2016 Presidential Election Thread

The FBI released more documents on their non-investigation of Hillary. Among them was this gem

"[Redacted] explained that CLINTON’s treatment of DS agents on her protective detail was so contemptuous that many of them sought reassignment or employment elsewhere,” the interview summary says. “Prior to CLINTON’s tenure, being an agent on the Secretary of State’s protective detail was seen as an honor and privilege reserved for senior agents. However, by the end of CLINTON’s tenure, it was staffed largely with new agents because it was difficult to find senior agents willing to work for her."​

Dogs and federal body guards are good judges of character. Hillary is contemptible to both. Remember Buddy? She had him killed before Bill was even out of office a year. It was the easiest way to guarantee his silence.

Rumor has it that when Secret Service agents were chosen to guard Marvel (Ivanka) instead of Witch, they fell on their knees and said "Thank you God!"

The White House Press Secretary, in response to a question about Donald Trump's call for drug testing before the third debate:

"You’re telling me that the candidate who snorted his way through the first two debates is accusing the other candidate of taking drugs? That’s a curious development in the campaign."

Donald doesn't even drink.

It's so cute that you believe that Donald always tells the truth. I hope no one breaks the news to you that Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy aren't real. Whoops!

So the drug test is on, then?

Disgraceful if the stories about Wikileaks are true...the US threatening Ecuador and taking sides on behalf of one of the two candidates to stop uncomfortable information from getting out.

Let's hope! Hillary has a pharmacy circulating through her veins. I'm betting Levidopa, Ropinirole, Tolcapone, Apaxiban, and a bunch of others.

this would be much more informative if it separated political reporting from other media jobs. It hardly matters if the food and lifestyle correspondent is a Democrat or not.

CrokedDonald doesn't pay. Wonder if Kellyanne will be filing a suit next spring?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/

Do you consider it equally disgraceful that the leaks appears to be coming from Russia? Or is interfering with another countries elections only bad if America does it?

Doubtful. You're lucky to get mail every other week if you're out to sea, which is why I didn't vote for 2012.

The leaks aren't coming from Russia, they're coming from the DNC, Hillary's illegal server, and John Podesta.

Which ones came from Hilary's illegal server? Maybe I missed something, but it seems to me that's the only one that hasn't been hacked.

She has a doctor's prescription - sent by secure e-mail of course!

More from Wikileaks

As if it wasn't already completely obvious, NBC is just an arm of the Clinton campaign.

From:jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com
To: hdr29@hrcoffice.com, john.podesta@gmail.com, ha16@hillaryclinton.com, re47@hillaryclinton.com, kschake@hillaryclinton.com
Date: 2015-05-02 13:23
Subject: WJC NBC interview

MS et al -

We got a readout of WJC's NBC interview from our friends in Africa.

Going in, NBC agreed to do 70 percent of the piece on work of the Foundation and 30 percent about the book. Cynthia McFadden was the interviewer and didn't ask one question about work of the Foundation. Not one.

Absurdly, NBC is still promising Craig that they will stick by 70-30 agreement by using footage of the events and Cynthia describing the work of the Foundation. Not sure it will help, but I called Chuck Todd (as head of political unit) to let him know how outrageous and ludicrous this was and that our side of the house is watching to see how NBC handles this. The piece will air on Monday on the Today show.

I think we have to make this public. We are being hit by the press for not getting more attention for the good work of the Foundation, take a network to Africa to see the work, give them an interview with the President, and they do not ask ONE question about the work of the Foundation.​

As Anna mentioned, military absentee voting is hit-or-miss. By the time you get the ballots (which you the individual cannot send in - everything has to go through your unit "voting officer" who then delegates the voting to underlings who are out on field exercises, rotated back to the US, are on vacation, retired, or deceased) it might already be too late. Even if everyone in your unit voting chain is "on point" you have to depend on the mail to get the ballots in (back to the US) on time. In 1994 we were cleaning out an old building and found our whole unit's "absentee ballots" from 1992 that were never sent back to the US. Granted I retired in 2006 and there may well be a system in place to ensure that every military member has the opportunity to vote. I hope there is! BTW contrary to popular belief, "the military" does not always vote Republican, especially the army. We are chock-full of minorities so a large percentage vote Democrat - so it's not a partisan thing, it's a typical military not giving a fuck/incompetence issue.

And I'm just going to drop this here.

Hillary's campaign just keeps billing their small donors to make them unwilling large donors.

I love the fact that RT had an article up about the new Wikileaks dump before Wikileaks posted it.

Oopsie!

Maybe it seems that way because no US mainstream media sites are covering the leaks.

gturner doesn't understand how interviews work either. If some musician has a new album out and grants interviews with news outlets, do you seriously think those interviews don't happen on the condition that some percentage of the interview actually be about the new album?

I hadn't seen that. Do you have a link?

Gee. That's not how stories about Republicans work.

Meanwhile, it looks like all the FBI agents are going to go public and burn both Comey and Clinton.

DC story

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Agents Say Comey ‘Stood In The Way’ Of Clinton Email Investigation​

It ends with:

People inside the bureau are furious. They are embarrassed. They feel like they are being led by a hack but more than that that they think he’s a crook. They think he’s fundamentally dishonest. They have no confidence in him. The bureau inside right now is a mess.”

He added, “The most important thing of all is that the agents have decided that they are going to talk.”​

It also mentions that Comey thought this would all go away, but the agents insist it's not, it's going to explode.

...and you poo-poo Slate? Don't get me wrong, I don't trust anything Slate says, but I don't site Daily Caller or Breitbart either.

Agents have been saying such things since Comey gave his absolutely shameful press conference.

Personally I love the fact that he is so completely clueless. Every time he posts one of these "revelations" that everybody interacts with the media in much the way everybody interacts with the media, I get a good laugh.

The media is not supposed to interact that way. Just ask someone in the media.

Meanwhile, Hillary has either committed perjury or lied to the FBI. Both are crimes.


Clinton changes story, admits she didn’t have permission for secret email server

Hillary Clinton admitted under oath this week that she doesn’t recall asking anyone for permission to use a secret server and email account during her time in the State Department, contradicting previous public pronouncements that she had received approval.​

From Vanity Fair

FORGET THE ELECTION: WHY HILLARY CLINTON MAY BE THE MOST HATED PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME
Hacked e-mails released by Wikileaks reveal the Clintons are exactly what their nemeses feared.



If not for the fact that her opponent is Donald Trump,Hillary Clinton would almost certainly be losing this election. As it is, Republicans have hardly had a chance to capitalize on Clinton’s multitudinous e-mail scandals, so busy have they been defending and apologizing for their gaffe-prone presidential nominee. In a more ordinary year, WikiLeaks’s “October Surprise” might have been the nail in the coffin for the Democrats’ unusually unpopular candidate. Instead, the trove of stolen e-mails released by the anti-secrecy organization have mostly gotten lost amid Trump’s horrific sexual-harassment and -assault allegations. Still, the latest leaked campaign documents are damning in their revelation that the Clintons are exactly what their always nemeses feared: back-stabbing, calculating, venal, opportunistic. Regaining the public trust will be an uphill battle, and perhaps an impossible one, in this political environment.​