"... an invitation that stunned the nation’s top intelligence official, who said he was still groping for details of what the two leaders had discussed in their encounter this week in Helsinki, Finland. 'Say that again,' the director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, replied when Andrea Mitchell of NBC broke the news while interviewing him at a security conference in Aspen, Colo. 'O.K.,' Mr. Coats said, taking a deep breath and chuckling awkwardly. 'That’s going to be special.'... [T]o Mr. Coats, who has been at odds with Mr. Trump about whether Russia meddled in the election, the prospect of another one-on-one encounter was clearly rattling...."
That's how the NYT reports the news, featuring characterizations of the vocalizations and breathing patterns of Dan Coats. But you can characterize it yourself (albeit under the influence of the anxiety-marimba music layered in by the NYT):
Why is Coats chuckling on stage with Andrea Mitchell? He seems to be playing to the audience and doing some sort of theater of everyone knowing that the President is — what? — weird/crazy/his own sort of guy?
By the way, if Trump were actually treasonous or colluding with The Enemy or exposing us to grave danger, it wouldn't be something to chuckle over! So, obviously Coats knows much more about it all that we do, and he's chuckling for the crowd, not holed up at work desperately trying to save us from destruction.
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83 comments:
You'd think it would be Dan Cloaks, not Coats.
Maybe spying these days is more into light jackets.
Asked why, the president commented, At least half of my domestic political opponents have not yet had a nervous breakdown.
It's been quite a week for the Master Persuader.
Bonding with Andrea Mitchell may not be a good career move.
Coats was chuckling because he knew the media circus was going to get even crazier.
What a wreck Andrea Mitchell has become. More The View than respectable journalist. Such a waste just when we need one.
#nukerussianow
They release embarrassing emails from Democrats. They must be nuked.
Begin bombing Crimea at the behest of the Ukrainians. We must win hearts and minds.
Russia funds anti-fracking groups in the US. Oh, well we like that kind of hacking.
The USSR was a great place to live, vacation, and even honeymoon! If only we could go back to those salad days when Russia wasn’t so antagonistic toward us. The Lion of the Senate, can openly ask for help defeating the incumbent president and none would call it treason.
Russia, under that totally gay Vladimir Putin and the US, whose leader is also that gay Donald Trump, must go to war to show how illegitimate his election was, tainted as it was by Russia hacking Podestas p@ssword email password.
And now Trump distrusts Putin as much as he distrusts Peter Strozk, John Brennan, and Perjurer Clapper?
My stars. Whatever shall we do??
I can certainly see the argument from a PR perspective that everyone on a president’s team ought to know of news like this before the announcement is made, but by now it should be clear that Trump doesn’t operate like that. (And he’s president and you’re not.)
But who cares? The Times suggests, through that tone of superiority, that this is crazy irresponsible, an outrage. But why? Is the President supposed to ask permission? Is there some risk to national security by inviting another head of state for a visit?
All innuendo and no cattle.
Probably Andrea Mitchell is planning to withdraw more money from the economy.
Seriously though, once you realize that China is our top geopolitical foe and Russia is literally a dying state, and that it makes strategic sense to pull Russia out of China’s orbit with furtive offers to renter the Western Community of nations (which is what Russia has always wanted), with the ultimate goal of enlisting Putin’s help to neuter China’s proxy attack dog, North Korea and to help contain China, the Master Persuader might indeed be a few moves ahead on that chess board.
Peace before politics. Suffer the slings and arrows of fools to Make America Great Again.
You've set up a false dichotomy, haven't you, Althouse? That Coats if Coats doesn't (not sure how to even describe this) grimly and seriously accept the news that Trump has invited Putin to the White House, the alternative must be that Trump is treasonous or colluding with the Russians.
How about this; that senior White House staff have seen so many irresponsible, inexplicable Tweets from Trump that it is something of a standing joke? It doesn't mean that Trump is a traitor, and that Coats must run back to Washington to deal with the emergency. It's just the umpteenth time that Trump has initiated some weird personal initiative on his own without communicating with senior staff. And it has happened so often that it is funny. It's been funny for a while, and basically everyone knows it.
You're not entirely wrong, Althouse. Yes, I agree that Coats was doing a "theater of everyone" in which the unstated common knowledge was that Trump was, uh, "his own kind of guy."
