In a joint press conference after a one-on-one meeting, Russian Vladimir Putin, standing next to President Donald Trump, addressed the “so-called” Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election on Monday, saying that Russia had never and would never tamper with American internal affairs.
Putin went on to offer his assistance in analyzing any “specific material” pertaining to Russian meddling that may come to light.
“Any specific material, if such things arise, we are ready to analyze together,” he said. “For instance, we can analyze them through the joint working group on cyber security, the establishment of which we discussed during our previous contacts.”
Trump addressed the election tampering in his opening comments as well, saying that “President Putin may very well want to address it and very strongly, because he feels strongly about it. He has an interesting idea.” He did not elaborate on the idea.
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No Vlad we don’t need your ‘help’ analyzing. We call that putting the fox in the hen house. You are a crook, a terrorist and a murderer. WE see you even if Donnie doesn’t.
My fellow Americans. Good news. I just entered into an agreement with the Fox to have him analyze the evidence concerning recent raids on the hen house.
That is just straight-up trolling. Laughing in everyone’s face.
JFC, the IC will just love the idea of sharing this info with the Russians so the Russians can figure out how we got it.
As stupid as I thought Spankee is, I now have to turn it way past 11.
ETA: Spankee is either a) that stupid, b) that complicit, or c) a and b. Mrs dont votes c.
Putin: “Share with me all your sources and methods for monitoring our intelligence agencies’ psy-ops, particularly with respect to our ongoing efforts to co-opt your democracy by exploiting white Christian nationalism and your burgeoning plutocracy.”
Trump: “Ok.”