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Zippyjuan
06-25-2017, 12:16 PM
"There was no meddling. It is all fake news."

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/05/10/17/401E69BA00000578-4492690-image-a-35_1494433668408.jpg

"There was meddling. It was Obama's fault- and he did nothing!" (but I am not going to do anything either!)

http://oppositionreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-23-at-11.14.11-PM.png


President Donald Trump on Twitter appeared to acknowledge Russian meddling in the presidential election in a tweet Friday that attacked former President Barack Obama.

"Just out," Trump tweeted Friday, "The Obama Administration knew far in advance of November 8th about election meddling by Russia. Did nothing about it. WHY?"

Trump may have been referencing a Washington Post report that the CIA had confirmed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s direct influence on his government's alleged interference in the 2016 election. The report described the administration debating dozens of options in how to stop or punish Russia, including cyber-attacks and releasing information embarrassing to Putin.

Trump has been reluctant to acknowledge allegations of Russian interference. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Friday referenced Trump’s comments at a January press conference in which the then president-elect said "as far as hacking, I think it's Russia" — but Trump at the time also said "it could be others."

The U.S. intelligence community on Oct. 7 publicly blamed Russia for the hacks and email leaks during the campaign. The Obama administration announced sanctions on Russia in December. That same month, Obama said he personally discussed the interference with Russian President Vladimir Putin to "tell him to cut it out, and there were going to be some serious consequences if he didn’t."

Russia has denied attempting to interfere in the U.S. election.

Senior advisers to the president urged Trump to avoid discussing the Russia investigation earlier this week, one top official told NBC News. But by Thursday morning the president had already returned to his preferred social media platform to discuss Russia, the 2016 election and the Obama administration.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-acknowledges-russian-election-meddling-tweet-criticizing-obama-n776381

Swordsmyth
06-25-2017, 12:20 PM
Dump is obviously speaking theoretically.
Dems claim that Russia meddled and that they knew about it, but that they did nothing to stop it.
Even IF they were telling the truth, they make themselves look bad.

dannno
06-25-2017, 12:36 PM
Dump is obviously speaking theoretically.
Dems claim that Russia meddled and that they knew about it, but that they did nothing to stop it.
Even IF they were telling the truth, they make themselves look bad.

But muh Trump narrative

Zippyjuan
06-25-2017, 12:40 PM
"There was no meddling. It is all fake news."

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/05/10/17/401E69BA00000578-4492690-image-a-35_1494433668408.jpg

"There was meddling. It was Obama's fault- and he did nothing!" (but I am not going to do anything either!)

http://oppositionreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-23-at-11.14.11-PM.png



http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-acknowledges-russian-election-meddling-tweet-criticizing-obama-n776381

Obama was partially concerned that if he raised the issue too strongly it would be portrayed as a political move to support Clinton- which Trump has indeed used.

CPUd
06-25-2017, 01:30 PM
By October they all knew about it. Public got the declassified version, the campaigns got the classified version. Trump was too busy calling it fake news to read it.

Zippyjuan
06-25-2017, 01:39 PM
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/12/skipping-daily-briefings-trump-shows-ambivalence-toward-intel-agencies/95103092/


In skipping daily briefings, Trump shows ambivalence toward intel agencies

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's reluctance to receive daily intelligence briefings — and his blunt rejection of the CIA's assessment of Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election — suggest a rocky start to the president-elect's relationship with intelligence agencies.

Since the election, Trump has received the President's Daily Briefing only four times, amid meetings with potential Cabinet secretaries and other transition business. And on Sunday, the president-elect suggested that the rate of briefings won't change once he's sworn in next month.

"I get it when I need it," Trump told Fox News Sunday. "I'm a smart person. I don't have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years."

Trump's cool attitude toward intelligence comes amid a debate over whether the hacking of Democratic emails during the presidential campaign may have been an effort by Russia to get him elected. President Obama has ordered an intelligence report before he leaves office, and a growing group of Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill is calling for an investigation into that question. But Trump said Sunday there's no consensus by the intelligence community on the issue.

Swordsmyth
06-25-2017, 02:58 PM
By October they all knew about it. Public got the declassified version, the campaigns got the classified version. Trump was too busy calling it fake news to read it.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/12/skipping-daily-briefings-trump-shows-ambivalence-toward-intel-agencies/95103092/

Why should he listen to lies from his enemies?
He knew he was not colluding with Russia, but they kept saying he was, so he knew they could not be trusted.

Jamesiv1
06-25-2017, 03:13 PM
Why should he listen to lies from his enemies?
He knew he was not colluding with Russia, but they kept saying he was, so he knew they could not be trusted.
^this

"Russia was meddling" does not mean the same thing as "Trump was colluding with Russia's meddling"

But I'm sure the OP knew that already.

UWDude
06-26-2017, 10:03 AM
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/12/skipping-daily-briefings-trump-shows-ambivalence-toward-intel-agencies/95103092/

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-24/cia-director-mike-pompeo-trump-avid-consumer-us-intelligence

CIA Director Mike Pompeo: Trump's "An Avid Consumer" Of Intel, Will "Punish Leakers"

(Note, Pompeo is not an "anonymous source" or unnamed official close to the white house).


“very interested” in what’s happening at the intelligence communities and that his daily in-person briefings with the president typically run longer than their allotted time.


Pompeo tells MSNBC that Trump is a demanding boss who asks “great questions” ....

NorthCarolinaLiberty
06-26-2017, 10:31 AM
1. Progressives vilify Christians, farmers, business owners, southerners, midwesterners, etc.

2. Christians, farmers, business owners, southerners, midwesterners, etc. vote against progressives.

3. Progressives cry foul and fabricate a story.

CPUd
06-26-2017, 10:32 AM
https://i.imgur.com/JFSyfV2.jpg