2016 US Elections - Exlusive discussion thread

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Alleged Weiner victim hits out at FBI over Clinton emails

• 3 November 2016
  

Image caption Anthony Weiner admitted sending sexual messages to several women while married to a Hillary Clinton aide
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37846433

A 15-year-old girl who was allegedly sent indecent messages by former US congressman Anthony Weiner has criticised the director of the FBI.

The teenager said James Comey's decision to publicise part of the FBI's investigation into Mr Weiner had led to her being hounded by news reporters.

Mr Comey announced last week that the investigation had turned up fresh emails relating to Hillary Clinton.

Mr Weiner is married to Mrs Clinton's political aide Huma Abedin.

In an open letter, the teenager said reporters had "canvassed" her area.


"Every media outlet from local to national has contacted me and my family to get my 'story'", she wrote.

"Why couldn't your letter have waited until after the election, so I would not have to be the centre of attention the last week of the election cycle?"

She accused the FBI director of taking a "vague approach" in announcing that emails had been discovered on Mr Weiner's laptop that related to Mrs Clinton.

She said the lack of detail in his announcement led reporters to chase her for clues about what might have been found.

In the letter, addressed directly to Mr Comey and published by Buzzfeed, the alleged victim wrote: "I am the 15-year-old (now 16) who was the victim of Anthony Weiner.

"I now add you to the list of people who have victimized me. I told my story originally to protect other young girls that might be a victim of online predators."

Image caption James Comey was heavily criticised by senior Democrats over the timing of his announcement
She went on to say: "I thought your job as FBI Director was to protect me. I thought if I co-operated with your investigation, my identity as a minor would be kept secret. That is no longer the case. My family and I are barraged by reporters' phone calls and emails.

"I have been even been blamed in a newspaper for causing Donald Trump to now be leading in some polls and costing Hillary the election.

"Anthony Weiner is the abuser. Your letter helped that abuse to continue. How can I rebuild my life when you have made finding out my "story" the goal of every reporter?"

She signed the letter "Girl that lost her faith in America".

Mr Weiner and Ms Abedin recently split following a series of revelations that Mr Weiner had exchanged sexual messages with other women. Reports on Thursday said he had entered a rehab clinic to treat sex addiction.

Image caption Huma Abedin, a longstanding aide to Hillary Clinton, is married to Anthony Weiner
The FBI last month closed a large-scale investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, but Mr Comey announced last week that the law enforcement body was examining fresh emails found on Mr Weiner's laptop.

The FBI director has been heavily criticised by leading Democrats, who allege that the timing of his announcement threatens to influence next week's general election.

US law prohibits public officials such as Mr Comey from using their position to influence the outcome of an election.

Opinion polls showed that Mrs Clinton's lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump had narrowed slightly in the wake of Mr Comey's announcement.

Both candidates have been campaigning in the key swing state of Florida ahead of next Tuesday's election.

BBC NEWS

 

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Huma Abedin headlines a DC fundraiser as email probe keeps her off the trail

By Dan Merica, CNN

Updated 7:34 PM ET, Thu November 3, 2016

(CNN)Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's longtime confidant, headlined a fundraiser for the Clinton campaign Thursday night in Washington, DC, her first appearance since the FBI's announced last week that it was investigating thousands of emails found on a laptop shared by her and her estranged husband, Anthony Weiner.
Abedin was joined at the event by famed designer Diane Von Furstenberg and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

Normally a constant presence by Clinton's side for much of the campaign, Abedin has been off the campaign trail for five days.
A Clinton aide said Tuesday that Abedin was working from the campaign headquarters in Brooklyn.
Asked if she is staying away from the campaign plane because of the optics, the aide demurred.

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"I wouldn't draw too many conclusions," the aide said.
RELATED: Huma Abedin lies low amid email probe
Abedin's lawyer said Monday that the longtime Clinton aide, who started working with Clinton as an intern in the White House, had not been contacted by the FBI.
"She is there in Brooklyn and happy to cooperate if they ever want to talk to her. She has been very cooperative throughout the process," the aide said. "We don't see any reason, though, that they will need to. But, you know, there is a lot to wrap up this last week or two."
Abedin has hosted a number of fundraisers for the Clinton campaign and is likely one of Clinton's most recognizable aides. Supporters regularly ask her for photos at events.
Tickets to Thursday's fundraiser ran from $500 to $10,000.
The event was hosted by Constance Milstein, a top Democratic donor.

Huma Abedin headlines a DC fundraiser - CNNPolitics.com

 

[kui]

Tehe teh!, jamaa analo...😀

Anatafuta kura zao sasa, wamempeleka mpaka Melania ku campaign.

