Russians claim to have dirt on Trump

Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him

By Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper and Carl Bernstein, CNN
Updated 5:15 PM ET, Tue January 10, 2017

(CNN)Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN.

The allegations were presented in a two-page synopsis that was appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The allegations came, in part, from memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative, whose past work US intelligence officials consider credible. The FBI is investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations, which are based primarily on information from Russian sources, but has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about Mr. Trump.

The classified briefings last week were presented by four of the senior-most US intelligence chiefs -- Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.

One reason the nation's intelligence chiefs took the extraordinary step of including the synopsis in the briefing documents was to make the President-elect aware that such allegations involving him are circulating among intelligence agencies, senior members of Congress and other government officials in Washington, multiple sources tell CNN.

These senior intelligence officials also included the synopsis to demonstrate that Russia had compiled information potentially harmful to both political parties, but only released information damaging to Hillary Clinton and Democrats. This synopsis was not an official part of the report from the intelligence community case about Russian hacks, but some officials said it augmented the evidence that Moscow intended to harm Clinton's candidacy and help Trump's, several officials with knowledge of the briefings tell CNN.

The two-page synopsis also included allegations that there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government, according to two national security officials.

Sources tell CNN that these same allegations about communications between the Trump campaign and the Russians, mentioned in classified briefings for congressional leaders last year, prompted then-Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid to send a letter to FBI Director Comey in October, in which he wrote, "It has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government -- a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States."

CNN has confirmed that the synopsis was included in the documents that were presented to Mr. Trump but cannot confirm if it was discussed in his meeting with the intelligence chiefs.

The Trump transition team declined repeated requests for comment.

CNN has reviewed a 35-page compilation of the memos, from which the two-page synopsis was drawn. The memos originated as opposition research, first commissioned by anti-Trump Republicans, and later by Democrats. At this point, CNN is not reporting on details of the memos, as it has not independently corroborated the specific allegations. But, in preparing this story, CNN has spoken to multiple high ranking intelligence, administration, congressional and law enforcement officials, as well as foreign officials and others in the private sector with direct knowledge of the memos.

Some of the memos were circulating as far back as last summer. What has changed since then is that US intelligence agencies have now checked out the former British intelligence operative and his vast network throughout Europe and find him and his sources to be credible enough to include some of the information in the presentations to the President and President-elect a few days ago.

On the same day that the President-elect was briefed by the intelligence community, the top four Congressional leaders, and chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees -- the so-called "Gang of Eight" -- were also provided a summary of the memos regarding Mr. Trump, according to law enforcement, intelligence and administration sources.

The two-page summary was written without the detailed specifics and information about sources and methods included in the memos by the former British intelligence official. That said, the synopsis was considered so sensitive it was not included in the classified report about Russian hacking that was more widely distributed, but rather in an annex only shared at the most senior levels of the government: President Obama, the President-elect, and the eight Congressional leaders.

CNN has also learned that on December 9, Senator John McCain gave a full copy of the memos -- dated from June through December, 2016 -- to FBI Director James Comey. McCain became aware of the memos from a former British diplomat who had been posted in Moscow. But the FBI had already been given a set of the memos compiled up to August 2016, when the former MI6 agent presented them to an FBI official in Rome, according to national security officials.

The raw memos on which the synopsis is based were prepared by the former MI6 agent, who was posted in Russia in the 1990s and now runs a private intelligence gathering firm. His investigations related to Mr. Trump were initially funded by groups and donors supporting Republican opponents of Mr. Trump during the GOP primaries, multiple sources confirmed to CNN. Those sources also said that once Mr. Trump became the nominee, further investigation was funded by groups and donors supporting Hillary Clinton.

Spokespeople for the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment. Officials who spoke to CNN declined to do so on the record given the classified nature of the material.

Some of the allegations were first reported publicly in Mother Jones one week before the election.

