So… as the Russia probe is bound to discover new information regarding Trump-Russia collusion, Putin is offering a fallback “explanation”
MOSCOW — Shifting from his previous blanket denials, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Thursday that “patriotically minded” private Russian hackers could have been involved in cyberattacks last year to help the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump.
While Mr. Putin continued to deny any state role, his comments to reporters in St. Petersburg were a departure from the Kremlin’s previous position: that Russia had played no role whatsoever in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and that, after Mr. Trump’s victory, the country had become the victim of anti-Russia hysteria among crestfallen Democrats.
Raising the possibility of attacks by what he portrayed as free-spirited Russian patriots, Mr. Putin said that hackers “are like artists” who choose their targets depending how they feel “when they wake up in the morning.”
If they are patriotically minded, they start making their contributions — which are right, from their point of view — to the fight against those who say bad things about Russia,” he added.
Putin would never lie about this kinda stuff. His trustworthiness is at the top of the biglyest and bestlyest scale we can find. Literally the best scale. Top of the line.
I normally eschew playing Grammar Police, but there are some words so basic, so important, I gotta call you out when you misspell them. I mean, can you imagine the international uproar if the POTUS had tweeted covefe instead of covfefe? Wars have been started for less.
Trump’s such a super alpha 4D chess master I have a hard time NOT believing him. His tactical awareness of letting this Russia thing die off for more than 48 hours is mindblowing.
That was clumsy of me. My language skills aren’t what they used to be. And even when they were, they still weren’t.
That was a good call. I wouldn’t want a bunch of nucyaler warheads flying our way over what amounts to a simple misunderstanding.
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Trump’s such a super alpha 4D chess master I have a hard time NOT believing him. His tactical awareness of letting this Russia thing die off for more than 48 hours is mindblowing.
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No doubt. His genuflecting to the arabs was just moving pieces on planes that we aren’t aware of. Higher order strategerie of the highest order if you ask me.
A 19-seat twin-engine jet owned by a company linked to VEB flew from Moscow to the United States on Dec. 13 and departed from the Newark airport, outside New York City, at 5:01 p.m. Dec. 14, according to positional flight information provided by FlightAware, a company that tracks airplanes.
The Post could not confirm whether Gorkov was on the flight, but the plane’s previous flights closely mirror Gorkov’s publicly known travels in recent months, including his trip to St. Petersburg this week.
After leaving Newark on Dec. 14, the jet headed to Japan, where Putin was visiting on Dec. 15 and 16. The news media had reported that Gorkov would join the Russian president there.
Unknown to the public at the time, top Trump administration officials, almost as soon as they took office, tasked State Department staffers with developing proposals for the lifting of economic sanctions, the return of diplomatic compounds and other steps to relieve tensions with Moscow.
These efforts to relax or remove punitive measures imposed by President Obama in retaliation for Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and meddling in the 2016 election alarmed some State Department officials, who immediately began lobbying congressional leaders to quickly pass legislation to block the move, the sources said.
I don’t know exactly what happened–it is surmised that push disagreed with the direction the site was moving and that he bumped heads with moderators, leading to him leaving the site.
I have no idea if he was “banned” or not, but many if not all of his previous posts from when he was on the site are blocked now(or were as of the last time I checked, a while ago).
To think the entire Trump campaign is under investigation but Trump himself is somehow NOT under investigation is silly wordplay. He’s not (as the man) under investigation, but his administration (that serves him) IS under investigation.
Semantics at this point. It’s like saying HRC was never under investigation, just her actions as SoS
