.@HallieJackson: “You THINK it was Russia, your intelligence agencies say it WAS Russia, why won’t you say it was?” https://t.co/uUyeTu9chV
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 6, 2017
On the one hand, that Donald Trump is altogether sidelining (or ignoring) Russia’s alleged hacking of the 2016 presidential election, ridiculing the American news media, and blaming former President Barack Obama for current controversies is nothing new. The current President of the United States did this throughout his campaign to attain the Republican nomination, his subsequent efforts to reach the White House, his burgeoning administration’s transition period before inauguration, and so on. On the other hand, the fact that Trump did all three of these during a press conference in Poland is just amazing.
When NBC News correspondent Hallie Jackson’s turn to address Trump or Polish President Andrzej Duda came, she immediately pressed the former on his reluctance to admit Russia had hacked the 2016 election. She confronted Trump with previous reports that U.S. intelligence agencies had confirmed Russia’s involvement in the hack, but the president simply brushed it off as speculation. “I agree I think it was Russia, but I think it was probably other people and/or countries,” he said. “I see nothing wrong with that statement. Nobody really knows for sure.”
Nice to see we’re never going to have to reset the Days Without Being a (Inter-) National Embarrassment board.
We got G-20 coming up aaaand Trump gets to have a sleep over with Papa Putin, so… we’re in for a long weekend
I love how trump just keeps shitting on Americans, both domestically and abroad. We totally deserve this, right guys?
I just assumed it was part of his “America First” strategy.
And six months in without any real accomplishments under his belt he is running out of excuses. His MO is to just be one of those presidents that blames the previous administration and even the other candidate for everything that goes wrong for his entire term. He will never have to accomplish anything if he just blames Obama and Clinton. His base eats that shit up with a spoon and will all vote for him again in 2020 and re-elect him.
He can’t let anything go, and I hope the stress affects his health very negatively, ok? Very negatively.
Sincerely hope he just dies on the toilet one morning after binging on cable news for 10 hours
Like Elvis but without the fun parts like drugs or cheeseburgers.
Let’s be honest, there would probably be drugs and cheeseburgers
He seemed pretty sure that they did it two weeks ago when he was blaming Obama for not doing enough to stop it. And now it’s “no one really knows if they did it or not?” Facts are just whatever he wants them to be on any particularly day. “I don’t know if they did it or not but I do know that either way it’s that black Kenyan guy’s fault.”
The Russians know.
Still in campaign mode which is not a good look for a sitting president- particularly on foreign soil. What an embarrassment.
Considering he’s still holding what feels like monthly “rallies” in middle america, I’d say he’s still in campaign mode…probably the only mode he knows, we’d be in serious trouble if he had to start making decisions. Wait…
“NBC is equally as bad, despite the fact that I made them a fortune with ‘The Apprentice’ but they forgot that,” — nice to see that our leader feels that, just because he did a successful venture with the entertainment division, the *news* division now owes him favorably-slanted coverage. Wow…
He’s such a prissy bitch
Between August and October Obama did nothing about the Russian hacking, claim Trump. (Falsely, of course.)
Why doesn’t the press ask what Trump what he has done about since his inauguration day and today?!
He’ mostly just denied it or watered it down. The man is a moron who can’t even keep his lies straight minute-by-minute.