One high level administration official told CNN, "I have a sense the outgoing administration and intelligence community is setting down the pieces so this must be investigated seriously and run down. I think [the] concern was to be sure that whatever information was out there is put into the system so it is evaluated as it should be and acted upon as necessary."

So that it doesn't seem like I'm happy about this, let me state for the record that I believe a foreign government having information that can be used to undermine (or blackmail) the soon-to-be-President of the United States is unequivocally a bad thing.

Also, I regret posting with that thread title. Meant to change it after formatting.

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CNN has reviewed a 35-page compilation of the memos, from which the two-page synopsis was drawn. The memos originated as opposition research, first commissioned by anti-Trump Republicans, and later by Democrats. At this point, CNN is not reporting on details of the memos, as it has not independently corroborated the specific allegations. But, in preparing this story, CNN has spoken to multiple high ranking intelligence, administration, congressional and law enforcement officials, as well as foreign officials and others in the private sector with direct knowledge of the memos.

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So, supposedly the Russians have "opposition research" paid for by the Democrats to use against Trump? Huh?

The very fact that Hillary didn't use any of it suggests it's not much, if anything.

This could get really bad---really quick.

efforts? how about successes?

#NoPuppet

Now, go check out sex tape.

I told u people, Pootin has Trash by the balls, ready to pull hard, Trash knows it

recall that Melania is from an Iron Curtain country :lol

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This could get really bad---really quick.

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It already got real bad two months and a day ago.

We all need to check out golden shower sex tape

http://i.imgur.com/pyzV7CQ.png

https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...legations.html

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It already got real bad two months and a day ago.

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Well, you and the rest should just accept it and Neal with it.

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It already got real bad two months and a day ago.

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No. That's when it got real good.

Im sure US govmt has dirt on many Russian leaders just as much as Russian govmt got dirt on US leaders. This has been happening since the 50s.

Its called the spy game. Governments would be idiots not to do this

What's the protocol should he not take the oath on the 20th?

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What's the protocol should he not take the oath on the 20th?

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You really think he won't take the oath?

Russia hacked Republican state campaigns but not Trump's: FBI head

Russia hacked into Republican state political campaigns and old email domains of the Republican National Committee but there is no evidence it successfully penetrated President-elect Donald Trump's campaign, FBI Director James Comey said on Tuesday.

Comey also told lawmakers Russia did not release information obtained from the state campaigns or the old RNC email domains, comments that may buttress the U.S. intelligence view that Moscow tried to help Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 campaign.

U.S. intelligence agencies on Friday released an assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a covert effort to help Republican Trump's electoral chances by discrediting Clinton.

The report, which omitted classified details, was the U.S. government's starkest public description of what it says was a Russian effort to manipulate the American electoral process by leaking hacked emails from Democrats.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...2F+Top+News%29

"Trump's (perverted) conduct in Moscow included hiring the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where he knew President and Mrs Obama (whom he hated) had stayed on one of the offical trips to Russia, and defiling the bed where they had slept by employing a number of prostitutes to perform a a "golden showers" (urination) show in front of him."

:bobo

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Im sure US govmt has dirt on many Russian leaders just as much as Russian govmt got dirt on US leaders. This has been happening since the 50s.

Its called the spy game. Governments would be idiots not to do this

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Why hasn't US's dirt on Pootin been used?

You're so fucking stupid that you're accepting, normalizing a Pres of the USA being controlled by Pootin because Trash is a sexual pervert, and very probably a cocaine user.

but the spurstalk trump task force told me that being friendly with russia was a good thinghttp://i67.tinypic.com/1z4iaki.jpg

:wow

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This could get really bad---really quick.

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What do you think it could be?

Obama Is Putting The Pieces Into Place For A Serious Investigation Of Trump

It is being reported that the release of intelligence reports on Russian election interference and Trump are because the Obama administration is putting the pieces into place for a serious investigation into President-elect Donald Trump.

“One high level administration official told CNN, “I have a sense the outgoing administration and intelligence community is setting down the pieces so this must be investigated seriously and run down.

