Denial, not just a river in Egypt anymore. But the GOP is going to desperately come up with … reasons. Because the IC doesn’t know what Trump knows, or so says David Perdue:
Darn that Derp State
As Paste’s Roger Sollenberger wrote earlier today, Trump’s press conference with Putin amounted to treason.
Our president offered full support to Putin, a despot whose country directly fucked with our elections in order to hopefully put that president in office.
Trump took Putin’s side against the US’s own intelligence agencies, who all agree that Russia actively tried to sway the 2016 election.
Obama was heavily criticized for his entire presidency by the right for some kind of “global apology” tour that only happened in their heads; meanwhile their guy goes out of his way to piss off America’s allies and suck up to a dangerous tyrant like Putin, and it’s still impossible to think the Republicans or their base will try to hold it against Trump in any meaningful way.
This might be the ultimate case of It’s Okay if You’re a Republican ever seen: that farcical excuse apparently extends all the way up to presidents who defends foreign rivals over America’s long-time allies and own institutions.
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The best some RWNJs can come up with is that Agent Orange’s toadying to Putin is part of waging a war with that elusive bogeyman, the deep state, because Peter Strzok must be a supervillain, walking around as free as… a Twitter-bird
On Fox News, intelligence analyst Daniel Hoffman compared Trump’s suggestion that Russia and the U.S. could work together on cybersecurity to “inviting a criminal to help solve a crime that you know that they committed,” national correspondent Ed Henry said the president’s refusal to support the conclusions of his own intelligence services “seems like it is going to backfire on him,” and Mary Kissel of the Wall Street Journal editorial board said her takeaway from the press conference was “unfortunately” that “President Putin scored a great propaganda victory.”
On Fox Business, longtime Fox News host Neil Cavuto—who has also been critical of Trump on other occasions, for what it’s worth—called the press conference “disgusting.” Said Cavuto: “It’s not a right or left thing to me, it’s just wrong. A U.S. president on foreign soil talking to our biggest enemy, or adversary, or competitor—I don’t know how we define them these days—is essentially letting the guy get away with this and not even offering a mild criticism. That sets us back a lot.”