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[Tal Shiar Agent]

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/758318428985954304

I thought this was worthy of it's own thread. If not I apologize, it just baffles me that he can say this and likely get away with it.


Trump in his press conference right now has basically begged Russia to hack the US government to get the remaining emails from Hillary's server and make them public.

This is borderline treasonous and according to 18 US Code § 2384 qualifies for Seditious conspiracy.

"If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to...or by force to seize, take, or posses any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall be each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both."

 

[Xando]

Lock him up

 

[Hollycat]

Any chance he'll go to prison for this?

 

[Auto_aim1]

What an idiot lol. I swear he always says something stupid when under pressure.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Lock him up

I wouldn't have a problem with that.

 

[Alrus]

Any chance he'll go to prison for this?

Nope.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

I mean, I'm not comfortable saying it's treason because, understandably and rightly, the bar for treason is pretty fucking high. However, it's certainly not good. Treason-esque? Treason adjacent? Light treason?

Regardless, it's only his first offence!

 

[TheExhaustedWalrus]

I hope action is taken because of this, but seeing where we are, it's probably not gonna happen. Extremely depressing.

 

[Lagamorph]

I hope they hack Trump and release his taxes instead.

 

[chefbags]

Well I guess the election is over.

But seriously can he get in big trouble for this? Because that'll be a godsend.

 

[Ithil]

The debates will be legendary.

 

[B-Dubs]

 

[ebullientprism]

Whats amazing is that asking another country to hack into his own country's private stuff is NOT the stupidest thing he has said this election.

 

[Sickboy007]

Absurd and very worrying. In the same presser, he also said that Putin called Obama the n-word because he didn't respect him, but he's sure Putin will respect and like him.

 

[adj_noun]

Any chance he'll go to prison for this?

Zero.

 

[EatinOlives]

Candidate to the US presidency actively wishes for Russia to hack into the US government solely to hurt political opponent.

What a time to be alive

 

[Veelk]

Okay, at this point, he is literally advocating for a foreign power to undermine the government in which he hopes to serve as leader of.

This is basically treason. Like, not that it's a crime, he can say these things without getting arrested, so legally speaking, it's not treason, but he's literally saying he's supporting an attack on the US government from a foreign power. How is that not treasonous in it's intentions? What the fuck.

 

[Knuckle Sandwich]

Insane.

 

[Xando]

America what are you guys doing over there

This is getting ridiculous

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

I mean, I'm not comfortable saying it's treason because, understandably and rightly, the bar for treason is pretty fucking high. However, it's certainly not good. Treason-esque? Treason adjacent? Light treason?

Regardless, it's only his first offence!

Diet Treason

 

[Zukkoyaki]

Obama and/or Joe will probably slam this tonight at the Convention. Also expect Hillary to rail him during the debates.

The fool threw an insane amount of gas on this fire that probably wasn't even a fire for many people. Now this isn't going to go away.

 

[RealMeat]

I wonder if there's anything he could say that would hurt him. Many things he's said would end the career of a normal politician.

 

[User1608]

Dude is so unhinged. From his comments on the central park five to now, he's always been a rotten, putrid person.

 

[TheOohChild]

Looking past the fact he is calling on the help of a hostile foreign power to attack a political opponent...didn't the FBI already recover the deleted emails?

 

[Kenzodielocke]

Isn't this a crime?

 

[Stumpokapow]

it's not a crime to make what amounts to a joke or a sarcastic aside about an issue of public interest. like, really. the context here is:

people: trump, you're hooked up with russia
trump: well, if i was i hope they'd find *pivot to standard attack* crooked lyin' hillary's missing emails! make america great again! sad!

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Okay, at this point, he is literally advocating for a foreign power to undermine the government in which he hopes to serve as leader of.

This is basically treason. Like, not that it's a crime, he can say these things without getting arrested, so legally speaking, it's not treason, but he's literally saying he's supporting an attack on the US government from a foreign power. How is that not treasonous in it's intentions? What the fuck.

Diet Treason

It may qualify for sedition, which is basically Diet Treason.

 

[Apdiddy]

Trump obviously doesn't understand how hacking works. It's not a "one thing or nothing" thing. And what makes him think they'll do what he says?

