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The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks
The Atlantic writes:
The transparency organization asked the president's son for his cooperation—in sharing its work, in contesting the results of the election, and in arranging for Julian Assange to be Australia's ambassador to the United States.
[...] The messages, obtained by The Atlantic, were also turned over by Trump Jr.'s lawyers to congressional investigators. They are part of a long—and largely one-sided—correspondence between WikiLeaks and the president's son that continued until at least July 2017. The messages show WikiLeaks, a radical transparency organization that the American intelligence community believes was chosen by the Russian government to disseminate the information it had hacked, actively soliciting Trump Jr.'s cooperation. WikiLeaks made a series of increasingly bold requests, including asking for Trump's tax returns, urging the Trump campaign on Election Day to reject the results of the election as rigged, and requesting that the president-elect tell Australia to appoint Julian Assange ambassador to the United States.
Its a quite long, but interesting article.
Kushner Failed to Hand Over Emails
Senators: Kushner Didn't Disclose Emails On WikiLeaks, 'Russian Overture'
Senior White House adviser and son-in-law to the president Jared Kushner failed to hand over to Senate investigators emails concerning contacts with WikiLeaks and a "Russian backdoor overture," according to a letter sent by two senior lawmakers.
The letter, released Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and its ranking Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, says Kushner failed to turn over "September 2016 email communications to Mr. Kushner concerning WikiLeaks" and other emails pertaining to a "Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Monday November 20 2017, @10:47PM (3 children)
Both the Democrats and Republicans are engaged in an all-out "tu quoque" argument right now.
For instance: "Roy Moore creeped after teenagers!" "Yeah, well, Al Franken groped some ladies!" "Yeah, well, Donald Trump said he liked to force himself on people!" "Yeah, well, Bill Clinton misbehaved with interns and secretaries!" "Yeah, well, Clarence Thomas sexually harassed Anita Hill!" "Yeah, well, Anthony Wiener sent dirty pictures from his phone!" and on and on.
The same thing is happening with the Russia story: "Donald Trump worked with the Russians to make Hillary Clinton look bad!" "Yeah, well, Hillary Clinton worked with the Russians to make Donald Trump look bad!"
All of this ignores the simple truth: None of these accusations flying back and forth invalidate each other. The simple fact is that major parties are both quite comfortable with having leaders who have done despicable things in their life. If you are a loyal partisan Democrat or a loyal partisan Republican, you are likely to make the mistake of thinking your party is clean, when it decidedly isn't. Or, even worse, you're going to know that your party is dirty and support it anyways. I'm fine with people who are nominally a member of a major party in order to vote in the primary they care about. But if you're ignoring the truth to protect the leaders of the party you identify with, you are just a sucker with no independent moral compass.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @12:57AM (2 children)
Supporting evidence for "Roy Moore creeped after teenagers!" has been shown to be a forgery.
Al Franken forced his tongue into the reporters mouth. He engineered a play/skit thing to include kissing, and then forcibly put in the tongue. I think that actually counts as rape in some jurisdictions.
Part of the infamous Donald Trump recording was "They let you". We call that consent.
Bill Clinton's misbehavior with interns is nothing compared to the times he raped people. That is hugely different. Some of the cases were revealed to other people at the time, so this isn't fresh nonsense being cooked up.
Anita Hill didn't have any evidence.
Anthony Wiener actually got convicted. He asks that people write to him in prison for the next 2 years. :-)
The only evidence for Trump working with Russians points back to a set-up that was engineered by Hillary and Obama. The Russian lawyer that talked to Trump Jr. (and was told to go away) was originally not able to enter the USA, but she was given a special waiver. She also met with democrats both before and after, and was funded via Fusion GPS, which in turn was funded by a law firm that got $millions from the Hillary campaign.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:27AM
BULL
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:53AM
Slewp, ah! Wow! What is that bone wet snap you have there...?