Does it worry anybody else that Trump supporters...

@BizSuitStacy You implied the public hadn't seen the redacted documents: they have.

Redactions could hide incriminating details, there is just no reason, from the unredacted portion, to believe that is the case. It looks instead like an attempted fishing expedition.

The reasons for redactions generally are to mask sources and methods that are important for counter-intelligence operations.

@WoodyAq I implied nothing of the sort. I said the public hasn't seen the documents - and until the unredacted are released - as far as I'm concerned, they haven't.

A fishing expedition? Where did you come up with that though? Oh wait. That's right - this whole "investigation" into Trump is the fishing expedition. Let's investigate Trump for "collusion with the Russians" in hopes we can find a crime to impeach.

@BizSuitStacy Hmmm. Where to begin 🤔 These are the known (admitted) facts.

1) The Russians used their foreign intelligence apparatus to intervene in favour of the Trump campaign.

2) Key members of the Trump campaign were aware of this effort, and expressed enthusiasm for cooperating with it at the time.

3) All these members, and Trump himself, lied about this knowledge and willingness after the fact.

These facts warrant investigation ... and far better explanations than Trump has given so far.

@SW-User I'd love to know how it's "in our favour" too, because as a Latino, it sure ain't looking good under him for People of Colour. And it's also not looking good for women or our LGBT+ comrades.

@SW-User Which of the accusations is laughable?

@basilfawlty89 It isn't "looking good" for these groups of people? What is it that you think is going to happen to them? Genocide? This is the stigma of hysteria that exists in society where you believe are victims of oppression that does not exist.

@HoraceGreenley Hey, isn't that the guy that Putin told Trump was actually responsible for cyberattacks against America?

@WoodyAq You are wasting your time. The only thing they have is hypocritical memes.

@Northwest Ah yes, the meme... the last refuge of the dim, hyperpartisan and the stable genius.

@AgapeLove No, he was taking pictures I had posted on SW, like selfies I was sharing and whatnot, saving them to his desktop, and then trying to doctor them to make it look like I'd stolen the picture off of someone's social media. He did a shitty job though and forgot to delete his own watermarks from Lunapic.com and stuff like that.

@BizSuitStacy I'm talking about how they are spreading nonsense aimed at providing political cover for Trump to shutdown the Russia investigation.

@WoodyAq what political cover? People simply don't believe there was any collusion between Trump and the Russians. Two years into the investigation and there is NOTHING. It's not even logical to think Russia would prefer Trump. Why would the Russians torpedo the campaign of a woman who gave them the reset button and handed over 20% of the USA's uranium rights?

People hate Trump. We get that. But it's even easier for Trump supporters to turn the argument the other way and say that the investigation is a hoax in order to sway the midterms in November because the ultimate goal is to impeach.

The best part of this... The FISA memos are getting declassified. We will all get to see the truth for ourselves. We are already seeing the pushback coming from the left in the name of "protecting national security." The truth is these folks are squirming because they are about to be exposed for propogating one of the greatest political conspiracies in this country's history. If I'm wrong...I will profusely apologize, but don't bet on it.

@BizSuitStacy
Well, you've kinda illustrated the point. Trump is desperately trying to discredit an investigation that hasn't concluded, and has yet to report its key findings, in the hopes that when the facts come out, people simply won't believe them.

But the facts so far are NOT NOTHING. Trump's assertion that the Russians did not meddle in the 2016 election (and continues to meddle now) has shown to be categorically false. At least 5 members of the Trump campaign were aware of these efforts and had meetings and correspondence with agents representing the Kremlin. Not only did they not notify the FBI about the Russians' intentions, but they systematically lied about it (two pled guilty to lying) but Don Jr. expressed a desire to work with the Russian government.

This cooperation coincided with pro-Russian changes to Republicans' policy platform.

And yet you, and other Trump supporters deride all this as nothing, and want to given Russia a free pass on attacking America.

@FreeSpirit1 I've never thought of national security as cute before...

@WoodyAq no it's cute that you think anything crosses party lines.

@FreeSpirit1 I don't know ... I'm a Republican and I'd join Democrats against Putin.

@SW-User "Think what they are told to think." Thats a laugh coming from a blind hater such as yourself.

@SW-User The proof is the changed positions with Trump being the only cause of such changes. You didn't come up with hating the FBI and loving Russia.

Also, your comment makes no sense. If I am a "hater" how does that negate an opinion that Trump Fuckers think what they are told to think?

Time to strut!

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@Hikingguy Yes. Russia is still a country. It still has interests different than ours.

Did you think it fell into the ocean or something?

@jackjjackson No. It isn't. The FBI trying to get to the bottom of Putin's attempts to attack America.

Trump is trying to attack the FBI because of that investigation.

Nice try. But we both know you are smarter than that.

I don’t know and neither do you what either is trying to do. From the i formation in the public domain both merit investigation. @WoodyAq

@jackjjackson I do know that if POTUS took seriously a threat that his own security establishment says is serious, he would be leading task force into the problem, not praising Putin and casting doubt on all of US intelligence apparatus (including, again his own appointees).

I also know that POTUS shouldn't be actively interfering in individual investigations, and especially not one that potentially implicates him.

If he has concerns, an independent audit of the organization with recommendations is the way to go. Not ad hoc interventions in individual investigations with clear conflicts of interests for the Republicans.

And you could argue that the two issues are independent, but I don't know anyone dumb enough to really believe it.