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I like how you actually explained what you were thinking and linked the articals for us to look further in to

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i think you did vary well on explaining how trump is more on the offensive side then the defensive.

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Very thorough and very organized!

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You guys did very well on explaining  how the tweets effected our country.

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"Bernie Sanders supporters have every right to be apoplectic of the complete theft of the Dem primary by Crooked Hillary!"

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Hillary Clinton's campaign took over the Democratic National Committee's funding and day-to-day operations early in the primary season and may have used that power to undermine her rival Senator Bernie Sanders, according to the party's one-time interim chairwoman.

The DNC official, Donna Brazile, now a political analyst, wrote in Politico Magazine on Thursday that she discovered an August 2015 agreement between the national committee and Clinton's campaign and fundraising arm that gave Clinton "control (of) the party's finances, strategy, and all the money raised" in exchange for taking care of the massive debt leftover from President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign.

It wasn't illegal, Brazile said, "but it sure looked unethical."

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"If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead," Brazile wrote. "This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party's integrity."

Brazile wrote that she had "promised" Sanders to find out if the DNC had intentionally "rigged" the primary system in order to prop up Clinton and assure she became the nominee. That assertion first popped up after the DNC's emails, hacked by Russians, had been published online and showed former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and others may have tipped the scales for the Democrat Clinton versus Sanders, an independent seeking the Democratic Party nod.

"I had tried to search out any other evidence of internal corruption that would show that the DNC was rigging the system to throw the primary to Hillary, but I could not find any in party affairs or among the staff," Brazile wrote. "I was happy to see that I had found none. Then I found this agreement."

Brazile, a former CNN contributor who was later dismissed after it was discovered she had forked over debate questions to Clinton's campaign, claimed when she took over as party chairwoman, the DNC was $24 million in debt. Clinton's campaign, according to Brazile, assumed that debt with its own fundraising.

"Hillary for America (the campaign) and the Hillary Victory Fund (its joint fundraising vehicle with the DNC) had taken care of 80 percent of the remaining debt in 2016, about $10 million, and had placed the party on an allowance," according to Brazile.

Normally, candidates take over their respective party's operations after securing the nomination, but Brazile wrote Clinton had done so almost 15 months before last year's election.

The timeline of when all this allegedly occurred was not fully explained by Brazile, but she wrote that the discovery was made "weeks" before the election. She said she told Sanders what she found out and that he took the supposed information "stoically."

Brazile took over as interim DNC chair, a spot now officially held by Tom Perez, back in July 2016 after Wasserman Schultz resigned.

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Hillary Clinton's campaign took over the Democratic National Committee's funding and day-to-day operations early in the primary season and may have used that power to undermine her rival Senator Bernie Sanders, according to the party's one-time interim chairwoman.

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"Crooked Hillary Clinton is the worst (and biggest) loser of all time. She just can't stop, which is so good for the Republican party. Hillary, get on with your life and give it another try in three years!"

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Trump Calls For Investigation Into Hillary Clinton and Democratic Party

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President Donald Trump woke up Friday morning and continued tweeting about the alleged corruption of Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.

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"So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary Clinton, on that now famous FBI holiday “interrogation” with no swearing in and no recording, lies many times...and nothing happens to her? Rigged system, or just a double standard?"

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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack Sunday on the credibility of his own FBI, responding to revelations that an FBI agent was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Russian election meddling because of anti-Trump text messages.

Trump, two days after his former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, again denied that he directed FBI Director James Comey to stop investigating Flynn.

The Republican president offered a running Twitter commentary Sunday amid renewed focus on Mueller's probe and Flynn's decision to cooperate with the investigation as part of his plea agreement. Democrats said the developments suggested growing evidence of coordination between Trump's circle and Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the panel is beginning to see "the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice" against Trump.

