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[Travo]

Just a constant reminder that Trump called Cruz's wife ugly and said his Dad had a hand in killing JFK. Beyond spineless.

Yeah, still in disbelief that he supports him.

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

When did Trump publicly ask Russia to hack?

July 27, 2016, the next to last day of the DNC Convention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQb2S4DIcNc

 

[Greigor The Fellhand]

When did Trump publicly ask Russia to hack?

july 27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNa2B5zHfbQ

 

[jviggy43]

My faith in the system is basically non-existent at this point. Should I expect there to be any consequences or does someone want to break out the "nothing matters anymore" gif?

Getting a republican controlled congress to do anything about this? I mean, I'mm not getting my hopes up.

 

[Loxley]

Ted Cruz actually comes to his senses!!!

This whole Russia thing is literally the biggest news story in the world right now, and you're telling me not a single person asked you about it?

 

[Whompa02]

wtf...

 

[Bad_Boy]

Where does Fox News find these black people?

the sunken place

 

[benicillin]

Getting a republican controlled congress to do anything about this? I mean, I'mm not getting my hopes up.

Does a republican controlled congress have anything to do with Donald Trump Jr? Is he even part of the government? Wouldn't he just be tried in court?

 

[gutshot]

So established timeline here:

DTJR meets with Russian lawyer

Trump cranks up rhetoric on her e-mails

Trump meets with russians to schedule Miss Universe in Moscow

All in one month period....hell, all in a couple of weeks.

Am I right on this?

Or was the picture well before the meeting with DTJR?

The Miss Universe pageant happened in 2013. It's just the same people who were involved in setting that up were also involved in setting up this meeting.

 

[shadow_shogun]

I can't watch 5 minutes of Ted Cruz. Please summarize.

"Washington is obsessed right now, it is the Democratic talking point du jour,”. “But when I go back to Texas, nobody asks about Russia. You know, I’ve held town halls all across the state of Texas, you know how many questions I’ve got on Russia? Zero.”

 

[Resident_UA]

Ted Cruz actually comes to his senses!!!

What the fuck? He talked about Obama for 5 minutes...

 

[FiggyCal]

Apparently the woman in the pic isn't 100% confirmed to be the Russian lawyer.

That's definitely Trump and Rob Goldstone... so... yeah

 

[jmdajr]

Remember when no one cared about Bill Clinton's infidelities because Congress wanted to focus on giving people jobs and health care?

 

[Beer Monkey]

WHOOPS

https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/884736083715661824

Guys, slow down on this pic. There's serious doubt as to whether this is the lawyer or Trump's Russian handler during that visit, Yulia Alferova.

 

[psynergylover]

WHOOPS

https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/884736083715661824

Slippin

 

[Username1198]

When did Trump publicly ask Russia to hack?

June 26th 2016

(CNN) Then candidate Donald Trump was "joking" when he publicly asked Russia to hack Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday.

Trump, amid questions about what Clinton did with emails she deemed personal on her private server, called on Russia, China and other hackers to turn over the emails if they have them.

"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," he said in July 2016.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...linton-russia-hacking-email-joking/index.html

 

[Nafai1123]

More timeline:

June 9: Trump Jr. meeting

June 12: Assange announces leaks coming

June 15: Guccifer 2.0 appears on Wordpress

 

[Cabbagehead]

Guys, slow down on this pic. There's serious doubt as to whether this is the lawyer or Trump's Russian handler during that visit, Yulia Alferova.

Yes lets ignore everyone else there.

 

[jviggy43]

Does a republican controlled congress have anything to do with Donald Trump Jr? Is he even part of the government? Wouldn't he just be tried in court?

Well I was more or less thinking in terms of bringing Trump, Kushner, and Manafort down.

 

[nubbe]

Remember the first sign of treason

 

[hawk2025]

Guys, slow down on this pic. There's serious doubt as to whether this is the lawyer or Trump's Russian handler during that visit, Yulia Alferova.

True, there's a chance that only 2 of the 3 co-conspirators were there.