 

[kui]

Alleged Weiner victim hits out at FBI over Clinton emails

• 3 November 2016
  

Image caption Anthony Weiner admitted sending sexual messages to several women while married to a Hillary Clinton aide

A 15-year-old girl who was allegedly sent indecent messages by former US congressman Anthony Weiner has criticised the director of the FBI.

The teenager said James Comey's decision to publicise part of the FBI's investigation into Mr Weiner had led to her being hounded by news reporters.

Mr Comey announced last week that the investigation had turned up fresh emails relating to Hillary Clinton.

Mr Weiner is married to Mrs Clinton's political aide Huma Abedin.

In an open letter, the teenager said reporters had "canvassed" her area.


"Every media outlet from local to national has contacted me and my family to get my 'story'", she wrote.

"Why couldn't your letter have waited until after the election, so I would not have to be the centre of attention the last week of the election cycle?"

She accused the FBI director of taking a "vague approach" in announcing that emails had been discovered on Mr Weiner's laptop that related to Mrs Clinton.

She said the lack of detail in his announcement led reporters to chase her for clues about what might have been found.

In the letter, addressed directly to Mr Comey and published by Buzzfeed, the alleged victim wrote: "I am the 15-year-old (now 16) who was the victim of Anthony Weiner.

"I now add you to the list of people who have victimized me. I told my story originally to protect other young girls that might be a victim of online predators."

Image caption James Comey was heavily criticised by senior Democrats over the timing of his announcement
She went on to say: "I thought your job as FBI Director was to protect me. I thought if I co-operated with your investigation, my identity as a minor would be kept secret. That is no longer the case. My family and I are barraged by reporters' phone calls and emails.

"I have been even been blamed in a newspaper for causing Donald Trump to now be leading in some polls and costing Hillary the election.

"Anthony Weiner is the abuser. Your letter helped that abuse to continue. How can I rebuild my life when you have made finding out my "story" the goal of every reporter?"

She signed the letter "Girl that lost her faith in America".

Mr Weiner and Ms Abedin recently split following a series of revelations that Mr Weiner had exchanged sexual messages with other women. Reports on Thursday said he had entered a rehab clinic to treat sex addiction.

Image caption Huma Abedin, a longstanding aide to Hillary Clinton, is married to Anthony Weiner
The FBI last month closed a large-scale investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, but Mr Comey announced last week that the law enforcement body was examining fresh emails found on Mr Weiner's laptop.

The FBI director has been heavily criticised by leading Democrats, who allege that the timing of his announcement threatens to influence next week's general election.

US law prohibits public officials such as Mr Comey from using their position to influence the outcome of an election.

Opinion polls showed that Mrs Clinton's lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump had narrowed slightly in the wake of Mr Comey's announcement.

Both candidates have been campaigning in the key swing state of Florida ahead of next Tuesday's election.
BBC NEWS

Comey kazi anayo, alichemka kwenye hili na haka kabinti ndo kana add fuel.

 

[BAK]

Kajiharibia reputation yote aliyokuwa nayo, itakuwa poa akijiuzulu haraka HRC akichukua nchi maana hawataweza kufanya kazi pamoja.

Comey kazi anayo, alichemka kwenye hili na haka kabinti ndo kana add fuel.

 

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Democrats, Trump lawyers going to court early -- and often

(CNN)As Democrats warn their supporters of voter suppression efforts and Donald Trump urges his followers to watch polling areas, lawyers from both sides are filing fiery legal briefs and laying the groundwork for potential challenges Election Day.
In states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada, lawyers for state Democratic parties are in federal court alleging that the Trump campaign and others are "conspiring to threaten, intimidate, and thereby prevent minority voters in urban neighborhoods from voting in the 2016 campaign."

They are asking for a temporary injunction to block "such conduct" through Election Day.
In legal briefs, they quote Trump from a speech last August. "I hope you people can...not just vote on the 8th, [but also] go around and look and watch other polling places and make sure that it's 100-percent fine," Trump told an audience in Pennsylvania.
"Immediate relief is necessary," Donald J. McTigue, a lawyer for the Ohio Democratic Party argued in court papers filed in the Ohio case. McTigue said that the defendants' including the Trump campaign, the Ohio Republican Party and Trump supporters are engaged in a "coordinated campaign of vigilante voter intimidation" and in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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For McTigue, the stakes are high. "There are only nine days left until Election Day, and early in-person voting in Ohio is well underway," he argued. "The Ohio Democratic Party, and untold numbers of Ohio voters, will suffer irreparable harm if the right to vote is imperiled by voter suppression and intimidation."
Election law expert Edward B. Foley of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, says lawsuits filed before the election can have a specific strategy.
"Lawsuits filed now to thwart intimidation at the polls on Election Day have a kind of 'table-setting' function," he said.
who's winning?
cnn/orc
cnn poll of polls

49%
Clinton

44%
Trump

3%
Johnson

2%
Stein
http://cnn.it/politicsapp
Foley said the goal is to get a case on a judge's docket ahead of time, in case lawyers have to go back to the judge quickly for an emergency order. "They also put the named defendants on notice that if they actually engage in activities that might constitute unlawful intimidation, then those defendants are potentially subject to contempt-of-court sanctions" he said.

