Trump Monday- meeting with Putin

[WanderingWinoZ]

Axios

Trump has a "1:1 bilateral meeting with the President of the Russian Federation," beginning at 6:20 a.m. ET, per the White House schedule.


The two leaders are scheduled to hold a joint press conference at 9:50 a.m. ET.

Pull the camera back. At today's Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, you have an American president huddling alone with an enemy of the United States who infiltrated our election system.

When the meeting concludes, Vladimir Putin will postgame with a Fox News interview (Chris Wallace), while Trump will hit two Fox News shows (Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson) to give his own spin.



Trump will surely amplify his take on Twitter. This morning, he began Summit Day by tweeting: "Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!"

[WanderingWinoZ]

lol

[bex]

Maggie Haberman probably should step away from twitter. She gets really mad on it.

[WanderingWinoZ]

Mueller was shockingly detailed in the Friday indictment- handing out lots of details about how much the FBI knows about Russian hacking...
could be a warning that the US knows more...

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/07/15/putin-must-wonder-what-else-america-knows-about-russia/?utm_term=.1cefcaef76af

Looking at this case through a counterintelligence lens raises an intriguing new series of questions. In putting all the detail into the indictment, Mueller was giving Russian intelligence a hint of how much America can see. But this public disclosure may mask much deeper capabilities — perhaps a capacity to expose many more layers of GRU military-intelligence operations and those by the Russian civilian spy services, the FSB and the SVR. American intelligence agencies rarely tip their hand this way by disclosing so much in an indictment; clearly they did so here to send messages.

Similarly, there’s an unmistakable message to the President and those around him.

Again from Ignatius …

The indictment also sends a message to President Trump and members of his entourage who are potential targets of Mueller’s probe: Here’s a hint of what we know; how much are you willing to wager that we don’t know a lot more about Russian contacts and collusion?

He concludes with this.

And here’s a spooky final question: How much has the intelligence community told Trump about its operations against Russia? If you were one of the American intelligence officers who helped gather the information that’s included in Friday’s indictment, what would you think about the fact that Trump has asked for a private meeting first with Putin?

[Pom]

Jul 16, 2018 8:39:04 GMT -5 WanderingWinoZ said:

Mueller was shockingly detailed in the Friday indictment- handing out lots of details about how much the FBI knows about Russian hacking...
could be a warning that the US knows more...

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/07/15/putin-must-wonder-what-else-america-knows-about-russia/?utm_term=.1cefcaef76af


And here’s a spooky final question: How much has the intelligence community told Trump about its operations against Russia? If you were one of the American intelligence officers who helped gather the information that’s included in Friday’s indictment, what would you think about the fact that Trump has asked for a private meeting first with Putin?

I don't understand the all-in MAGAT's screaming about orange foolius being a "True Patriot".  EVEN IF HE HAS DONE NOTHING WRONG, the optics of it are horrible. And, for NATIONAL SECURITY'S SAKE, CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE ANY OTHER POTUS OR POLITICIAN doing such an inept move? Rage, pure rage.

[WanderingWinoZ]

the 1 time Trump got mad at Putin...
Putin released a propaganda video showing how powerful Russia's nukes are & showed them hitting the US
this was back in March...he basically challenged PUtin to an arms race
www.axios.com/vladimir-putin-nuclear-video-enraged-trump-phone-call-537a6ac2-6ba9-472a-9bdd-b38c452b428d.html

Trump stayed publicly silent. But privately, he raged. He told aides he understood this was Putin playing up to the crowds for his election but even so it was "over the line," said a source familiar with Trump's private comments.

Trump lashed out at the Russian president in a phone call, according to sources with direct knowledge. A source with knowledge of the president's conversations with Putin told me this direct criticism from Trump was unprecedented in their recollection. "Usually it's a bit of a love fest," in their phone calls, the source said.

Then Trump added: "I’ve already increased defense spending, modernized our nuclear weapons...We can do more, so if you want to do an arms race you’ll lose."

[bowies]

The knowledge that our president is lovey dovey with an enemy of the West, an enemy that attacks us daily, makes me want to vomit.

[cous0226]

the Maggie thing made me laugh last night like why do you have to announce it? All she does is get defensive on there and then to other reporters, she has to add onto their story/tweets like she can't help herself. When she decides she is done with a fight, her line is "have a good one". She is very defensive on cable too.

[raangoli]

The baby Trump balloon is coming to NJ. I CANNOT WAIT:

www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/07/baby_trump_balloon_is_coming_to_new_jersey.html

[bowies]

Any theories on this press briefing? I’m guessing we have a new alliance and sanctions have been dropped.

