Trump repudiates U.S. intelligence community by according equal weight to Putin (WP)

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By Greg Miller and Shane Harris
July 16 at 5:33 PM

HELSINKI — U.S. officials had only days earlier released some of the most detailed intelligence on Russia that America’s spies have ever allowed the public to see: Information on bitcoin deposits, names of cyber operatives, even a description of a keyboard used to hack the 2016 U.S. election campaign. Then the nation’s top intelligence official warned that Russia’s cyber intrusions were not only real but have continued unabated.

None of it has been enough to convince President Trump to believe his government over the claims of the Kremlin.

In an astonishing repudiation of U.S. intelligence services and the American system of justice, Trump used a stage he shared with Russian President Vladimir Putin — in a Finnish palace packed with international journalists — to voice breathtaking doubts about the case against Moscow and renew his attacks on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

Questioned about Russia’s attack, Trump said, “I don’t see any reason why” Moscow would have even attempted to intervene in the 2016 campaign.

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[Sophia4]

1. Trump has not read Mueller's indictment of the Russian conspirators against the US.

The details in that indictment are amazing.

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3. Rosenstein personally briefed Trump on the indictment. Sounds like he stuck his fingers in his ears

and refused to listen.

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2. More: "I think that's an incredible offer"

At one point, Putin seemed to be mocking the United States — offering to help American investigators pursue their theories about Russian culpability, while imposing a condition that he knew the United States could never abide.

Putin said members of Mueller’s team could travel to Moscow and be permitted to witness Russian authorities question the defendants named in the latest U.S. indictment. “This kind of effort should be a mutual one,” Putin said, meaning that Russia would then expect to be granted entry to the United States to take part in questioning of CIA officers and others that the Kremlin suspects of interfering in Russian affairs.

Trump leaped at the proposal. “What he did is an incredible offer,” Trump said. “I think that’s an incredible offer.”

[Sophia4]

4. I think Republicans will have to impeach Trump for treason.

What is the alternative?