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G20 summit: Trump jokes to Putin about Russian election meddling
BBC ^ | 6/28/19

Posted on 06/28/2019 3:05:23 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1

US President Donald Trump has appeared to make light of Russian election interference during a meeting with the country's leader, Vladimir Putin.

A smirking Mr Trump wagged his finger at the Russian president and said: "Don't meddle in the election, please."

The pair were holding talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan.

It was their first meeting since Robert Mueller concluded his investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

US intelligence agencies concluded that Russia was behind an effort to influence the presidential election with a state-authorised campaign of cyber-attacks and fake news stories planted on social media.

But special counsel Mueller's report found no evidence that the Trump campaign criminally conspired with Russia to influence the election.

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


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Liberals and even some freepers will be outraged over this. In fact CNN is in full meltdown over this.
1 posted on 06/28/2019 3:05:23 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Trolling the media in real time ...


2 posted on 06/28/2019 3:08:27 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

What the hell is he supposed to say. No different than what Obama did when he told Putin to.....”Cut it out!”


3 posted on 06/28/2019 3:11:21 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/12/16/obama-i-told-putin-to-cut-it-out


4 posted on 06/28/2019 3:13:02 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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What did the Russians say toward the end of 2011...when all the social media giants came into Russia and attempted to influence their election? They knew words would not do much....so they returned the favor in 2016.


5 posted on 06/28/2019 3:14:02 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

Russia didn’t influence the 2016 election in any way whatsoever. It’s a lie.


6 posted on 06/28/2019 3:16:43 AM PDT by youngidiot (Admiral Mike Rogers is a hero.)
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To: youngidiot

Steele dossier?


7 posted on 06/28/2019 3:24:44 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: pepsionice
See US intervention in Russia election of 1996, in favor of Boris Yeltsin. Touted by the press as a United States success story. Front page of TIME magazine. Not as subtle as "social media trolling."

Media bias is the biggest factor in swinging elections. Search engine skew is another significant factor. Google manipulates available content to favor the BS promulgated by the press and its fact-manglers.

8 posted on 06/28/2019 3:24:51 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: youngidiot

True.


9 posted on 06/28/2019 3:24:58 AM PDT by keat
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

CNN had a bigger impact on the election outcome (close to naught) than the Russians did.


10 posted on 06/28/2019 3:25:58 AM PDT by Cboldt
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What happened is that a small group of enterprising click-entrepreneurs figured out the game that Facebook was running, and simply built information that had value (you and I can argue over the value), and simply bought ads on Facebook that click-customers to a message that people liked. Facebook made money, the private Russian click-entrepreneurs made money, and the people reading the fake news item were happy.

Right now, the same system exists for people to make money off clicks. Maybe Facebook suggests they resolved this or fixed it, but I don’t believe them.


11 posted on 06/28/2019 3:27:04 AM PDT by pepsionice
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It was a perfect putdown to a snarky press looking for one liners to embarass Trump and Putin as they sat there together.

Maybe Trump should have leaned in go Putin and said “ I’ll have more flexibility after the election”


12 posted on 06/28/2019 3:36:42 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

So Trump “smirks”. No bias here from the BBC!


13 posted on 06/28/2019 3:46:10 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: pepsionice

The “Russians” you mentioned bought what, $100,000 worth of supposedly pro Trump ads in 2016? It’s all bullshit.


14 posted on 06/28/2019 3:48:32 AM PDT by youngidiot (Admiral Mike Rogers is a hero.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

That’s PRESIDENT Trump, you BBC wankers.


15 posted on 06/28/2019 3:53:11 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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There is no evidence whatsoever that "Russian meddling" affected the outcome of the 2016 election. That's why the president made light of it.
16 posted on 06/28/2019 3:54:48 AM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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And the ads they bought promoted BLM and the like.


17 posted on 06/28/2019 4:01:58 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

That’s it! He needs to be impeached! Again!


18 posted on 06/28/2019 4:03:56 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: pepsionice

Facebook can’t (or WON’T) stop Nigerian scammer from ‘selling’ concert tickets to every event post (fake accounts with account names that don’t match their url name and are out of state for local shows).

“So sad me and my family have to change plans can’t go. DM me for price...”


19 posted on 06/28/2019 4:05:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: youngidiot

Absolutely correct. Facebook has avoided telling the rest of the story, but it’s likely that the Russian click-entrepreneurs probably made a minimum of three times their investment back. Someone last year was estimating that some of the more popular ‘click’ chances might have brought back one dollar for each penny invested in BLM ads or pro-Trump ads. It was a brilliant strategy on these Russians to figure out the profit set-up for Facebook, and rig it in their favor.


20 posted on 06/28/2019 4:06:15 AM PDT by pepsionice
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