Pushing for more investigations and briefings for the electors of the Electoral College in an apparent last ditch attempt to try to get the outcome of last month’s presidential election changed, former Clinton campaign chair John Podesta today accused members of Donald Trump’s campaign of working with the Russian government to hack the Democrats.
Podesta said he didn’t think President-elect Trump himself was “part of the plan,” but that he thought members of the campaign “went off the reservation” and started working with the Russians, saying that the Electoral College needs to know that before they vote.
“The Russians were trying to elect a lap dog,” Podesta said of Trump’s campaign, saying that the electors have a right to know what “Trump Inc.” knew and when they knew it, along with how closely in touch with the Russian government they were.
Democratic Party leadership has blamed Russia for the hacking since the summer, and made the narrative of Trump being a Manchurian candidate a centerpiece of the Clinton campaign. Parts of the US intelligence community have endorsed this allegation, though so far no public evidence has been offered to support it.
The Electoral College meets Monday, and from the result of the November election, Trump should have the 270 majority needed well in hand. There may be some faithless electors, but most of the ones pushing for Russia hacking briefings were Democrats in the first place, who were going to vote for Clinton either way.
We already know that Democrats speak at two levels. The private and the public and the private needs to be translated into public talk. I think Podesta means that the Sanders supporters got the DNC info or hacked into it and provided the info to Wikipedia to divulge.
jason is ditzy
All that — just to avoid Podesta’s and Clinton’s unsavory links to Saudis, getting rid of Sander’s threat to her candidacy, getting debate questions — and not reporting it. Such ommission is a serious one — could result in candidate disquification. So, screams about Russia. Many birds with one stone — hit Trump and his change of foreign policy, hit Wikileaks by suggesting they are Moscow tool, and tarnish Trump’s nominees. She will not leave politics. She is ready to work with Saudis to undermine any attempt at calming Middle East. She belongs to the category of people like Samantha Power — people who lie and lie, until stopped. Some never think of the damage to the country. They just want to “win”. The elite that stand behind her is a vindictive bunch — not exactly concerned with the national interest either. With dinossaur Repuicans like McCain and Graham — dedicated to defending Hillary and undermining Trump, it wi not be easy. Very few Republicans are prepared to ditch their cushy campaign contributions rolling into their coffers from the same money bags funding Hillary. But they are forgetting — many were reelected with Trump voters. Many of them pinched noses to vote for those fossils, just to get Republicans in out of loyalty to Trump. But many are still just as confused as Democrats — and think nothing has changed. Trump is already rising in polls as many people are just starting to learn of his positions. Many people thought he was going to be another politician and immediatly cave in on foreign policy. His tour after the election impressed many — as he repeated with even more clarity his perspective on chaos that is our foreign policy — and how this hurts America.
Amazing that Podesta, the press and just about every ‘progressive’ is calling for what can only be described as a coup. They only want, and they always want more.
man, Trump is probably going to really sweep out some of these guys in the CIA and NSA etc who spread this nonsense about russia “hacking the election”…. whatever that means
Wikileaks insists it wasn’t the russians who gave them the DNC and podesta files etc
So Podesta emailed passwords, he is not Russian, DNC staff member emailed passwords, she was not Russian, DWS sabotaged Bernie with Louis Miranda op, stole his election, neither Russian, Seth Rich Suspected, He is not Russian, Donna leaked debate info to Clinton, she is not Russian..Hillary can’t recall what happened 20 + times.., she is not Russian, 650k us gov emails wind up on a pedophiles laptop, and he is not Russian, Several foreign agencies got it..but not the Russians, Huma does not know how they got there, she is not Russian..50 million people wanted Clinton to lose, most of them not Russian, there being 3.5 million in the US.I wanted Trump to win, I am not Russian..what is wrong with this picture?
Podesta and the rest of the DNC leadership are pathetic. They take no responsibility for the content of their emails. If they were going to write this stuff in emails they should have had enough sense to make sure it was secure.
The DNC can’t accept the reality that they “selected” a poor candidate far beyond her “sell by date” and then ran an even worse campaign. The election was theirs to loose and they did – end of story. The Russians didn’t do it to them; they did it to themselves.
Democrats should be demanding that the entire DNC leadership resign and crawl under a rock never to be heard from again.
Yes, John Molesta is keen to divert attention to the alleged Russian role in hacking and away from the content of the emails.
I know this is not nice,but all these scum need good beatings.
Democracy demands it!:)
Doesn’t Podesta have some “fresh pizza” to attend to ?
Rusian election hack or Pizzagate, which is more likely to be true. Hmmm think I’ll bet on Pizzagate.
Well Podesta we do know that you worked with CNN and the DNC to usurp Bernie Sanders.