Putin denies election hacking after Trump pressed him, Tillerson says
Source: Washington Post
HAMBURG President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday discussed brokering commitments of noninterference in the U.S. political system during a lengthy face-to-face meeting in Germany, the first in-person encounter between the two leaders about Russias alleged role in the 2016 election.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who attended the two-hour-and-fifteen-minute meeting, said it did not focus on the United States moving to punish Russia for the allegations that it hacked and leaked information that would help Trump win the election. Instead, Tillerson said the two leaders discussed how do we move forward from what may be simply an intractable disagreement at this point regarding the election-hacking issue.
The president pressed President Putin on more than one occasion regarding Russian involvement, Tillerson said. President Putin denied such involvement, as I think he has in the past.
Tillerson said the White House was not dismissing the issue but wanted to focus on how do we secure a commitment that there will not be interference in the future.
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Excellent article from WaPost
Bleacher Creature
(11,236 posts)No need to look into this any further.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,111 posts)About that money I owe you - Donald J Drumpf
CincyDem
(6,283 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Unlike that black guy.....
That's how they shall frame it
doc03
(35,148 posts)TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)Award from Putin himself!!!!
Catmusicfan
(816 posts)ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)They must thing we're so stupid
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)our electoral system, defense, general internet, etc., cannot be hacked or otherwise exploited in the future. That's what we need to concentrate on and I haven't seen anyone in Trump's admin capable of doing that.
Sneederbunk
(14,208 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)That is all....
ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)BillfromIL
(8 posts)Trump: Mr. Putin, did you or any of your intelligence community meddle in our election?
Putin: Da
Tillerson: That means no Donny.
Trump: Well that's a relief.....now where did I park that limo.
"Tillerson said the United States and Russia agreed that working groups set up by both countries would follow up on the political interference issue."
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)I can't find a YouTube video of this, so here's the scenario.
Cheech and Chong made an AWOL bag full of money dealing weed out of an ice cream truck. They also attracted the tender mercies of the police, because the marijuana they were selling would turn anyone who smoked it into an iguana. The mental patient "Hamburger Dude," played by Pee Wee Herman, stole the money from Chong. One thing led to another and Hamburger Dude wound up getting arrested by the dumbest narcs in the history of cinema. While being driven to the station, Hamburger Dude confesses: "I did it. I did it all. I'm sorry..."
If you expected Vladimir Putin to say the same thing to Donald Trump, you're high enough to star in the next Cheech and Chong movie.
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)louis-t
(23,199 posts)moonscape
(4,664 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Putin "Who are you going to believe your 17 intelligence agencies or me? And what nice big hands you have.
Trump "Well. Thank you. They are pretty big. Case closed."