 

[gutshot]

Guys, slow down on this pic. There's serious doubt as to whether this is the lawyer or Trump's Russian handler during that visit, Yulia Alferova.

And even if it was, what would be the significance of that?

 

[j-wood]

I can't watch 5 minutes of Ted Cruz. Please summarize.

1. No one is talking about the good things Trump is doing, like his speech in Poland.

2. Obama was the one nice to russia

3. Obama's policy was terrible

4. No one cares about this russia stuff

5. We all need to come to god

 

[Username1198]

Remember the first sign of treason

IT WAS A JOKEZ

AHHA

 

[Master Yoshi]

At what point in this video is this true? Because it sure isn't a minute plus in.

I skipped to the end where he deflects with "Obama appeased the Russians for eight years!"

 

[Version 3.0]

I can't listen to 4 minutes of Ted Cruz. All I heard was him saying Texans don't care about Russia for a minute and a half.

Does he actually come to his senses?

I couldn't get through it all either, but after that he goes on for a while about "American people should not be rooting for the President to fail". I can only assume he forgot to say "white" or "Republican".

Then he started talking about how Putin and the Russians are scared of Trump, and I couldn't listen any more.

 

[Glass Shark]

July 27, 2016, the next to last day of the DNC Convention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQb2S4DIcNc

The fact that this didn't instantly kill his campaign still infuriates and baffles me to this day. Like, how is this fucking idiot still President?

 

[Kaladin]

This whole thing seems to be coming together and that e-mail chain that DTJR posted was the missing link.

 

[Cabbagehead]

1. No one is talking about the good things Trump is doing, like his speech in Poland.

2. Obama was the one nice to russia

3. Obama's policy was terrible

4. No one cares about this russia stuff

5. We all need to come to god

1. I'm Complict

2. I'm Complict

3. I'm Complict

4. I'm Complict

5. I'm Complict.

 

[RoboPlato]

These emails are so comically incriminating that the FAKE NEWS angle might have worked if it hadn't been released by Don Jr himself.

 

[captive]

When did Trump publicly ask Russia to hack?

on the campaign trail he said: "russia if you're listening maybe you can find the 30k emails" or something to that effect.

 

[GreyWind]

This forum needs to get on embedding Tweets. It's apparently an option, but I've never gotten it to work.

Agreed. I've seen vBulletin mods that allows you to do this.

 

[NullPointer]

More timeline:

June 9: Trump Jr. meeting

June 12: Assange announces leaks coming

June 15: Guccifer 2.0 appears on Wordpress

Talking Points Memo has a timeline up too. A portion below:

June 16th, 2015: Donald Trump announces his candidacy for President of the United States.

Circa Summer 2015: The US government alleges that Russian hackers first gain access to DNC computer networks.

...

May 26th, 2016: Donald J. Trump officially secure majority of GOP delegates, officially clinching the nomination of the Republican party.

June 8th, 2016: First tweet posted to ”DCLeaks" Twitter account.

June 9th, 2016: Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort meet with Natalia Veselnitskaya. Trump agreed to take the meeting after being told by Trump associate Rob Goldstone that Veselnitskaya had damaging information about Hillary Clinton which came from a Russian government operation to help his father Donald J. Trump.

June 12th, 2016: Julian Assange first announces that Wikileaks has Clinton emails which are soon to be released. ”Wikileaks has a very big year ahead ... We have emails related to Hillary Clinton which are pending publication."

June 14, 2016: Washington Post publishes first account of hacking of the DNC computer networks, allegedly by hackers working on behalf of the Russian government.

June 15th, 2016: ”Guccifer 2.0", later identified by US government officials and other private sector analysts as a fictive persona created by Russian intelligence operatives, contacts The Smoking Gun to take credit for hacking the DNC.

June 27th, 2016: First hacked DNC emails posted to ”DCLeaks" website.

July 11th-12th, 2016: Trump campaign officials intervene to remove language calling for providing Ukraine with lethal aid against Russian intervention is Crimea and eastern Ukraine. It is, reportedly, the only significant Trump campaign intervention in the platform in which the Trump campaign has allowed activists a free hand.

