We all knew it was coming, right? Everybody in the Trump campaign had their own conversations with the Russians, and now it turns out that even Trump himself met with Kislyak at ... waaaait for it .... an invite only event!
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Trump is clueless, do you really think he knows who he is meeting with? He's the birthday boy, the adults make a big fuss over him, give him balloons and cake, then do all the real work around him, letting him do ceremonial "big boy" things like signing orders or gasp letting him have his own phone and Twitter. It's a lot of responsibility, I hope he takes good care of it and maybe mummy and daddy will download a new game for it, maybe even Angry Birds!
Lying to Congress is an actual crime. So is meeting with our "enemies" and making agreements and promises to them that you intend to act upon if elected to office. Both of these are well-defined, and he breached both of them, clearly. He met with Kislyak in April. Now he told Congress he has "never spoken with the man" and the last conversation he "ever had with a Russian, was more than two years ago." Both of these are lies under oath, and therefore punishable. Are they a big deal? Did he discuss more than the Playboy Centerfold? It doesn't matter WHAT they talked about. Real politicians keep a diligent list of every single person they talk to, and every topic they cover, for specifically these reasons. To mislead or lie to Congress is a Federal offense. And really? Benghazi? Investigated nine different times - five times by partisan Republican hit squads - and NONE of them ever found any credible wrongdoing or broken laws? Time to update your psycho right wing talking points, my friend.
We don't yet have clear (public) evidence of the latter, and no one seems to agree on the definition of "meeting".So is meeting with our "enemies" and making agreements and promises to them that you intend to act upon if elected to office. Both of these are well-defined, and he breached both of them, clearly.
I think I pretty clearly mentioned that Sessions lied to Congress. Lol, right wing talking points. Bring some evidence of wrongdoing, make a case, turn witnesses. The wheels of justice turn slowly but the gears have very fine teeth. Tamp down your liberal hysteria friend.So is meeting with our "enemies" and making agreements and promises to them that you intend to act upon if elected to office.
Still waiting on evidence of this.
Unfortunately, my boss doesn't give a shit that I'm feeling like it would be prudent to take a month off in an effort to make sense of recent events. And it would take me more than a month straight of 15 hour days of research to feel like I had any sort of handle on an objective truth. Nobody knows what's real anymore, and I'm past the point of blaming people for parroting militarized talking points. Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing the same thing, and it becomes very difficult to discern when it is happening. We've all been deceived many times over, and the ride is far from finished. I've said it elsewhere, sorry to repeat myself, but I want people to evaluate how truthful they perceive this statement to be:I think we are very clearly in a civil war, of sorts. The battlefield is public opinion, and the weaponry is information. The noise has long since drowned out the signal. I'm not really sure what happens next.
Both sides will have more than a few action items looooong before we're done here. But I'm not sure it's as simple as "sides" anymore.
Kislyak is a diplomat. Donald's supposed to rub shoulders with those people. But yeah, I thoroughly believe that there was election tampering, especially pertaining to the weaponization of social media. Either way, the presidency should want to distance itself from Russia without condemning them directly, at least for now, but there have been some awkward pro-Russia sentiments straight from the horse's mouth. Why couldn't Trump just divulge the one(?) time that he shook hands with this guy? Can he not remember? That's a scary thought. Maybe there's no one that's kept any sort of tally, but somehow, I doubt it. Also, how has this been in plain sight, hiding in a WSJ article? I guess they really don't have many subscribers. I hope we've amped up our journalism coverage enough that we're archiving every detail of this event. All of America will become the "crazy person" in "every" movie who connects a bunch of strings to photographs and strokes their chin. That's if we're outside of the blast radius, whatever form it's about to take. Right now the damage is limited to information, and I pray (I'm considering prayer..?) that we can contain it to that domain, but I suspect the general state of things will continue to deteriorate quite rapidly, we're primed. Meanwhile. We are seeing what happens when a billionaire hasn't had enough time to sweep all of his corruptions under the rug. The world of big business clearly does not hold up to presidential standards of morality.
Yep and disclose that fact, and answer the questions posed to him by Congress about those conversations. And he lied. He said he had never met Kislyak, and had not had a conversation with "any Russian" for more than two years. That is a simple, bald-faced lie. Not even a "I don't recall" level of lying. And that is the important part. He has so little care for the truth or respect for Congress that he will just say whatever he thinks at the moment with no effort to recall, consult his social secretary, or check his calendar. His first instinct is to lie. THAT is what this story is about. All the other stuff - even the content of what he lied about - is secondary. Kislyak is a diplomat. Donald's supposed to rub shoulders with those people.
Can we find any way to quantify the rates and statistics of wealthy elites leaving the country? Please purchase the in-flight WiFi and get back to us. Edit: About 6 months ago, I got my hair cut at Great Clips and asked the stylist "Has anyone ever asked you to give them the 'Trump'?". She looked me dead in the eyes and said "Oh yeah, several times."