Trump promoting Putin's idea of a joint 'cyber security unit' discussed at summit

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Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand 5m5 minutes ago
Trump says he and Putin "spent a great deal of time talking about" Russia's election interference. "Putin feels very strongly about it and he has an interesting idea." ...what?

Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand 13m13 minutes ago
Putin says Trump "mentioned the issue of the so-called interference. I had to reiterate things I said several times, including that the Russian state has never interfered." Says they should revisit the idea of a joint working group on cyber security.

here's Trump a year ago:


twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1018130296791797760


...so this was Putin's idea, all along, and Trump is obligingly parroting it.

Putin's mouthpiece.

[Meadowoak]

1. Guarded. From being detected or exposed!

[dalton99a]

4. Precisely.

[RKP5637]

2. FFS!!! Trump is even more stupid than I had thought "or" maybe this is part of his

plan to destroy the US and bring it under some joint Russia-US authoritarian rule. These are totally uncharted times. Every day is another WTF!!!

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6. Putin likely brought Trump up to speed on the elections company he bought in my state

Maryland elections company bought by Russian oligarch close to Putin

A company that provides key services for Maryland elections has been bought by a parent company with links to a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, state officials said on Friday after a briefing a day earlier from the FBI.

Maryland officials spoke hours after the US justice department released a grand jury indictment against 12 Russian military intelligence officers for computer hacking offenses during the 2016 US election, which US intelligence agencies agree Moscow sought to influence in favor of Donald Trump.

Senate president Thomas V Mike Miller and House speaker Michael Busch made the announcement at a news conference in the Maryland State House in Annapolis, a gathering that included staff members of Governor Larry Hogan...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/14/maryland-elections-company-russian-oligarch-putin

[Garrett78]

7. Holy shit, how is this not major breaking news?

[RKP5637]

8. Yep! As one of my friends here was saying a discussion probably centered on how to ensure/cement

GOP wins well into the future with shenanigans such as this.

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9. of course

...a Democratic majority will split this thing wide open.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. What a fucking rube!

[Wounded Bear]

5. Have to get those government contracts back for Kaspersky...

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10. Hi, I know you broke into my home, stole stuff, but I was hoping we could move past that

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