Hillary Clinton’s top political adviser John Podesta said the campaign is supporting an effort by members of the Electoral College to request an intelligence briefing on foreign intervention in the presidential election.
“The bipartisan electors' letter raises very grave issues involving our national security,” Podesta said in a statement Monday. “Electors have a solemn responsibility under the Constitution and we support their efforts to have their questions addressed.”
“Each day that month, our campaign decried the interference of Russia in our campaign and its evident goal of hurting our campaign to aid Donald Trump,” he said. “Despite our protestations, this matter did not receive the attention it deserved by the media in the campaign. We now know that the CIA has determined Russia's interference in our elections was for the purpose of electing Donald Trump. This should distress every American.”
Podesta's statement is the first public statement from the Clinton campaign raising questions about the legitimacy of Donald Trump's victory.
This is a great idea.
I think that knowing for sure that your election was legitimate is a good idea before you cast your vote for the President of the United States.
But hey, that's just me.
By the way it should also be pointed out that Hillary's popular vote victory is now over 2.8 million. (2,843,860 to be exact.)
Courtesy of the Independent:
Donald Trump lost the popular vote in last month’s US presidential election by a bigger margin than any other US president in history.
The Republican is currently trailing Democrat rival Hillary Clinton by 2.8 million votes as the last remaining postal ballots are counted – despite him winning the November 8 election because of the Electoral College system.
That deficit is more than five times bigger than the 544,000 by which George W. Bush lost to Al Gore in 2000 - the second biggest popular vote deficit in history for a candidate who has still gone on to become President.
It appears that James Comey, Wikileaks, and Vladimir Putin did not do such a bang up job of stealing this election after all.
Check out the latest from Keith Olbermann:
ReplyDeleteIs There a Russian Coup Underway in America?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAFxPXGDH4E
This was terrifying.
DeleteKeith gets pretty intense, but he calls it like it is. That directness and refusal to tolerate injustice and act well-behaved has been absent from the news channels since Keith left MSNBC. Keith and Jon Stewart reached so many people with their gift for cutting through the crap. It would have helped this election if both had been around like in the past.
DeleteCheck out Kurt Eichenwald's Newsweek story being dropped tomorrow. Rachel Maddow spilled some of it tonight. Absolute proof of conflicts of interest being President while maintaining global businesses. Note please the press conference scheduled for Thursday when Trump was supposed to explain how he was separating himself from his businesses has now been postponed until AFTER the new year. AND YES TRUMP ONOWS ABOUT THE NEWSWEEK STORY coming out tomorrow.
DeleteCheck out the latest from Keith Olbermann:
DeleteIs There a Russian Coup Underway in America?
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Looks like it to me.
Groan, and did you read about how brother Eric's charity is doing an auction that involves as the prize spending 45 minutes or less with Ivanka? They want 50,0000 bucks to have her ear. So far, they have a bid for about 23,000.
DeleteDaddy Trump will probably be the highest bidder for that auction. Of course, his charitable foundation will actually fork over the cash. But it's all OK, cuz Ivanka is more than accustomed to having daddy grab her by the kitty!
DeleteDear Donald Trump,
DeleteTu salchicha es muy pequeña.
Cariños,
All Mexicans
Well look at it this way - if they TRY to coup America - someone - cough - can say 'well where the hell have ya been' and...
Deleteeveryone gets to keep shopping at Walmart!
Oh, good. And I saw that 6 Electors were formally demanding to know more about the CIA/FBI reporting -- before they vote.
ReplyDeleteYessssssssss! This is a good direction.
Oh, I think they've done quite a bang up job of stealing the election.
ReplyDeleteOf course there is.
ReplyDeleteI am trying to reach Sunny johnston but my emails keep bouncing back. I need to contact her about some more funds she is due from Go Fund Me. If she reads this please contact Jasmine Arroyo. I think she has my email address.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you should leave them your contact info on their Go Fund Me page? Doesn't look like you've tried that.
DeleteBe ware of someone who knocks on your door and calls you their friend Sunny...
