UPDATE: Speaking at a Cabinet meeting today, President Trump says “there has never been a President as tough on Russia as I have been.”
Yes, this really happened.
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On Monday, President Trump orchestrated one of the biggest international relations disasters in the history of the United States. On Tuesday, Trump returned to the White House and offered a half-assed explanation for his relentless public defense of Russian President Vladimir Putin that was based on the premise that he mistakenly forgot to use an apostrophe in one of his comments.
Today Trump completed the circle by “walking back his walk-back,” as Politico aptly explained:
President Donald Trump on Wednesday returned to a defiant posture, insisting his deeply controversial meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin will prove to be a great success “in the long run” and complaining that his critics are suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
One day after issuing a rare mea culpa — in which Trump claimed he meant to say there’s no reason to believe it “wouldn’t” have been Russia that meddled in the U.S. election — Trump appeared to be walking back his walk-back…
…Those who have been critical of him, the president said, are “haters” upset that he has a warm relationship with Putin, a former KGB agent who the U.S. intelligence community has concluded with “high confidence” ordered the 2016 cyberattacks targeting the U.S. election process…
…Trump’s tweets capped a whirlwind few days in which Trump found himself perplexed by the severe blowback to his remarks in Helsinki.
If none of this makes sense to you, according to Trump, it may be that you just aren’t smart enough to understand:
So many people at the higher ends of intelligence loved my press conference performance in Helsinki. Putin and I discussed many important subjects at our earlier meeting. We got along well which truly bothered many haters who wanted to see a boxing match. Big results will come!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2018
Also, smart people spell “Colusion” with only one ‘L.’
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To my favorite trolls, if you support Benedict Donald, you support treason. You do not care about America and are aiding in it's destruction.
The only troll to show his face around here since Helsinki has been Negev who, of course, did the moral equivalency argument and pointed out that we helped Yeltsin in 1996 so Putin helping Trump in 2016 is just fine.
I wonder if Negev has shown Butina his gun…..
I'm sure he wanted to.
Well, somebody wanted to see somebody else’s gun…whoda thunk?
I wonder if she is into water sports?
💥
“Batina – a solid eight – could do way better than U.S. Person 1, who is like a three, tops.”
“…at the higher ends of intelligence”. I thought he loved the poorly educated?
Media: Lying
Comey: Lying
Obama: Lying
Clinton: Lying
Stormy: Lying
Strozk: Lying
Mueller: Lying
Judges: Lying
19 Sexual assault accusers: Lying
Climate change scientists: Lying
17 Intelligence agencies: Lying
Putin: “He means it, I believe him”
That's a devastating closing argument. Well done
Some 400lb. guy sat on Pearl Harbor.
What has Chris Christie been up to lately…..
Other than sunbathing while anxiously awaiting the trial of the guy who deep-sixed his VP opportunity?
Trump gonna Trump.
Trump denies Russia is targeting U.S. at Cabinet meeting
And somewhere, a German news anchor is (again) laughing her ass off.
Dang, he's good.
Go to North Korea, and end the nuclear threat.
Go to Helsinki, Russians are no longer going to interfere (if they ever did) with US elections.
I wonder if he could go to a National Park and end forest fires. Or stop by a meeting of the Fed and make certain we won't have another recession.
…and while he's solving global problems with his very good brain maybe he can turn down the heat on the stove at home and cool off what is becoming
'reduction sauce'the GOP:Pollster: GOP base is shrinking
As an interlude, John Bolton's video message for Butina's right to bear arms group in Russia. Not clear if he was paid– in cash or in половой акт.
Trump's technically right: there's never been a President as tough on Russia as he's been. Even when we had good relations with the Russian Empire, no President ever acted directly in support of Russia against its own citizens or the world community.