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Botany

(70,483 posts)
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 05:47 PM Jul 2018

Every time Trump called the link of Russia/2016 elections "fake news" or "a witch hunt" he was lying

BTW I already heard that somebody else wrote a piece about this earlier today and I am
totally stealing his subject. Please post a link if you know who was the author of that idea.


"Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the 2016 American election."


Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the 2016 American election.

The evidence included texts and emails from Russian military officers and information gleaned from a top-secret source close to Mr. Putin, who had described to the C.I.A. how the Kremlin decided to execute its campaign of hacking and disinformation.

Mr. Trump sounded grudgingly convinced, according to several people who attended the intelligence briefing. But ever since, Mr. Trump has tried to cloud the very clear findings that he received on Jan. 6, 2017, which his own intelligence leaders have unanimously endorsed.

The shifting narrative underscores the degree to which Mr. Trump regularly picks and chooses intelligence to suit his political purposes. That has never been more clear than this week.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/world/europe/trump-intelligence-russian-election-meddling-.html

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Every time Trump called the link of Russia/2016 elections "fake news" or "a witch hunt" he was lying (Original Post) Botany Jul 2018 OP
Truth and facts do not exist in Trumplandia. VOX Jul 2018 #1

VOX

(22,976 posts)
1. Truth and facts do not exist in Trumplandia.
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 05:54 PM
Jul 2018

Or, for that matter, in Republicanism than denies science, and reason, and human rights, and has a 24/7 state "news" network at its disposal.

EVERY WORD out of 45's orange yap is a fucking LIE.

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