Trump to Fox News: 'I Just Heard' That Obama Knew About Russia a 'Long Time Before the Election'

[DonViejo]

by Justin Baragona | 9:43 am, June 25th, 2017

For the second time in less than a week, President Donald Trump sat down with a Fox & Friends host for an interview. Following his conversation with Ainsley Earhardt that aired last week, Fox News broadcast his sit-down with Pete Hegseth this morning.

At one point during their discussion, the president referenced a bombshell Washington Post story from last week that detailed the Obama administration’s response to Russian election interference and just how involved Russian President Vladimir Putin was in the campaign.

Parroting tweets he’s sent out the past couple of days, Trump indicated to Hegseth that this was the first time he had heard that President Barack Obama knew about the interference before the election.

“I just heard for the first time today that Obama knew about Russia for a long time before the election, that the CIA gave him information on Russia a long time before they even, you know, before the election,” the president stated.

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[Laf.La.Dem.]

1. Give the guy a break!!

He reads lots and lots of information (oops - never mind)

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. A day late and a dollar short.

Didn't he say it was all a hoax, anyway? herr drumpf had better start getting his lies straight!

[GusBob]

3. He is either lying or stupid

Or both

[leftstreet]

4. Wait. So it's not a HOAX! It's not FAKE NEWS?

I'm so confused

[Takket]

5. This is/was common knowledge

The Obama administration and intelligence community was looking into russia as far back as My 2016 from what I understand with Paul Manafort. and that was all in the media after the election. was 45 not paying attention??????????

[Eyeball_Kid]

6. Rule #1: Trumpy LIES about everything.

Rule #2: Always rely on Rule #1.

[mnmoderatedem]

7. he's feigning ignorance

which, for him, makes falling off a log look difficult by comparison.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Selective hearing helps a lot...

Along with selective cognizance and willful ignorance.

Takes a lot of character traits to be Trump.

[Madam45for2923]

9. Black women didn't need Obama 2 be more forceful on Russia 2 take a huge pass on voting for a racist

Black women didn't need Obama to be more forceful on Russia to take a huge pass on voting for a racist xenophobic islamophobic bigot.

Link to tweet

[Turbineguy]

10. Could he have known because

he was the President and he listened to briefings?

[helpisontheway]

11. He pisses me off so bad...The next 8 years will be a nightmare

but I know karma will get him in the future...What goes around comes around. It might take years but he will get it. Hope I'm around to witness it...

On another note: He is so disrespectful to President Obama. And it is all about race. He can't stand it that a black man was the most powerful man in the world. He wants to do everything in his power to erase Obama so he can pretend in his little mind that it never happened. He knows he can't do anything about that so he was to destroy his popularity and how he is ranked in the future..

[underthematrix]

12. This is what I got from the WAPO article and Jeh Johnson's

testimony which I tweeted to Twitler:

Link to tweet

[WinkyDink]

13. "...before they even, you know, the election." HE STOPPED HIMSELF, as he immediately grasped what he

was about to ADMIT.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Anyone remember Harry Reid's warnings and FBI request last August?

|*** Reid asks FBI to investigate Russian election tampering

By Nick Gass

08/30/2016 08:13 AM EDT


Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wants the FBI to look into evidence that Russia is behind a series of recent intrusions into the United States' voting systems, concerned that the Kremlin is trying to exert its influence over the results in favor of Republican nominee Donald Trump.

"I have recently become concerned that the threat of the Russian government tampering in our presidential election is more extensive than widely known and may include the intent to falsify official election results," Reid wrote in a letter to FBI Director James Comey dated Aug. 27 first reported by the New York Times.

Reid, noting that former CIA chief Michael Morell has previously called Trump an "unwitting agent" of Russian President Vladimir Putin, called the "prospect of a hostile government actively seeking to undermine our free and fair elections" something that "represents one of the gravest threats to our democracy" since the Cold War.

Yahoo News reported on Monday that the FBI had earlier this month alerted breaches of two states' voter registration systems, Illinois and Arizona, successfully exporting data from one state's system and breaking into the other one.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/harry-reid-russia-election-tampering-227533 ***|

There were multiple media sources reporting this at that time (just from the above-quoted article, there are 3 - Politico, Yahoo News, NYT). I.e., what was being suggested as what was happening WAS out there publicly.