Posted on 07/08/2017 10:15:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
One of Donald Trump’s failings as president has been a refusal to face up to Russia’s role in hacking the 2016 election, something American intelligence agencies have testified under oath they know took place. So it is important that when he held his first presidential face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin on Friday, Mr. Trump began by raising the interference issue and then reportedly pressed him more than once on Russian involvement during the course of their two-hour-and-15-minute conversation.
Not to do so would have been derelict and would have provided further reason to wonder what sway the Russians may have over Mr. Trump’s White House, as a special counsel investigates Russia’s role in the election and potential collusion by the Trump campaign.
There are important questions, however, about the rest of the exchange, and about whether even now Mr. Trump understands the gravity of Russia’s interference in America’s democratic processes. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the only other senior American official in the room, said Mr. Putin denied involvement in the election, as he has in the past, and asked the Americans for proof — a familiar diversionary tactic by Russians caught red-handed. There was no indication that Mr. Trump demanded that Mr. Putin accept responsibility for the hacking or promise that it won’t happen again, either in the United States or in other allied countries, especially Germany, France and the Baltic States, where Russian meddling has been suspected.
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I have a better question...does any dem get it on DNC being hacked?
Yes, we know that Goebbels said that if you repeat a lie often enough most people will believe it, but CNN, the NY Slimes and the rest of the Mainstream Media idiots have over-done it.
They’re used to the smell of rotting. They don’t even notice it anymore.
You know, Slimy, Itchy, Kinky, Stinky, Drippy, . . .
LOL. Question for the NY Times: Have you stopped beating your dead horse?
New York Times accuses Trump of collusion.
Still no proof! These people are living in an alternative universe.
Just surreal watching them twist themselves into pretzels.
An insider giving away a DNC “password”, and then every nation state with a decent intelligence community taking a look at what’s there, does NOT constitute “hacking” an election. “Hacking” an election is what will happen if Homeland ‘Security’ gets its way and creates a national computerized election system.
Fixed it ...
That’s what its really all about.
So if Russia did it. Thank you Russia!
35 posted on 7/8/2017, 7:42:01 AM by goldstategop
When Trump has finished destroying CNN, maybe he’ll deal the NYT the coup de grace.
Slimy, Itchy, Kinky, Stinky, Drippy, ?,?
The KGB spys.
That’s what it does.
It is the job of the KGB to keep Russian leadership well-informed.
If the DNC doesn’t want the KGB to hack its computers, don’t connect them to the Internet.
US law simply doesn’t apply to Russia, which is an independent country.
Quite the rag.
I’m still waiting for:
- what specifically was alledgedly done ?
- why haven’t DNC servers been given to FBI or anyone to inspect?
- what is the proof that anything was done by Russia?
Besides all that, why has the 0bamacare insurance scam not been repealed?
Hillary lost in large part due to excessive media bias, which kept some of her base from voting.
We aren’t complaining.
Nasty and Bloody.
Even now, does the NY Times get it on hacking?
Not until last week did they retract “17 agencies,” long after it was known to be false.
Whether it happened at all depends on the definition of “hacking”. Nothing yet described in this controversy constitutes what hackers mean by the term. So far no one has correctly used the term “hacking”. So far it is just the NYT trying to sell newspapers full of fake news to an ignorant public.
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