Speaking to a handful of reporters outside his Palm Beach, Fla., club, Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump cast his declarations of doubt as an effort to seek the truth.
“I just want them to be sure because it’s a pretty serious charge,” Mr. Trump said of the intelligence agencies. “If you look at the weapons of mass destruction, that was a disaster, and they were wrong,” he added, referring to intelligence cited by the George W. Bush administration to support its march to war in 2003. “So I want them to be sure,” the president-elect said. “I think it’s unfair if they don’t know.”
He added: “And I know a lot about hacking. And hacking is a very hard thing to prove. So it could be somebody else. And I also know things that other people don’t know, and so they cannot be sure of the situation.”
When asked what he knew that others did not, Mr. Trump demurred, saying only, “You’ll find out on Tuesday or Wednesday.”
WTF?
So is Trump saying that he has information that the intelligence agencies do not have?
And who gave him this information, his buddy Vlad?
Well then instead of giving him briefings perhaps the intelligence agencies should plop his fat ass in a chair and interrogate him until he gives up his information. After all the integrity of our democracy is as stake here.
Later in the Q and A Trump said this:
“I don’t care what they say, no computer is safe,” he added. “I have a boy who’s 10 years old; he can do anything with a computer. You want something to really go without detection, write it out and have it sent by courier.”
Yes because in the history of mankind nobody has ever murdered or kidnapped a courier to get information, right moron?
So according to Tangerine Hitler he has information that questions the validity of what the intelligence agencies are reporting and thinks all of us should eschew technology and go back to communicating through carrier pigeon.
Good job deplorables! What a great choice you made.
Eat your BS, Trump.
ReplyDeleteWe'll hear about this bull shit as soon as he releases his taxes and his wife explains her immigration adventures. Never in other words...
DeleteI doubt anyone shares explosive information with him. I think this is more childish "neener, neener, neener, I have a secret and I won't tell you." How anyone can have an adult relationship with him...
ReplyDeleteMy memory could be a bit fuzzy on this - but did he not say at one point he had a secret plan to deal with ISIS? And now it would seem he has no idea what to do.
DeletePat Padrnos
"not a puppet, not a puppet, not a puppet"
ReplyDelete"Not my president, not my president, not my president."
He is a fucking FOOL. A fool that should be hanged for treason!
If you're someone who speaks badly about people no matter who is it, read this tweet by Bill Clinton:
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year—2017 & beyond will be bright if we use our imagination, passion & skills to lift each other up & make all our lives stronger.
That's the difference between a president and a pretender.
DeleteOh right, now he goes after bush. He should have used his resources to go after bush good when we all found out. What a loser. Like anyone would listen to his knowledge of computers. What a joke too.
ReplyDeleteLOL, like a 10 yr old that can't clap his hands together can work a computer? Probably not.
ReplyDeleteActually some autistic kids are computer savants....
DeleteThis is the same child he called retarded according to Tom Arnold... on tape.
DeleteTo a complete computer novice such as Trump, his kid looking up something on Google would seem like magic to him.
Delete10:13, I've been wondering if Trump called Barron retarded or if he was making a reference to Don Jr. since D Jr. used to be on the Apprentice. So, he really was referring to Barron??? Thanks.
DeleteThe White House Just Released Obama’s NYE Message, Putting Trump’s Childish Tweet To Shame
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bipartisanreport.com/2016/12/31/the-white-house-just-released-obamas-nye-message-putting-trumps-childish-tweet-to-shame/
Wonderful speech from an adult: an intelligent, warm human being.
DeleteAs for all these FACTS and good news events during his Presidency (despite the GOP)...
why weren't the Dems pounding all into the dumb brains of America this before the election? In every speech, every interview...
With all these accomplishments, Obama made the Republicans look mean, bereft of ideas, revengeful, etc. No wonder they hate him so much. He showed them up for what they are.
The Dems were too busy with all of the internecine fighting between the Hillary Clan and the Bernie Bots.
DeleteThere was so much time and energy wasted b/c of how out of control the Bernie thing got. Having an opponent was one thing, but then things got so fucking ugly and detrimental to running against Trump. Add Comey and the hacking, and Hillary couldn't just focus on campaigning a strong traditional campaign. Everyone tried putting a positive spin on Bernie's clinging on and said that it made her a better candidate. fr a while that case could be made, but he became a problem as time went on and his turn to finally supporting Hillary was too little, too late.
