In other words, I guess weāll never know.
I keep thinking people who publically contradict his awfulness like this will be fired. But it appears the administration isnāt organized enough to recognize completely contradictory messages.
I donāt see where he said that the elections were āhackedā which has real meaning. āInterferingā is not āhackingā though āhackingā is a type of āinterferenceā.
Come on TPM, you are better than the bait-headines.
Edit: The Politico article is a little more clear about āhackingā itself (Russia behind DNC hacks and attempted State Election Board hacks) but the TPM take on that article is a little weak in matching the headline.
The whole Trump not admitting Russians hacked the election thing is tedious.
Heās crooked. Probably compromised. Definitely financially beholden. Trump isnāt interested in fixing the problem of election hacking, so who gives a s%*t what he thinks about it? We already know he doesnāt care what we think anyway.
Expose him and end him, media. Stop dwelling on whatever nonsense he said last. Itās all lies anyway.
Trump has repeatedly questioned claims from 17 U.S. intelligence officials that the Russian government interfered in the election.
Quickly jumps out of a figurative window, before @geofu54 tags me on thisā¦
Obamaās response wasnāt strong enough? Okā¦but whatās your response? You gonna kiss Putinās ass till he begs for mercy?
Trump demanding an investigation and prosecution of Obama for failing to stop Russian hacking in 3ā¦2ā¦1ā¦
Amen. Sick of this. Life insurance is not health insurance. The presidency is not about getting to sit in big trucks.
This guy and Kobach have convinced me that the results of the '16 election are null and void. Whenās the new election scheduled for?
āPresident Donald Trumpās chief counterterrorism adviser said Thursday itās āpretty clearā that the Russian government tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and that he didnāt think the former President Barack Obama administration went far enough to deal with the hack.ā
While criticizing President Obama for a limp response, thus far Trump has offered no response and a number of concessions, including cooperation in cyber espionage.
That level of contradiction (Trump vs. the majority of the GOP) has been in play for nearly nine months. Though the Trump officials who work for him clearly believe that its Russia whoās the culprit, they often skate around Trumpās involvement, often in an attempt to downplay it (example: Lindsey Graham).
its amazing that no one is asking Bossert about that Post story intracies, namely about that executive order that ā44ā signed involving cyber mines.
Absolutely.
And has openly debated the merits of reversing what response Obama did implement.
Apparently, Obama was too lax and only confiscated the two spy operations-based Russian compounds ā so the Trumpskies want to give them back to Putin with no concessions?
OT
Trumpās āred lineā in his unhinged NYT interview yesterday just got crossed.
Winning!
OK Letās review what we all now know
Russia hacked - illegally gained access to emails & information and then took actions to manipulate the outcome
Trump Team - knew the Russians had illicitly gained information and had a meeting with the Russians to obtain access to this information.
so - Trump collaborated with Russia
and for the moment letās set aside this crap about Obama not being stern enough in the punishment - that at most is a error of omission & is nothing but a lame smoke screen - it has nearly zero relevance to the treasonous crimes - crimes of commission that have occured by Trump & his minions.
The contradictions are a feature, not a bug. Itās a willful muddying of the waters.
So this guy is saying that Obama should be promised for not having arrested his boss who is not guilty of anything because fake news. Gotcha.