Posted on 07/09/2017 8:58:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump’s chief of staff pushed back against a narrative by Russia that Trump accepted Russian President Vladmir Putin’s denial of having interfered in the U.S. presidential election.
“The president absolutely did not believe the denial of President Putin," White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said on “Fox News Sunday” of Trump's meeting with Putin on Saturday.
Priebus’ assertion came on the same morning that Trump tweeted that it is time to work "constructively with Russia."
Follow Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump I strongly pressed President Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election. He vehemently denied it. I've already given my opinion..... 6:31 AM - 9 Jul 2017
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And if the President did not accept Putin's explanation then why is he tweeting about partnering with Russia on cyber security?
...We negotiated a ceasefire in parts of Syria which will save lives. Now it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2017
Wouldn’t a desire to move on and work together be an indication that the President accepted their explanation? If someone lies to your face and you believe that they are lying, as Priebus claims, then how do you trust them enough to work together?
"Вот эти тебя обижали?": Путин и Трамп обсудили на встрече журналистов pic.twitter.com/cWZQA8HjSC— Дмитрий Смирнов (@dimsmirnov175) July 7, 2017
Despite Trump putting them in his administration some people are still more GOPe than you’d like. POTUS doesn’t tell them what to say so they use everything they’ve been taught to try to smooth things over. Problem (for them) is Trump doesn’t care if they’re smoothed over or not. KEK
No. You can believe someone is lying and still work with them. I’ve done it. And in the end, won.
By even raising the topic with Putin, Trump has given credence to a totally manufactured scandal. He should give it the attention it warrants, which is none at all.
Sooner or later these morons who have been running around insisting that Russia meddled in the 2016 election are going to have to come up with some kind of credible evidence to support this claim. Their biggest problem right now is that they’ve spread so many fake news stories over the last six months that nobody is going to believe them if and when they DO present any evidence to support these claims.
Russia DID try to influence the election but they did so to help HILLARY get elected, not Trump.
The people whom you have evidence of illegality on are the ones that you TRY to get elected. For example, China-Clinton. The Trump-Russian narrative doesn’t support this.
None of the deleted or damaging Hillary emails besides DNC or Podesta ones have surfaced suggesting people that have them like the FBI or enemies want to leverage them.
Didn’t she delete over 30,000 of them? I am going out on a limb her but I think Russia HAS these deleted emails. If they were trying to damage her, why didn’t they leak them? Russia like almost everyone else expected Hillary to win which would put them in the catbird seat.
But think of other Russian interests.
They would like us to remove tactical nukes from Europe.
They would like us to let the military deteriorate.
They would like us to NOT develop our energy resources. A drop in oil price would have a massive impact on Russia economically.
They would not want us to build up our military intelligence.
They would not want us to develop our military technology.
They would not want us to be secure from terrorist attacks.
On each and every one of these issues, the candidate the Russians would NOT want to get elected would be Donald Trump.
I think most people who believe this story was falsified by a politicized intel community instinctively know this, but I think it is worthwhile to state it unequivocally.
Russia DID try to influence the election but they did so to help HILLARY get elected, not Trump.
The people whom you have evidence of illegality on are the ones that you TRY to get elected. For example, China-Clinton. The Trump-Russian narrative doesn’t support this.
None of the deleted or damaging Hillary emails besides DNC or Podesta ones have surfaced suggesting people that have them like the FBI or enemies want to leverage them.
Didn’t she delete over 30,000 of them? I am going out on a limb her but I think Russia HAS these deleted emails. If they were trying to damage her, why didn’t they leak them? Russia like almost everyone else expected Hillary to win which would put them in the catbird seat.
But think of other Russian interests.
They would like us to remove tactical nukes from Europe.
They would like us to let the military deteriorate.
They would like us to NOT develop our energy resources. A drop in oil price would have a massive impact on Russia economically.
They would not want us to build up our military intelligence.
They would not want us to develop our military technology.
They would not want us to be secure from terrorist attacks.
On each and every one of these issues, the candidate the Russians would NOT want to get elected would be Donald Trump.
I think most people who believe this story was falsified by a politicized intel community instinctively know this, but I think it is worthwhile to state it unequivocally.
Sooner or later these morons who have been running around insisting that Russia meddled in the 2016 election are going to have to come up with some kind of credible evidence to support this claim. Their biggest problem right now is that they’ve spread so many fake news stories over the last six months that nobody is going to believe them if and when they DO present any evidence to support these claims.
The real question is does he care? Does President Trump care that the DNC had embarrassing (but never denied) emails hacked and released to WikiLeaks? Is he supposed to care?
I know I don't care.
ABC=fake news, this is just more fake news, end of story
The same way that RINO's like Priebus works with the lying liberals, that's how.
The same way that RINO's like Priebus works with the lying liberals, that's how.
Priebus *is* a lying liberal, and ABC is a lying propaganda outlet.
There’s no story here.
Shut up Priebus! President Trump has the last say and it has been said.
Declare war on Russia and then draft every person who believes Trump is elected due to Russian interference and send them to the front lines.
Let’s see how long this charade lasts.
When they talk about the Election, they mean Hillary’s emails and the DNC’s emails. There is no evidence that the vote was affected by Russian hacking. They are only saying that to stop Trump’s agenda. Did they ever investigate the 2008 Election or 2012 Election for hacking?
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