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I'd like to introduce you to 62,979,879 people that don't believe there was any Russian interference in the United States last election.

txru 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
- tejon 8y ago
  GP was mocking the belief of ~63M people (and GGP's parallel belief by proxy), not holding it up as evidence.
  - ngngngng 8y ago
    Exactly. And as many people appear to have turned on Trump online since the election, I've yet to meet someone in person that voted for him that is not a huge fan of him.
bdhe 8y ago
That's neither here nor there is it? The 1996 investigations led to no indictments and if anything widespread criticism of how Congressional investigations wasted time. The 2016 investigations are still ongoing with dozens of indictments, several guilty pleas, and jail-time.
- mc32 8y ago
  But none so far about election tampering. More anout lying about timelines, not registering as foreign agents, etc. It’s like a big version of the Martha Stewart trial —so far anyhow.
- adventured 8y ago
  There were multiple people arrested and convicted for campaign crimes relating to what prompted the 1996 investigations in fact. With some of it pointing directly back to Beijing on record. To say nothing of the unusual amounts of Chinese money flowing into Hillary's campaign when she was running against Obama [1]. The Chinese foreign money connection to the Clintons goes back a very long ways. Then conveniently Bill Clinton goes on a blitz to get China into the WTO during his Presidency. See (2017 article): “The FBI uncovered evidence about the alleged plan, in part, through electronic intercepts. ... The plan, first discussed in early 1995, called for Chinese officials to channel more than $2 million into U.S. campaigns." "This isn’t even ancient history. Last week a 17-year-old video surfaced from convicted Clinton fundraiser Johnny Chung in which he confessed to fronting for Chinese intelligence and worried about being bumped off." https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-was-bill-clintons-russia-1488585526 https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-was-bill-clintons-russia-... [1] http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1679979,00.html http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1679979,0...
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txru 8y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

tejon 8y ago
GP was mocking the belief of ~63M people (and GGP's parallel belief by proxy), not holding it up as evidence.
- ngngngng 8y ago
  Exactly. And as many people appear to have turned on Trump online since the election, I've yet to meet someone in person that voted for him that is not a huge fan of him.

bdhe 8y ago

That's neither here nor there is it? The 1996 investigations led to no indictments and if anything widespread criticism of how Congressional investigations wasted time. The 2016 investigations are still ongoing with dozens of indictments, several guilty pleas, and jail-time.

mc32 8y ago
But none so far about election tampering. More anout lying about timelines, not registering as foreign agents, etc. It’s like a big version of the Martha Stewart trial —so far anyhow.
adventured 8y ago
There were multiple people arrested and convicted for campaign crimes relating to what prompted the 1996 investigations in fact. With some of it pointing directly back to Beijing on record. To say nothing of the unusual amounts of Chinese money flowing into Hillary's campaign when she was running against Obama [1]. The Chinese foreign money connection to the Clintons goes back a very long ways. Then conveniently Bill Clinton goes on a blitz to get China into the WTO during his Presidency. See (2017 article): “The FBI uncovered evidence about the alleged plan, in part, through electronic intercepts. ... The plan, first discussed in early 1995, called for Chinese officials to channel more than $2 million into U.S. campaigns." "This isn’t even ancient history. Last week a 17-year-old video surfaced from convicted Clinton fundraiser Johnny Chung in which he confessed to fronting for Chinese intelligence and worried about being bumped off." https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-was-bill-clintons-russia-1488585526 https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-was-bill-clintons-russia-... [1] http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1679979,00.html http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1679979,0...

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