Trump Again Tries To Distract From Russian Threat To Elections By Blaming China | Talking Points Memo

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President Donald Trump on Thursday night tried to distract from clear evidence about Russian interference in the upcoming election, deflecting to China as a scapegoat by saying the East Asian nation posed a “FAR greater threat than Russia, Russia, Russia.”

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1332783
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But Donald, why the fuck don’t you resign, you treasonous fuck.

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That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

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Yet another example of how a person who has studied this stuff all of his or her adult life doesn’t understand the complexities as well as Voldemort on the Potomac.
It seems to me that a real President would have implemented strong security measures, and perhaps even told the Senate to debate and advance the bills on election security. Of course we don’t really have a real President. We have a stooge.

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Trump’s motto: Ignorance is bluff.

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Hey Don, if this interference is such a problem why didn’t you get with your buddy #MM and make him pass the any one of the slew of election integrity measures that were already passed by the House?

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According to Bernstein’s book, Russia actually tampered with the vote in '16, not just influenced through social media. Will this become a bigger story? It should.

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" Trump Again Tries To Distract From Russian Threat To Elections By Blaming China"

Helter Skelter 2020 version.

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Internal polling must be hideous if Donnie is back on the Jina warpath…

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The short version is that Russia benefits more from promoting ungovernability of the US than the Chinese do. Russia has a relatively tiny economy, so it’s punching way above its weight in geopolitics. China and the US are economic giants, so sanctions tend to hurt both parties in pretty costly fashion. The last thing either side wants is more uncertainty about the future.

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Trump lives by the News Cycle. To oblige him, more negative stories on him are coming.

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OF course I meant Woodward!

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O/T and sorry if someone’s already posted this

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Yeah, there’s not a no knock warrant to enforce the subpoena for him.

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I thought it was Eurasia. Or was it Eastasia? I’ll have to ask Winston.

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Check out our trade deficit with China.
Trump does not say a word about that.
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What? That is Barr’s job!

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The first thing that I noticed about Trump’s tweet was that he publicly attacked the integrity of his own FBI Director.

So, nothing has changed and nothing is new.

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Um,

Lawyers representing the U.S. at Julian Assange’s extradition trial have accepted the claim that the WikiLeaks founder was offered a presidential pardon on the condition that he would help cover up Russia’s involvement in hacking emails from the DNChttps://t.co/DrbYbVbTpn

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 18, 2020
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