James Clapper: Trump campaign was ´essentially aiding and abetting the Russians´
Washington Examiner,
by
Daniel Chaitin
Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx,
5/2/2019 10:47:28 PM
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said President Trump´s 2016 campaign was "essentially aiding and abetting the Russians." Clapper made the comment during an interview Thursday on CNN, where he works as a contributor. Anchor Brianna Keilar asked about Sen. John Cornyn´s question to Attorney General William Barr about why the Obama administration did not do more to stop Russian interference in the election. Clapper said he was an "advocate for doing more earlier and more aggressive, but to say that the Obama administration did nothing is not true." After comparing how Obama and his administration warned Russia to
Reply 1 - Posted by:
john56 5/2/2019 10:49:18 PM (No. 75668)
I guess when you´ve gone as far as Claptrap, Bummer (Brennan) and Crooked Cop Comey have, what have you got to lose to double down?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MainelySane 5/2/2019 10:51:41 PM (No. 75679)
Absolutely unbelievable!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Northcross 5/2/2019 11:02:35 PM (No. 75677)
Note carefully the well crafted weasel word from this deep state weasel- "essentially".
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
subal 5/2/2019 11:10:01 PM (No. 75681)
Flop sweat!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
davew 5/2/2019 11:24:20 PM (No. 75683)
This truly is a bizarre mental condition. No truly honest and objective adult would seriously continue to believe that the off-the-cuff joke that Trump made about the possibility of the Russians finding Hilary´s intentionally deleted evidence in a criminal investigation was a directive that implied collusion. This is beyond silly and if people watching these exchanges nod in agreement we are all doomed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/2/2019 11:25:01 PM (No. 75701)
He has turned it upside down - the allegation against DJT was that he somehow sought the help of Russians to aid his campaign.
Clapper is nuts.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/2/2019 11:38:38 PM (No. 75675)
You had your chance to PROVE IT, and you FAILED. You belong in Orange for life.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Tianne 5/2/2019 11:48:18 PM (No. 75674)
James Clapper is a dishonest and dishonorable man - he doesn´t actually believe a word of his accusations - his only intent is to cause doubt and damage.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Nimby 5/2/2019 11:48:42 PM (No. 75686)
Claptrap’s days are numbered
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
columba 5/2/2019 11:49:32 PM (No. 75695)
It too TWO YEARS of investigation, and the investigation found NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION. Now this guy parrots the same lie.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ben Around 5/2/2019 11:53:11 PM (No. 75688)
You can tell that to your new inmate boyfriend, jimmy.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Quigley 5/3/2019 12:02:34 AM (No. 75669)
Yes, but the Russians are really aliens from Aldebarahn, so it was either that or cede Venus to the Nebulites.
This all started when the Russians (Aldebarahns) reflected a laser beam off of brennan´s head to play a laser disk recording of "10 Lying Liars" on the face of the moon.
Until then, everything was fine. But now, I´m not so sure ....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/3/2019 12:16:58 AM (No. 75676)
One thing I want stopped immediately is allowing former heads of CIA, FBI, and NSA to become political commentators on tv. We use to see former employees of these agencies forced to keep their mouths shut with gag orders, pre-book release review, or not allowing any book release. When and how did that change?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
fhancock 5/3/2019 12:18:58 AM (No. 75670)
Flapper was in the Air Force....guess he missed the class about HONOR
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 5/3/2019 12:21:25 AM (No. 75667)
I´ll betcha´ Clapper is getting his affairs in order. Expecting that "2:00 AM" Federal raid on his home with CNN in tow, cameras rolling.
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So, what were you doing Clapper ?
All this mass hysteria. Yet, not a soul is trying to have this group arrested for their crimes and interfering with a US election.
They ruined people´s lives and Shillary is still walking free.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JL80863 5/3/2019 12:41:52 AM (No. 75680)
I hope the president pulls all of clapper´s classified information privileges immediately.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
XCenturion 5/3/2019 12:54:37 AM (No. 75691)
These morons are in AG Barr´s sights and hopefully will pay for their traitorous acts.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Pepper Tree 5/3/2019 12:55:16 AM (No. 75684)
After being called out for accusing the Trump campaign of aiding and abetting the Russians Clapper says, "Well, I´m using that in a parochial or colloquial sense I guess,"
Parochial or colloquial, Clapper? How about in the lying and treasonous sense?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
ALynnMcW 5/3/2019 1:01:43 AM (No. 75665)
Thanks #12 for clarifying the situation. It makes so much more sense than anything Clapper has ever said!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/3/2019 1:12:51 AM (No. 75678)
Obviously Candidate Trump was being jocular when he told the Russians at a public campaign event to find Hillary’s e-mails, as at that time, clearly Candidate Trump had no more information concerning the whereabouts of Hillary’s e-mails then Joe Schmo from Kokomo!
