BREAKING From NYT: Trump Knew Before His Inauguration That Putin Ordered Election Hack
The NY Times is reporting tonight that Trump had been provided with incontrovertible evidence that Vladimir Putin personally ordered the hacking of the of the DNC computers. From the NYT article:
“Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the 2016 American election…
…The Jan. 6, 2017, meeting, held at Trump Tower, was a prime example. He was briefed that day by John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director; James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence; and Adm. Michael S. Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency and the commander of United States Cyber Command…
…According to nearly a dozen people who either attended the meeting with the president-elect or were later briefed on it, the four primary intelligence officials described the streams of intelligence that convinced them of Mr. Putin’s role in the election interference…
…They included stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee that had been seen in Russian military intelligence networks by the British, Dutch and American intelligence services. Officers of the Russian intelligence agency formerly known as the G.R.U. had plotted with groups like WikiLeaks on how to release the email stash.
And ultimately, several human sources had confirmed Mr. Putin’s own role.
That included one particularly valuable source, who was considered so sensitive that Mr. Brennan had declined to refer to it in any way in the Presidential Daily Brief during the final months of the Obama administration, as the Russia investigation intensified.”
This means that Trump has been lying about his knowledge of Russia’s participation for over a year and a half now.
Game. Set. Match?
This, of course, means, that Trump insisted on a private 2-hour meeting with someone he KNEW personally ordered Russian interference into the election on behalf of Trump.
Will a SINGLE FUCKING RETHUGLICAN please stand up and say enough’s enough?
Oh this comes from ‘reliable’ brennan clapper comey, rogers, got it. This comes 1-1/2 yr later? Got it.
Really? News? President Obama knew this also, and when? Long before President Trump, that is when. Can you say hypocrite?
Obama wanted to tell the nation but McConnell balked, as everybody else knows. Can you say cultist? You will be among the purged. It will be pure joy to purge you.
Russian bots never sleep.
And so it’s bot and troll time at Delaware Liberal, shows the level of desperation. Hard times in Moscow? Got it.
I want better trolls. These are incoherent.
What about Teapot Dome? Why is nobody here is talking about Warren G. Harding and Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall leasing government land to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding?!?
Hypocrites.
Hillary was X in the XYZ Affair. More and more people are saying it.
(Great novel based on Teapot Dome, Upton Sinclair’s Oil!. Best book title with an exclamation mark… (please notice one only). It’s better that The Jungle in my opinion.)
Upton Sinclair used to summer in Arden. No doubt that helped fuel his socialist proclivities. One more reason I’m proud of my hometown (well, village, actually).
Tom Kline should be along any minute now to call you a communist.
Remember when “liberal” was a slur? Then “socialist”. Gotta keep ramping up…
You must have had quite a party Sunday evening after Les Bleus won the World Cup.
TK plays an important role here at DL. He is our Default Troll, which is why those who would emulate him soon find themselves w/o a platform. One is more than enough.
The term is ‘village idiot’, not ‘village idiots’.
“The Fliver King” awesome, under appreciated Upton Sinclair dealing with the Ford Motor Company. We sure could use an Upton Sinclair take on Amazon about now.
The Cardboard Jungle.
@REV: Half of all French news coverage was still about the team when I left yesterday. The debate on the chat shows was whether people were making too much of it or not enough.
Griezmann’s face is everywhere; Mbappe is the soccer god of the moment. I have been invited back for 2022 by my French host, who noted that he also hosted an American guest in 1998 and has therefore concluded that having an American in the house is a good-luck charm.
You’re missing two very key elements here.
Your intro says the Trump was “provided the evidence…”
The NYT excerpt states that he “was shown highly classified intelligence” and “was briefed.”
Nowhere does it say that:
1. Trump looked at the evidence, much less read it.
or
2. Trump listened to (or paid attention to) the briefers.
Ah yes. The “my client is a total moron” defense. I see them moving toward that position by the day.