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[Ric Flair]

Greatest promo of all time brother.

It's amazing how this guy can't be taken down. I don't know what it would take at this point.

His whole gimmick has been an Austin 3:16, anti-authority character from the start. People eat it up when he begs Russians to do Russian shit to us.

 

[Crimson_Fate]

Did you actually watch this press conference ? He said that he hoped that they had her 30k deleted emails and if they had them to release them. He did not call for them to hack anyone's email.

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."

 

[chuckddd]

People are actually going to vote for this guy...

 

[rjinaz]

wow, could you imagine if Hilary CLinton or Comrade Socialist Obama had said this??


we have the GOP candidate calling for Russia to hack US servers! He's doing what GOP always imagined Democrats were secretly doing, working with communists lol

Unbeliavable

LOL yes I can. It would be all over the news, it would be a huge scandal. People in the Republican party would be demanding she be arrested because she's a traitor. If anybody doubts this you need to take a serious look at your own bias.

 

[darscot]

The Obama comment is so fucked up. He is basically blowing Putin for being a racist. How can a Presidential candidate openly state that he is the leader of Russia's bitch. Everyday this circus continues it just gets more and more pathetic. It was kinda funny at first. Now it's just sad, he is destroying the credibility and reputation of the nation. I'm not American and from the outside looking in it just looks ridiculous.

 

[TS-08]

Did you actually watch this press conference ? He said that he hoped that they had her 30k deleted emails and if they had them to release them. He did not call for them to hack anyone's email.

He hoped that they would find them, which implies they don't already have them.

Edit - I'm not saying his comments would actually constitute treason.

 

[Slayven]

Did you actually watch this press conference ? He said that he hoped that they had her 30k deleted emails and if they had them to release them. He did not call for them to hack anyone's email.

and how would they get the emails.......

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Did you actually watch this press conference ? He said that he hoped that they had her 30k deleted emails and if they had them to release them. He did not call for them to hack anyone's email.

How else would they get those emails pray tell?

 

[dynamitejim]

wow, could you imagine if Hilary CLinton or Comrade Socialist Obama had said this??


we have the GOP candidate calling for Russia to hack US servers! He's doing what GOP always imagined Democrats were secretly doing, working with communists lol

Unbeliavable

But but but....he doesn't actually mean it! It's all just jokes, like all the racist and sexist stuff he says!

 

[KarmaCow]

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.

I'm not entirely sure if he realises he fucked up the deflection to Hillary and ended up digging himself deeper or if he's really that oblivious to what he actually said.

 

[JinjoUnchained]

I wouldn't say it's treason if he's talking about hacking the DNC, which isn't a governmental institution. That's more like Watergate, which we'd call corrupt and illegal, but not treasonous.

Now when Nixon made a back-room deal to delay talks on the Vietnam War until after the election? That's treason. If Trump does or advocates something like that, then you could make that claim. I wouldn't put it past him.

 

[Mahonay]

I cannot stand my god damned coworker. He is coming off just as bad as Jeff Lord on CNN. Another coworker, who's also a very conservative republican, asked for Trump to go following his comment here. Then the other coworker who's similar to Lord said, "yea, he says dumb things," and was completely dismissive. So they go back and forth and then the coworker says, "yea, but what's the difference between this and Hillary's email scandal?"

I am so surprised that the other republican guy called him out on his bullshit and asked how the fuck he could think the two are equivalent.

But the guy keeps fucking that chicken and supporting Trump.

I am about to lose my lid.

Almost every Trump supporter I've spoken to supports him pretty much entirely because they hate Hillary. They also all believe the rhetoric that we are in danger and need to stop the terrorists from invading. They cite the attacks in Europe which makes no sense.

 

[Brinbe]

He is unfit to be President.

 

[Ohwiseone]

How is this guy a Nominee?

Like, What the fuck?

How is this possible.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

I wouldn't say it's treason if he's talking about hacking the DNC, which isn't a governmental institution. That's more like Watergate, which we'd call corrupt and illegal, but not treasonous.

Now when Nixon made a back-room deal to delay talks on the Vietnam War until after the election? That's treason. If Trump does or advocates something like that, then you could make that claim. I wouldn't put it past him.

He was talking about Hillary's Secretary of State emails, not the DNC.

 

[WedgeX]

That's treason.

 

[Sickboy007]

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!

He's really into the "joke".

 

[Slayven]

I wouldn't say it's treason if he's talking about hacking the DNC, which isn't a governmental institution. That's more like Watergate, which we'd call corrupt and illegal, but not treasonous.

Now when Nixon made a back-room deal to delay talks on the Vietnam War until after the election? That's treason. If Trump does or advocates something like that, then you could make that claim. I wouldn't put it past him.

he was talking about state department emails

 

[Ovid]

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.

This is the second time Trump "put her in her place".

She needs stand up for herself. Unfortunately, NBC won't let her.

 

[Caja 117]

Did you actually watch this press conference ? He said that he hoped that they had her 30k deleted emails and if they had them to release them. He did not call for them to hack anyone's email.

He Didn't said he hoped they had them, He said He Hope they find them. in other words he Hopes Russia hacks emails.

 

[RustyNails]

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!

Right but this shit should be taken seriously. Intel breifings, top secret CIA shit is going to be revealed to him soon and he's joking about undermining our security. Its like whenever a racist moron makes a threat to Obama and Secret Service immediately makes a visit and measures the threat.

 

[TheOfficeMut]

Almost every Trump supporter I've spoken to support him pretty much entirely because they hate Hillary. They also all believe the rhetoric that we are in danger and need to stop the terrorists from invading. They cite the attacks in Europe which makes no sense.

