The full text of Trump’s clarifications to assuage the absolutely ridiculous amount of “we’ve got him now” histrionics from the usual suspects over his failure to accept everything the media wants to believe about “Russian” interference (in their minds, collusion with Trump) shows that the confidence he has in our security agencies is now that they are “under new management” (our words). Trump should not have had any confidence in them previous to that.
In their hyperventilating mode the media wants America to believe that Trump’s elocution alongside Putin was really “treasonous” and that they have exposed him as a puppet of Putin. Then call me treasonous for continuing to vote no confidence until I see the evidence of our intelligence agencies consistent unbiased assessments even under Trump. Too many leftovers in that corner of the swamp.
Of course the media refuses to report on the substance of what was achieved in Trump’s trip as regards NATO and that he has stood up to Russia with dramatic in your face hegemony dealing policies on oil and arms that make Russia desire a “rapprochement” they had no need for with Obama as their bitch.
We are steadily loosing confidence in Fox News, TV and especially radio, they are no more than a repeater of what the dominant liberal media says is news, or is a scandal. Links and excerpts of note.
‘Fox & Friends’ Host Implores Trump To Reverse Course After Putin Conference
“From the day you came down the escalator, you shocked the world. From November, when everyone had you losing, you shocked the world. It wasn’t because of Russia, but Russia’s goal was to upend our electoral process,” Kilmeade said. “They hate democracy.”
“I will say this to the president when Newt Gingrich — when General Jack Keane and Matt Schlapp — said the president fell short and made our intelligence apparatus look bad. It’s time to pay attention. It’s easily correctable from the president’s perspective,” Kilmeade said.
“Fox & Friends” host Abby Huntsman, who is also the daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, also noted to Trump, “You are standing next to Vladimir Putin whose ultimate goal in life is to undermine our democracy. It was that one moment that had you to stand up for your own country — to stand up for your intelligence community.”
The TV hosts’ comments follow Trump’s appearance at a joint press conference with Putin in Helsinki Monday. Trump appeared to give some credence to Putin’s claim that he did not not interference in the 2016 presidential election despite being told the opposite by his intelligence community leaders.
“I have confidence in both parties,” Trump said, adding that he didn’t see any reason why Russia would interference on his behalf.
Kilmeade’s direct appeal to the president follows admonishment by many senior Republican leaders in Congress and presidential surrogates. Trump tweeted after the incident justifying his behavior saying:
As I said today and many times before, “I have GREAT confidence in MY intelligence people.” However, I also recognize that in order to build a brighter future, we cannot exclusively focus on the past – as the world’s two largest nuclear powers, we must get along! #HELSINKI2018
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2018
Much better from Rand Paul:
Rand Paul Goes After Response To Trump, Putin Meeting, Says It’s ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’
“Let me get right to the questioning. Do you believe that President Trump’s meeting with Putin made America safer?” asked CNN host Wolf Blitzer.
“You know, I think engagement with our adversaries, conversation with our adversaries is a good idea. Even in the height of the cold War, maybe at the lowest ebb when we were in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, I think it was a good thing that Kennedy had a direct line to Khrushchev. I think it was a good thing that we continued to have ambassadors to Russia even when we really objected greatly to what was going on, even during Stalin’s regime. So I think that it is a good idea to have engagement,” Paul said.
“And I think that what is lost in this is that I think there’s a bit of Trump derangement syndrome. I think there are people that hate the president so much that this could have easily been President Obama early in the first administration setting the reset button and trying to have better relations with Russia and I think it’s lost on people that they are a nuclear power,” Paul continued.
The Kentucky senator added, “They have influence in Syria. They’re in close proximity to our troops in Syria. They are close to the peninsula of North Korea and may have some influence that could help us there. The other thing that’s lost and people forget this completely, the Russians tried to help us stop the Boston marathon bombing. We actually did help them stop a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg because we were communicating and exchanging information.”
Paul went on to say that “all of those things are good, and because people hate Trump so much, all of that’s being lost.”
Tucker Carlson explains the real election interference —
https://www.dailycaller.com/2018/07/16/tucker-panel-elections-mexico/
Fox News television host Tucker Carlson explained that the country that has had the greatest influence on the United States’ elections is actually Mexico for “packing our electorate” on The Five Monday night.
“It’s very hard at least for me, Tucker, to take that media response to this seriously. Since it’s always been at an incredible high pitch,” Greg Gutfeld, one of the show’s hosts said. “I’m wondering if this is because the media is blaming Putin for Hillary’s loss and they are constantly demanding their pound of flesh and nothing will ever be enough.”
“Of course they are trying to interfere in our affairs. They have a long time. Many countries do. Some more successfully than Russia like Mexico, which is routinely interfering in our elections by packing our electorate. I don’t understand why we need to believe that Russia is the primary issue of American political life,” Carlson responded.
Tucker’s message was clear — the United States’ immigration problem has allowed for illegal aliens to have a measurable impact on this country’s elections.
Their discussion was based around the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that took place earlier on Monday, which led many politicians and media members to express concern for some of Trump’s comments during their press conference. (RELATED: House Democrat Calls For ‘Military Folks’ To Stop Trump)
‘This Is Stupid Stuff’ — Lou Dobbs Owns Trump Critics Of Putin Summit With A Dose Of Common Sense
https://www.dailycaller.com/2018/07/16/lou-dobbs-trump-critics-putin-summit/
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs tore into President Trump’s critics in the wake of intense Democratic and establishment Republican criticism of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
While Dobbs’ panelists, Ed Rollins and Michael Goodwin, both felt that Trump could have taken a stronger tone toward Putin on the issue of Russian election interference, Dobbs defined Trump’s critics as “morons” who seem to prefer a hot war than diplomacy.
