{"id":22022,"date":"2017-05-30T18:18:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22022"},"modified":"2017-05-30T18:18:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:18:24","slug":"yep-the-russians-are-laughing-at-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22022","title":{"rendered":"Yep, the Russians are laughing at us."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump tweeted the following, apparently early this morning: “Russian officials must be laughing at the U.S. & how a lame excuse for why the Dems lost the election has taken over the Fake News.”<\/p>\n

It’s rare that I agree with the president, but I have to endorse part of the message he fired off today.<\/p>\n

They’re laughing at us, Mr. President … just not for the reason you tried to articulate in this nonsensical Twitter message.<\/p>\n

The Russians are laughing at the chaos they have created by hacking into our electoral system and by seeking to swing the 2016 presidential election in Trump’s favor.<\/p>\n

To be fair, nothing has been proven — yet — about what they might have accomplished. However, every intelligence agency and expert in many countries agree with the premise that the Russians tried to influence the election.<\/p>\n

Look at what has happened since Trump took the presidential oath.<\/p>\n

The FBI has said it is investigating whether the Trump team colluded with the Russians; the president’s son-in-law has become the subject of another probe; the Justice Department has appointed a special counsel to examine the “Russia thing”; Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from anything to do with Russia; Michael Flynn was fired as national security adviser because he lied about his own Russian contacts.<\/p>\n

They also might be chuckling and chortling over the president’s refusal to call the Russians out publicly for what all those intelligence agencies have concluded about their meddlesome ways.<\/p>\n

Are the Russians laughing at us? You’re damn right they are!<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump tweeted the following, apparently early this morning: “Russian officials must be laughing at the U.S. & how a lame excuse for why the Dems lost the election has taken over the Fake News.” It’s rare that I agree with the president, but I have to endorse part of the message he fired … Continue reading Yep, the Russians are laughing at us.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,6386,2434,2617,6718,6781,7094],"class_list":["post-22022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi-probe","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-justice-department","tag-michael-flynn","tag-nsc","tag-russia-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22026,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22022\/revisions\/22026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}