Trump Says He Wanted to Share Terrorism Facts With Russia

[brooklynite]

Source: Bloomberg

"As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety. Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against ISIS & terrorism," President Trump says on Twitter.

NOTE: Trump comments amid criticism from fellow Republicans after Washington Post reported that he revealed to Russia’s foreign minister and ambassador highly classified information from a U.S. intelligence partner about an Islamic State plot

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/trackers/2017-05-16/trump-defends-russia-remarks-amid-disclosure-criticism-in-tweets

[HopeAgain]

1. So they have moved from denial to justification?

[Eugene]

3. You beat me to it.

Keeping up with Trump's spin of the facts is mission impossible for his staff.

[oberliner]

9. The WH spinners tried to spin, but Trump tweets the truth

He can't control himself.

[leftynyc]

17. And he throws

another administration official under the bus in the process. McMaster should quit.

[Towlie]

14. Reminds me of an old Bill Cosby story...

You know, the one where the shop teacher tells the class that whoever put the bullet in the furnace must have a terrible mother, and the guilty kid says "I didn't put no bullet in the furnace and quit talking about my mother!"

You can't have it both ways.

[PatSeg]

18. Yes and in a blink of an eye

[Kablooie]

25. Not they. He.

[Botany]

2. No Donny you wanted to show off for your boss, the Russians.

And in doing so you burned and outed an ally secret agents (Isreal I think) to
Russia, Syria, Iran, ISIS, and al Qaeda. The word is Treason.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. No, he wanted to deliver paydirt to his Russian handlers and operatives. . . . nt

[dalton99a]

15. Yep, the idiot is a 'showboat'

[rurallib]

4. you know its a lie because Benedict Donald doesn't have any facts

[aeromanKC]

6. Um, Trump knows that the Russians are the enemy..??

Right!!??

[truthisfreedom]

7. "And I was tired of leaking from behind. So I got

Out in front of it, as leaker of the free world, to show what true leakageship is..."

[MBS]

8. Terrifying

to have a man this incompetent, this unstable, this insecure, this ignorant, and, above all, this empty, in the White House.
Things just can't go on like this.

[IronLionZion]

10. Brazenly daring us to do something about it

[Zoonart]

13. Exactly right.

What will it take? Really...what will it have to be?
Are we going to wait until he tries to sell the nuclear codes on eBay to make the billionaire tax cuts budget neutral?

[Ligyron]

11. Hey, Trump has to give his Russian Masters something once in awhile.

Otherwise, they may start calling in the loans they gave him. If they repossess Trump Tower maybe they'll rename it Putin Palace.

[SunSeeker]

12. What source in their right mind would ever confide in us again?

[Sunlei]

16. Russia helps Assad exterminate thousands of people and the disgusting Republican laughs /w slobs.

[George II]

19. But McMaster, et. al., came out and said he didn't do it! Which is it donnie?

[cstanleytech]

20. Ya know until they find a way to keep this idiot off twitter the varies

pharmaceutical companies profits are going to keep climbing due to everyone that works in the Whitehouse having to buy things like aspirin, ibuprofen and varies heartburn and ulcer medications in bulk since he contradicts almost everything they say is official almost immediately.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Thrives on limelight, projection, hypocrisy, irony

The first three need no amplification, mentioned everywhere these many months

Irony in the sense of all his concern for FAKE NEWS, so he leaks hard facts and
then denies it with FAKE NEWS in the form of denials by his handlers

This is one loose cannon, these tacts are ingrained and used to confuse and roil
opponents to grab dominance, control, power, advantage

and all feed his need for attention, adulation, spotlight, primacy

It's a personality thing

[displacedtexan]

22. For this version of events to be true...

Why would TrumpCo have kept the inclusion of the Russian Ambassador a secret? The only reason we know he was there is because of the UNVETTED RUSSIAN GOV'T. PHOTOGRAPHER allowed to document the meeting with cool snaps of smiling co-conspirators.

Let's recap: Trump sneaks the Russian ambassador into the White House and bans American reporters... but allows a Russian gov't. guy; he sends out McMaster to read an obviously false accusation against the press; and when that doesn't work, his minions spend all night fabricating an oh-so-serious reason for why the meeting took place because terrorism, not bragging.

Sure. Everyone's gonna fall for the umteenth time he cries wolf. </snark>

[Shell_Seas]

23. Calm down, people.

The King of America can do whatever he wants. OK? He doesn't need to explain anything to anyone. After all, he is the King.

[Kablooie]

24. Over on breitbart...

All they see is that he had a right to do this and we must catch the leakers.
Most of the posts were accusing Democrats of doing much worse things.
Some even were going back to the Shah Of Iran as justification.

Blinders on.
It read as if their minds have really turned to mush.

[C_U_L8R]

26. How's Mossad feel about that?

[QC]

27. "I meant to do that."

[librechik]

28. next :"I want to appoint a horse to the Senate"

slow down, Caligula. We all want a pony. Mine is called "Impeach"

[spiderpig]

29. Now MSNBC is saying they're trotting out McMaster at 11:30ET

Jeez. I can't keep up, and I'm retired with unlimited leisure time.

[.99center]

30. According to Mattis and other brass in our military, Russia is supporting terrorism in Afghanistan

Why aren't we seeing resignations after this. At this point, anyone who briefs the president on classified information, is knowingly handing it over to Putin. It looks like Trump's loyalty pledge is more important than our national security.

[mahina]

31. He wanted to feel important. He needs that.

Go be important in prison, asap.