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OT: American Politics

Habspatrol said:
It'll be good enough to get him a "pass" from Fox and most Republicans.

I mean, they'll know it's bullshit but they've been aware of all his bullshit but still give him a pass every time.
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He’s already started his Fox ‘splainin tour. He’ll be on again tonight.
 
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1K72FL

Although he faced pressure from critics, allied countries and even his own staff to take a tough line, Trump said not a single disparaging word in public about Moscow on any of the issues that have brought relations between the two nuclear powers to the lowest ebb since the Cold War.

Republicans and Democrats accused him of siding with an adversary rather than his own country.

Mainly reading from a prepared statement, Trump said on Tuesday he had complete faith in U.S. intelligence agencies and accepted their conclusions.

But he appeared to veer from his script to also hedge on who was responsible for the election interference.
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Reads from a prepared script, blames russia. Goes off script, says it may not be russia.

The man just needs to never go off script.

Damage limitation.
 
Rush Limbaugh is telling his listeners that Trump shouldn’t trust “Obama’s” intelligence community because they’ve been trying to get Trump out of office.

Simply amazing.
 
It’s a stunt.

They know Trump would have to invoke executive privilege which it actually is. The optics of him doing so though would hurt him.
 
It's definitely a shrewd political move. (and how often can we say that about the Democrats?)

Still, it's outrageous that an incompetent and corrupt buffoon with access to presidential information was allowed to spend 2 hours alone in a room with a highly skilled KGB operative.

It is actually a little scary, till you remember that the President doesn't actually know anything.
 
I am a little happy that the president has come to realize how much of a disaster this is.

Should smart his ego if nothing else.

Two summits where he's been made to look like a fool.
 
so much dumb

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November...it cannot come soon enough. Blue wave, please.

https://www.nbcnews.com/card/democrats-outraise-republicans-top-house-contests-n892001

Democrats outraised Republicans in all but FOUR of 40 of some of the most competitive House general election races in the second quarter of 2018.

NBC News reviewed FEC reports for a list of 40 races which are ranked as “Lean” or “Toss Up” by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report and which have their nominees set after March-June primary contests.

Some of the widest gaps in Democrats’ favor include fundraising hauls for New Jersey’s Mikie Sherill (who outraised Republican newcomer Jay Webber $1.4 million to $172,000), California’s Harley Rouda (who outraised incumbent Dana Rohrabacher by $994,000 to $192,000) and California’s Katie Hill (who outraised incumbent Steve Knight by about $1 million to $319,000).

Seven Democrats out of the 40 competitive races reported raising more than $1 million during the quarter, while no Republican campaign boasted a seven-figure haul in the same amount of time.

While the majority of Republicans in these races – most of them incumbents – have a cash-on-hand advantage over their Democratic rivals, Democrats in 16 of the 40 races are also besting their GOP counterparts when it comes to money in the bank as well.
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Well trump proved to tucker that unequivocally he does not understand NATO article v. Let’s hope Montenegro doesn’t get too aggressive. They got some tough people.
 
CH1 said:
have they found the 400lb hacker living in his mom's basement?
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Well, they haven't checked Russia for him yet...

https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/17/technology/cambridge-analytica-data-facebook-russia/index.html
he now infamous Facebook data set on tens of millions of Americans gathered by a Cambridge University scientist for a firm that went on to work for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign was accessed from Russia, a British member of parliament tells CNN.

Damian Collins, the Conservative MP leading a British parliamentary investigation into online disinformation, told CNN that a British investigation found evidence that the data, collected by Professor Aleksandr Kogan on behalf of Cambridge Analytica, had been accessed from Russia and other countries. The discovery was made by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), Britain's data protection authority, Collins said.

"I think what we want to know now is who were those people and what access did they have, and were they actually able to take some of that data themselves and use it for whatever things they wanted," Collins said.
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https://www.thebeaverton.com/2018/0...trade-war-by-negotiating-directly-with-putin/

MOSCOW – The Canadian government has relocated its NAFTA trade negotiations to Russia, a diplomatic maneuver that will eliminate US President Donald Trump as a middleman.

Five Canadian members of the trade mission to save NAFTA diverted their plane from Washington, DC to Moscow after Trump’s press conference in Finland.

“Rather than negotiate with an erratic and contradictory proxy like Mr. Trump, we’d much prefer to have the ear of someone who has a real pull with the US Administration,” said Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs. “We can end this trade war if we start complimenting the Russian leader on his manliness and ignore how many journalists or opposition leaders he’s killed.”

Freeland added “there was too much on the line to waste our time on an angry marionette show.”

After Russian President Vladimir Putin met his subordinate in Helsinki this week, the Canadian trade delegation is now taking cues from the Russian leader who has tremendous sway in determining US foreign policy as well as electoral outcomes.

“We’re asking Mr. Putin to instruct Mr. Trump to instruct Republicans in Congress to kill Buy American requirements-related bills,” said one unnamed Canadian delegate. “And maybe replace the US Ambassador to Canada with someone who believes in climate change, but we might have to recognize the Crimea as part of Russia.”

In an effort to sway the Russian delegation, Freeland and her team plan on greeting their counterparts with a traditional human rights abuse.
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