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Official Russian Election Interference Thread

WakeForestRanger said:
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BINGO!! Thanks for joining the party Professor Tribe!

Eliot Spitzer has been conspicuously quiet for the past year. Many, if not most, of the RICO actions happened in New York State. I would not bet against Spitzer building a case against the criminal Trump Family.
 
That's hilarious.
 
Newenglanddeac said:
The Washington Post just broke a story about the CIA's internal assessment of active Russian interference in our election. Coming on the heels of calls for a full investigation by both the Senate and the White House...time for its own thread.

“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” said a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators. “That’s the consensus view.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?client=safari
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I started this thread just over a year ago.

Here's how much progress we've made on stopping foreign interference in US elections.

 
It's pretty clear that Republicans refuse to act against Russian interference because they expect to get Russian help in 2018.
 
To quote Luke Skywalker, hey Trump Deranged: “this is not going to go the way you think.”
 
To quote Luke Skywalker, hey Trump Deranged: “this is not going to go the way you think.”
 
Everyone saw this, right? I know none of the sources are Breitbart, but still.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...ie-year-russian-election-interference-made-s/

2017 Lie of the Year: Russian election interference is a 'made-up story'

A mountain of evidence points to a single fact: Russia meddled in the U.S. presidential election of 2016.

In both classified and public reports, U.S. intelligence agencies have said Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered actions to interfere with the election. Those actions included the cyber-theft of private data, the placement of propaganda against particular candidates, and an overall effort to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process.


Members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, have held open and closed door hearings to probe Russia’s actions. The congressional investigations are ongoing.

Facebook, Google and Twitter have investigated their own networks, and their executives have concluded — in some cases after initial foot-dragging — that Russia used the online platforms in attempts to influence the election.

After all this, one man keeps saying it didn’t even happen.

"This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won," said President Donald Trump in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt in May.

On Twitter in September, Trump said, "The Russia hoax continues, now it's ads on Facebook. What about the totally biased and dishonest Media coverage in favor of Crooked Hillary?"

And during an overseas trip to Asia in November, Trump spoke of meeting with Putin: "Every time he sees me, he says, ‘I didn't do that.’ And I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it." In the same interview, Trump referred to the officials who led the intelligence agencies during the election as "political hacks."

Trump continually asserts that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election is fake news, a hoax or a made-up story, even though there is widespread, bipartisan evidence to the contrary.

When the nation’s commander-in-chief refuses to acknowledge a threat to U.S. democracy, it makes it all the more difficult to address the problem. For this reason, we name Trump’s claim that the Russia interference is a hoax as our Lie of the Year for 2017.

Readers of PolitiFact also chose the claim as the year's most significant falsehood by an overwhelming margin.

It seems unlikely — though not impossible — that Russia interference changed the outcome of the election. We at PolitiFact have seen no compelling evidence that it did so.

Trump could acknowledge the interference happened while still standing by the legitimacy of his election and his presidency — but he declines to do so. Sometimes he’ll state firmly there was "no collusion" between his campaign and Russia, an implicit admission that Russia did act in some capacity. Then he reverts back to denying the interference even happened.

It’s not so much that Trump trades in falsehoods — it’s more that he tries to create a different version of reality simply by asserting it.

That denial is of a different order from most presidential posturing, said Nicholas Burns, who served as ambassador to NATO under President George W. Bush.

"I've worked for both parties," Burns said during public testimony to the Republican-controlled Congress this summer. "It's inconceivable to me that any of President Trump's predecessors would deny the gravity of such an open attack on our democratic system.

"I don't believe any previous American president would argue that your own hearings in the Senate are a waste of time or, in the words of President Trump, a witch hunt. They're not; you're doing your duty, that the people elected you to do."
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One thing we haven't seen in any iteration of Star Wars is regular people who are pro-Empire. It's also stormtroopers and leaders. There have to be some "law and order" sycophants out there who hate the Resistance.
 
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