‘He tweeted his way to treason’: Internet mocks Trump for ‘confessing’ to Russian election hacking
In a rare Friday evening tweet, President Donald Trump appeared to finally admit that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election — and in characteristic fashion, somehow managed to twist that on former President Barack Obama. In response, Twitter users did what they do best — gave him hell for it.
“The Obama Administration knew far in advance of November 8th about election meddling by Russia. Did nothing about it. WHY?” the president tweeted.
“Why does Trump suddenly have interest in Russia’s election meddling?” Twitter user Adam Best asked. “He’s denied it from the start. Blamed some imaginary 400-pound hacker?”
“I’ll say it: Obama had already confronted Putin, so Putin told Trump to yell that the election was rigged so Obama would keep quiet,” user Marie Nina said.
Read the best outraged (and humorous) responses to the president’s too-late admission of Russian election hacking below.
Good question.
Related: Why did you mention Wikileaks 164 times in the final month of the campaign https://t.co/v6gt2v3oOZ https://t.co/rYPEQMrIP1
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 24, 2017
the real question is, how far in advance did you know about it?
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) June 24, 2017
Three steps of the Trump Administration
1 Blame your predecessor
2 Lie about your accomplishments
3 Steal the moneyOnce complete repeat.
— Egalitarian (@WeAllMatter7) June 24, 2017
— Alt. Sean Spicer (@AltUSPressSec) June 24, 2017
Bizarre! Trump feigns amnesia for his calls for hacking, CIA briefs & ridiculing @HillaryClinton pre election? She called you Putins Puppet! https://t.co/w9H6p6Y41E
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) June 24, 2017
JUST OUT: You Knew Since August and instead of retaliating you Make Friends With Putin…
— Impeach Donald Trump (@Impeach_D_Trump) June 24, 2017
I'm gonna guess and say: Trump criticizing Obama for not doing enough to stop Russian meddling was not the WH staff's idea of a strategy
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) June 24, 2017
What do you do when your approval rating is 34% and going lower? Blame Obama!!!
— Brandon Neely (@BrandonTXNeely) June 24, 2017
"how donald trump tweeted his way to treason" will be AT LEAST a chapter in my kid's history books.
— king crissle (@crissles) June 24, 2017
What's scary is trump during the election kept chanting about everything being rigged, which in turn helped Russia regardless. #Maddow
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) June 24, 2017
You do realize you just confessed that Russia meddled in the election you won, right? That you were the beneficiary of their act of war? https://t.co/cnbgtLshDd
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 24, 2017
What are we being distracted from now?
— Neil Makhija (@NeilMakhija) June 24, 2017
hey spicer! your boss knows about the Russia meddling! maybe you guys should chat now https://t.co/hsBZ66bhrf
— Bryson Masse (@Bryson_M) June 24, 2017
— Slade Douglas (@SladeDouglas) June 24, 2017
So are you saying the meddling is real then? And are gonna do something about it? Asking for a friend/entire country. pic.twitter.com/F1hF7ntZvA
— Adam Mordecai (@advodude) June 24, 2017
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‘He’s cooked’: Sam Donaldson warns Trump the Senate may vote to convict him after impeachment trial
Veteran newsman Sam Donaldson on Monday evening told CNN viewers not to assume that Senate Republicans would refuse to remove President Donald Trump from office during an impeachment vote.
"Breaking news," CNN Don Lemon alerted. "A CNN source saying that the effort to pressure Ukraine for political help alarmed John Bolton so much that the told an aide to alert White House lawyers that Giuliani was a hand grenade who will blow everyone up. And a source familiar with Fiona Hill’s testimony says the former Russia adviser told lawmakers she was she saw wrongdoing in the Ukraine policy and reported it."
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Rudy Giuliani admits ‘Fraud Guarantee’ paid him $500,000 to work for indicted associate
Rudy Giuliani admitted being paid a half a million dollars by an associate currently being held in federal custody, Reuters reported Monday.
"President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was paid $500,000 for work he did for a company co-founded by the Ukrainian-American businessman arrested last week on campaign finance charges, Giuliani told Reuters on Monday. The businessman, Lev Parnas, is a close associate of Giuliani and was involved in his effort to investigate Trump’s political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, who is a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic Party nomination," Reuters reported.
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John Bolton ripped Rudy Giuliani as a drug dealer and ‘hand grenade’: report
Then-National Security Advisor John Bolton was reportedly shocked by the shadow foreign policy being conducted by Rudy Giuliani, a top former National Security Council official testified to Congress on Monday, The New York Times reports.
"The effort to pressure Ukraine for political help provoked a heated confrontation inside the White House last summer that so alarmed John R. Bolton, then the national security adviser, that he told an aide to alert White House lawyers, House investigators were told on Monday," the newspaper reported. "Mr. Bolton got into a sharp exchange on July 10 with Gordon D. Sondland, the Trump donor turned ambassador to the European Union, who was working with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, to press Ukraine to investigate Democrats, according to testimony provided to the investigators."
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