President Trump continues to push a fictitious theory that Ukraine actually meddled in the 2016 election. Chris Cillizza explains how these false narratives are dangerously entering the American political sphere.
SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
Here's Who Found That Russia Meddled in the 2016 Election
Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election
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Hey, Chris here — why does the President love conspiracy theories?
@Tammohawk
Hahahaha wow, dumbocrates have a severe lack of self awareness. You guys look soo smart. Can’t wait to see all the crying when the Senate upholds the law
santiagowechsler you didn’t read the report.
Hey Chris why would the US govt still be paying Crowdstrike, the company that came to the conclusion that DNC servers were compromised by Russians? HMMM????
https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&recipient_name=crowdstrike&min_date=01%2F01%2F2017&max_date=11%2F01%2F2019
Does sen Kennedy not have dental insurance?
@William H william H is a closeted frustrated sniveling little sausage lover, he eats sleeps & dreams about hot rods and hershey bars hes a gay politically disabled cuck
@Mason Woods So basically you’re telling me you’re not a creepazoid because you don’t particularly like it in the bottom but you like your throat PLUGGED with SLOPPY HOG?🤔
@-Kinder- Martinni Bataan Your sexuality was confirmed months ago.🌈🤢
@William H You’re so sick I dont even know what any of that means…for everyone else, I listed a bunch of truths that morons dont seem to see…notice there are no facts in the post I am replying to. Pathetic, dumb stupid moron idiots and we have to pay for it, we should make them pay!!!
@William H👈 blah blah I like penis blah blah👌
CrowdStrike also did work for the Republican National Committee in 2018 when they were hacked. Unlike the DNC server hack which Russian Military Cozy Bear, the Russian Foreign cyber unit, the RNC hackers are not known
Please, the RNC hack was perfect, now every Republican from the Senate to the AG either has family members threatened or are being blackmailed into 100% support for the sex offender in chief
Hey, Louisiana, why do you keep electing this clown (Kennedy) to the Senate?
@Johnathan Miller Speak for yourself. I live in Louisiana and I voted for Edwards and against Kennedy. Louisiana will never be a blue state, but I’m glad I played some small part in keeping Rispone away from the Governor’s mansion.
Soylentdean- Trump hasn’t drained a thing. He put in corrupt wall street executives and greedy pigs like Wilbur Ross and tax evading Betsy Devos and bribed Mitch McConnell by appointing his Chow Chao wife to secretary of transportation and employed his worthless self serving family members to jet across the globe and stay in the best/most expensive lodging on the government dime promoting their businesses. Yeah nepotism is really reforming. Wake the hell up. Dirty Don has been more corrupt than any president in history. No draining just transforming the swamp into a putrid cesspool overflowing with Trump turds. Of course all you had to do to know he would corrupt things even more would be to research his prior history. Since being elected he had to settle his Trump University scam in which he cheated single moms, the elderly and other gullible out of upwards of $35,000 a victim. He was recently ordered to pay a $2 million dollar fine for defrauding and stealing from his own charities name sake and forbidden from engaging in another charity in N.Y. . He has a history of being sued for cheating contractors and laborers out of pay and blatantly using the bankruptcy laws to cheat creditors. He is just a common con man and thief and nothing more as made evident by his actions, even though he has deluded himself into believing or else just claiming in order to con deceived church folks that he is the chosen one of God as the money hoarding ministers like Jim the Faker Bakker and Franklin Graham and other religious charlatans have put into his self worshipping conceded head. Corrupt religion in bed with corrupt politicians brews a nasty cup of delusional tea.
@soylentdean Do you actually believe there’s a deep state out to get Trump? If there is, how is he president right now? You think the deep state exists, pulling strings behind the scenes, with their sole purpose being to take down Trump, and they forgot to make sure he lost? Trump isn’t a victim. There is no massive conspiracy to take him down. Trump IS the swamp. He IS one of “the elites”.
Well lest see . since Trump has been in office he has added over 6 million jobs . unemployment rate at 3.7% , GDP growth at 4.2% . and since Edwards took office , we ( Louisiana ) have had a GDP of 1.1% and lost 7000 jobs statewide . And passed the largest tax hike in Louisiana history . And I bet you are one of the ones always saying ” I don’t see the economy getting any better ” . That’s because of our Democrat governor , genius .
@ColdPhront3 They didn’t try hard enough because, like everyone else, they thought Hildabeast was a shoo-in. And you’re very naive if you trust in the sterling character of our alphabet agencies.
“I still want to see that birth certificate I mean server”
@STOP ABORTING BABIES START ABORTING LIBERALS Only problem is most of us all knew Saddam had no WMD’s & Its was YOUR party the GOP that told that lie !
The GOP have become more & more comfortable telling blatant lies over the past 30+ yrs until finally they have Donald (lied his whole life) Trump as their freaking leader !!!
