11 Jul 2017 4:54 pm
First of all, It was not an HRC 'official' it was a Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee who got some dirt on Manafort from the Ukrainian embassy.Termin8tor » 11 Jul 2017 3:43 pm » wrote:Pink slime.
Hey psycho, if receiving information is a "thing of value" and a crime, why aren't you shrieking in outrage that HRC officials actually got that from Ukraine?
Because you don't care about actual felonies committed by Democrats, just imagined fake crimes by Repubs with zero evidence to back your claims up.
And she (Alexandra Chalupa) undertook her investigations into Trump, Manafort and Russia on her own.
She began researching Manafort’s role in Yanukovych’s rise, as well as his ties to the pro-Russian oligarchs who funded Yanukovych’s political party as part of some pro bono work she was doing for another client interested in the Ukrainian crisis.
The Clinton campaign may have used some of Chalupa's findings to their advantage, but they did not solicit them, and she was not working for the campaign.Chalupa left the DNC after the Democratic convention in late July to focus fulltime on her research into Manafort, Trump and Russia.
She said she provided off-the-record information and guidance to “a lot of journalists” working on stories related to Manafort and Trump’s Russia connections, despite what she described as escalating harassment.
Chalupa this month told Politico that, as her research and role in the election started becoming more public, she began receiving death threats, along with continued alerts of state-sponsored hacking.
But she said, “None of this has scared me off.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/u ... ire-233446
She continued her research, on her own, even after she left her consulting gig at the DNC and was no longer being paid by them.
Curious that you believe that if HRC's campaign had solicited dirt on Manafort from Ukraine, that would be a felony, but when Fredo and two other top people on the Trump campaign are actually being shown to have solicited dirt on HRC from Russia, that's just an 'imagined fake crime.'
Double standard much?
Also from my source:
If Chelsea Clinton and her husband and John Podesta had conspired with a foreign entity, in order to gather oppo research on Trump, I would have no problem saying that was wrong.Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia.
But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
Russia’s effort was personally directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, involved the country’s military and foreign intelligence services, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
There’s little evidence of such a top-down effort by Ukraine.
Longtime observers suggest that the rampant corruption, factionalism and economic struggles plaguing the country — not to mention its ongoing strife with Russia — would render it unable to pull off an ambitious covert interference campaign in another country’s election.