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Botany

(72,547 posts)
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 08:14 AM Aug 2023

All this Hunter Biden crap was started from Russia. As per the GOP run senate intel committee.

Slate
A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset
He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.

"Attacks on Biden and his son, Hunter, were part of this operation. Through “US officials and prominent US individuals, some of whom were close to former President Trump and his administration,” the report says Russia’s intelligence services “repeatedly spread unsubstantiated or misleading claims about President Biden and his family’s alleged wrongdoing related to Ukraine.” In this way, Trump’s circle “laundered” the Russian-planted stories, which were then recirculated—and promoted by Russia’s online proxies—as American news."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

The GOP, Fox News, and other right wing sites are now promoting and have been pushing this Russian produced bullshit
just like the did w/John Kerry & the swift boat shits, HRC & her emails, Bill Clinton and the B.J., Judge Kavanauh, and the
WMD in Iraq. (some of those did not start w/Russia) They are not burdened by the truth.

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All this Hunter Biden crap was started from Russia. As per the GOP run senate intel committee. (Original Post) Botany Aug 2023 OP
They are not burdened by common decency either Walleye Aug 2023 #1
In 2020 our intel people discovered that Russia was working to help Bernie and let Congress know. Botany Aug 2023 #3
Shouldn't that be GOP-run House Intel Committee? Zambero Aug 2023 #2
No this work was started in 2017 and 2018 prior to the Dems becoming the majority in the Senate. Botany Aug 2023 #5
Little Putin sure is afraid of Democrats eh? pwb Aug 2023 #4
And yet...................... Lovie777 Aug 2023 #6
The GOP aka Goebbels old party aka the party of "the big lie." Botany Aug 2023 #7
And, they would sooner believe a big lie than a small one Walleye Aug 2023 #15
Or even... 2naSalit Aug 2023 #26
In Republican Politics, it is not criminal to be a traitorous asset Best_man23 Aug 2023 #8
+1 2naSalit Aug 2023 #25
CNN pushes this crap flamingdem Aug 2023 #9
The GOP gets their daily talking points from Putin. Irish_Dem Aug 2023 #10
They desperately need each other. yardwork Aug 2023 #11
Yes trump needs putin's help to steal the election again. Irish_Dem Aug 2023 #12
In one of TFG's impeachment trials in the senate or in the vote to impeach in the house Adam ... Botany Aug 2023 #13
The GOP wants what Putin has Irish_Dem Aug 2023 #16
The GOP House can't do anything on their own. Delmette2.0 Aug 2023 #14
We also need to shine a bright light BlueIdaho Aug 2023 #17
It reports that TFG was warned that he was carrying water for Russian propaganda & he did it anyway! ffr Aug 2023 #18
An agent of a foreign power, as you say - Alice Kramden Aug 2023 #22
k& highly recommended bagimin Aug 2023 #19
Yeah, that ain't no President Six117 Aug 2023 #20
I have been thinking that TFG and his team... Trueblue Texan Aug 2023 #21
Every poll showed Trump losing for 6 months leading up to the election world wide wally Aug 2023 #24
trump asked ukr to investigate the bidens re esp hunter ukr said now , trump lost and russia invad AllaN01Bear Aug 2023 #23

Botany

(72,547 posts)
3. In 2020 our intel people discovered that Russia was working to help Bernie and let Congress know.
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 08:23 AM
Aug 2023

so what did Trump do? He fired the intel people.

Botany

(72,547 posts)
5. No this work was started in 2017 and 2018 prior to the Dems becoming the majority in the Senate.
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 08:29 AM
Aug 2023

But I believed their report was published after the 2018 election and that Committee I think that
continued its work after the 2018 elections when the republican leadership was lame duck.

i think much of that report is the part of the Mueller Report that Bill Barr kept hidden.

Botany

(72,547 posts)
7. The GOP aka Goebbels old party aka the party of "the big lie."
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 08:35 AM
Aug 2023

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.

Walleye

(35,906 posts)
15. And, they would sooner believe a big lie than a small one
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 09:30 AM
Aug 2023

Most people understand telling small lies, most people do it. But a large outrageous lie that is so hard to believe, most people think nobody would say that if it wasn’t true

Irish_Dem

(58,516 posts)
12. Yes trump needs putin's help to steal the election again.
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 09:06 AM
Aug 2023

And it is not just Russia who is helping trump.

Botany

(72,547 posts)
13. In one of TFG's impeachment trials in the senate or in the vote to impeach in the house Adam ...
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 09:18 AM
Aug 2023

... Schiff called out the Republicans for giving a word by word speech using "Russian Talking Points."

Delmette2.0

(4,264 posts)
14. The GOP House can't do anything on their own.
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 09:23 AM
Aug 2023

They had their "great" story handed to them but couldn't find competent liars to testify.

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
17. We also need to shine a bright light
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 09:42 AM
Aug 2023

On the M$M that are willfully spreading this sewage across the country and down our throats.

ffr

(23,127 posts)
18. It reports that TFG was warned that he was carrying water for Russian propaganda & he did it anyway!
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 09:54 AM
Aug 2023
TFG also helped Putin discredit American democracy. That was a major goal of Russia’s 2016 and 2020 operations, the report explains: “Throughout the election, Russia’s online influence actors sought to amplify mistrust in the electoral process by denigrating mail-in ballots, highlighting alleged irregularities, and accusing the Democratic Party of voter fraud.” TFG peddled the same fears. After the election, as “Russian online influence actors continued to promote narratives questioning the election results,” TFG duplicated that message. Russia’s agents also hyped “allegations of social media censorship,” as TFG did.

The IC assessment doesn’t address what TFG knew about the Russian influence campaign. But according to former officials who spoke last fall to the Washington Post and the New York Times, he was directly warned. In a December 2019 conversation, then–national security adviser Robert O’Brien told TFG that Giuliani had been “worked by Russian assets in Ukraine.” TFG shrugged and went on promoting the allegations Giuliani was feeding him. That makes TFG more than a Russian asset. It makes him, in technical terms, an agent of a foreign power.

Alice Kramden

(2,401 posts)
22. An agent of a foreign power, as you say -
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 10:24 AM
Aug 2023

This description of TFG is accurate, and applies to many Republicans currently in Congress as well

Trueblue Texan

(2,972 posts)
21. I have been thinking that TFG and his team...
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 10:23 AM
Aug 2023

KNEW he was going to lose all along and put in place plans to stay in power no matter what. This reporting fits.

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