Proglodyte pretty excited that a foreign nation wanted to influence our election

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

According to them that makes Hillary is guilty of treason.

Oh well. At least we won't have to worry about impeaching her.

FarCenter (17,952 posts)

Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire
   
Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.

Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.

A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.

The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.

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“Now, it seems that a U.S. election may have been seen as a surrogate battle by those in Kiev and Moscow,” Merkel said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446

Long article with lots of stuff on Manafort.

DetlefK (8,955 posts)

1. Politico has a well-known anti-Hillary bias. It wouldn't give them too much credibility.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028458262

[SVPete]

A foreign government supposedly trying to influence the US Presidential vote by releasing true information that might hurt a particular candidate? Where have I heard that story line before?

And of course, DU-folk being so-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o principled, I expect DU-folk cheered what Ukraine supposedly did.

[Carl]

One can get whiplash trying to watch them jump back and forth.

[SVPete]

DetlefK (8,955 posts)

1. Politico has a well-known anti-Hillary bias. It wouldn't give them too much credibility.

Is that the same Politico whose "reporter" colluded with the CHILL campaign, sending them stories pre-publication for approval? Or is there another Politico I haven't heard of?