DeleteThere's a new threat to Democracy (besides Trump and Putin) and they're coming to DC on January 20, 2017 and they're ready to fight (No not Sarah, Todd and the Alaskan Independence Party)
ReplyDelete“If that means us having to protect ourselves by taking someone else’s life, that’s what we’re going to have to do,” one biker said, in a video shared by Bikers for Trump, on beefing up security.
But hey, they don't want to be violent unless some punk-ass protester makes them get that way.
Does Trump know who these people are and are they friends of his?
It's true. Bikers for Trump is real, and led by the Hell's Angels, which should surprise no one.
FYI: BIKERS FOR TRUMP APPLIED FOR A PERMIT TO RIDE 500 MOTORCYCLES IN TRUMP'S INAUGURAL PARADE. (Haven't been approved yet that I know of)
https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1835544753396547&id=1653554188262272
The Daily Beast reports
Trump has embraced his biker supporters with gusto.
“My biker friends,” Trump said during a Q&A at a recent Wisconsin rally. His new friends aren’t just fans and are now pledging to provide ad hoc security at for their new hero, using violence if necessary.
Bikers for Trump, a 20,000-strong grassroots collection of motorcycle-riding supporters, has eschewed violence—at least according to its de facto leader. But it has found that its own supporters are ready to cross that line—if by their own estimation they should deem it required.
“If that means us having to protect ourselves by taking someone else’s life, that’s what we’re going to have to do,” one biker said, in a video shared by Bikers for Trump, on beefing up security.
But hey, they don't want to be violent unless some punk-ass protester makes them get that way.
Read more at
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/04/bikers-trump-real-thing
Oh they just want to grab melonheads cat.
DeleteOne of the best South Parks ever was the one where the loud bikers come to town and ruin everyone's peace and quiet and the kids call them "fags". Everyone gets in an uproar until the kids explain they don't mean "fag" as a gay-slur, it's just what they call annoying loud bikers. Everyone starts berating them as fags and in the end they get the word redefined in Websters. We are urged at the end of the episode to yell "fag" whenever we see these loud and annoying biker. Wish I could go to DC and let 'em know what I think.
DeleteWinter is such a relief when they have to park those loud ass noisemakers and I don't have to almost run over one doing something stupid and illegal every time I leave the house.
Watch for motorcycles? You betcha I watch for motorcycles, but I usually see them doing something dumb and annoying and putting themselves and others in harms way. Over 60% of motorcycle accidents are caused by the cyclist, not other drivers, so maybe they should be watching out for us?
“If that means us having to protect ourselves by taking someone else’s life, that’s what we’re going to have to do,” one biker said, in a video shared by Bikers for Trump, on beefing up security.
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That says it all. We are a country of imbeciles.
The protests will be on foot. The bikers want to come in and get in their way. The protesters do not want to get in the bikers' way. And the bikers are the ones talking aboout protecting themselves.
DeleteSounds like Prelude to The Walking Dead...
DeleteThat is after the pharmacies close first!
I'm enjoying reading comments online all over calling Trump and some of his people treasonous. Lots of calls for impeachment, too, but I want to see him dealt with before 1/20.
ReplyDeleteNot happening. He will be President. You should face reality and stop listening to the siren blogs that play to your fears.
Delete6:51 shut up!!!! Just stfu and if you are too lazy, stupid, un patriotic and/or a trump supporter then feck off. Some of us do take pride in our country and will fight regardless of defeats. Holy lavender Jesus who the eff are you to tell anyone to not hope, not believe, not care. "Siren blogs that play to your fears"??? Really? Why assume blogs? Why not assume news sites-not fake news-real news?
DeleteJust take your effing marbles and go home. Let the grown ups deal with the problems of the world including drumpf!
Oh, 6:51, you are a real Trump ass zit squeezer.
DeleteJust because people make comments about what is happening out there in the country and about what they'd like to see happen, it doesn't mean they aren't seeing reality. I see it all too well.
