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The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday reaffirmed its support for the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

Tuesday's bipartisan report, from a panel chaired by North Carolina Republican Richard Burr, undercuts Trump's years of efforts to portray allegations of Kremlin assistance to his campaign as a "hoax," driven by Democrats and a “deep state” embedded within the government bureaucracy.

The intelligence community’s initial January 2017 assessment of Moscow’s influence campaign included “specific intelligence reporting to support the assessment that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the Russian government demonstrated a preference for candidate Trump,” the committee’s report says.

The panel also found “specific intelligence” to support the conclusion that Putin “approved and directed aspects” of the Kremlin’s interference efforts.

Senators and committee aides examined everything from the sources and methods used for the intelligence-gathering, to the Kremlin’s actions itself. The 158-page report is heavily redacted, with dozens of pages blacked out entirely. But its final conclusions were unambiguous.

“The committee found no reason to dispute the intelligence community’s conclusions,” Burr said in a statement, adding that the intelligence community’s conclusions reflect “strong tradecraft” and “sound analytical reasoning.”

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ATTENTION: A picture is emerging—across 10 major-media investigative reports—of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. as a bribery scandal in which Trump looked the other way on intel about the virus in November in order to placate Chinese lenders and get political dirt on Joe Biden.

https://Twitter.com/SethAbramson/status ... 6274970625

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Seth Abramson isn't a good source on anything - possibly not on the opinions of Seth Abramson.

[_Icarus]

Ok

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Wasn’t Seth Abramson the guy doing the Beautiful Mind thing during the Kavanaugh hit job? I dunno, Icarus. You should pick and choose your sources a little more carefully when trying to document Trump’s craziness. For example, you could quote this guy extensively:

http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive

He’s doing an amazing job at making Trump look idiotic.

- Doc

[_Icarus]

Donald Trump is reported to owe tens of millions of dollars to China, through a real estate debt which falls due in 2022, offering “astonishing leverage” to Beijing. https://news.yahoo.com/donald-Trump-rep ... soc_trk=Facebook

[_Icarus]

Seth Abramson isn't a good source on anything - possibly not on the opinions of Seth Abramson.

I'm only familiar with his "Proof of Conspiracy" which seemed to be on the up and up.

[_Icarus]

Wasn’t Seth Abramson the guy doing the Beautiful Mind thing during the Kavanaugh hit job? I dunno, Icarus. You should pick and choose your sources a little more carefully when trying to document Trump’s craziness. For example, you could quote this guy extensively:

http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive

He’s doing an amazing job at making Trump look idiotic.

- Doc

Dunno, but his Twitter thread isn't just him announcing bald assertions. Virtually every "dot" he uses to connect a pattern is supported by news stories. https://Twitter.com/SethAbramson/status ... 1792477184

I don't recall anything about him being a notorious conspiracy theorist or shady reporter in the line of Brietbart. I'd be happy to see anything on that, though its not like he's a major source of information I go to regularly. I just came across his tweet and thought it was interesting.

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In all seriousness, Seth Abramson is the leftwing equivalent of a Glenn Beck grifter. His schtick, like Beck, takes disparate data points to weave elaborate conspiracies that aren't supported by the evidence that people on the left are motivated to believe and seem plausible given their prior views. He is not reliable. He connects dots that could be connected and his audience wants to be connected, but aren't supported by the actual evidence. He's been wrong so many times you'd think they'd abandon him, but like Glenn Beck, he's found his audience. The essential truth that Trump is corrupt and conspiring keeps them hooked in and they appear to be willing to forgive the details.

[_Icarus]

Good to know, and I'll keep that in mind. I was only familiar with him via Twitter, and he seemed to be on point with his tweets during the impeachment inquiry. I wasn't aware of anything he said that was proved to be wrong or conspiracy mongering. I saw that he was extremely well educated, and a columnist for Newsweek, both credentials are light years away from Glenn Beck so I never would have guessed any similarities.