Trump jokes to Putin they should 'get rid' of journalists

[Judi Lynn]

Last edited Fri Jun 28, 2019, 04:31 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: Guardian

US president voices disdain for 'fake news' at G20 and makes light of election meddlingJulian Borger World affairs editor

Julian Borger World affairs editor

Fri 28 Jun 2019 08.36 EDT

Donald Trump joked with Vladimir Putin about getting rid of journalists and Russian meddling in US elections when the two leaders met at the G20 summit in Japan.

As they sat for photographs at the start of their first formal meeting in nearly a year, the US president lightheartedly sought common ground with Putin at the expense of the journalists around them in Osaka.

"Get rid of them. Fake news is a great term, isn't it? You don't have this problem in Russia but we do," Trump said.

To which Putin responded, in English: "We also have. It's the same."

Twenty-six journalists have been murdered in Russia since Putin first became president, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), many of them investigative reporters scrutinising governmental abuses.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/28/smirking-trump-jokes-to-putin-dont-meddle-in-us-election-g20

[SunSeeker]

1. Helsinki 2.0

Trump is such a fucking traitor.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. There's no doubt in my mind. Will there be another private meeting

with no witnesses this time? You betcha.

[Danascot]

6. Of course

He hasn't blown Putin since Helsinki.

[MBS]

10. no doubt in my mind, either.

[yardwork]

21. Literal treason. Trump is guilty of treason.

[Scarsdale]

2. Putin can speak English.

The interpreter is just for show. He might fool tRump, but the other presidents knew better.

[SunSeeker]

4. He also speaks fluent German, but used an interpreter with Merkel too.

It's a power play. He doesn't want to be seen talking his adversary's language if they're not bothering to speak Russian.

[PatSeg]

5. Interesting

I didn't know that.

[SunSeeker]

14. He was stationed in East Germany for years when he was a KGB (now GRU) agent. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Not just a power play. Exact nuances are important diplomatically and translation is smart. . . . nt

[SunSeeker]

15. Yes, but he didn't need an interpreter to get the nuance of Trump's "joke." nt

[DBoon]

27. Is there such a thing as a nuance in Trump's speech?

nt

[gldstwmn]

17. I watched him and he understood everything Trump was saying.

[kskiska]

20. There are YouTubes of him giving speeches in English

He has a very thick accent, but he's pretty fluent.

[Achilleaze]

7. All US Intelligence Agencies agree that russia interfered massively in 2016

...and that russia is poised to interfere in US politics massively in 2020.

So when the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief smirks, it's because he is a freaking bald-faced republican traitor to the USA.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. +1. Trump-Republicons and Russpublicons. . . . nt

[left-of-center2012]

11. "Twenty-six journalists have been murdered in Russia since Putin first became president"

Trump is jealous.

[dalton99a]

12. The worst traitor since our nation's founding

[58Sunliner]

13. OMG, not surprised, disgusting traitorous pig.

[LiberalLovinLug]

16. Imagine if you will....

A Democratic President, elected with a minority of the popular vote, whose party also spearheaded voter suppression in districts where Republicans were strongest. And who all our intelligence agencies concluded was helped to win by...a left alternative....Castro or Maduro. Three years later, he is still having secret meetings and joking with Maduro in public about it. And his hand picked AG gets him off on an investigation led by a Democrat, who conveniently decides he can't lay charges.

etc etc etc.....

You can't imagine, because it would have all ended immediately. The national security of the country would be raised, and secure and fair elections would be their rallying cry! Republicans would refuse to even enter either of the Houses after inauguration, and Fox News and the RW noise machine would be on red alert 24/7. They would not relent until the Democratic President stepped down.

We like the slow and steady approach...start with strongly worded letters. Then polite requests for appearances. If they refuse, more letters. Then capitulate and allow them private appearances with their lawyers, where they refuse to even answer questions. More letters and some gruff words on TV this time. Until we "ramp it up" to vague threats of actually using laws in place to charge them or arrest them, maybe....we'll see at some future date.

Meanwhile time ticks on. and the dismantling of America continues daily.

[0rganism]

18. meanwhile Democrats excoriate one another over the use of the phrase "concentration camps"

at this rate we're gonna find out all we ever needed to know about "concentration camps", the hard way.

[EarthFirst]

22. +1 nt

[sakabatou]

19. Not. Fucking. Funny.

[EleanorR]

23. Did he make the same joke when he met later with MBS?

Wouldn't surprise me. And the cowardly or complicit republicans say not a damn thing.

Link to tweet

[Kid Berwyn]

24. Impeach him now.

Sonofabitch Trump is a traitor.

[raging moderate]

26. Benedict Donald.

Giving the US to a new European overlord. Putin gave an interview to somebody in which he said that liberalism is now past its time. What he is advocating is actually a return to feudalism.

[Kid Berwyn]

28. Feudalism for the 21st Century

Odd not how Trump, Putin, Xi, MBS, all share that old time Wall Street religion.

[FakeNoose]

25. Of course the journalists are joking about getting rid of Pootie and Chump

Ironic, isn't it?