And their voter base are almost all living in an alternative fact conspiracy theory world. (As it appears you do)
@Michael Katt There’s no evidence, dum dum. None. Not only that, but all the testimony ended up doing was confirming that Trump was right about everything, and that we need to investigate Joe Biden.
@STOP ABORTING BABIES START ABORTING LIBERALS & you say you support the ideals of Democracy that Bernie Sanders supports , yet you vote for Trump/GOP ???
They are both 1 & the same !! They both support an oligarchy style of government for the USA .
Logical Conservative
There is no crime…deluded dishonest little trump cultist….keep lying to yourself
And isn’t CowdStrike actually hired by the RNC to secure their servers?
No
Wrong
No crowdsyrike didnt work for the rnc! They worked for hillary and the dnc! Its a shame allowing a political scumbag like biden laugh at all of us dumb sheeple for actually defending him for being a vile thieving scumbag who sold out this country, along with a slew of demorats and rhinos as well. Wake up people and stop watching all the msm outlets!! They all have become garbage!! Think for yourself for a change if its still possible!!
How about why the DNC has PAID CROWDSTRIKE 100K the DAY AFTER the death of Seth Rich (7/10/2016) and Shawn Lucas (8/2/2016) respectively??? HMMMMM???
https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&recipient_name=crowdstrike&min_date=01%2F01%2F2017&max_date=11%2F01%2F2019
It’s sickening!! The present politic and social system to be like an old tumbledown house standing on rotten foundation.
Best economy in over 55 years! Not get’n your analogy! Must be Trump Derangement Syndrome.😂Orange Man Bad!😂
Go Trump, The Chosen One! 2020 Landsl….AVALAAAAAANCHE!
Why is he making Ukraine to be out to be the bad guys all the time… It’s Russia
Because he can’t admit that he would have lost the election if it were not for Russia’s interference.
Damn those Russia trolls are really coming out hard today lol.
@Hawkzblade HAHAHAHAHAHA!
@ROB112 That would be “veritas”… You don’t even know your own stuff…
@Logical Conservative = Just another inbred moron
O rly? Tell me why the DNC is still paying Crowdstrike, the company that came to the conclusion that DNC servers were compromised? HMMMM???
https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&recipient_name=crowdstrike&min_date=01%2F01%2F2017&max_date=11%2F01%2F2019
Or how about why the DNC has PAID CROWDSTRIKE 100K the DAY AFTER the death of Seth Rich (7/10/2016) and Shawn Lucas (8/2/2016) each??? HMMMMM???
https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&recipient_name=crowdstrike&min_date=01%2F01%2F2017&max_date=11%2F01%2F2019
Mr. Haney (aka sen. Kennedy) was more believable on Green Acres.
How do elected officials become mega/multi-millionaires?
Corruption.
Logical thinking.
Q
What don’t they have a conspiracy theory on???? (especially when he’s an Alex Jones follower)
https://youtu.be/Hl2HoHqA7O4
Chris Cillizza you say “Wrong” why not tell it like it is, “A Lie”!
Milton-Canada, your words have the ring of truth.
We’ll see what theory John Durham’s Grand Jury has.
Welcome to the Looney Tunes comment section,go for it!
People who work in IT: “That’s not how servers work!”
I said the same thing 4 years ago when libs tried to claim Russia steered the election any more than the MSM already does.
John ‘No Relation’ Kennedy is proof that some GOPers can actually read ( despite a lot of evidence to the contrary)…..However he is also proof that none can comprehend what they read, which is actually more important.
“Thank God nobody is accusing us anymore of interfering in US elections. Now they’re accusing Ukraine. Well, let them sort this out among themselves.” -Putin on November 20th.
As long as the GOP continues to push this Ukraine conspiracy theory, they are actively working for Putin, and he appreciates it.
You are proof that millions of people in the western world decided to accept an Idiocracy. Good luck with your multiple cats.
“THEY say” ??????????? but HE refuses to let members of his staff testify to the House of Representatives to PROVE he’s innocent?
Due Process means he doesn’t have to prove his innocence, that Adam Schitt has to prove him guilty. That hasn’t happened. That’s why this was not an inquiry, inquiring into a crime because there is no initial crime. That means this is an Inquisition, investigating until they construe some twisted up narrative to make it look like a crime. When President Trump said “Do me a favor”, he was speaking on behalf of our Beloved USA. We know this because Hunter Biden, the guy that was kicked out of the Navy for Cocaine Abuse(how bad did that have to get, being a “Biden”?)was still pilfering for the Biden Family Coffers at the time he said it! Duh!
Heads are going to roll all the way through President Trump’s second term, that I can tell you!
Go Trump, The Chosen One! 2020 Landsl….AVALAAAAAANCHE!
So Putin said “yes, let’s go with this clown”?