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#1102 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 505 weeks ago

Holy crapola. Roger Stone goes apeshit on twitter.

Trump Advisor Roger Stone Launches Into Vulgar Twitter Rant, Suggests Back Channel To Assange During Clinton Leaks

Renowned Republican strategist and long-time Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone launched into an inexplicable, vulgar tirade against multiple users of the social media website Twitter on Saturday night, using offensive off-color comments, misogynistic slurs, and at one point suggesting that he had a “perfectly legal back channel” to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who “indeed had the goods” on Hillary Clinton.

Twitter users are speculating that the tweet constituted an admission by Stone in collaborating with the controversial Assange and an enemy nation to sabotage the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.

Some of the tweets have been deleted, but by midnight on the west coast, “Roger Stone” was trending on Twitter. According to the New York Times, Mr. Stone is one of a growing number of Trump advisers and allies now being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for alleged contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 presidential election.

n one of the evening’s tweets, Stone insulted Republican political commentator Ana Navarro by making crude comments about her weight and romantic partners, and referred to twitter user @RVAwonk, a self-proclaimed feminist scientist and statistics professor, a “stupid ignorant ugly bitch.”

Mr. Stone called for imprisonment of Barack Obama, claiming the former president is responsible for wiretapping Donald Trump’s phones, a reference to an equally puzzling series of tweets sent by Mr. Trump himself early Saturday morning.

In perhaps the most shocking tweet of the evening, which appears to now be removed, Stone even suggested having collaborated with an enemy nation in the WikiLeaks scandal that rocked the presidential election last November. Stone tweeted that he “never denied perfectly legal back channel to Assange who indeed had the goods” on Hillary Clinton, using hashtag #CrookedHillary in a throwback to a familiar campaign motif.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/unh … 65b844b44f

#1103 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 505 weeks ago

Trump has come unhinged. This is completely bonkers, even for him.

Clearly he's doing everything he can to pivot....as the walls come closer and closer.

#1105 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 505 weeks ago

PaSnow wrote:

Between that quote, and what he said about John McCain not being a war hero, it's astonishing he was elected President of the United States of America.

That along with a half a dozen other horrible things he said.

PaSnow wrote:
misterID wrote:

Trump's awfulness is repairing Bush's reputation. Hilarious.

It is shocking, but that's an apt statement.

It's true. My friend and I were just discussing this a few days ago.

#1106 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 505 weeks ago

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Exclusive: Two other Trump advisers also spoke with Russian envoy during GOP convention

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is not the only member of President Trump’s campaign who spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at a diplomacy conference connected to the Republican National Convention in July. At least two more members of the Trump campaign’s national security officials also spoke with Kislyak at the event, and several more Trump national security advisers were in attendance.

It's unknown what the Trump campaign officials who spoke with the ambassador – J.D. Gordon and Carter Page – discussed with him. Those who took part in the events in Cleveland said it is not unusual for presidential campaign teams to interact with diplomats.

However, the newly-revealed communications further contradict months of repeated denials by Trump officials that his campaign had contact with officials representing the Russian government.

The Justice Department’s acknowledgement Wednesday that Sessions spoke with Kislyak twice in 2016 has led to calls for him to recuse himself from investigations into the Trump team’s contact with Russia. By Thursday afternoon, Sessions said he would recuse himself.

Multiple attendees at the Global Partners in Diplomacy event in Cleveland said the contacts between diplomats and political officials are not unusual. The program schedule and social media photographs shows ambassadors from dozens of countries attended, alongside many of the original national security advisors to Trump’s campaign.

Gordon, who managed the advisory committee as the Trump campaign’s director of national security, said that while he also spoke with Kislyak in Cleveland, it is not unusual for a presidential campaign to interact with diplomats.

“I’d consider it an informal conversation just like my interactions with dozens of other ambassadors and senior diplomats in Cleveland,” Gordon said.

Page, another member of the Trump campaign’s national security advisory committee who also spoke with Kislyak in Cleveland, cited “confidentiality rules” in declining to say what he discussed with the ambassador.

