A top Republican on national security said he advised Donald Trump that Russia was using hacked information to influence the election process, but the GOP presidential nominee didn't appear to believe him.
“I think he has in his mind that there’s not the proof,” House Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul said Tuesday during a Texas Tribune event in Austin. "Now he hasn't had the briefing I had, but I made it clear that in my judgment it was a nation-state."
McCaul, a Trump supporter, told Tribune CEO Evan Smith that he was brought in to brief Trump on national security after the first presidential debate — a topic the Texas Republican conceded is “not [Trump’s] strength.”
Despite the coaching from the congressman, Trump stated during the final presidential debate last week that the U.S. has no idea who is behind hacks of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails. The material was released by WikiLeaks.
Well gee that's odd.
I mean this is a national security expert from his own party, not from the media or the Democrats, and he still cannot accept that Russia is behind these hacks.
It's almost like when somebody accuses your best friend of doing something terrible and your first instinct is to say 'What? No you must have the wrong guy."
I mean why WOULDN'T Trump be willing to believe that Russia was engaging in cyber espionage against the United States? After all it is not like its the first time they have been caught doing so.
Unless, unless Trump actually knows for a fact that it's the Russians and for some reason wants to cover for them.
Things that make you do, Hmmm.
Whatever happened to the republicans saying better dead than red. I guess they changed the saying to better in bed with red.
ReplyDeleteI think Donald has been compromised.
DeleteI hadn't remembered that saying being tied to the GOP but as a kid I remember it well reading about backyard bomb shelters and supplies.... Guess we had to have a boogie man.
Indeed. And I am quite sure they recognize a liar, a manipulator, and con artist'. Its like nasty dirty little bully boys and girls trying to tell a lie.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/6/1578544/-The-Untold-Story-of-Trump-Model-Management-A-Daily-Kos-Exclusive-Part-1
DeleteGrew up to be Dirty OLD MEN and NASTY women.
Trump's ego does not allow him to be wrong. This is a fatal flaw and while evidence of this defective thought process shows in his business dealings (he knows everything about everything and knows it better than anyone - air shuttles, casinos, etc.), it will be a disaster for the US if he gets to be the man at the top. Imagine him getting a briefing about something critical to national security or public interest on something he's already made up his mind about just because he's Donald Trump, know it all extraordinaire.
ReplyDeletePersonally I'm sick of him and sick of his surrogates and sycophants and every time any one of them is on a news channel I'm watching, I change it or shut if off. Enough already - election day can't come fast enough for me.
On Trump, but O/T
ReplyDeleteTrump, sex, cocaine, and underage girls
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/25/1586568/-Daily-Beast-Inside-Donald-Trump-s-One-Stop-Parties-Attendees-Recall-Cocaine-and-Very-Young-Models
So, he fits in with hollywood.
DeleteWhen I read this yesterday I couldn't believe it. Why isn't it THE NEWS today?!!
DeleteSo, he fits in with hillbilly-tries-to-go-hollywood Palin.
DeleteAccording to The Jester, an American hacker who has messed with the Russians, taken down more than 200 jihadist websites, and done many other things to give us reasons to smile, Russia Today was tweeting content from the latest Wikileaks Podesta email dump 20-30 minutes before Wikileaks put them online. Yeah, pretty hard to sniff that one out. When you scare Glenn Beck enough to make him sound reasonable, you have no place in government, and maybe shouldn't be in charge of anything more than a bowl of jello and a plastic spoon.
ReplyDeleteRight on, and that timing issue should have been all over the news, repeated, just as this story about Trump's sex parties should be.
DeleteJester would have had something if he showed RT had a story up about the latest batch of podesta emails before WL released them. But who tweeted about them first doesn't prove anything. And that's why it wasn't "all over the news".Come on, people. Use your noodles. Jester's a smart guy trying to pull a fast one on you because he, like everyone else, has no direct evidence of who did the hacking. If he fooled you into believing that knowing when someone tweeted is "hard to sniff out", well, he knows he's got an ignorant, gullible audience.
DeleteEither Trump simply can not recall anything he's ever been told by anyone or he's in so deep with the Russian banks that he'll never get out. Neither of these scenarios would bode well for a president of the United States. It's really pathetic that the GOP has no one who is worthy of the office.
