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Originally Posted by finnbow
Well, whaddya know? A Moscow diplomat confirmed that Russia intervened in our election (not that I had any doubt about it).
MOSCOW — Russian government officials had contacts with members of Donald Trump’s campaign team, a senior Russian diplomat said Thursday, in a disclosure that could reopen scrutiny over the Kremlin’s role in the president-elect’s bitter race against Hillary Clinton.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...18e_story.html
So, all of these flag-waving, America-first "patriots" put a feckin' Manchurian Candidate in the White House? Sad. |
Very interesting revelations in that story.
Crooked Trump's people took the meetings, while Hillary properly avoided foreign influence:
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Speaking to Bloomberg News, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said staff of Russia’s embassy in the United States met with members of Trump’s campaign — meetings she described as “normal practice.” Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign refused similar requests for meetings, she told the agency.
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But this is the really telling bit in the reporting:
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His son, Donald Trump Jr., said in 2008 that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” adding that “we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
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