Now, go squeeze another of Donny's oily pustules. And don't forget to lick your fingers.
6:51 PM Are you expecting a Cabinet position? Just sit back and wait like Sarah Palin, and Trump will ignore you too.
DeleteControl Freaks Cannot Control Themselves
DeleteO/T The donald wants to kill off Santa’s reindeer with his denial of climate change !!!
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Scientists say reindeer may be shrinking due to warming
The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM (AP) Reindeer living on the Arctic island of Svalbard are getting smaller and scientists say climate change may be the cause.
Scientists from Britain and Norway have found that adult Svalbard reindeer born in 2010 weigh 12 percent less on average than those born in 1994.
Ecologist Steve Albon of Scotland's James Hutton Institute says rising temperatures in the Arctic mean Svalbard is getting more rain, creating a hard ice sheet the island's reindeer can't easily break through to reach food.
Reindeer populations are also increasing due to warmer summers, stoking competition.
Albon says researchers think there is a correlation between rising temperatures and reindeer weight. He says more research is needed to confirm the link.
Their findings were presented Monday at a meeting of the British Ecological Society.
Then there are also the proud hunters who shoot and kill them "to survive". Right! These people make me sick! If a Latina like me can be vegetarian, these jerks could try it for once. And I am well aware how prolific vegetable gardens can be in Alaska. But then you have just have far too many people who enjoy the act of killing too much to sacrifice hunting and buy food at the grocer or grow it themselves.
DeleteMAKE ROOM FOR US OR ELSE
ReplyDeleteYOU'VE BEEN WARNED WASHINGTON DC
Washington Times:
Bikers for Trump secure space for inauguration amid several planned protests
.... Mr. Cox, who requested a permit for 5,000 people but noted that as many as 10,000 bikers might attend, said he was discouraged from applying last week by the permit manager at the National Park Service Office in Washington.
“She was telling me that they had already given all the permits out to the anti-Trump movement — permits for maybe 100,000 or 200,000 people,” Mr. Cox recalled. “I wasn’t happy. I told her I had thousands and thousands of bikers coming into town, and if she didn’t give me a spot, they were going to be just mingling around and would end up hanging out where all the Trump protesters are, and there’s going to be big problems and then people are going to wonder why.”...
Read more at:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/5/bikers-for-trump-secure-space-for-inauguration-ami/
Well, those bikes should be seen as weapons. In the case that they are, security should shoot their riders. Simple as that.
DeleteSo, Trump is going ahead with Exxon's Tillerson for SOS. That's now been confirmed. Tillerson completely disregarded the govt whenever he was asked to not do what he was doing with Russia. But he deserves to now have a govt. position? No way.
DeleteSomeone's going to die. And it almost seems like Trump won't rest with his incitement until somebody does.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkqCmVXXbk4
DeleteSouth Park clip Harley Fags
I really do wish right now that HAARP was a real thing and the democrats can make the biggest most snowiest, coldest wndiest blizzard DC has ever seen the weeks prior and after inauguration.
DeleteBikers For Trump keep up the good work and protect our new president
ReplyDeleteSmelly toothless grease bags who won't let a flag touch the ground but who enjoy knocking women on their asses. Yep, just Trump's kind.
DeleteLoud, annoying blowhards that seem to be compensating for some sort of shortcoming by aggressively riding oversized, loud, smelly noisemakers and dressing like rejects from Sons of Anarchy.
DeleteI wonder what that shortcoming could be :-)
DC can have 'em, we try to keep them out of our small town.
Fags for Trump! (South Park reference, not a gay slur, I promise)
Delete"Bikers for Trump"
DeleteBWAAHAAHAAHAA
Might as well be "Depraved Souls for Trump'
Haha 6:34 i'm an avid South Parker and cannot look at a biker gang without thinking "Fags!"
Delete(SP fag = loud and annoying)
Uncle Gryphen, could we pretty please have a thread on Thursdays to discuss the social import of the previous evening's episode?
DeleteSouth Park was epic during the election. I thought it was the white hot hate that got us, but actually we were overtaken by 'Memberberries.