I think [the] concern was to be sure that whatever information was out there is put into the system so it is evaluated as it should be and acted upon as necessary.”

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/...iticus+USA+%29

:lmao

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Originally Posted by Splits

We all need to check out golden shower sex tape

http://i.imgur.com/pyzV7CQ.png

https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...legations.html

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Holy shit.

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No. That's when it got real good.

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It was a dark day cubby, almost as bad as Stern & Bavetta back in aught-two winning you that game 6 at Staples.

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We all need to check out golden shower sex tape

http://i.imgur.com/pyzV7CQ.png

https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...legations.html

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http://i65.tinypic.com/15etyea.gif

Trump Received Unsubstantiated Report That Russia Had Damaging Information About Him

The chiefs of America’s intelligence agencies last week presented President Obama and President-elect Donald J. Trump with a summary of unsubstantiated reports that Russia had collected compromising and salacious personal information about Mr. Trump, two officials with knowledge of the briefing said.

The material was not corroborated, and The New York Times has not been able to confirm the claims.

But intelligence agencies considered it so potentially explosive that they decided Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump and congressional leaders needed to be told about it and that the agencies were actively investigating it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-intelligence.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

This looks like a " fuck with us we will fuck with you" from the CIA.

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This looks like a " fuck with us we will fuck with you" from the CIA.

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anything's possible.

If the CIA can Dump Trump, good riddance.

Trash has visited Moscow several times. Plenty of opportunities for Pootin to supply him with whores and coke. Trash is stupidly weak, impulsive enough to take the bait and Make Trash Grab Pussy Again.

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Trump Received Unsubstantiated Report That Russia Had Damaging Information About Him

The chiefs of America’s intelligence agencies last week presented President Obama and President-elect Donald J. Trump with a summary of unsubstantiated reports that Russia had collected compromising and salacious personal information about Mr. Trump, two officials with knowledge of the briefing said.

The material was not corroborated, and The New York Times has not been able to confirm the claims.

But intelligence agencies considered it so potentially explosive that they decided Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump and congressional leaders needed to be told about it and that the agencies were actively investigating it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-intelligence.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

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There has to be a high suspicion of it to be true to tell the sitting president, the president-elect, and congress.

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"Trump's (perverted) conduct in Moscow included hiring the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where he knew President and Mrs Obama (whom he hated) had stayed on one of the offical trips to Russia, and defiling the bed where they had slept by employing a number of prostitutes to perform a a "golden showers" (urination) show in front of him."

:bobo

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#Peezagate

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C12X_2lW8AAtJfO.jpg:large

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You really think he won't take the oath?

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I'm just preparing myself for the worst and hoping for the best, dj.---------Anything can happen in life. I've learned that if nothing else.

And would like to know what would have to happen should he not take it.

Not to worry. Breitbart and talk radio will soon call this fake news, and Trumpanzees everywhere will go back to reading real news about Comet Pizza and Michelle Obama's penis.

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I'm just preparing myself for the worst and hoping for the best, dj.---------Anything can happen in life. I've learned that if nothing else.

And would like to know what would have to happen should he not take it.

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Don't worry, the worst will happen. Just like they couldn't replay that 02 WCF game 6, they can't replay the election either.

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I'm just preparing myself for the worst and hoping for the best, dj.---------Anything can happen in life. I've learned that if nothing else.

And would like to know what would have to happen should he not take it.

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You should be happy. You sure showed them liberals - a Russian stooge getting into the White House was worth it.

Well, he clearly likes gold.

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What do you think it could be?

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I just hope it's personal.

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You should be happy. You sure showed them liberals - a Russian stooge getting into the White House was worth it.

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And I'll have no problem taking it...if it's delivered. I take my shit. Lakers, Trump, makes nary difference.

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Don't worry, the worst will happen. Just like they couldn't replay that 02 WCF game 6, they can't replay the election either.

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If these claims are true, Trump won't be in office long and could be arrested.

