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Exactly one decade earlier it was McCain’s own presidential campaign that was being roiled by concerns of possible Russian influence in his own inner circle.

In fact, McCain’s drama involved the same foreign lobbyist Paul Manafort; one of the same Russian oligarchs, Oleg Deripaska; the same Russian diplomat, Sergey Kislyak, and the same wily Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, that now dominate the current Trump controversy.

The only difference?

The FBI has said that there is no evidence to date that Trump ever met with a Russian figure banned from the United States.

McCain actually met twice with Deripaska, a Russian businessman and Putin ally whose visa was blocked by the United States amidst intelligence community concerns about his ties to Moscow.

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U.S intelligence raised concerns to McCain's staff about the Davis Manafort work, Weaver told Circa.

McCain’s office also was warned by U.S. intelligence about possible Russian military connections to one of his policy advisers at the IRI, causing aides to scramble to separate the Russian-born expert from the U.S. senator, U.S. officials and McCain aides said.

Notice how they afforded McCain the courtesy of a "warning." Trump got no such courtesy. Of course, Bush, not Obama, was in office when McCain was running.

Also, during the campaign Glenn Simpson even wrote an op-ed for the WSJ (I believe it was) detailing the Russian plot to infiltrate McCain's campaign. It reads almost identical to the propaganda about Trump (he could have just cut and pasted his 2007 work in 2016). The MSM pretty much ignored it back then because, well, it's sort of a non-story (and because Obama won).

The major takeaway from this is that McCain knew the whole time this was yet another Fusion smear, but ran with it anyway because orange man bad. Same goes for the Bushes.

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Posted by CptBengal

BR Baby

Member since Dec 2007

71661 posts

Posted on 1/24/19 at 10:16 pm to AUstar

How many times do you need to be told...

Orange.
Man.
Bad.

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Posted by Sweep Da Leg

Member since Sep 2013

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Posted on 1/24/19 at 10:24 pm to AUstar

Dan Bongino has laid this all out in his book “Spygate”. His podcast is a must listen or at the very least you need to read the articles he posts daily in Bongino.com

I’ve turned multiple independents and liberals onto this including a couple Bernie bros. They are no longer sheep. Except for one that’s my BIL who hate corporations but I think he’s starting to come along.

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Posted by GumboPot

Member since Mar 2009

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Posted on 1/24/19 at 10:52 pm to AUstar

Yes the Clinton MUH Russia script was written in 2007 by Glenn Simpson, the same script used against Donald Trump or whom ever the presumptive GOP nominee was going to be. The Clinton team with the help of British intel flooded the US intellegence zone with a plethora of “intelligence”. But ALL this said intellegence went to the highest levels of US intellegence to avoid scrutiny and receive special attention particularly Brennan and Comey. In fact the information receive by the FBI from Clinton operatives did not go through the Woods Procedure, a required FBI vetting process. If the info was properly vetted there would be no MUH Russians.

That non-vetted info was used to illegally obtain the Carter Page FISA by tricking the FISC court. From that FISA warrant Obama was allowed to spy on Trump via Carter Page through the two hop rule.

The new revelation will be, Obama wasn’t only spying on Trump he was spying on Cruz and Carson too. Minus Jeb ( because he is deep state UniParty) if another GOP candidate beat Hillary they would be dealing with MUH Russians too. MUH Russians is a Hillary team creation that’s been in the works since 2007.

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