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Well now we know why McConnell and Trump won't allow any bills to safeguard our elections!!

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'I think I’d take it': In exclusive interview, Trump says he would listen if foreigners offered dirt on opponents - ABC News

McConnell Blocking Plans to Prevent Russian Election Attack

Trump says he will take help from foreign governments and McConnell is making sure he can do so within the law. I remember a time when just saying such a thing would rule you out as president. IN fact Al Gore, someone that the right really hates, once had Bush's playbook for the debates land on his desk and what did Gore do, he turned it over to the FBI. Now we have a president who not only worships dictators, but is willing to get their help to get elected, just as he did in 2016. And of course all of the trumpsters will say it is just fine, unless a Dem does it and then hang the Dem from the highest tree. Empty the swamp, no, just turn the whole country into one.
 
Putin-Trump Rowers.

Making America Russia Instead.

They've become what we fought against.
 
'I think I’d take it': In exclusive interview, Trump says he would listen if foreigners offered dirt on opponents - ABC News

McConnell Blocking Plans to Prevent Russian Election Attack

Trump says he will take help from foreign governments and McConnell is making sure he can do so within the law. I remember a time when just saying such a thing would rule you out as president. IN fact Al Gore, someone that the right really hates, once had Bush's playbook for the debates land on his desk and what did Gore do, he turned it over to the FBI. Now we have a president who not only worships dictators, but is willing to get their help to get elected, just as he did in 2016. And of course all of the trumpsters will say it is just fine, unless a Dem does it and then hang the Dem from the highest tree. Empty the swamp, no, just turn the whole country into one.

Ummmmmmmmmm. Hillary listened to foreigners (UK Steele dossier) who offered dirt on Trump.
 
Ummmmmmmmmm. Hillary listened to foreigners (UK Steele dossier) who offered dirt on Trump.

Brittain is an ally. Russia is a hostile adversary. Please tell me you understand the difference.
 
Brittain is an ally. Russia is a hostile adversary. Please tell me you understand the difference.

Britain is a foreign government! Are you saying you believe it is OK for foreign governments to influence our elections? By the way, if I remember correctly, we fought a war against Britain to get our independence and the war of 1812. I don't believe we ever fought a war against Russia that I can remember. Cold wars don't count.
 
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Britain is a foreign government! Are you saying you believe it is OK for foreign governments to influence our elections? By the way, if I remember correctly, we fought a war against Britain to get our independence. I don't believe we ever fought a war against Russia that I can remember. Cold wars don't count.

Steele is not a foreign agent or "operative". He's a private citizen hired by an American company.
 
Britain is a foreign government! Are you saying you believe it is OK for foreign governments to influence our elections? By the way, if I remember correctly, we fought a war against Britain to get our independence and the war of 1812. I don't believe we ever fought a war against Russia that I can remember. Cold wars don't count.

Steele is not a foreign government.
 
Britain is a foreign government! Are you saying you believe it is OK for foreign governments to influence our elections? By the way, if I remember correctly, we fought a war against Britain to get our independence and the war of 1812. I don't believe we ever fought a war against Russia that I can remember. Cold wars don't count.

It's cool when one declares there are thingys that don't count.

One can exclude or expel anything he doesn't like to include everything that might contradict his claims and posture. Slouchy as his posture might be to begin with.

Britain is the US number one ally in the world. It's been the US number one ally for a hundred years. And vice versa.

Putin-Trump And Rowers mean to demolish that. No matter how hard they try however they cannot succeed. Military chiefs and commanders have their red line and UK is it. Russia and Putin are on the other side of the red line.

The armed forces oath is to the Constitution while the subversive subservient posture of the Rowers is to Putin-Trump to Make America Russia Instead. This is a fail.
 
Ummmmmmmmmm. Hillary listened to foreigners (UK Steele dossier) who offered dirt on Trump.

She contracted with an American Company to get the information, z company that Steele worked for.
 
I had another thought. If Trump tells us he does not believe that taking the info from a foreign country is illegal, maybe he thingks if he does it again he can say he had not intent to break the law as he did not think it was the law.
 
She contracted with an American Company to get the information, z company that Steele worked for.

So it’s okay to use opposition research from Russia if you use the right number of intermediaries, rather than getting it from them directly. That about the sum of your position?
 
Britain is a foreign government! Are you saying you believe it is OK for foreign governments to influence our elections? By the way, if I remember correctly, we fought a war against Britain to get our independence and the war of 1812. I don't believe we ever fought a war against Russia that I can remember. Cold wars don't count.

No, it isn't okay, and Steele hasn't worked for the Brittish government for a long time. And cold wars DO count. I grew up under that cloud, and it was a constant war-ready state of existence with bomb drills in the classroom.

Junior was offered dirt on Clinton from the Russian government. That's a solid proven fact. Mueller's reason for not charging him with conspiracy basically boiled down to "he was too stupid to know it was wrong." The president's remarks yesterday prove that he thinks it's okay to get help from a foreign government. Either he's too stupid to understand, or (IMO) he simply doesn't care, and thinks the rules should not apply to him.

He is not an American patriot. I don't care how often he hugs the flag, the man cares nothing for his country or our rules and laws. He will flaunt the rules again, and his core adherents will once again excuse him for it. It is shameful and pathetic.
 
Many of us have known why for a long time.
 
Ummmmmmmmmm. Hillary listened to foreigners (UK Steele dossier) who offered dirt on Trump.

Hiring foreign independent contractors to acquire information is not illegal.
 
Hiring foreign independent contractors to acquire information is not illegal.

and if they get their intelligence from foreign countries it really doesnt matter, right?

as long as you get it indirectly?

is that the "new" rulebook
 
and if they get their intelligence from foreign countries it really doesnt matter, right?

as long as you get it indirectly?

is that the "new" rulebook

Steele does not say who his sources were. Beyond that, these sources would have little idea that their information was being used, and they would receive zero political advantage for sharing such information. This is not the case with directly dealing with representatives of a foreign government.

Quid pro quo.
 
WTF, Hillary Clinton is a retired grand mother, and has nothing to do with the OP.

Don Vito tRump is a criminal that believes he's above the law and has always lived his life according to that belief. Now he has an accomplice in McConnel who has show he has no respect for the Constitution beyond how he can twist it for his purposes.

Now tRump is saying he would do anything to get reelected even if it's against the law.
 
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