Current Events > Trump: I'm 'concerned' Russia may interfere in midterms to help Democrats

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President Trump on Tuesday said he is "very concerned" that Russia will attempt to interfere in this year's midterm elections, claiming Moscow "will be pushing very hard" to support Democrats.

Im very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely dont want Trump!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2018

The tweet is the latest in a week's worth of mixed messages Trump has sent on Russia since he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin last Monday.

Trump stood next to Putin in Helsinki and cast doubt on the U.S. intelligence communitys conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the intention of helping to elect Trump. He blasted the special counsel's investigation into Russian meddling as a "witch hunt" and said Putin offered a "strong and powerful" denial.

He has since attempted to backtrack on those remarks and express confidence in the intelligence community, but muddled his corrections with repeated claims that the meeting with Putin was unfairly covered, that others besides Moscow could have been involved in election meddling and that the Russian interference is a big hoax.

Trump also appeared to tell reporters no when asked last week whether he believed Russia was still a threat. However, the White House later claimed he was saying no to answering additional questions.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned shortly before Trump's meeting with Putin that warning signs were "blinking red" to indicate Russia was preparing to launch another cyberattack.

Trump has regularly claimed that no president has been tougher on Russia than him, but he has drawn bipartisan criticism for his reluctance to call out Putin, particularly on the matter of election interference.

Administration officials have, in many cases, seemed to work around Trumps rhetoric. They note the administration has armed Ukrainians, bombed Syria, expelled Russian diplomats and even implemented new sanctions, to which Trump first objected.

Meanwhile, Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) have co-authored a bill that would hit Russia with additional sanctions if it is found to have interfered in future elections. The senators have requested a committee vote on the legislation by early next month.

The president has also frequently told reporters that he believes improved relations with Russia would be a positive development, and said prior to departing for Europe earlier this month that he hoped Putin could someday be a friend.

At the press conference in Finland, Putin told reporters he wanted Trump to win the 2016 election.

"Yes, I did, because he was the one who wanted to normalize relations with Russia, Putin said.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/398566-trump-im-concerned-russia-may-interfere-in-election-to-help-democrats
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It's to get his idiot base more riled up and motivated to go out and vote this mid-terms, most sane people with an actual brain aren't buying that bullshit.

0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/76837240

Oh thanks. Did a quick search, always happens that I miss a keyword or something.
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But not when it helped the alt right
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Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me

LOL x infinity
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iPhone_7 posted...

Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me

LOL x infinity

Even Donald Trump is stealing DE's gimmick now too
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It's about throwing the first accusation. Then if the Republicans win and Democrats claim Russia helped them, he can say "you're just deflecting it back on us, they were trying to help you, I said that ages ago". Either that, or exposing the hypocrisy if Democrats do win, and are under such accusations, and just claim "nah that's fake, who cares" after spending ages whining about how Russian hacking supposedly helped Trump. (He probably didn't quite realise yet that conservatives will likewise be up in arms about it, after spending ages saying "nah, that's fake, who cares" about Russians allegedly helping the Republicans, thus exposing their hypocrisy too).

Anyone who's been paying even a smidge of attention to the matter, but hasn't been ignoring anything that doesn't confirm their pre-existing bias, would know that Russia's interferers care more about division in general than they do about supporting any specific candidate / party.
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It's a game for him leading to 2020.

Democrats will probably win most of everything and he knows, so when they do, he can use the wins as narration to his "Russia is for the democrats" bitching. Then when democrats stop him, stall him, and his already-passed policies come crashing down because they pretty much set up a bomb with delayed negative impacts, it will give him a riding wave into re-election because "the democrats aren't letting me maintain the healthy economy from before 2018, with the help of Putin!"

Just watch.
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