Of course, the unspoken conclusion is that indeed Coats' appearance and demeanor may be typical of all of Trump's senior security staff. From Pompeo to Mattis to Coats to Wray to Dunford all think that Trump is prone to kookiness, especially on Twitter and while none of them are going to remove Trump from office, they just need to grin and bear it and do the best that they can for the good of the nation. I think you got that much, Althouse. But you wanted to spin it for use in your anti-"Trump Derangement Syndrome" template.
They always change Trump's wording just a little to put a different slant on what he said rather than quote him directly.
That's a lot of typing, Chuck. You make a couple of good points, but that's still a lot of typing. It's almost like you think Althouse is working an agenda here or something.
I think she's just basically here for the lolz. Trump's working everybody you see there like a puppet on a string. It's what he does. Coats knows that, so "here we go again".
Trump's a hard man to keep up with, you know.
The NYT was ahead of the curve with the Trump Putin gay lover cartoon. They miss each other so much. You know the sex drive of those gay men, right NYT?
Coats is in on the treason.
And it has happened so often that it is funny. It's been funny for a while, and basically everyone knows it.
Then the idea of treason is ridiculous.
1. The Left continually asserts that the Russians have “something” on Trump and that he is being blackmailed. Another insane theory is that Melania is the ultimate Red Sparrow.
What in the world could the Russians possibly have on Trump? Maybe some deleted emails from a private server showing how he was bribed as Secretary of State?
2. Putting aside the bribery, Red Sparrow and Manchurian Candidate theories, why would Trump risk going down in history as a traitor? Does he hate his country that much? Sell out his country?
3. I am of the firm opinion that all this Russia stuff is the purest of insanity. The odd thing is that some sane people are buying it. The media constantly talks about it.
I have no idea what was going on in Coats' mind and I daresay neither does anybody at the NYT.
Them that know don't talk; them that talk don't know. And, leakers always have an agenda and leak selectively. They are not interested in providing the full picture, they are out to make a point in choosing what they leak and to whom they leak it, as well as what they don't leak.
iow, most of it is bullshit, most of the time.
#DurbinFanBoy and Self-Identified Smear Merchant Chuck: "You've set up a false dichotomy, haven't you, Althouse?"
Nope.
Nice try.
Your desperation is understood given the dems continued flailing and inability to gain traction.
Here’s what the Russians actually did to destroy our democracy.
1. They ran a tiny amount of ineffective Facebook ads and fake news stories.
2. They maybe hacked Podesta’s email where we learned that he is a conniving, lying asshole. But we already knew that.
But we aren’t sure about 2 because the FBI never seized and inspected the DNC server.
"Coats was chuckling because he knew the media circus was going to get even crazier."
Exactly.
And of course it will.
I don't recall Dems bitching about DJT inviting Xi. China is the bigger threat. So why is inviting Vlad worse? Apart from his current usefulness as a prog tool to Get Trump.
Surely the guy who supplies Germany's gas and had the whole world visit to watch soccer can't be all bad, can he?
Anyway, the NYT and the MSM keep saying that Russia "interfered" in the 2016 election. As far as I know, the election went off without a hitch. People voted for the guys and gals they preferred. How, exactly, did Russia "interfere"?
Sure, Wikileaks spilled the beans on some Dem machinations. So the truth "interfered" with the election?
Somebody put some posts on Facebook. Did anyone read them? Do we even know?
Of course, Russia did put out disinformation on Trump, via Steele, helping the US deep state. But I guess that interference doesn't count.
And Russia signaled that it had the goods on Hill, implicitly threatening blackmail and weakening the likely winner in advance. But that affected the power of the new prez, not the election. People who had decided that the felon should be in jail for her criminal misuse of communications already planned to vote against her.
So . . .?
David Begley, I thought the DNC server scandal was separate from the Podesta email releases.
WOW! Trump is going to let the leader of Russia come to America! This is unprecedented!!!
I read about another republican President (who married a lady from Boone Ia!) that allowed the leader of Russia to come to America back when we were in an active (but cold) nuclear WAR with them; with one third of our Bombers on 15 Minute Alert, cocked and LOADED with H-Bombs; with a portion of them always airborne. We were Literally 15 minutes away from World War Three; and we were taking the Russian Leader on tours of our country.
I think that between Ike and Trump, there were Also OTHER Presidents that met with Russian Leaders.... Please tell me WHY it's BAD now? Oh, that's right: TRUMP
Begley: "I don't recall Dems bitching about DJT inviting Xi. China is the bigger threat."
