Retired admiral: Trump hacking comments ‘criminal intent’

[AUUSN 823]

And retired Navy Rear Adm. John Hutson, the Navy’s former top lawyer, accused Trump of “criminal intent.”

“This morning, he personally invited Russia to hack us,” Hutson said in his speech at the Democratic National Convention. “That’s not law and order. That’s criminal intent.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-2016-admiral-john-hutson-226328#ixzz4Ff3VBbzk 
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[Grumps 3,706]

It's treason I tell you! Give Trump a cigarette and a blindfold and choot'em! Right?

[homersapien 11,812]

8 minutes ago, Grumps said:

It's treason I tell you! Give Trump a cigarette and a blindfold and choot'em! Right?

The term used was "criminal intent".

This has really got you worked up, huh?  

[Grumps 3,706]

Heck yes I'm riled up! That commie Trump tried to pull one over on the U.S. but the DNC sacrificed its integrity to expose him! Woo-hoo! Vote for Hillary!

By the way, they should probably execute Melania too, what with her plagiarism and all. The DNC exposed that too. Y'all are true patriots!

[AFTiger 282]

Asking Russia for Hillary's emails has been a running joke for over a year. 

[homersapien 11,812]

It gets worse: http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/07/trump-crimea/493280/

Donald Trump's Crimean Gambit

The Republican presidential nominee appeared to suggest he’d recognize Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian territory in 2014.

Donald Trump’s call on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails Wednesday resulted in widespread criticism. But his comments on Crimea, coupled with ones he made last week on NATO, are likely to have greater significance if he is elected president in November.

The question came from Mareike Aden, a German reporter, who asked him whether a President Trump would recognize Crimea as Russian and lift sanctions on Moscow imposed after its 2014 annexation of the Ukrainian territory. The candidate’s reply: “Yes. We would be looking at that.”

That response is likely to spread much cheer through Russia—already buoyantabout the prospect of a Trump victory in November. But it could spread at least an equal amount of dread in the former Soviet republics. In a matter of two weeks, the man who could become the next American president has not only questioned the utility of NATO, thereby repudiating the post-World War II security consensus, he also has seemingly removed whatever fig leaf of protection from Russia the U.S. offered the post-Soviet republics and Moscow’s former allies in the Eastern bloc....

In 2014, pro-Russian gunmen took over government buildings in Simferopol, Crimea’s capital, and held a referendum in May of that year in which anoverwhelming majority of voters said they wanted to rejoin Russia. The West reacted with anger and imposed a string of sanctions on Russia—sanctions that even Putin acknowledged adversely affected Russia’s economy, which was already hurt by falling oil prices. Last year, on the anniversary of Russia’s annexation, the U.S. State Department said: “We do not, nor will we, recognize Russia’s attempted annexation and call on President Putin to end his country’s occupation of Crimea.”

Trump, as president, may reverse that policy, and if he does Ukraine won’t be the only country that worries. Another is likely to be Georgia, the former Soviet republic. A brief war with Russia—brief in that Georgia was crushed—in 2008 resulted in Russia extending support to two breakaway Georgian regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and wielding its influence with the rebels there. Russia’s recent military exercises, as well as its statements, have also worried Eastern European states such as Poland and the Baltic nations that share a border with it.

Until recently, many of them could have counted on NATO’s support, but Trump last week made military support conditional on whether those countries had paid their financial dues to the alliance—a marked departure from the security policy of every presidential nominee from either of the two major parties since NATO’s founding in 1949. As I pointed out at the time, “If Trump is elected in November and is true to his pledge, then few of NATO’s 28 members will qualify for U.S. support in the event of a war. Only the U.S., Greece, the U.K., Estonia, and Poland meet NATO’s guideline that defense spending constitute 2 percent of GDP.”

Now, with his comments on Crimea, Trump has given the foreign-policy establishment in the U.S. and Europe even more to consider before November.

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All this time we've thought of him as orange, when he's actually red.

 

[homersapien 11,812]

“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son told a real estate conference in 2008, according to an account posted on the website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

Trump Jr. noted that he traveled to Russia six times in 18 months, and “several buyers have been attracted to our projects there and everything associated therewith.” But he added: “As much as we want to take our business over there, Russia is just a different world…. It is a question of who knows who, whose brother is paying off who…. It really is a scary place.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/07/27/trumps-claim-that-i-have-nothing-to-do-with-russia/

[AURaptor 1,137]

We need those yoga class schedules !!!

[AFTiger 282]

10 minutes ago, AURaptor said:

We need those yoga class schedules !!!

All 3,000 of them

[AUUSN 823]

He made sure to riff off Trump’s past praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, too

“Of Vladimir Putin, he said, and I quote, ‘in terms of leadership he’s getting an A,’” Hutson said. “I taught national security law. Praising dictators was an automatic F in my class.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-2016-admiral-john-hutson-226328#ixzz4FhoPTC78 
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[TheBlueVue 177]

29 minutes ago, AFTiger said:

All 3,000 of them

correction - 33,000 of them

[AFTiger 282]

11 minutes ago, TheBlueVue said:

correction - 33,000 of them

Correct. Not much to show for all that yoga. Besides how will Russia hack her server now that the FBI has it?

[AURaptor 1,137]

 Frantic, unhinged, uninformed, and blindly driven by agenda. This is today's Democratic Party. 

[Auburn4life 24]

[aujeff11 6,243]

32 minutes ago, Auburn4life said:

Your repost game is scrong.

[Auburn4life 24]

2 hours ago, aujeff11 said:

Your repost game is scrong.

if it is so scrong, why did you quote it, thus creating another post with same image

[aujeff11 6,243]

7 minutes ago, Auburn4life said:

if it is so scrong, why did you quote it, thus creating another post with same image

If it's scrong, why wouldn't I quote it?

[homersapien 11,812]

Scrong?   

Thank goodness for the 'urban dictionary'.   

[Grumps 3,706]

5 minutes ago, homersapien said:

Scrong?   

Thank goodness for the 'urban dictionary'.   

Urban dictionary has a new definition. It used to be a way that people would mock blacks who did not pronounce "strong" correctly. I am sure that does not apply to aujeff.

[aujeff11 6,243]

2 minutes ago, Grumps said:

Urban dictionary has a new definition. It used to be a way that people would mock blacks who did not pronounce "strong" correctly. I am sure that does not apply to aujeff.

My name is obviously Jeff. Call me that. I was mocking Jameis Winston from his interview the night of the championship game. 

[Grumps 3,706]

11 minutes ago, aujeff11 said:

My name is obviously Jeff. Call me that. I was mocking Jameis Winston from his interview the night of the championship game. 

Ok Jeff!

[AUFAN78 4,060]

8 hours ago, Auburn4life said:

Cuz is on fire! Preach!

[cptau 169]

If the russkies hacked Mrs Bill clinton's Clinton foundation email server, they did so long before Clinton or trump announced for this election.   You cant hack a now decommissioned server that's probably been reformatted by now. Unless some other party hacked the server when it was active.   That unknown party could be hacked.    Clinton's problem is that she mixed government official emails, personal emails and Clinton foundation emails on the same server.  It is the foundation emails that could get her in the most trouble.  So she deleted them.