A top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said she believes Russia tried to interfere in the election and that their activity ultimately altered the outcome.
"The answer is yes on both cases," California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said when asked on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"I've had all of the major classified briefings. I have been astonished at what has been a two-year effort [at] Russia to spearfish, to hack, to provide disinformation, propaganda wherever it really could. And I think this has been a very sophisticated effort," Feinstein added.
Feinstein has seen the classified information about these hacks provided by the intelligence agencies so she is speaking with great knowledge about this topic.
I no longer think that anybody can definitively say that without these hacks Donald Trump would still have been elected.
And once you throw in Comey's letter that removes the last vestiges of doubt.
Sure Donald Trump WILL be sworn in as president this week.
But the fact is that the majority of Americans will never see him as legitimate and will always wonder who he is representing. Himself, the American people, or the Kremlin?
Day late and a dollar short.
ReplyDeleteAnd why I do not watch Meet The Press.
DeleteThe Birther gets his due. #Karma #impeachment
DeleteOT the inauguration viewed from the land of Monty Python
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/820716579252043778
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ReplyDelete@2:15 PM BENGHAZI BENGHAZI BENGHAZI!EMAILS EMAILS EMAILS! Up your Trumptard ass, troll.
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Deletehttp://www.cnn.com/2016/10/08/politics/trump-on-howard-stern/
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/302073/all-trump-rape-allegations-cable-news-wont-talk-about/
I hope that you are happy with your Sexual Predator in Chief.
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DeleteHaving a baaaaaad day?Sarah?
Keep your eye(s)on Putin for us, wouldja'?
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Lol.
DeleteStained dress!
DeleteCock Robin!
Someone needs to hammer into that man's head -- as well as his "team" -- that he may not have won without Russia's intervention; that he did not win votes from nearly as many voters as Hillary did; that he did NOT get any sort of mandate; and, as a consequence many, if not most, voters and Americans do not believe he is "our" President; that his behavior since "winning" has been anything but conciliatory toward that huge number of Americans who do not truly accept him as President.
ReplyDeleteAnd, if he ever wants to win over the skeptical majority, HE HAS to start behaving like a grown-up; he has to start behaving like someone who LOVES America rather than hates it; he has to make the majority BELIEVE that he is looking out for our well-being and not his own, and most certainly not Putin's. If he can do all of that with sincerity, then maybe the people will start to respect him. He has to earn our respect. We do respect the office of President, but feel he is not worthy of that office. Only he can change our opinions. His behavior has caused the low opinions, so his behavior has to change to get us to trust him and support him. HE works for US and he does not realize that yet. Until he does, he will not be received positively by the majority of the people he asked to serve!!!!!!
His disgusting behavior is going to sink him and America, if not the world. Impeachment possibilities must be nipping at his heels and he'll get his revenge before proceedings even start...declaring it unlawful and a criminal offense to mock, disrespect, counter him in any way. Tick, tick, tick.
DeleteI don't think he cares, and never will!
DeleteWe are peons.
that his behavior since "winning" has been anything but conciliatory
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Not only that, his behavior has been anything but unbecoming to the office of the president of the USA.
He has attacked just about everyone and everything except the kitchen sink and putin.
74 million votes against Trump
Delete62 million votes for Trump
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12 million vote deficit, not mandate
declaring it unlawful and a criminal offense to mock, disrespect, counter him in any way.
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Oh you mean overthrow the Constitution of the USA.
Gosh I would hope at that point there were be a few republicans willing to impeach.
It's too late 2:28! I find Trump absolutely deplorable and he'll never represent me once he takes the oath of office.
DeleteI seriously doubt he'll make four years before he is impeached. He has no self-control - isn't bright - is racist - anti Muslims - and just plain nasty in personality and spirit!
Hardly the makings for a president of the United States!
Anon at 3:22 pm. I don't think that Donald Trump has ever seen a kitchen sink, except perhaps on a tour of one of his hotels' kitchens.
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"wonder who he is representing. Himself, the American people, or the Kremlin"
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First himself, second the Kremlin, third, well, there is no third. No one else matters to him, least of all the American people. He is a traitor, and the Russians played him like a fiddle.
Bingo!
DeleteGood one!
DeleteI'll see your bingo and raise you one.
Played us like a fiddle too! "Us" = voters, leaders who should have been in the know, the intel community (isn't it their job to warn about stuff like this?). What a big win for Putin and a big loss for America. I'm ashamed as well as disgusted and scared.
DeleteWell, he failed to "play" the majority of November's voters. But, because of the fluke of the election demographics, we're stuck with him.