[miniroller]

Jul 16, 2018 8:07:59 GMT -5 bex said:

Maggie Haberman probably should step away from twitter. She gets really mad on it.

It has become increasingly obvious that she has no interest in hearing (real) feedback or being questioned at all on her work.

*And yes, I get the irony of my commenting on a Twitter break, here 🤘

[miniroller]

Sorry, I swear I’m not going to go Tweet crazy but um, Russia agrees with #45 😟
Why aren’t people SCREAMING about this?!? #rhetorical

[suzyp]

Jul 16, 2018 9:21:41 GMT -5 bowies said:

Any theories on this press briefing? I’m guessing we have a new alliance and sanctions have been dropped.

Putin poisons him on live TV and declares that his take over the US is complete.

[Velar Fricative]

Jul 16, 2018 9:20:32 GMT -5 raangoli said:

The baby Trump balloon is coming to NJ. I CANNOT WAIT:

www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/07/baby_trump_balloon_is_coming_to_new_jersey.html

A friend on FB (who lives in NJ) changed her cover photo to a picture of the Trump balloon dragging Chris Christie in his beach chair and I died.

[mbcdefg]

Jul 16, 2018 9:20:32 GMT -5 raangoli said:

The baby Trump balloon is coming to NJ. I CANNOT WAIT:

www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/07/baby_trump_balloon_is_coming_to_new_jersey.html

[pitta12]

I'm hearing that a reporter from The Nation was removed from the briefing due to "heckling." Not clear what exactly happened.

[winecat]

Jul 16, 2018 10:08:25 GMT -5 pitta12 said:

I'm hearing that a reporter from The Nation was removed from the briefing due to "heckling." Not clear what exactly happened.

He had 8 x 11 inch signs that he was holding.  I couldn't catch what they said.

[audette]

Jul 16, 2018 10:08:25 GMT -5 pitta12 said:

I'm hearing that a reporter from The Nation was removed from the briefing due to "heckling." Not clear what exactly happened.

I've got MSNBC on.  He was escorted from the room, came back for his stuff, held up a sign with something written on it, and was forcibly dragged out.

The folks in the studio are saying that they were told he was heckling (how?  no official speeches were happening - neither president was in the room...).


MSNBC lost the audio from the room during the whole thing, though.  So no audio from their reporter there.

[ESF]

Jul 16, 2018 9:21:41 GMT -5 bowies said:

Any theories on this press briefing? I’m guessing we have a new alliance and sanctions have been dropped.

I just want to thank you for your new avatar.

[mbcdefg]

Jul 16, 2018 9:21:41 GMT -5 bowies said:

Any theories on this press briefing? I’m guessing we have a new alliance and sanctions have been dropped.

Alaska is traded away for some magic beans. 

Except they're not even beans. They're, like, someone's old kidney stones in a jar. 

[cous0226]

too bad the reporter didn't throw his shoe at him before he left. You know 45 does not have reflexes to move that quickly and it would have been awesome.

[pitta12]

Putin says that Russia wants to work with the US on cyber security, and also that the US and Russia will establish a working group of business leaders.

[chilerellanos]

Jul 16, 2018 10:20:28 GMT -5 pitta12 said:

Putin says that Russia wants to work with the US on cyber security, and also that the US and Russia will establish a working group of business leaders.

Sounds wise. I mean, they already know our computer systems better than we do!

[2curlydogs]

Jul 16, 2018 9:48:42 GMT -5 suzyp said:

Jul 16, 2018 9:21:41 GMT -5 bowies said:

Any theories on this press briefing? I’m guessing we have a new alliance and sanctions have been dropped.

Putin poisons him on live TV and declares that his take over the US is complete.

[raangoli]

Jul 16, 2018 10:01:49 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Jul 16, 2018 9:20:32 GMT -5 raangoli said:

The baby Trump balloon is coming to NJ. I CANNOT WAIT:

www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/07/baby_trump_balloon_is_coming_to_new_jersey.html

We should make this a GTG

[mbcdefg]

Jul 16, 2018 10:27:17 GMT -5 raangoli said:

Jul 16, 2018 10:01:49 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

We should make this a GTG

lol yes!

[mbcdefg]

 

Trump winked at Putin. 

[winecat]

45 still talking about HRC and how the Electoral College favors the Dems. JFC.

[winecat]

"We ran a brilliant campaign and that is why I am President." Motherfucker.

[pitta12]

45 is now stuck on the electoral college victory and repeating it over and over along with "no collusion" 4x now. Says "both countries" are to blame for tensions in the relationship and the US has been foolish, the Mueller probe is ridiculous, he ran a brilliant campaign and beat Hillary easily.