Trump rushes into damage control, blames media, recasts comment

[Demovictory9]

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/13/trump-tweet-interference-1363403

Trump rushes into damage control after saying he’d accept foreign help in 2020
The president, who said he talks to foreign leaders every day, turned to his familiar tactic of blaming the media.

President Donald Trump and his senior advisers moved quickly on Thursday to downplay and muddle his explosive assertion that he might not report to the FBI offers of election help from a foreign entity.

As Trump's Democratic opponents eviscerated him and one of his leading Republican supporters called his comments a "mistake," the president tried to recast his remarks, drawing a misleading comparison between accepting dirt from a foreign agent and his recent conversations with Queen Elizabeth and other world leaders.


“I meet and talk to ‘foreign governments’ every day. I just met with the Queen of England (U.K.), the Prince of Wales, the P.M. of the United Kingdom, the P.M. of Ireland, the President of France and the President of Poland. We talked about ‘Everything!’” Trump wrote on Twitter across a pair of tweets, correcting an initial misspelling of Wales. “Should I immediately call the FBI about these calls and meetings? How ridiculous! I would never be trusted again.”

Every president regularly communicates with other heads of state. Accepting negative information from a foreign agent about a campaign opponent is a different matter, however. It is a crime for a campaign to solicit or accept something of value from a foreign entity, which some lawyers say could apply to information.

[Botany]

1. I wondered how Trump would try to walk back his I would take help from Russia "thing."

Trump admitted to a crime in saying he would take outside for his campaign and that he
wouldn't tell the FBI because it is illegal for a campaign to take anything of value from
a foreign government and that in 2016 the FBI told Trump and his campaign that if and
when the Russians tried to contact them to call the FBI ASAP.

Fucking crook.

Trump has publicly admitted to knowing about the "Russian help" in 2016

https://ijr.com/trump-says-donald-trump-jr-called-him-before-trump-tower-meeting/

Trump Admits Donald Trump Jr Called Him Before the Trump Tower Meeting With Russian Lawyer

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. tRump asked on camera for Russian help at a rally in 2016. . . . nt

[Botany]

8. Trump has also admitted to Russia helping him elected too. Late May 2019.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/30/trump-briefly-acknowledges-that-russia-aided-his-election-falsely-says-he-didnt-help-effort/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9bc6fcb6a12c

“Russia, Russia, Russia! That’s all you heard at the beginning of this Witch Hunt Hoax,” Trump wrote. “And now Russia has disappeared because I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected. It was a crime that didn’t exist.”


So we have Trump knowing about the Trump Tower meeting w/the Russians in 2016, Trump asking for Russia
to hack into HRC's emails in 2016, Trump admitting to get Russian help to win the election, and now Donny is
on record as saying he would take Russian help again. Impeach his ass already.

[democratisphere]

2. drumpf wanted to retoss his word salad so that everyone would understand

what he really meant.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Ya think?

"I know you think you understand what I said, but I'm not sure that what you heard was exactly what I meant."

[Timmygoat]

4. Just asking

I wonder how many people (like myself) have often thought that they could not hate Trump any more than they do. Then, they find out that yes they can, I do not like the feeling but I think I hate him more each day!

[Scarsdale]

5. I agree with you.

When his ugly orange face shows up on any screen I say to myself "He is a total arse". I am ashamed that he is in the WH, along with his despicable family. The British royals managed to avoid having photos taken with this family. They do not want to appear in any ads. for tRump properties, or campaigns. He is despised worldwide, except in Russia and China. They just laugh at him, he is so uncouth, uneducated, clueless, classless. Every gop member took Russian money for their campaign coffers. So, every one of them broke the law, and they are afraid that will be exposed. Meanwhile, time passes and the next campaign gets closer. The voting machines need to be totally overhauled, to avoid tampering. The gop depends on dirty tricks to "win" elections. The dirtiest of their dirty tricks is now in the WH.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Don't hate; it is toxic. Replace it with cold loathing; more powerful, less blinded . . . nt

[ooky]

9. I have a growing list.

Trump and McConnell at the top. I haven't forgotten Paul Ryan either. McCarthy. Jordan, Gaetz, and Collins every time I see them grandstanding at a hearing. Graham! What an asswipe! Various Fox News assholes, the lying Huckabees, and I could just go on and on. I hate their fucking guts.

[duforsure]

10. His pattern is clearly showing he conspired

And admitting it claiming it's ok to do, when it's a federal crime, and treasonous. The exposing of it he knows is about to get him in serious trouble, and again shows he' s a serial liar and a criminal.

[Fullduplexxx]

11. He said prince of whales