Sen. Kaine: "Something Very Unusual, Even Sort of Suspicious" About Trump Trashing U.S. Intel

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...regarding Russia.

CNN Politics ‏@CNNPolitics 35m35 minutes ago
Sen. Tim Kaine: Why is Donald Trump acting like Russian President Vladimir Putin's "defense lawyer”? http://cnn.it/2jdYiNM

(CNN)Sen. Tim Kaine on Thursday criticized President-elect Donald Trump, alleging he is acting like Russian President Vladimir Putin's "defense lawyer" and calling Trump's conduct "suspicious."

"Why does President-elect Trump again and again and again take it upon himself to be Vladimir Putin's defense lawyer rather than listening to and respecting the intelligence professionals of the United States," Kaine told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day" in his first national interview since the 2016 presidential election.

The former Democratic vice presidential nominee, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee which is hold a hearing on hacking Thursday, said that even if Trump believes Russia can be America's ally in the fight against ISIS, he doesn't have to "trash" American intelligence professionals in the process.

"There is something very unusual -- indeed, even sort of suspicious -- about the degree to which he casually kicks aside the intelligence community when he won't even go to the briefings again and again and takes the Assange/Vladimir Putin line on this important question" about whether Russian was behind the election-related hacks, Kaine said.

read: http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/politics/kaine-trump-putin-defense-lawyer/index.html?sr=twpol010517kaine-trump-putin-defense-lawyer0231PMVODtopLink&linkId=33042838

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1. The Putin Russian mafia is holding all of Trumps debt

You will never see the Don without the presence of one of Putins' goons at his side.
He is their little poodle now.

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2. I also have to wonder about those reports of Russian contacts w/Trump campaign officials

...as well as the trips to Russia by Trump Jr., and his associations with Russian politicos.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Pooty poo probably has the shit on that whole family.

They all looked terrified on election night.

[TheBlackAdder]

12. Perhaps those goons act as a human poison pill, in the event Trump gets out of line.

[sailfla]

4. We need Woodward and Bernstein back, Pronto

[uponit7771]

5. +1, something... and do it before dumb ass'd MiniPoot gets into office

[jimlup]

6. Thank you Tim Kaine for saying what we are all thinking

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32. Republican M.O. to trash intelligence.....

Exhibit A: Dick Cheney and GWBoosh.

[Raster]

7. TRUMP. IS. A. RUSSIAN. ASSET...

...Putin and his Oligarchs provide the cash necessary for failed businessman Trump to maintain the illusion of prosperity.

Trump is owned: lock, stock and barrel.

[Xipe Totec]

10. Orange is the new Red. nt

[Raster]

16. Ha! Ha! Ha!

OUTSTANDING!!!

[blue cat]

17. You made me 😂

[Hekate]

18. You owe me some screen cleaner

Thank you for that image

[brush]

28. Now that is good. Heeheeheeheehee!

[AwakeAtLast]

29. A new meme is born

Please make/find a picture to go with it.

Please.

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8. Sen. Kaine up now at Intelligence hearing in Armed Services Committee

Victoria Brownworth ‏@VABVOX 2m2 minutes ago
I don't know how @timkaine can talk about this without screaming. But he's doing a superb job of paralleling this to Watergate.

[pangaia]

9. I very seriously doubt that the right 'top' democratic politicians

and government service people do not know exactly what trumps relationship with putin is. I just don't believe they are that much in the dark.

If that is true, why is there so much silence, with some 'suggesting' of this and suggesting of that, with the occasional somewhat direct statement?

Waz' up?

[Richard D]

11. Perhaps . . .

The intrusion into the political system is way deeper than we imagine and the Russians have dirt, bad dirt, on many.

[True_Blue]

13. I think you're right

[pangaia]

19. true that.

But, even McCain crawled out of his hole on this one.

Ole' Mr. Johnny One-Note himself...no reflection on One Note Samba.

[Dustlawyer]

14. You think, Senator?

This is like a slow moving train wreck loaded with TNT!

[Amaryllis]

22. Only "sort of"suspicious. What would Kaine consider definitively suspcious?

[Skittles]

15. NO SHIT

[AmericanActivist]

20. True nm

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21. »

[sarcasmo]

23. When you own millions to Russian Mobsters you have to be friendly with Putin.

[Generator]

24. No duh man

Wake up and smell the treason. Also any Dem that speaks out is good news to me.

[myohmy2]

25. trump's a .1% maggot...

...fucking over the hard-working people that are trying to keep us 99% safe, just proves what a piece of Republican shit he is...

[TrekLuver]

26. It sure is fishy and it's been stinking for a long time now.

[Thinkingabout]

27. The same smart people working in our security agencies has the ability

To follow Trump's money trail and any activity he or his representatives has participated.

[triron]

30. Tim is showing some courage here.

[Kablooie]

31. I have a feeling...

That in a couple of years we will look back at this, facepalm and think "God, why didn't we do something about it? It was so obvious what was happening. We are idiots!"

[keithbvadu2]

33. Donald does not like the intel

"... retired Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis said in May 2015 that among world threats “in the near term, I think the most dangerous might be Russia.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/6/donald-trump-james-mattis-differ-on-vladimir-putin/

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Trump supporters celebrate and are proud.

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/world/make-russia-great-again-if-trump-lifts-sanctions-putin-could-finally-establish-his-country-as-an-equal-to-u-s&pubdate=2016-12-03

"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.

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Our intel agencies are speaking out against the Donald's Russian pals so he
plans to "pare" them back.

(It's not the Russians he wants to pare back.)

Donald Trump Plans to Pare Back Top U.S. Spy Agency

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/donald-trump-plans-to-slim-down-top-u-s-spy-agency.html

[Percy Cholmondeley]

34. Suspicious, hell...

If you saw an episode of some old TV series (Perry Mason, for instance, or Columbo) where the bad guys said exactly what Landslide Donnie and his stooges are saying, in a situation just like this one, do you think you'd recognize who the bad guys were? I think you would. It's not suspicious, it's incriminating.

[Starfury]

35. "Unusual?" "Sort of suspicious?"

As long as they continue soft-peddling the situation, nothing's going to change...