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When the Boss says this Meeting is “mandatory”
— well most responsible ‘employees’ will find a way to ‘take the Meeting’ ….
Kremlin says Donald Trump will meet Vladimir Putin 'one way or another', contradicting White House, from Telegraph.co.uk — 11-10-2017
NBCNews.com — Nov 11, 2017
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"[Putin] said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what they are saying he did," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Hanoi following a meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Danang.
Scout’s Honor, hope to die, stick a needle … well he’s just really serious this time …
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But moments later, Trump circled back to the issue of meddling, saying that Putin has repeatedly denied any involvement. "Every time he sees me he says I didn’t do that and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it," the president said.
Honest to Godfrey! I don’t know what else the guy can do to prove it to everyone. I think we should ‘take him at his word’ and just “move on to other issues” ...
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The president would not directly say whether he believed Putin's denials — which stand at odds with U.S. intelligence community assessments that the highest echelons of the Russian government directed the interference in the 2016 election, from hacking the emails of top Democrats to coordinating a network of bots and trolls on social media sites.
Trump looked into Putin’s eyes, and you know what he saw — a ‘krompromat’ sledge-hammer as big as a meteorite, hanging over all his future options.
That’s why Trump has never acknowledged his own country’s top Intelligence findings about Russia’s interference in the 2016 Election ...
We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump. We have high confidence in these judgments.
• We also assess Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. All three agencies agree with this judgment. CIA and FBI have high confidence in this judgment; NSA has moderate confidence.
• Moscow’s approach evolved over the course of the campaign based on Russia’s understanding of the electoral prospects of the two main candidates. When it appeared to Moscow that Secretary Clinton was likely to win the election, the Russian influence campaign began to focus more on undermining her future presidency.
• Further information has come to light since Election Day that, when combined with Russian behavior since early November 2016, increases our confidence in our assessments of Russian motivations and goals.
Those conclusions, Trump dismisses as “fiction” — But Trump WILL just simply accept everything Vlad says to him — and just take him at his word. Like with this short-lived “Great Idea”.
‘… Afterall whatcha gonna do? We can’t arrest Putin, even if he did these things, so many Deep-state bureaucrats have been accusing him of.’
It’s all water under some ‘fake news’ conspiracy bridge, somewhere. It’s finally time to “move on to other issues” … or so says the Putin-appeaser-in-Chief.