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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLeaked White House Transition Emails: Russia Threw U.S. Election for Trump
A transition advisor to President Donald Trump wrote in an email weeks before his inauguration that sanctions would make it difficult to ease relations with Russia, which has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him. In emails obtained by the New York Times, transition advisor K.T. McFarland sought to coordinate with other members of the Trump transition team in the wake of sanctions intended to punish the Kremlin for interfering in the U.S. presidential election. If there is a tit-for-tat escalation Trump will have difficulty improving relations with Russia, which has just thrown U.S.A. election to him, McFarland wrote to Thomas P. Bossert, who currently serves as Trumps homeland security adviser. Bossertwho forwarded the exchange to future National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, future Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, future senior strategist Stephen Bannon, and future press secretary Sean Spicer, all of whom have since left the administrationurged other transition officials to defend election legitimacy now. The White House said McFarlands email was intended to express the opinion of Democrats, not herself.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/leaked-white-house-transition-emails-russia-threw-us-election-for-trump
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)gibraltar72
(7,512 posts)draft said we have to do favors for Putin who just threw the election to Trump. And by the way he has the Pee tapes! This was discarded for a slightly less incriminating version.
madaboutharry
(40,220 posts)The "I didn't say what you heard me say" excuse.
Amateurs.
iluvtennis
(19,872 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)with their freaking lowlife evil empire* russian cronies. Lock them up.
* per ronald reagan
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)so it must be true?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)All the people who have been talking to Mueller KNEW the game was rigged.
Qutzupalotl
(14,327 posts)I wonder if this was intentionally leaked from Mueller's office to prepare us for what is coming.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Groper Don the Con decided he was President from the night he won the elections - rules and laws do not apply to him.
He knew exactly what he was saying when he said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and still win the election. They fugging stole it.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)iluvtennis
(19,872 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)their immature lies would embarrass them so much that they would have to admit they are guilty.
But that would be assuming that they have half a brain.
oasis
(49,408 posts)madville
(7,412 posts)I can't find it searching around. Would like to see the entire context of the conversation and email chain before getting excited.