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This is the most likely scenario as far as I'm concerned.
DeleteAfter 20second,drumpf will make up his own mind..on everything..
ReplyDeleteI'm not so much a fan of this Russia obsession.
ReplyDeleteThe chinese regime has killed triple the people Stalin killed, and Stalin killed more than HItler.
Putin just a power hungry asshole with a tiny dick.
I don't think anyone "is a fan", but there is enough information to say that Russia has been attacking the USA through cyber hacks and attacks.
DeletePersonally, I think it is strange that any presidential candidate seems to want to cover up and defend Russia.
It could be that tRump owes both China and Russia billions in loans and they are trying to take over the USA by buying a president.
BTW Hilter killed many more people than Stalin if you bother to count all the countries he attacked, in fact, Hilter killed more Russians than Stalin did. History books, they can be your friends.
Perhaps you should stop living in the past and look at what Putin is doing today.
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Are you saying the Chinese are behind the email dumps? Or are you saying Putin is weak so there is no way he's behind it? Or both? You know, it's possible to not trust either country.
DeletePutin is a power-hungry psychopath whose tiny fingers CAN reach a nuclear button. With just a few words of flattery and ultimate control over the oligarchs that Trump owes hundreds of millions to, Putin has a new Puppet who he can jerk around.
DeleteLet's make it a Blue Tsunami!
"Sue and I'll do it until the courts say I CAN'T!" ;-oplease...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/heres-a-comprehensive-ish-list-of-all-the-people-and-things-donald-trump-has-threatened-to-sue-since-running-for-president_us_580f9883e4b000d0b158e61e
Trump's ALL ARE going to believe this:SCION>
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-24/trump-name-now-awash-in-controversy-readies-scion-as-new-brand
"fewer than one in four women would buy ANYTHING from Ivanka Trump’s brand."
Public filings from Trump’s licensing partner G-III shows sales are up over the course of the year.
“Over the past year many more women have discovered and become loyal to the brand, leading us to experience a significant year over year revenue growth,”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/fewer-than-1-in-4-women-would-buy-clothes-from-ivanka-trump-after-her-fathers-toxic-campaign/
”Scion,” of course, means “descendant of a notable family” < Sink drumpf's into the Abyss...
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I'd boycott everything Trump, Ivana, Ivanka and Scion. Forever.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/helen-mirren-tells-nasty-women-to-end-small-headed-dinosaur-y-handed-trumps-candidacy/
Trump has hundreds of millions of reasons not to believe him.
ReplyDelete“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son, Donald Jr., told a real estate conference in 2008, according to an account posted on the website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
Of course Trump, the pus filled pig eyed idiot refuses to admit Russia is behind the hacks----cause money is involved for him. Russian money.
ReplyDeleteI still wonder about Ivanka's choice to vacay in Croatia when she did and if that was a meeting point for some Russian business that Trump needed taken care of so it didn't come back to bite him!
ReplyDeleteWasn't she photographed with Putin's daughter? Yeah, Donnie and Vlad have never met..right.
DeleteJESUS FUCKing CHRIST! the “borking” of Donald Trump
ReplyDelete"sexually assaulting women (who are children)? Is that some 11TH commandment that’s been tacked on with no memo sent?" Or> It could be the 0-aka-Zero commandment, the absolute, the must, better known as LUST?
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/25/scott-lively-claims-facing-fake-persecution-trump-real-christian.html
G. These are Deplorables:
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This douchebag has major issues. He knows more than the military, he knows how to defeat ISIS, he knows more than the entire United States of America intelligence agencies but dumb ass doesn't know people are listening and recording him talking about how he can grab anybody's pussy and women just throw pussy at him all day long. Yes America needs this psycho who tweets at 3am about a beauty pageant contestant with one hand and has his other hand on the nuclear button.
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ReplyDeleteTrump Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Is Smashed
The New York Times - 41 mins ago
Donald Trump worked hard for his awards. Whoever tarnished my Walk of Fame Star be prepared to feel the wrath of the military in January.