This is twice that Dems have "lost" an election all while having our candidate win the popular vote, once thanks to GOP dirty tricks and now through the interference of a foreign government, and basically all we've done is have a few protests and sign petitions.
ReplyDeleteCan you just imagine the gun-totin' hillbilly outrage if the shoe was on the other foot and the election had been stolen in Hillary's favor? This country would be under martial law right now.j
We deserve to have additional scrutiny applied to this election.
In addition to the foreign interference, there were plenty of dirty tricks this time too with all of the various voter suppression efforts throughout many areas of the country, fake news, gerrymandered districts, voting machines that did not work and invalidated votes.
Delete7:21, you are so right. And it pisses me off how the people okaying the recounts didn't pay attention to what the specific complaints were. They wanted to count WI votes, for example, in the exact same manner they were cast--of course there was never going to be a remedy that way.
DeleteWell, we could have had a teacher as president elect and she/he put all educators with no govt experience whatsoever. Wow that would be just as crazy. Or only engineers. Or only mathematicians. Orange sheetface is just that.
ReplyDeleteTrump dismissed a community of hard working men and women by saying they are all wrong. Trump says Putin and Russia did not interfere with his election. This man knows nothing about covert actions or the intelligence community and he dismissed all their work and wants to be their commander-in-chief.
ReplyDeleteTrump needs to resign before January 20th or risk being impeached and disgraced when it is discovered he knew about Putin.
We need men and women in Washington DC, not a boy and First Lady Ivanka and her siblings.
I wonder if the Secret Service have a camaraderie with the CIA and/or others of the dozen-plus intel agencies that Trump has simply dissed and dismissed. I have to say that I'd love to see Trump's reaction if the SS decided to go on strike, as it were, one day. He praises his most direct form of protection but treats all others--who protect him and the whole country--like dirt. I know the SS are committed to protecting the president, but it could teach the buffoon a lesson if one day they gave him a taste of his own medicine and dissed him by walking off in the middle of a job.
DeleteI heard Donny Brook and Ping Pang Pong use to play 'let's hunt a human' and hunt and kill a human like an animal...find that beautiful bean footage and wa' la! shrug...
DeleteMr Trump and his team have clearly decided that any investigations into whether there were foreign attempts to meddle with the election, either through the ballot box or via email hacking, must be aggressively challenged no matter how unlikely they are to succeed.
ReplyDeleteI can see a whole bunch of problems with electors getting security briefings. Still, I suppose security clearances can be done in time.
ReplyDeleteI hope the FBI isn't going to be involved.
Fucking Blowhard Incompetents will be there!
Delete‘It’s happening’: Maddow previews ‘explosive’ Newsweek story that hints at Turkey’s blackmail of Trump
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/its-happening-maddow-previews-explosive-newsweek-story-that-hints-at-turkeys-blackmail-of-trump/
Hahaha! Maddow. Good luck with that one. Say how did that smarty smart doctorate predict the election again?
Delete6:53
DeleteI don't believe Maddow has ever claimed to have perfect foresight. She was in very good company. She also made that prediction before Comey tanked the election. You wish you had 1/5 the intelligence of that woman, you dweeb. Go sit in the corner and suck your thumb.
6:53, keep squeezing those Trump ass zits. Heckuva job you're doing.
DeleteI am actually NOT a fan of Maddow since she can be so weasely regarding Pres Obama but she is far smarter than any Trump voter.
Delete7:16 she was in very good company, really? You mean the circular echo chamber of tv elites, where the doctorate couldn't be apparently even be bothered to use her doctorate (which is questionable, poly sci lol) because she is was too busy jumping on the Hillary bandwagon with all her buddies?
DeleteLet me ask you, what is the point of a doctorate if all you do is read whatever is on the teleprompter in front of you?
8:41 PM - Well, thank you so much for contributing something so well thought out to our discussion. And I'm curious to know, just what is your doctorate in that you feel you can authoritatively sneer at those with a phd in poly sci?
