re: Carter Page FISA Documents Released (Heavily Redacted)

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Debunked by who?

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He wasn't an informant. He testified about the fact that they tried to recruit him. But I don't think he was working for the FBI.

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I'm Q

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The entire process was fabricated from start to finish. EVERYTHING. They manufactured enough recycled evidence to allow them to spy on not only on Trumps entire presidential campaign, but also president Trump and members of his administration after he was in office. Regardless of political party, this should outrage EVERY American citizen. Every last person who was involved in ANY aspect of this farce needs to be hanged publicly. If they’re brazen enough to do this to the president of the United States, imagine what they’ll do to the average citizen.

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They manufactured enough recycled evidence to allow them to spy on not only on Trumps entire presidential campaign, but also president Trump and members of his administration after he was in office

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I don't see Nunes name...

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If he does anything substantial now, it will be labeled a Stalinist purge. He needs a ton more information to come to light before the masses are cool with him firing people and dropping the hammer in other ways

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The end result was that at the behest of the Trump campaign, the platform committee took out the first paragraph of Denman's amendment altogether. They took out the reference to "lethal defensive weapons" from the second paragraph. But they approved her statement of support for maintaining, and possibly increasing, sanctions against Russia, and, in the place of lethal aid, substituted a pledge to provide "appropriate assistance to the armed forces of Ukraine" and to work more closely with NATO. Here again is the final language that was added to the platform as a result of Denman's amendment:

We support maintaining and, if warranted, increasing sanctions, together with our allies, against Russia unless and until Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity are fully restored. We also support providing appropriate assistance to the armed forces of Ukraine and greater coordination with NATO defense planning.

There was never a subcommittee vote on the change. People in the room, speaking anonymously, estimate that perhaps a handful of delegates supported Denman, another small group opposed, and a larger number were neutral, and happy with the compromise. There was no revolt.

"The platform ended up tougher than it started, compared from the beginning to the end," Denman told me, although she added she still believes her lethal aid provision should have been included in the final document.

By the way, in our conversation, Denman stressed her support of Donald Trump. She came to the convention a Ted Cruz delegate bound to vote for the Texas senator on the first ballot. But when Trump wrapped up the nomination, Denman told me, she supported him, contributed to him, and voted for him. And she supports him today.

"We move on," Denman said. "We go forward."

Not long after the platform subcommittee meeting, the Post's "Trump campaign guts GOP's anti-Russia stance on Ukraine" story was published, and a new conventional wisdom began to form: The Trump team, doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin, gutted the GOP platform's position on behalf of Russia.

That is precisely the opposite of what happened. In the end, the platform, already fairly strong on the Russia-Ukraine issue, was strengthened, not weakened, as a result of the subcommittee meeting. The Trump campaign agreed to a platform condemning Kremlin belligerence, calling for continued, and perhaps increased, sanctions against Russia, for the full restoration of Ukrainian territory, for refusing to accept "any territorial change in Eastern Europe imposed by force, in Ukraine or elsewhere," and pledging to aid Ukraine's armed forces.

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