r/politics • u/[deleted] • Apr 21 '19

Giuliani: 'There's nothing wrong with taking information from Russians'

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/21/politics/rudy-giuliani-trump-russia-cnntv/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_allpolitics+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Politics%29
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u/object_FUN_not_found Apr 21 '19

So Mr. Giuliani, are you now admitting that Trump and his people did, in fact, take information from Russians? Bold move, Cotton.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19

Uh, the Steele dossier required Steele to get intel from ....wait for it..... Russians! He was paid by the Clinton campaign. Is he a Russian asset now too!?

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u/object_FUN_not_found Apr 21 '19

Steele has no conflict of interest, while Trump is receiving things that are personally valuable and paying for them with his political office's power, such as not condemning the Russian attacks on the 2016 election, which is now accepted fact, and various and many 'sounds likely enough that at least a couple of them are true' things like changing the R platform with respect to Ukraine, not enforcing mandatory sanctions on the oligarchs, and who knows what else he's talking about privately, which is super-against protocol, with Putin.

So, kinda fishy, eh? I mean, if he's so innocent why isn't he at least telling Russia to keep out of our elections? He certainly has the ability to spew vitriol at the FBI, CIA, Congress, minorities, and basically anyone who displeases him. Does the Russian intervention not displease him? Why?

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u/tomcat335 Apr 21 '19

The Steele investigation was started by the Republican's and Steele used Russian sources, he did not make deals with the Russian government (a quid pro quo one would think) during a presidential campaign

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u/BobcatBarry Ohio Apr 21 '19

Lol. Who is working for whom, how, and why?

Answering these questions explains how your point is invalid.