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Trump responds to sanctions against Russia, says it's time to 'move on'
Fox News.com ^ | December 29, 2016

Posted on 12/29/2016 6:28:46 PM PST by Kaslin

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday “it’s time for our country to move on to bigger and better things” after the Obama administration issued sanctions against Russia for its alleged 2016 election hacking.

“It's time for our country to move on to bigger and better things,” Trump said in a written response released four hours after the announcement. “Nevertheless, in the interest of our country and its great people, I will meet with leaders of the intelligence community next week in order to be updated on the facts of this situation."

The Obama administration announced sanctions against Russia’s intelligence services, while ejecting dozens of intelligence operatives from the U.S. as part of a response to what it says are efforts by Moscow to influence the election.

Using an executive order, President Obama sanctioned the GRU and the FSB -- two of Russia's intelligence services as well as other entities and individuals associated with the GRU. The cybersecurity firm hired by the Democratic National Committee to investigate the hack of its emails earlier this year concluded the hacking came from the Fancy Bear group, believed to be affiliated with the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency.

In addition to the sanctions, the State Department has declared 35 Russian intelligence operatives "persona non grata" in the U.S., giving them 72 hours to leave, and is shutting down two Russian compounds in Maryland and New York.

The Maryland property is a 45-acre property at Pioneer Point, and was purchased by the Soviet government in 1972.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: dnc; obama; russia; statedepartment; trump; trumptransition
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1 posted on 12/29/2016 6:28:46 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

oooh...”Move On”. That’s got a nice ring to it ;-)


2 posted on 12/29/2016 6:29:38 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: Kaslin


Click The Pic For Auld Lang Syne

3 posted on 12/29/2016 6:31:07 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Kaslin

I think the ‘RATs know who did the leaking of e-mails and it is probably the DNC staff that have been killed after the leaks.


4 posted on 12/29/2016 6:33:56 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Fiddlstix

Great cartoon.


5 posted on 12/29/2016 6:35:11 PM PST by Bogie
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To: MtnClimber

I will be waiting for President Trump’s report amd will not speculate nor listen to speculation.


6 posted on 12/29/2016 6:42:37 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: Kaslin

Obama is just setting it so he can Fight for you and say see Trump is working with the Russians when Trump removes Obama’s sanctions


7 posted on 12/29/2016 6:43:15 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

exactly

The released emails came from a DNC insider not a Russian hack


8 posted on 12/29/2016 7:03:19 PM PST by vooch
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To: Kaslin

“... I will meet with leaders of the intelligence community next week in order to be updated on the facts of this situation.”

An update on the “facts” of this situation by leaders of the intelligence community won’t take very long.


9 posted on 12/29/2016 7:08:01 PM PST by Junk Silver (I have four words for Bill and Hillary Clinton to ponder: "Attorney General Jeff Sessions".)
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To: MtnClimber

It is difficult to say this, but if you were Democrat and half a human, and you knew exactly what this cabal was capable of (it is on full display now), wouldn’t you have exposed the emails?? I think you had to be more than half human to divulge these things because we see the half human ones just keep going along.


10 posted on 12/29/2016 7:08:33 PM PST by taterjay
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The trouble with Hildebeast is that, while she secured the backing of many powerful players, she also creates bitter enemies whom she ruthlessly destroyed in her quest to ultimate power, and they do have means to strike back. Sometimes she seems to have mistreated people for no reason other than out of callousness.
11 posted on 12/29/2016 7:17:55 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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“...she also creates bitter enemies whom she ruthlessly destroyed in her quest to ultimate power, and they do have means to strike back.”

So you’re saying she shouldn’t be taking any walks in Ft. Marcy Park?


12 posted on 12/29/2016 7:48:28 PM PST by vette6387
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Probably, but more likely a long knife is out to stab in her back at a crucial juncture. If she is indicted in the future, she may get another one.

She was done in by likely leakers inside her party, and Wikileaks in this election cycle. In 2008, Caroline Kennedy is said to have a hand in actively backing Obama instead of Hillary, whose arrogance and rudeness were also directed at Kennedy.

13 posted on 12/29/2016 7:59:59 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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“If she is indicted in the future, she may get another one.”

I think probably that will be the way that her disgruntled “contributors” will polish her off. They will probably be blowing in Sessions ear to “keep investigating her.” And in the end, they will let our justice system do their dirty work for them, that is unless she is really as ill as some say she is.


14 posted on 12/29/2016 8:15:03 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Kaslin

My question is ...... Did Russia actually influence the outcome of the election?

Wikileaks may have had a minor impact but there is no direct connection between Russia and Wikileaks. Wikileaks says there’s no connection.

Therefore, I see no signs of influence on our election. Besides, Clinton has already said it was Comey that caused Trump to win.

Additionally, does USA intelligence hack other nations? You bet they do. hussein obama needs to come down off his Trojan high horse and put a sock in his mouth.


15 posted on 12/29/2016 8:35:15 PM PST by boycott
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To: boycott

Vegas odds it was Clinton’s blatant criminality.


16 posted on 12/29/2016 10:06:59 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

Computers keep getting faster.


17 posted on 12/30/2016 1:02:52 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: taterjay

If every rumor and dirty deed done by the Clinton’s is true, and I knew it for fact and had evidence. I would get out and never look back most likely.

I imagine most would.

When your life and your family’s lives are on the line what would you do?

If I had nothing left no family and had a chance then I probably would though.


18 posted on 12/30/2016 1:03:32 AM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: knarf; MtnClimber
I will be waiting for President Trump’s report amd will not speculate nor listen to speculation.

To get your mind right, all you have to do is go back to the afternoon of November 8th, when the Media gaslighting over Trump reached its crescendo.

Remember how they lied to us right up until the returns were irrefutable?

They're lying now, in conjunction with the Muslim-In-Chief and his vicious Gruberment minions.

19 posted on 12/30/2016 8:51:50 AM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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20 posted on 12/30/2016 8:57:55 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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