Posted on 07/16/2018 2:55:20 PM PDT by reaganaut1
President Trump faced harsh bipartisan criticism back home for his Helsinki press conference with Vladimir Putin on Monday, as lawmakers claimed the U.S. president missed a chance to "stand up" to the Russian president on election meddling.
The U.S. president, for his part, called the summit with Putin "deeply productive." After Democrats for days called on him to nix the meeting in the wake of indictments against Russian officers for U.S. campaign hacking, Trump said he would "not make decisions on foreign policy in a futile effort to appease partisan critics."
He cited progress on a range of issues, and said it would be a "good thing" to get along with Russia.
However, the president angered members of both parties by saying both countries share blame for damaged relations and by not firmly standing by U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections.
Trump said he has great confidence in the intelligence community, but Putin gave a "strong and powerful" denial. He said he doesn't "see any reason why" Russia would be behind election meddling.
"There is no question that Russia interfered in our election and continues attempts to undermine democracy here and around the world," House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., countered.
Others were less reserved in their response.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has been out of Washington for months battling brain cancer, issued a blistering statement calling the performance “disgraceful.”
“President Trump proved not only unable, but unwilling to stand up to Putin. He and Putin seemed to be speaking from the same script as the president made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair questions of a free press, and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to spew propaganda and lies to the world,” McCain said
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Trump soon will pull out the phaser and send them all to Gitmo where they belong.
“Bipartisan criticism against Trump” is just media code for ‘John McCain.’
What would McCain know about Presidential performance?
What would McCain know about Presidential performance?
Yep, and the louder they howl, you know the closer he is getting....
Carry on President Trump, Real America is behind you. Fake America can bugger off....
Yup.
John McCain plus Democrats does not bipartisan make
Yup.
John McCain plus Democrats does not bipartisan make
The reaction to today’s presser suggests to me that a “BOOM” may be coming in response.
So when is the Congress going to pass a law outlawing American interference and meddling in elections in other countries...like Israel????
Or is it okay when we do it?
Yup.
John McCain plus Democrats does not bipartisan make
Yup.
John McCain plus Democrats does not bipartisan make
Yup.
John McCain plus Democrats does not bipartisan make
Remember when McCains wife was supposed to be named as his replacement on July 4th ? That trial balloon must have burst like a soap bubble.
Winning.
May I have another.
5.56mm
The Deep State no longer needs living individuals to run its controls. All it needs is an AI bot that generates commands and phrases. Fairly soon the deep state will deploy robots completely controlled from DC. Much more reliable than forceably programming real humans into sociopathic killers. Humans tend to get out of ccontrol. If Johnny was still alive, he would have been demanding we bomb Russia.
I think Trump’s motive is to get our intelligence people to show their evidence for campaign-directed Russian spying. I’ve never seen it.
Also he’s asking again, to a wide audience, for explanations for the free ride Hillary and the others have gotten.
The Never Trumper Zombies have caught a whiff of blood and are now attempting to find a voice in time to try to affect the Midterms. You know ..... Colluding with the Left to take down a sitting President because they have hurt feelings.
So Ryan, McCain and Sen Flake, here pictured with the Dems.
That DEFINITELY makes it bipartisan.
PFL
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