MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser has told an international audience that the evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 American election is beyond dispute.
H.R. McMaster was answering a question from a Russian delegate, shortly after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov left the same stage at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
Referring to the indictment of 13 Russians announced Friday, McMaster says “with the FBI indictment, the evidence is now incontrovertible” of Russia cyber-meddling.
He also scoffed at any move to work with Russia on cybersecurity, saying “we would love to have a cyber dialogue when Russia is sincere about curtailing its sophisticated form of espionage.”
Lavrov, just moments earlier, had dismissed the indictments as “just blabber” through an interpreter.
the interpreter must have misunderstood, “just blabber” is Trump’s response to the indictments.
I thought blabber was a description of Trump?
Well, that “blabber” is going to take down a bigly yuge pile of orange blubber.
There are five possible pieces to this: 1) False stuff created by Russia (troll farm indictment); 2) DNC/Podesta hack and Wikileaks dump; 3) Clandestine meetings with Russians (that post-election Trump and Russians only Oval Office meeting still infuriates me - thumb in the eye to patriotic Americans); 4) Targeting efforts related to Cambridge Analytica; and 5) Direct interference in the vote recording and counting process.
The troll farm indictments could help clarify obstruction of justice charges related to Trump. It could be that the Trump campaign did not collude or conspire with Russia, but found out about the Russian efforts to elect Trump during or after the election, and because Trump did not want his victory marred, he attempted to cover up the Russian contributions.
And none of this adequately addresses decades of Trump connections to Russia that might involve money laundering and further attempts at cover-up. It would be ironic if the finding out about Russian efforts during the election by Trump precipitated a cover-up simply because Trump the narcissist will not accept a tainted victory and that cover-up in turn led to the uncovering of Trump’s much bigger crime of money laundering.
A lot yet to be sorted out.
Their money laundering and pee hooker diplomacy is world class and should continue unchecked.