Donald Trump on Russia & missing Hillary Clinton emails (C-SPAN)

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throwawaylinux · 2021-12 · Reference

> Available evidence strongly suggests Trump and his campaign coordinated with representatives of Russian government interests that involved both significant lawbreaking and a targeted media campaign that resulted in a victory for Trump that would not have occurred otherwise. Whether that's semantically equivalent to "colluded with Putin to cheat in the election" I don't know. The Mueller report disagrees. What available evidence exactly do you have which the special council investigation did not? Cite your sources please. > What you're saying, is itself an example of propaganda, in the sense that it's a simplification that while technically true leads a reader to reach a different conclusion that what actually occurred. And it's easy to do, because reality is complicated while disinformation can be simple. No it's not, what I am saying is almost verbatim from the Mueller report. No evidence was found implicating Trump or his campaign of colluding (conspiring) with Russians. I can dig out quotes from it verbatim or cite page numbers for you if you have not read it or disagree. EDIT: I have done so in another reply, if you are interested. > No, Donald Trump did not sit down in a hotel or pick up a phone and directly conspire with Vladimir Putin to scheme about how to change vote totals. Strawman, that is not what was being argued against. > Here's what is known to have happened: > Trump publicly asked Russia for help [LINK] ... Firstly, Rachel Maddow has a very poor and biased

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spankyspangler · 2021-05 · Reference

This? [VIDEO] Clearly a joke at the expense of the ineptitude of his opponent's campaign. The fact people point to this as their "evidence" is pretty clearly desperation and self-delusion. There was no evidence. You were lied to.

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dane-pgp · 2020-02 · Reference

To be fair, the media was also talking about Russia before the election too, and so was Trump himself: [VIDEO] Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "didn't stick as planned": [LINK] [LINK] but I'm glad we both agree about the correctness of the article title.

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