John Bolton: Putin Denied in Meeting There Was Any Election Meddling by the 'Russian State'
Source: Mediate
by Josh Feldman | 1:39 pm, July 1st, 2018
National Security Advisor John Bolton talked on Face the Nation this morning about his recent meeting with Vladimir Putin and the upcoming summit with President Donald Trump.
Margaret Brennan pressed him on the specifics of what Trump wants out of Putin. Bolton said that Trump will be raising issues like Syria, Ukraine, and 2016 election meddling.
At one point, Brennan brought up comments from Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats about continued Russian meddling efforts and whether Bolton brought it up in his meeting with Putin. Bolton confirmed, The election meddling issue was definitely something we talked about.
And what President Putin saidthrough a translator of course, but what he said was there was no meddling in 2016 by the Russian state, he added.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/john-bolton-putin-denied-in-meeting-there-was-any-election-meddling-by-the-russian-state/
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)I will believe Bolton when he wipes the blood from his hands of our soldiers that he and his ilk sent to their deaths on damn lies.
forgotmylogin
(7,529 posts)That would have saved a lot of time, effort, and money if that's how they'd handled it.
Putin and Kim are taken at their word. It's the world turned upside-down yo.
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shraby
(21,946 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)"Yeah, we did it, stupid Americans! Bwahahahahaha!"
Right.
The stupid part is where Spanky - and apparently Bolton, too, having done a 180 about Russia on his knees before his new master - seem to be taking Putin at his word.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)They are unanimous. Russia worked its ass off to steal the election for Dirty Donny. Meanwhile, the republicans have trained me to expect that they are lying, since they have lied so often.
Who to trust? Not Comrade Casino and his KGOP republican kronies, that's for damn sure.
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
SWBTATTReg
(22,130 posts)unblock
(52,243 posts)thegoose
(3,115 posts)And seeing this piece of shit on network television again is the jaws of hell. Fuck them all.
joe_stampingbull
(165 posts)always believe murderous corrupt dictators.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)if Vlad told him that it must be true. Does Bolton think we're all a bunch of dumb hayseeds.
3catwoman3
(24,005 posts)He's an arrogant, dismissive SOB.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)So, I believe them both.
mahannah
(893 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Trump also has said Putin denied any interference.
Time to end the Mueller investigation.
catchnrelease
(1,945 posts)I feel so much better now!
keithbvadu2
(36,818 posts)Trumps Russian supporters celebrated their victory.
"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/world/make-russia-great-again-if-trump-lifts-sanctions-putin-could-finally-establish-his-country-as-an-equal-to-u-s&pubdate=2016-12-03
BumRushDaShow
(129,063 posts)what is it about this administration where stone cold advocates of certain polices suddenly do 180s on them?
Maybe it's the promise of $$$??? Or the threat of blackmail (serious stuff)???
Jedi Guy
(3,192 posts)It's the only thing that makes sense. I would've said brain slugs, but there's an obvious difficulty with that theory.
BumRushDaShow
(129,063 posts)dameatball
(7,398 posts)WTF has happened to the free press?These traitorous sh**heads smugly lie with no concern for being held accountable. I can (ALMOST) understand some reporters not wanting to lose access to a White House press conference or something (and even that is pitiful) ..but he is appearing on a network show for pete's sake. Call him out! Do you really think many Trump supporters are watching anyway? They are just waiting for tweets.
KPN
(15,646 posts)Whose fucking side are they on? Trump's or the nation's? Geezuz!!!!!!
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)and making this absurd claim is that he thinks American's are dumb enough to accept the denial. Only the LessEds and lemmings of the tRUMP CULT believe this shit.
Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)Putin would never tell lies. Why he's the George Washington of Russia, right? And Cheeto and friends have made some sort of Faustian bargain with the devil's Russian department. Hopefully, that bargain includes a toasty ringside seat in the inner circles of hell.
3catwoman3
(24,005 posts)...no reason. If ONLY they had told us this reassuring tidbit earlier.
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handmade34
(22,756 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,818 posts)Since Trump inauguration.... Russia is our friend
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=RFg5W-qvOsSM0wKBpo_QDQ&q=russia+is+our+friend&oq=russia+is+our+friend&gs_l=psy-ab.3..35i39k1.1401.5073.0.6283.21.20.0.0.0.0.332.2713.0j13j2j1.16.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..5.16.2708.0..0j0i131i20i264k1j0i20i264k1j0i131k1j0i3k1j0i22i30k1.0.oD9Yf5n_ZJY
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Maxheader
(4,373 posts)I'm a much better leader than the president...get ahold of me
if he gives you any problems...(wink..wink)
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)Russian State? No government state is going to have a line item in their budget reading "assassination of so and so " or "illegal arms shipments" or "troll farm start up fund."
LOL
still_one
(92,213 posts)JDC
(10,128 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)I believe him.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)It's kind of a difficult angle.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)Yep.
They've been crowing about it.
Snellius
(6,881 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Repeating the stupid talking point of a stupid dilettante who knows nothing of foreign policy is beneath even Bolton's dignity.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Bolton knows it's a lie. Putin knows he knows. Bolton knows Putin knows he knows.
He's just being a "Diplomat" on FTN, and carrying Trump's water at the same time.