President Donald Trump told top Russian officials that he wasn’t concerned about the Kremlin’s election hacking of the 2016 elections, according to the Washington Post.
Three unnamed former officials told the Post that Trump had made the comments during his 2017 meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Trump reportedly told them that he wasn’t worried about Russia’s interference in the elections, arguing that the U.S. does the same to other countries.
It was the same meeting in which Trump bragged about firing “crazy” former FBI Director James Comey because “I faced great pressure because of Russia.”
The meeting was also closed off to all press except for Russian’s state-owned media outlets.
According to the Post, very few officials were given notes on the meeting in order to prevent Trump’s remarks to Lavrov and Kislyak from being leaked.
I am shocked, shocked, I tell you.
Every GOP Senator should have to answer to this and if they agree with Trump or not. If not, then what are they doing about it.
Trump has always ruled by fear alone, not love and most certainly not respect. It appears, by the hour, he is less and less feared by his own people. As such, I expect many more of these stories to break and pretty rapidly at that.
They say you meet the same people on the way up as you do on the way down. I hope Trump, however, meets some new people. Mainly wardens and prison guards.
In a strange sort of way this is adding insult to injury.