DeleteAgree with you 100%, 12:38
DeleteEric Garland is Fed Up! His Massive Twitter Rant Makes So Much Sense, It’s Scary (TWEETS)
ReplyDeleteAs America braces itself for the horror of Donald Trump’s inauguration, hope springs eternal in some corners of Liberal Land. On Thursday, the futurist, author, and top business strategist Eric Garland took to Twitter to tell us what so many of us are dying to hear: Donald Trump will never make it to the White House…And if he does, he won’t stay there for long.
...Eric Garland lays out his case for why Donald Trump’s goose is cooked.
Our nation’s leaders in politics and business may be cruel, corrupt, and venal, but never before have we allowed someone into the highest office in the land with a cloud of treason hanging over their head.
Seriously, when have we ever U.S. president or any political leader in cahoots with a long-time arch-enemy like Russia?
http://www.bipartisanreport.com/2016/12/31/eric-garland-is-fed-up-his-massive-twitter-rant-makes-so-much-sense-its-scary-tweets/
They'll let him in there long enough to sign every piece of shit legislation that Paul Ryan can ram through. Then they'll impeach him and blame all the mess they created on him.
DeleteIt kills me - even Richard Nixon got a Presidential Library. Trump is going to get a Presidential Library. It will contain a solid gold toilet and a bunch of magazines with Trump on the cover.
Nixon did interfere with Johnson's Vietnam peace negotiations back in 1968 but it wasn't proven until decades later, but that would have been considered treason if we would have known.
DeleteDonald Trump’s list of things you can’t bring to his inauguration is about to seriously tick off the NRA.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bipartisanreport.com/2016/12/31/trump-just-sent-a-big-fck-you-to-the-nra-after-promising-to-fight-liberal-gun-control-video/
As he seeks a pardon, the NSA thief has told multiple lies about what he stole and his dealings with Russian intelligence.
ReplyDelete...This excuse was untrue. Mr. Snowden was not even in Hawaii. He was in Hong Kong. He had flown there with a cache of secret data that he had stolen from the NSA.
This was not the only lie Mr. Snowden told. As became clear during my investigation over the past three years, nearly every element of the narrative Mr. Snowden has provided, which reached its final iteration in Oliver Stone’s 2016 movie, “Snowden,” is demonstrably false.
This narrative began soon after Mr. Snowden arrived in Hong Kong, where he arranged to meet with Laura Poitras, a Berlin-based documentary filmmaker, and Glenn Greenwald, a Brazil-based blogger for the Guardian. Both journalists were longtime critics of NSA surveillance with whom Mr. Snowden (under the alias Citizen Four) had been in contact for four months.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fable-of-edward-snowden-1483143143
I was at first a strong supporter of Snowden, until I did a little of my own research and learned what he actually revealed. As a Telecom technologist, I wondered why the US Gov't, had specifically zeroed in on one Chinese Telecom manufacture Huawei (see https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-chinese-servers-seen-as-spy-peril.html?_r=0) prohibiting any sales to any major US Telecom (AT&T, Verizon etc.). With the Snowden disclosures, I learned the CIA, and NSA, had secretly placed "back doors" in every Cisco router exported. Even many US manufactured processor chips, contain "back doors" available to our intelligence services. One can only begin to imagine the damage this has done to American Tech Companies, from computer, to communication satellite manufactures, who are now not trusted suppliers. Do the Chinese, and Russians spy on us? Absolutely, always have and always will. We "were" just much better!
DeleteWow! This is absolutely gobsmacking! I hope Gryphen does a post on this. Everyone needs to read/know this.
Delete9:45am
DeleteOur family have always been loyal Apple consumers for that very reason, they have never allowed back doors into any of their products, to the point that they would not even install one to allow the FBI to break into the San Bernadino shooter's phone, they simply did not want for that software to ever be written, period, because if it was someone would exploit it. I appreciate such an iron will from a company and will continue to support them.
He has the mind of a difficult and not very bright pathologically lying child.
ReplyDeleteYou left out "spoiled rotten".
DeleteHave you ever seen that face on Obama or any of the other faces of T circulating or seen in the past year -- the rage one, or mean-eyes one? Adults do not pull faces when thwarted or mad, have petulant meltdowns. Trump is dangerously immature, if not mentally ill.
DeleteHow Trump and Obama lived their lives made their middle-aged faces. Which one can be trusted with nuke buttons? 19 days and counting...
