Putin points at journalists and asks Trump 'are these the ones hurting you?' during press conference

[inanna]

Source: Independent

Emily Shugerman New York
2 hours ago

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin kicked off their highly anticipated one-one-one meeting by trading disparaging comments about the reporters gathered to cover it.

At a photo op before their private G20 summit meeting, the Russian President leaned in to Mr Trump, gestured to the journalists in the room, and asked: "These are the ones hurting you?”

"These are the ones. You're right about that,” Mr Trump responded.

Mr Putin appeared to be commiserating with Mr Trump on complaints that the media is “attacking” him. The President has repeatedly accused the news media of reporting falsely on his administration, referring to them as “fake news” and “the enemy of the American people”.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world-0/us-politics/trump-putin-press-journalists-meeting-russia-president-points-which-ones-insulting-you-a7830046.html

[Purveyor]

1. I was wondering what that exchange was all about. Thanks for posting. eom

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Journalists will be poisoned, killed, or have their personal lives made so impossible they

quit.

This time next year journalism will be the most dangerous job on any list of dangerous jobs.

It really is over folks. I wish we could form a group that wants to figure out how to survive, not preppers, per se, but something.

[Sunlei]

7. well over 100 journalists were killed in past year, hundreds more have been jailed & hurt.

[joshdawg]

29. But if these "news" people worked for fox,

they get a free pass. Go figure.
According to drumpf, only fox is "real news."

[Sunlei]

30. Republicans fox buys or uses "News" from REAL Journalists- they're just tabloid TV "personalities".

fox is just an arm of the Republican Party, highly scripted propaganda.

[Hortensis]

21. WHAT? This was in profoundly, viciously bad taste,

our flabby orange pudding of a "president" is appalling, but imo your surrender is...extremely premature.

[KT2000]

3. that was daddy

playing the tough guy for his little boy.

[Sunlei]

9. Russian media reported trump bitched to Putin about Americas press questions. puffy crying eyes!!

[Docreed2003]

4. Unbelievable...

So it's totally acceptable now for a US President to shit on the American press overseas and for a foreign leader to do the same under encouragement from our President? We are under full frontal authoritarian assault in this country.

[Sunlei]

5. you pat my spying ass, I'll protect your t(R)easonous ass from Americans questions- trumpie dear.

[retrowire]

6. If I were a journalist in that group, my heart would hit the floor.

Just... Oh my god.

[EX500rider]

10. Yeah no kidding..

....getting on Putin's radar as "undesirable" is a bad health move. Only a few steps above being on Stalin's shit list.. Like time to die your hair, switch passports and get off the radar & go underground.

[inanna]

11. Exactly!

[salin]

16. Sure sounded like a threat given how critics in Russia's press

can wind up. Ominous.

[LaydeeBug]

8. Holy shit! when I read that yday, I thought it was a *joke*, like the Onion. nt

[dhill926]

12. same here....jesus christ.....

[OldRedneck]

13. So . . .

So . . . when the reporters who were in the room start falling from 10th-story windows, dying in wrecks, mysteriously inhaling poison gas . . .

[bora13]

14. journalist #1

Putin barked to tRump, "Have journalist #1 shot!"

[Botany]

15. Fucking mob

n/t

[Solly Mack]

17. K&R

[xor]

18. Was Putin mocking Trump or was he being serious?

Either way, this is so messed up.

[ekelly]

19. I'm not sure how to read it.

Knowing that Trump's huge ego wouldn't allow him to recognize it as mockery, did Putin slyly make Trump look like a weak, whiny baby on the world stage?

Did Putin purposely want the world (and more importantly, the USA) to see Trump commiserating about the mean press with the man who has journalists killed?

[Judi Lynn]

22. Seems as if he was discreetly pointing out the awkward position Dump has created for himself.

He sounds like a big brother or a mother coming to a child's side for moral support against bullies.

It actually makes Dump look very weak, and helpless, and causes you to realize how much howling he has really done, trying to summons more hatred and violence from his herd of violent half-wits.

Donald wants to fix it so only the sound of Fux "News" is heard, the only voices are shrieking his praises, and all the little dollies sold in the stores of the world look like Ivanka.

[JI7]

27. both

[Oneironaut]

20. P and Pauly Fucknuts discuss their next hit.

[yurbud]

23. sounds like Putin was mocking him and he was too stupid to notice

[Doug the Dem]

24. Daddy talks to 9-Year Old Daughter

Daughter points out the mean girls. Jesus!

[B Stieg]

25. President Mr. Trump had better remember that...

when you cross this guy Putin, you end up dead.

Gee, if he only had a country to protect him!?

Can you say, "polonium?" I knew you could! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko)

[Historic NY]

26. Yes, daddy they are the bad people.

[Achilleaze]

28. Beware to the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

...and his rage at anyone who tells the truth

[RussBLib]

31. so keep an eye out for mysterious circumstances of their deaths

these days, however, there seem to be conspiracy theories about conspiracy theories

[0rganism]

32. are these the mean people making you sad? and they gave you a boo-boo?

come over here, Donny, so uncle Vlad can make it all better, you big strong man
now KNEEL BEFORE ZOD

[Hieronymus]

33. In case there was any doubt that Putin ..

has Trump by the balls.