Trump wonders, via Twitter, whey Obama didn't do more about Russian election meddling.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4331917/dona ... -meddling/Trump Twitter wrote:The stories you heard about the 12 Russians yesterday took place during the Obama Administration, not the Trump Administration. Why didn’t they do something about it, especially when it was reported that President Obama was informed by the FBI in September, before the Election?
Trump Twitter wrote:....Where is the DNC Server, and why didn’t the FBI take possession of it? Deep State?
Good question, Donald.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ama-russiaAccording to widespread reporting and Obama aides including vice-president Joe Biden, chief of staff Denis McDonough and senior adviser Ben Rhodes, Obama attempted to formulate a bipartisan statement on Russian election interference in September 2016, two months before the election, but saw the effort “watered down” by Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell.
In a memoir, Rhodes called McConnell’s action “staggeringly partisan and unpatriotic in its disregard for a foreign adversary undermining our democracy”.
After the election, Obama issued sanctions against Russia, expelled diplomats and closed Russian compounds in the US.
What about those sanctions which were passed via a super-majority which you were forced to sign, Donald? You still waited four days, during which you apparently where raging against such a move. In-fact, since
you have been in charge, you seem to extend an awful lot of political generosity to Russia. For a start, any other POTUS would shitcan this "summit" which you'll be having with Putin, but not you, sir.
On Friday, senior Democrats called for the Helsinki summit to be cancelled. The White House said it would go ahead and said the new charges contained “no allegations of knowing involvement by anyone on the campaign and no allegations that the alleged hacking affected the election result”.
Trump said he would raise with Putin the issue of election interference but also told reporters: “I don’t think you’ll have any, ‘Gee, I did it. I did it. You got me.’”
A Russian foreign ministry statement called the indictments “false information” and said “obviously, the purpose of this is to spoil the atmosphere”.
Trump is expected to sit down with Putin with only translators present. On Saturday, a group of Senate Democrats urged the president not to meet the Russian leader one-on-one.
In fact, here's a fun timeline of ways that you've accommodated Russian interests.
https://www.justsecurity.org/58108/time ... nt-russia/Following the same sanctions thread,
Oct. 1, 2017 — The Trump administration fails to meet its first deadline for implementing the Russia portion of the sanctions package signed in August. By Oct. 1, the administration was to have authorized agencies to identify and produce a list of Russian defense and intelligence entities with which individuals and companies would be prohibited from doing business, according to ABC News. Violations would be subject to sanctions. The list of Russian entities isn’t released for several more weeks, prompting bipartisan criticism from Senators John McCain and Ben Cardin: “The delay calls into question the Trump administration’s commitment to the sanctions bill . . . They’ve had plenty of time to get their act together . . . there does not appear to be a significant effort to engage our allies in Europe and to lead an effort to increase pressure on Moscow.”
And as you looked forward to your trip, which has so far included berating NATO, shitting on the UK PM (and then pretending it was fake news when actually in front of the UK PM), and soon meeting Putin, you figured:
July 10, 2018 – Embarking on his nearly weeklong trip to Europe for the NATO summit and his meeting with Putin, Trump tells reporters that discussion with Putin “may be the easiest of them all.”
But, yeah, Donald - Obama. You have dragged your heels on sanctions, hammered the US intelligence community and shat upon the FBI pretty-much non-stop, all while fluffing Putin at every turn, but, Obama.
Surely, had Obama decided to issue a stronger public statement, without the help of Mitch McConnell, you would have dialed your squealing about a fixed election up to 11.
The real question, Donald, is what are you doing about it? While it's interesting to imagine what could have been, it took until now for investigators to gather enough evidence to indite these clowns. There was only so much information available at the time, and as new information has continued to be uncovered, you continue to go out of our way to imply it wasn't Russia. I don't pretend to run a country, but were I you, I sure as shit would be doing everything I can to ensure there is no reason for your adoring public to question the validity of your next tremendous victory, unless you don't care because Russia is on your side.
A quantum state of signature may or may not be here... you just ruined it.