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Let’s try to speak with some clarity on this Russian meddling matter and whether the president of the United States actually believes the U.S. intelligence agencies’ assessment of the situation.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump said Monday he had no reason to believe the Russians would have attacked our 2016 election system.<\/p>\n

Then today he said he had no reason to believe the Russians would not have done it.<\/p>\n

Oh, but then he said that maybe “others” did it, too, all while expressing full faith and confidence in the CIA, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies’ belief in their conclusions about Russian meddling.<\/p>\n

As The Hill reported<\/a>: \u201cI accept our intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election took place,\u201d Trump said, reading from a prepared statement in front of reporters at the White House.<\/em><\/p>\n

But he added: \u201cCould be other people also. A lot of people out there.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Read my lips, Mr. President: Our spooks say the Russians<\/em> did it! They did it by themselves. They had no help. There was no “400-pound guy lying on his bed.” The 29-page indictment handed down identifies 12 Russian military officers as the culprits … allegedly.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have to ask, Mr. President: Do you support our intelligence network fully, or not?<\/p>\n

And many of us are still waiting for a full-throated condemnation of Vladimir Putin and his Russian hierarchy for launching their attack on our political system, which the president took an oath to defend.<\/p>\n\n

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Let’s try to speak with some clarity on this Russian meddling matter and whether the president of the United States actually believes the U.S. intelligence agencies’ assessment of the situation. Donald Trump said Monday he had no reason to believe the Russians would have attacked our 2016 election system. Then today he said he had … Continue reading Nice try, Mr. President … but there was no one else<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[74,989,1424,1693,7162,4762,5125],"class_list":["post-31055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-election","tag-cia","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-russian-meddling","tag-the-hill","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31055","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=31055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31058,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31055\/revisions\/31058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}