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Based on timing and the existence of the new Trump Jr statement I think this is probably an intentional leak, or at the very least something they knew would leak immediately because they had an official response ready to go. Of course going from: https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/884154042456428545 to: https://twitter.com/KFaulders/status/884154663859347456 is raising more than a few eyebrows. farraday fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Jul 9, 2017 |
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khwarezm posted:People in the Russian interference thread still complaining about this being a story, lmao. When I read those posts in the back of my mind Bill Murray goes: "It's true, this man has no dick".
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:07 |
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farraday posted:Based on timing and the existence of the new Trump Jr statement I think this is probably an intentional leak, or at the very least something they knew would leak immediately because they had an official response ready to go. Real news orgs generally reach out to people involved in stories for comment before they get published, so its not a shock that they had statements ready to go
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:08 |
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farraday posted:Based on timing and the existence of the new Trump Jr statement I think this is probably an intentional leak, or at the very least something they knew would leak immediately because they had an official response ready to go. So I was fooled into a meeting on the pretext that Russians had useful info to hurt Hillary, but really she just wanted to talk about adoption reform, which was the reason I attended the meeting
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:10 |
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The Glumslinger posted:Real news orgs generally reach out to people involved in stories for comment before they get published, so its not a shock that they had statements ready to go Its not a shock to you that the Trump administration had an official statement prepared for a breaking news story? Where have you been?
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:10 |
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Unless posted:DEAR GOD WILL IT MATTER YETTTTTTTTTT This seems like an incredibly big deal. Isn't this the smoking gun?
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:10 |
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farraday posted:Based on timing and the existence of the new Trump Jr statement I think this is probably an intentional leak, or at the very least something they knew would leak immediately because they had an official response ready to go. Even if they are doing preemptive damage control, it still sets another brick in the prison they are building themselves. Also dropped early enough to make prime time news on the East Coast.
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:10 |
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farraday posted:Its not a shock to you that the Trump administration had an official statement prepared for a breaking news story? Where have you been? I mean, they've been hiring a shitload of lawyers, one of them has to be capable of spinning bullshit
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:10 |
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Xae posted:Just the broke brained tankies. That sort of thing would require much prompter moderation and a willingness to put in the work to keep controversial threads open. For some reason a lot or even most of the mods for D&D are on Europe time, so that's being pretty hopeful.
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:11 |
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empty whippet box posted:This seems like an incredibly big deal. Isn't this the smoking gun? Its one of them, but yeah, this is big stuff. This isn't proof of collusion, but it certainly shows an eagerness to collude and helps destroy more of their denials and excuses
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:11 |
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The Glumslinger posted:Its one of them, but yeah, this is big stuff. This isn't proof of collusion, but it certainly shows an eagerness to collude and helps destroy more of their denials and excuses It shows intent. They had obvious motive and this proves intent.
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:14 |
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i feel like my brain would melt if i lied as much as these people.
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Groovelord Neato posted:i feel like my brain would melt if i lied as much as these people. I think you're confusing cause and effect. You have to have molten brains to lie this much.
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empty whippet box posted:It shows intent. They had obvious motive and this proves intent. I agree completely, but the smoking gun would be a meeting like this that wasn't with someone who was bullshitting. In a sane universe, this would be enough, but we clearly don't live in one of those
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:16 |
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I feel like this is a much bigger problem for Manafort and Kushner which is why this line is in there. "I asked Jared and Paul to attend, but told them nothing of the substance."
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:20 |
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The Glumslinger posted:So I was fooled into a meeting on the pretext that Russians had useful info to hurt Hillary, but really she just wanted to talk about adoption reform, which was the reason I attended the meeting That's a loop-de-loop of shabbily taped-together lies! wth
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:32 |
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empty whippet box posted:This seems like an incredibly big deal. Isn't this the smoking gun? Have you ever thought that the gun is on fire, probably a fire started by gun hating libtards?
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Looking in my crystal ball, I predict a future where right wing media says the meeting was a good thing because they were trying to take down the evil Killary Hitler-ton.