He basically is asking for the Kraken to be released. He won't be happy if the Russians decide to target him too.

 

[SchrodingerC]

Oh you treasonous son of a bitch. I'm sure his cronies fucking loves this and still plan to vote for him.

 

[MIMIC]

Ehhhhhh.....seems like a tongue-in-cheek kind of plea. Still very stupid to say.

 

[Loudninja]

Ehhhhhh.....seems like a tongue-and-cheek kind of plea. Still very stupid to say.

This is very serious stuff no place for tongue-and-cheek

 

[LiquidSword]

Trump obviously doesn't understand how hacking works. It's not a "one thing or nothing" thing. And what makes him think they'll do what he says?

He basically is asking for the Kraken to be released. He won't be happy if the Russians decide to target him too.

They won't. They want him to be president.

 

[Caja 117]

I wonder if there's anything he could say that would hurt him. Many things he's said would end the career of a normal politician.

And Hopefully come November these things said will kill another Career.

 

[Palette Swap]

Pretty unpatriotic, to put it very mildly.

At this point, with all the awful signals his campaign has been sending, any investigative journalist looking for a scoop and a Pulitzer are probably investigating him heavily.

 

[RDreamer]

Cool stuff, bro. They gonna find the 20+ million missing Bush emails? Actually while they're at it, can they leak your taxes too?

 

[Pterion]

Traitor

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

it's not a crime to make what amounts to a joke or a sarcastic aside about an issue of public interest. like, really. the context here is:

people: trump, you're hooked up with russia
trump: well, if i was i hope they'd find *pivot to standard attack* crooked lyin' hillary's missing emails! make america great again! sad!

Considering his ties to Russia through his own business dealings and through Manafort we don't have the liberty to dismiss this as just a joke or sarcastic remark.

 

[El-Suave]

I wonder if there's anything he could say that would hurt him. Many things he's said would end the career of a normal politician.

Some things he said in the beginning of his campaign could have landed him in jail here in Germany.

 

[Mahonay]

it's not a crime to make what amounts to a joke or a sarcastic aside about an issue of public interest. like, really. the context here is:

people: trump, you're hooked up with russia
trump: well, if i was i hope they'd find *pivot to standard attack* crooked lyin' hillary's missing emails! make america great again! sad!

Yep. This is just Trump quickly using misdirection to draw attention away from accusations against him by saying something crazy. It's what his entire campaign has been built on.

 

[Vestal]

Isn't this a crime?

it's borderline treason.

 

[Veelk]

it's not a crime to make what amounts to a joke or a sarcastic aside about an issue of public interest. like, really. the context here is:

people: trump, you're hooked up with russia
trump: well, if i was i hope they'd find *pivot to standard attack* crooked lyin' hillary's missing emails! make america great again! sad!

Ah, okay, I didn't realize the context.

Not that I doubt he still hopes this happens, but he's atleast got an out.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

First time!

 

[Zukkoyaki]

Considering his ties to Russia through his own business dealings and through Manafort we don't have the liberty to dismiss this as just a joke or sarcastic remark.

We already know it's being looked into: http://gawker.com/fbi-opens-investigation-into-dnc-hack-as-clinton-campai-1784261907

Efforts will almost certainly increase

 

[Servbot24]

What an idiot lol. I swear he always says something stupid when under pressure.

Now watch his poll numbers go up.

 

[Ithil]

Okay, at this point, he is literally advocating for a foreign power to undermine the government in which he hopes to serve as leader of.

This is basically treason. Like, not that it's a crime, he can say these things without getting arrested, so legally speaking, it's not treason, but he's literally saying he's supporting an attack on the US government from a foreign power. How is that not treasonous in it's intentions? What the fuck.

It's certainly un-American, anyway.

 

[badb0y]

This is treason is it not?

 

[giga]

He also told Katy Tur to be quiet when she pressed him on this: https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/758325051175297024

The day after we nominate the first female nominee. Fucking hell.

 

[banefirelord]

Came in looking for this, was not disappointed.

As usual, this will do precisely nothing to his campaign.

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

Damage control

https://twitter.com/ejleven/status/758329150612574208

 

[ezekial45]

Is there a video of his Obama comments?