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Senate Report Concludes Russia Used Paul Manafort, WikiLeaks To Boost Trump In 2016
Reuters via Huffington Post ^ | 08/18/2020 | Mark Hosenball

Posted on 08/18/2020 10:08:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort, the WikiLeaks website and others to try to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help now-U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign, a Senate intelligence panel report said on Tuesday.

WikiLeaks played a key role in Russia’s effort to assist Republican Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton and likely knew it was helping Russian intelligence, said the report, which is likely to be the most definitive public account of the 2016 election controversy.

The report found President Vladimir Putin personally directed the Russian efforts to hack computer networks and accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party and leak information damaging to Clinton.

The panel, formally called the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, also alleged Manafort collaborated with Russians, including oligarch Oleg Deripaska and an alleged Russian intelligence operative, Konstantin Kilimnik, before during and after the election.

The panel found Manafort’s role and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence, saying his “high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services... represented a grave counterintelligence threat.”

It was not clear what effect, if any, the report might have on the current U.S. presidential campaign in which Trump faces Democrat Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 U.S. election.

Opinion polls show former vice president Biden has built an expansive lead in nearly every battleground state that Trump won narrowly in 2016, as the Republican’s approval numbers tumble amid the coronavirus pandemic.

(Excerpt) Read more at huffpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
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To: SeekAndFind

Russia has been trying to influence our elections since the 50’s.


21 posted on 08/18/2020 10:21:02 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ( Deplorable, and proud of it.)
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To: Dan in Wichita

Big Media wants to be able to report this as a “shadow” on Trump’s Presidency. Did the article tell us which Senators signed off on this attack?


22 posted on 08/18/2020 10:21:08 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: treetopsandroofs; Dan in Wichita

No, tbey did not.


23 posted on 08/18/2020 10:22:38 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Paine in the Neck

“Insurance plan” if the pedophile wins?


24 posted on 08/18/2020 10:23:09 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Paine in the Neck

Back to the late “great” Ace McCain.


25 posted on 08/18/2020 10:23:35 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: SeekAndFind

This committee is led by the feckless Richard Burr, is populated with RINOs Collins, Sasse, Cornyn, etc. and Communists Feinstein, Wyden and, drum roll, Kommunist-Allah Harris.


26 posted on 08/18/2020 10:24:14 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: READINABLUESTATE
As if we haven't influenced theirs'. Time even boasted about it.


27 posted on 08/18/2020 10:26:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: facedown

I smell Romney.


28 posted on 08/18/2020 10:27:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Horse Manure. Hillary was bought out a long time ago. Why would Putin want an honest man in office?


29 posted on 08/18/2020 10:27:22 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Senate idiots, so pure and righteous. What fools.


30 posted on 08/18/2020 10:35:25 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It always begs the question: why?

Why on earth would Putin *want* President Trump elected? It flies in the face of simple logic.

Are dems prepared to argue that Putin *wanted* sanctions against Russia to be ratcheted up?

Or that Putin is really happy that W Europe is freeing itself from him, buying oil from America? Particularly when Putinland has no other exports.

Perhaps I’m just not smart enough to get it.


31 posted on 08/18/2020 10:36:02 AM PDT by jazminerose (Vince Foster died of coronavirus.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Such bullshit. If the Republican party gave Trump the slightest support, it’s hard to imagine what he could have accomplished.


32 posted on 08/18/2020 10:36:48 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah right. I truly believe that Russia actively worked against the candidate that they had funneled over $145 million to over the years.


33 posted on 08/18/2020 10:37:11 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: SeekAndFind
And here we are again


34 posted on 08/18/2020 10:38:11 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is extremely OLD NEWS. The Senate Intelligence Committee did issue a report stating some of these “lies” a while back. The RINO, Richard Burr, was head of that committee and allowed Mark Warner (Dem.) to do whatever he wanted to do. Really sad! Read Sundance at theconservativetreehouse.com


35 posted on 08/18/2020 10:43:31 AM PDT by pegrae
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To: SeekAndFind

The Uniparty Bureau Of Making Stuff Up swears that Russia helped Trump win.


36 posted on 08/18/2020 10:50:48 AM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: SeekAndFind

There is absolutely no evidence! Sickening! The only ones that worked for Russia? All the traitors involved in URANIUM ONE.


37 posted on 08/18/2020 10:51:50 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (Heartless Republican Gutter Rat)
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To: SeekAndFind
Opinion polls show former vice president Biden has built an expansive lead in nearly every battleground state that Trump won narrowly in 2016, as the Republican’s approval numbers tumble amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Did new polls come out?

38 posted on 08/18/2020 10:54:05 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: PGR88

So this is simply more BS and propaganda, this time from the US Senate Intelligence Committee.

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check out sen warner’s contacts with the crooked pols in Ukraine & it’s easy to see how the USSIC can produce CYA propaganda like this.


39 posted on 08/18/2020 10:58:37 AM PDT by thinden
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To: SeekAndFind

This was a hoax from the beginning. Using Russia was a way to get some conservative people onboard because of leftover Cold War feels, and using the word “hacked” was a way to scare old people whose knowledge of the subject is from a 25 year old Sandra Bullock movie. Hoax. Top to bottom.


40 posted on 08/18/2020 11:04:05 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Biden has dementia.)
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