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Pelosi blasts Trump's comments on foreign election interference

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  1. HankD

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    Barely coherent In a hand waving stuttering, sputtering diatribe, Nancy Pelosi accused the president of giving the green light to foreign nations to interfere in our elections.

    The Speaker took a few questions at the end but had difficulty staying focused with answers.

    Pelosi blasts Trump's comments on foreign election interference
     
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    Oh she must mean like the DNC and Hillary did with the Steele Dossier.
     
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    She is coming down with Dementia.
     
  4. HankD

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    True Hillary already turned on the green light but Nancy mentioned nothing about that crime with Hillary, the British spy and the Kremlin.
     
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    Lol, maybe, but Trump is playing the Dems and the media like a banjo string.
     
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  6. HankD

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    He is VERY GOOD at that :)
     
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    Trump successfully baits his foes with comments to Stephanopoulos on foreign information on opponents

    "In classic Trumpian maneuver, President Trump yesterday chummed the waters of the House Democratic Caucus with raw meat the impeachment-crazed radicals driving Nancy Pelosi – who really doesn’t want to talk about impeachment -- to distraction. He also laid the groundwork for the coming prosecutions on the Russia Hoax.

    In a clip that already has been endlessly run on every news channel, he told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News that he would not necessarily turn down information on his opponent form a foreign source or call in the FBI.

    Responding to question from Stephanopoulos about his son Donald Jr’s Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, the POTUS let fly:



    As summarized by Politico:

    …the president pushed back when asked whether a candidate should report information on an opponent if it came from a foreign agent, and denied that accepting the information counted as election interference.

    “It’s not an interference, they have information — I think I’d take it,” Trump said. “If I thought there was something wrong, I’d go maybe to the FBI — if I thought there was something wrong.”

    “It’s called oppo research,” he added.

    Stephanopoulos pointed out that FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress that a candidate should offer that kind of information to the agency, but Trump flatly rebuffed the notion: “The FBI director is wrong.”

    “Give me a break,” Trump said, scoffing. “Life doesn’t work that way.”

    He got exactly what he wanted from the haters:

    It is shocking to hear the President say outright that he is willing to put himself indebt to a foreign power... not to mention the foreign interference in an American election part. GeorgeStephanopoulos on Twitter

    — (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) June 12, 2019

    Republicans and Democrats should both speak out - loudly and strongly - against this.

    Foreign interference in our elections is unacceptable, period.EXCLUSIVE: Trump says he would listen if foreigners offered dirt on opponents

    — Senator Chris Coons (@ChrisCoons) June 13, 2019

    Donald Trump committed yet another act of treasonous betrayal of the USA by publicly welcoming interference in our democratic elections by our nation’s foreign adversaries. His comments were truly shameful, despicable and indefensible... except by other traitors. #TraitorTrump

    — Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) June 13, 2019

    Trump’s interview with @GStephanopoulos crystallizes what’s at stake:

    Unless Democrats and Republicans in Congress impeach him, every future president has grounds to ask foreign adversaries to launch covert operations against political rivals in the U.S. #existential

    — Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) June 12, 2019

    This is just the latest example of what Vice President Biden meant when he said that Mr. Trump is an existential threat to our country. “Unfit to be President” is a gross understatement. @realDonaldTrump is undeserving of any public office, and all Americans should be outraged. John Santucci on Twitter

    — John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) June 12, 2019

    But the gasps of horror were not limited to haters. Laura Ingraham and Victor Davis Hanson were aghast

    “Setting aside the question of why you would have George Stephanopoulos standing over the president in the Oval Office––I don’t know who approved that––what about this notion of accepting foreign Intel about an opponent? Is that a risk for President Trump, getting pulled back into Mueller? Again, why he was put in that situation is beyond me.”

    Victor Davis Hanson agreed that “you shouldn’t ever talk to George Stephanopoulos,” and said Trump probably “intended to” bring up something like Adam Schiff getting called by Russian pranksters.

    He added, “I think the cardinal rule is in Trump’s case you don’t even discuss that. You just say I don’t want to talk about it.”

    Ingraham said it seemed like he was “playing with” Stephanopoulos a bit, but added, “Putting him in that situation, I don’t get it.”