This is just a lot more evidence that diehard liberals have no sense of humor.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Axeman 5/3/2019 1:45:48 AM (No. 75685)
And just who were "aiding and abetting" the Chinese, Mexicans, Venezuelans, etc.?
PIAPS would have barely won California without the illegal vote conspiracy.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/3/2019 2:08:13 AM (No. 75700)
The Russians were essentially aiding and abetting Hillary Clinton campaign with the complete knowledge approval and encouragement of Obozo. Clapper is a few bricks short of a finished fireplace.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
PChristopher 5/3/2019 2:20:45 AM (No. 75704)
Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Strozk, Page, Ohr, Ohr, Clinton, Jarrett, Obama, Schiff, Nadler, Waters, Pelosi, Schumer, Hirono, Blumenthal, Lemon, Scarborough, Cuomo, Zucker et al. should be charged as conspirators to overthrow a duly elected government and handled like the Nazis at Nuremberg....exactly like them.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 5/3/2019 2:22:36 AM (No. 75666)
Clapper is a damned treasous liar, desperate to avoid prison.
Frankly, he and Brennan have earned the death penalty, IMO>
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
DVC 5/3/2019 3:45:27 AM (No. 75698)
No, #6, Clapper is not ´nuts´, he is evil.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/3/2019 4:22:48 AM (No. 75664)
I hope AG Barr nails Trapper the Clapper to the wall.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
varkdriver 5/3/2019 6:53:38 AM (No. 75672)
Hope he gets arrested, imprisoned and stripped of his US Air Force Lieutenant General´s pension. He is a living breathing walking talking insult to all who wore the uniform...
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Muguy 5/3/2019 7:19:35 AM (No. 75673)
Two Truth of Life--
You can trust the socialists to be socialists--
You can trust mooooslims to be mooooslim.
It is beyond comprehension how people can come to believe that the socialists would seek to break their ties with the demonrat socialist candidate Madam Broomstick.
Nobama cleared the road with his "I´ll have more flexibility when I´m re-elected" statement to Medved and Hitlery was to be his "third term".
The radical crap spewing from Airhead Ocassional Cortex is being taken seriously by a media hellbent on turning us away from our traditional ways and we are allowing people to pour into the country in an illegal alien INVASION all the while mooooslims create havoc which is turned into anti-2a screed for us to disarm and become a tyrannical dictatorship akin to Venuzuela...
How could someone like Clapp get into the highest realms of our ´intelligence´ structure over other candidates, only to FUEL the fake story while not being held accountable?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
chance_232 5/3/2019 9:07:10 AM (No. 75690)
At this point, I think he is setting the table for a future insanity defense.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
NancyD 5/3/2019 9:34:26 AM (No. 75696)
In typical fashion, the dems tell us what THEY did.
They are so stupid.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
G-Tom 5/3/2019 9:52:48 AM (No. 75687)
How did this treasonous maroon get to be a 3-atar general in MY Air Force?? Back in the day, he couldn´t have gotten an entry level security clearance.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 5/3/2019 9:57:45 AM (No. 75693)
Wait! I thought you said the Russians were helping Trump; now you´re saying Trump was helping the Russians. So which is it?
Pssssttt: If you have to keep moving the goal posts, then you´re losing the game!
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/3/2019 10:16:52 AM (No. 75689)
So, the Clapman is a comedian. Who knew?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
winnie1 5/3/2019 10:55:58 AM (No. 75694)
The walls are closing in and Tubby is fighting for his life. The swamp is coming out of the woodwork writing op-eds and going on TV trying to make their case and CYA.
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There is no doubt, as stated by Obama himself, that the Russian were trying to interfere in the election, as they have for a number of years prior.
And, the Obama administration KNEW this, but did nothing.
Why didn´t the Obama administration do nothing?
They determined there was nothing to fear from the minor interference?
They realized no votes could be tampered with, or changed by their interference?
And, yet, Trump was somehow aiding and abetting the Russians is his claim, despite Mueller stating there was NO COLLUSION, and Rosenstein had previously stated no election results were changed.
Why?
Because the whole scam was to try and link the idea that somehow Trump´s win didn´t come without some sort of sneaky, or dirty, trick. Or, the Democrats couldn´t accept the results of the election.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/3/2019 11:54:21 AM (No. 75671)
What is most troubling to me is not that Clapper is saying this kind of stuff. He is a partisan incapable of acting with discernment.
What is REALLY troubling is that he served as DNI. I never realized how unsafe our Country was while this delusional moron was around.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
HicoKid 5/3/2019 12:03:58 PM (No. 75699)
FTA: "Well, I´m using that in a parochial or colloquial sense I guess," Clapper said.
Can anyone decode Clapper´s word salad? Clapper is evidence that this BS-speak will get you far in the U.S. Government business.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
caddyjak 5/3/2019 12:05:40 PM (No. 75682)
I always wondered where the word "clap" came from!!
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