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PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, insisted on Sunday that it was acceptable for a political campaign to use hacked information about its opponent obtained from a foreign adversary — though he personally would have advised against it.

“There’s nothing wrong with taking information from Russians,” Mr. Giuliani said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” adding that he would have argued against using it, “out of excess of caution.”

“It depends on where it came from,” he said, adding on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that a political campaign’s decision to use stolen information from foreign adversaries “depends on the stolen material.”

Mr. Giuliani’s assertion, which built on similar previous remarks that he had later backed away from, was offered partly as a rebuttal to questioning about a meeting at Trump Tower in 2016 in which Trump campaign aides met with Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. It also underscored another aspect of the special counsel’s report, released last week by the Justice Department, that the president has largely avoided addressing: that Russia secretly influenced the 2016 presidential election.
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Your Country, Germany is also very supportive of Russian economic, and perhaps political, interests, and is also quite unwilling to meet its own military obligations to its NATO allies. Perhaps you should reflect on your evident hypocrisy.

I asked you to explain your intended point when posting the article. That, not the fact that you posted it, is the issue here.

The intended point is/was the topic of this thread …

Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has won a run-off election to become the country's next president by a landslide, exit polls suggest.

The polls give him more than 70% support. He dominated the first round of voting three weeks ago when 39 candidates were on the ticket.

Mr Zelensky challenged incumbent president Petro Poroshenko.

Mr Poroshenko has admitted defeat but told supporters gathered in Kiev that he will not leave politics.

"I will never let you down," Mr Zelensky told supporters on Sunday.

He added: "While I am not formally president yet, as a citizen of Ukraine I can tell all post-Soviet countries: 'Look at us! Everything is possible!'"

If polls are correct, he will be elected for a five-year term.

Ukraine's president holds significant powers over the security, defence and foreign policy of the country.

Ukraine's choice was between an experienced politician with five years as president on his CV and a comedian wielding little more than a blank sheet of paper. That so many people have opted for Volodymyr Zelensky is a humiliation for Petro Poroshenko.

Thirty-seven candidates were removed from the ballot paper from the first round and yet the president only picked up about 9% more votes this time. Mr Zelensky gained almost 45 percent.

This feels like a massive protest vote and for now Mr Zelensky and his campaign team are celebrating.

It's hard to see the feeling lasting long. The hard work will come when they have to start fleshing out what are at the moment vague policies.

It's one thing to have bold ideas but quite another to implement them.

Polls gave Mr Poroshenko, who has been in power since 2014, 25% of the vote.

The billionaire was elected after an uprising overthrew the country's previous, pro-Russian government.

"The outcome of the election leaves us with uncertainty [and] unpredictability," he said after exit polls were released.

"I will leave office but I want to firmly stress - I will not quit politics," he added.

Mr Zelensky, 41, is best known for starring in a political satirical drama called Servant of the People in which his character accidentally becomes Ukrainian president.

He ran under a political party with the same name as his show.

With no previous political experience, his campaign focused on his difference to the other candidates rather than on any concrete policy ideas.

Despite this, he won the first round with more than 30% of the vote - almost double what Mr Poroshenko got when he finished in second place with 15.95%

I suspect Giuliani is well aware that the so-called "dossier" purchased and financed by Hillary Clinton's campaign was itself based on "information " from Russians and almost certainly known to the Russian intelligence services.

In matters of state, yes. In moral and legality, no.

Like Nep said, no one murdered anyone. Thank goodness.

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Wow. I just heard about this on the news. It looks like the Tamils don't consent to be genocide victims.

What could it possibly mean to "consent to be genocide victims?"
How can you consent to others being killed because they share the same ethnicity with you?
That's like saying you have the right to kill others or have them killed as long as they are "your own people."

Gulliani should know better than to state it's perfectly fine to accept information (intell) from the Russians.

Oh really, I was unaware of the intelligence sharing arrangement between the Workers paradise and the United States of America.

You must have some magical insight of regarding national security that slipped by me during my 32 years of DOD service.

If you continue to make statements like that, people will wonder if you have the intellect that God gave to bullfrogs.

It looks like the Tamils don't consent to be genocide victims.

I just pay attention to facts.

Oh really, I was unaware of the intelligence sharing arrangement between the Workers paradise and the United States of America. You must have some magical insight of regarding national security that slipped by me during my 32 years of DOD service. If you continue to make statements like that, people will wonder if you have the intellect that God gave to bullfrogs.