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He's crying on Twitter again, complaining about SNL's "hit job". What a whiny spoiled brat!
ReplyDeleteHe'd better damned well get used to it!
DeleteWhy doesn't Twitter void his account? --they are hate tweets.
DeleteIs he planning on doing this every week?
DeleteGood time for ISIS to plan an attack, the president is too busy criticizing SNL to be bothered with national security.
LOL! Oooo they slapped him good.
DeletePlus Tina Fey right after.
And he took the bait. Like Keith Olbermann said, he just can't help himself.
If they're smart they'll let him keep his private twitter account, because you don't want that asshole tweeting that shit on the official POTUS twitter account.
Bravo Dianne Feinstein! Finally someone says the obvious in a quotable way. Someone credible.
ReplyDeleteI have watched DF during her long career, and I totally trust her and admire, respect her. A real hero in my book. Esp now, with this.
Kamala Harris has a steep learning curve and a short timespan. Feinstein isn't going to last forever and will eventually need to be replaced. Not sure who will replace her (maybe Gavin Newsome?) but Harris can take Feinstein's lead when the time comes.
DeleteBoth she and Barbara Boxer have been great senators for California and for the whole country. I trust her words. I don't trust a word that someone like McConnell says.
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Israeli spies: Trump ‘golden showers’ dossier only one of many troubling reports being investigated
ReplyDelete....Israeli intelligence officers were recently warned by U.S. spies not to share intelligence with the Trump administration until they could be sure the former reality TV star hadn’t been compromised by Russia, reported the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
“The Israelis who attended the meeting said that the Americans advised them not to expose any sensitive sources to members of the Trump administration, lest that information reach Iranian hands, until it becomes clear that Trump does not have a compromised relationship with Russia and is not vulnerable to extortion,” the report claimed.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/israeli-spies-trump-golden-showers-dossier-only-one-of-many-troubling-reports-being-investigated/
Israeli spies: Trump ‘golden showers’ dossier only one of many troubling reports being investigated
ReplyDelete....Israeli intelligence officers were recently warned by U.S. spies not to share intelligence with the Trump administration until they could be sure the former reality TV star hadn’t been compromised by Russia, reported the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
“The Israelis who attended the meeting said that the Americans advised them not to expose any sensitive sources to members of the Trump administration, lest that information reach Iranian hands, until it becomes clear that Trump does not have a compromised relationship with Russia and is not vulnerable to extortion,” the report claimed.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/israeli-spies-trump-golden-showers-dossier-only-one-of-many-troubling-reports-being-investigated/
Silencing the satirists and critics:
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...As many as a dozen House members had already said they wouldn’t attend the swearing-in Friday, but others joined them in a show of support for Lewis.
ReplyDeleteAfter Lewis said in a Meet the Press interview that he believes Trump's election is illegitimate and he won't go to the inauguration, Trump tweeted Saturday morning that the Georgia Democrat should take better care of his “horrible” and “crime-infested” district and was “All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. Sad!”
Hours later, lawmakers began saying they would bow out of the inaugural ceremony because of the insults...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/01/14/john-lewis-support-lawmakers-skip-inauguration/96594116/
Boo hoo hoo SNL was mean to me again
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Read the responses: again little donnie is no match for the humor of his non supporters:
Here are a few:
“Only problem SNL Wardrobe has is that they cannot find "THIN ENOUGH SKIN FOR BALDWIN's TRUMP!”
“what's wrong Comrade Trump. Can't take a joke ? You sure like to dish it out. SNL is great”
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/you-are-so-predictable-twitter-excoriates-trump-over-weekly-anti-snl-tweets/
All our Armed Forces now knows they are working for a possible traitor hired by the Kremlin and his cabinet has a lot of people who shook hands with and received their top award and broke bread with a war Russian war criminal.
ReplyDeleteThey're not working for Trump until Friday at 12:01 p.m. or maybe 12:05 p.m. whenever Trump has finished saying the oath of office. We are safe until then.
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Gosh I wonder what hit a nerve with NBC news:
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.@NBCNews is bad but Saturday Night Live is the worst of NBC. Not funny, cast is terrible, always a complete hit job. Really bad television!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 15, 2017
Oh, Donald, stop your whining! Baldwin does a perfect impersonation of you and you can't take it!
DeleteI'll bet Baldwin wins an Emmy for the portrayal!! He should! It's a riot!
I betcha there are movie studios out there rushing to make a movie of our Kremlin controlled government.
