• GOP Activist Who Sought Clinton Emails Cited Trump Campaign Officials
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[QUOTE]WASHINGTON—A longtime Republican activist who led an operation hoping to obtain Hillary Clinton emails from hackers listed senior members of the Trump campaign, including some who now serve as top aides in the White House, in a recruitment document for his effort. The activist, Peter W. Smith, named the officials in a section of the document marked “Trump Campaign.” The document was dated Sept. 7, 2016. That was around the time Mr. Smith said he started his search for 33,000 emails Mrs. Clinton deleted from the private server she used for official business while secretary of state. She said the deleted emails concerned personal matters. She turned over tens of thousands of other emails to the State Department. As reported Thursday by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Smith and people he recruited to his effort theorized the deleted emails might have been stolen by hackers and might contain matters that were politically damaging. He and his associates said they were in touch with several groups of hackers, including two from Russia they suspected were tied to the Moscow government, in a bid to find any stolen emails and potentially hurt Mrs. Clinton’s prospects. Mr. Smith’s purpose in listing the officials isn’t clear. There is no indication in the document that he sought or received any coordination from the campaign officials or the campaign in general. Mr. Smith died in mid-May at age 81, about 10 days after he spoke to the Journal. He said he operated independently of the Trump campaign. Officials identified in the document include Steve Bannon, now chief strategist for President Donald Trump; Kellyanne Conway, former campaign manager and now White House counselor; Sam Clovis, a policy adviser to the Trump campaign and now a senior adviser at the Agriculture Department; and retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, who was a campaign adviser and briefly was national security adviser in the Trump administration.[/QUOTE] [URL="https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-activist-who-sought-clinton-emails-cited-trump-campaign-officials-1498872923"]https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-activist-who-sought-clinton-emails-cited-trump-campaign-officials-1498872923[/URL] Holy Shit. I think it's starting. We're getting Drips now
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Trump is either incompetent or complicit. maybe both?
[QUOTE=Lambeth;52419959]incompetent or complicit[/QUOTE] In a court of law neither would hold up.
Is this why Trump got unhinged even more than usual all of a sudden?
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;52419972]Is this why Trump got unhinged even more than usual all of a sudden?[/QUOTE] what is your metric for more unhinged
[QUOTE=Lambeth;52419993]what is your metric for more unhinged[/QUOTE] bleeding face.
I don't understand what this is supposed to mean, and I can't read the article because it's paywalled. If there's no indication he coordinated with Trump's campaign, what significance could this possibly be? At least in terms of like, admissible evidence.
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;52419995]bleeding face.[/QUOTE] I fail to see how this is radically different from that bleeding out of her whatever comment
UPDATE: [URL="https://lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians"]https://lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians[/URL] an accompaniment to this story, It also reveals the source of the Comey Memo reporting.
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;52420093]UPDATE: [URL="https://lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians"]https://lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians[/URL] an accompaniment to this story, It also reveals the source of the Comey Memo reporting.[/QUOTE] Boom.
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;52420093]UPDATE: [URL="https://lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians"]https://lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians[/URL] an accompaniment to this story, It also reveals the source of the Comey Memo reporting.[/QUOTE] They're gonna burn for this.
If Trump's lawyer isn't presently annihilating every smartphone and blackberry in the white house and swearing all in it to refuse Trump no matter if he orders them to or not to hand over their phones so he can tweet - then he's doing Trump a grand dis-service. If the President dares comment on [B]this[/B] he's supplying the nails for his own casket.
[QUOTE=Firgof Umbra;52420320]If Trump's lawyer isn't presently annihilating every smartphone and blackberry in the white house and swearing all in it to refuse Trump no matter if he orders them to or not to hand over their phones so he can tweet - then he's doing Trump a grand dis-service. If the President dares comment on [B]this[/B] he's supplying the nails for his own casket.[/QUOTE] Which, of course, means that he probably will. Which, of course, he will get away with because of the magic (R).
please tweet please tweet
This isn't even going to be sporting. I'd feel sorry for Trump, but... anyone in a position to do so much damage - who has already done so much damage - is undeserving of human sympathy.
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