Breaking : Trump: Putin preferred Clinton in the White House

[sunonmars]

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/341701-trump-putin-preferred-clinton-in-the-white-house

President Trump said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would have been happier with his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, in the White House.

“If Hillary had won, our military would be decimated. Our energy would be much more expensive. That's what Putin doesn't like about me,” Trump said in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson.

“And that's why I say, why would he want me? Because from day one I wanted a strong military — he doesn't want to see that,” the president added.

Trump's comments come a day after emails reported by the New York Times showed Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., agreeing to a 2016 meeting where he was promised damaging information on Clinton as "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump."


In the CBN interview, Trump claimed Putin “probably” did not want him to become president because of his push to expand U.S. oil and gas production, which he said could hurt Russian energy exports.
“So what I keep hearing about that he would have rather had Trump, I think 'probably not,’” he said.

Trump appeared to be push back on the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help him and hurt Clinton.

The president has not definitively accepted that conclusion. He has said that Russia, but also other countries, may have been responsible for hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and exposing them to the public.

The comments came after Trump met Putin for the first time as president last week in the Group of 20 summit in Germany. The president’s advisers have said he pushed the Russian leader on hacking.

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We have now officially jumped the effing shark.....

[onecaliberal]

1. I don't know how he doesn't just spontaneously combust.

[lapfog_1]

2. more like we rode an escalator over the shark

[HopeAgain]

3. 40% of America will take that as gospel

All he has to do is throw out a crazy statement like that for the RW media to amplify and more than a third of Americans will believe it to be true.
The real problem we face is growing American ignorance.

[RKP5637]

4. This guy is so far off his rocker! And he's the president. A total WTF. n/t

[BeyondGeography]

5. "And now, I must go resume my search for the real killers."

[lib-ruhl]

8. After a Hands-On session with supporters.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. This just in: Actress Jennifer Lawrence has been asked to comment on Trump's claim.

[Kleveland]

7. Even the feastest and "bigliest" spinning top falls over eventually.

And boy, is that the most incredible spin I have heard in a while!

Seriously Looneu Tunes!

[Leith]

9. He Is Full of Shit

Putin hates HRC and he sent his bot armies out to do whatever they could do bash her and praise him. Anything left in the US that still works after pino gets done with it will be under Pooty's control.

[BannonsLiver]

10. Pretty sure Pat Robertson is a zombie at this point

The man is at least 100 years old and doesn't seem to have an expiration date.

[Gothmog]

11. Putin hates Clinton due to 2011 election

[Gothmog]

12. 'Putin hates Clinton' and other things FBI knows about Russia😱

[rurallib]

13. Trump and Robertson - the world's biggest liars

maybe they are having a contest to see who can tell the biggest lie and get away with it.

[Gothmog]

14. Why Putin hates Hillary

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/clinton-putin-226153

[Mrs. Overall]

15. Didn't he continuously say that Clinton would start a nuclear war with Russia?

I swear that while he was running for office, he always said that he would work things out with Russia, while Clinton would lead us into a war with Russia.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

16. As the WSJ reported today, what everyone else knows (or admits to) but the idiot-in-chief and his

lawyer:

In June 2016, officials at the Democratic National Committee revealed that their computer networks had been penetrated by hackers, whom the FBI and intelligence agencies later determined worked for the Russian intelligence services. Emails taken in those incursions subsequently were published by WikiLeaks, and in October, the site released emails that had been stolen from Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta.

At that point, intelligence officials had little doubt that the Russian government was attempting to interfere in the presidential elections. By the end of 2016, they concluded publicly that the Russian hacking campaign was meant to undermine Mrs. Clinton and help Mr. Trump.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-officials-overheard-discussing-trump-associates-before-campaign-began-1499890354

[Thomas Hurt]

17. Donnie is a closet Putin hater. Who knew?

I guess that means that the Trump leg humpers are gong to have adjust attitude toward Russia.

Dear Leader is now a Russia Hawk!