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First first direct evidence of collusion according to the article. Hope this goes somewhere.
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/25/gop-strategist-admits-he-colluded-with-russian-hackers-to-hurt-hillary-clinton-democrats/
The U.S. intelligence community has long since concluded Russia meddled in the 2016 election, and it was reported shortly after the 2016 presidential election that a GOP superPAC linked to Paul Ryan used illegally hacked material to attack Democratic House candidates. But a bombshell report published on Thursday confirms that Republican political operatives were working with the Russian government to hurt Hillary Clinton and Democrats during the election the first direct evidence of so-called collusion.
The Wall Street Journal reported that hacked information was posted on a blog run by Aaron Nevins, the political operative, and then passed along to top Trump adviser Roger Stone during the campaign. The Republican operative in Florida received a trove of Democratic documents from the allegedly Kremlin-linked hacker, Guccifer 2.0. For months, both Congress and the FBI have been scrutinizing evidence that associates of Trump may have colluded with Russia during the campaign.
Nevins confirmed to the Journal that he told hacker Guccifer 2.0 to feel free to send any Florida based information after learning that the hacker had tapped into Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) computers last summer. From the DCCC, Guccifer 2.0 released internal assessments of Democratic congressional candidates, known as self-opposition research, to GOP operatives using social media. Nevins told the Journal that, after receiving the stolen documents from the hacker, he realized it was a lot more than even Guccifer knew that he had. The stolen DCCC documents also contained sensitive information on voters in key Florida districts, breaking down how many people were considered dependable Democratic voters, undecided Democrats, Republican voters and the like. Nevins made a war analogy, describing the data he received to Guccifer 2.0 as akin to a map to where all the troops are deployed.
After Nevins published some of the material on the blog HelloFLA.com, using his own pseudonym, Guccifer 2.0 sent a link of the information to close Trump associate Roger Stone who is currently under federal investigation for potential collusion with Russia.
onetexan
(13,081 posts)Thank u for posting this.
trueblue2007
(17,250 posts)Can we somehow have a re-do of the election if they CHEATED on the election??
2naSalit
(86,963 posts)Gothmog
(145,965 posts)Useless in FL
(329 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)and fox Republican TV. I don't think Americans have ever gotten an "honest election" from this Republican party.
GoCubsGo
(32,103 posts)Comrade Trump promised to create jobs, but building a prison to house him and all of his fellow colluders was not what we had in mind. But, it works for me. The sooner the better.
DK504
(3,847 posts)Maybe it IS time to invest in super max private prisons. They'll be full soon.
cstanleytech
(26,361 posts)much of the government that they probably can and will sweep it under the rug and they will probably classify any information so it wont see the light of day for 100+ years assuming they dont just destroy it.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,130 posts)kysrsoze
(6,025 posts)Volaris
(10,281 posts)If this leads to a RICO prosecution, then Stone is guilty as well, and unless he was smart enough to isolate himself from everyone else, so is EVERYONE ELSE WHO WORKED ON THE CAMPAIGN OR TOOK THE LAUNDERED MONEY.
Bye, Bye, GOP. It was fun, but we WONT miss you.
You treasonous fuckers.
Initech
(100,149 posts)The whole damn party from top to bottom encouraged it, and we're seeing war declared on the very freedoms we hold dear now. We need to stop this!
Time to let the adults back in charge, GOP. You've had your fun. Once your no government government experiment fails, you'll come crawling back to us.
Voltaire2
(13,270 posts)However quite likely felony violations of various espionage related laws. Plus the obstruction of the investigation is really what is going to take Trump down.
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,034 posts)gademocrat7
(10,688 posts)tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)bora13
(860 posts)EOM
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)And other K&R
Initech
(100,149 posts)I swear the whole GOP is in on this, and we're going to find that out really quickly. The US is under control from a hostile foreign entity, this is scary shit.
Chakaconcarne
(2,482 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)to make it believeable to them..."
Fuck them for trying to justify their own lack of ability to see what so many of us did.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)And they cheat again in 2018.
Will there be any way to stop them or is this in fact a coup financed by Russia?
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)machines.
They *just* didn't do that.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)kyburbonkid
(251 posts)Trump with his loose lips probably was just leaking what he knew when he kept repeating "The election is rigged". Only it wasn't what we assumed, that it was made up insinuations that Hillary was doing the rigging. It was him bragging about his "insider" knowledge.
ITMFA
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)But boom....the first domino.