I'M SORRY, WHAT? Trump Aides on Podesta Tweet: 'No Idea What He Is Talking About'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast

I’M SORRY, WHAT?
Trump Aides on Podesta Tweet: ‘No Idea What He Is Talking About’

President Trump’s tweets sometimes leave even his closest aides scratching their heads - today was one of those times.

LACHLAN MARKAY
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
07.07.17 1:01 PM ET

The world’s most powerful leaders gathered in Germany this week to hammer out tough geopolitical issues—and, according to a tweet from President Donald Trump, to dump on Hillary Clinton’s former campaign chairman.

“Everyone here is talking about why John Podesta refused to give the DNC server to the FBI and the CIA, Disgraceful!” Trump tweeted from his personal account early Friday morning, half an hour before he was scheduled to depart his hotel for the G20 summit in Hamburg.

It was a peculiar aside deviating sharply from some of Trump’s other tweets during his swing through Germany and Poland, which have largely focused on the serious business at hand—with a few shots at “Fake News” and “the haters” who annoy the president. It also appeared to get basic facts wrong about last year’s alleged Russian election-meddling: Podesta worked for the Clinton presidential campaign at the time, not the Democratic National Committee, and hence had no say in the treatment of the latter’s hacked email servers. The DNC has also repeatedly disputed the narrative endorsed by Trump, as the committee claims law-enforcement agencies did not reach out until August, when the hacking had already been made public and the security gap closed.

The tweet baffled White House aides on the trip. "I have no idea what he's talking about,” one messaged The Daily Beast. Officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not cleared to discuss the bizarre tweet.

According to those present, the only world leader at the summit who was actively bringing up Podesta and “the DNC server” was the U.S. president.


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[dawnie51]

1. Gaslighting.....

all of them. Gaslighting everyone, all day, every day.

[jovibennett]

2. Someone let grandpa out of his room and gave him a phone

[snooper2]

3. how long is it going to take everyone to figure out he just makes shit up to get attention?

he is like the drunk at the bar, everybody has met one...

The guy who gets fuckered and starts talking about motorcycles he never had, how fast he has had his car up to, the big dude he beat up.

Drumpf is that guy to a tee, the only difference- Drumpf isn't drunk...

[Sunlei]

8. That's what the Republican party LOVES about their president.

They wanted a dimwit president so they could carry on their RW agenda behind 'closed doors' -to fuck up our country & our Federal government.

[mr_lebowski]

4. It's probably what Faux Nooz was talking about at that moment, so in Trump's syph-addled brain

... that's what 'everyone here is talking about'.

[Chemisse]

12. That actually makes sense.

Through the lens of his dementia.

[IcyPeas]

5. ambien?

ambien tweeting?

ambien causing confusion?

the man's tired and confused. low energy. sad.

[TeamPooka]

6. "Don't talk about me groveling to Putin!" - Donnie Trump.

[Sunlei]

7. hey, but Republicans get a breaking news headline out of whatever DAILY-LIE their twit tweets.

[greyl]

9. Aides lie, too. nt

[matt819]

10. Directions from Putin? (nt)

[iluvtennis]

11. Podesta tweeted back...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029297630

[Tanuki]

13. The voices in Donald's head, maybe?

[barbtries]

14. what the fuck

it's so bad. every day, every fucking day.

[Cryptoad]

15. Lets see, just this week,,,,,,

wandering around lost, talking in tongues,,,,,,, yep got up those meds!

[riversedge]

16. "Everyone" was actually those voices in Donald's head!!