They're holding it down till after Barry's speech. Only CNN has touched it. Sometime before the sun rises in the East they're comin' + they're comin' hard.

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If these claims are true, Trump won't be in office long and could be arrested.

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Hyperbole, much? What exactly would he be arrested for?

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If these claims are true, Trump won't be in office long and could be arrested.

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I know that answer, but, does anybody know what will happen should he not take the oath? There must be a mechanism.

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Not to worry. Breitbart and talk radio will soon call this fake news, and Trumpanzees everywhere will go back to reading real news about Comet Pizza and Michelle Obama's penis.

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Hyperbole, much? What exactly would he be arrested for?

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Treason.

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I know that answer, but, does anybody know what will happen should he not take the oath? There must be a mechanism.

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Congress could decide on Pence possibly.

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Treason.

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Please expound on your bizarre theory.

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Congress could decide on Pence possibly.

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But, under that circumstance he'd be the child, poisoned by the father.

I wonder if we'd undergo another campaign session and Barry would extend till that is acted upon.

none of this is credible, tbh... give me some reddit analysis and then we'll talk about it...

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Please expound on your bizarre theory.

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HOLY SHIT. You REALLY do not see that if Trump was acting in accordance with Russia and feeding them information, that is exactly what treason is?

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This looks like a " fuck with us we will fuck with you" from the CIA.

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& I was worried "they" were just gonna shoot him.

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I know that answer, but, does anybody know what will happen should he not take the oath? There must be a mechanism.

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Not well-defined. You'd get that monster Pence most likely.

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And if Mr. Trump left after the votes were counted in Congress but before he was sworn in on Jan. 20, Professor Keyssar said the closest guidance would probably come from Section Three of the 20th Amendment: “If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the president, the president-elect shall have died, the vice president-elect shall become president.”

“Nothing like this has ever happened,” Professor Keyssar said.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/u...smtyp=cur&_r=0

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none of this is credible, tbh... give me some reddit analysis and then we'll talk about it...

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HOLY SHIT. You REALLY do not see that if Trump was acting in accordance with Russia and feeding them information, that is exactly what treason is?

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Lol you really believe that shit? What information was he feeding them?

The full 35 page document - authored by an ex British intelligence agent - has been leaked by buzzfeed
https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...legations.html

It says Trump's team was in touch with the Kremlin during the campaign and getting fed information by Russia. Claims that Russia funded trips to Moscow by Jill Stein, Carter Page and Michael Flynn. At the very least Trump has a lot of explaining to do.

The ex-British intelligence agent was PAID by democratic operatives...

Get some context here.

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The ex-British intelligence agent was PAID by democratic operatives...

Get some context here.

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yet you were real quick to jump on the Hilary WikiLeaks lol :lmao

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The ex-British intelligence agent was PAID by democratic operatives...

Get some context here.

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Actually this data gathering was first commissioned by anti-Trump Republicans, and then by Democrats.

The Directors of the CIA, FBI, NSA and DNI think that the information and it's compiler are credible. That's the key context here. Are you really hoping against hope that Trump is a poor innocent misunderstood blue-collar billionaire while the US intelligence establishment is filled with traitors? And of course Trump hired Manafort by sheer bad luck, had no way of knowing that Page, Flynn and Tillerson had Russian connections, and coincidentally wants to soften sanctions against Putin?

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& I was worried "they" were just gonna shoot him.

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That would be a mistake to make him a martyr for you deplorables tbh

I bet Trump is pissed about this leak.

:lol...this motherfucker will be impeached before Feb 1st

http://i67.tinypic.com/309qamf.jpg

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:lol...this motherfucker will be impeached before Feb 1st

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By the rightwing congress that owes their power to him?

I'm a little unclear. Did he just watch the golden shower show? Or was he an active participant? Or did he just masturbate while they were peeing on the bed?

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America is DOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!