Look At The Timeline

 

[Mr.Mike]

These emails are so comically incriminating that the FAKE NEWS angle might have worked if it hadn't been released by Don Jr himself.

Like honestly, is this a betrayal?

 

[jmdajr]

The fact that this didn't instantly kill his campaign still infuriates and baffles me to this day. Like, how is this fucking idiot still President?

Because our rational dislike for this man seems outmatched by the insane irrational dislike for all things Clinton.

 

[mnz]

More timeline:

June 9: Trump Jr. meeting

June 12: Assange announces leaks coming

June 15: Guccifer 2.0 appears on Wordpress

Don't forget, june 9: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/741007091947556864

 

[RoKKeR]

Edit: Nvm

 

[VeryGooster]

I'm still trying to understand why Trump Jr., like, tweeted the exchange out, exactly...?

 

[BlastProcessing]

@jbarro
Josh Barro Retweeted Dan Friedman
This means the Times has header information beyond what's in the printout, which shows only display names "Jared Kushner" & "Paul Manafort"

 

[whitemex88]

The fox news take on this is amusing.

"collusion isn't a crime" is essentially what they're going with

 

[Tovarisc]

I'm still trying to understand why Trump Jr., like, tweeted the exchange out, exactly...?

Because NYT contacted him for comment on this story so he proceeded to tweet mails before story broke.

 

[Armaros]

The fox news take on this is amusing.

"collusion isn't a crime" is essentially what they're going with

Collusion with a foreign entity to support your fathers campaign is most definitely a crime.

 

[TheLaughingStock]

This whole Russia thing is literally the biggest news story in the world right now, and you're telling me not a single person asked you about it?

What did y'all expect Lyin' Ted to say about this lol?

 

[Mattenth]

The fox news take on this is amusing.

"collusion isn't a crime" is essentially what they're going with

Tell that to Mueller when he submits arrest warrants.

Or Trump when he submits pardons for his campaign staff.

 

[BronsonLee]

Whoever came up with the term nothingburger needs to get dropkicked

 

[benicillin]

@jbarro
Josh Barro Retweeted Dan Friedman
This means the Times has header information beyond what's in the printout, which shows only display names "Jared Kushner" & "Paul Manafort"

lol if Donald Trump was on BCC I'll die.

 

[Mr.Mike]

I'm still trying to understand why Trump Jr., like, tweeted the exchange out, exactly...?

Trump Sr. escaped controversy by always doubling down and never apologizing. So maybe this is Trump Jr.'s way of trying to copy that strategy? It also maybe gives the base something to grasp onto, cause how bad could the emails be if he willing released them?

 

[Netherscourge]

Guys, slow down on this pic. There's serious doubt as to whether this is the lawyer or Trump's Russian handler during that visit, Yulia Alferova.

Man, this shit just gets weirder and weirder:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-russia-moscow-miss-universe-223173

Trump also attended a business lunch in the city, according to social media posts by Yulia Alferova, a wealthy young Muscovite who belongs to local civic and business organizations — and who earned a brief measure of fame last year after she posted pictures online of her cat eating caviar.

”I just got back from Russia-learned lots & lots," Trump tweeted upon his return to the U.S. ”Moscow is a very interesting and amazing place! U.S. MUST BE VERY SMART AND VERY STRATEGIC."

He thanked the Agalarovs specifically: ”I had a great weekend with you and your family ... TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next."

There is no evidence that such talk led anywhere, however — perhaps because Trump soon turned his attention to his run for the White House.

The whole article should be read (Dated May 2016). Donald was all-in on Russia. All the way back to 2013.

 

[Muffin1611]

Whoever came up with the term nothingburger needs to get dropkicked

Nothingpizza?

 

[jmdajr]

The fox news take on this is amusing.

"collusion isn't a crime" is essentially what they're going with

soon.

"Yeah it's technically treason, but to what degree?"