‘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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Giuliani’s public invitation to Ukraine to interfere in US elections opened the door for other countries to run to Trump
President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani turned heads with his bizarre, unhinged rant on national television that effectively urged Ukraine to continue trying to gather dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden — and for news outlets to take whatever they find seriously.
As Casey Michel wrote in The Daily Beast, even if this effort ultimately fails to turn up useful opposition research against Biden, this is a profoundly dangerous development for American democracy.
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Trump whistleblower needs to go directly to FBI because Bill Barr can’t be trusted: Ex-FBI director
Appearing on MSNBC with host Alex Witt, former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi blew up Donald Trump's claim that he is the victim of a "Ukraine Witchhunt."
He then added that the whistleblower who went to the inspector general with a serious charge against the president should take what he has and go to the FBI within a week if nothing happens.
"We've got to get to the bottom of this, and we can't rely on leaks and certain reporters getting certain tidbits of information," the ex-FBI man explained. "This needs to be explored and it's likely this could end up in a criminal investigation."
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Trump took out DNI head Dan Coats to install a new acting director in charge of whistleblowers: CIA veteran
Appearing on MSNBC's "AM Joy," a longtime veteran CIA official said the whistleblower, who ran to the inspector general with a complaint about Donald Trump asking Ukraine's president for dirt on Joe Biden, should expect the president and his aides to come after them.
Speaking with host Joy Reid, Jonna Mendez said she saw the first warnings signs that something was up in the U.S. intelligence community when the president forced DNI head Dan Coats and his top deputy out.
"Through the lens of someone who spent 27 years at the CIA, the thing that caught my eye instantly was Dan Coats' resignation follow by Sue Gordon," Mendez explained. "The fact that Dan Coats went into a meeting and said 'Sue, you've got to resign' and that she did, truncating a career that clearly hadn't reached its zenith."
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