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Trump ignored staff advice before press conference with Putin
NY Post ^ | 7/17/18 | By Yaron Steinbuch

Posted on 07/17/2018 9:36:17 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

Trump ignored staff advice before press conference with Putin

President Donald Trump did the opposite of what his staff recommended ahead of his joint presser with Vladimir Putin, ignoring most of about 100 pages of briefing materials outlining a tough stance toward the Russian strongman, according to a report.

Trump’s remarks during the 46-minute news conference in Helsinki, where he expressed skepticism about the US intelligence community’s findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, were “very much counter to the plan,” a source told the Washington Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: fakenews; putin; trumpputin; trumpputinpresser
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
100 pages of briefing materials

How can 100 pages be called "briefing"? That's more like an in-depth study.

21 posted on 07/17/2018 9:48:09 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

ALL THEY KNOW is to double down with spite, like their god the Fraud taught them for 8+ years.


22 posted on 07/17/2018 9:48:51 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: silverleaf

Look at her eyes. They don’t even seem human at all. Sort of looks like reptile eyes.


23 posted on 07/17/2018 9:49:43 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

All presidents will listen to the recommendations of their staff but that doesn’t mean that they will follow it. Trump is no different from his predecessors.


24 posted on 07/17/2018 9:50:07 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Boomer
Who's plan? The deep state? The dems?

Good question. What puzzles me, is that during the Cold War, the liberals seemed to love the old Soviet Union. Now, the liberals seem to hate Russia. What gives?

25 posted on 07/17/2018 9:50:54 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Folks if Civil War ever breaks out again the MSM mediapukes should be the first ones to go! They are the head of the snake that needs to be chopped off! They are the instigator and agitators .. they are AMERICA’S #1 ENEMY!!!


26 posted on 07/17/2018 9:53:01 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Blue Highway

Strzok looks back at her and then smirks
Her eyes roll up in her head
We got a litttle Damian and “ The Omen” thing going on?


27 posted on 07/17/2018 9:53:54 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Blue Highway

She’s one of the lizards we’ve been using to spy on Iran.


28 posted on 07/17/2018 9:56:04 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

Me too, he’s brilliant. They’re all flipping out because he didn’t fall for their ruse and legitimize their Russia collusion hoax by blasting Putin. He’s got his eye on the real bad guys in this and that’s these deep state leftist slimebags like Peter Strzok who if you’ll notice Trump blasted the hell out of instead of Putin, calling Strzok a disgrace to the nation. That was awesome!


29 posted on 07/17/2018 9:58:50 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Vox populi, vox dei)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Watch closely as a copy of the actual briefing material will be “found” in a trash can outside the Red Hen restaurant soon.


30 posted on 07/17/2018 9:59:02 AM PDT by The Louiswu (MAGA)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

This is the swamp saying he did not listen to us. 100 page report, that had to come from the FBI or CIA its not from the trump people.


31 posted on 07/17/2018 10:01:15 AM PDT by poinq
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To: Migraine
Again, Trump’s instincts are spot-on! If he had come out tough on “meddling”, the press could then say, “Aha!”, he admits his election is illegitimate! WooHoo!”; and 2), they’d have accused him of being rude. The way he did it was right. He said Putin had his say, and who is to disallow that? And both of them said that in this setting, you don’t come out and insult one another for the benefit of the slobbering press. Great instincts! The nattering nabobs shall not prevail...

Exactly. Rush is right on it again this morning saying the same. Everyone knows Russia meddles and that it has had no impact on elections. But admitting meddling in that forum gives it more importance than it deserves.

32 posted on 07/17/2018 10:02:37 AM PDT by CedarDave (DJT: "Rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than risk peace in the pursuit of politics.")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Trump’s remarks during the 46-minute news conference in Helsinki, where he expressed skepticism about the US intelligence community’s findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, were “very much counter to the plan,”...

Good. I'd rather have a President who leads rather than one who parrots "the plan". Especially when this President not only leads for the benefit of American but is wildly successful!

So far all these staffers have shown me is their incompetence. They are little people scurrying around the feet of a giant while squeaking their delusions of importance.

33 posted on 07/17/2018 10:11:29 AM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: CedarDave
admitting meddling in that forum gives it more importance than it deserves.

Bingo. The ruling class are aghast that Trump didn't do the politically advisable thing. They wanted him to sanctimoniously needle Putin like Chris Wallace did. Oh he would have been their hero then. Gosh, what a missed opportunity /s

34 posted on 07/17/2018 10:12:04 AM PDT by scottinoc
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Sounds like Reagan...


35 posted on 07/17/2018 10:12:15 AM PDT by gogeo (No justice, no peace.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I am still waiting for someone, anyone in the deep state to provide one name of one voter who changed his vote to Trump because he read Russian propaganda that was the equivalent of a frat prank. Man up, Dems! You lost and the disgruntled minority does not get to rule


36 posted on 07/17/2018 10:12:45 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: DoodleDawg
DJT don't need no steenking handlers...lol

You know that's another reason the GOP and Deep State despises him, he won't take the collar.

37 posted on 07/17/2018 10:21:35 AM PDT by thescourged1
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

It’s very comforting to see that he doesn’t appear to be completely arrogant, nor smug nor kooky in that clip.

Not one bit, of course.


38 posted on 07/17/2018 10:27:29 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

You know the Democrat Media are Wiley E Coyote to Trump’s Roadrunner.

Since July 2015, we been treated to this endless hysterics in the DNC directed “News Media” about “getting Trump” and every single time, their master plan blows up in their face.


39 posted on 07/17/2018 10:28:15 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (2016: For the first time since 1984, I voted for a Rep President all other votes were anti Dem)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I lay awake last night composing a nearly identical response to these Deep State bastards. The author of this short, straight to the point piece, Missy Jackson, has saved me the trouble.
Trump just raised the stakes in the Deep State’s WAR on him and because he’s not about to stop until he whips them, my fear is that these SOBs will move against him physically. They’ve done it before. Think JFK & RFK!!!!

It’s a MUST READ & SHARE. The more “concerned” & attention paying fellow citizens understand what’s going on here, the better the odds that OUR PRESIDENT will live to return this country to US. Unfortunately, too many of us have been misinformed (that’s a polite way of saying ‘LIED TO” by the Deep State’s willing FAKE NEWS accomplices) and preoccupied with keeping the wolf from our door to dig deeply into the details of this war by the self-proclaimed “ELITES” on US, the true owners of this country!
db
PS: Think for a moment about how it came to be that the top echelons of the AMERICAN intelligence services are doing more to try to take out OUR DULY ELECTED PRESIDENT than a foreign power.
https://mondaymondaynetwork.com/politics/trump-defies-putin-summit/


40 posted on 07/17/2018 10:37:11 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Why are damn near ALL the SEX FIENDS Democrats?)
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