Terrorist, bleh. They just bomb ordinary people. Just disrupt little things. Nothing major. Why don't they target things that will be major disruptions. I am not saying those people hurt are not important they are very important to their mothers, fathers, wives, children, grandmothers, grandfathers, sisters, brothers and it would be terrible for them. But why be a terrorist if you don't have a really effective target? Just sayin.
ReplyDeletefyi, i have more in common with mormons than i thought: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/petition-mormon-tabernacle-choir-trump-inauguration_us_5865b505e4b0de3a08f7ded4
ReplyDeleteSteve Bannon is on his way into the White House as a top aide to soon-to-be President Donald Trump, and his long and well-known heinous views were put on full display in a disturbing interview that he gave this week at his old home, Breitbart.
ReplyDeleteIn his interview with Breitbart News Daily, Bannon painted a rather chillingly messianic, almost apocalyptic vision of Trump’s presidential campaign and incoming administration.
http://www.bipartisanreport.com/2017/01/01/white-house-appointment-steve-bannon-just-gave-a-highly-disturbing-interview-to-breitbart-audio/
TRUMP INSIDER TRADING TIP
ReplyDeleteInvest in the Trump Pony Express LLC.
By the way, whoever said President-elect's son is autistic is wrong. He can do anything with computers and no don't accuse him of hacking the election or you will be sued.
Huffington Post:
.... Trump then stated his belief that extremely sensitive information should not be communicated via computers at all, citing the expertise of his pre-teen son.
“It’s very important, if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier, the old-fashioned way because I’ll tell you what, no computer is safe. I don’t care what they say, no computer is safe,” Trump said. “I have a boy who’s 10 years old. He can do anything with a computer. You want something to really go without detection, write it out and have it sent by courier.”....
Wow. There may be lots of mail delivered to Trump tower, usa. Does he own USPS too?
DeleteThe kid has is obviously in the spectrum.
DeleteSo.
Sue me.
Someone needs to remind stupid that's a computer in his hand he uses to twitter.
DeleteYup. I have an asbergers sydrome grandson. They can hone certain skills well be it music,arts,computers,math.. But he still has asbergers sydrome .
DeleteTrump ‘aggressively’ pursuing Netanyahu to attend inauguration — report
ReplyDeletehttp://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-aggressively-pursuing-netanyahu-to-attend-inauguration-report/
If that move doesn't tell you how anti-American Trump is - nothing else will. He already is buds w/Putin!
DeleteWay past time to bring the fat slob down and not allow him to take the oath of office for potus.
Will Putin and Assad be able to attend? How about kim korea and philipbeans dudes?
DeleteA-List’s Trump Snub Hits Him Where It Hurts
ReplyDeleteUltimately, denying Trump and Trumpism the cultural approval they crave is an important statement.
Republicans are putting on their “smug faces” and scoffing at the raft of celebrity performers, Rockettes and now even a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, who are refusing to raise their microphones, kick up their bare-legged heels or otherwise perform for Donald Trump at his inaugural.
Bristol Palin, despite her own tenuous grasp on celebrity status, took to her blog to snipe at the refuseniks as ”sissies”.
But make no mistake, this disdain drips with envy (and Bristol would be snapping selfies with those A-listers in a heartbeat if they’d have her.) Republicans and conservatives know full well that denying Trump the celebrity and cultural imprimatur he so desperately craves matters, and not just because of the awkward headlines after each new rejection.
...Now, a man who clearly craves the adulation of the famous; the Queens rich kid who desperately desired the respect of the Manhattan and Palm Beach elite, is being denied it, publicly and in humiliating fashion. The mad scramble by his team to secure famous players for his inaugural festivities coupled with his ad-hoc photo ops with a fading Jim Brown, a bizarre, unmedicated Kanye West and huckster-cum-murderer Don King makes Trump’s existential yearning clear. He can try to deflect with pathetic tweets about really wanting to be surrounded by “the people” on his big day, but the truth is transparent: the germaphobic pouter who lives in an all-gold penthouse built from cheap materials by undocumented Polish migrants wouldn’t wipe his nose on his core supporters. Just look at his billionaire cabinet for a clue.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/01/a-list-s-trump-snub-hits-him-where-it-hurts.html
Bristy does know how to dance now, maybe she can offer her skills for uncle tramp and uncle stoogent.
DeleteHe's new money, tacky new money, and he's never been allowed into the dens of the truly wealthy, the pedigreed and polished old money with deep roots in this country, and it positively kills him that he'll never be accepted into that realm.
