FEC chair rebukes Trump over statements on accepting election help from foreign governments

[emilynghiem]

Let's cut the crap. Trump cannot accept help from a foreign governments to get him elected.

FEC chair rebukes Trump over statements on accepting election help from foreign governments

The head of the Federal Elections Commission issued a thinly veiled rebuke of Donald Trump on Thursday over the president’s stance on accepting opposition research from foreign governments on his political adversaries.

Ellen Weintraub, the FEC chair, expressed her disbelief that Trump believed accepting foreign assistance in a U.S. political election was permissible.

FEC chair rebukes Trump over statements on accepting election help from foreign governments

When Obama was either getting or offered money from Palestinians,
he ran into the same complaints that only US citizens abroad could
make such contributions or else it would violate federal election rules.
Illegal Obama donors: Middle Eastern Arabs - WND - WND

 

[Dale Smith]

Let's cut the crap. Trump cannot accept help from a foreign governments to get him elected.

FEC chair rebukes Trump over statements on accepting election help from foreign governments

The head of the Federal Elections Commission issued a thinly veiled rebuke of Donald Trump on Thursday over the president’s stance on accepting opposition research from foreign governments on his political adversaries.

Ellen Weintraub, the FEC chair, expressed her disbelief that Trump believed accepting foreign assistance in a U.S. political election was permissible.

FEC chair rebukes Trump over statements on accepting election help from foreign governments

Christopher Steele....cough, cough......

BTW, do you REALLY think I would ever fear a leftard or a gang of limp-wristed tards accosting me for wearing any MAGA attire, Imma? Do you think I would or should fear YOUR wrath for wearing a MAGA hat? Only only one way to find out, Homey....


(snicker)

 

[IM2]

Let's cut the crap. Trump cannot accept help from a foreign governments to get him elected.

FEC chair rebukes Trump over statements on accepting election help from foreign governments

The head of the Federal Elections Commission issued a thinly veiled rebuke of Donald Trump on Thursday over the president’s stance on accepting opposition research from foreign governments on his political adversaries.

Ellen Weintraub, the FEC chair, expressed her disbelief that Trump believed accepting foreign assistance in a U.S. political election was permissible.

FEC chair rebukes Trump over statements on accepting election help from foreign governments

Yet others in government do exactly that but because they call it opposition "research" its ok. Steele got his info from unknown Russian sources.... and what the hell was their motive? Well, we can actually see what their motive was. they have succeeded in disrupting the United States government. Yet as long as Hillary can peddle her sack of sour grapes shes perfectly content.

We aren't talking about opposition research. The dossier went to the FBI. Hillary has nothing to do with this. It's time to stop believing everything Trump says.

Dear IM2
Some of the conflicting issues going on
where Trump IS NOT THE SOURCE, but he is getting information from other sources just like we are

1. The contested conflicts over the Clinton-funded "FUSION GPS"
being the funding source behind the dossier, so that a normal court
would not have accepted "research" from such a politically biased source.

2. The contested "conflicts of interest" between Bruce Ohr's wife Nellie
being PAID by FUSION GPS in 2016 during the campaigns.

Again, normally having close relationships like this, along with
political financial ties would have raised red flags (except
when it comes to POLITICS, of course!).

3. In general, the arguments contesting that there was
NO REAL EVIDENCE in the dossier to merit FISA warrants.

Sure I agree with you that any of this information leaking out
and TRUMP is going to run off with it, and mouth off as if
it is ESTABLISHED FACT and the case is CLOSED. Of course
he is going to say that.

But that doesn't mean the information he is exaggerating came from him.

If there are BLATANT political conflicts and biases going on,
and if there was NOT sufficient evidence collected as normally
needed to obtain a FISA warrant, we should be able to research
that INDEPENDENTLY of what Trump mouths off about.

You are RIGHT that NOBODY can depend on what he says.
But on these points being contested as political conflicts
of interest, he is not the source to begin with.

Clinton did not fund Fusion GPS. Republicans did. The FBI got the FISA warrants before there was knowledge of a dossier. All the stuff you have presented are lies coming from the right wing media and the Trump administration. Trump IS the one putting this out. He is doing so to make people doubt the credibility of those investigating him so that the public doesn't unify against him and demand impeachment. Trump is the president. He can demand information from the departments he is in charge of. And then he can create the narrative he wants.

 

[IM2]

Let's cut the crap. Trump cannot accept help from a foreign governments to get him elected.

FEC chair rebukes Trump over statements on accepting election help from foreign governments

The head of the Federal Elections Commission issued a thinly veiled rebuke of Donald Trump on Thursday over the president’s stance on accepting opposition research from foreign governments on his political adversaries.

Ellen Weintraub, the FEC chair, expressed her disbelief that Trump believed accepting foreign assistance in a U.S. political election was permissible.

FEC chair rebukes Trump over statements on accepting election help from foreign governments

When Obama was either getting or offered money from Palestinians,
he ran into the same complaints that only US citizens abroad could
make such contributions or else it would violate federal election rules.
Illegal Obama donors: Middle Eastern Arabs - WND - WND

Emily,

You do understand that worldnet daily is not a credible source.