You PAY to have a star, idiot. Now maybe Donnie stiffed them and they finally decided to take it away...
DeleteJewish Mafia How do you come up with this stuff?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/2016/10/26/alex-jones-jewish-mafia-runs-uber-and-health-care-and-wants-to-hurt-americans/
“I was married to #1 gangster and would have cut his throat if he ever said such a foul thing to me,” Victoria Gotti
ReplyDelete"KING CON IS HIS GAME.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/26/victoria-gotti-king-con-donald-trump-should-take-his-pig-self-back-to-dump-tower.html
Trump knows it's Russia. Vlad tells him these things. But you know, after Trump gets elected then Vlad can saunter on over and take America through capitalism. Otherwise why would Vlad be so interested in Donald being president? Donald is a puppet no matter how much he waves that little finger in denial. We Americans, mean nothing to Donald. We would be collateral damage.
ReplyDeleteSee Donald, this is what grabbin' other people's pu$$y cost you
ReplyDeletePolitico:
A man used a sledgehammer and a pick-ax to destroy Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star destroyed
onald Trump is no longer a star — at least not in Hollywood.
Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was destroyed Wednesday morning by a man purporting to be a construction worker. Trump's name and the TV logo once emblazoned on the star are no longer visible.
The man used a sledgehammer and a pick-ax allegedly in an attempt to pluck the star from the sidewalk. He told Deadline, which first reported the encounter, that his name is Jamie Otis and he planned to auction the star to raise money for the women who have accused Trump of having sexually assaulted them over a span of decades....
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-230330
Or that Trump does not care because it would serve him to his advantage. That means Trump would not mind an enemy undermining the country at large if he would gain a win only for himself.
ReplyDeleteSince he reportedly owes Russia lots of money, I'm betting he's promised them whatever they want from America is only the can get him into the White House.
DeleteHe belongs in the Big House, and not the one in Ann Arbor.
Someone took a sledgehammer to Donald Trump's Walk of Fame star (see picture)
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has had a rough go of it since the controversial business mogul and reality television star became a Republican presidential candidate.
It has been stomped on and people have spray-painted a swastika and “mute” icon on it. Someone else built a miniature border wall around the star.
On Wednesday morning, Los Angeles police were investigating the latest case of vandalism — and it trumped anything that came before. Deadline reported that a man dressed as a construction worker arrived around 5:45 a.m. Wednesday and smashed the star using a sledgehammer and pickax.
A call came in at 6 a.m. regarding the vandalism, said LAPD Officer Wendy Reyes. An investigation is underway and there have not been any arrests...
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trump-vandalism-20161026-snap-story.html
Don't worry about Donald Trump's destroyed star on the sidewalk. This guy knows it all and probably has his own intelligence agency busting the guy's door in right now.
ReplyDeleteWell, Trump has such an inability to pay attention to anything beyond a second. I mean, Joe Biden made it very clear that he'd like to fight Trump out behind the high school gym, but Trump keeps saying that Biden wants to meet at the back of the barn. Trump can't even get "hunky-dory" right--to him, it's "rosy-dory."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/newt-gingrich-megyn-kelly-trump-230334
ReplyDeletedrumpf" We don’t play games, Newt, right?”
I said months ago Trump makes decisions based on extreme things he tells himself and not facts of reality. I was married to a personality like Trump and not even physical evidence would lead to a rational decision by him. I keep thinking, God help us all if Trump is elected.
ReplyDeleteAfter destroying the Art Deco panels on the Bonwit Teller building Trump claimed he knew more than the museum curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Donald knows more about anything and everything than anyone in the world aka delusions of grandeur.
A man dressed as a city construction worker took a sledgehammer to Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning.
ReplyDeleteThe vandal identified himself as Jamie Otis and wielded a sledgehammer and pickaxe in an attack that left chunks missing from the sidewalk around 5:45 a.m., according to a report by Deadline Hollywood.
Otis told Deadline that he originally planned to remove Trump's star and auction it off to raise money for women who have come forward with sexual assault allegations against the GOP nominee spanning four decades.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed
A Long List Of All The People And Things Donald Trump Has Threatened To Sue Since Running For President
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All Together Now: There's been no evidence presented that the Russian government is behind any hack. Somebody's say-so, claim, conjecture is not proof. You're falling for the logical fallacy Appeal to Authority - because some intelligence types are saying it's true, it must therefore be true. Use your critical thinking skills: what evidence have they presented? None. They've just been saying and telling and conjecturing.
