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John McCain doesn't know what to make of Trump's Russia hacking response
CBS News ^ | December 11, 2016, 1:22 PM | By Emily Schultheis

Posted on 12/11/2016 1:04:47 PM PST by Mariner

Responding to intelligence officials’ report that Russia tried to influence the U.S. presidential election in favor of President-elect Donald Trump, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Arizona) on Sunday said he doesn’t know what to make of Mr. Trump’s dismissal of the issue.

“I don’t know what to make of it because it’s clear the Russians interfered,” he told CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “Whether they intended to interfere to the degree that they were trying to elect a certain candidate, I think that’s a subject of investigation. But facts are stubborn things. They did hack into this campaign.”

In an interview with “Fox News Sunday,” Mr. Trump said Sunday that new revelations about Russia’s influence on his behalf are “ridiculous.”

“It’s just another excuse. I don’t believe it,” Trump said. “… Every week it’s another excuse. We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College.”

McCain called for a select committee to further investigate the extent of Russia’s influence and intentions.

“I would like in an ideal world to have a select committee,” he said, adding that he would hope such a committee would be made up of leaders on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Foreign Relations Committee and Armed Services Committee.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fakeamerican; fakenews; senile; swine
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To: Mariner

“I don’t know what to make of it because it’s clear the Russians interfered,” he told CBS...

Wow. The old coot has gone full democrat.


41 posted on 12/11/2016 1:23:33 PM PST by McGruff (Look at who is not accepting the results of an election now)
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To: Mariner

Let me get this straight. For the past 60+ years the Soviets/Russians wrote the democrat president speeches and teleprompted Marxist Obama, but Trump gets elected after a leak
release by Assange and we need to investigate this urgently?
Give me a fracking break

What about Hillary pay for play with Uranium for Putin!!!


42 posted on 12/11/2016 1:24:31 PM PST by lavaroise (s)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Thanks to the fools who returned this dope to the senate. If things had worked out he would have been in jail after the s and l scandals.


43 posted on 12/11/2016 1:24:38 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Mariner
“I don’t know what to make of it because it’s clear the Russians interfered,”

It's anything BUT clear.

44 posted on 12/11/2016 1:24:55 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Mariner

I noticed that Linda never comes up for air. McLAme has his proxy.


45 posted on 12/11/2016 1:25:00 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Mariner

McCain doesn’t know what to do about McCain. Thank you for your service sir, now please go home and enjoy the rest of your life in contentment and repose.


46 posted on 12/11/2016 1:25:30 PM PST by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: Mariner

Let’s pretend there is a bordering nation that sends 10s of millions of her poorest and least educated citizens across the border in to a far wealthier nation. And let’s pretend there is collusion between a major political party and that neighboring border country to ensure non citizens get to vote in the host country’s elections and have huge influence in the political process.

Does that count?


47 posted on 12/11/2016 1:25:44 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: RC one

I didn’t know what the hell to make of Mccaine suspending his campaign only a couple months before the 2008 election. Scumbag.


48 posted on 12/11/2016 1:26:05 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: Mariner
There's never a fatal heart attack around when you need one!
49 posted on 12/11/2016 1:26:21 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: lavaroise

Which major candidate did the CPUSU endorse?


50 posted on 12/11/2016 1:26:55 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Mariner

McLame:“I don’t know what to make of it because it’s clear the Russians interfered,>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes, its clear the Russians interfered, without a named source, or a summary of how it happened, and why now the CIA leak? Why not back in October? A leak?

Why does the FBI say it did not happen.

McCain is way out on a limb, not Trump. There is not a single shred of evidence.


51 posted on 12/11/2016 1:26:56 PM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: lavaroise

Which major candidate did the CPUSA endorse?


52 posted on 12/11/2016 1:27:32 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Mariner

McPain, STFU!!!!!!


53 posted on 12/11/2016 1:27:33 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: Mariner
McCain is fishing for some never-Trump booty.

If he has proof the DNC emails were hacked by Russians, perhaps he can show and tell.

McCain knows he is part of the swamp that is about to be drained. He's still fighting as he circles the drain.

The Russians dddiiiiiiiiiiddd iiiiiiiiiitttttt.

And in the end, who cares? Russia exposed the truth about Clinton.

We owe them a debt of gratitude.

54 posted on 12/11/2016 1:28:32 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: ColdOne

“unnamed intelligence source”

there’s the irrefutable proof. /s

Given how these systems were “maintained”, between the DNC, Hillarys closet served wiped with a cloth, and Weiner’s unwiped (gross) laptop, I am surprised my dead grandma didn’t get into one of these systems.

This is just a wag the dog attempt by Obama to reframe it off of WHAT WAS LEAKED and the criminality of what was leaked, and the people who would be going to jail if they were not liberal socialists, and onto a current political enemy who has repeatedly bitch-slapped the president (ie syria).


55 posted on 12/11/2016 1:28:39 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Zenjitsuman

6 more years of this mofo. He needs to die of old age yesterday


56 posted on 12/11/2016 1:28:48 PM PST by lavaroise (s)
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To: Mariner

Thank you, Arizona.


57 posted on 12/11/2016 1:29:05 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Mariner

The well-informed citizens are aware of the nature of the so-called Russian hacks.

But if someone hadn’t been paying attention, they could very well conclude that a foreign country had gained access to voting machines and made sure Donald Trump won the election.

The MSM reporting of the incident has been, IMO, deliberately vague.


58 posted on 12/11/2016 1:29:21 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Mariner

Seth Rich the dead intern is the one that blew the whistle on the Democrat Party..the media knows it but they need a narrative to explain everything..this is the same media that when Sarah Palin’s yahoo account was hacked, instead of being outraged over it, went through EVERY SINGLE EMAIL with a fine tooth comb looking for something to incriminate her


59 posted on 12/11/2016 1:29:32 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: SkyDancer

At this point, I’d be happy to see him in prison.


60 posted on 12/11/2016 1:29:49 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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