Deletehmmm... derisive comments about the use of teleprompters and putting people down for having superior education. This sounds like somebody we know.
Maddow makes $30,000 dollars a day. She'll say anything her employers want her to.
DeleteHow much money do you make in a day?
OMG.
DeleteI believe Ms. Maddow went to Stanford and Oxford is it?
Puhleese. Your jealousy is showing like a piece of toilet paper stuck to your feet after taking a crap in a portapotty.
It doesn't really matter what degree you have or how pedigreed you are when you are a shill for one side or the other. That just makes you a tool, which Maddow has long since made herself out to be.
DeleteThank you Founding Fathers. With their wisdom they seen Trump coming over two centuries down the road.
ReplyDeleteThose electors are part of a manoeuvre they say was endorsed by founding father Alexander Hamilton, who wrote that a core purpose of the electoral college was to serve as a constitutional failsafe to prevent unqualified candidates or those under the influence of "foreign powers" from becoming president
Prevent unqualified candidates from becoming president
Prevent those under the influence of "foreign powers" from becoming president
YUUUPPPP
First the Russia, now Turkey: Traitor trump had better think twice about not moving his companies out of his name, sounds like he is going to be spending some time in prison for treason.
ReplyDeleteHe will get caught, he is a sociopath and they believe they are smarter than everyone else but they always get caught.
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‘It’s happening’: Maddow previews ‘explosive’ Newsweek story that hints at Turkey’s blackmail of Trump
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/its-happening-maddow-previews-explosive-newsweek-story-that-hints-at-turkeys-blackmail-of-trump/
Do not change your channels. Melania's press conference regarding her illegal employment will be any day now as promised by President-elect Trump.
ReplyDeleteLock him up!
ReplyDeleteNo you got it wrong. The chant is:
DeleteLock him up!
Lock him up!
Lock him up!
Lock him up!
I want to say hang him, for treason, like they did of Hillary at his rallies, but it brings to mind lynchings and I don't want to offend. Some of his adorers came right out and said to kill her. And Trump was fine with it. Insane.
DeleteFind his 'kill videos' with Ping Pang Pong!
DeleteWhat if the voice had mathematicians as judges, no one would watch the show. No one would believe results. Same with the orange fdat guy. The results are going to be cronies have ALL the money and everyone else will be o twist poor.
ReplyDeleteA sumu wrestler ice skating. Lol.
DeleteErgo, the term 'kleptocracy' applies to the Drumpf team.
DeleteSo what will happen between Trump and the CIA if Trump is elected?
ReplyDeleteThe first tier of the CIA management will be packing on Jan 20, 2017 and going out the back door while the new first tier for the CIA will be unpacking their Golden Sachs boxes.
Sorry
DeleteGoldman Sachs
Oh, it was a pretty bang-up job for sure! After all, in spite of losing by almost 3 million votes, Trump still won.
ReplyDeleteWhen Trump is sent back to Trump Tower in disgrace because of the Russian connection, beware America, Trump is like Sarah Palin, they hold grudges.
ReplyDeleteEver since Sarah Palin was cockblocked from President Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner, she was embarrassed like a jilted woman on her wedding night and hasn't let up on the rhetoric against President Obama and his family. The First Family can't even leave the White House in peace without sourpuss in Wasilla tweeting about the First Family's last Christmas card and the First Daughter's dresses.
Everything Trump has learned from the briefings will most likely be told to Putin. Luckily Trump had been busy on his Victory Tours and 3am tweeting to learn much from the briefings. The problem is he needs to be stopped before January 20th before he and Putin gets the keys to our secrets and capabilities.
Trump about Carly Fiorina
ReplyDelete'Look at that face!' he cries. 'Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!'
Now that face is being interviewed for Director Of National Intelligence.
I guess her face was not presidential but good enough for the DNI?
Yes, Hillary won in a landslide..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/12/how-did-trump-win-fbi-and-russians
ReplyDeleteTrump Goes Into Hiding And Cancels Press Conference As Russia Investigation Gains Momentum
ReplyDeletePresident-elect Donald Trump has canceled his first press conference since winning the election as calls grow for a bipartisan investigation into whether or not the Russian government interfered in the 2016 contest.
