{"id":22916,"date":"2017-07-06T21:27:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T21:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22916"},"modified":"2017-07-06T21:27:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T21:27:56","slug":"trump-remains-in-russia-meddling-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22916","title":{"rendered":"Trump remains in Russia-meddling denial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/russia-election-hacking-cia-mike-pompeo-valdimir-putin-670x388.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22918\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/russia-election-hacking-cia-mike-pompeo-valdimir-putin-670x388-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/russia-election-hacking-cia-mike-pompeo-valdimir-putin-670x388-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/russia-election-hacking-cia-mike-pompeo-valdimir-putin-670x388.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump got the question straight up and directly: Does he believe the Russians meddled in the 2016 presidential election?<\/p>\n<p>How did the president respond to the question from NBC News&#8217;s Hallie Jackson today on the eve of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany? Sure, Russia meddled, but <em>so did other nations<\/em>, according to Trump. He couldn&#8217;t say <em>which<\/em> nations. They&#8217;ve all been doing it for a long time, the president said.<\/p>\n<p>Then he sailed off into what&#8217;s becoming the classic Trump tactic: diversion, deflection and denial. He then blamed President Barack Obama&#8217;s administration for failing to do anything about Russia when it knew in <em>July<\/em> of 2016 about reports of meddling. He mentioned that the election didn&#8217;t occur until <em>November<\/em> and then asked, rhetorically of course, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t the Obama administration do anything about it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good grief, Mr. President. That&#8217;s not the question. The reporter asked about what he believes occurred and whether he stands with the U.S. intelligence agencies&#8217; assessment that Russia acted alone in seeking to corrupt the U.S. electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I fear this bodes poorly for the president&#8217;s meeting Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and whether Trump is going to confront Putin directly on what seemingly the rest of the world apparently knows: that Russia got its hands quite dirty while interfering in the election of the president of the United States.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump got the question straight up and directly: Does he believe the Russians meddled in the 2016 presidential election? How did the president respond to the question from NBC News&#8217;s Hallie Jackson today on the eve of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany? Sure, Russia meddled, but so did other nations, according to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22916\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump remains in Russia-meddling denial<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[5,14],"tags":[1424,3236,6755,5125],"class_list":["post-22916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-nbc-news","tag-russian-hacking","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916","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=22916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22919,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916\/revisions\/22919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}