HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is adding her name to the list of high-ranking Democrats who are demanding that President Donald Trump confront Russian leader Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s election meddling.
Pelosi says in a statement Thursday that Trump needs to tell Putin the United States will not tolerate any further interference in U.S. campaigns.
Pelosi’s statement came after Trump spoke in Warsaw, Poland, a day ahead of his first face-to-face meeting with Putin. Trump says Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election, but has repeated his assertion that “other countries” may have done the same.
Top Senate Democrats told Trump in a letter that it would be “severe dereliction” of his presidential duty if he failed to confront Putin over Moscow’s meddling.
Stop being nice and polite Nancy - your message should be that Trump is too big of a loser to stand up to Putin about election interference.
I could not agree more. In fact, I think Trump should threaten Putin with additional serious sanctions (eg. closing Russian Banks in the U.S., freezing assets, etc). But I seriously doubt that Trump has the cojones to do any of these things, much less to confront Putin over anything.
Trump is proving himself to be an absolute chicken-sh*t.
Hard to say that to the guy you owe 100s of millions to and who has you by the tiny ball sacks with barbed wire. (And pee pee tapes)
And got you elected…
This is the correct approach. Making demands one cannot enforce only makes you look weak. The appropriate angle is to show how Trump is weak: he’s afraid to stand up to Putin, owned by Putin, etc. Any narrative that describes exactly Trump’s impotence in the face of a national threat.
Bingo!!! That’s how it’s done.