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Trump says he misspoke on Russian meddling during press conference, accepts US intel findings
Fox News ^ | July 17, 2018

Posted on 07/17/2018 12:11:11 PM PDT by SMGFan

President Trump said Tuesday that he misspoke when he said he doesn’t see why Russia would have meddled in the 2016 presidential election, clarifying that he accepts the U.S. intelligence community’s findings of election interference.

At the White House on Tuesday, the president told reporters that he meant he doesn't see why Russia "wouldn't" be responsible.

In Helsinki, speaking at a press conference next to Vladimir Putin a day earlier, Trump had said he doesn't "see any reason why" Russia would be behind election meddling.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: raidertroll; russia; seebreakingnews; trump; trumpintelagencies; trumpputin; trumpputinpresser
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To: SMGFan

Everybody seems to forget that the hacking of the DNC computers revealed that Hillary and her cronies in the DNC

RIGGED THE PRIMARIES IN HER FAVOR, AGAINST BERNIE SANDERS.

Now, I’m no fan of that Socialist sack’o’shit, Sanders, but this (once again) proved Hillary’s corruption. The minute that this hit the news, the media and the Rats started with this “Russia, Russia, Russia” stuff.

Frankly, while I have few doubts that the Russians have attempted to spy on us and disrupt confidence in our elections (of course they did - they’ve done it to us for decades, and we’ve done similar things to them. EVERY sovereign nation does this sort of thing - and only naive idiots don’t understand this), I believe that the “hacking” of the DNC computers was an inside job. I saw an analysis (don’t remember where I saw it) that concluded that the ONLY way to have downloaded the data as fast as the server said it was downloaded, was via a thumb drive. Internet downloading would have been WAY too slow...meaning that it was an inside job.

WRT Trump and his handling of this matter, I believe that in order to best proceed he should:

1) Acknowledge that the USSR and Russia have been an adversary of this country for about 100 years;

2) Remind everyone (as he did yesterday) that the vast majority of deliverable nukes are owned by our 2 nations, and most of those are pointed at each other;

3) Remind everyone that it would definitely be a better state of affairs if said nukes pointing at each other were never used; and

4) That the best way to do that is to talk with the Russians - whether we like them or their policies, or not - and to initially take some baby steps toward improving our relations with a few simple agreements that will benefit both sides and highlight our common interests.

If he does that, then he’ll be fine. I dread that he may become like so many other Presidents, enthralled with a Soviet/Russian leader to the point of trusting them to not stick a knife in our backs at every opportunity. I know, he’s not that naive, and doesn’t give a damn about his public image so long as he can achieve his goals...but there’s always that siren song, and many that work for him are addicted to it.


61 posted on 07/17/2018 12:39:54 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: centurion316
Smith is a radical lefty wing crazy .
Fox is made up mostly of Never Trumpers.

List goes on

Sheppy
Cavuto
Perrino
Hume
Wallace
Bair
Geraldo

the list is long ....

Murdoch are Globalist foreigners and Fox is just as left as the rest now.

I am bored of this Whole hoax .
We don't have cable so its nice .

62 posted on 07/17/2018 12:40:44 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves ever tim)
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To: miss marmelstein

He unmasked himself as another DC Uniparty operative.


63 posted on 07/17/2018 12:42:44 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves ever tim)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

The FBI has had “the server” all along. The server isn’t infact a single server but hundreds of servers - most of them ‘in the cloud’ which means distributed globally.

The FBI has never had the physical server, nor would there be any point to that. What they have had are ‘images’ of the servers which is exactly what anyone would want to properly investigate the crime.

The whole “where is the server” question is a big fat red herring and I don’t know why people are pursuing it.


64 posted on 07/17/2018 12:43:04 PM PDT by Taipei
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To: miss marmelstein

Happy to see that someone dislikes Fat Face Brett as much as I do.
He’s a real lightweight as a so called newsman.


65 posted on 07/17/2018 12:43:24 PM PDT by surrey
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To: jetson

Yeah I agree, time to move on. I wish he had not given them the gaff but if he even is approached on it again he should simply state, I already explained that, I maned up I made a misstatement and then just move on.

They are not going to let it go, they have nothing else and he is wise to just move onto the next agenda item. They are never going to give him credit for anything he does, they are jackals just looking for any opening to dive in. I wish he had something to club their snouts with today but he did not. The best thing he did was end and move on without taking any questions.


66 posted on 07/17/2018 12:44:51 PM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: Blue Highway

That will never happen. The people in the shadows, the real establishment that runs this country, they look out for each other.

We have no real rule of law in this country. Cross these people at your peril.

It’s already bigger than Watergate and they have gotten away with it.


67 posted on 07/17/2018 12:45:05 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SMGFan

HILLARY MIS SPOKE, SO DID HUSSEIN O...

media said nothing...but with DJT it is a different story and he will be trashed no matter what...

and MEDIA wonders why they are called FAKE NEWS?
ENOUGH SAID.


