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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI swear, I've officially reached Silent Screaming status.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/gop-senator-makes-excuses-manafort-sharing-trump-campaign-data-accused-russian-spy/
GOP senator makes excuses for Manafort sharing Trump campaign data with accused Russian spy
Martin Cizmar
09 Jan 2019 at 08:31 ET
On Tuesday, a bungled redaction by attorneys for Paul Manafort revealed that President Donald Trumps former campaign boss held an overseas meeting with accused Russian spy Konstantin Kilimnik and shared polling data with him in the runup to the 2016 campaign.
On Wednesday morning on CNN, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) defended Manaforts meeting with the Russian spy by arguing that Manafort, who had worked on behalf of a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine, had known the spy for many years and that there was nothing odd about a presidential campaign sharing confidential campaign polling data with a foreign adversary.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller has accused Kilimnik of ties to Russian intelligence, but Lankford described him as a former military man.
This person also previously worked for the Russian military, so did most everybody in that, so I dont see this as a deliberate contact with the Russian government, this is a person that hed worked with for a decade and a half at that point, in Ukraine, he said.
How could anyone think sharing polling data for a US election with a known Russian intelligence officer be innocent behavior? For that matter, how could anyone think sharing anything--recipes, golf tips, etc.--with someone they know to be involved with Russian intelligence?
I am having a real time trying to figure out why Russian intelligence would want to have US polling data for any reason other than wanting to interfere with our elections.
Are people really still defending Paul Ostrich Jacket Manafort here?
And to think, Hillary set up an email server and they acted like it was the treasonous crime of the century.
SMH.
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I swear, I've officially reached Silent Screaming status. (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Jan 2019
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dawg day
(7,947 posts)1. If there was 'nothing wrong' with this, why did Manafort lie about it?
Senator Lankford is likely going to regret defending Manafort. We should be sure to remind him, "Manafort's daughters said he forced their mother to have sex with other men while he watched."
I mean, this is not a nice fella.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,199 posts)3. I'm completely shocked, knowing the sort of company that he kept.
Not to mention his butchers that were his "clients."
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)2. It's clear why he's saying this. He took Russian campaign money.
At this point, anyone who would defend the Trump campaign's conspiring with Russia is implicated in some way.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)4. Yeah ... old pals.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)5. R stands for Russia.
handmade34
(22,758 posts)6. way past "Silent Scream"
for me...