Fox News Host: Trump ‘Sounds Insane’ on Latest Russian Meddling Denial
The president left a normally supportive Fox News host baffled after saying Russia is not still trying to interfere with U.S. elections.

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With one simple contraction—“wouldn’t”—President Donald Trump got Fox News back on his side. And then hours later, with the word “no,” he seems to have lost them all over again.

Asked by a reporter, during a Wednesday afternoon cabinet meeting, if Russia is “still targeting the U.S.,” Trump replied: “Thank you very much, no.”

From there, with his arms folded defiantly, he declared, “There's been no president ever as tough as I have been on Russia.”

After playing that clip on Fox News’ Outnumbered, co-host Melissa Francis seemed utterly baffled as she said that when the question was asked of Trump, “All he said was ‘no,’ which sounds insane.”

“It does sound insane,” agreed the panel show’s lone Democrat for the day, Jake Maccoby, a former speechwriter for Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch.

“It could be that he believes we’re stopping the meddling at this point,” Francis speculated, attempting to inject some hope into the confusion.

When Maccoby suggested she was “working hard to make it sound reasonable,” Francis pushed back: “It doesn’t sound remotely reasonable and I’m not trying to say it sounds reasonable.”

“It sounds insane,” she reiterated. “To deny that Russia is trying to meddle, and has been forever, would be totally insane,” she repeated.

Meanwhile, moderator Harris Faulkner tried to downplay the whole incident, saying, “I don’t know that we caught in totality what the question was, but it did sound like the question was ‘Do you believe Russia?’ or ‘Is Russia still meddling?’

The question, which can be heard clearly in the video was, verbatim: “Is Russia still targeting the U.S., Mr. President?”

But Faulkner’s attempt was nothing compared to the take co-host Jillian Mele “spitballed” in the moment.

“You know how many times over the course of the last year and a half we’ve heard the president say, ‘I’m going to let other countries know what I’m doing, I’m not going to tell you my plan,’” she remarked. “Do you think, and again, just spitballing here, do you think that perhaps this could be part of his plan?”
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First thing first, Russia meddled in our elections for the past three elections. Pray, tell why our intelligence agencies didn't take decisive action at those times? The last time the Russians meddled was in 2016. The Obama administration quite specifically said Russia CANNOT influence this 2016 election. Where did Obama get that information? Everyone has heard Obama say those words. He was authorized to state that FACT by his intelligence agencies. So how come now they say the complete opposite?

Second, only one man really knows whether Trump colluded with the Russians to sway the election, that man is Donald Trump himself. He knows the truth, but he constantly hears from our intelligence agencies that they have determined he did collude with the Russians. Well if Mr. Smith was in Donald Trump's place I certainly would not believe our FBI or our CIA because Trump knows for a fact he did not. Someone is lying and he knows it isn't him.

For all, we know Putin has shown Trump information they have about the DNC. I'm sure they have access to the lost 33 million "lost" Clinton emails. I'm sure they have the information that is on the "missing" servers. Perhaps President Trump is in the process of retrieving that information.

As President Trump is a master negotiator Mr. Smith will wait a few months to ascertain the results of the meeting with the Russian president. Unlike everyone else that jumps to the wrong conclusions prematurely, Mr. Smith finds it prudent to let the stew cook awhile. As it stands now all Trumps "deals" are bearing fruit. Things are going pretty damn well here in the USA right now. You know what? I wish Obama would have had the success President Trump has had. I thought he would, but he reversed his policies in midstream.

Imagine if we could get everybody on board the Trump policies, we'd all be sitting pretty.

 

This is going to be a lot harder to defend now that it has been revealed Trump was told before he was even in office that the Russians had interfered in our elections and even shown texts. And every time he said he was not sure if Russia did it or that Putin denies it he was lying through his fucking teeth.

 

How so? President-elect Trump was relying on President Obama's solemn word Russia was not and COULD NOT affect the 2016 election, who in the hell told him that??? The VERY same agencies that "supposedly" told President-elect Trump the Russians did indeed meddle and affect the election. No wonder Trump doesn't believe them they couldn't get their story straight.

 

Kind of like you left-wing loonies, talking out of both sides of your mouths.

 

Why should I trust those bastards? They're proven liars. I trust those crooked lying incompetent motherfuckers in Washington DC about as far as I could throw them.

Fool me once...shame on you. Fool me twice...shame on me.

 

So much for the master negotiator. NK isn't getting rid of their nukes anytime soon, Putin played him like a babe in the woods and Trump looked like a beatened man at the press conference.

And then reading days later from a prepared note saying he mistakenly said would instead of wouldn't.

It looks like he's getting schooled....

 

GO USA! Patience my friend, eventually we win. Tariffs are coming down, European countries are anteing up more for Nato, the stock market is up, unemployment is at an all-time low, steel plants are reopening, marijuana stocks are going through the roof, what is there not to like? The bear has manipulated our last couple presidents, let's see how he fares against the most successful president we've had since Ronald Reagan. Trump will have a "bearskin" rug in the oval office in a year or two...

 

And which deals are those?

 

Of all the things you listed that Trump had nothing to do with, this is themost stupid. Marijuana is still illegal at the federal level and none of this "stocks going through the roof" had anything to do with Trump. Besides, all of those changes in state laws all happened way before he got into office.

 

Hey do any you Trump supporters know what Trump agreed to during his 2 hour meeting with Putin. I am seeing what Putin is saying Trump agreed to. But I can't find where Trump says what he agreed to. Can any of you Trump supporters just post that?

 

They agreed to a Thanksgiving dinner.

 

My best explanation.

 

Gutfeld gives a perfect example of why there's not a doubt in my mind that, if Trump uttered one word of public criticism of Putin in Helsinki, there would have been the same level of and from Democrats and the media (I know..."redundant"), except the message would have been "He's trying to provoke Putin into WWIII".





It's the same thing they did with North Korea.

Trump: "Rocket Man"
Libs: "Nuclear warmongerer. There's always room for diplomacy."
Trump: "OK, we'll talk."
Libs: "Aaaah, he's caving to Kim Jong Un."

 

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In the case of Putin, Trump, in order to bolster his own argument that he recived no help from the Russians, has given more credence to the denials of a known former KGB officer, suspected murder, election fraudster in his own country, invader of neighboring Crimea and, for all intents, dictator of Russia in favor of not only his own intelligence service but that of several of our allies. I can only assume one of three reasons for this.
1. Trump is in the pay of Putin.
This is born out by Eric Trump's statement that the Trump Organization revived a lot of Russian money.
2. Trump is being blackmailed by Putin and the FAB.
This is born out by the infamous but never disprove Steel dossier. Attack the source all you like but no part of the dossier has ever been disproved. It does have a much better track record than Trump in that reguard.
3. Trump's ego is so tender that any suggestion that his 2016 win was not because of public adulation throws him into convulsions of rage and must, in his mind, be attacked at all costs.


In the case of the Kim, Un is believed to be insane and is already playing with nukes. Prodding an armed lunatic is, well, crazy. And while talking was desirable, a face to face between the Kim and Trump could only serve to legitimize Un, while requiring him to do nothing. Which is exactly what happened.

 

Well, first a lot of the infamous steele dossier has been disproven.
Second, the fat fuck is the leader of north korea. He doesn't need anyone to "legitimatize" him.