The dems never bitched about obambi doing "the wave" with Castro in Cuba nor obambi and his staff executing a completely secret agreement with Iran, with multiple layered secret sub-clauses, without any review or approval by the Senate.
Iran. The chief sponsor of terror across the globe.
Fen's Law. Again and again.
And I don't care in the slightest that demonstrating the clear and obvious lies and inconsistency of the Left bothers LLR Chuck and triggers his #DemDefenseMode.
the invitation is a challenge to Putin. it raises the stakes of the relationship. the more Trump engages publicly with Putin in a collegial way, the more “flexibility” Putin has to accede to US requests or demands. maybe recognition of this and also the pace at which Trump moves play into Coats’ chuckles. I imagine Trump and Putin did not discuss this meeting in Helsinki, but rather this will be first that Putin hears of it.
The Chinese apparently sent Russia a note that Trump won’t be president forever.
That means I’m right about the Chinese being wary of improving Russia-US relations.
Hah!
I’ve written one point paper for an agency but have no security clearance. Just common sense and logical progression.
Most of the news about Trump is that he won’t do what the media wants him to do.
They keep trying to cow him into submission, using their ability to shape public opinion as a means to direct policy.
It began when he wouldn’t agree only one side was protected by the first amendment in Charlottesville.
Any other politician would have folded then and there.
I don't "get" it.
There is no invitation yet. Only a current plan to invite. There is no acceptance yet either.
But let the wild media rumpus begin!
Ralph
I think the Podesta emails were on the DNC server.
Drago,
Sebastian made that comment but I agree with it.
It's been quite a week for the Master Persuader.
You can always move to Thailand, Chuck.
They don't hate you there. Yet.
I thought Wikileaks got the Podesta emails because his password was password, and his IT guy told him he could click on something phishy. Maybe we just found out about that from the DNC dump. I'll ask at JOM.
Fancy google-ware Android + fancy NYT combine their powers to passively and incorrectly explain:
"There was a video playback error. Please refresh to resume playback."
Translation: Our software sucks. You can't resume that video because it never started.
Oh! Oh! And now "Oops that's an error" from some other shitty google-ware. "Oops" - that's so cute.
The media needs to change "interfered" with "attempted to interfere." There is a very significant difference
Super spy Putin, his very presence leaches secrets from the ground, his x-ray decoder vision records the data in hard drives as he passes, he can smell thoughts from twenty yards.
If Putin smiled like Macron, would the MSM still be frightened of Russia, or would he seem even creepier?
I just duckducked Putin smile, and I'll go with the latter.
"Brian Stelter republican" Chuck: "It's been quite a week for the Master Persuader."
Indeed. Some recent headlines....
CNBC: US weekly jobless claims drop to lowest level since 1969
New York Times: Bowing to Trump, Novartis Joins Pfizer in Freezing Drug Prices
National Review: POLL: Vast Majority of Republican Voters Unbothered by Trump’s Helsinki Press Conference
One can just feel the tears welling up in LLR Chuck's eyes as he channels the emotions of his leftist/dem operational allies.
Perhaps a nice mudbath and facial will get LLR Chuck "over the hump" with his dem misery commiseration.
LOL
You know LLR Chuck, if you become depressed enough, you can always shift your sights to attacking Kavanaugh's children or even launch another racist attack on Ben Carson.
That kind of stuff has always seemed to put you in a good mood in the past.
Drago, the constant upchucking isn't a good look for you. Vary your game. Go after J Farmer and see if you can get the last word in.
Ralph L: "Drago, the constant upchucking isn't a good look for you. Vary your game. Go after J Farmer and see if you can get the last word in"
I've attempted that several times.
To no avail.
As you clearly surmised.
Alas.
It ain't always easy or glamorous forcing LLR Chuck to live up to his own rules.
One often dreams of walks in quiet meadows in high mountain valleys. Perhaps glimpsing a pristine waterfall and beaver dams and lodges creating ponds full of high altitude animal comings and goings.
IMO Coats, like Tillerson and MacMaster, were Trump's cabinet hires from the insiders that were made to be window dressing hires to delay the coming CIA/FBI Coup by making Trump appear amenable to their advice.
But now Trump has it all scoped out, and he is locked and loaded, and he is going on the offensive. We ain't seen nothing yet.
tradguy: "But now Trump has it all scoped out and he is locked and loaded and is going on the offensive. We ain't seen nothing yet"
That is my impression as well.
