Trump tweets Russia started anti-US campaign long before he ran for president

[sabra]

Source: CNBC

President Donald Trump claimed in a tweet Friday that the latest indictment issued by special counsel Robert Mueller showed that his presidential campaign "did nothing wrong" during the 2016 election.

"Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President," Trump tweeted as he departed the White House for south Florida, the location of his private Mar-a-Lago club. "The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong – no collusion!"

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/16/trump-tweets-russia-started-anti-us-campaign-long-before-he-ran-for-president.html

[pbmus]

1. He is tweeting to his base only....

[dchill]

2. As believable as ever.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Shorter version- I'm just an incompetent rube, don't hold it against me!

there is another shoe, still to drop.

[Docreed2003]

4. Predictable...cannot wait to see this Turd flushed forever!

[gademocrat7]

5. He is a pathological liar.

[alwaysinasnit]

6. Confession?

It looks like tRump just admitted that Russia did meddle (including during his campaign), but he is trying to distance himself from the fallout.

[pandr32]

16. I see it that way as well

He wants us to believe that while they were trying to interfere that his campaign somehow was independent of it all. Of course, all those Russian and pro-Russian people working on his campaign were just captivated by MAGA and Trump.

[flibbitygiblets]

7. World replies: "Then why haven't you done anything about it?"

Incompetence or complicity? It has to be one, so let's have your answer, asshole.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. Man. He has major fires flaming up all around him.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving person.

[dweller]

9. YOU LIE !

somebody's gotta say it ...

[PaulRevere08]

10. And tRump was laundering Russian mob money before he ran for president.

It does not matter when he actively started to collude with the Russians, just that he did.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

11. Mar-A-Logo is not the "White House" (other than its members) by any stretch of the imagination

It's a profit-making venture solely owned by the Trump Organization, whose primary beneficiary is Donald J. Trump. Every time he goes down there the taxpayers are stuck pouring millions of dollars into Donnie Two Scoops' pockets.

If it were truly an auxiliary White House there wouldn't be any private members who have paid $200,000 for a membership on the chance they will meet (and influence) the president. It would be equipped with areas for Top Secret meetings, such as the one Trump held in the restaurant while eating "the most beautiful chocolate cake you've ever seen." There would be a secure communications facility (which they probably have).

Here's a summary of Trump's visits to his own properties, and the estimated cost to taxpayers: http://trumpgolfcount.com/

[LiberalFighter]

12. The Russians encouraging DT to run.

[GusBob]

13. Before 2014 Russia was pro-US?

This sort of shit drives pedantic GusBob cray.

The president of the United States should be aware that Russia has been antagonistic to the USA for about a century now

[flibbitygiblets]

14. Also, ahem, hello? We were attacked? I guess condemnation for the perpetrators be too much to ask?

Protecting our country from foreign enemies is your whole fucking job, and all you have to say is "I wasn't involved"?

Or is this one of those cases where we have to wait for "due process"? You know, because Russians are not poor and brown?

[Botany]

15. Yes, like in 2013 @ your beauty pageant in Moscow they (Russia) asked you to run for POTUS ...

.... and that they (Russia) would help you.


BTW "Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President,"
Funny, I thought that the attacks were from a 300 kid on his bed in his mom's basement in N.J.?

This is huge this is Trump admitting to Russian attacks on America.

[Leghorn21]

17. Huge indeed, Botany...this fuckers just flailing away today - GOOD

I keep picturing



- just cray as shit, man

[Botany]

18. FYI

http://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-was-handpicked-paul-manafort-696412

Russia is way deep into the Republican party.


Before Trump formally announced Pence as his vice presidential candidate, it was Manafort who made sure it happened, The New York Times reported last year.

Trump had hesitated to settle on Pence, who was governor of Indiana. Trump was fielding last-ditch appeals from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and publicly said he had not made a “final, final decision” until advisers like Manafort reminded him of the importance of uniting the GOP around conservative Christian values.

CBS News reported that Pence was Manafort's "first choice" and that Manafort even lied about mechanical problems on Trump's plane to make the soon-to-be GOP nominee stay an extra day in Indiana to get to know Pence. In a phone call, Manafort assured Trump that Pence was the right choice and made a case that won over the real estate tycoon.

Manafort would later downplay his behind-the-scenes choice, telling the Times that Trump never seriously doubted Pence.

[Leghorn21]

19. Yes yes and yes, Botany!! Way deep and way LONG TIME, too, eh? - when I first read that

Manafort brought Pence on board, I went ohhhhhhhh

I lusted after Manafort and Flynn with a gusto that should embarrass me (yet, doesn’t!!) and now that Gates has flipped???!?!? - that brings Manafort just a tiny bit closer into my arms, where I am going to...squeeze him, shall we say, very tightly (i’m being nice here...)...I been sayin for ages and ages, by god,

BRING. ME. MANAFORT.

[flibbitygiblets]

22. Lol, He wishes his KFC-scarfing carcass could move like that.

Probably more like:

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[George II]

20. No shit, donnie. Did you sleep through the Cold War? They've had an anti-US campaign....

....since the end of WWII.

Now, about those Russian sanctions that you've been ignoring.

[flibbitygiblets]

23. Remember "Wouldn't it be great if we could get along with RUH-SSSHA?"

How's that working out for ya NOW? Oh yeah, about those fucking sanctions you tried so hard to avoid...

[George II]

24. Yep, and this..."Russia, if you're listening, where are the 30,000 emails?"

[flibbitygiblets]

26. I know, right?! Alarm bells were ringing in my head when he said that.

The response from the national media, and sorry, Democrats, was tepid if anything. He was DARING a foreign ADVERSARY to hack his opponent and/or our country! In all fairness to people who should have been all over this at the time, it was definitely a 3-ring circus environment like we hadn't seen before. We were all reeling from all of the shit was happening.

[Chakaconcarne]

21. Yes starting in 2010 and then they screwed up in 2012....

maybe Rove pissed them off or didn't make his payment.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

25. Gee I wonder why he filed a MAGA trademark in Nov 2012 then?

[Turbineguy]

27. Oh dear,

Very interesting. Doing the search shows there were later modifications for bumperstickers, bags etc.

But the filing date shows that the Russians had plenty of time to plan the part they would play.