The beginning of the end of Russiagate

This shouldn't surprise anyone with a modicum of sense.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump's campaign and former Trump adviser Roger Stone conspired with Russia and WikiLeaks to publish hacked Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 presidential race.

U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle said in a ruling Tuesday evening that the suit's efforts to tie the Trump campaign and Stone's alleged actions to the nation's capital were too flimsy for the case to proceed in a Washington, D.C., court.

Translation: You have no evidence!

"The Trump Campaign’s efforts to elect President Trump in D.C. are not suit-related contacts for those efforts did not involve acts taken in furtherance of the conspiracies to disseminate emails that harmed plaintiffs," wrote Huvelle, an appointee of President Bill Clinton. "Campaign meetings, canvassing voters, and other regular business activities of a political campaign do not constitute activities related to the conspiracies alleged in the complaint."
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The Trump resistance group Protect Democracy, which filed the suit dismissed Tuesday, suggested it might refile the case elsewhere.

I've never heard of "Protect Democracy" before now.

What will the Democratic Party establishment do without the Scary Russia?

Meanwhile, the DNC Fraud lawsuit is still being appealed in federal court.

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detroitmechworks's picture

Project Democracy: A group that exists to ensure that the results of an election are overturned by a dictator for life, appointed by the same politicians who want to see the election overturned.

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

But Huvelle made clear that her decision was a technical one based on issues of legal jurisdiction and was not a definitive ruling on allegations that the Trump campaign struck an illicit deal with the Russians during the presidential contest.

Not defending this Russia! crap, but let's not lie about events like the Centrists.

I agree with you that the end is near. There will be trials and sentences but that's because Trump's people are liars and make the mistake of lying under oath or not disclosing that they are lobbyists for foreign companies.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

divineorder's picture

@The Voice In the Wilderness for the rest of the story. Like you say, no need to be like the centrists.

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

What will the Democratic Party establishment do without the Scary Russia?

Trump will emerge as a martyr that those dirty rotten libruls tried to railroad.

Note: I grit my teeth every time these Centrists are called "liberals" or "progressives" and sometimes even "socialists".

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

divineorder's picture

@The Voice In the Wilderness libertarians, lackeys and liars.

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

The Aspie Corner's picture

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z77JFw2D6f8]

If only this would happen for real.

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

WoodsDweller's picture

What will the Democratic Party establishment do without the Scary Russia?

Support "Democratic" candidates who until recently were conservative Republicans and/or intelligence agency employees while disparaging democratic socialist candidates.

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