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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 11:13 PM Jul 2017

Still doesn't believe intelligence agencies

By Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN
Updated 8:18 PM ET, Thu July 6, 2017

... Nearly six months into his presidency, President Donald Trump declined yet again Thursday to state definitively that Russia meddled in the 2016 US election ...

"Well I think it was Russia, and I think it could have been other people and other countries," Trump said at a news conference in Poland. "It could have been a lot of people interfered" ...

"The President's comments today, again casting doubt on whether Russia was behind the blatant interference in our election and suggesting -- his own intelligence agencies to the contrary -- that nobody really knows, continue to directly undermine US interests," said California Rep. Adam Schiff ...

Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, told CNN's John Berman that anyone who has viewed classified information about Russia's election meddling "knows the President is not telling the truth when he says no one really knows if Russia engaged in the cyber attack last year" ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/06/politics/trump-intelligence-agencies-russia/index.html

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Still doesn't believe intelligence agencies (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2017 OP
He is an idiot - who can only understand Fox and Friends RainCaster Jul 2017 #1
"It could have been a lot of people interfered" ... Beartracks Jul 2017 #2
Isn't that interesting? ProudLib72 Jul 2017 #3

RainCaster

(10,870 posts)
1. He is an idiot - who can only understand Fox and Friends
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 12:03 AM
Jul 2017

You didn't really expect him to understand sentences with more than 5 syllables did you?

Beartracks

(12,809 posts)
2. "It could have been a lot of people interfered" ...
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 12:10 AM
Jul 2017

And still, it's like it's no biggie to President Meh.

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ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
3. Isn't that interesting?
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 12:16 AM
Jul 2017

The story is not that anyone interfered, but that it might not have been just Russia. If other countries interfered, then it's ok that our election is a sham and he is illegitimate. No need to pursue the matter further.

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