68 posted on 07/17/2018 12:45:06 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

I think Trump said “MY intelligence people.” Hayden is a Clinton/Bush appointee. Just as bad as Obama people.


69 posted on 07/17/2018 12:45:48 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: Mouton

Yup. Trump quelled the criticism.

But no one owes him any loyalty, not even the leaders of the GOP.

There’s no such thing in politics where people can turn against you on a dime.

Trump has other things to deal with than their resentment of him. Time to move on, indeed.


70 posted on 07/17/2018 12:50:21 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: DoughtyOne
And we should NOT ever lose sight of the fact that NOBODY fabricated any emails that were copied from the servers. Whoever was responsible for putting them out for the public to see was actually doing the American people a favor. They showed the duplicity and dishonesty that was rampant in the DNC and the Hilliary campaign. In the rush to blame her heinous' loss on everyone BUT her, the Liberals make fools of themselves. Every good thing that has happened since Trump was elected has been overshadowed by this hyper-partisan, yes, witch hunt. They are the true enemies of America!
71 posted on 07/17/2018 12:51:41 PM PDT by boatbums (Pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life.)
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To: goldstategop

If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.


72 posted on 07/17/2018 12:52:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Fox Business is what I watch. I am a novice when it comes to investments in the stock market, but I love most of their lineup.

I just want to puke when Judge Napolitano comes on.


73 posted on 07/17/2018 12:54:11 PM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: Mr. K

We all knew what he meant. Nobody knows and nobody can prove anything. I am reminded of the most colossal misspeak in my life time when Niel Armstrong was stepping on the moon said “ one small step for man (sic) , one giant leap for mankind.” That is a redundant mess but it is actually repeated as if it was correct. It obviously should have been “one small step for A man” He was totally forgiven and dumb people never knew the difference.
Trump corrected an OBVIOUSLY in full context misspoke and removed all doubt and presented a marvelous over all view of a hugely important week in which the Russian Summit was the third leg and finally reopened much needed dialog for peace in the world with that nuclear power. There was no collusion. there was “no American involvement” in the so called “indictments” stated by Rosenstien himself who today faces impeachment for withholding documents from the oversight committees. The DNC servers were unbelievably”destroyed” so any image cannot be confirmed against the Source hard drives. It is all theater. By the way, Our president sets foreign policy, not the press, rinos, gope or leftists.


74 posted on 07/17/2018 12:55:02 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will shut down the government to get the WALL in Sept.ith the solar)
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To: SMGFan

Cheers hoping Putin gave President Trump all 30,000 emails he hacked off Hillary’s phones and computer


75 posted on 07/17/2018 12:56:28 PM PDT by ballplayer
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To: boatbums

Thanks. I agree with your thoughts there.


76 posted on 07/17/2018 12:57:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Take a look out there folks. Can you see evidence of a Left Wing Hate Group, perhaps fascist too?)
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To: Preachin'

I know that FoxBusiness is pretty good.

As for Napolitano, what a disappointment he has become.


77 posted on 07/17/2018 12:57:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Take a look out there folks. Can you see evidence of a Left Wing Hate Group, perhaps fascist too?)
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To: goldstategop

If there is an object lesson in it for Trump, it’s a reminder that he is like Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate - he has no one he can really count on in D.C. They will all fly for the hills in a flash. There will be no defense from anyone there.

Perhaps after this past week, he will be reminded of that. They managed to turn what should have been a plus week into a big mess, they got an inch and took a mile, they even set him up (his “own” DOJ set him up). He just needs to always remember that no one in D.C. will have his back...except to plunge the knife in.


78 posted on 07/17/2018 12:59:13 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: SMGFan

Just DAMN! He caved?


79 posted on 07/17/2018 12:59:44 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: InterceptPoint

The morning Fox guys and 2 gals are still with Trump.

For all the rest of the complainers everywhere... if they were not in Trump’s corner in the first place, they turned on him this round.. and if there was not the 2.. obama and hillary ... who are the worst of the worst in what all they did .. that Trump is trying to clean up the mess they left.. those 2 are not ever mentioned in all this.. but they are the KING PINS OF WHAT THEY ARE CHARGING SOMEONE ELSE WITH! and that is more than this country can let go... this country is/was better than that!! To restore the dignity and the place we once held... they have to be held accountable.. and it’s not a little hill to climb back to respectability .. it’s a mountain! .. with very few who will be able to do anything about it.. for the masses in the gov are part of the stink mess left for Trump!

We can’t continue as a country and let it all go.. and let Trump take the heat...

I agree with a previous comment.. it would have been best to let it ride out.. this will be all they talk about now.. and my TV is off except for Hannity and maybe Tucker. I don’t want to see the absolute betrayal of all that consider us below their caliber ...the unfairness of all this is sickening, madening!


80 posted on 07/17/2018 1:03:43 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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