"I think we see this in indictments ... and some of the comments that are being made. I see this in the hyperfrenetic attitude of the White House, the comments every day, the continual tweets," Feinstein said. "And I see it most importantly in what happened with the firing of Director Comey, and it is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to lift the cloud of the Russia investigation. That's obstruction of justice."

In a series of tweets, Trump questioned the direction of the federal law enforcement agency and wrote that after Comey, whom Trump fired in May, the FBI's reputation is "in Tatters - worst in History!" He vowed to "bring it back to greatness." The president also retweeted a post saying new FBI Director Chris Wray "needs to clean house."

The president seized on reports that a veteran FBI counterintelligence agent was removed from Mueller's team last summer after the discovery of an exchange of text messages that were viewed as potentially anti-Trump. The agent, Peter Strzok, had also worked on the investigation of Democrat Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.

Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, said Mueller removed Strzok from the team "immediately upon learning of the allegations." He would not elaborate on the nature of the accusations. The person who discussed the matter with The Associated Press was not authorized to speak about it by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Trump tweeted Sunday: "Tainted (no, very dishonest?) FBI 'agent's role in Clinton probe under review.' Led Clinton Email probe." In a separate tweet, he wrote: "Report: 'ANTI-TRUMP FBI AGENT LED CLINTON EMAIL PROBE' Now it all starts to make sense!"

Strzok's removal almost certainly reflected a desire to insulate the investigators from any claims of political bias or favoritism. Trump and many of his supporters have at times sought to discredit the integrity of the investigation, in part by claiming a close relationship between Mueller and Comey and by pointing to political contributions to Democrats made by some lawyers on the team.

Following the tweets, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., warned the president to tread cautiously. "You tweet and comment regarding ongoing criminal investigations at your own peril. I'd be careful if I were you, Mr. President. I'd watch this," Graham said.

Mueller has been investigating whether Trump campaign associates coordinated with Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, and Strzok's background in counterintelligence would have been seen as particularly valuable for a secretive FBI probe examining foreign contacts.

Mueller's investigation has so far netted charges against four people, with the most recent criminal case brought Friday when Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador.

On Saturday, Trump tweeted that he "had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!"

The tweet suggested that Trump was aware when the White House dismissed Flynn on Feb. 13 that he had lied to the FBI, which had interviewed him weeks earlier. Comey has said Trump the following day brought up the Flynn investigation in private at the White House and told him he hoped he could "let this go."

Amid questions raised by the tweet, Trump associates tried to put distance Saturday evening between the president himself and the tweet. Trump's personal lawyer John Dowd told ABC News that he drafted the tweet and gave it to the president's social media director Dan Scavino. Dowd had declined to comment when reached by the AP on Saturday night.

California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said given that Mueller could have charged Flynn with more crimes but instead limited it to just one offense, "Bob Mueller must have concluded that he was getting a lot of value in terms of Gen. Flynn's cooperation."

"I do believe he will incriminate others in the administration. Otherwise, there was no reason for Bob Mueller to give Mike Flynn this kind of deal," Schiff said, adding, "Whether that will ultimately lead to the president, I simply don't know."

Feinstein spoke on NBC's "Meet the Press," Graham spoke on CBS' "Face the Nation," and Schiff spoke on ABC's "This Week."

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Associated Press writers Eric Tucker and Hope Yen contributed to this report.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack Sunday on the credibility of his own FBI, responding to revelations that an FBI agent was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Russian election meddling because of anti-Trump text messages.

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These tweets have effected our country due to the new way Donald Trump has chosen to express his ideas. Never before has a president taken social media and transformed it to something that expresses their political views, and personality. The downside however is that it shows the sometimes degrading personality that our nations leader has. The out-wordness of his opinions on other people make huge impacts on not only how the nation sees him, but also how the world sees him .  While there are positive points to knowing our leaders true beliefs, his connotation is mostly negative towards other people.

