Pay attention very closely....
March 16, 2016....the Russians dumped thousands of Clinton emails onto WikiLeaks.
Unless you have some information that no one else has....and you know of some secret meetings between Russia and Trump in January 2016....
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. You're completely oblivious.
It wasn't until June 14, 2016, that crowd strike published its forensic examination of the DNC server and it was publicly known that their examination showed that it was Russia that hacked the DNC.
The documented report from the Australians in late July is that Papadopoulos had heard as early as the beginning of May that Russia had dirt on Hillary in the form of emails and they were going to release it anonymously to hurt Hillary.
The significance is that Papadopoulos is a Trump campaign official, who is aware in May that a foreign adversary, Russia, is interfering in the election with the objective to hurt Hillary and help the Trump campaign win. The FBI had no choice but to open a counterintelligence investigation "to determine whether individual(s) associated with the Trump campaign [were] witting of and/or coordinating activities with the Government of Russia" .
Absolutely. Russians were indicted on these crimes.
Exactly, there was a crime in progress and anyone who knew of this criminal activity and was a Trump campaign member and said nothing, could be considered complicit in covering up the crime and therefore would be open to being compromised by the Russians. The FBI would have been derelict in their duty to not investigate the documented reports.
The circumstance of criminal interference by the Russians made it so that If any campaign member or candidate Trump were to admit that Russia hacked the DNC to hurt Hillary, they would have to also admit that Putin illegally interfered to help make Trump President; just like the Don jr. email from June 3 revealed when it was made public.
Because anytime after March 16, 2016 that Trump references WikiLeaks or Russia we can reasonably conclude that just like anyone else with a brain in their head.....he heard about it.
Well, like I said, the circumstances made it so that Trump could not admit he was being helped by Putin. So, Trump started the Russia hoax by flat-out denying that Russia ever hacked the DNC. And in doing so he resorted to slandering others, blaming the FBI, and the Democrats, and the media, in pursuit of his own self-interests. That's how he became compromised by Putin. Here's Trump in continuous denial for over 3 years feeding the Russia hoax conspiracy that Russia never hacked the DNC server:
June 17 2016 Fox news reports:
Trump, for his part, isn’t buying the DNC explanation that this is the work of some nefarious outside hacker. “Much of it is false and/or entirely inaccurate,” he says in a statement. “We believe it was the DNC that did the ‘hacking’ as a way to distract from the many issues facing their deeply flawed candidate and failed party leader. Too bad the DNC doesn’t hack Crooked Hillary’s 33,000 missing emails.”
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Feb. 16, 2017 Trump tweet:
The Democrats had to come up with a story as to why they lost the election, and so badly (306), so they made up a story - RUSSIA. Fake news!
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July 16, 2018, Trump at Helsinki:
Trump:
So let me just say that we have two thoughts. You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server.
Why haven’t they taken the server? Why was the FBI told to leave the office of the democratic national committee? I’ve been wondering that. I’ve been asking that for months and months and
I’ve been tweeting it out and calling it out on social media. Where is the server? I want to know, where is the server and what is the server saying? With that being said, all I can do is ask the question.
My people came to me, Dan Coats came to me and some others and said
they think it’s Russia.
I have President Putin.
He just
said it’s not Russia. I will say this.
I don’t see any reason why it would be, but
I really do want to see the server.
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September 4, 2019, Trump asks Zelensky to find the server examined by Crowdstrike.
I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine,
they say Crowdstrike… I guess you have one of your wealthy people…
The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you’re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but
they say a lot of
it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.