2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumEichenwald update: Someone is DIRECTLY feeding Trump Russian Disinformation and Trump is repeating
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/785661547234271232http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635
This just came out a little while ago, Trump said. I have to tell you this. And then he read the words from my article.
Hes now admitting they could have done something about Benghazi, Trump said, dropping the document to the floor. This just came out a little while ago.
The crowd booed and chanted, Lock her up!
This is not funny. It is terrifying. The Russians engage in a sloppy disinformation effort and, before the day is out, the Republican nominee for president is standing on a stage reciting the manufactured story as truth. How did this happen? Who in the Trump campaign was feeding him falsehoods straight from the Kremlin?
rumdude
(448 posts)Seriously, lock the fat POS up.
He's committing treason.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)One real shame is how complex these issues are, and how easily they are demagogued by psychopaths like Trump
The bigger shame is how the GOP politicized Benghazi-- using the power of the government to destroy a political candidate.
canetoad
(17,195 posts)Is not completely out of the picture.
On another topic, is this what Trump calls 'Extreme Vetting' of information with which he is presented?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Wow!
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)Don the con, geez, Americans are dumb.
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)It is crunch time
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)"better criminals and perverts than blue" thanks to sophisticated mind controlling propaganda instilling a set of lies that puts Alice in Wonderland to shame.
SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)Cha
(297,723 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)He is not the only one........
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)There are too many people involved with Trump's campaign with prominent and not so prominent Russian contacts.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]
Vinca
(50,310 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)pretty nauseating to hear
I don't think chomp was buying it at first til KE walked him through it
where's this gonna go?
VOX
(22,976 posts)The Eichenwald story is BIG. The immediate implications are radically serious.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)He's been briefed by national security people and goes around talking about matters he knows are not for release?
Hacked by Russians and he knows that.
wishstar
(5,271 posts)Flynn was on Trump's VP list, but his Russian ties were too obvious as he is a paid analyst for the RT Russian propaganda network, while Mike Pence made for a more palatable, less controversial wolf in sheep's clothing VP pick
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)where's this going to go?
not holding breath
too bad he didn't plant a trumphummer story
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Presumably other RW loony outfits carried the story as well.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)That is "directly feeding Trump Russian disinfo".
A good disinformation operation doesn't manipulate individuals. It manipulates the milieu.
A really good op knows exactly who is going to be influenced by this.
Russian intel knows the trump campaign reads Sputnik and alt right sites. And knows the Trump campaign's followers will buy this stuff.