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    Here is some help for the perplexed: As the DOJ Inspector General’s report looms and US Attorney John Durham’s mandate has been described in the broadest terms by AG Barr, Trump has the Democrats nattering on about how treasonous it is to accept any information from any foreign country. How about paying Russian agents with campaign money for fake dirt on an opponent, even if laundered through a law firm and Fusion-GPS?

    When and if indictments related to Fusion-GPS are revealed, the defense lines of the progressives will have some Trump-sized holes in them.


    Even NeverTrumper Erick Erickson, of the anti-Trump Resurgent sees the trap:

    "…we should point out that the Steele dossier involved a lot of dirt about Donald Trump from Russia and we now know that a good bit of it was made up. The Mueller report itself notes the supposed ‘pee tape’ the Democrats have been all hot and bothered over was fabricated by the Russians.

    Perhaps the President should not have said it, but let’s not pretend the Democrats would actually go racing to the FBI if presented with sensational information about Trump. They’d run to opposition research firms instead.

    By the way, before you claim the Democrats handed the Steele dossier over to the FBI, please note that they used it to spread anti-Trump stories in the media for months before doing so not very long before Election Day 2016."


    The Steele Dossier was an important foundation of the entire Russia Hoax. Trump has now got many of his worst enemies on the record about how heinous it was to accept any intelligence from a foreign source. Trump mentioned Norway. Hillary and the DNC paid for dirt from Russia.

    Trump, it must always be remembered, is the most successful reality TV producer in the history of the medium of television. He knows how to set up a story line for a payoff later in the season. In this case, the election season.
     
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    the progressive left just doesn't doesn't get it.

    every time the media well runs dry PRESIDENT TRUMP primes the SOCIALIST PRESS pump with "impeachable talk" and secures several million dollars FREE PRESS TIME with his name on their lips around the globe.

    Consequently there will be threats of impeachment, imprisonment, maybe even the dream of a perp walk.

    What will be the outcome?

    NOTHING! - oh, maybe a rise in his popularity.
     
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    Hannity played a clip of a recording of Schiff talking to a russian about the alleged hooker and peeing the bed accusation they tried to say Trump was a part of. Schiff and Shrillary are both guilty of something Trump never did but has not problem with.
     
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    “This is my last election," Obama said. "After my election I have more flexibility.”
    “I understand," Medvedev said. "I will transmit this information to Vladimir."

    Hmm, was this a signal to Vladimir. to interfere in Obama's election!?

    Where was the outrage and disjointed public outcry then Nancy?
     
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    AOBTW Nancy was correct - well not today but the day before. "Trump wants to be impeached".

    Yes Trump chummed the water, Stephanopoulos took the bait for AOC and company, too bad Nancy.
     
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    As predicted NOTHING came of the chest pounding orchestrated outrage of the socialist progressives except about 128,000 additions to the Trump fan club :Roflmao

    Another unintended but predictable consequence was/is the 800 pound fly in the DNC ointment:
    The hypocrisy of THE TACTIC of Mrs Clinton hiring a foreign national (Brit) spy to provide journalistic manure about Donald Trump via the Kremlin.

    President Trump took full advantage of this report of the Clinton collusion with the RUSSIANS (via the Steele dossier) to interfere with our 2016 election in this latest chess game.

    So here are the facts:Trump orchestrated this whole thing and knew beforehand what the outcome would be by his "gaff" and what the accusations would be and caught them red handed in hypocrisy. WHO KNEW?

    And here is the question to the DNC: when will you play the Trump chess game and think 2 or 3 moves ahead of the POTUS INSTEAD OF A CHECK MATE?
     
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    What person in his right mind wouldn't listen to dirt on their opponents?
     
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    American law makes it a crime for a candidate to accept money or anything of value from foreign governments or citizens for the purposes of winning an election.
     
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    FEC chair responds to Trump saying he'd accept foreign intel on opponent: 'It is illegal'

    Federal Election Commission (FEC) Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub said Thursday it is illegal to accept foreign assistance during elections after President Trump publicly suggested he would accept foreign intelligence on opponents.

    "I would not have thought that I needed to say this," Weintraub tweeted Thursday with her statement.

    "Let me make something 100 percent clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election," Weintraub said.
     
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    Aww how come you have not been as concerned for the foreign assistance Hillary had?
     
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    What was that?
     
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    Stop playing ignorant
     
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    U.S. law foes not make it illegal for the POTUS to accept foreign intelligence.
     
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    Duh. Look in the mirror.
     
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