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Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 11:40 AM Nov 2017

Putin: Trump did not bring up election meddling

Source: The Hill

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not discuss alleged election meddling on Saturday, despite Trump saying they did, according to Putin’s office.

“No,” Putin's press secretary Dmitri Peskov told CNN when asked, “as far as you know, did the two leaders discuss meddling?"

Trump and Putin met on the sidelines of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting in Vietnam. When asked about his meeting with Putin, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that Putin denied attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election.

“I just asked him again,” Trump said. “He said he absolutely did not meddle in our election, he did not do what they are saying he did.” The U.S. intelligence community has concluded that Russia sought to influence the 2016 presidential election in favor of Trump.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/359893-putin-trump-did-not-bring-up-election-meddling

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Putin: Trump did not bring up election meddling (Original Post) Mrs. Overall Nov 2017 OP
Because liar. truthisfreedom Nov 2017 #1
The only person not lying is Putin? Really Donald? L. Coyote Nov 2017 #20
There is only ONE plausible explaination for his boot licking of a vicious dictator. olegramps Nov 2017 #26
It's not the videos, it's the massive debt that trumpft owes putin. Merlot Nov 2017 #44
Yes, this an important factor, but is it as potentially damaging as sexual improprieties? olegramps Nov 2017 #46
Maybe a few people would be upset but his supporters Merlot Nov 2017 #47
I agree. I really don't think anything he has done would bother his supporters. olegramps Nov 2017 #48
Being aided and abetted by the enemy bucolic_frolic Nov 2017 #2
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2017 #25
Just a pathological liar Proud liberal 80 Nov 2017 #3
"dumb as a rock" Either that or Putin has something on Trump. L. Coyote Nov 2017 #21
Bullshit , he never asked him any such thing. He did however kacekwl Nov 2017 #38
Putin's fucking with his toy again. lark Nov 2017 #4
OMG! Puting is smacking Trump. I just laughed. riversedge Nov 2017 #5
Putin just slapped his female-pup, 'Mr Trump' again! Sunlei Nov 2017 #6
So Putin must be lying about it. edhopper Nov 2017 #7
+1 Mrs. Overall Nov 2017 #8
A Russian nesting doll of lies. Qutzupalotl Nov 2017 #13
What's Russian for "Bad, doggie!"? LudwigPastorius Nov 2017 #9
hahahaha! Smacked with the newspaper! Perfect! PearliePoo2 Nov 2017 #19
Well what did you expect? ewagner Nov 2017 #10
Exactly. Trump isn't even a useful idiot anymore. Dave Starsky Nov 2017 #14
Albeit, Trump being an idiot is still useful to Putin. America needs a watchdog, not a traitor. L. Coyote Nov 2017 #29
Ooopsie! Hey donnie! Did ya' believe Pootie wasn't going to bust your groveling ass? PearliePoo2 Nov 2017 #11
Since his main goal is to destabilize and cause chaos in the US Ligyron Nov 2017 #12
What "reason" was given for this meeting? efhmc Nov 2017 #15
LOL. If Donnie had a tail, he'd be coming home with it between his legs. L. Coyote Nov 2017 #16
Payback Jim Dandy Nov 2017 #17
Trump and Putin are both liars. Trum is a traitor to the U.S. DesertRat Nov 2017 #18
@POTUS is LYING. Trump knows the Kremlin hacked America last year. L. Coyote Nov 2017 #22
Thanks for posting the Lieu tweet. That says it all--Trump is a liar. Mrs. Overall Nov 2017 #23
Putin said he didn't mettle, but really, he meant that he didn't metal. greymattermom Nov 2017 #30
Big Chickenshit... Angry Dragon Nov 2017 #24
He is not!!!!! ailsagirl Nov 2017 #28
NY Times: Full Transcript of Trumps Remarks on Russia L. Coyote Nov 2017 #27
THREE liars' tells: 1.) "YOU can only ask....." 2.) "you know"; 3.) "to be honest with you". WinkyDink Nov 2017 #41
Liar's Paradox ThoughtCriminal Nov 2017 #31
Love your whole post! The title, the pic and the concluding words!!! A whole story there. Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #32
This is NOT NORMAL! Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #33
Another day, another lie NastyRiffraff Nov 2017 #34
But they did find time to go horseback riding Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2017 #35
Vladdy loves a quick nipple tweak now and then. Mrs. Overall Nov 2017 #36
The only thing that I would say Dan Nov 2017 #37
Trump: "I believe Putin! Oh, wait...." WinkyDink Nov 2017 #39
so the republican DraftDodger was lying about that, too? Achilleaze Nov 2017 #40
The President of the United States just stated that he ought not "argue with" Putin, nor press him WinkyDink Nov 2017 #42
Of course he didn't bring it up. Because they both know Russia interfered. Chemisse Nov 2017 #43
maybe the key word here is "discuss" . more likely Putin orders or tells Trump things JI7 Nov 2017 #45