Further, Trump has learned which staffs still leak like sieves and which do not, as well as which staffs are likely to collaborating with the ongoing coup efforts, and is simply acting accordingly by shutting out key information flows to suspect individuals/groups/depts/agencies.
Oh, right, the the 'director of national intelligence' (sarcasm alert) holding entertainment interviews w/ Andrea Mitchell in Aspen. Gee, I guess it's a slow week back at the office? Coats has become the Media's newest Bobblehead.
exhelodrvr1 said...
The media needs to change "interfered" with "attempted to interfere."
"Interfere" might be the next "code word" (along with "Becky"); from an Extra-Super-Double-PC anti-white racist website:
"In what seems to be an ongoing saga of white people not minding their business, #SidewalkSusie, offensively, interfered with mom, Alyson Laliberte, and her child while the toddler played outside of their Cambridge home."
Two white wimmin-folk arguing about a noisy kid becomes semi-national news when the noisy kid is "biracial" (reading between the lines I infer 1/3rd Abo and 2/3rds Pygmy).
Franklin Roosevelt famously kept his staff in chaos, and it's played as a mark of his brilliance. FDR also rounded up Americans into camps and deported a million Mexicans, and he's remembered as a hero. Maybe Trump is channeling him.
This invitation may also be an indication that the Putin robot has been completed, and US officials want an opportunity to swap it in to replace the real guy.
Thank you, Althouse, for mentioning the marimba music, the production values of our overseers is quite keen to affect our amygdulas in every way possible.
The resistors' righteousness about "influencing our elections" is a hoot coming from Andrea, NYT, and @NPR, who have worked every "tone" for the last decade -- from background serious cello to crazy marimba, from scripts read with furrowed brow to breezy in-on-the-joke Snark -- to bend to their supremacy.
Those who worked tirelessly to enforce and empower the Serene Police State of Hillary Clinton really still imagine their talents will win out. A singularly dangerous time we live in.
Grateful every day for amazing America, and those fearless and free thinkers, like Althouse and scott Adams, and this audacious Man in the Oval office.
Godspeed.
anxiety-marimba music...
Brian Jones, and Bill Wyman on Fuzz Bass
Trump is under Putin's thumb. A Siamese cat.
Under my thumb
It's a Siamese cat of a guy
Under my thumb
He's the sweetest, hmmm, pet in the world
Meow!
Criticizing the meeting with another world leader, friend or foe, is pure partisanship. It is illogical to believe that some type of nefarious collusion is going on. If it were, it wouldn't be done via publicized meetings. It would be done via covert meetings by third parties, and overt meetings of underlings, e.g. Obama and Iran.
These people are psychotic. They no longer recognize reality. And like true psychotics, they don’t understand when others point that out to them.
Remarkably, the NYT has the courtesy to kill the gnashing clashing background music during conversation.
Ms. Gritzkofe puts on WSJ videos after the morning roll through Drudge, Insty, Althouse, and the local rag. I leave the room. Too many WSJ video prouducts have background music that obscures narration. Many also showcase fastakintwenysumthnsarunallaworsagthr*.
* fast talking twenty somethings who run all of their words together.
Chuck said...You've set up a false dichotomy, haven't you, Althouse? That Coats if Coats doesn't (not sure how to even describe this) grimly and seriously accept the news that Trump has invited Putin to the White House, the alternative must be that Trump is treasonous or colluding with the Russians.
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She is referencing the "false dichotomy" the media/Dems have foisted and exploited.
Ralph L said...
Coats is in on the treason.
This is really where I want to see TrumpWorld go on this. Accuse basically everybody but Trump of being part of the Deep State. I'm actually a little disappointed that there hasn't been more talk of "Coats resign!" Or, "Fire Coats!"
Because I no longer care too much what Trump does or how he staffs his White House which is a "fine tuned machine." I think that every good Republican who gets too close to Trump becomes toxic sooner or later. The fewer that get close to him, the better. So yeah, Dan Coats could be gone by the weekend and I wouldn't care. I'd prefer it to be a firing, under the most contentious and public circumstances possible. I'd want to read Coats' upcoming book as soon as it was published.
Anthony Scaramucci would be a good DNI for Trump. Sean Hannity, or Sebastian Gorka, might make a good DNI. That is, if Alex Jones does not accept the job. Because Alex Jones has an amazing reputation. Alex Jones would not let Donald Trump down.
