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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 12:21 PM Feb 2017

Donald Trump is panicking

Late Tuesday night, The New York Times reported that members of Trump’s campaign had been in contact with Russian intelligence officials “in the year before the election.”

The story has many caveats—it’s unclear, for instance, if they were aware that they were speaking to Russian intelligence officials, or if they had been infiltrated—but it’s a bombshell nevertheless.

Trump and his team have tried to bury the Russia story by saying that it was cooked up by the sore losers in Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party. But between the recent revelations of Michael Flynn’s repeated contact with the Russian ambassador and this report, it’s clear that Trump’s campaign was in contact with Russian intelligence officials while Russia was allegedly working with WikiLeaks to seriously damage Clinton’s campaign.

Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager who is the only campaign official named in the Times report, pled incompetence in the funniest way possible:

This is absurd. I have no idea what this is referring to. I have never knowingly spoken to Russian intelligence officers, and I have never been involved with anything to do with the Russian government or the Putin administration or any other issues under investigation today.... It’s not like these people wear badges that say, “I’m a Russian intelligence officer.”

Trump tends to melt down on Twitter when things are going poorly for him, and that’s exactly what he did on Wednesday morning.

None of these tweets are denials.

Instead, Trump frantically bounces from one possible culprit to another.

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/140647/donald-trump-panicking

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Donald Trump is panicking (Original Post) workinclasszero Feb 2017 OP
heh...I read this at first as he is "packing" anarch Feb 2017 #1
LOL workinclasszero Feb 2017 #2
They knew. BainsBane Feb 2017 #3
I think it's interesting that in his tweet storm workinclasszero Feb 2017 #5
If Twitler is worried about a trial BainsBane Feb 2017 #6
He thinks in tweets workinclasszero Feb 2017 #8
Good. coco22 Feb 2017 #4
Its not like these people wear badges that say, Im a Russian intelligence officer. forgotmylogin Feb 2017 #7
45 has surrounded himself with idiots workinclasszero Feb 2017 #10
To me they seem to think the world is still like it was in the 80s. nt logosoco Feb 2017 #9
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
5. I think it's interesting that in his tweet storm
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 12:38 PM
Feb 2017

45 did not directly deny contact with Russian intel.

Is BLOTUS covering his ass for a future trial maybe?

forgotmylogin

(7,528 posts)
7. Its not like these people wear badges that say, Im a Russian intelligence officer.
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 12:46 PM
Feb 2017

Even if you were duped, that does not absolve guilt.

We like officials who are smarter than that.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
10. 45 has surrounded himself with idiots
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 03:04 PM
Feb 2017

Because they can't be smarter than the boss, it would bruise the special snowflake's gigantic, two year old, ego.

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