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
26. There is only ONE plausible explaination for his boot licking of a vicious dictator.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 01:08 PM
Nov 2017

Putin has videos of his cavorting with prostitutes and has him by the proverbial balls. He nothing more than a nasty creep that even lusts after his own daughter. Trump is Putin's bitch and the pimp is just slapping his favorite ho to keep him in line.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
44. It's not the videos, it's the massive debt that trumpft owes putin.
Sun Nov 12, 2017, 01:32 AM
Nov 2017

American banks would no longer loan him money, that's when the russian mobsters moved in. trumpft tower is crawling with them.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
47. Maybe a few people would be upset but his supporters
Sun Nov 12, 2017, 10:31 PM
Nov 2017

won't have a problem with it, and those who don't support him will not be supprised.

Now, the money thing, whether or not people understand it, if it's tied to money laundering (and it is IMO) then it will be illegal. His supporters don't really have a say in that.

Response to bucolic_frolic (Reply #2)

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
21. "dumb as a rock" Either that or Putin has something on Trump.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 12:37 PM
Nov 2017

"dumb as a rock" Either that or Putin has something on Trump.




kacekwl

(7,017 posts)
38. Bullshit , he never asked him any such thing. He did however
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 05:19 PM
Nov 2017

ask him what he wanted in his coffee and at what temperature he likes his bath water.

lark

(23,105 posts)
4. Putin's fucking with his toy again.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 11:44 AM
Nov 2017

Drumpf is so stupid he doesn't realize he's a total tool and looks like such a weak, whiney fool on every international stsge.

edhopper

(33,587 posts)
7. So Putin must be lying about it.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 11:55 AM
Nov 2017

But if he is lying about this, then he is probably lying about meddling.

But if we are to believe him about telling Trump Russia did not meddle.

Then we should also believe him that it did not come up.

But if it did not come up, he could not have lied or told the truth about it.

But if did come up and he is now lying, he probably lied...


Oh what a tangled web.

Qutzupalotl

(14,317 posts)
13. A Russian nesting doll of lies.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 12:18 PM
Nov 2017

Knowing Trump’s involvement, I doubt he would have brought it up and asked such a naive question. But no doubt Putin is fucking with us in any way he can.

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
19. hahahaha! Smacked with the newspaper! Perfect!
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 12:29 PM
Nov 2017


Next, Pootie will grab him by the scruff of his neck and throw his bad, doggie ass in the kennel for a time-out!




K&R

ewagner

(18,964 posts)
10. Well what did you expect?
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 12:06 PM
Nov 2017

Putin's plan is to cause chaos in America and he knows that pitching Trump against the Democrats will keep the instability going...his next goal has to be to create a Constitutional Crisis so there will be something akin to a Civil War...

It's all working out quite nicely for him...

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
14. Exactly. Trump isn't even a useful idiot anymore.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 12:22 PM
Nov 2017

The best thing Putin can do is just keep using him to tear the country to shreds.

