You're the Puppet!

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I'm not the puppet, Kislyak's the puppet




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Josh Marshall: Critical Context for the FBI Probe of Trump

____Trump fired Comey on Tuesday, May 9th, 2017. The following day, May 10th, Trump received Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak in the Oval Office. US press was barred from the event. But the Russian state news agency TASS was invited to cover the meeting. The photos that were later released came out of Russia.

The White House later confirmed that Trump had taken this meeting because Vladimir Putin had personally asked him to on a phone call a few days earlier. “He chose to receive him because Putin asked him to,” a White House spokesman told Susan Glasser the following day. “Putin did specifically ask on the call when they last talked.”

At the meeting, Trump told Lavrov and Kislyak that he had just fired Comey and that this had removed the “pressure” he was under because of the FBI investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia. “I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off,” Trump told the two men according to an internal US government summary document based on notes taken during the meeting.

At the meeting, Trump also shared highly classified intelligence about the Islamic State with Lavrov, intelligence that apparently came from Israel and jeopardized field sources and operations in Syria...

read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/1189294

[Roland99]

1. A human walrus?

[akraven]

2. You just insulted walruses (walrii??) LOL!

They're really quite awesome critters, unlike the orange shitblimp.

[BlueJac]

3. Damn straight!

[MineralMan]

4. Caption: "What about this guy?"

"Isn't he a stitch!?"

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5. Putin told him Kislyak is a stitch

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[Laffy Kat]

6. This photo disgusts me. nt

[smirkymonkey]

7. +1000

Exhibit A for Mueller's investigation. Fucking Traitor.

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8. yeah

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump talk as they attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017 MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images

[dalton99a]

10. "Your wish is my command, President Putin."

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9. .

[Gothmog]

11. HRC tweet

Link to tweet

?s=20

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12. that's pretty cool

...she owns it.