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Trump’s Efforts at Election Tampering Are Growing Bolder

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Trump’s Efforts at Election Tampering Are Growing Bolder

Having exploited foreign assistance in 2016 and gotten away with it, the president is already trying it again in the 2020 race.

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6/13/19
“I’m actually a very honest guy,” Donald Trump told George Stephanopoulos in an interview aired Monday. And while that claim holds no water in general, Trump was jarringly honest on one topic: his willingness to welcome foreign interference in the 2020 election. Trump’s declaration, though, is neither especially surprising nor especially irrational. While the president has paid hefty political penalties for his behavior during the 2016 election, and while his latest comments will only stoke the fervor for impeachment among Democrats, the fact remains that the Trump campaign profited from foreign interference in 2016. It did not rebuff explicit offers of assistance from Russia, and capitalized on the roundabout assistance Russia’s release of hacked material provided. Whatever collateral damage Trump has received since the election, Russia’s interference helped him pull off a shocking upset victory in November 2016, and he’s so far escaped serious personal consequences for exploiting that aid. It’s no surprise, then, that Trump would not forswear a tactic that worked for him then. Rather, every indication is that the president’s electoral behavior will be worse in 2020, and there will be fewer constraints on him.

First, as the interview with Stephanopoulos showed, Trump is effectively already actively soliciting foreign assistance in 2020. Trump openly telling Stephanopoulos he’d look at help and not report it to the FBI is as good as a request for bids. Trump is happy to flex his power over the executive branch. After years of demanding it, Trump now has an attorney general who has launched an investigation the origin of the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump has also given Barr wide latitude to declassify intelligence, and the Justice Department is seeking to question officials at the CIA. The effect of the president’s rhetoric and the investigation will be to put any federal law-enforcement or intelligence official who might dare to object to or probe foreign interference in 2020 on notice. At best, they would face the risk of being called in front of an inquisition; at worst, the president might be airing their personal lives on his Twitter feed. The major remaining constraint on foreign interference now is that any foreign actor might worry about helping Trump only to see him lose—in the process, alienating an incoming administration. Trump’s comments to Stephanopoulos underscore what ought to be obvious by now. The president isn’t interested in a fair election, and he’s not interested in legality. He’s only interested in winning. If that requires foreign interference, so be it.

I'll sleep much easier at night after this treasonous bastard and his treasonous minions are booted out of government.

Related: Trump remarks deepen distrust with intelligence community
 
Trump’s Efforts at Election Tampering Are Growing Bolder

Having exploited foreign assistance in 2016 and gotten away with it, the president is already trying it again in the 2020 race.

636673235747767106-AFP-AFP-17Q12R.jpg


I'll sleep much easier at night after this treasonous bastard and his treasonous minions are booted out of government.

Related: Trump remarks deepen distrust with intelligence community

I don't find anything wrong with this picture.

I see a humble an gracious Putin shaking hands with a generous American and reeking in his fortune.

I don't begrudge it Putin, he can only enjoy so much.

Where would Trump's fortune be if America fell to Russia?

It would all be destroyed in War.

The only thing Trump's done wrong is his tax cut.

Tell me, is Putin going to conduct Trump's Campaign?

Is Trump going to tell Putin how infiltrate the web and our minds?

Is Trump going to bend over to Putin and take collusion?

Sure Trump will do it, but you voted for him.
 
He's soliciting collusion much earlier this cycle.
 
You were in the voting booth with me? Gee, my Spidey-sense needs a major tune-up.

No Russian infiltrators were with you, making you wonder if Clinton wasn't worse than Trump, allowing others to think so, so you voted: and Trump was President, that is all I know.
 
Of course Cheato is going to try to cheat.
 
Trump’s Efforts at Election Tampering Are Growing Bolder

Having exploited foreign assistance in 2016 and gotten away with it, the president is already trying it again in the 2020 race.

636673235747767106-AFP-AFP-17Q12R.jpg




I'll sleep much easier at night after this treasonous bastard and his treasonous minions are booted out of government.

Related: Trump remarks deepen distrust with intelligence community

This whole Trump operation looks more and more like a criminal organization. Coming from NY, this is exactly how Trump has done his business since he was 8 years old with this father Fred. When it comes to any of the multiple investigations being done by Congress, they're like an organized crime ring.