Trump lawyers are firing back.
"Intimidating voters is illegal, and the Campaign does not remotely condone such conduct," Trump campaign lawyer Chad A. Readler of Jones Day wrote a 15-page legal filing in Ohio.
"This case is one of four coordinated attacks across the country that are clearly long-planned efforts to sow chaos in the Defendants' political efforts, while garnering maximum publicity for Plaintiff's unsubstantiated, inflammatory claims on the eve of the Presidential Election," he wrote.

Readler, argued that "rattling off a litany of alleged statements and actions by various putative 'Trump supporters' and other sundry third parties at various times in different locales simply does not, as a matter of law, establish a conspiracy by the Campaign to engage in voter suppression."
And he said there is no "articulable evidence" that the Campaign's alleged statements and actions are the product of "racial animus."

"Indeed, the Complaint asserts that the Campaign's alleged comments encouraging citizens to serve as poll observers 'are consistently directed at Democratic-leaning communities with large minority populations', which conflates a vital distinction between a putative racial motivation and a partisan motivation."
Regarding Trump's comments concerning poll watchers Readler argued, "Candidates are perfectly within their rights to encourage their supporters to serve as poll watchers," Readler said. "Supporters of opposing candidates are perfectly within their rights to debate whether an election is at risk of being 'rigged' because of voter fraud," he added.



He also warned if the Democrats won an injunction it might reach "all sorts of innocuous, entirely legal conduct -- such as protesting against a candidate on a sidewalk several hundred feet from a polling place."
That, Readler warned, might have First Amendment implications. "Plaintiff's sweeping request for relief thus runs roughshod over the First Amendment."
A hearing in the Ohio case is scheduled for Friday.

 

[kui]

Kajiharibia reputation yote aliyokuwa nayo, itakuwa poa akijiuzulu haraka HRC akichukua nchi maana hawataweza kufanya kazi pamoja.

Imagine right, kajiharibia. He'll be known for this. This's the historic election and what he did could be the legacy he'll leave behind.

 

[kui]

Democrats, Trump lawyers going to court early -- and often

(CNN)As Democrats warn their supporters of voter suppression efforts and Donald Trump urges his followers to watch polling areas, lawyers from both sides are filing fiery legal briefs and laying the groundwork for potential challenges Election Day.
In states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada, lawyers for state Democratic parties are in federal court alleging that the Trump campaign and others are "conspiring to threaten, intimidate, and thereby prevent minority voters in urban neighborhoods from voting in the 2016 campaign."

They are asking for a temporary injunction to block "such conduct" through Election Day.
In legal briefs, they quote Trump from a speech last August. "I hope you people can...not just vote on the 8th, [but also] go around and look and watch other polling places and make sure that it's 100-percent fine," Trump told an audience in Pennsylvania.
"Immediate relief is necessary," Donald J. McTigue, a lawyer for the Ohio Democratic Party argued in court papers filed in the Ohio case. McTigue said that the defendants' including the Trump campaign, the Ohio Republican Party and Trump supporters are engaged in a "coordinated campaign of vigilante voter intimidation" and in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Read More



For McTigue, the stakes are high. "There are only nine days left until Election Day, and early in-person voting in Ohio is well underway," he argued. "The Ohio Democratic Party, and untold numbers of Ohio voters, will suffer irreparable harm if the right to vote is imperiled by voter suppression and intimidation."
Election law expert Edward B. Foley of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, says lawsuits filed before the election can have a specific strategy.
"Lawsuits filed now to thwart intimidation at the polls on Election Day have a kind of 'table-setting' function," he said.
who's winning?
cnn/orc
cnn poll of polls

49%
Clinton

44%
Trump

3%
Johnson

2%
Stein
Foley said the goal is to get a case on a judge's docket ahead of time, in case lawyers have to go back to the judge quickly for an emergency order. "They also put the named defendants on notice that if they actually engage in activities that might constitute unlawful intimidation, then those defendants are potentially subject to contempt-of-court sanctions" he said.

