Donald Trump

Well the facts as we know them, as far as I can tell, are that a batch of apparent John Podesta emails were hacked by the Russians, according to U.S. Intelligence. We have no idea if they are authentic, but we will assume they are. On Monday a web site called Sputnik posted an article claiming that one of these hacked emails was from Sidney Blumenthal to Podesta and in that email Sputnik claimed that Blumenthal told Podesta that the attacks on Benghazi were preventable, Clinton was in charge of the State Department, and the State Department had failed to prevent the attack.

The problem is that Sputnik got it wrong. Blumenthal was sending a Newsweek article in which Eichenwald was giving his opinion of what had happened, not facts just opinion.

So Sputnik either purposely misrepresented the email, or they are grossly negligent in what they post. Take your pick. It is somewhat hard to see how they didn't know it was a Newsweek article as it was mentioned that Newsweek was the source many times in the email.

Next, an hour later, Trump appears at a rally and claims, based on the Sputnik post, that Blumenthal confessed that the Benghazi attack was preventable.

So if you believe our intelligence operatives, this was a Russian hack. If you don't trust your government then someone else hacked it.
Next Sputnik is a Russian government controlled site owned by Rossiya Segodnya, which is owned by the Russian government and it's located in Moscow...unless you don't believe that.

Now what is troubling is not what is in the email, what is troubling is that Trump, and or his team, apparently visit Sputnik and believe what they post without checking on them first. They visit a known Russian site and use whatever information they find there in an effort to harm Hillary Clinton. Now if the information was legitimate that's one thing. But the fact that they never checked it out is highly disturbing. All they had to do was go back to the original Wiki-leak dump and see if what Sputnik said matched the Wiki-leak document. They didn't.

Is this what we can expect if Trump gets elected? He doesn't check out any facts before acting??

I don't really care about whether all this was coordinated with the Russians or not. In fact if it was at least I could assume Trump had half a brain and was organized enough to coordinate with someone. As it is it just shows how he goes off half cocked without considering what he's doing.
I don't want someone like that in the White House.

 

And while we're talking about Wiki leaks.

I know many around here think Assaunge is some kind of god, but I really don't get it.
If we just consider the Podesta leak, here we have an illegal hacking of someone's private emails, according to the U.S. government by a foreign government who they claim is Russia. But even if it isn't Russia, someone illegally hacked a private email account and then posted the contents for the entire world to see.

Is that right?
If the U.S. government had done that what do you think the reaction would have been? And yet we have many people who yell and scream about the government spying on their emails and phones and the Patriot Act, ...yet many of those same people applaud Assaunge's illegal spying!

I don't get it.

 

I looked at it very closely, nothing there.

 

Maybe these guys just image things, that's what I'm betting.

 

I have no idea what you people are even talking about. I viewed the video several times, blew it up, paused it, squinted, stood on my head, cleaned my glasses...

All I see is a blurry, jumpy video of a guy talking on the phone and a bunch of women giggling. Really, if this is all you got You're really reaching...

But whatever, if that's what you want to believe, fine.