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AN FBI INFORMANT IN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN? (2)
Powerline ^ | May 11,2018 | Scott Johnson

Posted on 05/11/2018 7:43:28 AM PDT by Hojczyk

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To: Alberta's Child

>> Look up the legal definition of treason <<

We don’t need no stinkin’ legal definition. We’ll just define it however we feel today.

That is, lean back and enjoy the thread!


21 posted on 05/11/2018 8:21:38 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Hojczyk

Halper.


22 posted on 05/11/2018 8:26:37 AM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: Cboldt

>> Halper is the outside coordinator. <<

Insider? Outsider?

What difference, at this point, does it make?

I mean, blogsters like Sundance need to generate clicks and thereby increase ad revenue. So any kind of controversial stuff is OK, logical or not.


23 posted on 05/11/2018 8:27:43 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: PGR88
And yet Trump, while occasionally critical of the DOJ and Sessions, has been extremely patient with Mueller, and the bureaucratic stonewalling surrounding DOJ/FBI spying of his campaign. For example, he could order the release of any confidential info he wants. Yet he has not.

President Trump knows what he is doing He will probably wait until he has MAXIMUM results to order it's release. You know like this September! The dem's will have NO WAY to make this go away before the Mid-terms, and they get Crushed in the election!

24 posted on 05/11/2018 8:32:21 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: Hojczyk

On Hannity’s show, Sara Carter brought up the possibility of an FBI informant in Trump’s campaign. The more I hear how rotten and pervasive the forces are against President Trump, the more it seems like this was a near coup. Hillary would have finished the job, but she lost, so the progressives are trying to get Trump out so the takeover of our country can be complete.


25 posted on 05/11/2018 8:35:00 AM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: Hojczyk

Stefan Halper.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/25/george-papadopoulos-london-emails/


26 posted on 05/11/2018 8:35:12 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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To: Principled

“I now think there will be at least one person executed for treason.”

I don’t see it happening, but it would be nice, as the one side benefit I foresee is that Big Media would DROP EVERYTHING ELSE to defend the traitor.


27 posted on 05/11/2018 8:37:53 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Hojczyk

This is the biggest scandal, and story, in the history of USA politics.

Watergate was tidlywinks, compared to this.

This. Is. Huge.

It was a setup, right from the start. The Insurance Policy. John Brennan sent a mole into the Trump Campaign, sent him to various useful nobodies, to establish contact. Then used the contact information to start a counterintellegence investagation against Trump.

They got the FISA warrents, and spied on everyone anywhere near the useful nobodies. Everyone in the campaign. Likely congressmen. Probably Sessions.

All a setup.

Brennan.


28 posted on 05/11/2018 8:46:42 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (President Trump: Please Fire Sessions!!! You have nothing to lose.)
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To: Cboldt
The unnamed Trump official is most likely Michael Cohen.

Bizarre. Where did that come from?

29 posted on 05/11/2018 8:50:29 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: painter

I think we should also be open to the possibility that some of these people — I’m thinking Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Cohen (and maybe even Gen. Flynn) — had nefarious intentions from the start when they began working for the Trump campaign.


30 posted on 05/11/2018 8:52:56 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: Alberta's Child
Manafort was brought in by Trump specifically for his expertise on convention delegate wrangling. Why would Manafort have a nefarious intention from the start, when at the start he could have just stayed out of it and let the GOPe run the alleged convention plot to deny Trump his delegates?

As I recall, the talk was that the GOPe was going to use Cruz and Kasich to force a brokered convention, after which in subsequent rounds they could sneak in anybody they wanted. The fear was that any convention shenanigans would infuriate Trump's base and they wouldn't support the inserted candidate, which would serve the deep state interests to elect Hillary Clinton.

The problem would have been solved right then and there. Why create this Rube Goldberg scheme after Trump won if the culprit is Manafort and he could have just stayed out of it back then and likely get the same result?

-PJ

31 posted on 05/11/2018 9:08:31 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
Manafort has been a shady Beltway character for decades. In fact, when Donald Trump began campaigning on a theme to "drain the swamp," someone like Manafort would have been a perfect personification of a "swamp creature."

It's also worth noting that Michael Caputo, who issued his epic rant against the Mueller witch hunt last week, was the one who pushed to have Manafort replace Corey Lewandowski as Trump's campaign manager.

Both Manafort and Caputo have had extensive dealings with foreign clients -- including Russian ones -- over the years. I won't make any unfounded accusations here, but I would have no trouble believing that their work in the Trump campaign was being done on behalf of foreign interests.

32 posted on 05/11/2018 9:15:58 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: Hojczyk

Considering all the underhanded tactics being used against him, it’s amazing he won!


33 posted on 05/11/2018 9:22:58 AM PDT by knittnmom
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To: Alberta's Child
Manafort's shady dealings aside, you sidestepped my question.

Why get involved in those few critical months at all when he could have stayed out of it and let the GOPe do it's thing at the convention?

Why "save" Trump's candidacy if it was always Manafort's intention to take him out later if he won?

-PJ

34 posted on 05/11/2018 9:28:23 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Hawthorn

We need to create an offense of “perfidious” (not “treason”). /s


35 posted on 05/11/2018 9:50:45 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Hawthorn
-- Insider? Outsider?
What difference, at this point, does it make?
--

Some people are talking about an FBI informant planted inside the campaign. Other people are talking about a person outside the campaign, who facilitated directing certain actors (who are in the campaign) to take certain actions. Distinguishing between these actors is helpful because some articles talk about the the inside FBI person, which can't be Halper because he was never inside. But Halper may be a pivotal player in the scheme.

Casual observers new to the news reports may not understand that general scheme, and might accidentally conflate the parties, looking for THE name.

That's the only difference it makes.

36 posted on 05/11/2018 11:17:29 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: imardmd1
>> We need to create an offense of “perfidious” <<

We already have an offense called perfidy -- although I guess it's not yet a federal crime.

But should it be added to the criminal code?

Dunno. We report, you decide.

37 posted on 05/13/2018 7:30:06 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Hawthorn
You are right. I jusr coulcn't think of the noun, for some reason. But it came to me later. So, yes, it is the exact antonym for the quality portrayed in the motto of the United States Marine Corps, as well as that of my dear old 174th Armored Infantry Bn.

May you ever be faithful, FRiend!

38 posted on 05/13/2018 11:52:35 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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