Friday, November 3, 2017

Trump Tries To Deflect From More Bad News On Campaign/Russia Story


Stilling obsessing over his 2016 opponent, Donald Trump went on yet another wild Twitter rant this morning wondering why the FBI isn't investigating a host of Hillary Clinton issues (#fakenews) as former Trump campaign officials are being indicted and charged for various alleged crimes.

Can you say "Change the subject?"

What Trump is really mad about is the revelation that he did know something about Russian connections during the 2016 campaign.

From this morning's New York Times:

At a March 31, 2016, meeting between Mr. Trump and his foreign policy team, Mr. Papadopoulos introduced himself and said “that he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and President Putin,” according to court records.

“He went into the pitch right away,” said J. D. Gordon, a campaign adviser who attended the meeting. “He said he had a friend in London, the Russian ambassador, who could help set up a meeting with Putin.”

Mr. Trump listened with interest. Mr. Sessions vehemently opposed the idea, Mr. Gordon recalled. “And he said that no one should talk about it,” because Mr. Sessions thought it was a bad idea that he did not want associated with the campaign, he said.

And so, Trump takes to Twitter to deflect and obfuscate:





"Pocohontas," also known as Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, clapped back:







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