World Net Daily (WND)

QUESTIONABLE SOURCE
A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency and/or is fake news. Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation for the purpose of profit or influence (Learn More). Sources listed in the Questionable Category may be very untrustworthy and should be fact checked on a per article basis. Please note sources on this list are not considered fake news unless specifically written in the reasoning section for that source. See all Questionable sources.

• Overall, we rate WND Questionable based on extreme right wing bias, promotion of conspiracy theories and numerous failed fact checks.

Analysis / Bias

Based on reviews by all of our researchers, WND is a Questionable online news source that has a far right bias and dabbles in right wing conspiracies such as President Obama’s birth certificate. They also use misleading clickbait headlines that do not always match the content of the article (See M. Allen’s review below). WND also has a very poor track record with fact checkers:

• “California To Register Illegal Aliens To Vote – Automatically.” – Pants on Fire
• “A U.S. Government Accountability Office report says Planned Parenthood Federation of America cannot find some $1.3 billion given to it by the federal government from 2002 through 2008.” – Pants on fire
• White House spokesman Robert Gibbs “lied” when he said President Obama’s birth certificate is posted on the Internet. – False
• Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya vowed to “drown the United States in Muslims” and is “importing them to Idaho 300 at a time to work in his factory.” – Mostly False
• Elena Kagan Tied to Obama’s Birth Certificate – False

Several different media outlets have criticized WND for both promotion of white nationalism and peddling conspiracy theories. For example, the Washington Post and Columbia Journalism Review has written articles describing WND as Far Right and Alt Right. Further, The Southern Poverty Law Center labels WorldNetDaily as an antigovernment extremist group. (D. Van Zandt 6/19/2016) Updated (12/16/2018). Below is the detailed reviews of each researcher.

WND is deceptive in that their news articles appear moderate and not overtly sensational. However, Snopes has slammed them on many an occasion for parsing of facts, and using inaccurate data. In my opinion, this site with respect to news, is pretty deceiving as on their outward appearances seem well-balanced (scam ads notwithstanding). When you take a look at their Opinion page, their true colors are more evident. This is not a reliable site by any measure for news, and the rest of the site is pretty much a rag. (F. Locke Siewert (2/25/2017)

WND is a decidedly right biased site that does carry some center and slightly left content. This is through linking to reports from less biased sources. For example: The story regarding Black students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The actual article is a fairly well balanced look at the issue by Todd Richmond of the Associated Press. The lead-in line WND used for the article was somewhat misleading, however. By using white supremacists in quotes it seems to imply that it isn’t a factor in the students demands when it is. Where the real bias on the site is evident is on the editorial pages and staff generated articles. Although mostly factual, the wording is heavily weighted and misleading. Carrying some moderate content is not enough, balanced against the editorial stance, to rate WND anything other than right biased and Questionable. (D. Kelley 2/25/2017)

WND is far right/alt-right. This story just came out. Direct quote “The story, nevertheless, was issued by the AP, which explained it obtained an 11-page document that “calls for the unprecedented militarization of immigration enforcement as far north as Portland, Oregon, and as far east as New Orleans, Louisiana.”

The issue here is it doesn’t link to the source but another news outlet that is using the source that then links to the source there. This is something you might find in a typical badly cited essay in college. Always cite original sources when referencing material.

Second issue in article –

“On Thursday, activists protesting Trump’s effort to enforce immigration law carried out a “Day Without Immigrants” protest in which immigrants were to stay home from work or school.

In Denver, some parents left work to take lunch to their children in public schools when the lunchroom workers took part in the protest.”

This is minor but it shows a significant downplay of how wide spread and national the “Day Without Immigrants” was. It shows clear bias in how they view said protest when you marginalize like this. Better solution is to not reference it at all to limit bias in reporting.

Screen capture of their headlines as of 2/17/2017

In these headlines we can see what they want to show the viewer first and what bias may or may not exist here.

Firstly the “PUNKED! Congresswoman Falls For ‘Russian Hacking’ Prank” article is the same one seen on every right leaning website out there, but not picked up by Fox or even Breitbart as of yet. It links only to a Youtube channel. The same group of Russian “Prankstars” also called Sen. McCain. If anybody in this country has ever tried to call a US Rep or US Senator should know, you’ll be lucky to speak to any humans.

This article is with bias against liberals however, it is sourced accurately and the quotes are accurate. Again I take issue with them citing a questionable source like Breitbart which is just citing the actual study. Which they should link directly too.

This image shows the Breitbart link but fails to direct link to the study – the site goes on to deride the lack of teaching US History in history course work throughout many “elite” colleges around the country. Ironically, they fail to follow a standard referencing practice you might learn at one of those colleges of citing primary sources only.

