Thursday, July 13, 2017

Donald Trump defends son, suggests that ANYBODY would have welcomed foreign interference in our elections.

Courtesy of The Guardian:

Donald Trump has defended his son in public over his meeting with a Russian lawyer last year, telling a press conference in Paris “most people would have taken that meeting” and ignoring questions about whether offers of political assistance from potential agents of foreign governments should be reported to the FBI.

Actually that is NOT true and has not been true for campaigns in the past.

Trump also sort of fogged over the other two people in this meeting, who for the record were his son-in-law/campaign adviser Jared Kushner, and his campaign manager at the time Paul Manafort.

And for both of them this could be a much bigger problem than it might be for Junior.

To be clear what Trump said in this answer is that he finds it perfectly acceptable to allow a foreign agent, from an unfriendly nation, to give you potentially stolen classified information that can be used to harm your opponent's chances of winning the election.

This is a man with literally NO ethics and NO respect for the rule of law.

Nor will he accept that he might have done something wrong or even that the Russia story is legitimate, as he essentially spells out in a recent interview with Reuters

"The only frustration is that this Russia story is a hoax made up by the Democrats as an excuse for losing an election that they should have won because it’s almost impossible for a Republican to win the Electoral College.” 

"There was zero coordination. It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. There’s no coordination, this was a hoax, this was made up by the Democrats." 

"This is the greatest con job in history, where a party sits down the day after they got their ass kicked, and they say, 'Huh, what’s our excuse?'” 

"It just continues and continues, and honestly it’s a disgrace, and it’s very bad for our country. And the Russians must be laughing, because this narrative is so bad for us as a country." 

If the Russians are laughing it because their hand picked president is obfuscating just as they expected him to do in response to the findings by American intelligence agencies. 

Which of course undermines people's faith in those agencies and allows Russia much more leeway in their next attacks on our democracy.

By the way Trump has also announced that he is "open" to inviting Putin to the White House.

Courtesy of NBC News :

President Donald Trump would invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House "at the right time," according to White House-released excerpts of an off-the-record conversation with reporters aboard Air Force One Wednesday night that was later released. 

"I don't think this is the right time," the president said of the hypothetical White House invitation, "but the answer is yes, I would. Look it's very easy for me to say absolutely, I won't. That's the easy thing for me to do, but that's the stupid thing to do. Let's be the smart people not the stupid people."

Yes let's be "the smart people" and invite the guy who just hacked out election to walk right into the White House.

Hell why not?

After all it's not like his spies have no already been there.

Seriously, this guy is not even pretending that he is not working for the Kremlin anymore.

38 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:43 PM

    GOP Activist Seeking Clinton Emails Who Claimed To Rep Flynn Committed Suicide

    Peter W. Smith, the Republican operative who sought to obtain and publicize emails he thought were stolen from Hillary Clinton’s private server, committed suicide days after he told a reporter about his efforts, according to the Chicago Tribune.

    The Chicago Tribune reported Thursday night, citing a Minnesota state death record filed in Olmsted County, that Smith killed himself on May 14 days after he talked to the Wall Street Journal about his hunt for Clinton’s emails. That account was also included in a medical examiner’s report and a Rochester police report, according to the Tribune.

    Smith left a statement police referred to as a suicide note, according to the report, in which he said there was “NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER” involved in his death.

    According to the Tribune, Smith cited a downturn in his own health and an expiring life insurance policy in the note. He died at the Aspen Suites in Rochester, which the report characterized as a “hotel used almost exclusively by Mayo Clinic patients and relatives.”

    The Wall Street Journal in June reported that Smith contacted hackers in hopes of gaining access to a trove of emails he believed was hacked from Clinton’s server and claimed he had ties to former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Smith told the Journal that he was unable to authenticate the emails several hacker groups offered him, and therefore “told all the groups to give them to WikiLeaks.”

    According to the report, Smith spoke to the Journal 10 days before his death.

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-gop-operative-cited-flynn-clinton-emails-suicide

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    1. Anonymous8:21 PM

      Was it suicide or did someone shut him up?

