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riversedge

(70,205 posts)
Tue May 21, 2019, 08:46 PM May 2019

There was spying in the presidential election -- and it was from Trump: Ex-FBI deputy

Source: rawstory





21 May 2019 at 19:17 ET



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Mudd, himself a former intelligence official at the CIA and FBI, told host Wolf Blitzer that if anyone was spying, it wasn’t the FBI — it was

“Let me tell you something,” said Mudd heatedly. “There was spying and encouragement of spying. It’s a presidential candidate encouraging a foreign adversary to steal information about an American presidential candidate.”

“That’s the American presidential candidate, in this case Donald Trump, saying ‘Hey Russians, where are Hillary’s emails?'” said Mudd. “That’s the president’s son encouraging a foreign adversary, in this case a lawyer, to go to Trump Tower, saying ‘I know there’s stolen information, maybe I’d like to see it.’ That’s a presidential adviser, Roger Stone knowing that there’s stolen information from a server, saying ‘I’m happy to talk to the intermediary, that is WikiLeaks, that will publish that information.'”

“If we want a foreign adversary — and Rudy Giuliani said this was okay, talking about the Russians — if we want a foreign adversary to steal stuff and publish it, let me tell you who encouraged that, that’s the president. That’s stealing. That’s spying.”
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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/there-was-spying-in-the-presidential-election-and-it-was-from-trump-ex-fbi-deputy/



video clip at link.









Trott Lee
‏ @TrottJLee
12m12 minutes ago
Replying to @RawStory @PrincessBravato

Anytime I hear Trump say something bad happened to him, it’s a 100 percent guarantee he’s lying, and that he’s the one who actually did it to someone else.


william a herrick
‏ @herrick_a
3m3 minutes ago

Replying to @RawStory @alaskarebel

Classic Trump projection with a dash of outrage and fake concern. The enemy of the ppl is his best projection.He actually thinks he is pointing a finger at someone else.The key is to view his name-calling as if it were a boomerang; then, follow it to its source.






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There was spying in the presidential election -- and it was from Trump: Ex-FBI deputy (Original Post) riversedge May 2019 OP
Kick dalton99a May 2019 #1
Exactly Kitchari May 2019 #2
A well rehearsed technique of a professional grifter DBoon May 2019 #7
republicans have been using that tatic for years before trumpft Merlot May 2019 #10
Add it to the list of "high crimes" to.... JoeOtterbein May 2019 #3
Sing it! 50 Shades Of Blue May 2019 #4
Muckmaker's crown looks like it is capped by gargoyles and/or fools erronis May 2019 #5
Indeed it is! Blue Owl May 2019 #11
K & R SunSeeker May 2019 #6
ZAP! Hekate May 2019 #8
Yeah, we got Cha May 2019 #9

dalton99a

(81,481 posts)
1. Kick
Tue May 21, 2019, 08:58 PM
May 2019
Trott Lee
‏ @TrottJLee
12m12 minutes ago
Replying to @RawStory @PrincessBravato

Anytime I hear Trump say something bad happened to him, it’s a 100 percent guarantee he’s lying, and that he’s the one who actually did it to someone else.


Kitchari

(2,166 posts)
2. Exactly
Tue May 21, 2019, 09:22 PM
May 2019

Psychological projection or perhaps an ingrained defensive habit--either way it is a huge tell

DBoon

(22,363 posts)
7. A well rehearsed technique of a professional grifter
Wed May 22, 2019, 12:39 AM
May 2019

This isn't a neurotic quirk - it is a well rehearsed and successful technique of fraud

It may now be an ingrained defensive habit, but it started deliberately

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
10. republicans have been using that tatic for years before trumpft
Wed May 22, 2019, 10:26 AM
May 2019

Remeber all the dirty tricks of rove, atwater, etc. trumpfts just the best of the worst at this game.

erronis

(15,241 posts)
5. Muckmaker's crown looks like it is capped by gargoyles and/or fools
Tue May 21, 2019, 09:41 PM
May 2019

I guess the origin of the term fools cap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foolscap

Or to carry things too far (as I usually do): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius_orellanus
(Poisonous mushroom. I'm glad poor Stormy didn't get sick from her exposures.)

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