Pompeo Defends Trump After Lavrov Meeting | Talking Points Memo

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended the White House’s insistence that President Trump warned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov against election meddling.


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I need proof

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The entire Lavrov visit was a carefully choreographed ballet, staged for Trump’s benefit by the Russians. You’re deluded if you believe otherwise.

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Anyone got odds that the Orange House is lying?

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo:
I lie.
You lie.
He lies.
She lies.
It lies.
We lie.
You lie
They lie.

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Pompous is quite the Bolshoi artist…

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Again I ask … Why is there suddenly this insistence that Trump is issuing these warnings to Russia (he’s not), when we’re told it was Ukraine that interfered in the 2016 election? The so-called president has said repeatedly for 3 years that the Russia thing was a hoax.

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Let’s see. Trump has openly asked that Russia and other hostile powers meddle in our elections to help him. He has taken Putin’s side that Russia didn’t meddle in 2016, but instead was Ukraine. Now, after a private meeting with his Russian handler Lavrov, his subservient lackey Pompeo asserts Trump now tells Russia not to meddle. Lavrov says the topic never came up.

Gee. I wonder who is more believable?

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It is indeed part of Russia’s meddling in the 2020 election to again help Trump and the Republicans.

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President Trump warned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov against election meddling.

It may well be. The Russians may be threatening to tip things the other way and spill the beans on Trump if they don’t get whatever they want.

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Our Greatest President Ever:
“Now then, don’t meddle in future elections you Russian, you.”
Lavrov:
“No, I will certainly not do that thing.”

Problem solved!

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What, you expected logic???!?

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No, I always expect lying.

Logic deals with facts and reality.

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Trump is a wholly owned subsidiary of Putin Inc. Anyone believing that he is not 100% co-opted and out-leveraged belongs in a padded room pumped full of chemical restraints.

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Easy enough. Who else was in the Oval Office other than Trump and that goofy rooskie? Ask them. If there were none than who’s in a position to need a lie? Trump or the guy with borscht stains on his tie?

Trump never said jack about meddling.

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“Pompeo Believes Trump ‘Made Clear’ That He Warned Lavrov Against Election Meddling”.

“Trump warned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov against election meddling…”

“…election meddling was brought up during the meeting.”

With all due respect, please stop using GOP framing.

It wasn’t “election meddling”; it was a military attack on the United States.

  • The Japanese didn’t “meddle” with Pearl Harbor in 1941.

  • Al Qaeda didn’t “meddle” with the Twin Towers in 2001.

  • Russia didn’t “meddle” with our election in 2016.

It was a MILITARY ATTACK, not neighborhood scamps rolling our trees or soaping our windows.

17 US intel agencies documented this beyond any doubt.

Orwell made clear that, “He who controls the language controls the debate”.

Stop letting GOP traitors – in the literal sense of that word – control the language.

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Nobody needs to do this dance. This administration does what it can for the Russians. If you weren’t sure of that after Helsinki then I don’t know what to say. There’s obviously no higher priority. And asking questions about it is pointless when Trump’s lies are in the five-figure range and going up like the national debt. I don’t care what Pompeo or Lavrov or Conan the Wonder Dog have to say about it.

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It could be argued that the visit was staged per Russia’s command by Trump. Either way, it was a foul event.

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Sure tells Zelenskiy where he stands.

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