Posted on 07/07/2017 4:59:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rep. Adam Schiff
(D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, blasted President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, saying Americans should be skeptical on how hard Trump pressed Putin on Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
“The American people can be forgiven for a healthy skepticism about just how hard Mr. Trump could have pressed the Russian autocrat, given that the President publicly cast doubt on Russian responsibility and the probity of our intelligence agencies only the day before,” Schiff said in a statement.
“Can we really expect the President to be more forthcoming with the Russian President if he is not willing to fully level with our own people on the same subject?”
Schiff also slammed the possible creation of a working group between the U.S. and Russia on cybersecurity issues.
“The establishment of a working group as reported by Foreign Minister Lavrov to study how to curb cyber interference in elections in which the Russians would play any role, would be akin to inviting the North Koreans to participate in a commission on nonproliferation — it tacitly adopts the fiction that the Russians are a constructive partner on the subject instead of the worst actor on the world stage,” Schiff said. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said after Trump and Putin’s face-to-face meeting that Trump confronted the Russian leader on Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
“The two leaders agreed that this is a substantial hindrance on the ability of us to move Russian-U.S. relationships forward and agreed to exchange further work regarding commitments of noninterference in the affairs of the United States and our democratic process as well as those of other countries,” Tillerson said. “So more work to be done in that regard.”
But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after the meeting that Trump “accepted” Putin’s assertion that Russia didn’t meddle in the U.S. election.
"U.S. President Trump said that he heard firm assertions from Russian President Putin that it is not true and that Russian authorities have not meddled in the elections," Lavrov said. “[Trump] said that he accepts these assertions. That's it.”
... Mr. Trump...
It’s President Trump jerk.
Adam Schiff is a certified liar. I am surprised the liar has not been arrested for high treason and an attempted coup on a Constitutionally and lawfully elected President?
I for one would like to know what Adam Schiff is hiding.
He’s been just a little too gung-ho on this Trump-Russia thing.
I believe Congressman Schiff is a member of the “Gang of Eight” and as such was officially informed by then FBI Director Comey that President Trump was not under investigation. Despite that knowledge, he continued to push the myth. So much for his credibility.
Schiff should not be helping Putin. He should shut the hell up. I have a lot more faith that President Trump will look after US interest far more than Schiff face or that whole gaggle of traitors in congress.
MSNBC, CNN Forced To Eat Crow After Learning Trump Pressed Putin On Election Meddling
dailycaller ^ | AMBER ATHEY
Posted on 7/7/2017, 3:32:40 PM by davikkm
President Trump forced MSNBC and CNN to eat crow after he addressed Russian election meddling during his first sit-down meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
A number of anchors and pundits on the two media outlets assumed that Trump wouldn’t raise the interference issue due to his somewhat cozy relationship with Putin. Analysts operated under the speculative assumption all day Friday.
“Some early reports that sound like he doesn’t intend to [bring up meddling],” CNN’s Susan Hennessey guessed. “The idea that at the same moment or early before he would choose to, once again, raise these issues on his Twitter feed really just puts sort of the starkness and sort of bizarreness of his to not bring this up to President Putin.”
“[Trump’s Podesta tweets] are just another indicator that of the fact that he was probably never going to press [interference] too hard in this meeting,” a CNN guest opined.
“What should be happening in a normal world is Donald Trump should go in there saying, ‘we know you’ve been meddling in the election, we’re going to continue to squeeze you.” said MSNBC’s Ali Velshi.
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I’m not at all skeptical as to how much a freaking geek this scumbag is. They never give up, do they? He has to mouth off based upon news reports that are inevitably provably false and take the opportunity to bash Trump any chance he gets.
Adam Schiff, another globalist serving the Left. What a sack of crap.
Rush said this would happen.
Consider the sources Brandon Carter of the Hill is using. On his smear da Trump piece working the Russian connection gig. Gets quotes from a political holdover hack Adam Schiff which because of his “tenure” gets that “Top member of the parasite pervert party “ billing. When both fully know about Clinton’s campaign mamager Podesta’s 35 million$ in shares in a Russian corp and Podesta’s membership on its board of directors .
Trump out to take the official position that the DNC hack by the Russians is fake news and that the informations was leaked by an insider or the DNC would have allowed access by the FBI instead of some third rate co-conspirator. And Podesta’s emails were not hacked by the Russians but by some 13 year old that figured that his password was “password”.
I am thoroughly tired of the disloyal deep state. Unfriendly leaks should not be coming from the President’s private conversations. I don’t know whether Senator Adam Schiff is lying, again, or he is committing treason, but either way it’s unacceptable. I don’t particularly care how hard President Trump pressed Putin on fake news. I am a whole lot more interested in stabilizing Syria without a shooting war between us and the Russians - and a stable Syria will have to be led by Assad. As for Russian “hacking”, they hack everyone, all the time, and will continue to do so. It’s our job to secure our systems against that.
Schiff even looks like a weasel. He is another reason to detest the Democrat Party.
100% bull Schiff! Someone please Scalise this idiot! ...
All Putin would have to do is ask Trump what proof we had. End of discussion
Why would Trump press Putin on anything? If Putin helped Trump win or didn’t do a thing, Trump would be happy with him.
LOL!!!
Why do these yahoos think they can tell us what to think
It was their first meeting. Usually you don’t get into a major arm wrestling match
No arm wrestling required. Both men know that the libs (and plenty of the GOP) in this country are full of bovine excrement.
It was their first meeting. Usually you don’t get into a major arm wrestling match
No arm wrestling required. Both men know that the libs (and plenty of the GOP) in this country are full of bovine excrement.
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