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This affects our nation because  he promotes behaviors that are hurtful to other people. As a president, people usually expect a leader to act as a diplomat, but Trump is far from it. His tweets show citizens of our nation that our president does not have respect for anyone who has opinions opposing him. This sets a horrible example to the people of the US because if our president can disrespect everyone, citizens will most likely follow in his footsteps.

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"We cannot take four more years of Barack Obama and that’s what you’ll get if you vote for Hillary. #BigLeagueTruth"

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Any given member of Donald Trump's "Big League Truth Team" has only one essential job: retweet the Republican nominee, bigly.

Last week, Trump's campaign asked supporters to use social media to combat the "rigged" mainstream media during debates. His campaign website announced: "We cannot count on the rigged MSM to bring the truth to the American people.

"I need you to help me speak directly to the hard-working Americans who want to take our country back. Join the Big League Truth Team and help fact check Crooked Hillary LIVE during the debates."

The site asked supporters to sign up through email, Twitter and their phone numbers. After signing up, the Guardian received a welcome email calling on it to "be ready" to spread Trump messages across "Twitter, Facebook, Email and any other tool you have".

"We can't fight both the media and Hillary without your help. We're counting on you," the campaign said.

We were ready.

During the vice-presidential debate last week, the "Big League Truth Team" emailed supporters asking them to retweet and "like" social media content, but the main focus was to "help fact check Crooked Hillary" during Sunday night's second debate.

This accountability started slowly: the first email was received at 9.19pm ET, 19 minutes after the debate had started.

The email referenced two Twitter accounts: Trump's official personal account and the official Team Trump Twitter, which was misspelled four times in emails as"TeampTrump".

The first tweet that the team encouraged supporters to retweet was just a classic: "Make America Great Again".

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
It's this simple. "Make America Great Again." #debate #BigLeagueTruth

The unprecedented social media campaign, part of a shoestring organization that has relied enormously on the internet to spread Trump's messages of nationalism, tariffs and anti-immigration, sent a total of three emails during the debate. The emails told supporters to retweet or draw attention to 22 tweets and Facebook statuses.

The second email arrived at 9.35pm ET and the third at 9.45pm ET. None came during the final 45 minutes of the debate.

Although Trump highlighted three women who have accused Bill Clinton of some form of sexual harassment or assault, and a fourth, a rape victim, who has criticized Hillary Clinton's legal career, during a press conference shortly before the debate, only one of the social media posts pushed by the social media campaign mentioned the women, and even then only indirectly.

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Quite simply, @HillaryClinton mistreats women. #BigLeagueTruth #Debate2016 https://t.co/zhgrulIctf pic.twitter.com/wHtwtnCxxQ

Instead, the campaign's main focus - and the tweets that got the most engagement and retweets - was Obamacare and Clinton's emails.

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
We must repeal Obamacare and replace it with a much more competitive, comprehensive, affordable system. #debate #MAGA

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
Hillary's 33,000 deleted emails about her daughter's wedding. That's a lot of wedding emails. #debate

Although it was supposed to be a "fact check" of Clinton's arguments, most of the tweets promoted by Big League Truth simply pushed Trump's normal talking points, rather than offering corrections to anything Clinton actually said during the debate - for instance, her exaggeration of the New Start treaty's effects regarding Russia. That is, apart from one noting Bill Clinton's comments on Obamacare, and Clinton's claiming she was offering a "positive, optimistic view" of the country.

The most popular Trump tweet of the night (34,000 "likes" and counting, by 11.30pm ET) didn't even need a push from the Big League Truth team - it just needed to discuss the most popular president of all time.

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
History lesson: There's a big difference between Hillary Clinton and Abraham Lincoln. For one, his nickname is Honest Abe. #RattledHillary pic.twitter.com/A2RESNihb4

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Any given member of Donald Trump's "Big League Truth Team" has only one essential job: retweet the Republican nominee, bigly. Last week, Trump's campaign asked supporters to use social media to combat the "rigged" mainstream media during debates. His campaign website announced: "We cannot count on the rigged MSM to bring the truth to the American people.