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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So who told Donna Brazile, of CNN, to leak the questions of the debate to Killary? The Russians?
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Good one!
Thanks for posting!
Nope, the whole Russia thing was planned to discredit Trump during the campaign.
Check Podesta’s emails. Don’t have time to post links.
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Gee, that’s terrible. Were they able to penetrate his security?
Hope he spelled Password correctly.
Maybe, I didnt see those Podesta emails planning the whole Russia farce
I feel Putin probably had mixed feelings about this election. On the one hand, if Hillary were elected he could continue to take advantage of us. On the other hand, Trump may have been the only way to restore some order in the world.
A shadowy figure comes in twice a day and gives him shots containing mass quantities of stem cells.
These ‘rats are like a guy that gets caught cheating by his wife and says, “What the hell were you doing looking through my cellphone anyway?!?” Jerks.
I was trying to remember what made me think this, from the Wikileaks emails.
I think it was the resemblance to the “Trump is a Nazi” blather that was in the Wikileaks strategy, but I did not find anything about Russia and Trump.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/50045
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22
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