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Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand 5m5 minutes agoTrump says he and Putin "spent a great deal of time talking about" Russia's election interference. "Putin feels very strongly about it and he has an interesting idea." ...what?
Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand 13m13 minutes ago
Putin says Trump "mentioned the issue of the so-called interference. I had to reiterate things I said several times, including that the Russian state has never interfered." Says they should revisit the idea of a joint working group on cyber security.
here's Trump a year ago:
twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1018130296791797760
...so this was Putin's idea, all along, and Trump is obligingly parroting it.
Putin's mouthpiece.
Meadowoak
(5,517 posts)dalton99a
(81,073 posts)RKP5637
(67,032 posts)plan to destroy the US and bring it under some joint Russia-US authoritarian rule. These are totally uncharted times. Every day is another WTF!!!
bigtree
(85,919 posts)Maryland elections company bought by Russian oligarch close to Putin
A company that provides key services for Maryland elections has been bought by a parent company with links to a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, state officials said on Friday after a briefing a day earlier from the FBI.
Maryland officials spoke hours after the US justice department released a grand jury indictment against 12 Russian military intelligence officers for computer hacking offenses during the 2016 US election, which US intelligence agencies agree Moscow sought to influence in favor of Donald Trump.
Senate president Thomas V Mike Miller and House speaker Michael Busch made the announcement at a news conference in the Maryland State House in Annapolis, a gathering that included staff members of Governor Larry Hogan...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/14/maryland-elections-company-russian-oligarch-putin
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)RKP5637
(67,032 posts)GOP wins well into the future with shenanigans such as this.
...a Democratic majority will split this thing wide open.