“I think the president handled himself perfectly,” said Dobbs. “What would it have taken to satisfy the morons that you saw on those clips? I mean … And what is his name, Brennan? He’s the biggest joke I have seen. What is he supposed to say?”
Dobbs then contrasted Trump’s views and approach with those who would seemingly prefer war.
“We’re going to settling this now, toe-to-toe with the Russkies, right now here in Helsinki?” asked Dobbs rhetorically. “We’ll see whose ICBM gets to which city the fastest? What are you talking about? This is stupid stuff. This beyond the pale, as far as I’m concerned. He is beginning a relationship with Putin, and if his intelligence community is so smart … where are the servers?”
“I think there’s nothing he could do to satisfy [critics],” Goodwin added. (RELATED: Rand Paul Goes After Response To Trump, Putin Meeting, Says It’s ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’)
Dobbs made the point that other world leaders, including Chinese leader Xi Jinping, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, and even Germany’s Angela Merkel aren’t exactly “good guys,” and yet we engage in diplomacy with them.
“We’ve had a series of presidents who were outright jokes,” said Dobbs. “And I’m talking Clinton. I’m talking Bush, and I’m talking Obama. The fact this country survived those three folks is amazing to me.”
Mooch is a weak-hitter
Mooch to Trump: Time to hit reverse, pal
Ed Morrissey
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/17/mooch-trump-time-hit-reverse-pal/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
When you’ve lost the Mooch … Few would appreciate the contrarian nature of Donald Trump more than Anthony Scaramucci, but even the Mooch has his limits. The man who briefly ran Trump’s White House messaging team says “he has to reverse course immediately … before the concrete starts to set on this thing.” Someone needs to tell Trump the truth about his presser yesterday, he tells CNN’s Alisyn Camerota:
See Also: Too good to check: The great “Mariia Butina in the Oval Office” photo fiasco
Former White House communications director Anthony @Scaramucci says President Trump “has to reverse course immediately” on his comments from yesterday’s press conference with Putin https://t.co/xLX2QNjLIu pic.twitter.com/OVsNzdLsvW
— New Day (@NewDay) July 17, 2018
Scaramucci accurately diagnoses the issue by noting that Trump has “conflated Russian collusion with Russian meddling.” The first didn’t happen, Scaramucci believes, but the second most definitely did — and Putin was behind it. Yesterday wasn’t just a PR failure, it was a strategic mistake that was allowed to happen because Trump got his ego tangled up in the summit:
“If he doesn’t switch course on this, what will happen is he will eventually lose people that want to support him,” Scaramucci says of Trump’s embrace of Putin. “This is a major mistake”
Our Ed Note answer to Ed and Mooch — Largely because people like you keep repeating the anti-Trump spin. WHAT was so bad in context as to what he said — not all that much
And this also from Fox:
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/16/fox-host-trish-regan-word-press-conference-unpatriotic/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
Fox host Trish Regan: The word for that press conference is “unpatriotic”
“His brain can’t process.” His own team’s best attempt to spin this morning’s disgrace in his favor is that the guy in charge of national security is so pathologically vain that he can’t stand up for his own country lest it reflect even slightly badly on his victory in 2016. Although Tim Miller counters: If that were true, what explains Trump’s weird refusal to criticize Putin on matters unrelated to 2016 as well? His attitude isn’t “Russia is a global menace but Russiagate is a witch hunt.” His attitude is that Putin is a would-be ally whose transgressions, like annexing Crimea, are understandable and in any case no worse than things that America’s done. It’s a truism by now that, virtually alone among public actors here at home and abroad, Putin is immune from being taunted by him. Why?
This is all likely to get worse, not better. Trump doesn’t apologize, even when he’s wrong; his instinct when besieged is to dig in. And he has two of the friendliest possible interviews lined up today, with Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. Hannity was already in fine form on his radio show this afternoon, blasting Republicans — like his network colleagues Cavuto and Regan, I guess — who dared to criticize His Excellency’s knifing of the DOJ onstage with Putin this morning as “weak,” “pathetic,” “visionless,” “feckless,” and “spineless.” (“Every single person on the list [of people criticizing him] that they’re calling a conservative is not a conservative,” he noted, underlining the reality that unthinking support for Trump is now the touchstone for what remains of “conservatism.”) Trump is highly likely to double/triple down on his Russia apologias in those Fox primetime interviews, not try to undo them. I hope Regan reserved some outrage for tomorrow.
Trump’s Blunder Isn’t the Only Story
A few bad sound bites allow his opponents to claim he’s in the pocket of Vladimir Putin.
From Dick Belmont writing a comment to a Patriot Post article: ( why isn’t this sort of rejoinder predominant at Fox et all?
Remember, O told us in Oct. 2016 that there was no way that Russia could interfere in our elections and later told us all that he’d told Putin to knock it off. Does anyone believe Intel led by Brennan, Clapper, and Comey, along with the rest of the FBI shills like Strzok?
Well there was at least one good commenter on Fox
https://www.dailycaller.com/2018/07/17/louie-gohmert-peter-strzok-serial-liar/
