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    Default James Clapper: Donald Trump May Be A Russian Asset ‘Whether Witting Or Unwitting’

    I would say a witting Russian tool?!!

    The former director of national intelligence said it was “a really painful thing to say.”

    Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said he agreed with former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s assessment that President Donald Trump could be a Russian asset.

    McCabe told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday that the possibility of Trump being a Russian asset was why the FBI signed off on special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible Trump campaign collusion.

    “I completely agree with the way Andy characterized it, you know, that it is a possibility,” Clapper commented on Tuesday’s “CNN Tonight.”

    “And I will add to that caveat, that whether witting or unwitting,” he told anchor Don Lemon.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/james...b0f40774ca4015



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    ‘Unwitting’ Russian asset is such a useless category.

    To be an ‘unwitting’ Russian asset a person only needs be useful to Russia in some sense. And that includes an awful lot of people lol.

    One could argue Mullet is a ‘Russian asset’ since the investigation has increased political discord in the country and that is one of Putin’s objectives.

    It’s a long list.
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    Quote Originally Posted by signalmankenneth View Post
    I would say a witting Russian tool?!!

    The former director of national intelligence said it was “a really painful thing to say.”

    Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said he agreed with former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s assessment that President Donald Trump could be a Russian asset.

    McCabe told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday that the possibility of Trump being a Russian asset was why the FBI signed off on special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible Trump campaign collusion.

    “I completely agree with the way Andy characterized it, you know, that it is a possibility,” Clapper commented on Tuesday’s “CNN Tonight.”

    “And I will add to that caveat, that whether witting or unwitting,” he told anchor Don Lemon.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/james...b0f40774ca4015


    Oh oh. Clapper is gonna get a nasty tweet from the orange dotard.

    As soon as Pence has finished sucking off his tiny orange dick.

    Well we all know the fucking cunt can't tweet and get his dick sucked at the same time.

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    And I will add to that caveat, that whether witting or unwitting,” he told anchor Don Lemon.
    Clapper always uses that term when he's lying;
    like he did before Congress when asked about 'bulk collection' of phone data by the NSA

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    Benedict Donald!

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    'unwitting asset'. I'd like to know how much money have the Russians 'lent' Trump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    'unwitting asset'. I'd like to know how much money have the Russians 'lent' Trump.
    what difference would that make?

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    what difference would that make?
    "what difference would that make?"
    He may feel an obligation.

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    Trump is a tool, no matter if he’s witting or unwitting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    "what difference would that make?"
    He may feel an obligation.
    He does business the world over -does he feel obligations elsewhere?

    Given the way he's treated Russia if anything that demonstrates against any "obligations"

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    "Throughout the campaign, Trump has been dismissive of calls for supporting the Ukraine government as it fights an ongoing Russian-led intervention. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, worked as a lobbyist for the Russian-backed former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych for more than a decade."

    "Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine"
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.b1b34551a893

    I'm fine with waiting for the Mueller Report.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Beto Omar View Post
    ‘Unwitting’ Russian asset is such a useless category.

    To be an ‘unwitting’ Russian asset a person only needs be useful to Russia in some sense. And that includes an awful lot of people lol.

    One could argue Mullet is a ‘Russian asset’ since the investigation has increased political discord in the country and that is one of Putin’s objectives.

    It’s a long list.
    But the person being spoken of...IS DONALD FUCKING TRUMP...THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

    Darth...what is it with you?

    Get your head out of your ass before you sit down and break your neck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    "Throughout the campaign, Trump has been dismissive of calls for supporting the Ukraine government as it fights an ongoing Russian-led intervention. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, worked as a lobbyist for the Russian-backed former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych for more than a decade."

    "Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine"
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.b1b34551a893

    I'm fine with waiting for the Mueller Report.
    fake news

    How pundits got key part of Trump-Russia story all wrong
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/b...tory-all-wrong
    much of the reporting and commentary appears to spring from a single story, published in the Washington Post on July 18, 2016, with the headline "Trump campaign guts GOP's anti-Russia stance on Ukraine." The piece reported that the Trump team "orchestrated a set of events" to change the platform in a pro-Russian direction.

    Missing from all the talk is what the Republican platform actually said before it was allegedly "gutted" by Trump. What did the original draft of the platform say about Russia and Ukraine? Was it, in fact, changed? If so, how?

    As it turns out, a look at the original draft of the platform — which has never been released publicly — shows that it always had tough language on Russian aggression in Ukraine. And not only did that language stay in the final platform — nothing was taken out — it was actually strengthened, not weakened, as a result of events at the convention.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    "what difference would that make?"
    He may feel an obligation.
    An obligation to do what?
    “The Communist party must control the guns.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    Trump is a tool, no matter if he’s witting or unwitting.
    When has Toadstool ever been witting about anything other than shameless self-promotion? lol

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