In White House meetings in recent months, President Trump has attempted to downplay the significance of Russian election interference to his own aides, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
In a recent meeting, Trump harped on the fact that Russian meddling didn’t change individual votes — which has not been suggested by his advisers — and repeatedly told aides that his 2016 campaign wasn’t “hacked.” In the summer of 2018, aides asked Trump if they could begin talking about Russian meddling ahead of the midterms in order to heighten awareness of the issue. Trump agreed, but with the caveat that aides make it clear that Russian interference did not change the outcome of the election.
It’s so well known that Trump doesn’t want to talk about Russian meddling that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen not to bring up the issue to Trump, as the New York Times reported last week. In two separate meetings around the midterms, when Nielsen tried to raise the issue, Trump diverted the conversation to immigration issues.
Trump’s Constitutional oath means nothing to him.
"repeatedly told aides that his 2016 campaign wasn’t “hacked.”
You know something is untrue when Trump repeats it.
Say WHAT? Right now, in the United States, there are thousands of people who are very much under the impression that Russians changed vote totals. This has been a thing for some time. And here’s why:
Charlie Pierce: It increasingly looks like Russian hackers may have affected actual vote totals.
Please.
I’m sorry but that picture looks like a bona fide crazy person. I need about 2 more cups of coffee this morning before I can comment intelligently about that fucking moron. His blubbering bullshit really wears me down and it takes a lot more caffeine these days to force myself to wake up to this shit…
WE HAVE GOT TO GET RID OF HIM. VOTE HIM OUT, MAKE HIM STAND TRIAL AND SEND HIM TO JAIL WHERE HE BELONGS, AMERICA.
Pa-leeeeeze.
Was someone translating his comments into Russian so everyone understood?