Approval rating of Obummer over Bush coming into office: +40%

Approval rating of Obummer over Trump leaving office: +20%

Thanks Obummer :cry

Brings new meaning to the term "Trumped Up Trickle Down"

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I'm a little unclear. Did he just watch the golden shower show? Or was he an active participant? Or did he just masturbate while they were peeing on the bed?

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Have to wait for Putin to release The Tape

What I'm concerned about is he so naive to not think the presidential suite wasn't bugged and on camera?

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Originally Posted by Splits

Have to wait for Putin to release The Tape

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I don't care to see a 70 year old man jack off while some Russian chicks are peeing on a bed. Nope.

this seems juicy, but information seems unreliable at this point...

yep, who's going to confirm? when?

dont know, but some "leaked documents" on buzzfeed dont mean anything tbh. there needs to be corroboration or verification

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau...4Hxh9LG8wo.png

lol "the cia has concluded"

get off 4chan tbh

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none of this is credible, tbh... give me some reddit analysis and then we'll talk about it...

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brb :rollin

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lol "the cia has concluded"

get off 4chan tbh

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story made up Nov 1st :rollin
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/threa...8919/#95571329

CIA trolled :rollin

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story made up Nov 1st :rollin
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/threa...8919/#95571329

CIA trolled :rollin

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lol "the cia has concluded"

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none of this is credible, tbh... give me some reddit analysis and then we'll talk about it...

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:lmao

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/...se_youre_fake/

https://i.sli.mg/wWcFX0.png

https://i.sli.mg/4PwkHb.png

wheres the link to this guy's original story or proof of when he sent what to wilson?

https://i.sli.mg/DJICDC.png

:lmao

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If the CIA can Dump Trump, good riddance.

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Then you get President Pence :lol

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wheres the link to this guy's original story or proof of when he sent what to wilson?

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https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/threa...8919/#95571329

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https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/threa...8919/#95571329

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you have given me a link of somebody saying "i sent this to wilson"

wheres the link of what he sent to wilson, or proof that he sent it, etc.

Urine is pretty sterile when it leaves the bladder. You can probably survive a couple days drinking your urine. But at some point, the toxins become pretty concentrated and you could mess up your kidneys. I'm not sure if maybe it was that kind of situation.

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you have given me a link of somebody saying "i sent this to wilson"

wheres the link of what he sent to wilson, or proof that he sent it, etc.

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It was sent to Wilson dammit. What more do you need?

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https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/threa...8919/#95571329

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Remeber when you claimed John Kascich was your guy. Watching men blast semen on your face while you scramble to shield the orangutan all the while swallowing the most unsubstantiated bullshit on the Internet in pizzagate just goes to show how far you've fallen. The bottom is near TSA. I'm hopeful you reach it.

http://i.imgur.com/ynz39BA.jpg

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Remeber when you claimed John Kascich was your guy. Watching men blast semen on your face while you scramble to shield the orangutan all the while swallowing the most unsubstantiated bullshit on the Internet in pizzagate just goes to show how far you've fallen. The bottom is near TSA. I'm hopeful you reach it.

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Remember when you claimed FBI anon was bullshit.

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...d3&oe=58D61C4B

http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/94704894/#94705224

http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/106514445#p106520376

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...mp-report-hoax

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...ff&oe=591D7FB6

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Remember when you claimed FBI anon was bullshit.

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No. Why did you feel the need to proclaim support for Kascich as opposed to just coming out from Trump, who it's obvious you supported (likely form day one)?

Do do you think it's important to try and maintain a level of credibility in the PF that you thought couldn't be maintained if you openly supported Trump prior to the election? Honest question, tbh.

very few few people openly supported trump before he won. I think you supported him, but you were too much of a pussy to admit it.

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wheres the link to this guy's original story or proof of when he sent what to wilson?

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besides, nobody (in the msm) has actually pretended the information is true. what has been reported is that intelligence agencies have been provided with claims. it doesnt say intelligence agencies have concluded the claims are true, etc.