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Trump Slams NATO, Floats Russia Nuke Deal in European Interview
Donald Trump called NATO obsolete, predicted that other European Union members would follow the U.K. in leaving the bloc, and threatened BMW with import duties over a planned plant in Mexico, according to two European newspapers which conducted a joint interview with the president-elect....
....It’s obsolete, first because it was designed many, many years ago,” Trump said in the Bild version of the interview. “Secondly, countries aren’t paying what they should” and NATO “didn’t deal with terrorism.” The Times quoted Trump saying that only five NATO members are paying their fair share....
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-15/trump-calls-nato-obsolete-and-dismisses-eu-in-german-interview
I wouldn't be surprised that loyal American CIA agents talked about not taking a bullet for Comrade Trump.
ReplyDeleteWondering if the Secret Service are drawing lots to see who has Trump detail? Short straw has to pretend to take the bullet.
Delete23 DEMOCRATS BOYCOTTING INAUGURATION
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Just one traitor - dRUMPf. And then there are the R's in congress sucking his ass.
23 Patriots that will not legitimize this travesty of our corrupt election.
Delete@5:26, 23 American patriots, standing up against traitor trump and the Russian coup against the US that he supports.
Delete23 un-American traitors who are not willing to perform their duties and respect the law of the land. Hopefully every one of them is replaced with a hardworking republican or independent lawmaker who IS willing to do their job as they swore to.
DeleteHopefully Lewis is thrown out on his ass, or better in jail.
Lazy ass democrats living off other peoples money.
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DeleteReally?
How about those Republican traitors that didn't do their jobs for 8 fucking years but just sat on their asses obstructing anything that came their way even though it would have benefited the American people and their own constituents?
Oh, but that's different.
This is why Republicans are FASCISTS.
So what is being done to STOP all of this now ??!!!
ReplyDeleteJust Drumpf making a land grab with as many appointments as possible. Hacking the ACA,
and then we get President Pence?? That can't be right,
either...then allowing Putin to (still) influence the party in charge? DAMN.
Can we get an Obama extension until there can be another election?? Something has got to happen.
*(yes, I know these are not reasonable suggestions on my part)
or maybe some badass black ops Scott Foley action, like in Scandal??
DRump always said Pence would be in charge while HE made America great again.
DeletePresident Obama *could* declare a State Of Emergency over this and set forth a new election.
DeleteWondering, why he does not...
Here is a link to an earlier HUGE breach, credited to the Chinese at that time. I wonder, if they gave the info to the Russians and compromised a whole lot of US officials, like Comedy, and other GOPers who somehow, suddenly, don't seem to mind that Putin is pulling the strings on his golden puppet...
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Hahahaha 5:00.
DeleteNo he couldn't. A president cannot declare an emergency and do-over because your guy didn't win the election and you have the sads lol.
If anyone actually were to actually try that there would be massive hell to pay.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/15/exchange-shows-trumps-russia-scandal-mike-pence.html
DeleteDoes anyone here remember the MASSIVE leak of all the private information of all high level officials and intel people? Whatever became of that? I vaguely remember that there was a HUGE uproar in the intel community, because it gave away all the private background info, and everybody was guessing the Chinese did it. More likely, IMHO, it was the Russians.
ReplyDeleteThey might have at that time gotten info on Comedy, and started blackmailing him and others, too!
I just wish, President Obama had the guts to invalidate this election. (Or do the Ruskys actually have something on HIM, too?!)
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President Obama cannot "invalidate" November's election.
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IS DONKEY TRUMP SCARED
ReplyDeleteWith everything Sen Dianne Feinstein said against Donkey Trump, I was unable to find any Donkey tweets against the Senator. Is Donkey scared to challenge Sen Dianne Feinstein because she knows too much about the Donkey and is not afraid of him? Is there any Donkey tweets?
So? What are they going to do about it? What can they do about it?
ReplyDeleteNothing.
Only report and confirm.
So what?
The time for this should have been during the primaries. At least before the election.
Instead of reporting a real threat they were busy destroying Hillary's chances in favor of this communist mole.
Fuck James Comey and everyone else that colluded in this bloodless coup. Their silence, foot dragging and misdirection gave this election to Trump. Even he didn't think he would win.
All we need now is some sort of confirmation about the vote counts being fixed and that's it. The final nail in the coffin.
OUR coffin. Since at this point the only way to fix this is to impeach Trump. Neither the House nor the Senate will do that. Republicans won and they're fine with Trump. They'll just get him to sign anything they stick under his nose before he goes out to play golf. Why mess with a sure thing?