Biden admin confirms Russian agent shared 2016 Trump polling data as part of election interference

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  1. MJ Davies

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    Biden administration confirms Russian agent shared 2016 Trump polling data as part of election interference efforts
    This probably is of no great surprise to anyone. It was just a matter of time until it came out. Tensions are heating up.

    What do you think?
     
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    Collusion confirmed, not that it was ever in doubt. Trumps campaign was ran by a guy whose partner was working for Russia. Trumps pardon of his crooked buddy manafort shows he was in on it.
     
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    I would be very surprised to learn that Russia hadn't interfered in every election since WW2.
     
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    Think about what? They got internal polling? How does that help them?
     
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    It helps them about as much as it helps any other politician that does internal polling. Which isn't really all that much considering public polls probably reflect the same stats. This is, again, Dems making much ado about nothing. Notice that they don't say who gave them the data? Or how it was obtained? Its phrased in a way that automatically makes the reader assume that it was given to them voluntarily, in all likelihood, by Trump himself. That is the narrative that they want. Truth doesn't matter to them. Only the narrative. CNN even admitted that they propagandize everything against Trump.
     
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    It was given by Manafort. How do you not know that???
     
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    It told them who to target and how. Campaigns spend millions on this data, and it’s not because they can get the same info on CNN. It’s much more in depth.
     
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    Swallowed that one did you? Now we have Biden who's afraid to meet Putin face to face. You think we're better of now?
     
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    This is the first time we had a candidate who ran kissing Putin’s ass and excusing him killing journalists.
     
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    Much better than Trump meeting him nose to ass.
     
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    Would you prefer our president be kissing yellow ass while ignoring cultural norms?
     
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    Give me an example? Who did they need this polling to target? Pretty sure they were aware Biden was trumps opponent.
     
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    Trumps gone, no more tweets about how wonderful Xi is.
     
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    It’s much more in-depth into what voters think on certain issues and how they’d react to stuff. Very helpful if you’re trying to drive down turnout using Russian troll farms.
     
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    Every country interference in other countries affairs in order to help politicians who they consider ‘friendly’ to they own interest – US is doing the same. Some interferences are considered ‘kosher”, like financial support, other not. Receiving or arranging polls IMHO is 100% kosher.
    Hacking into political parties computers or creating a pool of paid internet trolls IMHO is not.
     
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    :roflol:

    Huh?

    What does "yellow ass" have to do with the OP?:bored:

    Anyway, Russia obviously interfered in Both the 2016 and 2020 Elections.

    Even a Blind Man could see that.

    And, speaking of "yellow ass", I was able to find this through Google:

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    C'mon man! Look how much trolling I did and Biden still won. :razz:
     
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    Your trolling was standard conservative nonsense. That’s not how you suppress Democrat leaning votes. We had a poster who I still think was a Russian troll, and he was pretty good at disingenuous arguments intended to reach non-conservatives.
    He left after the election...as did many others.
     
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    CNN just keeps feeding stupid people the Trump Russia Collusion lie and they just keep eating it up.

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    The exodus is definitely noticeable. I tend to sort trolls into 2 groups. paid activists & just your normal provacateurs. I don't think state sponsored makes any sort of differnce per effectiveness or influence though. Actually like some trolls alot they're really entertaining, and it's nice to get a little comedy relief in here sometimes.
     
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    russia can defend itself
     
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    Welcome to Globalist / Leftist propaganda zone!

    That meeting was taken under the auspice of another subject and when the Russian changed the topic in the actual meeting, the Trump team declined, cut it short, and bailed. How you keep spewing 2017 propaganda in 2021 when we all know the facts now is pretty impressive on how effective the MSM is in getting people to believe lies.

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/18/us/politics/donald-trump-jr-russia-meeting.html

    He said that the meeting turned to discussion of the adoption of Russian children and the Magnitsky Act, an American law that sanctions Russians for human rights abuses. Mr. Goldstone gave a similar explanation.

    Ms. Veselnitskaya has denied that she discussed anything related to the presidential campaign, saying that she had “never acted on behalf of the Russian government.”
     
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    he was told Russia wanted to help his dad win.

    The messages show that the younger Trump was open to the prospect of "very high level and sensitive information" from a Russian attorney that a go-between described as "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump" ahead of a meeting on June 9, 2016.
     
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