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Russian meddling in election meant as 'warning' to Clinton, former AG says
Fox News ^ | July 1672018 | y Andrew O'Reilly

Posted on 07/17/2018 8:52:39 AM PDT by Hojczyk

In a piece published in the Wall Street Journal, the former AG for the George W. Bush administration speculated that Russian President Vladimir Putin never thought Trump would win the election and instead wanted to “send a warning” to Clinton that Russia could have information from her hacked personal email server.

“Consider the Justice Department inspector general's report on the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of an unauthorized and vulnerable email server,” Mukasey wrote. “It found that the bureau had concluded the server could well have been penetrated without detection. Recall also that some of the people hacked by GRU [Russia’s military intelligence agency] agents were aware of that server and mentioned it in messages they sent, so that the Russians too were aware of it.”

Mukasey added: “There are some 30,000 emails that Mrs. Clinton did not turn over, on the claim that they were personal and involved such trivia as yoga routines and Chelsea's wedding. If they instead contained damaging information -- say, regarding Clinton Foundation fundraising -- the new president would have taken office in the shadow of a sword dangling from a string held by the Russians.”

Pointing to the indictment last week of 12 GRU agents, the former attorney general also suggested that Putin wanted U.S. intelligence services to discover Russian meddling in the election -- and that if he really wanted agents from Moscow to go undetected he would have used a far more capable source than the former Russian “special-forces types” that make up GRU.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillaryrussia; mukasey; russianmeddling
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1 posted on 07/17/2018 8:52:39 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Why else leave your foot prints???


2 posted on 07/17/2018 8:53:20 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

So Clinton was vulnerable to blackmail by the Russians, but Trump won, so we dodged a bullet.


3 posted on 07/17/2018 8:54:06 AM PDT by DannyTN
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They would have been able to blackmail hilLIARy with all the information they stole.

Plus the $400 million Putin announced that she got ILLEGALLY

I bet that story is top news today!

Oh wait... Trump is like Hitler killing Jews because he talked to Putin and said he trusted him more than the lying liars Comey, Strzok, Page, Brennan, Obama, HilLIARy, etc etc etc...


4 posted on 07/17/2018 8:56:23 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: DannyTN
Essentially, yes.


5 posted on 07/17/2018 8:57:56 AM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: Hojczyk

Interesting analysis, and highly plausible. Perhaps no one expected Trump to win, except me - and many Freepers.

I remember clearly the various polls of 2016, and expert Freeper comments and analysis on all of them. It was quite obvious in Sept-Oct 2016 that OH, WI, PA, WI, MI and FL were all leaning Trump.


6 posted on 07/17/2018 8:58:39 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Hojczyk

AMEN!!!


7 posted on 07/17/2018 8:59:44 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Hojczyk

Russian meddling, such as it was, changed nothing. The Left, which never went after ChiCom collusion but then that’s just the seriousness of the charges only going one way.


8 posted on 07/17/2018 8:59:53 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Finally....something that makes sense. Putin never expected Trump to win. The Dems didn't either.

In fact, during the campaign....I kept saying....where's Hillary...she didn't campaign until the last month. Everything else was money raising and making promises.

9 posted on 07/17/2018 9:00:31 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Hojczyk

The Russians WANTED Hilliary to win since they had SO much info on her! She would have been putty in their hands!


10 posted on 07/17/2018 9:01:04 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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may have been meant more as a warning to Hillary Clinton about Moscow’s capabilities than an earnest bid to boost then-candidate Donald Trump

Plausible theory

11 posted on 07/17/2018 9:03:29 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Problem was not Trump collusion, but an FBI-Intelligence conspiracy with Obama.)
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To: Mr. K

The $400 million story...I think has not been laid out yet in any manner to understand.

He couldn’t give her the $400 million direct...otherwise, everyone would know the angle to this. So I think he found a way to give her around $5 to $10 million, with maybe $200 million going to various PACs, who flipped it to Hillary ad’s and support. The remaining money, I’m suggesting...went to PAC money for Senate Democrats and fake GOP Senators. If you dig into this....it’s mostly all PACs that got the money and launched thousands of ‘points of light’ to get the right team in place.

This guy would have gotten ten times that amount paid back in special deals under the table over the eight years of Hillary. Of all the idiots crying on the day after the election...he was probably the biggest one. $400 million wasted on a useless situation. No insider trail to Trump.

Here’s the thing as well, I’ll bet that Putin can name every single PAC that took the money, and how the deal was developed. Right now....Putin is simply grinning and putting this on the table. There are Senators who ran races in 2016, who have something to worry about now.


12 posted on 07/17/2018 9:03:29 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Ann Archy

She was selling us out to them, they didn’t need blackmail.


13 posted on 07/17/2018 9:04:52 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Ann Archy

Agree ..the Russians wanted the beast to win. They could control her. Euroweenies also wanted her.


14 posted on 07/17/2018 9:09:21 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: Rapscallion
may have been meant more as a warning to Hillary Clinton about Moscow’s capabilities than an earnest bid to boost then-candidate Donald Trump

Plausible theory

Yes it is.

However I maintain that Putin and the Russians thought she would win and wanted to take her down a peg or two.

15 posted on 07/17/2018 9:10:35 AM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes rights)
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To: longfellow

YES!! And that’s would they have OVER her to manage her!


16 posted on 07/17/2018 9:10:42 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: All

Here is a warning from President Trump to Obama.

Hannity interview last night: President Trump says “PRISONER OBAMA”

Slow Motion video confirms he said “PRISONER”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPnCFYYEJK0


17 posted on 07/17/2018 9:13:23 AM PDT by outhousepatrol
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To: Hojczyk

Holy cow, a plausible theory. Been hoping one of these might turn up.


18 posted on 07/17/2018 9:19:33 AM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: Hojczyk

From what I’ve read, the Podesta breach was definitely spear phishing. Childs play. The DNC breach seems more like an inside job to me as they reportedly took the entire message database. A very difficult and improbable hack for an outsider on a well maintained system. Much, much more likely an insider. Humans are the weakest link in any security system.


19 posted on 07/17/2018 9:21:53 AM PDT by IamConservative (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: DannyTN

I’d bet money Putin is trying to dig up as much dirt on Trump as he can. Putin likes leverage.

Will he find any...does he already have some? Who knows...


20 posted on 07/17/2018 9:23:04 AM PDT by moovova
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