Yea. He HATES Hillary. He won't give her credit for jack shit and thinks she's significantly worse than Trump. "Trump is just stupid. I think Hillary is bad."

 

[MHWilliams]

I don't think it's a joke is a valid excuse when you have a connection to Russia like Trump and Manafort do.

If anything he is trying to turn it into a joke to deflect from the reality of the situation.

I don't think it's a valid excuse either.

But it is the one he will use.

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

Obviously he was saying it in jest

 

[MIMIC]

Yea. He HATES Hillary. He won't give her credit for jack shit and thinks she's significantly worse than Trump. "Trump is just stupid. I think Hillary is bad."

Bad vs. Stupid. ELECTION 2016!

 

[RustyNails]

I wouldn't say it's treason if he's talking about hacking the DNC, which isn't a governmental institution. That's more like Watergate, which we'd call corrupt and illegal, but not treasonous.

Now when Nixon made a back-room deal to delay talks on the Vietnam War until after the election? That's treason. If Trump does or advocates something like that, then you could make that claim. I wouldn't put it past him.

Hes not talking about the DNC, but Hillary's private email server and the supposed missing emails from it.

 

[XenodudeX]

Did Putin actually call Obama a nigger, or is he just making shit up like usual?

 

[commedieu]

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

And it's the dude from apprentice.

 

[Torokil]

Nothing up yet on MSNBC.com or CNN.com. Trump currently advertising his Nuremburg rallies on his twitter.

Perhaps we've reached the zone where nothing fucking matters, so fuck it.

 

[Meowster]

Again: the choice is ABUNDANTLY obvious on who needs to become President.

 

[rjinaz]

Obviously he was saying it in jest

Serious question though. Do you really think he doesn't mean it?

 

[Otnopolit]

Damage control

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

Pence isn't wrong when he talks about the cabinet positions for donations exchange the DNC offered the White House. It's pretty messed up.

 

[Marion Cobretti]

This is way too fuckin berserk at this point.

What the fuck is going on anymore?

 

[Mahonay]

Nothing up yet on MSNBC.com or CNN.com. Trump currently advertising his Nuremburg rallies on his twitter.

Perhaps we've reached the zone where nothing fucking matters, so fuck it.

The crazy train just keeps on moving.

I feel depressed.

 

[TreIII]

Remember when Howard Dean's campaign crashed because he did a single scream?

12 going on 13 years later, and I'm still bitter about that. But indeed, what a time to be alive when we compare then to now...

 

[MIMIC]

Nothing up yet on MSNBC.com or CNN.com. Trump currently advertising his Nuremburg rallies on his twitter.

Perhaps we've reached the zone where nothing fucking matters, so fuck it.

They were just talking about it on air on CNN.

 

[TheOfficeMut]

Again: the choice is ABUNDANTLY obvious on who needs to become President.

And if it isn't abundantly obvious and you hide behind the façade of tax breaks and guns, then fuck you. Seriously. If nothing else has been a last straw for you, then the undermining of US security by calling for Russia to hack an official's email should be. But if it isn't, get fucked.

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

Serious question though. Do you really think he doesn't mean it?

Yes, when I read the headline I immediately thought it was a joke

No way he's serious

 

[oti]

Trump supporters struggling, facing two options:

1) Condemn Trump and critisize their leader
2) HATE AMERICA AND HELP MOTHER RUSSIA PROSPER

 

[Lord Fagan]

Man what is going to do during the debates.

I'll be shocked if he has more than in the general. Only way he'd come back for more is if Hannity is moderating by himself, Hillary was in a ball-gag, and it's pre-recorded with Trump brand infomercials bookending it.

 

[Spiritreaver]

And of course a candidate making jokes like this is apparently a-ok so no one is going to care.

 

[evilromero]

So this guy is about to get confidential briefings as early as next week?

 

[Brinbe]

Nothing up yet on MSNBC.com or CNN.com. Trump currently advertising his Nuremburg rallies on his twitter.

Perhaps we've reached the zone where nothing fucking matters, so fuck it.

CNN was just talking about it for the last twenty minutes and they were being completely against Trump on the issue. So if you think the media is ignoring it, they aren't. And he's hardly owning the news cycle. They're covering the DNC last night now.

 

[Eidan]

It's the top headline on the New York Times and Washington Post right now.

 

[Biske]

His talent for taking a story favorable to him and then twisting it to show his own gross incompetence is unparalleled.

 

[Glass Shark]

Obviously he was saying it in jest

It's really not something to be joking about given the current climate. I mean, it's like saying, "I was only JOKING about assassinating the president!"

 

[Foolworm]

This isn't treason, since he couched it as a joke and that will be the defense.

That said, it's a poor joke coming from a Presidential candidate and one that should give his supporters pause, but it's another one on the pile for Trump.

I think we're actually at the point (the general election proper, that is) where you can't construe statements like this as jokes or whatever anymore.

The border wall is a metaphor.
Deporting all Muslims is hyperbole.
Russians hacking Clinton is a joke.

Handwaving has been the standard defense for everything Trump has said in this election. That has to stop. People have got to realise that others will take his statements at face value, that when it's all he's saying it cannot be taken otherwise.

 

[stonesak]

Now Hillary fans are concerned about national security?

 

[Mahonay]

It's the top headline on the New York Times and Washington Post right now.

Good.

 

[CitizenVectron]

Remember when Howard Dean's campaign crashed because he did a single scream?

To be fair, he was already dropping in the polls and placed 3rd in Iowa. The scream was the cherry on the cake that was his supposed anger issue. It wasn't a real anger issue, but he kept feeding into the argument that he didn't have the demeanour to be President through a series of incidents like the scream. However, I take your point about Dean's entire behaviour being enough to make people abandon him, especially compared to how Trump is behaving.