Why did they mine data on trump before he was even in the White House?
I see a lot of could have and maybe and might in your writings. Is it or isn't? It seems to me that if the dems just say it or accuse it, it's up to the poor accused bastard to try and prove himself/herself innocent with the demomonsters trying to disparage and block every effort to do so!
My question is what about the presumption of innocence that is written into the bill of rights of the constitution? It doesn't seem to apply to conservatives at all!

The GOP's Durham 'bombshell' is a bust
Jon Skolnik, Salon
February 15, 2022

The GOP's Durham 'bombshell' is a bust
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Right-wing media is having a tizzy about the apparent lack of mainstream coverage around an alleged – and highly dubious – scandal that former president Donald Trump was being spied on by the Hillary Clinton campaign back in 2016.


The conservative furor centers on a court filing by John H. Durham, the Trump-era special counsel probing Russia's 2016 election interference.

On Friday, Durham filed a pretrial motion alleging that Michael A. Sussmann, a cybersecurity prosecutor, lied about his connections to the Clinton campaign in a September 2016 meeting with the FBI in which Sussmann provided testimony about Trump's alleged ties with Russia. These alleged ties, according to The Washington Post, involved "possible evidence of a secret communications channel between computer servers associated with the Trump Organization and with Alfa Bank, a Kremlin-linked financial institution."

The motion also claims that in February 2017, Sussman told the FBI that one of his own clients, technology executive Rodney Joffe – whose company apparently maintained internet-related servers for the White House at one point – "exploited" his access to these servers to dig up dirt on Trump.

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Even though Durham never directly said in his motion that Clinton coordinated a campaign to "spy" on Trump through Joffe, The New York Times noted, conservatives have been quick to draw such conclusions, accusing liberal media of being biased for not covering the alleged scandal.

"The press refuses to even mention the major crime that took place," Mr. Trump said in a statement on Monday. "This in itself is a scandal, the fact that a story so big, so powerful and so important for the future of our nation is getting zero coverage from LameStream, is being talked about all over the world."

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"We now know that the Clinton campaign paid a tech firm to infiltrate the servers at Trump Tower and then later infiltrate the servers at the Trump White House, in other words, illegally spying on a presidential candidate," Fox News Sean Hannity said on Monday. "The goal [was to] fabricate evidence that President Trump was a Russian asset.

"This is far worse than Watergate," he added.


Fox News on Tuesday also noted the amount of media coverage the alleged scandal had thus far received by ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, and MSNBC. According to Fox News Research, all of these channels have respectively dedicated "0 minutes."

While there may be reason to investigate Sussmann, there is still little basis to believe that Joffe's work was part of a grand scheme to smear Trump.

As the Times' Charlie Savage noted, the White House data allegedly "mined" from the White House was targeted before Trump took office.


Additionally, the incitement alleges that Joffe's company "had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP [Executive Office of the President] as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP." So if Joffe's firm did record the web addresses of White House users, the Post's Glenn Kessler noted, then that may have simply been part of a pre-arranged contract rather than a politically-motivated breach of conduct.

The time I spend on OPP is precious time taken away from my daily duties.

So when I actually have time to waste on social media, I prefer to hang out here with you wonderful Goobers.

The other more popular platforms have millions of users but they also have censorship and restrictions.

For instance, my opinions in regard to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine would likely get me banned from Twitter and Facebook.

But here I am free to express my approval of Mr Putin without being suspended.

OPP does have it's own rules but as long as you don't directly threaten or insult a user you're pretty much free to speak your mind.

And if you pay attention, there are a few very interesting individuals who frequent this site.

So when I'm hanging out here I kinda think of you Goobers as my extended family.

Of course some of you Goobers are like the kinfolks you don't publicly admit to being kin to.

But I get a kick out of interacting with all of you folks.

And I wish everyone of you............... Happy Trails.

In regards to the Letter, "No more GOP" on 26 April, by Abc D. Efgh. It looks like a hate GOP/Trump piece spammed out to every newspaper in the country hoping it would land somewhere. But here in our beloved Tribune? He is from Las Vegas. Don't we have any hate pieces from Chicago you can print?

He starts out with how he disagrees with most of Biden's policies, but thinks he is trying to do his best for the country. Does that make sense? Then he trashes Trump personally for being more for himself then the country. Has he paid attention to Biden's family interests in China and Ukraine and this laptop? I think he has it backwards.

Next he emphatically insists that there can't be any dispute that Trump planned a coup on Jan 6. Well, yes there is. Emphatically. I would suggest that Biden is the one involved in coups. Like in Ukraine along with Obama in 2014. And now the current coup where our government is being run by people behind the scenes and certainly not by Biden. He has slipped so far from reality that he is no longer being led around by the First Lady like a helpless toddler, to being led around by the Easter Bunny. Just who is leading America? If he was compared to a river, he wouldn't be the mighty Mississippi, but a babbling brook.

Finally he ends with the GOP no longer exists and is just a Trump cult. We Republicans will be glad to hear from him after the midterms and discuss the desolution of the Democrat/Socialist Party.

Cheers LR