previously suspected of ties to the russian security services and they are reportedly looking into his role in what the trump campaign now admits were its efforts to what is it? sideline russian intervention in ukraine as a campaign issue. to take russian intervention in ukraine out of the republican party platform as an issue. it s everyday another piece of it gets corroborated. so we will all continue to describe this dossier from christopher steele as unfounded and unsupported and that is true when it comes to the dossier s baseline allegation that the trump campaign not only knew about but they actively supported the russian government s attacks on hillary clinton and the russian government s hacking and intervention into our presidential election to benefit trump but even if that is as yet in itself uncorroborated and undocumented, all the supporting details are checking out.
cares. that itself was an interesting thing to watch at the time. presidential nominee absents himself from the party platform process. interesting. but what was way more interesting than that, what was riveting and bizarre to watch at the time that we couldn t make heads or tails of at the time was the trump campaign s one exception on the party platform. even hope the they let this other stuff slide, that was very much not in keeping with trump and the campaign, they did decide to get up on their hind legs and fight and intercede aggressively for one specific thing in the platform. one specific part of the republican party platform, and that was a thing about russia. there was a proposed plank for the republican party platform that said ukraine should get help from the united states up to and including lethal weaponry so ukraine could fight off russian incursions.
security adviser, that s led to the recusal of the attorney general of the united states. the trump campaign as of last night is not only admitting a trip to russia by one of its official foreign policy advisers during the campaign but as of last night they re now admitting this trip was authorized by the trump campaign at the time he went to moscow. now politico.com is reporting what is basically a direct russian tie to that change in the republican party platform to benefit russia last year. if politico s reporting is accurate, the fbi is looking into a russian national who was previously suspected of ties to the russian security services and they are reportedly looking into his role in what the trump campaignowdmits were its efforts to what is it? sideline russian intervention in ukraine as a campaign issue. to take russian intervention in ukraine out of the republican party platform as an issue. it s everyday another piece of it gets corroborated.
trump campaign had anything do with it. how did it happen? don t know, must have been fairies. now that bizarre non-explanation, those denials, have fallen apart because now a former trump campaign official has fessed up about it. he s a former trump campaign official named j.d. gordon and he says as a trump campaign official at the time taking orders from the trump campaign at the time he s the one who did it. he says now that he was the one who interceded in the republican party platform to get this language that would keep russia happy and he says he did it specifically at donald trump s request. gordon says he was a part of the effort that was pushed by the trump campaign to put some language in the gop platform that essentially said that the republican party did not adcate for arming the ukrainians in their battle against pro-russian seratists. that was a big issue flaring up at the time of the republican convention. that effort was successful in
legs and fight and intercede aggressively for one specific thing in the platform. one specific part of the republican party platform, and that was a thing about russia. there was a proposed plank for the republican pay platform that said ukraine should get help from the united states up to and including lethal weaponry so ukraine could fight off russian incursions. and you know what, the trump campaign let everything else in the platform slide. even stuff that might theoretically have bothered them but that, that ukraine and russia thing, they jumped right up on that and insists that plank only, that one, had to be taken out, that language could not stand and it was weird at the time and there was a lot else going on in presidential politics, it was the conventions, right? but even then as the russia/trump questions continued to percolate and got more acute over time, ultimately trump the candidate did have to answer for what his campaign did with the