Russia and our election

[Dill]

(07-13-2017, 08:59 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: For those unaware, it was back in January when it was revealed that a DNC staffer had been pushing for the DNC and/or the Clinton campaign to get in touch with a Ukrainian official. The story, as far as it stands right now, is that this staffer had ties to Ukraine and had been told that the Ukrainian government had concerns over the Trump campaign's connections to Russia, and Ukraine wanted to pass along the information. As of right now, there is no evidence that anyone from the campaign actually took any meeting or information and there are many denials. The staffer (I can't remember his name right now) hasn't been able to be reached for contact as of late.

That's the tl;dr version without any sort of spin on it.

I'm quite aware of that "scandal" Bels.

Justwin's claim was that at least one Republican primary candidate (or their supporters) and a Hillary supporter ... engaged an intermediary to pay RUSSIAN spies for dirt on Trump....and no story.

As you know, a DNC staffer who might have connected to Urkainian embassy staff who claim no meeting ever took place is not the equivalent of someone in Hillary's campaign "engaging" Russian spies. Until Justwin can supply some convincing links, this looks like fake news, a false story planted to mislead, or Justwin just garbled the DNC/Ukraine story to produce an equivalence.