Trump lawyers are firing back.
"Intimidating voters is illegal, and the Campaign does not remotely condone such conduct," Trump campaign lawyer Chad A. Readler of Jones Day wrote a 15-page legal filing in Ohio.
"This case is one of four coordinated attacks across the country that are clearly long-planned efforts to sow chaos in the Defendants' political efforts, while garnering maximum publicity for Plaintiff's unsubstantiated, inflammatory claims on the eve of the Presidential Election," he wrote.

Readler, argued that "rattling off a litany of alleged statements and actions by various putative 'Trump supporters' and other sundry third parties at various times in different locales simply does not, as a matter of law, establish a conspiracy by the Campaign to engage in voter suppression."
And he said there is no "articulable evidence" that the Campaign's alleged statements and actions are the product of "racial animus."

"Indeed, the Complaint asserts that the Campaign's alleged comments encouraging citizens to serve as poll observers 'are consistently directed at Democratic-leaning communities with large minority populations', which conflates a vital distinction between a putative racial motivation and a partisan motivation."
Regarding Trump's comments concerning poll watchers Readler argued, "Candidates are perfectly within their rights to encourage their supporters to serve as poll watchers," Readler said. "Supporters of opposing candidates are perfectly within their rights to debate whether an election is at risk of being 'rigged' because of voter fraud," he added.



He also warned if the Democrats won an injunction it might reach "all sorts of innocuous, entirely legal conduct -- such as protesting against a candidate on a sidewalk several hundred feet from a polling place."
That, Readler warned, might have First Amendment implications. "Plaintiff's sweeping request for relief thus runs roughshod over the First Amendment."
A hearing in the Ohio case is scheduled for Friday.

Hivi Johnson na Stein wanakaa mpaka mwisho? Like seriously!..

 

[Kajirutaluka]

Imagine right, kajiharibia. He'll be known for this. This's the historic election and what he did could be the legacy he'll leave behind.

This is a live or die situation for him. I think he was out for good. come rain come shine he will make his plan a success

 

[kui]

This is a live or die situation for him. I think he was out for good. come rain come shine he will make his plan a success

He was out for good? What do you mean?

 

[Kajirutaluka]

He was out for good? What do you mean?

He knew what he wants. Mtu wa level yake hawezi kurisk hadhi yake na nafasi yake for nothing.

 

[Behaviourist]

Crooked hillary hana lake tena!

 

[El Jefe]

SR 1314 - Mr. Trump is the next POTUS.

Latest Electoral College prediction.

 

[kui]

He knew what he wants. Mtu wa level yake hawezi kurisk hadhi yake na nafasi yake for nothing.

Yea, that was a risk move, we'll see if it works out for him.

 

[Kajirutaluka]

Yea, that was a risk move, we'll see if it it works out for him.

Nakumbuka kipindi cha kumchagua mgombea wa ccm. Wako waliotake risk kwa kumuunga lowasa wazi kisha imekula kwao mazima

 

[flintsky]

wanajukwaa.

ikiwa imebaki siku 4 ifike tarehe 8 siku ambayo marekani itachagua rais atakayemrithi obama!

homa ya uchaguzi imepanda nchini humo ukichukulia ni nchi kubwa duniani hivyo kutakuwa na faida au hasara hapa duniani iwapo rais wa nchi hiyo atakuwa bandidu!

mimi namtabiria TRUMP.
tiririkeni na nyie
mods msiunganishe huu uzi

 

[Hamis Juma]

Kwa kuwa ni utabiri hatuwezi kukubishia, wamarekani wataongea. . tusubiri

 

[technically]

Trump make the America greater again

 

[Danny Massawe]

Mchuano umekuwa mkali sana hasa hizi siku 10 zilizopita baada ya barua pepe zaidi kugundulika kwenye computer mpakato ya mtu wa karibu wa Hillary Clinton na FBI. Wagombea wote wa awamu hii inaonekana ni wadhaifu sana na wanamapungufu mengi sana. Ila Donald Trump anaonekana anaweza kushinda kwa tofauti ndogo sana. Sababu zitakazompa trump ushindi
1.sakata la barua pepe
2.anaonekana anaweza kupambana na magaidi vzr kuliko Hillary
3.atazuia waamiaji ambao wanatumia fursa za wamarekani
4.atawashughulikia wa Islam wa msimamo mkali kama IS na Alqaeda na magaidi wengine ambao ni tatizo la usalama
5. Ataruhusu kumiliki silaha tofauti na Hillary
6.ni sura mpya tofauti na Hillary ambaye amekuwa kwenye siasa miongo mingi
7.ni mwanaume.
Haya ni maoni yangu unaweza kubisha ila tarehe 8 ndio mtaamini.

 

[airbag]

Laalulee Massawe,

Trump mbe.