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George Papadopoulos told Australian diplomat Russians had 'dirt' on Hillary (tr)
Washington Examiner ^ | Dec 30, 2017 | Melissa Quinn

Posted on 12/30/2017 9:24:50 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

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Full title: George Papadopoulos told Australian diplomat Russians had 'dirt' on Hillary Clinton before WikiLeaks published hacked emails: Report

I guess this is what the FBI is going to use as an excuse to spy on the Trump campaign instead of the dossier.

1 posted on 12/30/2017 9:24:50 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

How many versions of the “source” have we been fed?


2 posted on 12/30/2017 9:28:39 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12")
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

What? You mean to tell me that foreign governments spy on high profile politicians in other countries????? No!! That would be.....I dunno, mean and bad and stuff.


3 posted on 12/30/2017 9:29:48 PM PST by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

One has to read very carefully to discern that the facts end with P drinking some wine and saying the Russians had some dirt on Hilary. All the rest, like editing a speech and setting up a meeting with Egyptians, are noise.


4 posted on 12/30/2017 9:32:14 PM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

“I have dirt on Clinton,”

FBI: “We better spy on Trump”


5 posted on 12/30/2017 9:32:16 PM PST by tiki
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To: tiki

Good summary!


6 posted on 12/30/2017 9:41:30 PM PST by Flick Lives (https://goo.gl/GxGKQh)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

>>an admission that came weeks before WikiLeaks began publishing its tranche of hacked emails.

Wikileaks had emails hacked from Hillary Rotten Clinton’s servers?

I thought their emails came from the DNC servers that the FBI was prohibited from investigating forensically.


7 posted on 12/30/2017 9:43:03 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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....maybe it’s the ruskies that have
“the video” of Hilda engaged in unsavory activities...... just saying


8 posted on 12/30/2017 9:43:54 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Jeff Sessions had previously decided not to have Papadopoulos orchestrate the gathering. Papadopoulos also allegedly notified top campaign officials of his continued attempts.

Just like the Russian lawyer babe that met with Trump Jr., and just like the Russian diplomat that was in the same room as Sessions at a couple of events, this guy was just a plant to keep the Russian narrative rolling.

9 posted on 12/30/2017 9:44:38 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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To: a fool in paradise

and leaked, not hacked.


10 posted on 12/30/2017 9:47:10 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

He was a nobody to the Trump campaign. I am not 100% sure he was really a Trump supporter. He was an opportunist at best.


11 posted on 12/30/2017 9:48:51 PM PST by boycott
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To: stylin19a

Fair correction.

The media is willfully ignorant in saying that the messages came from Russia when the publisher says otherwise.

And all of this while a retelling of the publication of the Pentagon Papers is in theaters. The media said, “don’t read those emails, they could be fakes, and they need to be sifted by professional journalists” and even “those were private, not government documents”.


12 posted on 12/30/2017 9:51:09 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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It’s ridiculous that the Daily Mail and NY Post use this fakenews for headlines.


13 posted on 12/30/2017 9:53:45 PM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

“The FBI reportedly decided to open its investigation into the Trump campaign after George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser for the Trump team, drunkenly admitted to an Australian diplomat the Russians had damaging information on Hillary Clinton”

While they ignored real evidence of Hillary’s email crimes around the same time.


14 posted on 12/30/2017 9:54:14 PM PST by ScottfromNJ
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The same thing the lady Russian lawyer said to Trump Jr in order to get a meeting with him. Nothing but a big yawner. A big so what.


15 posted on 12/30/2017 10:07:20 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Let me get this straight. Papadopoulos has infor Hillary is compromised and blackmailed by Russians, doing their bidding, and the FBI attacks him for warning about it!?

Some fracking paper pushing bureaucrat idiots at the FBI seem to have had for mission to protect illegals voting for Hillary instead of others “interfering” with that.


16 posted on 12/30/2017 10:10:23 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Despite the hysteria this article created today, it’s important to note that the events in question STILL did not precede the existence of the dossier, or more importantly, even the delivery of the dossier to the FBI, if you believe they didn’t know about it since it’s original conception. Therefore, the NYT attempt to claim that this new info somehow predates the dossier, is actually a failure.

Per the NYT article today:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/us/politics/how-fbi-russia-investigation-began-george-papadopoulos.html?_r=0

“The hacking and the revelation that a member of the Trump campaign may have had inside information about it were driving factors that led the F.B.I. to open an investigation in July 2016 into Russia’s attempts to disrupt the election and whether any of President Trump’s associates conspired.”

Now, compare that to Byron York’s article from last month, which has been considered the most complete piece regarding the dossier timeline:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-did-dossier-trigger-the-trump-russia-probe/article/2640470

“Steele told the left-leaning publication Mother Jones that he took the first part of his dossier to the FBI “near the start of July.” James Comey, when he was FBI director, told members of the House Intelligence Committee the Trump-Russia investigation began “in late July.” So the timeline is: The first dossier report was June 20, Steele approached the FBI near the start of July, and the FBI began its investigation in late July.”


17 posted on 12/30/2017 10:11:12 PM PST by Golden Eagle (Trump: "What the FBI has done is really, really disgraceful, and a lot of people are very angry.")
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To: ScottfromNJ

Anybody with a couple of shots of booze in him could have “drunkenly admitted” that the Russians had dirt on democrats. We’ve suspected that for years. They’re just trying to change their story why they were spying on Trump. I just hope there isn’t another round of mass shootings to distract from the shxx they’re in.


18 posted on 12/30/2017 10:12:07 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The CIA and the FBI had/have dirt on Hillary.


19 posted on 12/30/2017 10:29:32 PM PST by WASCWatch
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Huma’s emails show the emails WikiLeaks put out weren’t hacked.


20 posted on 12/30/2017 10:31:44 PM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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