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Hillary approved plan to smear Trump with Russia collusion

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by gatormonk, Jul 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM.

  1. CaptUSMCNole

    CaptUSMCNole Premium Member

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    How does that post talk to any of the concerns Republicans had about electing a political new comer with no political record to speak of that had been a Democrat or Independent for the majority of his adult life?

    BTW, the Clinton Admin agenda that Bill was able to get through with a Republican Congress was much more conservative than the BBB that was just passed. Democrats now look back at the agenda Bill Clinton passed and heap scorn upon it.
     
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  2. 92gator

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    It was directed at your second, concluding paragraph, where you said HRC agenda was somehow different from dems. If anything, her leftistism was echoed by sellout pub establishment, along with the base far left dem party at time (even worse today).

    To your "btw"--billiy bob was driven by his leftist wife in his first term; second term saw him scrub his presidency of her flighty leftism, and pragmatically go full centrist, and work with Gringrich's "Contract with America" GOP house, that his Leftist wife helped him earn.

    She never changed.

    The dem party just veered hard Left, and caught up with her.
     
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  3. 92gator

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    ^^^as for the BBB... we're there

    ....and by "there", I mean time for drastic (Hail Mary) action.

    NB: we're paying >1 *TRILLION * per year, just servicing our debt (for ref, we spend 850 Billion on our massive defense budget).

    That story ends one way, and it aint pretty.
     
  4. okeechobee

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    Sounds like a threat to democracy.
     
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  5. okeechobee

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    No, you’re thinking about the Russians.
     
  6. CaptUSMCNole

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    The point I was making was the Congressional Democrats in '17 could have been able to woe Trump over on multiple different issues by promising that he would get credit for passing center-left, center, or center-right bills if they played to his ego and put his name on all of them. This was a significant worry for a lot of establishment Republicans. The RussiaGate stuff showed Trump what it is like to be a Republican with the media and pushed further to the Right than establishment Republicans were expecting.

    Clinton is probably the smartest politician we have seen in the last 30 years. He realized he overreached and after losing significant Congressional mid-terms tacked back to the center and has able to have a successful policy administration.
     
  7. 92gator

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    Ok, and then the point id counter with, is that that aint how *Leftists* roll--bc Trump would be in power, which means they (dems) would not be in control (=power).

    Leftism is about centralized power. One party, pretend elections, farcical *democracy* ..

    (NB: all Leftist calculus is reverse engineered from endpoint = them, in Total control).

    You're imputing pragmatism, to power pigs.

    As for billybob--nah, not even close to the smartest poly. He just read a room well, and had a healthy dose of common sense.

    Gingrich made the deciding, pretty easy, and billybob chose well--or at least, not stupidly, or vainly.

    But, rare as it is these days, let's not get carried away and laud common sense as genius, just bc common sense is so rare.
     
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  8. AgingGator

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    Relative to today’s standards, common sense is genius. I also believe that it is essential to combatting the indoctrination of younger generations, which, along with getting the USG financially viable again, are the most important issues of the day.

    Today common sense is not common. We do need to make it common again.
     
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  9. tilly

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    Perhaps you missed the post in another thread, where I quoted you in regard to said committee. I am not discounting them at all.

    I am saying they are more credible than captured. (Which you acted like was the only source.)
     
  10. mikemcd810

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    It didn't make sense to me why Durham would have these alleged "bombshell" emails and bury them in an appendix despite his purpose being to discredit anything related to the Russia investigation. Now we have our answer:

    The reason they were buried in the appendix is because Durham concluded they were not genuine and were likely fakes made by Russian spies

    'Clinton Plan' Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows

    The article goes into more detail if you're interested but here was Durham's conclusion:
    I can only assume everyone on this thread will be consistent and call for Gabbard, Patel, etc. to be charged with Fraud and various other crimes for knowingly pushing a false narrative, right?
     
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  11. wgbgator

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    Yeah, I read yesterday these were likely fakes. Even if they were real, dont really understand the idea that Russian interference is a hoax, when these emails were obtained from Russian hackers. Looks like the poster known for posting fraudulent videos got had again ... surprise! Its pretty amazing what the right wing media is able to gin up with stuff that has already been around for years at this point - from an investigation from the previous Trump administration no less!
     
  12. gator_jo

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    LOL. You've "both sides"d yourself into defending the NY Post and asserting that ..... lolol .... CatTurd isn't your only source.

    Our government is run by a felon who appoints unqualified conspiracy theorists, whose jobs aren't to better our country or help people, but rather to gaslight and distract with one kookspiracy theory after another. (Shouldn't Obama be locked up for treason, lol.)

    But here you are defending thst because ..... look, it's not just CatTurd! :):)

    Have fun with that and good day.
     
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    anyone who opposes dear leader is a criminal and a traitor in their world.
     
  14. CaptUSMCNole

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    So is everyone in agreement now that Durham is a honest actor and not Barr's Hatch-man and his report on Crossfire Hurricane is to be viewed as credible?
     
  15. gatormonk

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    The lie printed here by the New York Times is unprecedented—even by their own depraved standards. It claims that John Durham concluded the intelligence exposing Hillary Clinton’s plan to frame Trump for Russia collusion was fake. In reality, Durham did the opposite.

    This isn’t the usual spin, nor the usual misdirection. It’s a lie so audacious, so untethered from reality, that it cannot possibly be meant to convince anyone. The goal is to warn the entire political and institutional class not to touch this story. This is naked, rabid narrative control.
     
  16. gatormonk

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    That's not what it shows at all. The New York Times is straight up lying.

    1) The Durham annex never states at all that the specific intelligence was “fabricated.” It says the opposite, that his office was never able to “determine definitively whether the purported Clinton campaign plan [intelligence]…was entirely genuine, partially true, a composite pulled from multiple sources, exaggerated in certain respects, or fabricated in its entirety.”

    2) At the time the intel which Ben Smith says was “fake” was received, John Brennan took it so seriously that he briefed Obama about it, took notes about it, and stashed the notes away in his safe.

    3) James Comey specifically went under oath and cited the Clinton plan intelligence as one of the major reasons he chose to unilaterally usurp the authority of Loretta Lynch and to declare that the U.S. government would not charge Hillary Clinton for her use of an illegal private email server.

    4) Comey told Congress that he believed the Clinton plan intelligence was “genuine.” “So far as I knew at the time, and still think,” Comey testified on December 7, 2018, “the material itself was genuine[.]”

    5) FBI general counsel James Baker said he was “greatly concerned” about the intel and specifically Lynch’s reaction when confronted with it. Durham’s report said Baker “did not dismiss the credibility” of the intel reports. Andrew McCabe likewise said he was struck by Lynch’s “odd” reaction to the allegations.

    6) Everyone on earth knows the Clinton campaign launched a scheme to falsely claim that Trump colluded with Russia. This new claim that somehow it was a fabrication that the Clinton campaign ran an op to falsely tie Trump to Russia is beyond insane. It's sociopathic.
     
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  17. gatormonk

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  18. akaijenkins1

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    Dude stop.

    Just straight up STOP. You're making this board unreadable. The Times continues to report out well researched and vetted pieces and consistently shows their math but you don't read those pieces you go straight to the CEO of (checks notes) The Federalist's Twitter profile to rehash the same gobbledygook.

    Hell, you probably REALLY believe Kash found a bag of files sitting in a room that will blow this case open, don't you?
     
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  19. gatormonk

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    Lol that anyone believes a word of the New York Times.
     
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  20. akaijenkins1

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    Like clockwork.
     
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