https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-party-files-lawsuit-alleging-russia-the-trump-campaign-and-wikileaks-conspired-to-disrupt-the-2016-campaign/2018/04/20/befe8364-4418-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?utm_term=.2752b908640b
Lets do this. Friendly reminder:
[Quote]
The lawsuit echoes a similar legal tactic that the Democratic Party used during the Watergate scandal. In 1972, the DNC filed suit against former president Richard Nixon’s reelection committee seeking $1 million in damages for the break-in at Democratic headquarters in the Watergate building.
The suit was denounced at the time by Nixon’s Attorney General, John Mitchell, who called it a case of “sheer demagoguery” by the DNC. But the civil action brought by former DNC chair Lawrence F. O’Brien was ultimately successful, yielding a $750,000 settlement from the Nixon campaign that was reached on the day in 1974 that Nixon left office.
[/Quote]
Adjusting for inflation, that settlement still only equates to about $4,000,000, which really doesn't seem like very much in terms of political spending. Hell, Trump paid $25,000,000 just to settle the Trump University scam.
How much is the DNC suing for this time? Not seeing a monetary value in the article.
I have a feeling that the monetary payment will be irrelevant compared to the political statement that can be used in the next few elections.
It will be a goldmine for political ads in 2020.
Personally I think the DNC tilting the table in favor of Hillary over Bernie was way more disruptive to our electoral process.
Russia would of had a plan for that and Trump would probably of still won.
They dont care about the money, they probably dont really even care if it wins, this is really about just making a statement.
Personally I'd just rather they let the investigation continue rather then suing and bringing up impeachment votes early but no surprise this is how its going down
Is this the big show?
Hillary elevating trump as a pied piper was probably worse.
Literally all of politics is this.
In any other election, this would probably be true.
no collusion, not criminal!!!1
They should used that after he (Trump) got elected, not right now and not especially doing it in Mid-terms.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to be that guy and tell you that the correct formulation is 'would have', not 'would of'. I wouldn't have bothered to mention this if I hadn't noticed you are from the UK.
I think any more justified pressure on the Trump campaign is always a positive thing, so I'm pretty happy to hear about this.
As much as I hate the Democratic Party for what they did to Bernie... Good. Any pressure on Trump is good pressure.
Not to mention every media outlet reporting that Hillary had a 90% chance of winning didn't help either . Its funny, people didn't mention Russia until after the election was already over and when media started pushing the dumb idea. Fairly sure less people were fired up to vote for their candidate when they though they were a shoe in to win and not because the opposit side was making a bunch of dumb memes on the internet.
Yeah, it's funny how people didn't connect all the dots about the Russia meddling before they found out about them. If the actions of Trump's surrogates (Papadopoulis, Gates, Manafort, etc.) were known about before the election, it would've been a very big deal during the election, but they weren't. The only indication that something was off was Trump's hard-nosed demand that the GOP platform on supporting Ukraine be thrown in the trash.
From there, it started out as a few minor concerning things; reports that members of the Trump transition team might've had contacts with Russians and these were improper because, prior to the Trump inauguration, Trump's people are civilians and not authorized to negotiate with foreign powers on behalf of the country. These were just allegations, and mildly concerning, but not a huge deal by themselves.
But then Trump started firing people, starting with Sally Yates who warned him about things relating to what we'd eventually discover to be the Trump-Russia conspiracy. He fired Flynn and the news broke that Flynn had potentially been up to naughty things with Russian diplomats, and he lied about it, ostensibly only to Pence -- only close to a year later did Trump sideways acknowledge that he fired Flynn for lying to Pence and the FBI, implying he knew about it but didn't acknowledge it. Now the image of a President with something to hide is starting to form. And then he fired James Comey and the Nixon comparisons started coming. Damaging leaks started coming out with far greater frequency and the picture started to come together more and more.
But, sure, it's all because the media latched onto Russia as a scapegoat and not at all to do with the fact that we only learned of the facts and players of the conspiracy over a span of time.
Obama knew something was up by at least august
I'm not entirely convinced there was direct collusion between trump and putin or whatever but trump's reaction to any sort of investigation has caused more problems than anything that happened during the election.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
