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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Jul 15, 2017, 01:52 PM Jul 2017

Sid Schwab: Trumps meetings with Russians havent gone well

Opinions may vary. Mine is that Putin played Trump like a balalaika.

Example: Agreeing to work with Russia to create an “impenetrable cybersecurity unit” is like inviting Mexican drug cartels to build his border wall. (After bipartisan derision, Trump pretended he knew all along it couldn’t happen. Riiight.) Worse was denouncing, on foreign soil, our intelligence agencies and free press while claiming “no one knows” who hacked the election. Which never occurred. But it’s Obama’s fault. Even Trump’s UN ambassador said “everybody knows” it was Russia. (Keep your résumé up to date, Nikki.) Backfilling, she defended Ivanka’s place-taking for daddy, saying she’s part of a “public service family.” I may not understand the term.

Every involved U.S. intelligence agency and every member of Congressional intelligence committees, Republican and Democrat, agrees that Russia alone was behind the hacking. Virtually all acknowledge its purpose was to help Trump win, and that it was on orders from Putin. Still to be determined is to what extent Trump’s team was in on it, although Don Jr. is stumbling toward implicating everyone, making a tougher sell for Foxolimjonesians insisting it’s fake news. (If there weren’t still people who claim Trump never lies and was an honorable businessman, it’d be an impossible sell.) Besides, who wouldn’t believe denials from a man who ordered hacking and one who benefitted?

This much is clear: Under Trump, there’ll be no consequences for Russian election interference, let alone unequivocal acknowledgement. Time to “move forward,” the men agreed. Because a malign invasion by a foreign adversary is no big deal. Not to Trump, not to his loyalists. Unless the aim had been different.

http://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/schwab-trumps-meetings-with-russians-havent-gone-well/?utm_source=DAILY+HERALD&utm_campaign=3138c468ee-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d81d073bb4-3138c468ee-228635337

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Sid Schwab: Trumps meetings with Russians havent gone well (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2017 OP
As usual.... Turbineguy Jul 2017 #1
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