Posted on 12/17/2016 12:51:12 PM PST by Del Rapier
In 1972, President Richard Nixon’s White House dispatched burglars to bug Democratic Party offices. That Watergate burglary and related “dirty tricks,” such as releasing mice at a Democratic press conference and paying a woman to strip naked and shout her love for a Democratic candidate, nauseated Americans — and impelled some of us kids at the time to pursue journalism.
Now in 2016 we have a political scandal that in some respects is even more staggering. Russian agents apparently broke into the Democrats’ digital offices and tried to change the election outcome. President Obama on Friday suggested that this was probably directed by Russia’s president, saying, “Not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin.” In Watergate, the break-in didn’t affect the outcome of the election.
In 2016, we don’t know for sure. There were other factors, but it’s possible that Russia’s theft and release of the emails provided the margin for Donald Trump’s victory. The C.I.A. says it has “high confidence” that Russia was trying to get Trump elected, and, according to The Washington Post, the directors of the F.B.I. and national intelligence agree with that conclusion.
Both Nixon and Trump responded badly to the revelations, Nixon by ordering a cover-up and Trump by denouncing the C.I.A. and, incredibly, defending Russia from the charges that it tried to subvert our election. I never thought I would see a dispute between America’s intelligence community and a murderous foreign dictator in which an American leader sided with the dictator.
Let’s be clear: This was an attack on America, less lethal than a missile but still profoundly damaging to our system. It’s not that Trump and Putin were colluding to steal an election..
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The Times never tires of embarrassing themselves.
He actually gets paid to do this?
Irrespective of whether it was the Russians, an insider DNC member, or just third world hackers, THEY HAVE NEVER ONCE CONTESTED THE TRUTH OF THAT RELEASED!
THAT! is the key here.
Should be:
Now in 2016 we have a political scandal that - in our minds -in some respects is even more staggering
Yeah, New York Times is totally out of their minds, collective minds. How can Trump be Putin’s poodle after they accused Putin of being directed by Trump to find Hillary’s 33,000 lost emails? It would seem that Putin is Trump’s poodle right? But hey, that doesn’t fit the narrative or at least it doesn’t fit today’s narrative.
Note they never mention the content of the emails clearly showed clinton, DNC and MSM collusion to to change the outcome of the election.
Not ever clicking on a NY Times article ever again. Don’t feed them. Lying so-and-sos...
Good grief.
These people are insane.
Trump needs to propose hundreds of new high-security mental institutions to be built to house all of these Liberals who are obviously a danger to society.
Indeed.
Clinical hysteria.
NYT lies.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
They think this will keep Trump out of the White House. Expect it to increase in volume and gain support from GOPe.
Any NYT article should be banned from FR if it’s about Russia and the election.
Clearly the hack they hired that was shown to be planting pro news in the NYT for Clinton is now running the place.
They know they’re playing to their own crazy crowd. Frankly, I’m tired of seeing twenty NYT articles on this same topic with nothing NEW to add posted in Breaking News on here everyday.
“apparently... suggested that ... probably”
Thank you China for those hard facts!
“He actually gets paid to do this?”
By Carlos Slim - a foreigner.
Clicks = money.
The sub Reddit Donald banned anti Trumo websites and you must use Archive.
Might be a good policy for FR as well for fake news sites like NYT.
The real problem is that the NYT just couldn’t manufacture Fake News fast enough to bury Trump.
“Donald Trump Russian Poodle”
Hillary Clinton Muslim bitch.
I’m just saying. . .
That is their endgame—always has been-—complete insanity in the masses. Freedom takes Virtue and Wisdom/Knowledge. America is full of people now, who will believe anything that is printed, and are completely insane (and think men can become women).
This has been planned for 200 years—to destroy Western Civilization (the Christian worldview) so people are completely irrational, like pagan, tribal days, so there is no Free Will (choice). Too many children are so dumb and removed from Reality now (the Natural Family and the Laws of Nature) that they will believe whatever the State says and “shows” on TV (wag the dog). Never has technology had so much power over the minds of our children/adults. Even in pagan days, there was some Common Sense and attainment of survival skills. Now, there isn’t even basic common sense and healthy physical bodies-—much less healthy minds.
We are living at a time where Truth can be found-—but it takes much time and effort and reading and living (life experiences). So much of that is being eliminated in our children, who are just being programmed by machines, incapable of real life interactions (incapable of controlling base emotions)——it is all planned and Common Core is the final nail in the coffin.
Hopefully, Trump will help end this slip into total insanity where Vice is virtue, Up is Down, boys are girls and Slavery is Freedom. We have to demolish the Marxist/Freudian curricula—to pre-Dewey and make our Justice System into a true Justice system. (Pre-Wilson).
I agree!!
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