DeleteThe Kennedy's were never allowed into that circle either, being that they were recent immigrants with a fortune padded through illegal bootlegging, however, they created their own legacy and cultivated a sense of class and breeding within their family and regardless of some of their faults they more than made up for it through their intense philanthropy.
Their roots are very similar to the Trump Klan but their life paths and choices could not be more different. One family is the very essence of class the other, not so much.
11:55, you rock. Well said.
DeleteKennedys are respected. tRumps are white trash. Especially the big orange blob with all those chins.
DeleteSounds Like it's time for the CIA to waterboard his sorry ass.
ReplyDeleteForget the water, they should strap him to the board and his giant quadruple chin would flop up over his mouth and nose and make him think he's suffocating. Ve haf vays uf making you talk!
Delete11:57, you're too much. Yeah, he could die by his own chin fat. I love that. He might even suck it down believing he's sucking on his own wienie. In his mind it is huge, after all.
DeleteI think he is aware how "lacking" he is in the manly department. He wears long, long ties to cover up any tiny bulge that might appear beneath that overhanging belly.
Delete"Well then instead of giving him briefings perhaps the intelligence agencies should plop his fat ass in a chair and interrogate him until he gives up his information." And then they can add a little waterboarding to hasten things along since Mango Mussolini isn't adverse to any form of torture.
ReplyDeleteHow about water boarding him? He'd talk faster than anyone - to include John McCain whom he ridiculed!
DeleteBuy pigeon futures now!!
ReplyDeleteA mental patient rigged the usa election with boris Karloff and motishia in rump bonds with pooty. )0(
ReplyDeleteGryph, we all know Sarah Palin was a Trump Stalker. Is Bristol a Trump Stalker? Does Ivanka need to get a Retaining Order too?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpalin/2016/07/how-well-do-you-really-know-ivanka-trump/
Salon:
Bristol started the Ivanka Plan right around the time it became apparent that Ivanka had a shot at becoming first lady-daughter.
When Ivanka gave birth to her third child back in March, after having hit the campaign trail hard for daddy during her final trimester, Bristol tweeted out congratulations that were well-meaning, kinda.
Bristol tried again with an ambitious declaration of platonic love in the Internet age — the tribute quiz.
Bristol's blog:
“How Well Do You ACTUALLY Know Ivanka Trump?” should have been subtitled “No Really, I’m Serious, So Can You Introduce Me, I Swear I’m Not Obsessed?!” but is actually subtitled “Sure, you know about her famous dad. But how well do you know his secret weapon?” (Hey, it’s cheaper than coffee.)
The quiz is maybe the saddest thing you could possibly read on Bristol Palin’s blog and still think it’s written by a human and not a bot, and it is made up entirely of Wikipedia-level intel. How well does the Bristol-bot ACTUALLY know Ivanka? About as well as I do, as it turns out.
Where was she born and raised, Manhattan or the Hamptons? (Duh.)
What is her full name: Ivanka Marie Trump or Ivanka Donita Trump? (Donita? Bristol to intern: “Nobody’s going to choose ‘Ivanka Trogg Trump.’ God, I’ll do it myself.”)....
See more questions towards end of:
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/31/the-ballad-of-bristol-and-ivanka-does-sarah-palins-eldest-daughter-want-to-be-bffs-with-trumps-an-investigation/
What school does barron attend?
ReplyDeleteGood question. Especially, since Don The Con wants GUNS IN EVERY SCHOOL. I guess, it would exclude his son's school, and if so, people from everywhere should clamor to get their children enrolled in that school...
DeleteI'm shocked Trump can stand up straight with Putin's dick up his ass.
ReplyDelete“You’ll find out on Tuesday or Wednesday.”
ReplyDeleteOr Thursday or Friday.....and, HEY, he didn't specify which week!
Yep! Just like we found out 'after the election' about his tax returns..? Or, just like he 'held a major press conference'a week after the election (NOT!)...
DeleteStill waiting for that secret plan to eliminate ISIS that only he knows.
DeleteIt's amazing what some people do to get out of debt.
ReplyDeleteTell us what you got, Doofus!
ReplyDeleteJust remember that whatever you say can, and will, be used against you in the court of public opinion.
Please proceed, Shitler.
"Shitler". I like that one.
