Paul Ryan scolds Trump: 'Russia is not our ally'

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Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
 
As I said today and many times before, “I have GREAT confidence in MY intelligence people.” However, I also recognize that in order to build a brighter future, we cannot exclusively focus on the past – as the world’s two largest nuclear powers, we must get along! #HELSINKI2018

2:40 PM - Jul 16, 2018

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Trump's intelligence agencies have earned no loyalty from anyone. 

We all know the Russia is the evil empire but most of us don't want a war with them.

Yup. Going in bellowing and threatening would have helped HOW?

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

Seems like Coats didn't particularly care for what he heard, today.

I'll sleep well tonight knowing that our DNI thinks we are a freaking democracy.

Okay, the scotch will probably help, too.

[Bigun]

I'll sleep well tonight knowing that our DNI thinks we are a freaking democracy.

Okay, the scotch will probably help, too.

He's heard it from every news reader in the country for his entire lifetime so why would he not believe it?

Pass the Scotch please!  I have a glass!

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I'll sleep well tonight knowing that our DNI thinks we are a freaking democracy.

Well, what do you expect?  He's a geezer.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), praised the selection of Coats for the national intelligence post. "It'll be great, he's one of my favorite people," McCain said. "I also like see these old geezers given another chance."

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Is anyone here interested in whether Clinton indeed did receive 400 million in laundered Russian money?

No?

No, according to the State Department.


State Dept: Russia’s allegations about American citizens ‘absolutely absurd'

"Well, I can't answer on behalf of the White House with regard to that," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said at a press briefing. "But what I can tell you is that the overall assertions that have come out of the Russian government are absolutely absurd. The fact that they want to question 11 American citizens and the assertions that the Russian government is making about those American citizens, we do not stand by those assertions that the Russian government makes."

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/397763-state-dept-russias-allegations-about-american-citizens-absolutely



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[skeeter]

No, according to the State Department.


State Dept: Russia’s allegations about American citizens ‘absolutely absurd'

"Well, I can't answer on behalf of the White House with regard to that," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said at a press briefing. "But what I can tell you is that the overall assertions that have come out of the Russian government are absolutely absurd. The fact that they want to question 11 American citizens and the assertions that the Russian government is making about those American citizens, we do not stand by those assertions that the Russian government makes."

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/397763-state-dept-russias-allegations-about-american-citizens-absolutely



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Does the State Dept think the charges themselves are absurd, or are they calling Putin's quid pro quo investigation proposal absurd?

She urged the Russians to pursue other options in their probe.

“Instead, we continue to urge Russian authorities to work with the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue those in Russia who in fact perpetrated the fraud scheme that Russia refers to — that targeted not only Mr. Browder but also his company and others, and also the Russian people as a whole,” Nauert said.

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Does the State Dept think the charges themselves are absurd, or are they calling Putin's quid pro quo investigation proposal absurd?

Unless I'm misreading it, she believes the people the Russians should be investigating are Russians - not Americans.

[skeeter]

Unless I'm misreading it, she believes the people the Russians should be investigating are Russians - not Americans.

Alright, so she isn't saying Putin's assertion is absurd.

And I guess its true no one is interested in the veracity of his charge. But they should be.

[edpc]

And then, there's this.......


THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, Vladimir Putin, dashed the hopes of conspiracy theorists across America on Tuesday by withdrawing the startling claim he made the day before in Helsinki, that Hillary Clinton’s campaign had received $400 million in donations from investors accused of tax evasion in Russia.

What he had intended to say, according to a Russian government spokesperson, was that business associates of the U.S.-born investor William Browder had donated $400,000 to Clinton’s campaign.

https://theintercept.com/2018/07/18/putin-says-misspoke-withdrawing-claim-clinton-got-millions-stolen-russia/

[Chosen Daughter]

And then, there's this.......


THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, Vladimir Putin, dashed the hopes of conspiracy theorists across America on Tuesday by withdrawing the startling claim he made the day before in Helsinki, that Hillary Clinton’s campaign had received $400 million in donations from investors accused of tax evasion in Russia.

What he had intended to say, according to a Russian government spokesperson, was that business associates of the U.S.-born investor William Browder had donated $400,000 to Clinton’s campaign.

https://theintercept.com/2018/07/18/putin-says-misspoke-withdrawing-claim-clinton-got-millions-stolen-russia/

See a pattern here?  I gave you a present and you gave me one.  You took yours back and so will I.

Seems there was some heavy duty conspiring going on in that meeting.