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Elliott Broidy, top Trump fundraiser, accuses ex-CIA operative of hacking his emails

TU Curmudgeon

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From NBC News

Elliott Broidy, top Trump fundraiser, accuses ex-CIA operative of hacking his emails
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WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Elliott Broidy, a top fundraiser for President Donald Trump, alleged in federal court on Thursday that a former CIA operative was behind hacks on his email that revealed his efforts to get the White House to embrace anti-Qatar policies.


The former operative, Kevin Chalker, and David Mark Powell, his partner at Global Risk Advisors, an international consulting firm, opened an office in Doha in October 2017, two months before Broidy's emails began leaking in U.S. media, the lawsuit alleges.


At the direction of Mohammed bin Hamad Khalifa al Thani, the brother of the emir of Qatar, the court filing claims, Global Risk Advisors solicited the help of a U.K. security firm, an Israeli citizen and a retired Moroccan diplomat to obtain Broidy’s emails.

COMMENT:-
Has anyone but me noticed that the usual reaction today is not "I didn't do it.", but rather "I object to the way that I got caught doing it."?

PS- I understand that the next step is to advance the line that

  1. BECAUSE Mr. Chalker was in the CIA when Mr. Obama was the President, and
  2. BECAUSE Mr. Obama was a Democrat, and
  3. BECAUSE Ms. Clinton is a Democrat,
  4. THEN the illegal leaking of the evidence showing what was done was all a part of a Clinton PLOT to
    • discredit the President of the United States of America and
    • turn America into a Socialist Muslim country where same-sex, inter-racial, marriage is compulsory.
 
As far as I can see, the only illegal activity here is the hacking.
 
Broidy is a criminal swamp dweller, Republicans have no shame when it comes to money though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Broidy

The guy has a number of scandals, including a felony bribery charge that he plead down to misdemeanor to give up dirt on someone else.
Ukraine is currently investigating him for guess what, some dealing/promotion of VTB, a Russian sanctioned bank...coincidence!

Of Cohen's 3 clients, Broidy is one of them. Its speculated that his affair with the playboy model that resulting in a pregnancy and abortion and million dollar payoff, was really just a cover for Trump having been the one that did the deed. Of course at this point, Trump's history makes that seem more likely than Broidy..I mean, get one look at Broidy and you wonder how that would have happened anyway. Looks like Trump's type, and he does get around the playboy circle.

The story here IMO is why a chunk of mainstream voters put up with such **** bags whose interests we all know are not aligned with rank and file voters. No one should give 2 ****s about what Broidy has to say.
 
Mycroft said:
Give me the facts.
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Why not actually read the article rather than requesting that you be spoon fed stuff that you won't pay any attention to unless it translates into "Donald Trump is the closest thing to the Second Coming that we are likely to see in our lifetime."?
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
Why not actually read the article rather than requesting that you be spoon fed stuff that you won't pay any attention to unless it translates into "Donald Trump is the closest thing to the Second Coming that we are likely to see in our lifetime."?
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I read it.

What facts did I miss?
 
Mycroft said:
I read it.

What facts did I miss?
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Since I am completely unable to determine what facts you DID NOT miss, I am also completely unable to determine what facts you DID miss.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
Since I am completely unable to determine what facts you DID NOT miss, I am also completely unable to determine what facts you DID miss.
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Nice cop out.
 
Mycroft said:
Nice cop out.
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OK, if that's the way you want it.

As far as I can determine you missed ALL of the facts, so my original suggestion that you read (I'll change that to re-read) the article still stands.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
OK, if that's the way you want it.

As far as I can determine you missed ALL of the facts, so my original suggestion that you read (I'll change that to re-read) the article still stands.
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shrug...

I made a statement in my first post. You don't dispute it.

So it goes...
 
Mycroft said:
I made a statement in my first post. You don't dispute it.
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Indeed, I do not dispute your "As far as I can see, the only illegal activity here is the hacking.".

My suggestion (and my apologies for being overly subtle when I responded "Might I suggest that you can actually see things a bit more clearly if you actually open your eyes." would have (I thought) indicated that your "As far as I can see" was pretty much analogous to the likelihood of spotting a black cat, in a coal cellar, at midnight, during a lunar eclipse, with your eyes shut, a paper bag over your head, and a tinfoil hat pulled down to your collar bones - while drunk.

I wouldn't, in the least, dream of disputing that "as far as (you) can see" the only "illegal activity here is the hacking" any more than I would think of disputing you if you were to say


"As far as I know there has never been a President of the United States of America who is as wise, learned, capable, responsible, level-headed, trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent, respectful of women, long-suffering, temperate, soft-spoken as Mr. Trump is and that there never will be"
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Not only that, but I would REALLY REALLY try to suppress the giggles.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
Indeed, I do not dispute your "As far as I can see, the only illegal activity here is the hacking.".

My suggestion (and my apologies for being overly subtle when I responded "Might I suggest that you can actually see things a bit more clearly if you actually open your eyes." would have (I thought) indicated that your "As far as I can see" was pretty much analogous to the likelihood of spotting a black cat, in a coal cellar, at midnight, during a lunar eclipse, with your eyes shut, a paper bag over your head, and a tinfoil hat pulled down to your collar bones - while drunk.

I wouldn't, in the least, dream of disputing that "as far as (you) can see" the only "illegal activity here is the hacking" any more than I would think of disputing you if you were to say


"As far as I know there has never been a President of the United States of America who is as wise, learned, capable, responsible, level-headed, trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent, respectful of women, long-suffering, temperate, soft-spoken as Mr. Trump is and that there never will be"
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Not only that, but I would REALLY REALLY try to suppress the giggles.
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So...you are just trolling me, right?
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
Since I am completely unable to determine what facts you DID NOT miss, I am also completely unable to determine what facts you DID miss.
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It absolutely amazes me that Swampy supporters cannot follow simple bullet listed summaries of a summary of a news report. You're gonna have to make your posts read more like Drudge from now on for these people to get it.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
Nope, merely suggesting that you unglue your eyes from FOX News and take a look at reality.
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Okay, then your suggestion is unnecessary. I don't watch Fox news and I am firmly planted in reality. My eyes are wide open and unobstructed by bias.
 
Mycroft said:
Okay, then your suggestion is unnecessary. I don't watch Fox news and I am firmly planted in reality. My eyes are wide open and unobstructed by bias.
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And the cheque is in the mail.
 
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