WickedsDesire
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MusicMystery attacked your desolate brain poverty Boscox? Bested you easily with a complete void, no doubt. As you tried firstly, as usual, to warp reality with that malfunctioning pea brain of yours and change the subject to a completely different pack of lies splattered all over you from townhall.com, no doubt. In January, US intelligence agencies said Kremlin-backed hackers had broken into the email accounts of senior Democrats and released embarrassing messages in order to help Mr Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. "That was a fairly easy judgement for the community," Mr Comey said. "Putin hated Secretary Clinton so much that the flipside of that coin was he had a clear preference for the person running against the person he hated so much." However, late last summer the Russians concluded that Mr Trump had no chance of winning, based on polls at the time, and so focused on undermining Mrs Clinton, Mr Comey said. Both intelligence chiefs said that Russia had made its intervention in last year's election campaign unusually obvious, perhaps to further its aim of undermining US democracy. Mr Comey said Russia had succeeded in this goal, by sowing chaos, division and discord. Mr Trump has since faced allegations that his campaign team had links to Russian officials. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has said he saw no evidence of any collusion, up until the time he left his post in January. National Security Agency (NSA) chief Admiral Mike Rogers also appeared before the committee. He said the NSA stood by an intelligence community report published in January, which said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered a campaign to harm the campaign of Mr Trump's rival, Hillary Clinton. 'No wiretap on Trump Tower' Mr Comey said he had no information on unsubstantiated claims tweeted by Mr Trump this month that former President Barack Obama had ordered a wiretap on Trump Tower. This was despite looking carefully for such evidence, he said. The Department of Justice also had no information, he said. Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who had ties to pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians? No comment. Long-time Trump adviser Roger Stone, who reportedly had communications with individuals who hacked the Democratic National Committee emails? No comment. Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign after leaked evidence surfaced that he had communicated with a Russian ambassador about US sanctions? No comment. "I don't want to answer any questions about a US person," Mr Comey said. All of this is evidence that the investigation isn't just ongoing, it's substantive and far-reaching. While Democrats will likely be encouraged by this, it was telling that Republicans pursued the White House line - that the topic of greatest concern was the intelligence leaks that put this story in the headlines. If Mr Trump can consolidate his party's support, it will go a long way towards insulating the president against any fallout from this investigation.
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