Can Someone Help Me Find Sanders Disavowel of Russian Aid in 2016 Campaign?

[JimBowie1958]

I cant believe that Bernie is not going to disavow Russian assistance.

Come on Bernie, pretend this was the KKK!

Sanders silent on claim that Russians backed him in 2016

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

I cant believe that Bernie is not going to disavow Russian assistance.

Come on Bernie, pretend this was the KKK!

Sanders silent on claim that Russians backed him in 2016

Yeah, they've discovered a way to shut Democrats up.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Socialists of a feather, flock together.

 

[Tehon]

What is this?


“It has been clear to everyone (except Donald Trump) that Russia was deeply involved in the 2016 elections and intends to be involved in the 2018 elections. It is the American people who should be deciding the political future of our country, not Mr. Putin and the Russian oligarchs,”

Bernie Sanders

 

[JimBowie1958]

What is this?


“It has been clear to everyone (except Donald Trump) that Russia was deeply involved in the 2016 elections and intends to be involved in the 2018 elections. It is the American people who should be deciding the political future of our country, not Mr. Putin and the Russian oligarchs,”

Bernie Sanders

That is not Bernie saying he denounces any Russian involvement and refuses to take their money, like you libtards were demanding of Trump every time some racist rightwing inbred crayon eater claimed to support Trump.

 

[Tehon]

What is this?


“It has been clear to everyone (except Donald Trump) that Russia was deeply involved in the 2016 elections and intends to be involved in the 2018 elections. It is the American people who should be deciding the political future of our country, not Mr. Putin and the Russian oligarchs,”

Bernie Sanders

That is not Bernie saying he denounces any Russian involvement and refuses to take their money, like you libtards were demanding of Trump every time some racist rightwing inbred crayon eater claimed to support Trump.

Bernie took their money?

 

[whitehall]

The Mueller probe revealed that democrats were played by foreign agents like a freaking violin. Russian agents undermined the Hillary campaign when she was the front runner and supported Sanders while ironically Hillary activists were using dirty tricks to undermine Sanders. The key is the mainstream media. Sanders career would have been over last spring if (Russian agents?) the MSM didn't downplay a crazy democrat operative Sanders supporter who opened fire on a republican baseball team. How many people even remember the name James Hodgkinson? He lived out of his car in Washington for a month before he opened fire on republicans and he had a list of conservative congresspeople in his pocket. Did the Sanders people furnish Hodgkinson with the republican baseball schedule and other republican targets? We will never know because lame MSN inquiries were met with silence by the DNC and they buried the story faster than they buried Hodgkinson

 

[JimBowie1958]

What is this?


“It has been clear to everyone (except Donald Trump) that Russia was deeply involved in the 2016 elections and intends to be involved in the 2018 elections. It is the American people who should be deciding the political future of our country, not Mr. Putin and the Russian oligarchs,”

Bernie Sanders

That is not Bernie saying he denounces any Russian involvement and refuses to take their money, like you libtards were demanding of Trump every time some racist rightwing inbred crayon eater claimed to support Trump.

Bernie took their money?

Did Trump take KKK money?>

Please try to stay on topic, brainfry

 

[Tehon]

What is this?


“It has been clear to everyone (except Donald Trump) that Russia was deeply involved in the 2016 elections and intends to be involved in the 2018 elections. It is the American people who should be deciding the political future of our country, not Mr. Putin and the Russian oligarchs,”

Bernie Sanders

That is not Bernie saying he denounces any Russian involvement and refuses to take their money, like you libtards were demanding of Trump every time some racist rightwing inbred crayon eater claimed to support Trump.

Bernie took their money?

Did Trump take KKK money?>

Please try to stay on topic, brainfry

I am on topic. Bernie disavowed the alleged Russian interference. When pointed out you changed the subject to Trump and threw in caveats that were irrelevant to Bernie Sanders.

You're tired Jim, you should probably lie down for a spell.

 

[Stratford57]

Meet Bernie Sanders, another Russian agent (according to Mueller). I bet he was surprised to hear that...

 

[usmbguest5318]

I cant believe that Bernie is not going to disavow Russian assistance.

What I would prefer not to believe, but the information thus available prevents me from so disbelieving, is that Trump sees the matter as one of whose presidential aspirations the Russians chose to advance or impede. Quite simply, whom the Russians favored is irrelevant! What matters is what the Russians did and how various Americans responded to what the Russians did; thus what matters is:

• That the Russians successfully inserted themselves insidiously into the American political process.
• That any American(s) (particularly candidates, presidential or otherwise, themselves), with regard to Russia's efforts to interfere in the American political process, did anything other than flat-out reject whatever overtures Russians made toward them.
• That so many "regular" Americans attitudes are formed absent rigorous examination of assertions made by seekers of high public office and trust.
• Time and time again, in the face of repeated remonstrations from highly credible sources including the USIC, Congress and his own Justice Department, Trump persisted in denying the veracity of the assertions of senior American officials, analysts and investigators and the mountain of evidentiary material they surely presented to him.
• That Trump to this day sees as the most important aspect of the "Russia thing" as how it makes him look and what impact it may have on the legitimacy of his being POTUS. Indeed, Trump once remarked, "I don't know Putin, have no deals in Russia." Well, if that be so, there would be no reason for him to incessantly resist the "Russia" investigation and repeatedly aver that he had no role in it. Lots of people had nothing to do with Russia's manipulative efforts, and, surprise, we don't hear them trying to deny having a role. Why? Because they know goddamn well that nobody will find their "fingerprints" anywhere in, on, around or near the Russian's undertakings. Quite simply, of things one did not did, there will be no evidence indicating one did them. Even a five year-old knows that much, yet Donald Trump, the POTUS, clearly does not.
• That with regard to the investigation into Russia's meddling, Trump prioritizes himself over the democratic electoral process in the U.S.
• That with regard to despoiling Russia's ability to successfully repeat its meddling in future elections, Trump has not explicitly ordered his USIC to take action.
• That Trump, with his casting the "Russia" matter as political rather than as criminal, perpetuates discord among the electorate, which is among the very ends the Russians sought to accomplish.

