An Electoral College Coup: The Clinton Campaign Now Suggests the Election Was Rigged

[Vyxn]

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - Only a few weeks ago Hillary Clinton’s campaign was denouncing Donald Trump as un-American for saying the election might be “rigged.” We criticized Mr. Trump at the time. But now that Mrs. Clinton has lost, her campaign is claiming the election really was rigged, albeit for Mr. Trump by Russian meddling, and it wants the Electoral College to stage what amounts to a coup.
That’s the only way to interpret the extraordinary statement Monday by Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta endorsing a special intelligence briefing for electors a week before they cast their ballots for President on Dec. 19. He released the statement hours after 10 members of the Electoral College sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper seeking information on foreign interference in the election to judge if Mr. Trump “is fit to serve.” One of those electors is House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s daughter.
“The bipartisan electors’ letter raises very grave issues involving our national security. Electors have a solemn responsibility under the Constitution and we support their efforts to have their questions addressed,” Mr. Podesta said. “We now know that the CIA has determined Russia’s interference in our elections was for the purpose of electing Donald Trump. This should distress every American.”
What should really distress Americans is that the losers are trying to overturn the election results based on little more than anonymous leaks and innuendo. Whatever Russia’s hacking motives, there is no evidence that the emails it turned up were decisive to the election result. Mr. Podesta is citing a CIA judgment that Americans have never seen and whose findings are vaguely public only because one or more unidentified officials chose to relate them to a few reporters last week.
Much of the press is reporting these as the gospel truth, though it isn’t clear that the CIA’s judgment is even shared across the intelligence community. The FBI doesn’t share the CIA’s confidence about Russia’s hacking motive, and our sources say the evidence is thin for the CIA’s conclusion.
Yet Mr. Podesta’s demand is that those same unidentified leakers now give a secret briefing to the 538 electors, most of whom lack any experience in judging the nuances of intelligence. Those electors are then supposed to decide based on information Americans won’t have seen whether they should invalidate the results of an election in which more than 128 million voted. Even Vladimir Putin at his most devious couldn’t have imagined his cyber-spooks would provoke this much anti-democratic nonsense.
http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/12/13...ion-was-rigged

It is Democrats that are a threat to our democracy not the Russians
All the Russians did was help make the public more informed that information being illegally obtained doesn't make it false information
They just exposed the public to the truth

[Super Friendly Kitty Cat]

We really dodged a bullet this election not electing Clinton and her corrupt cronies.

[Very Tired]

Good thing Donald Trump agrees.

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being illegally obtained doesn't make it false information

Not according to our legal system.
You can have proof a guy is a murder, but if you obtained that information by breaking the 4th, the court isn't going to take it.

[Deleted]

The serpent showing her fangs.

[zenkai]

Talk about a sore loser, I may not be a fan of Trump but oh do I savor Hillary's tears. I think the fact she really thought she had it in the bag made the loss that much sweeter.

[purebalance]

I find this whole thing funny when the left kept calling Trump a baby and potential sore loser when he was saying if he lost he would definitely contest the lost and now the very people are showing themselves to be hypocrites.

[Kaleredar]

The electoral college can vote however it wants. It wouldn't be a "coup" in the least.

Besides. Trump agrees that the election was rigged. He's just claiming that a bunch of illegal voters voted for Clinton and that he should have won by millions of votes without a single piece of proof.

All Hillary Clinton has to go off of is... the word of the CIA.

[Super Friendly Kitty Cat]

The serpent showing her fangs.

You know Huma Abedin's tongue is getting a work out, while Clinton sits there chain smoking and drinking Chardonnay.

[Nihilanth]

--SNIP--

Don't post spam

[Kaleredar]

It is Democrats that are a threat to our democracy not the Russians

I think I can hear McCarthy spinning in his grave.

All the Russians did was help make the public more informed that information being illegally obtained doesn't make it false information

It calls the validity of that information into question for one. For two, illegally obtained information isn't legally admissable as... anything.

They just exposed the public to the truth

Glad to think you think Russia has America's best interests in mind.


The rest of us sane people can see that Russia knows Trump is a weak candidate and that a weak US means a stronger Russia.

Ask yourself... why did Russia release the information they released? Why didn't they release any info on Trump? What's their end goal?

Because none of those answers will be anything good for the United States.

*snip*

*Murdered on her behalf
*Rigged debates
*voter Fraud


source needed. I know Trump has established a precedent of saying whatever he wants without proof, but not all of us are as dumb as his supporters.

[Glorious Leader]

The electoral college performing its constitutional function is not a coup by any means. I mean you can argue the college is bad and the popular vote should be used instead but ohhh yea

[want my Slimjim]

Lol looks like Hillary is getting even more desperate

[netherflame]

Good thing Donald Trump agrees.

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Not according to our legal system.
You can have proof a guy is a murder, but if you obtained that information by breaking the 4th, the court isn't going to take it.

If you obtain text message records of some women setting up a hit on her husband illegally that doesn't make them any less factual regardless of if the court accepts it or not, those show that it happened.

[Cthulhu 2020]

The electoral college performing its constitutional function is not a coup by any means. I mean you can argue the college is bad and the popular vote should be used instead but ohhh yea

Don't come into a Hillary bashing thread with logic. Your kind isn't welcome round here.

[Glorious Leader]

Don't come into a Hillary bashing thread with logic. Your kind isn't welcome round here.

Now skeeter they aint hurtin anybody

[Kaleredar]

If you obtain text message records of some women setting up a hit on her husband illegally that doesn't make them any less factual regardless of if the court accepts it or not, those show that it happened.

This situation is more akin to "Someone you don't know with dubious motives and sources sends you a text message they claim to be from someone to try and make you believe something."

[Glorious Leader]

Should note that no matter how constituional this is its still not likely to happen. Trumps supporters are easily triggered when they neednt be. Although i suspect their are more than a few conservatives who would privately welcome this.

[Molis]

It has always been rigged since we started this two party shit.

You only need to win (five?) states

[zenkai]

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To bad the conspiracy theories ruined a good meme.

[Belize]

Holy shit the clickbait is unbelievable.

You guys truly are the saltiest winners.