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    2. SallyinMI10:58 PM

      Gee, if this was a Dem operative, they'd be screaming "Hillary killed him!!" for the next five years!

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    3. Anonymous3:40 AM

      My God, they'll blame it on Hillary Clinton. Why not, Republicans blame everything on her. Floods in Ohio, why not blame Hillary Clinton?
      Beaglemom

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  2. Anonymous4:44 PM


    Is Jeff Sessions Engaged In A Cover-Up Of Russian Contacts?

    http://crooksandliars.com/2017/07/Jeff-sessions-cover-up

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    1. SallyinMI10:57 PM

      I'm sure he is. He's a mealy-mouthed KKK creep.

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  3. Trump judges everyone based on what he would do. Since he has NO integrity and NO ethics, he sees no problem in this meeting.

    Trump is an anything to win person. If it means colluding with a hostile foreign power to win, then fine. Legal or illegal has nothing to do with it.

    He LIES. He doesn't even realize he's lying. He just says anything, whether it conflicts with his spokespeople or even something he's previously said.

    He just doesn't give a shit as long as he gets his way.

    Jeebus, I wish he would just drop dead already.

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    1. Anonymous5:43 PM

      He's a bully but if he drops dead he'll never serve time in prison, and THAT I want to see.

      GeorgiaPeach

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  4. Anonymous5:08 PM

    TRUMP IS NUTS!

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  5. Anonymous5:25 PM

    You will be surprised regarding the White House employees named below

    GETTING STRANGE DAY BY DAY

    GUY COMMITTED SUICIDE / IS IT A COINCIDENCE?

    THERE MAY BE A TIE WITH THE TRUMP-RUSSIAN FIASCO


    Washington Examiner -
    Peter Smith, GOP operative who sought Clinton emails, committed suicide: Report

    by Josh Siegel | Jul 13, 2017, 7:08 PM

    A Republican opposition researcher who reportedly tried to obtain emails thought to be stolen from Hillary Clinton's private email server committed suicide days after talking to the Wall Street Journal about his efforts, according to a report Thursday....

    After the reports were published, a man claiming to have been contacted by Smith to help with the email effort wrote a first-person essay claiming he was a Journal source and that he believes Smith was working with the Trump campaign.

    In a blog post published on Lawfare, cybersecurity expert Matt Tait said Smith had a "deep knowledge" of the "inner workings" of Trump's campaign.

    The Journal reported that Smith implied to people he sought to participate in the email effort that he was connected to several Trump campaign officials.

    Smith named the Trump officials, including Steve Bannon, Mike Flynn, and Kellyanne Conway, in a recruitment document for his effort.....

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/peter-smith-gop-operative-who-sought-clinton-emails-committed-suicide-report/article/2628644

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    1. Anonymous7:05 PM

      http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-gop-operative-cited-flynn-clinton-emails-suicide

      "“NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER” involved in his death."Smith cited a downturn in his own health and an expiring life insurance policy in the note. He died at the Aspen Suites in Rochester, which the report characterized as a “hotel used almost exclusively by Mayo Clinic patients and relatives.”

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  6. Anonymous5:40 PM

    Satan’s fall from heaven is symbolically described in Isaiah 14:12-14 and Ezekiel 28:12-18
    This has nothing to do with the post below.

    Washington Post:
    Ivanka and Jared begin the plunge from grace

    Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have tried their best to soar gracefully above the raging dumpster fire that is the Trump administration. Unhappily for the handsome couple, gravity makes no allowances for charm.

    Kushner, already reported to be a “person of interest” in the Justice Department probe of President Trump’s campaign, is arguably the individual with the most to lose from the revelation that the campaign did, after all, at least attempt to colludewith the Russian government to boost Trump’s chances of winning the election.....

    Ivanka Trump’s name has not surfaced in the Russia affair. But she, like her husband, is serving as a presidential adviser, and she received unwanted attention when she briefly took her father’s place at the head table during the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg. We expect officials representing our country to have been elected by the voters or appointed because of merit, not installed by the caprices of heredity....