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:33 |
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One interesting question is who is the "acquaintance" who acted as the go-between. Carter Page? Paul Manafort? Donald Junior is exactly stupid enough to both arrange this kind of meeting and then incriminate himself about it afterwards. He should get his own lawyer if he doesn't already.
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:36 |
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Phoix posted:Trump Jr. says he invited Manafort and Kushner without telling them what the meeting was about so it seems like he's being told to jump in front of the bus. I think it's that the NYT has a relatively complete account of the meeting, possibly via the NY FBI office, and has released parts of the story to repeatedly catch admin members in lies about what happened.
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:37 |
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This was clearly important as they knew not to invite Eric.
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https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/884163201293856770
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Ague Proof posted:This was clearly important as they knew not to invite Eric. I am not sure why, but this will never get old for me. He's just heinously ugly, in every sense of that phrase. And the American Psycho hair?
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:42 |
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farraday posted:I feel like this is a much bigger problem for Manafort and Kushner which is why this line is in there. Kushner lied on his security clearance forms it doesn't matter if he initially didn't know what the meeting was for.
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:44 |
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NYT just posted a new story with sources saying that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Kremlin lawyer "after being promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton." President Trump's lawyer says that he did not attend the meeting, had no knowledge of the meeting, and believes that Trump Jr's account is accurate. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html quote:Trump’s Son Met With Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Information on Clinton
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:47 |
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Uh oh, looks like papa trump's gonna pull out the ol' baseball jersey
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:50 |
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the statement in response is hilarious. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/884164341649600512 right - you took a "20 to 30" minute meeting with a woman you had no idea who she was or what she wanted, invited kushner and manafort to join, because an associate from 2013 asked you nicely.
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skylined! posted:right - you took a "20 to 30" minute meeting with a woman you had no idea who she was or what she wanted, invited kushner and manafort to join, because an associate from 2013 asked you nicely. To be honest this sounds like the starting plot to a bad Russian
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:54 |
Will it matter? That is the question... (Cues upbeat jazz music) it won't
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 22:57 |
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skylined! posted:the statement in response is hilarious. Also, important to remember that while Trump's mini-mes are pretty dumb, Manafort likely isn't (just thoroughly evil).
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skylined! posted:the statement in response is hilarious. Would that be this Miss Universe Pageant? https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/347191326112112640?lang=en
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 23:00 |
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Wark Say posted:Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I'm thinking that you said "Hurry the gently caress up, Mueller" because you think that once Easy D returns, he's gonna fire Mueller... As much as firing Comey Will it mean anything to the party in power? Absolutely loving not
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 23:01 |
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:http://i.imgur.com/IXAnNPF.gifv this might be the only small act of kindness I've seen from him. Meh, Donald is probably trying to be genuinely nice, and all I can think is that he reminds me of how Yeltsin behaved when drunk.
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 23:01 |
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empty whippet box posted:This seems like an incredibly big deal. Isn't this the smoking gun?
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 23:02 |
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Junior's defence is literally that he thought the contact had the goods on Clinton but didn't so it's cool.
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 23:04 |
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Wait, so the story went from "We weren't doing anything sketchy, we were just talking about some adoption stuff" to "she promised us dirt on Clinton but she just wanted to talk about some adoption stuff"? Are the Trumps even aware of what they're being accused of?
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STAC Goat posted:Wait, so the story went from "We weren't doing anything sketchy, we were just talking about some adoption stuff" to "she promised us dirt on Clinton but she just wanted to talk about some adoption stuff"? Being aware of things isn't what got them to the White House so why start now?
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 23:06 |
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Looking in my crystal ball, I predict a future where right wing media says the meeting was a good thing because they were trying to take down the evil Killary Hitler-ton. It's always amazing watching the right praise and defend Russian ties with the POTUS, but at the same time lynched Hillary for that Russian/Canadian uranium deal she had nothing to really do with
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 23:12 |
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I won't truly accept the worth of this story until a few more people post it.
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STAC Goat posted:Wait, so the story went from "We weren't doing anything sketchy, we were just talking about some adoption stuff" to "she promised us dirt on Clinton but she just wanted to talk about some adoption stuff"? You have to remember that jr is really, really dumb
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