The only reason Trump features in the matter at all is that he may have been (and may still be) among the body of Americans who were party to Russia's co-opting of the American electoral process. Were he involved, yes, the significance of the meddling's having happened is increased; however, that the meddling happened at all, notwithstanding the extent to which it happened, is immensely significant in its own right. Trump apparently still does not understand that it is, how it is or why it is, not even at the most puerile level of comprehension, which is it being criminal.

Can Someone Help Me Find Sanders Disavowel of Russian Aid in 2016 Campaign?

If the man didn't respond positively to any Russian's overtures to aid and abet his campaign, what is there for him to say? We already know the Trump team did respond positively to such overtures and we know the Trump team knew they were "getting in bed" with Russians when they so responded.

 

[JimBowie1958]

What is this?


“It has been clear to everyone (except Donald Trump) that Russia was deeply involved in the 2016 elections and intends to be involved in the 2018 elections. It is the American people who should be deciding the political future of our country, not Mr. Putin and the Russian oligarchs,”

Bernie Sanders

That is not Bernie saying he denounces any Russian involvement and refuses to take their money, like you libtards were demanding of Trump every time some racist rightwing inbred crayon eater claimed to support Trump.

Bernie took their money?

Did Trump take KKK money?>

Please try to stay on topic, brainfry

I am on topic. Bernie disavowed the alleged Russian interference. When pointed out you changed the subject to Trump and threw in caveats that were irrelevant to Bernie Sanders.

You're tired Jim, you should probably lie down for a spell.

This is not a disavowel of the Russians nor that he would refuse taking their money again.

“It has been clear to everyone (except Donald Trump) that Russia was deeply involved in the 2016 elections and intends to be involved in the 2018 elections. It is the American people who should be deciding the political future of our country, not Mr. Putin and the Russian oligarchs,”​

You need to stop making things up.

 

[JimBowie1958]

If the man didn't respond positively to any Russian's overtures to aid and abet his campaign, what is there for him to say? We already know the Trump team did respond positively to such overtures and we know the Trump team knew they were "getting in bed" with Russians when they so responded.

But taking aid from Russian operatives just doesnt count?

roflmao, OK, whatever.

 

[Tehon]

What is this?


“It has been clear to everyone (except Donald Trump) that Russia was deeply involved in the 2016 elections and intends to be involved in the 2018 elections. It is the American people who should be deciding the political future of our country, not Mr. Putin and the Russian oligarchs,”

Bernie Sanders

That is not Bernie saying he denounces any Russian involvement and refuses to take their money, like you libtards were demanding of Trump every time some racist rightwing inbred crayon eater claimed to support Trump.

Bernie took their money?

Did Trump take KKK money?>

Please try to stay on topic, brainfry

I am on topic. Bernie disavowed the alleged Russian interference. When pointed out you changed the subject to Trump and threw in caveats that were irrelevant to Bernie Sanders.

You're tired Jim, you should probably lie down for a spell.

This is not a disavowel of the Russians nor that he would refuse taking their money again.

“It has been clear to everyone (except Donald Trump) that Russia was deeply involved in the 2016 elections and intends to be involved in the 2018 elections. It is the American people who should be deciding the political future of our country, not Mr. Putin and the Russian oligarchs,”​

You need to stop making things up.

When did he take their money? Answer that so we can see who is or isn't making things up.

 

[usmbguest5318]

If the man didn't respond positively to any Russian's overtures to aid and abet his campaign, what is there for him to say? We already know the Trump team did respond positively to such overtures and we know the Trump team knew they were "getting in bed" with Russians when they so responded.

But taking aid from Russian operatives just doesnt count?

roflmao, OK, whatever.

But taking aid from Russian operatives just doesnt count?

It depends on the nature of the transaction.

• If "aid" is donations or consideration (cash or in kind) given to and retained/used by a political campaign, it counts.
  • Consideration
    For the "aid" to be construed as consideration, one must establish:
    • Actus reus -- that a contract (written or verbal; express or implied) did indeed exist between the parties involved, and among the contract's terms were provisions:
      • that the non-American party contracted to receive an actual or potential opportunity to participate in the electoral/political process, and
      • that the American party contracted to provide an actual or potential opportunity to participate in the electoral/political process
    • Mens rea -- that the exchange of consideration was indeed for "something" pertinent to a political campaign/electoral process.
  • Donations -- There is generally no contract in a donor-benefactor situation. The one exception is a pledge to make a donation. There is no prohibition against anyone pledging to donate to a political campaign; there are prohibitions (nature and extent) only on certain types of actual donations.
• If the we're talking about lawfully exchanged consideration for non-electoral process goods/services, no, it doesn't count. In this situation, "aid" is really just payment. In exchanges, "aid" generally implies an "in kind" medium of exchange whereas "payment" suggests a monetary medium of exchange. (Yes, one can use the terms interchangeably/euphemistically, but contextual and factual ambiguity is greatly reduced if one doesn't.)