...The cabinet appointments are a flimsy excuse to cover-up the fact that his advisors don’t want Trump to take questions from reporters before the Electoral College votes next week. Trump is the first president-elect since 1976 not to hold a press conference. Trump last held a press conference on July 27, 2016, which was the same event where he called on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton and release her emails.
Trump tried to cancel on The New York Times after they held him to his agreed to on-the-record session. Trump has avoided taking any questions from the political press in a news conference setting for nearly seven months.
It is not a surprise that Trump would cancel the press conference that he scheduled so he could announce how he will be separating himself from his business interests as president. The Trump team can’t risk putting him in front a live mic to take questions from reporters about the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the election.
By laying low, Trump is hoping to not give Electoral College electors any more reason to break away and reject him.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/12/trump-hiding-cancels-press-conference-russia-investigation-gains-momentum.html
Donald Trump Is The Biggest Loser In History To Ever Become President
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump didn't just lose the popular vote. His margin of defeat is five times bigger than any president in US history.
...No candidate has ever lost by so much, but still won the White House. This fact is why Trump and his team keep using the word landslide. They believe that if they keep calling the results a landslide, people may forget that Trump lost the popular vote. Donald Trump is running a propaganda effort to convince the majority of the country that they really didn’t vote against him.
Donald Trump has become exactly what he despises the most. Trump is the biggest loser president in the history of US presidential elections.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/12/donald-trump-biggest-loser-history-president.html
Nancy Pelosi’s daughter leads electors demanding intel briefing on Russia’s ties to Donald Trump
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/nancy-pelosis-daughter-leads-electors-demanding-intel-briefing-on-russias-ties-to-donald-trump/
PUTIN PAL FOR SECRETARY OF STATE!
ReplyDelete‘Handing The State Department To A Man Who Has Worked His Whole Life Running A Parallel Quasi-State... Kremlin Rejoices, Praises Tillerson As ‘Highly Respectable’... Bipartisan Alarm Over Ties To Moscow... McCain: ‘It’s A Matter Of Concern’... Even Rubio!... Stage Set For Bruising Confirmation Battle...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rex-tillerson-secretary-of-state_us_584f69efe4b0e05aded59190
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
ReplyDeleteClinton’s Loss Has Motivated Thousands Of Women To Consider Running For Office
“We have never seen this level of determination for women to have their voices heard.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clintons-loss-has-motivated-thousands-of-women-to-consider-running-for-office_us_584eeb33e4b04c8e2bb0d0e7
Have ya lost yer marbles? Ya cant declare a loser a winner if he cheated, lied and stole. The entire election must be redone.
ReplyDeleteOh that fox...they say but even if Russia hacked, there are so many reasons to elect trump. Yes fox, we know, the swamp is full of toxic waste to dump that your friends created, only mr trump can drain because he owns it.
ReplyDelete))))you are entering the twilight zone(((( in trumpland the hired help must make a lie real for the wizard of idiots. repeat repeat repeat repeat. ))))no science no education no freedom(((((scientology is)))Russia((()))whoa((())) whoa((()) whoa)))) click. mr trump did not win.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lovely photo of Mrs Clinton with John Podesta, who is the most powerful lobbyist in Washington.
ReplyDeleteI had read a comment he made that he was looking into changing a rule or making a new one so that Ivanka could be an adviser in an official capacity.Now he is saying his 2 sons will run the companies,but not Ivanka. I'm pretty sure he is attempting to set her up to have high visibility and have her run for President in 8 years.
ReplyDeleteI would bet money on it.
F U Hillary
ReplyDeleteF U Podesta
F U Troll.
DeleteExcept for the Democrats and Suprun in Texas, none of them care. Trumps says nothing to see here move on and they swallow it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, they're faithless electors all right. But not in *that* way. Faithless to their duty and service to the United States.