Just a few seconds of a public events, but goddammit Coats looks a typical deep state jackass following in the footsteps of Clapper, Brennan and Comey. For chrissakes we're a nation of 300 million, can we get some serious competent people in positions of power, instead of these embarrassing simps and lowlifes?
CNN: Catastrophizing Noise Network
Coats will be back as a lobbyist soon. He’s very good at it. Most former senators are. The smart ones have spouses and children who are lobbyists while they are in office. That way the family gets wealthy off public service. Coats is a natural. He charms Greenspan’s current wife at the Aspen Summit of current and future lobbyists who have fucked shit up the last 30 years. The Smart Set.
Trump doesn’t confide in Coats just as he didn’t confide in Rex Tillerson and many other rather useless guys. Trump seems to trust Pompeo and Mattis. Coats is on the outside. He’s an Aspen expert
Ralph L: "Coats is in on the treason."
#StrongDemDefender Chuck: "This is really where I want to see TrumpWorld go on this. Accuse basically everybody but Trump of being part of the Deep State"
LOL
What a putz you are.
Ralph is making a joke....about Coats having to be in on it with Trump.
LLR Chuck goes "all in" falsely accusing Trump supporters of accusing everyone anti-Trump of being part of the Deep State all the while every single dem in sight along with the entire deep staters AND LLR's are all accusing every Trump supporter and even every individual who refuses to reflexively hate Trump of being a Putin stooge.
I could not ask for a more perfect LLR Chuck/pro-democrat/pro-leftist posting than that.
Thank you Chuck.
Sincerely, from everyone here!
LOL
Political theater.
Trump knows that polls show that concerns about Russia barely register on voters' priorities. So of course he's going to hold another Putin meeting so the media and Democrats can chase their tails for a while longer on issues of no consequence to voters in the mid terms.
I have never seen the media and Democrats so fecklessly using their bandwidth on nonconsequential topics at the direction of their sworn enemy.
They have to know they are off in a fruitless direction but they just can't help themselves.
I'm certain that Trump drifts off to sleep each night enjoying how he toys with these fools.
Gee, I wonder if DT expects crowds of people protesting and throwing around the T word soon before the election. Then he'll talk about peace and peel off another helping of Democratic voters (the same way he got so much of the "white working class").
Putin will want to meet cowboys. Make it so, Don.
"That talks are held is basically good for all, in particular between these two countries," Merkel said at her regular summer press conference.
"I find that meetings between the US and Russian presidents must return to normality," she said.
https://www.thelocal.de/20180720/good-for-all-that-trump-putin-plan-to-meet-again-merkel
More proof Trump is a Nazi cock-holster or something..
"Seriously though, once you realize that China is our top geopolitical foe and Russia is literally a dying state, and that it makes strategic sense to pull Russia out of China’s orbit with furtive offers to renter the Western Community of nations (which is what Russia has always wanted), with the ultimate goal of enlisting Putin’s help to neuter China’s proxy attack dog, North Korea and to help contain China, the Master Persuader might indeed be a few moves ahead on that chess board."
Think about it for a minute. A large amount of Russia's natural resources are in the east, in Siberia, etc. China, in many cases is sitting closer to them than the bulk of the Russians. There are probably 5x the number of Chinese as compared to Russians, and Russians are dying off faster, per capita. The demographics get worse and worse for the Russians holding Siberia, etc, against the Chinese. Probably, the biggest thing keeping China from marching in, is the size of Russia's massive aging nuclear arsenal. For now, at least, the Russians can keep the Chinese at bay. But for how much longer?
Teller,
Too bad Harry Red's beloved Cowboy Poetry event is in January.
http://www.nationalcowboypoetrygathering.org/
Drago said...
Ralph L: "Coats is in on the treason."
#StrongDemDefender Chuck: "This is really where I want to see TrumpWorld go on this. Accuse basically everybody but Trump of being part of the Deep State"
LOL
What a putz you are.
Ralph is making a joke....about Coats having to be in on it with Trump.
LLR Chuck goes "all in" falsely accusing Trump supporters of accusing everyone anti-Trump of being part of the Deep State all the while every single dem in sight along with the entire deep staters AND LLR's are all accusing every Trump supporter and even every individual who refuses to reflexively hate Trump of being a Putin stooge.
I could not ask for a more perfect LLR Chuck/pro-democrat/pro-leftist posting than that.
Thank you Chuck.
Sincerely, from everyone here!