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ivanka-and-jared-begin-the-plunge-from-grace/2017/07/13/0c8d7072-6805-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html

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    1. Anonymous6:32 PM

      "handsome?"Ivaaahhhhhnka looks liek a stork - walks like one too. And JerryJerrod reminds me of Frank Burns in MASH. aka Ferret face, aka chinless wonder.

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    2. Anonymous2:15 AM

      Have you seen what Ivanka looked like BEFORE all that cosmetic surgery? EEEkk!! Still has that ugly tRump mouth. I wonder if the family gets a family rate on all the Botox they get?The tRump "boys" Beavis and Butthead have a difficult time getting their frozen faces to move, too.

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  7. Anonymous5:47 PM

    The Hill:
    July 13, 2017 - 09:06 PM EDT

    Trump's lawyers knew about Trump Jr. emails weeks ago: report

    President Trump’s outside legal team representing him in the ongoing Russia probe knew about the email chain surrounding a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer more than three weeks ago, according to a new report....

    http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/341984-trumps-lawyers-knew-about-trump-jr-emails-weeks-ago-report

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  8. Anonymous6:09 PM

    Trump may not be the best president.

    What does that mean? It means for the next four years all Americans should train Trump to be a president.

    We need to accept the Russian distractions and Trump's oogling heads of state wives and hopefully in 2020 he will be prepared to be an excellent president.

    Consider it like being a new bride, if she wants her groom to be a great husband then after saying I do, she has to convert her groom from being horny dog frat boy into the man she wants.

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    1. Anonymous6:34 PM

      Not my circus, not my monkey. And The Rump is incorrigible and unintelligent which means incapable of learning.

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    2. Anonymous6:35 PM

      Then again, I would highly like to swat his nose with a rolled up newspaper. or rub it in a pile of his own excrement. (yeah I wouldn't do tht to any dog I was training,either - so don't bother to bitch, but that is how much I despise the orange shitgibbon occupying the White House.)

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    3. Anonymous7:08 PM

      6:35 PM - exactly what I thought. The dog you can't train -- I'll take a dump where I want to, you can clean it up, and get over it.

      I have a 31-year-old son like this.
      It is a NIGHTMARE.
      Pardon the drama.

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    4. SallyinMI10:55 PM

      Right. Train him? He's a selfish, greedy buffoon. He;s learned nothing in six months, or 70 years! He's still treating women like possessions instead of people. He has no clue how to behave on the world stage.
      And NO, we will not put up with him and his evil for 4 years!

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  9. Anonymous6:23 PM

    Trump and his clan are amoral. It's all about 'winning' with this band of miscreants.

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    1. Anonymous7:45 PM

      But they are not winning.

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    2. And profit.

      Winning AND profit.

      You mustn't forget profit.

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  10. Anonymous6:29 PM

    The pushback should be o teh lie that Republicans have a hard time winnign teh Electoral College - their whole gerrymandering strategy is about popular vote be damned. Gerrymander to victory.

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    1. Anonymous6:59 PM

      Think for one minute that the Electoral College votes according to what their districts think? Do I have a bridge for you!

      THAT is what burns his butt to this day. He lost by 3+ million votes. And now we pay for it.

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    2. Anonymous3:38 AM

      We, Americans and the people of the entire world, are now paying for Trump's annoyance that he lost the popular vote by almost 3 million. That means that all of us who voted proudly and happily for Hillary Clinton because we care about our country are absolutely unhappy with the creepy and crooked grouch in the White House.
      Beaglemom

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  11. Anonymous7:00 PM

    Wasilla Son:
    http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/bride-surprised-at-wedding-by-man-who-received-her-late-son-s-heart-996427843681

    :-)

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  12. Anonymous8:10 PM

    I love the way 'folks' keep saying that Butthead is just a kid... he's the same age as the President of France.

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    1. SallyinMI10:53 PM

      Good pont. What has Junior got to show for his 40 years on Earth? Business failures. An abusive father he still worships for the money. Dead animal parts on his walls. Zero empathy, humanity, or charity. Greed.
      Gee, Junior, how do you live with yourself? Handed the world and you are a worthless human being.
      And 92 year old Jimmy Carter is still building homes, real homes, for the poor. What has a Trump ever done for anyone? What a pathetic family...the lot of them.