This article links to the Washington Times. This particular article is decent in it’s reporting. There was a study done, now in the Washington Times they reference other entities that decry said report about the illegal registrations. The ODC poll was used in conjunction with a separate poll by The National Hispanic Survey. As per the article: “Inside the poll is a page devoted to voter profiles. Of the randomly selected sample of 800 Hispanics, 56 percent, or 448, said they were non-citizens, and of those, 13 percent said they were registered to vote. The 448 would presumably be a mix of illegal immigrants and non-citizens who are in the U.S. legally, such as visa holders or permanent residents”. As one can see from this their use of the poll is an extremely small sample set to gauge a very broad accusation. However this is just reporting what is being talked about and not making assumptions either way. It could be argued either way that the poll is bad science or not. The most current narrative, especially from those of the right, find polls unreliable mostly and bad predictors. So referencing a poll conducted in 2013 and conjunction with a separate poll using different methods and then trying to make those 2 studies and polls work is dubious at best. However ODC and George Mason are both well respected schools. The issue of this article is the click bait – “VOTER FRAUD” title. There’s no actual case of voter fraud, there’s a case of possible voter registration errors which is a felony but not fraud. (M. Allen 2/25/2017)

Overall, we rate WND Questionable based on extreme right wing bias, promotion of conspiracy theories and numerous failed fact checks. (D. Van Zandt 12/16/2018)

World Net Daily (WND) - Media Bias/Fact Check

 

[IM2]

Washington Free Beacon funded initial Fusion GPS anti-Trump research

The conservative website the Washington Free Beacon triggered the research into then-candidate Donald Trump by Fusion GPS that eventually led to the now-infamous Trump "dossier," the publication's editor-in-chief and chairman acknowledged in a statement Friday night.

The research effort was known to have been supported by Republican allies before the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign picked up the tab for the research, but the original funder of the research was unknown until now. The resulting dossier was compiled by former British spy Michael Steele and contained unsubstantiated allegations about then-candidate Trump's connections to Russia. Mr. Trump has denied the allegations.

The Free Beacon's connection to the dossier was first reported by the Washington Examiner's Byron York Friday night.

Washington Free Beacon funded initial Fusion GPS anti-Trump research

 

[Dale Smith]

Washington Free Beacon funded initial Fusion GPS anti-Trump research

The conservative website the Washington Free Beacon triggered the research into then-candidate Donald Trump by Fusion GPS that eventually led to the now-infamous Trump "dossier," the publication's editor-in-chief and chairman acknowledged in a statement Friday night.

The research effort was known to have been supported by Republican allies before the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign picked up the tab for the research, but the original funder of the research was unknown until now. The resulting dossier was compiled by former British spy Michael Steele and contained unsubstantiated allegations about then-candidate Trump's connections to Russia. Mr. Trump has denied the allegations.

The Free Beacon's connection to the dossier was first reported by the Washington Examiner's Byron York Friday night.

Washington Free Beacon funded initial Fusion GPS anti-Trump research

"After the Free Beacon stopped funding the research, the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign's law firm, Perkins Coie, picked up the deal with Simpson’s company Fusion GPS.[9] In June 2016, Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, a former MI6 agent, to obtain information on Trump. Steele used his "old contacts and farmed out other research to native Russian speakers who made phone calls on his behalf".[11] After November 2016, funding from the Democratic Party ceased, and Simpson reportedly spent his own money to fund further work on the dossier.[12]"


Glenn R. Simpson - Wikipedia

As a side note? Tell me again as to why I should hesitate to wear a MAGA hat.......do you think you could knock it off my head without serious repercussions you couldn't handle? Please explain further....

(snicker)

 

[Aldo Raine]

Let the "Whataboutism" begin!

If it is so important to prosecute some hinge so egregious as done by Clinton, why is it so necessary to defend it when done by Trump?

"Whataboutism's" second edge of a sword.

Specifically, what was done by President Donald Trump?

Trump specifically obstructed justice and has been a compulsive serial malicious liar and dork.

Those are actually his best qualities!

 

[bripat9643]

The Pres said he might listen and if it rises to the "The FBI" needs to know then pass it on. Sounds fair.

Greg

No. It sounds and is illegal and a crime.

Sad to see so many Americans who have no problem with such a serious crime.

I'm sure those same Americans would be totally up in arms if any democratic president did and said will do the same thing.

It's not a crime, dumbass. Listening to people talk is perfectly legal, no matter who they are.

 

[Markle]

No. It sounds and is illegal and a crime.

Sad to see so many Americans who have no problem with such a serious crime.

I'm sure those same Americans would be totally up in arms if any democratic president did and said will do the same thing.

You're very desperate, aren't you?

Specifically, try to push your toxic hatred aside for a moment, how is it illegal..."and a crime", to read or listen to something. Before that, how can anyone make a determination whether or not that something, is illegal?

 

[Markle]

Trump accepted the help. And accepting assistance from foreign governments is wrong as it pertains to elections.

NO COLLUSION. What part of that is not clear to you?

 

[Markle]

Trump feeds you fake news and you suck it up because Trump is your white hope. That's what you do.

Curious. Progressives always resort to RACIST when backed into a corner, have nothing, and are desperate. So cute, and so predictable.