Trump's Helsinki Bow To Putin Leaves World Wondering: Why?

[Dulcinea]

Given the attitude with which President Trump has greeted all news of the Russian interference in the 2016 election, his performance in Helsinki on Monday should have come as no surprise.

And yet there was surprise — even shock — when the president of the United States stood onstage alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin and accepted the former KGB officer's denials regarding that interference.

Trump was asked directly which one he believed: his own intelligence community or Putin. In so many words, Trump gave the answer: Putin. (Via tweet, Trump would later seek to clarify his response.)

Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican, called it "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory."

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/17/629601233/trumps-helsinki-bow-to-putin-leaves-world-wondering-whats-up

[lagomorph777]

1. But in the same press conference, Putin admitted interfering to help Trump

"Reporter: Did you want president Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?"

"Putin: Yes I DID! Because he talked about bringing US - Russia relationship back to normal."

[hedda_foil]

2. He repeated "YES" twice ... Yes. Yes I did. Was he answering BOTH questions?

Did I support him? Did I help him? Yes. Yes. I did.

[Nitram]

3. Putin is not that stupid. He admitted that he wanted Trump to win. He was quite clear that

he did nothing to help him win.

[lagomorph777]

5. Yes - Yes he was.

[Aristus]

4. It's not due to any pee tape or potential for blackmail as a result of it.

It's just due to how much money Trump owes in loans from Russia, from Putin, and from whatever Russian loansharking syndicate is involved.

There's no sexual act so depraved that Trump is afraid it will be made public. No misogynistic behavior so crude that Trump would be embarrassed by its revelation. His past declarations have proven that.

What he lives in terror of is people finding out he's not as rich as he boasts, or that his gilded, vulgar, ultra-rich lifestyle is funded by Russian mob-money. He's such a terrible, incompetent businessman, that he receives almost no income from his failing schemes, and is instead coasting on an Everest of debt...

[lagomorph777]

6. Agreed - Turd is loudly and proudly a serial sexual assaulter.

[Dulcinea]

7. This.

What he's really afraid of is being exposed as a fraud.

[world wide wally]

8. But he doesn't give two shits about the liar part... Obviously