Politico - Bernie mimics Trump defense on Russian interference

[TomCADem]

Wasn’t Bernie condemning Trump’s inaction on Russia just a few days ago?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/02/21/bernie-sanders-trump-russia-interference-420528

Bernie Sanders on Wednesday blamed Hillary Clinton for not doing more to stop the Russian attack on the last presidential election. Then his 2016 campaign manager, in an interview with POLITICO, said he’s seen no evidence to support Special Counsel Bob Mueller's assertion in an indictment last week that the Russian operation had backed Sanders' campaign.

The remarks showed Sanders, running for a third term and currently considered the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, deeply defensive in response to questions posed to him about what was laid out in the indictment. He attempted to thread a response that blasts Donald Trump for refusing to acknowledge that Russians helped his campaign — but then holds himself harmless for a nearly identical denial.

In doing so, Sanders and Weaver presented a series of self-serving statements that were not accurate, and that track with efforts by Trump and his supporters to undermine the credibility of the Mueller probe.

“The real question to be asked is what was the Clinton campaign [doing about Russian interference]? They had more information about this than we did,” Sanders said in the interview with Vermont Public Radio.

[comradebillyboy]

1. 'The senator and his top political adviser point the finger at Hillary Clinton and deny

Bob Mueller's assertion that Russian actors backed his campaign', per the Politico story. Bernie seems awfully defensive about all the help his campaign received from the Russians.

[Cha]

5. That was my impression.. it

reeks of desperation.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Look over there .... look over there

[Me.]

3. Lots Of Truth Coming Out These Days

“A former Clinton campaign staffer said it was nonsense that Sanders' campaign had reached out to Clinton's about potential Russian interference. "No one from the Sanders campaign ever contacted us about this”—not in September, and not in “April and May.” Sanders said in the radio interview that he noticed "lots of strange things" during those months in 2016.”

“Sanders’ and Weaver's argument mirrors the defense that Trump, who has argued in a days-long series of tweets that the Russians were not supporting him”

[quickesst]

4. Bernie Sanders...

.... has become quite adept at speaking out of both sides of his mouth. The two threads I looked at before this one pretty much prove it.