“I had no substantive discussions with him,” said Page, who left the campaign later in the summer amid controversy over a speech he gave in Moscow in early July criticizing American foreign policy and sanctions against Russia.

Hossein Khorram, an RNC delegate from Washington State who wasn’t part of Trump’s campaign, attended the diplomacy event and said it provided a forum for diplomats to share their concerns with GOP officials. After formal panel discussions, the attendees broke off into informal conversations.

“Basically the ambassadors — including the Russian ambassador — they were expressing their, mainly, fears about the war on terror and collaborating with the United States,” he said. “There was no promises made on behalf of the Trump administration.”

Sessions, Gordon, and Trump campaign national security advisory committee member Walid Phares all spoke on stage at the Global Partners in Diplomacy program on July 20 in an auditorium at Case Western Reserve University, according to the program schedule and pictures posted on social media. Current Deputy National Security Advisor KT McFarland was also present at the day’s sessions.

Phares did not respond to email and phone requests for comment. Another member of the national security advisory committee who was at the Cleveland event, Joseph Schmitz, referred questions about his interactions with Russian officials to Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks.

Hicks has categorically denied any communication between the campaign and the Russian government. “The campaign had no contact with Russian officials,” she said in November.

The contacts came at a time when the U.S. intelligence community has concluded the Russia government was trying to influence the presidential election. The Democratic National Committee’s computers had been hacked weeks before – in an intrusion U.S. investigators have said was orchestrated by the Russian intelligence services – and the first batch of emails from that hack were published by Wikileaks on July 22.

Since then, Russia’s alleged interference in the election and contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian government officials have been at the center of ongoing investigations by multiple federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies and by the House and Senate intelligence committees.

In February, Michael Flynn resigned as Trump’s national security advisor following revelations of his failure to provide complete information to administration officials about his contacts with Kislyak in December 2016. Flynn had originally said he didn’t talk with the ambassador about sanctions, but later revealed that he had.

The White House on Thursday did not answer questions from USA TODAY regarding the nature of the conversations between campaign officials and Kislyak, whether there were other contacts between the campaign and Russian government, and why statements have been made denying contacts.

"This was a widely attended 4-day event with dozens of ambassadors and hundreds of attendees," the White House said in a written statement from its communications office. "No interaction was substantive, and to insinuate otherwise is deeply dishonest."

Although an event similar to Global Partners in Diplomacy was held at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, it is not clear Kislyak attended that program or spoke with Clinton campaign officials. The Russian Embassy did not respond to questions on Thursday about his attendance at the RNC and DNC events.

Jerry Hartz, spokesman for the National Democratic Institute, which organized the DNC event, said the group could not release the list of attendees due to security concerns, but could find no indication Kislyak attended. “No one remembers seeing him there,” Hartz said.

#1107 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 505 weeks ago

Randall Flagg wrote:
Smoking Guns wrote:

This is the perfect time to get a better AG and ditch sessions.

They're a joke and will continue to be so until they come up with real ideas that benefit everyday Americans and not illegals or refugees.

Congress is gerry mandered so that the GOP stays in charge no matter what. In 2012 the Dems got 1.4 million more votes and still lost.

Of course we all know that Hillary got 3 million more votes (and Flagg's vote) and still lost the EC.

Likewise Democrats received the majority of votes for the Senate in 2016.

But Flagg acts like the country has made some sharp turn to the right, and the Dems are completely irrelevant, when nothing of the sort has happened. His hero Trump also has the lowest approval rating of any incoming president that I can recall. So perhaps it would behoove both Trump and his constituents to practice some humility. The majority of Americans voted for the Democrats, Republicans just barely coasted into power and most Americans hold a low opinion of both Trump and the GOP Congress (21% approval for the House.)

#1108 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 505 weeks ago

Looks like the Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman has Trump talking points down!

Paul Ryan could care less....

#1109 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 505 weeks ago

Randall Flagg wrote:

Your party did nothing for 8 years besides pass Obamacare and wreck the insurance industry. .

It's funny you talk about liberal "talking points" and then throw this out every couple of weeks. Do you sincerely believe this?

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