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briebart

Do you get all your news from internet memes and Fox News?

I know the feeling, as I thought the same thing about Hillary and the Democrats. That's why I never involved myself in some of the more outlandish theories out there. (Pizzagate for example)

Here's an idea: why don't you debate in good faith? I specifically said that that both accusations (both Pizzagate and Trump-Russia collusion) fell well short of hard evidence. Of course you had to take that one snippet out of context. And yes, for as badly as Pizzagate failed, the Trump-Russia conspiracy theories have failed even worse.

I expect Swish to make stuff up, like when he said this, "its funny how you bring up pizzagate because you was one of the main dudes on this board talking about it when the story first dropped."

Swish, that is either a lie or you have a terrible memory. Main dudes who would bring that up... what are you talking about? Put up or shut up.

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Last time I mentioned Pizzagate was in response to another fake accusation from CHS: https://www.dawgtalkers.net/ubbthreads.ph...-in#Post1255842

He accused me of bringing up pizzagate, I asked him when, no response.

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The only other time pizzagate even comes up on a search to my name is this post: https://www.dawgtalkers.net/ubbthreads.ph...own#Post1221716



Pizzagate. Outlandish theory. Just like this wacko idea that Trump won this election because he colluded with Putin, and not because many millions of Americans liked his message on the campaign trail, and that Hillary was a terrible candidate.

"Pizzagate. Outlandish theory. Just like this wacko idea that Trump won this election because he colluded with Putin, and not because many millions of Americans fell for his message on the campaign trail even though they were warned he'd never follow through (see Mexico paying for wall), and that Hillary was an absolutely trash terrible candidate."

Fixed it for you.

Because your assertion is absurd! There is a ton of new and developing circumstantial evidence that something is 'there' there with the Trump/Russia connection. At the end of the day it might all be innocent coincidence, but there are so many connections/details coming out every day that only an absolute fool would say anyone is wasting their time investigating this.

Personally I think Trump is going down at this point. He cut a deal and the facts are going to come out. His untimely firing of Comey screams it was effort to interfere with the investigation and evade justice. Trump wants to be emperor, not President.

Good call James Angleton. But that's pretty convenient to throw out all the evidence.

Yep. I choose to agree with people who track down hackers for a living. You choose to live like a bad James Angleton.

Haus, they enjoy hooking on to one thing and pound at it to frustrate you and drive you away. They do not listen to facts, its all a game to them.

Thinking with their emotions does not allow facts to enter their heads.

As I asked a few weeks ago and still never got an answer. How in the hell does this effect me?

40 does not effect me. Dems don't effect me, being turned down by my insurance for another round of CHEMO effects me big time. I guess I just get tired of folks fighting over things that don't really mean much. Just feeling grumpy tonight I guess bro. Sorry.

Picking on a sick man, a new low.

In first interview, Sally Yates says Russians had 'real leverage' over Flynn

https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-intervi...-140048750.html

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said in a CNN interview that aired Tuesday morning that Russians had “serious leverage” over former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and that her office had expected the administration to act quickly after she alerted White House counsel Don McGahn on January 26.

In clips of an interview with Anderson Cooper that will air in full Tuesday night, Yates said she considered Flynn’s connections to Russia, and his misleading explanations to Vice President Pence and others, an urgent national security concern.

“I think this was a serious compromise situation,” said Yates “The Russians had real leverage. He also had lied to the vice president of the United States. Whether he’s fired or not is a decision for the president of the United States to make but it doesn’t seem like that’s a person who should be sitting in the National Security Adviser position.”

Yates herself was fired on January 30, just a few days after her meeting with McGahn. The stated reason was her refusal to defend the administration’s Muslim travel ban as it was being challenged in the courts. No action was taken against Flynn until news reports surfaced that, contrary to his denials, he had discussed U.S. sanctions with the Russian ambassador. President Trump asked for his resignation on February 13.

[ Timeline: The rise and fall of Michael Flynn ]

In the interview, Cooper also asked Yates if she was – as Trump had implied – behind the leaks to the Washington Post about the Flynn story.

“Absolutely not,” said Yates when asked if she leaked the information or had authorized someone to leak the information. “I did not and I would not leak classified information.”

“There have been a number of tweets that have given me pause,” said Yates when asked about the president’s tweet the day of her Capitol Hill testimony last week urging senators to ask her about leaking.

The New Yorker magazine’s Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza announced Monday night that he had also interviewed Yates for an article that will be published in next week’s issue, with highlights being published online Tuesday.

It's pretty obvious who the leak is in the WH.

Will we be financially punished if there's a pre-existing wall?