You’ve got to hand it him. This was pure genius. It is a thing of beauty. In an interview with Clinton water boy George Stephanopoulos Donald Trump made some entertaining comments:
President Donald Trump is not ruling out receiving dirt from foreign agents in the future and doesn’t necessarily think he needs to notify the FBI if such information were offered.
Trump’s comments came during an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
Trump had just noted that when the Mueller report came out, they hardly even talked about his son, Donald Trump Jr.
“Should he have gone to the FBI when he got that email?” Stephanopoulos asked.
Trump replied: “Okay, let’s put yourself in a position. You’re a congressman, somebody comes up and says, ‘hey, I have information on your opponent,’ do you call the FBI? I don’t think …”
Stephanopoulos then stressed that if it’s Russians you do.
“I’ll tell you what, I’ve seen a lot of things over my life,” he said. “I don’t think in my whole life I’ve ever called the FBI. In my whole life. You don’t call the FBI.”
And if offered such dirt?
He also insisted it was not election interference.
“It’s not interference. They have information. I think I’d take it,” the president said, before suggesting it was oppo research.
Well, he set the left ablaze with indignation and self-righteousness:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unleashed on President Donald Trump for his comments on accepting election assistance from foreign countries, with Pelosi saying Trump didn’t know “right from wrong.”
Trump told ABC News that he would be open to receiving foreign intelligence on election opponents.
“It’s not interference. They have information. I think I’d take it,” the president said, before suggesting it was opposition research.
“What the president said last night shows clearly once again over and over again that he does not know the difference between right and wrong,” Pelosi said. “And that’s probably the nicest thing I can say about him.”
“If he doesn’t know the difference, it could explain some of this ridiculous behavior,” Pelosi said.
CNN’s John Avlon was apoplectic:
Avlon noted “in Washington’s farewell address he warned ‘history and experience teach us that foreign influence is the foe of Republican government.’” He then added how Alexander Hamilton talked in Federalist Paper #68 about the “danger of foreign influence elevating someone to the executive.” “Also, Adams and Jefferson wrote about it. This is basic.”
“What Donald Trump did was the Founding Fathers’ worst nightmare,” Avlon concluded.
The moronic Steve Cohen about blew out an artery:
Cohen further speculated that Trump would then try to explain away his actions by saying all members of Congress do oppo research when in reality no member of Congress has likely been offered up oppo research by a foreign entity.
“He’s so wacko,” Cohen fumed. “Last week, it was go to Mars and forget the Moon. A month ago, it was go to the Moon.”
They threw Trump right into the briar patch. Right where he wanted to be. They missed something yuge.
This is what hillary clinton and the DNC did to Trump in the 2016 election.
Mark Warner, no stranger to the Russians, basically admitted it:
“But I would say this, when I had contact with someone that, that’s been reported, first thing I did was, of course I contacted the FBI,” Warner said. He also notified the members of his committee, contrary to Trump’s attack.
“Republicans this morning are also equating Christopher Steele’s work as a former British agent, and his effort to help take up dirt in Hillary Clinton’s campaign, saying she should have contacted the FBI. Is there even an analogy here?” Raju asked.
“I would say on going forward basis, if there are foreign agents trying to intervene in our election, there are to be an affirmative obligation for any presidential candidate to report to the FBI,” Warner said.
“Going forward” says Warner. Let’s not look back at what hillary and the DNC did. Steele is the very definition of foreign agent.
And Pelosi? She did exactly what Trump wanted her to do. What, you ask? Right here:
Pelosi: Democrats will take up measure to ban foreign opposition research
“There is a law that you cannot accept contributions and that includes in-kind from a foreign government,” Pelosi said. “But if it needs more clarity than we will go to the ‘duty to report.’ Not only that you don’t accept it, but you report it to the FBI.”
Pelosi called such research “an invitation of of our democracy” and said Democrats want to make it illegal.
“We want to make sure it has more clarity and a responsibility to report.”
You will remember that Trump has repeatedly said what happened to him “should never happen to another President.”
Did Pelosi left a finger to begin that effort?
Nah.
So Trump said something outrageous enough to compel Pelosi to act. He suggested that he might do to the next democrat Presidential candidate what was done to him. He might do what Clinton and the DNC did- use foreign oppo research from a foreign spy with Russian disinformation in an attempt to prevent Trump from being elected and then try to remove him from office for a hoax the Clinton campaign and the DNC fabricated.
Pelosi and democrats were content to let this happen to Trump, thus they weren’t going to to help him stop these activities until such time as those actions could visit harm on a democrat candidate.
That’s a no no and Pelosi was not going to allow it, so she says she will take up legislation to prevent it.
Which is exactly what Trump wanted in the first place. If Pelosi’s legislation passes, it will be what Trump sought.
This was like watching DaVinci paint.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
@Deplorable Me:
“No, actually you haven’t. You have, as you always do, presented propaganda.”