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  13. Anonymous8:25 PM

    I think what happened here, is for the last twenty some years Russia has been slowly moving in, and now they are here. There are no Americans. And like with Russia, money talks in this country.
    Also, don't forget Putin is the head of a mafia not a country. Trump is trying to be the don corleone over here. The Republicans are the other bosses. Someone commented that if you want to find out what's going on, follow the money.

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  14. Anonymous9:04 PM

    Omfg we are outraged. We do not think like this fat bastrd. He is nuts and belongs in prison the whole lot of them!

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  15. Anonymous9:33 PM

    This:
    http://www.politicususa.com/2017/07/13/trump-caught-massive-lie-legal-team-knew-don-jr-emails-june.html

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  16. Anonymous9:47 PM

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/here-are-7-reasons-why-an-angry-cornered-trump-is-a-very-real-threat-to-america/

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  17. Anonymous12:56 AM

    Just watched a psychological analysis of donald trump's narcissism on Youtube. Scary stuff. The guy talked about how people like him are populist and in times of insecure economies, and lack of education people naturally flock to the populist guy for security. It was tough stuff to hear since Trump is now the president.

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  18. Anonymous3:29 AM

    Pappy Trump is so proud of Jr's transparency. How about Jared?

    REVEALED: Ex-Soviet intelligence attended meeting with Kushner and Trump Jr

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/revealed-russian-with-links-to-soviet-intelligence-attended-meeting-with-kushner-and-trump-jr/


    Here are 7 reasons why an angry, cornered Trump is a very real threat to America
    The first Trump habit is to lie for advantage, whether about Barack Obama’s birth certificate or about his interest in a certain proud nation of white people led by a manly man. “I have nothing to do with Russia,”
    The second habit is to lie on social media, where habits only lead to more habits, character is capped at 140, and destiny is very yesterday.
    The third Trump habit is to accuse the accuser of the thing you’re being accused of. Remember Hillary Clinton’s nonexistent uranium giveaway to Russia? Neither does anyone else
    The fourth Trump habit is to close the circle, to demand loyalty.
    The fifth habit is to savage the disloyal.
    The sixth habit is to destroy enemies who are not yet intimidated, which points to the growing likelihood that Trump will fire special prosecutor Robert Mueller.
    The seventh Trump habit, which also points to a constitutional crisis, is to escape trouble by “stepping on the gas.”

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    1. Anonymous4:43 AM

      7 reasons why an angry, cornered Trump is a very real threat to America
      http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/here-are-7-reasons-why-an-angry-cornered-trump-is-a-very-real-threat-to-america/


      Trump Changes Tune On Russian Lawyer Meeting: ‘Maybe It Was Mentioned’


      http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-changes-tune-on-awareness-of-russia-meeting


      The President of the United States of America on Air Force One: “No. That I didn’t know. Until a couple of days ago, when I heard about this. No I didn’t know about that,” referring to the meeting between Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort.
      Later the President has a revision: “In fact maybe it was mentioned at some point,” referring to the meeting. (Reporters on the plane initially thought the conversation was off-the-record, but the President said otherwise on Thursday.)

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  19. Anonymous3:35 AM

    First of all I've never liked the expression "to take a meeting." A person attends, goes to, has or holds a meeting. One "takes" a tangible thing, like a book or a piece of paper, not a meeting. The image that comes to my mind is that one grasps the meeting between the thumb and forefinger and holds it at a distance, making a face all the while, as if it's somehow dirty.

    Secondly, and most importantly, not everyone would welcome foreign interference in an election in this country - for the simple reason that it is illegal. How dumb can a Trump be?
    Beaglemom

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  20. Anonymous5:36 AM

    The world knows the POTUS declares it is fine to meet with an adversary if it is to his personal advantage even if it is an assault on democratic process and he will destroy people who object to his behaviors. He also has no class. The man is a pig and proud of it.

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