Posted on 03/24/2017 7:19:07 AM PDT by maggief
John Podesta, national chairman of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, may have opened himself up to a Russian “influence campaign” designed to temper his views of the Kremlin, The Daily Caller News Foundation (TheDCNF) Investigative Group has learned.
Influence campaigns are conducted by many governments — including the United States — with the aim of influencing decision makers in other countries to realign their geopolitical worldviews more closely to the influencing country.
Some national security experts interviewed by TheDCNF wonder if Podesta may still be a target of Russian influence. They trace the campaign back to his company board membership, in which one-third of the board were top Russian businessmen with direct ties to the Kremlin.
The last time Podesta talked negatively about Russia was Dec. 18, 2016, when he charged in an NBC “Meet the Press” interview the 2016 election was “distorted by the Russian intervention.”
The former Clinton national campaign chairman has since been silent, even as other former top Clinton aides, such as Robby Mook, Brian Fallon and Jim Margolis have repeatedly aimed high-decibel rhetoric at President Donald Trump about Russian “meddling” in the 2016 presidential race.
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Gee, that’s terrible. Were they able to penetrate his security? If yes, did they find anything? Let’s focus on that.
This is serious because he was the Democrat presidential candidate. I know that because he was the only one who appeared inpublic at campaign headquarters on election night.
A cursory look at his personal life reveals his love of raping boys, I mean his love of cheese pizza, maps, and walnut sauce.
Its also serious because Russia is the only country in the world and so we have to talk about nothing but Russia. This morning I saw Russia in my mirror, and it was scary.
I can see Russia from my house.
This “Russia as villian” idea had to come from somewhere
Pizza is the first thing I thought of.
What? You mean they actually discovered that his email password was “password?” They were probably stunned.
Foreign intel influence campaigns generally target the weak-minded.
Yep, it did!
From Podesta’s emails! ROFL
Oh, I just thought of something!
They are throwing Podesta under the bus!!
Lynn de Rothschild did just that on Twitter a couple of weeks ago!
If Podesta the Molesta (I don’t believe that’s his real name) is around, the cheese pizza can’t be far away.
It was an old recycled political device from the Cold War days.
Whenever a politician, of either party, was having domestic problems, they would start kicking the Russians around to make themselves look good ‘back home’ with the voters.
The only new ‘twist’ on this is now they are claiming ‘victimhood’ status because of the Russians to get sympathy, but it doesn’t work outside their own circle of party grandees.................
My thinking on the Russians is the following: If the libs hate them sooo so much, they must be doing something right.
I think they came up with the whole Russia idea when Trump called on them to find Hillary’s emails in public.
Russia wasn't trying to get Trump elected, they were trying to Blackmail Hillary by letting her know they had the 'goods' on her circle of influence.
It was/is a failed blackmail attempt and we should all be darn grateful she wasn't elected President.
Perhaps Podesta is about to destroy more than HRC.
https://twitter.com/LdeRothschild/status/834293947690262528
Lynn de Rothschild
@LdeRothschild
Lynn de Rothschild Retweeted John Heilemann
@johnpodesta this is pathetic;HRC lost because you ran an arrogant out of touch campaign;you have destroyed a great family and are a loser
Lynn de Rothschild added,
John HeilemannVerified account @jheil
Folks asking abt my intv w/ @johnpodesta (his first post election) at @NewCo #ShiftForum—the whole thing is here: https://shift.newco.co/still-angry-john-podestas-first-interview-since-the-hacked-election-b3a9e63161d2#.nghsrmabr …
10:49 PM - 21 Feb 2017
Can’t chat with Brock, he’s in the hospital.
Wonder who checks the quality of fluids in his IV?
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