'Don't talk. Don't deliver documents. If someone is about to talk, they're a 'rat'. This is how the mafia operates, they either threaten them or promise them things in return for their silence and rewards for being part of their crime family. Just yesterday, Kellyanne Conway was found to be in violation of the law. But Trump believes that if he does it and his crime organization does it, it's not a violation of the law, he's above the law.
 
This whole Trump operation looks more and more like a criminal organization. Coming from NY, this is exactly how Trump has done his business since he was 8 years old with this father Fred. When it comes to any of the multiple investigations being done by Congress, they're like an organized crime ring.

'Don't talk. Don't deliver documents. If someone is about to talk, they're a 'rat'. This is how the mafia operates, they either threaten them or promise them things in return for their silence and rewards for being part of their crime family. Just yesterday, Kellyanne Conway was found to be in violation of the law. But Trump believes that if he does it and his crime organization does it, it's not a violation of the law, he's above the law.

He's a perfect example of himself.
 
No Russian infiltrators were with you, making you wonder if Clinton wasn't worse than Trump, allowing others to think so, so you voted: and Trump was President, that is all I know.

They were both terrible choices. Didn't vote for either.

As I feared, Trump is by far the worse president I've ever seen. Parsecs far.
 
Trump’s Efforts at Election Tampering Are Growing Bolder

Having exploited foreign assistance in 2016 and gotten away with it, the president is already trying it again in the 2020 race.

636673235747767106-AFP-AFP-17Q12R.jpg




I'll sleep much easier at night after this treasonous bastard and his treasonous minions are booted out of government.

Related: Trump remarks deepen distrust with intelligence community

The article is amusing:
The fact is of course the only candidate who received information from Russia in 2016 remains Mrs. Clinton whom not only received it, but hired a guy who has Kremlin contacts. Moreover, the Obama Admin had no problem accepting foreign information about Trump from Australia. Uk, Estonia.
Where it gets amusing is that the Obama Admin used that information to investigate--- Trump. They didn't complain that Australia, or UK OR Estonia was seeking to influence the election and investigate that.
Meanwhile of course, Trump is denounced for suggesting he would do what Obama acctualy did and has been denounced for wanting to do what Clinton actually did.
And you anti-Trump folks can't understand what p*sses the pro Trump folks off.
 
They were both terrible choices. Didn't vote for either.

As I feared, Trump is by far the worse president I've ever seen. Parsecs far.

I presume that you didn't live under Peanut Brain Carter. Try living with double digit unemployment and inflation.
 
How did he exploit foreign interference?

One way was when his campaign manager gave data from Cambridge Analytica to a Russian agent to help them target Bernie supporters to stay home in the 3 blue States that Trump won by a total of 78,000 votes. That was quite a feat. Illegal as hell but still a feat.
 
I presume that you didn't live under Peanut Brain Carter. Try living with double digit unemployment and inflation.

Yea that damn Carter got OPEC to triple oil prices overnight. How he did it is still a mystery.
 
You TDS sufferers really need to take it down a few notches. No seriously, you're beginning to cross the line between sane and, well....you know.
 
One way was when his campaign manager gave data from Cambridge Analytica to a Russian agent to help them target Bernie supporters to stay home in the 3 blue States that Trump won by a total of 78,000 votes. That was quite a feat. Illegal as hell but still a feat.

I'm not sure which is worse, the Russian agents or the Bernie supporters stupid enough to believe the message to go vote on Wednesday.
 
One way was when his campaign manager gave data from Cambridge Analytica to a Russian agent to help them target Bernie supporters to stay home in the 3 blue States that Trump won by a total of 78,000 votes. That was quite a feat. Illegal as hell but still a feat.

Nothing illegal, or inappropriate about that...lol
 
One way was when his campaign manager gave data from Cambridge Analytica to a Russian agent to help them target Bernie supporters to stay home in the 3 blue States that Trump won by a total of 78,000 votes. That was quite a feat. Illegal as hell but still a feat.

And no wonder Russia helped Trump so much.

Imagine Putin's delight in Helsinki as he watched an American POTUS tell the world to put their trust in Putin, and to reject the American Intelligence community.

I expect Putin will double his efforts this cycle, considering how well things worked out the first time.
 
Interesting article. :coffeepap
 
Mafia dudes always do whatever they can get away with until the cops bust em. Then they figure out another way to do it until the cops bust em again.

That's all Trump is doing.
 
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