message seeking a phone call, Flynn and Kislyak talked about sanctions imposed by Obama on Russia on Dec. 29, but the message the American official gave was mostly that a new sheriff was about to take over the White House and Russians shouldn’t react to the new sanctions in a way that would foreclose better dialog in the future under a Trump administration, sources said.
This hardly rises to the level of breaking the Logan act. And, as you point out, while most of this information wasn't specifically targeted at Trump you can bet your last dollar that every intercept, etc, was poured over by political operatives. If there had been anything there it would have been plastered all over the front page of the NYT.
Really, Trump and his campaign staff are clean, pure and simple.
[–] onesaltymotherfucker 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
i had some weird dreams last night after watching assange talk about vault 7 yesterday.
what if trump is the one who the CIA lost their hacking technology to? lol
what if thats why you cant stump the trump.
what if thats why trump seems like hes from the future sent back in time to save america and the world from indecent usurpers.
[–] flapjack_charlie 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Well, they lost their hacking tools to the internet, so I'm guessing a lot of people have them at the moment.
[–] heretolearn 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
how was that talk. I didn't see it. and I'm still not convinced Julian is alive
[–] TheonGreyjoy 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Trump is John Titor! You heard it here first.
[–] bedlam ago
The #Wiretapping of Trump Tower Offered No Evidence of Russia Ties. But Showed How Bad (or Sick) @BarackObama Is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gukCtIcHgg