DeleteGaslighting is psychological manipulating a person. It’s a form of emotional abuse. It’s what Duca says Trump has done to the United States.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/he-spun-accusations-of-his-falsehoods-as-bias-teen-vogue-editor-pulls-fire-alarm-on-trump-gaslighting/
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/teen-vogue-editor-schools-conservative-host-urges-him-to-think-of-america-not-clinton-or-obama/
I read that three WEEKS AGO Drumpf said he knew NOTHING about computers/hacking! Now, he knows it ALL?!?!? COME ON JOURNALISTS, hold his feet to the fire and hold him accountable! And for the love of doG, when the HELL is he going to hold a real bona fide press conference? He can't put it off forever! Can he? CAN HE?!?!?
ReplyDeleteYes he can, along with his tax returns. Also, too he will not divest himself from all those business interests. Maybe he thinks ALL his kids are retarded, unfit to run them?
DeleteMeanwhile over at Fox....the spin is...Nobody cares about this, why did Obama not do something, the media spent so much coverage on Clinton and not this, and we are so fair and balanced you can only trust this network for your every bit of news in the world. We went to rump U and know how to lie cheat and steal from U.
ReplyDeleteWell this forces Obama to release or declassify enough evidence to prove the case or Trump's going to do it. And better for the constitutional law professor to do it than the carnival barker. I think that will be good for the country.
ReplyDeleteThe key words are "Constitutional Law Professor" and you don't get that title by selling someone else's real estate! and ya cant buy it. President Obama will apply the law as it is written by the authors and forefathers of this Nation.
Deletehaha, ok 12:35.
DeleteI was watching Jamie Rubin on CNN a little while ago as he was asked about Trump. They talked about how Trump is making excuses by acting as though he wants to be 100% sure of everything when in fact intel is not based on 100% knowing most of the time. For example, he said, we'd not know if North Korea had a nuclear weapon that could reach its target until it was shot off. Are we simply going to wait and see? Of course not. Trump is operating from a place that is just an excuse to ignore all the intel he's getting and to keep refusing to get more of.
ReplyDeleteTrump doesn't know anything that obama and the CIA et al know. For him to say what he said last night was total BS.
ReplyDeleteI really think this guy will be neutralized if not impeached during the first six months or so of his term.
Unfortunately, since the president-elect gets the same intelligence as the president, Trump knows, or has access to learn if he wants to know, everything that Obama knows about this.
DeleteSorry, I meant to say that Trump doesn't know anything that BO and others don't know! Oops!
DeleteDear Mr.Cheetohead,
ReplyDeleteWhat you know could be transcribed on the back of a Bazooka Joe comic in spray paint.
Trump has the utter lunacy to claim "I know about hacking".
ReplyDeleteI have been working with networks since 1989, and doing computer security for the last 15 years.
If you sat Trump in front of a PC or Mac and asked him to set up Kali Linux, spawn a shell and telnet to a switch or router, or configure a firewall, he would FAIL 100%
And those are basic tasks, not even remotely as hard as network penetration testing and analysis
Trump is beyond redemption, and a destestabely stupid asshole
Every time he comments on the intel not being 100%, he only mentions WMD. Not that this isn't legit, but it's the only example he gives--it's so easy and anyone would use it as their example--and he completely leaves off that the CIA and other agencies have been right about many more things than wrong, and have been since 9/11. He, of course, isn't privy to those or knows of some but never brings them up. He thinks that just by acting like Giuliani does by saying "CIA, no WMD" like Giuliani does "9/11," he is right and everyone else is wrong.
ReplyDeleteExcept that wasn't the CIA.
DeleteThat was Bush and his buddies lying to justify a war.
Yes.Chaney and and his goons insisted old bone head put those words in his speech that to us into Iraq war.
DeleteWithholding information from investigators is called "accessory after the fact." Bragging to reporters about it is called fucking stupid.
ReplyDeleteLook at those photos of the asshole. He's nothing more than a fat jerk and is in no way prepared to be the leader of our country.
ReplyDeleteI hope he never gets to take the oath of office and have no suggestion as to how to stop him...perhaps death through a heart attack or massive stroke? Would suit me just fine! I would never lament the death of him or someone as evil as Sarah Palin of Wasilla, Alaska!
Since President Trump is hiring Ivanka to be the First Lady and her husband as an advisor, how about a job for Barron?
ReplyDeleteSince Barron is a wiz kid with computers, hire Barron to head the CIA, FBI and the other 15 intelligence divisions? That way President Trump can trust the hacking and other intel he receives from Director Barron.
Some Americans are worried that Director Barron is autistic but rest assure he doesn't per his mother.