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spanone

(135,633 posts)
Sun Jul 9, 2017, 02:11 PM Jul 2017

Time to Move Forward, Trump Says After Putin Denies Election Hacking



WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Sunday that he had “strongly pressed” President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia twice about election meddling during their first face-to-face meeting last week but did not dispute Moscow’s claim that he had accepted Mr. Putin’s denial of involvement, as he declared it “time to move forward” in a constructive United States relationship with Russia.

Mr. Trump’s account, in a thread of morning Twitter posts, of his lengthy and closely scrutinized closed-door meeting with Mr. Putin was an attempt to move beyond the controversy after Moscow characterized the election discussion as a meeting of minds rather than a showdown between the two leaders.

Mr. Trump’s tweets, though, did little to dispel that notion. He characterized his position as an “opinion” and asserted that he was prepared to team with Moscow — which United States intelligence agencies say carried out a historic effort to interfere with American democracy last year, and will attempt to again — on forming an “impenetrable Cyber Security unit” to thwart future breaches.

“I strongly pressed President Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election,” Mr. Trump said in one post. “He vehemently denied it. I’ve already given my opinion.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/us/politics/time-to-move-forward-trump-says-after-putin-denies-election-hacking.html
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onecaliberal

(32,483 posts)
1. No more looking forward or moving on from republican crimes without them paying the consequence.
Sun Jul 9, 2017, 02:15 PM
Jul 2017

These treasonous assholes need to get what they're always trying to wrongly pin on democrats.

spanone

(135,633 posts)
2. don't think the three investigations are going to pack it in on the guy under investigation's advice
Sun Jul 9, 2017, 02:17 PM
Jul 2017


this trump is a real piece of work

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
5. Imagine the exchange: "It was you." No, it was you." It wasn't me." "Me either."
Sun Jul 9, 2017, 03:19 PM
Jul 2017

"Must have been a 400 pound guy in his Mom's basement then."

"Yep, let's agree on that and move forward."

"Done."

"Done."

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