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Augiedog

(2,549 posts) Mon Dec 5, 2016, 10:38 AM Dec 2016

If trump knew about and planned the Taiwan call "for months" does that suggest that he also knew

something about the coming election and election fraud? Perhaps his planning was in based on foreknowledge of the outcome due to his awareness that the election is/was rigged in his favor and he needed to start planning for actually being president rather than just the remote possibility. He has been claiming that the vote was fraudulent, maybe he is right, but not for the reasons he wants the public to think.

The FBI could investigate but, well, we can all guess where that would lead. Down the rabbit hole and into the matrix, drifting through the hall of mirrors, finally to land in the black hole of Nixonian indignation and denial.

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If trump knew about and planned the Taiwan call "for months" does that suggest that he also knew (Original Post) Augiedog Dec 2016 OP

Yep, I thought the use of "months" was weird, too. tanyev Dec 2016 #1

That's what I'm thinking. HE KNEW. shraby Dec 2016 #2

Of course he knew, he bragged about it liberal N proud Dec 2016 #3

Does not appear so - WEEKS in the planning... ksoze Dec 2016 #4

I thought the same thing. mindem Dec 2016 #5

Very good question. 3catwoman3 Dec 2016 #6

tanyev

(42,658 posts)

1. Yep, I thought the use of "months" was weird, too.

Reply to Augiedog (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2016, 10:40 AM

Dec 2016

"Weeks" OK, but "months"?

shraby

(21,946 posts)

2. That's what I'm thinking. HE KNEW.

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Mon Dec 5, 2016, 10:40 AM

Dec 2016

liberal N proud

(60,349 posts)

3. Of course he knew, he bragged about it

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Mon Dec 5, 2016, 10:41 AM

Dec 2016

ksoze

(2,068 posts)

4. Does not appear so - WEEKS in the planning...

Reply to Augiedog (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2016, 11:07 AM

Dec 2016

From the WaPo article:

It was planned weeks ahead by staffers and Taiwan specialists on both sides, according to people familiar with the plans.

Immediately after Trump won the Nov. 8 election, his staffers compiled a list of foreign leaders with whom to arrange calls. “Very early on, Taiwan was on that list,” said Stephen Yates, a national security official during the presidency of George W. Bush and an expert on China and Taiwan. “Once the call was scheduled, I was told that there was a briefing for President-elect Trump. They knew that there would be reaction and potential blowback.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-taiwan-phone-call-was-weeks-in-the-planning-say-people-who-were-involved/2016/12/04/f8be4b0c-ba4e-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html

mindem

(1,580 posts)

5. I thought the same thing.

Reply to Augiedog (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2016, 11:21 AM

Dec 2016

It seems a little odd.

3catwoman3

(24,086 posts)

6. Very good question.

Reply to Augiedog (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2016, 11:59 AM

Dec 2016

It hasn't even been quite a month since the travesty of an election (altho it already feels like eons).

So was it months, or, if only a matter of a couple of weeks, just the usually tendency of DFT (Donald Fucking Trump) to overstate and exaggerate eveything?

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