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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDavid Gergen on CNN: He would have been briefed "instantaneously".
Yep, hes a tool of Russia. There can be no doubt.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)dem4evah
(75 posts)he's out of his element. Has been since day 1.
hay rick
(7,640 posts)It's hard not to think of them as synonymous.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)seriously.
sheshe2
(83,925 posts)I fear for them as well, Iliyah.
Arkansas Granny
(31,531 posts)What an utter incompetent tool.
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)He probably knew before he was briefed.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... less bad.
Nevilledog
(51,200 posts)Other choices were that his people were too incompetent to advise him or they refused to advise him because he's a Russian asset.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)and Vlad told Donnie that there was no way he'd do anything like that, and that U.S. intelligence agencies are lying about him again, just so Donnie won't be re-elected. U.S. intelligence agencies just hate Donnie so much because of his superior intellect. And no more was ever spoken about the subject.
wnylib
(21,611 posts)the briefing. His calls to Putin were on how to handle the fallout politically if it became public knowledge.
Cha
(297,692 posts)Marcuse
(7,508 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)No matter what you hear initially, when the whole story comes out, it's always worse. Always.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Also, though, however bad, his cult stays loyal.
Botany
(70,585 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,938 posts)TREASON is the word-of-the-day!
BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)he could to piss off people and make everyone mad. It always seemed to me that it was like a scene in a mafia movie."Either you do this or we will kill every member of your family and every member of their families."
Boomerproud
(7,964 posts)cult even more frightening.
MoonchildCA
(1,301 posts)He has such a short attention span, cant absorb much information, and cant think critically.
I wouldnt be surprised if they dont brief him on much of anything. Whats the point?
tinrobot
(10,916 posts)mwb970
(11,366 posts)If a conservative succeeds, he alone is responsible. If he fails, the government held him back.
AZ8theist
(5,495 posts)dalton99a
(81,590 posts)TNNurse
(6,929 posts)Who else knew? It was not just Trump. Intelligence people could have leaked to enough people to get it out.
This needs to be there a story about this on every network every night and every morning. It needs as much coverage as the virus.
Hassler
(3,390 posts)Yeah, no, not happening from that grovelling Bible grifter.
erronis
(15,335 posts)pompeous doesn't have any skills outside of being a shitty politician and a destroyer of decency.
Where, oh where would pompeous go after losing this job? Moscow, Brazil, Hungary? Other dictatorships that need a corpulent bloviator?
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... saying Trump didn't swallow all of it this time.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)I think this story has the potential to be huge!
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Which means a bunch of people should have resigned, beginning with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State, not to mention the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the head of the CIA.
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)This aint no break in at the DNC.
crickets
(25,983 posts)point.
I wonder how those in uniform feel about their highest commanding officers right now.
Trust?
Everything he touches,
dies.
liberalla
(9,262 posts)genxlib
(5,536 posts)What kind of President is so disconnected from his job that this would not be front and center on his desk. What kind of staff would keep it from him
wnylib
(21,611 posts)I suspect that he knew before our intelligence people knew.
underpants
(182,883 posts)Thats a real possibility
Gergen is the one guy I stop and listen to when hes on the air. Others are entertaining but Gergen is the real deal with deep contacts.
Cognitive_Resonance
(1,546 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)being such besties, there has to be a hotel room tape in some vault somewhere in the Kremlin. This fucker not caring about our troops in harm's way is disgusting and treasonous.