ReplyDeleteAnd because there's no shown evidence is why the US govt. is currently working on a plan for getting back at Russia. Like, I'm not supposed to believe Joe Biden on that. And I'm not supposed to consider the opinions of experts such as Malcolm Nance. But I'm supposed to listen to know-it-all you. Eye roll.
DeleteYou mean like the non-proof that Hillary is a crook, perpetrated endlessly by the media to promote a serial molestor? Like that saying and telling and conjecturing?
DeleteOpinions, regardless of how learned, aren't evidence. People who use Appeal to Authority are trying to trick people into believing opinions are evidence. Of course,experts can be wrong. Didn't you Nance's claims that the Podesta emails are forgeries have been proven wrong? Every email that's been DKIM tested has verified as "True". That means unaltered. Inform yourself.
DeleteBesides, Clinton herself has confirmed their authenticity by answering questions from them in 2 debates. Why still trying to pluck a debunked chicken?
Oh my fucking god, this paranoia and low-level argumentation regarding opinion versus fact. I'll believe a # of experts and people in the position to know, and that includes the veep making a statement on national television and the Homeland Security Chair doing the same thing, before I'll listen to a thing you have to say. Go ahead and, whatever your reason is to defend dimwit Trump, don't believe Russia's not behind the hacking. You probably also think no one knows more about Isis than he does, even though it's just his opinion, and that he has more respect for women than anyone because he's said so even though so many accusers have said otherwise.
DeleteWho defended Trump? This "Eek, the Russians are coming" red scare hysteria is ridiculous.
DeleteIt's you "It's the Russians" nitwits, equating opinion with facts, who are paranoid and low-level. No one's claimed they've been shown real evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC or Podesta. The "experts" mentioned here - Nance and *Jester*? Neither one is in a position to be shown real evidence if it existed. They're speculating. Mike McCaul, Homeland Security Committee Chairman who is in a position to know if law enforcement has real evidence? Well he said,"...in my judgment it was a nation-state." In his judgment. He's speculating too. Clearly even he and his committee haven't been shown evidence. All they know that points to the Russians is some traces left in the DNC server resemble traces left by Fancy Bear, purported to be tied to Russian govt. Something that wouldn't get you a cup of coffee let alone a conviction. Podesta's anyone's guess.
Steven Cortes, Trump surrogate, just got his ass handed to him with a bow on it by a woman on MSNBC regarding sex, sexual assault, Megyn Kelly and Newt Gingrich. It was beautiful. I hope Immoral Minority can post the video.
ReplyDeleteDarn, I missed it. I'm guessing the woman was Hilary Rosen. I saw him and Hilary Rosen on my TV screen but couldn't stop to watch. Love HR.
DeleteThe women who kicked his ass big time was a Democratic strategist. Wish I knew her name.
DeleteFollow the money trail. dRUMPf owes billions to Putin's Russian Oligarch friends, so OF COURSE it wasn't Russia hacking the DNC.
ReplyDeleteIt must be a 400 pound troll living in their mother's basement.
Omg, huffpo comments csll his sons, Beavis and Butthead. Lmao
ReplyDeleteThere is such a likeness. Only thing is, no Trumps have chins without an implant like Ivanka got, so Beavis' chin doesn't match up with Eric's. But the teeth/gums do. The duh expressions of both do. The combed-back hair like the old man's. I'm older than the sons. I hope I live long enough to see both weak-chinned assholes turn as ugly as their father is now.
DeleteI said months ago Trump makes decisions based on extreme things he tells himself and not facts of reality. I was married to a personality like Trump and not even physical evidence would lead to a rational decision by him. I keep thinking, God help us all if Trump is elected.
ReplyDeleteAfter destroying the Art Deco panels on the Bonwit Teller building Trump claimed he knew more than the museum curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Donald knows more about anything and everything than anyone in the world aka delusions of grandeur.