Posted on 12/11/2016 1:04:47 PM PST by Mariner
Responding to intelligence officials’ report that Russia tried to influence the U.S. presidential election in favor of President-elect Donald Trump, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Arizona) on Sunday said he doesn’t know what to make of Mr. Trump’s dismissal of the issue.
“I don’t know what to make of it because it’s clear the Russians interfered,” he told CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “Whether they intended to interfere to the degree that they were trying to elect a certain candidate, I think that’s a subject of investigation. But facts are stubborn things. They did hack into this campaign.”
In an interview with “Fox News Sunday,” Mr. Trump said Sunday that new revelations about Russia’s influence on his behalf are “ridiculous.”
“It’s just another excuse. I don’t believe it,” Trump said. “… Every week it’s another excuse. We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College.”
McCain called for a select committee to further investigate the extent of Russia’s influence and intentions.
“I would like in an ideal world to have a select committee,” he said, adding that he would hope such a committee would be made up of leaders on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Foreign Relations Committee and Armed Services Committee.
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“I don’t know what to make of it because it’s clear the Russians interfered,” he told CBS...
Wow. The old coot has gone full democrat.
Let me get this straight. For the past 60+ years the Soviets/Russians wrote the democrat president speeches and teleprompted Marxist Obama, but Trump gets elected after a leak
release by Assange and we need to investigate this urgently?
Give me a fracking break
What about Hillary pay for play with Uranium for Putin!!!
Thanks to the fools who returned this dope to the senate. If things had worked out he would have been in jail after the s and l scandals.
It's anything BUT clear.
I noticed that Linda never comes up for air. McLAme has his proxy.
McCain doesn’t know what to do about McCain. Thank you for your service sir, now please go home and enjoy the rest of your life in contentment and repose.
Let’s pretend there is a bordering nation that sends 10s of millions of her poorest and least educated citizens across the border in to a far wealthier nation. And let’s pretend there is collusion between a major political party and that neighboring border country to ensure non citizens get to vote in the host country’s elections and have huge influence in the political process.
Does that count?
I didn’t know what the hell to make of Mccaine suspending his campaign only a couple months before the 2008 election. Scumbag.
Which major candidate did the CPUSU endorse?
McLame:“I don’t know what to make of it because it’s clear the Russians interfered,>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yes, its clear the Russians interfered, without a named source, or a summary of how it happened, and why now the CIA leak? Why not back in October? A leak?
Why does the FBI say it did not happen.
McCain is way out on a limb, not Trump. There is not a single shred of evidence.
Which major candidate did the CPUSA endorse?
McPain, STFU!!!!!!
If he has proof the DNC emails were hacked by Russians, perhaps he can show and tell.
McCain knows he is part of the swamp that is about to be drained. He's still fighting as he circles the drain.
The Russians dddiiiiiiiiiiddd iiiiiiiiiitttttt.
And in the end, who cares? Russia exposed the truth about Clinton.
We owe them a debt of gratitude.
“unnamed intelligence source”
there’s the irrefutable proof. /s
Given how these systems were “maintained”, between the DNC, Hillarys closet served wiped with a cloth, and Weiner’s unwiped (gross) laptop, I am surprised my dead grandma didn’t get into one of these systems.
This is just a wag the dog attempt by Obama to reframe it off of WHAT WAS LEAKED and the criminality of what was leaked, and the people who would be going to jail if they were not liberal socialists, and onto a current political enemy who has repeatedly bitch-slapped the president (ie syria).
6 more years of this mofo. He needs to die of old age yesterday
Thank you, Arizona.
The well-informed citizens are aware of the nature of the so-called Russian hacks.
But if someone hadn’t been paying attention, they could very well conclude that a foreign country had gained access to voting machines and made sure Donald Trump won the election.
The MSM reporting of the incident has been, IMO, deliberately vague.
Seth Rich the dead intern is the one that blew the whistle on the Democrat Party..the media knows it but they need a narrative to explain everything..this is the same media that when Sarah Palin’s yahoo account was hacked, instead of being outraged over it, went through EVERY SINGLE EMAIL with a fine tooth comb looking for something to incriminate her
At this point, I’d be happy to see him in prison.
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