Republicans Rebuke Trump for Siding With Putin

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Original Article, NY Times

 

Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, declared, “No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.”

 

Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and Trump adviser, declared the news conference “the most serious mistake of his presidency.”

 

Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee and current Senate candidate from Utah, called it “disgraceful and detrimental to our democratic principles.”

 

It was left to Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, to demand actual action. He called for increased sanctions on Russia; for Mr. Trump’s national security team to testify before Congress; for defense of the Department of Justice and other intelligence agencies; and for Mr. Trump to press Mr. Putin to extradite the 12 Russian intelligence agents who were indicted Friday.

 

“In the entire history of our country, Americans have never seen a president of the United States support an adversary the way President Trump has supported President Putin,” Mr. Schumer said. He added: “A single, ominous question now hangs over the White House: What could possibly cause President Trump to put the interests of Russia over those of the United States? Millions of Americans will continue to wonder. The only possible explanation for this dangerous behavior is the possibility that President Putin holds damaging information over President Trump.”

 

Speaker Paul D. Ryan: “The president must appreciate that Russia is not our ally,” he said in a carefully worded statement. “There is no moral equivalence between the United States and Russia, which remains hostile to our most basic values and ideals.”

 

Mr. McCain’s fellow Republican senator from Arizona, Jeff Flake, released his own rebuke “I never thought I would see the day when our American President would stand on the stage with the Russian President and place blame on the United States for Russian aggression. This is shameful.”

 

Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican Alaska, struck a mournful tone: “Sadly President Trump did not defend America to the Russian president, and for the world to see. Instead, what I saw today was not ‘America First,’ it was simply a sad diminishment of our great nation."

 

Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska and a frequent critic of Mr. Trump, echoed the sentiment. “Everyone in this body should be disgusted by what happened in Helsinki today,” he said Monday in a speech on the Senate floor.

Edited July 18, 2018 by jb914

[Neonred 3,664]

We may be a little biased in our family, but we don't see Russia as an enemy.

[Unidentified 2,930]

42 minutes ago, Neonred said:

We may be a little biased in our family, but we don't see Russia as an enemy.

Of course, you don't. But the rest of the world does. Considering how Russia loves to provoke all their neighboring countries. When I was in the military in Sweden it was never a discussion about IF the Russian would come it's a matter of WHEN.

[Rob and Cheryl 56]

45 minutes ago, Neonred said:

We may be a little biased in our family, but we don't see Russia as an enemy.

I don't see the Russian people as enemies, I see them as victims of a historically corrupt group of leaders who will use bribery, corruption, extortion, murder and physical threat to gain wealth and power.

[smilesammich 10,727]

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Semantically, the Walk-Back Walk-Back is reminiscent of the time Trump's lawyer got a lawyer, which prompted the question of how long it would be until Trump's lawyer's lawyer would need a lawyer. But in substance, it greatly resembles Trump's reaction to the fallout to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, when he suggested there were "very fine people" marching alongside Nazis—many of whom were chanting his name. It was so uncanny that The Washington Post's Philip Rucker was able to predict this morning's events:

 

Philip Rucker

 

✔@PhilipRucker

 

 

If this is Charlottesville redux, then expect Trump to get mad tonight that this afternoon’s do-over, wrong-word excuse didn’t garner glowing headlines, and then come out tomorrow doubling down on what he really wants to say, which is what he said alongside Putin.

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Apparently, being an Artful Dealmaker means being predictable.

But beneath all that, there is no longer even an expectation that the president believes what he says. It is simply accepted that he will say whatever he thinks plays best—in the media or to a rally crowd—in that moment. What he says has no bearing on what he actually thinks or what he will say an hour or a day for now. That's an easy way to operate when you believe reality is whatever you're saying right now, and anything's true if enough people believe it.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22330619/donald-trump-walk-back-helsinki-vladimir-putin/

philip rucker knows what's up 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

5 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

philip rucker knows what's up 

Hey your back.... Welcome back

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

1 hour ago, Neonred said:

We may be a little biased in our family, but we don't see Russia as an enemy.

Obviously, you are racist against Russians.  Reported!

 

Edited July 18, 2018 by Satisfied

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

5 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

Hey your back.... Welcome back

She’s been back for a while now, just lurking and reading.

[smilesammich 10,727]

9 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

Hey your back.... Welcome back

yep recent developments are just too enticing not to indulge. love a good dumpster fire accelerant, and trump is proving to be a gem.

5 minutes ago, Satisfied said:

She’s been back for a while now, just lurking and reading.

well that's creepy.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

6 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

 

well that's creepy.

It is, but we still luv ya, so won’t hold it against you.   

And yes, welcome back.  Hope all is well in your world.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

Nice to see the Republicans starting to grow a spine, hopefully soon there will be skeleton.

Edited July 18, 2018 by JimandChristy

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13 hours ago, smilesammich said:

well that's creepy.

Here's one of the 10 winners of the 2000 (?) Bulwer-Lytton contest, wherein one writes only the first line of a bad novel.  (Victorian author Edward George Bulwer-Lytton is famous -- or is it infamous -- for writing the novel that began "It was a dark and stormy night.")

 

7) Andre, a simple peasant, had only one thing on his mind as he crept along the east wall:  Andre creep... Andre creep... Andre creep.