NY Times: Trump Called Times Reporter to Argue Russians 'Falsely Accused' of Election Interference

[DonViejo]

Rosas | Jan 16th, 2019, 8:43 am

As questions continue to mount over what was discussed in President Donald Trump’s private meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, The New York Times reports after one such meeting, he called a Times reporter to say the Russians were “falsely accused” of meddling in the 2016 election.

The call came after Trump had met Putin for the first time in Hamburg, Germany, for the G-20 summit:

“The day after the two meetings, as Mr. Trump was on Air Force One taking off from Germany heading back to Washington, he telephoned a Times reporter and argued that the Russians were falsely accused of election interference. While he insisted most of the conversation be off the record, he later repeated a few things in public in little-noticed asides.

“He said that he raised the election hacking three times and that Mr. Putin denied involvement. But he said Mr. Putin also told him that ‘if we did, we wouldn’t have gotten caught because we’re professionals.’ Mr. Trump said: ‘I thought that was a good point because they are some of the best in the world’ at hacking.”

While the call saw a shift in Trump’s belief in Russian meddling, he has remained adamant that his campaign did not collude with Russian agents.

-snip- one paragraph reporting the results of a YouGov Poll

https://www.mediaite.com/online/ny-times-trump-called-nyt-reporter-to-argue-russians-falsely-accused-of-election-interference/

[Stuart G]

1. k and r..for visability.

[spanone]

2. Traitor.

[dalton99a]

3. "I never worked for Russia"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211677344

[Andy823]

4. He never worked for Russia

He worked "with" Russia.

[chowder66]

5. Well it shows a vulnerability of Putin. He may have the best hackers but he isn't dealing with the

smartest bunch of Americans. Trump and his posse helped expose the world-wide corruption surrounding all kinds of dickheads around the world.

LOL

[octoberlib]

6. One of the Russian hackers fucking got arrested in Spain and extradited to the US.

Guess Russians aren't so professional after all.