The Factcheck piece speaks for itself, with citations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, S&P Dow Jones Indices, and the U.S. Treasury among a slew of others. I’ll allow readers here to surmise who is sharing facts and who is spreading propaganda.
I get a big kick out of that Gateway Pundit link you shared that compares Obama’s first two years, immediately following a harrowing economic downturn, with Trump’s first two years, when the economy was already on the rebound. I think you’ve been called out before how disingenuous the piece is. You’re familiar with the term “fool’s errand?”
Your other links paint a portrait of a growing economy, which is great for America. But inheriting a nightmare of an economy and turning it around — as Obama did and as is supported by the citations in the Factcheck.org piece — is light years away from riding on coattails.
@Gary Miller: I get a kick out of you praising Obama with a 20% increase in home prices… after they plummeted 50%. He was so stupid, he wanted to bring back the Community Reinvestment Act, which CAUSED the massive recession!
No question Obama took over an economy in distress. But there was no “rebound”. That was the spectacular thing about his administration; the rebound from a recession is almost always strong and fast. Not Obama’s. It lumbered along. His “stimulus” did nothing but reward his campaign contributors and supporters. He even laughed out loud at what a joke the “shovel ready jobs” was, there not being any and there never was any. He pushed Obamacare through before he lost his super majority and that HURT the economy, strangling full time job creation, throttling expansion and raising health care costs. Obama did everything he could in his first two years to STOP growth while Trump has reversed that insanity and has done all he can to GENERATE growth.
Obama was an economic idiot, as is anyone that tries to spread the lies that denies it.
@Deplorable Me, #42:
That’s a totally clueless statement. The Troubled Asset Relief Program of 2008 and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 were both drastic emergency measures, and probably all that kept The Great Recession from turning into The Second Great Depression. We were, in fact, teetering on the brink.
Chart Book: The Legacy of the Great Recession
When the next economic disaster comes, as it most certainly will, we won’t have the tools necessary to respond so effectively. We will already have cut taxes to levels that make it impossible to pay the bills, so it won’t be possible to cut them further as a stimulus measure; we won’t be able to lower interest rates, because we’ve already suppressed them; nor will there be room to safely run higher deficits, because we’re already approaching a trillion-per-year with the economy spinning like a top. You will then see the economy-boosting effect of stimulus spending demonstrated by our inability to engage in it.
Compare the economic conditions Obama found the day he took office with economic conditions that existed on the day he left eight years later. The statement about him is idiotic. It’s the kind of b.s. that has to be promoted to put Donald Trump in a favorable light.
We’re being set up for another crash, by irresponsible actions and unsustainable tax policies that are facilitating another gigantic cash grab.
Even if that were true, would it fall under the heading of an achievement? To my thinking, it would be more like bragging about a symptom of severe family dysfunction. We’re supposed to be a nation. I honestly don’t get it.
@Greg:
No, it isn’t. It is a fact. Obama took almost a billion dollars and wasted it. He supported unions and his campaign buddies while unemployment continued to soar, eventually reaching 10.2%. Obama promised his “stimulus” would keep unemployment from ever reaching 8%. He was, and the results prove, either a liar or an idiot. Those are the choices, there is no debate.
Not that any Democrats or very many Republicans care, but I guess they would just have to cut spending, wouldn’t they?
By two years of Obama’s reign, the economy should have been where it is today. Obama did all he could, it seemed, to assure it wouldn’t. The only way Obama’s reign can be considered a success is if he TRIED to keep the economy strangled. If was actually trying to restore it, he failed miserably.
You don’t seem to have much understanding of the seriousness of what happened as a result of the 2007-2008 recession. I recall people here not understanding that it was a global event. They were trying to tell me that The Great Depression was not a global event. It struck me at the time that this was an extension of the GOP’s denial through most of 2008 that there was anything fundamentally wrong with the economy. It was like insisting nothing was seriously wrong when you could see that a wing was about to come off an airplane. And now, a decade later, it has become as if nothing serious even happened; as if Obama didn’t come into office in the middle of a seriously dangerous and worsening crisis, with an economic train wreck in progress on one side and an interminable, enormously expensive oversea war funded by borrowing on the other.
@Greg: I understand completely but Obama pursued his socialist agenda instead of restoring the economy. The economy merely healed itself in spite of the damage he heaped upon it. He should have had a ROARING come back instead of weak, lumbering survival.
@retire05, #41:
What year did any republican president reduce the national debt?
It’s not a change of subject. As we should all understand, annual deficits and the cumulative national debt are two aspects of the same problem. Debt results from spending more than you have coming in. If you continue the behavior, your total debt increases. For individuals, it’s the path to financial enslavement. For states and nations, it’s the path to decline or disaster.
@Greg: If you want the debt reduced,direct the goddamn Democrats to cooperate on budgets and spending cuts. Then if it doesn’t happen, you can blame Republicans. Till then, the debt belongs to Democrats.