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
11. Ooopsie! Hey donnie! Did ya' believe Pootie wasn't going to bust your groveling ass?
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 12:06 PM
Nov 2017

WARNING...WARNING...INCOMING!! He just sent another shot across your bow! He's calling you out as liar. lol

Come on Press! Ask Huckabee about this contradiction right now!

K&R


Ligyron

(7,633 posts)
12. Since his main goal is to destabilize and cause chaos in the US
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 12:06 PM
Nov 2017

Pooty has decided it's time to start throwing Dump under the bus.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
16. LOL. If Donnie had a tail, he'd be coming home with it between his legs.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 12:24 PM
Nov 2017
This would be a lot funnier if I was a Russian, but, at least I'm not a delusional birther!



 

Jim Dandy

(358 posts)
17. Payback
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 12:29 PM
Nov 2017

Trump's people claimed Putin was wrong about their upcoming meeting in Vietnam. An obvious attempt to make the Russians look needy and desperate. Now Putin has paid them back by denying something that Trump claimed was said there actually happened. Making Trump look like a liar.

Pure payback.

greymattermom

(5,754 posts)
30. Putin said he didn't mettle, but really, he meant that he didn't metal.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 01:21 PM
Nov 2017

He's an athlete, but not quite that good.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
27. NY Times: Full Transcript of Trumps Remarks on Russia
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 01:10 PM
Nov 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/us/politics/full-transcript-of-trumps-remarks-on-russia.html

Trump spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to Hanoi, Vietnam, where he attended a state dinner Saturday evening. While talking to the reporters, he was asked about his private meeting with Russian President Vladimir V. Putin on the sideline of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Danang, Vietnam. Mr. Trump said Mr. Putin was sincere in his denials of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and that questions about Moscow’s meddling were a politically motivated “hit job.”

Following is a transcript of those comments, as prepared by the White House. It has been lightly edited for clarity. ...................

REPORTER: Did Russia’s attempts to meddle in U.S. elections come up in the conversation?

TRUMP: He said he didn’t meddle. He said he didn’t meddle. I asked him again. You can only ask so many times. But I just asked him again, and he said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what they’re saying he did. And he said —

REPORTER: Do you believe him?

TRUMP: Well, look, I can’t stand there and argue with him. I’d rather have him get out of Syria, to be honest with you. I’d rather have him — you know, work with him on the Ukraine than standing and arguing about whether or not — because that whole thing was set up by the Democrats. ................


Here we go again, the Democrats lost the election on purpose by screwing themselves so they could bring down the guy they put in office by fucking themselves over.
Makes perfect sense to me.
 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
41. THREE liars' tells: 1.) "YOU can only ask....." 2.) "you know"; 3.) "to be honest with you".
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 05:52 PM
Nov 2017

1.) I am not asking anything of Putin;

2.) No, I don't know what you said or did. I am not your personal clairvoyant and defender;

3.) You weren't before?

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
34. Another day, another lie
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 02:17 PM
Nov 2017

Not that we can believe Putin either. No wonder the two of them understand each other. Who knows what happened? We won't hear the truth from either Putin or Trump.

Dan

(3,569 posts)
37. The only thing that I would say
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 04:06 PM
Nov 2017

Is that Donald could probably tell us what Putin’s prostate tastes like.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
40. so the republican DraftDodger was lying about that, too?
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 05:51 PM
Nov 2017

Lies lies lies - republicans are deplorable liars.

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
42. The President of the United States just stated that he ought not "argue with" Putin, nor press him
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 05:54 PM
Nov 2017

on matters of our NATIONAL ELECTORAL SECURITY.

Chemisse

(30,813 posts)
43. Of course he didn't bring it up. Because they both know Russia interfered.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 06:15 PM
Nov 2017

There is nothing to discuss.

JI7

(89,252 posts)
45. maybe the key word here is "discuss" . more likely Putin orders or tells Trump things
Sun Nov 12, 2017, 03:26 AM
Nov 2017

it's not an equal 2 way discussion.

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