LOL
Oh, that's cool. "Dan Coats is in on the treason," as a pro-Trump joke. A punch line implying that if Trump is guilty of "treason," so is Dan Coats. And everybody knows that Dan Coats is not guilty of treason, even if some think that Trump is...
A bit of an odd construction, but let's work with it.
It's a good joke, to be used against Brennan, and anyone else who foolishly attempts to seriously accuse Trump of "treason." Unlike Trump's own use of "treason" allegations, which were of course just a joke.
But then, nobody on my side ever accused of Trump of "treason." Nobody that I know of. That is to say, NeverTrump Republicans and conservatives. I haven't accused Trump of being guilty of "treason." I've accused Trump of being a dumbass and an asshole and a consummate liar. No treason. I personally think that "treason" is beyond Trump's pay-grade.
Self-identified Smear Merchant and #StrongDemDefender Chuck: "But then, nobody on my side ever accused of Trump of "treason."'
Precisely what a self-identified Smear Merchant would say. And demonstrably false as that is precisely what the entirety of your lefty operational allies are claiming.
Your protestations are as amusing as they are laughably and transparently disingenuous.
But in a good way....
LOL
Btw, whatever happened to that astonishingly "competent" and "effective" Li'l Dickie "US troops are gestapo" Durbin.
Why it seems like only yesterday LLR Chuck was regaling us with tales of the exploits of this super duper legislator and star senator.
LOL
He hasnt been doing much since Trump smacked him around in the DACA discussion.
That one had to hurt, eh Chuck?
You two, quit fighting over my joke.
Now I've forgotten what I meant.
"You two, quit fighting over my joke."
It's no more a fight than if I was engaging a Maddow Show Producer directly.
If Putin comes to the U.S, it will be the perfect time for him to release the "President pee pee tape".
Putin wants to question Obama's Russian ambassador Michael McFaul.
Think McFaul knows about how some of the 145 million dollars was funneled to the Clinton Foundation?
I think he does.
Putin has dirt on people alright.
Of course Clinton wants to protect this US diplomat.
Mueller will give McFaul immunity to testify against Trump. And Comey, Brennan, Strzok...
Army Ranger and Benghazi vet lets Hillary know she is a piece of shit and couldn't give 2 shits about US ambassadors.
Democrats will be pivoting to "Can't we all just get along?" soon. They know they are in line to swing from the lamp posts.
We should take their passports now. They are all going to start finding countries without extradition treaties to move to after August 28th.
Why is Coats being interviewed by this TDS-afflicted harridan? Are all the people in DC so disloyal to Trump and the country that they have no sense of propriety, or is it just narcissism?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/three-top-fbi-cybersecurity-officials-to-retire-1532036330
"Three of the top cybersecurity officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation are retiring from government service, according to people familiar with the matter—departures that come as cyberattacks are a major concern for the country’s security agencies.
Senior U.S. intelligence officials warn that the country is at a “critical point” facing unprecedented cyberthreats, including Russia’s ongoing attacks on the American political system. The retirements also come as the FBI is facing regular criticism from President Donald Trump and his supporters, and is working to attract and retain top cyber talent."
Later on, the article frames it mostly a natural result of getting retirement at age 50.
Still...but Truuuuump!
Of course, if they were Comey's Homies, there aree other possibilities....
I don’t get the claims that these meetings are evidence of collusion. IF Putin and Trump are in cahoots, don’t you think they have ways to communicate that don’t involve flying to Finland? Also, wouldn’t Putin tell Trump that it looks bad and they shouldn’t meet? Wouldn’t Putin want to keep Trump in office? It’s like the sloppiest effort at treason ever, notwithstanding the complete lack of evidence.
Blue@9
Through TDS glasses that's seen as proof of just how devious it all is.
they didn't really go past the cover, and not the stitching:
https://climateaudit.org/2018/07/19/a-russian-spearphishing-domain-is-now-hosted-in-new-york-city/
the publication that has been red from the beginning now brownbaits:
https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/1020067721126522880
it's curious isn't it:
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/07/19/weird-mueller-released-an-evidence-list-for-the-upcoming-manafort-trial-and-bernie-sanders-chief-strategist-tad-devine-is-all-over-it/
of course, he pulled his punches on Hillary,
Three of the top cybersecurity officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation are retiring from government service, according to people familiar with the matter—departures that come as cyberattacks are a major concern for the country’s security agencies.
Were they the ones in charge when we were supposedly under cyber-attack during the election season? Heck of a job retirees!
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