https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/06/russian-bounty-report-seems-like-kind-of-thing-trump-shouldve-known-gop-says
Conservative commentator David Frum noted that the story being reported by the Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal “doesn’t mean it’s certainly true.” What it does mean, Frum wrote
on Twitter, is that “very credible people in [the] U.S. intelligence
service are angry and alarmed. Angry and alarmed enough to provide
evidence to three leading media sources.” In addition to Trump’s denial,
Frum cited former Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell’s claim that he never “heard” of the bounties and that of John Ratcliffe, the office’s current director, who tweeted that he had never “briefed” the president. But, he added,
“it’s also not impossible” for these three officials to be “telling a
version of the truth,” noting the possibility that “the information was
withheld from Trump by briefers who have learned not to upset him”—given
previous reports
of Trump staff keeping Russia-related things from the president so as
not to piss him off—as well as “that Grenell during his tenure at ODNI
was simply not doing the work.” Frum remarked it to be “noteworthy” that
no denials have come from the Pentagon, the C.I.A., or the National
Security Council, all of which the Times said declined to comment.
I think the Clinton Foundation was offering the bounties through Russians intermediaries in order to make the Administration seem in cahoots with, or controlled by, the Kremlin when the President denies that there is no evidence the bounties originated with a Putin directed intelligence operation.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, it is my supposition that Joe Biden will step aside at the Democrat convention and that Hillary Clinton will be offered the Democrat Presidential nomination.
She will the pick a transgender running mate. Her platform, titled, "Now where we?" will basically be a listing of ways she will blame all her failures (her default mode of governing) on flat out wrong fantastical intelligence that Russian interference is behind everything that ever went wrong in her life (because bad habits are hard to break.)
I think that Trump will step down Jered and Ivanka will replace him as the beginning of a hereditary dictatorship
ReplyDeleteI don't think Biden will step down. Running Hillary again will flip the polls and assure Trump an easy victory. Right now most people are tired of the drama. Biden offers a basic "no drama" campaign and that will resound with people.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to see if Biden makes Hillary his running mate. And then, on the night of the inauguration, his limo will mysteriously explode.
Wouldn't that be something! Turns out, though, I was right. At least right in the sense that U.S. Intel decided that the report about bounties was not believable.
ReplyDeleteIf we fault the President for ignoring credible intelligence, shouldn't we credit him for ignoring unverified reports??
according to that solid source Trump - nobody thinks he is telling the truth
ReplyDeleteor maybe he will make Pence or Hannity or maybr Jared or Ivanka his running mate
ReplyDeleteLoving it. A unity ticket. Just what we need for these troubled times.
ReplyDeleteOk. But for those who say the Russians paid bounties, we have to ask: why would the Russians do that? And how could they do it and expect it to remain secret? That has to be explained, too.
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