WSJ: GOP Op Sought Clinton Emails From Hackers, Implied a Connection to Flynn

[mvd10]

I'm not sure whether people like Ryan and Priebus would risk this to get Trump elected. There probably were contacts between shady people in Trump's campaign and Russia, but I really don't think your average Republican establishment guy would collude with Russia to get Trump elected. These people don't care about Trump. A lot of them probably even wanted Trump to lose so that their favoured candidate could win 2020. A Trump loss would have meant a lame duck Democratic president who wouldn't have gotten anything done, a huge senate majority in 2018 and possibly a trifecta with huge majorities and a more establishment-friendly president in 2020. But Flynn definitely is in trouble.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

to be clear, this man is 81 years old and...died a few weeks ago and wasn't - according to the WH - a member of trump's campaign.

According to the White House, Trump's campaign manager wasn't a member of Trump's camapign.

Which doesn't prove any affiliation, but keep it in mind when it comes to WH veracity on anything Russia-related.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I'm not sure whether people like Ryan and Priebus would risk this to get Trump elected. There probably were contacts between shady people in Trump's campaign and Russia, but I really don't think your average Republican establishment guy would collude with Russia to get Trump elected. These people don't care about Trump. A lot of them probably even wanted Trump to lose so that their favoured candidate could win 2020. A Trump loss would have meant a lame duck Democratic president who wouldn't have gotten anything done, a huge senate majority in 2018 and possibly a trifecta with huge majorities and a more establishment-friendly president in 2020. But Flynn definitely is in trouble.

They were willing to ride a racist sex predator as far as he'd take them, so I doubt this would give them pause tbh.  Aside from the occasional Ben Sasse or John Kasich, most Republican elected officials sold their souls to Trump long before he was elected.

[The Other Castro]

Follow up WSJ story (Benjamin Wittes BOOM certified):

"GOP Activist Who Sought Clinton Emails Cited Trump Campaign Officials"

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-activist-who-sought-clinton-emails-cited-trump-campaign-officials-1498872923

[Hindsight was 2020]

Follow up WSJ story (Benjamin Wittes BOOM certified):

"GOP Activist Who Sought Clinton Emails Cited Trump Campaign Officials"

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-activist-who-sought-clinton-emails-cited-trump-campaign-officials-1498872923

I knew Bannon was somehow going to pop up

[The Other Castro]

Also, an unnamed source from the WSJ story has outed himself, and has told his story about Peter Smith on Lawfare: "The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians"

I'd advise reading the whole thing, especially this section:

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https://lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians

[GeorgiaModerate]

Also, an unnamed source from the WSJ story has outed himself, and has told his story about Peter Smith on Lawfare: "The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians"

I'd advise reading the whole thing, especially this section:

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https://lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians

Section from the lawfareblog story with the sources named in the WSJ link Castro posted:

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