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The Bob Cesca Podcast: The Adventures of Pierre Delecto

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Dr Lizardo10/23/2019 6:16:39 am PDT

re: #161 Mike Lamb

THAT’S their defense? That it’s ok to engage in a conspiracy to have Ukraine investigate your political rival because Ukraine didn’t know the admin was trying to blackmail them? Yikes.

What’s even better is that this all stems from what even fucking Yahoo! News dubbed an “absurd conspiracy theory” that Trump fervently believes in.

It’s the conspiracy theory that could bring down a presidency: the idea that an old Democratic National Committee email server is hidden somewhere in Ukraine and could rewrite the history of the 2016 election.

If it does lead to President Trump’s impeachment, it will be because he believed it.

“There was a server, the DNC server, that had never went to the FBI — the FBI didn’t take it,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News. “It was taken by somebody, I guess it’s CrowdStrike, that’s what I have heard.”

Trump pushed the same line last week in the Oval Office, stating, “For instance, I still ask the FBI, ‘Where is the server?’ How come the FBI never got the server from the DNC? Where is the server? I want to see the server.”

There is no DNC server. CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity firm that investigated the 2016 hack into DNC emails and turned its findings over to the FBI. Trump brought up CrowdStrike and the server in a July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. In the memo about the call released by the White House, Trump said, “I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say CrowdStrike,” followed by an ellipsis, followed by “The server, they say Ukraine has it.”

Trump and his fellow conspiracy theorists on the right believe that the server would contain evidence proving that Russia wasn’t responsible for the hack. (CrowdStrike found that Russia was responsible, as did special counsel Robert Mueller.) The impeachment inquiry was sparked by a whistleblower complaint about the president’s attempt to pressure Ukraine into pursuing his theory about the server and investigating former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.

yahoo.com

Trump’s paranoid belief in this bizarro-world CT could well be what brings down his administration - much like Nixon’s paranoia ultimately led to the Watergate scandal.

Stupid Watergate, indeed.