How is it like Al Capone… is it the syphilitic dementia? Darn those 1930s Feds, working for the Treasury Department, part of the Executive Branch. Them and their phony wedges and their rigged witches.
“Paul Manafort, who clearly is a nice man,” Trump said. “You look at what’s going on with him, it’s like Al Capone…It’s just a sad thing. It’s a very sad thing for our country.”
Trump and Hannity have become so close that, according to reports, the two men speak daily on the telephone and Hannity has even been dubbed by some White House aides as the unofficial chief of staff within the Trump administration.
It was little surprise then that Hannity was granted the first interview following the meeting between Trump and Putin in Helsinki, Finland. Equally unsurprising was Hannity’s softball questions that allowed the president a tension free interview.
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Trump on Hannity: No Russia Collusion, Because Putin Said So
Then there’s the logic of someone who knows how extortion works, because they do have kompromat.
“They have no information on Trump. And one thing you know, if they had it, it would have been out."
This is a familiar Trump fallacy; remember how Trump answers questioners who call him racist: “I’m the least racist person you will ever know”...
Unhingery…. but then Hannity is no Boswell, but Trump seems now to be losing some of his RWNJ supporters
And then there’s that Trump deflection about Russian election interference...
Donald Trump turns to right-wing conspiracy theories when he’s cornered, and he was cornered on Monday. Standing feet away from Vladimir Putin at a press conference following their Helsinki tete-a-tete, a reporter challenged Trump to condemn Putin for Russia’s election interference, “in front of the world.”
Instead, the world watched as the President of the United States took Putin’s side against his own Justice Department and his own intelligence agencies, and launched into a rambling discourse about Hillary Clinton’s emails and a supposedly missing DNC server that hides the truth about Putin’s innocence.
“You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server. Why didn’t they take the server? Where is the server, I want to know, and what is the server saying?”
The server is saying shut up.
The “server” Trump is obsessed with is actually 140 servers, most of them cloud-based, which the DNC was forced to decommission in June of 2016 while trying to rid its network of the Russian GRU officers working to help Trump win the election, according to the figures in the DNC’s civil lawsuit against Russia and the Trump campaign. Another 180 desktop and laptop computers were also swapped out as the DNC raced to get the organization back on its feet and free of Putin’s surveillance.
But despite Trump’s repeated feverish claims to the contrary, no machines are actually missing.
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“The FBI was given images of servers, forensic copies, as well as a host of other forensic information we collected from our systems,” said Adrienne Watson, the DNC’s deputy communications director. “We were in close contact and worked cooperatively with the FBI and were always responsive to their requests. Any suggestion that they were denied access to what they wanted for their investigation is completely incorrect.”
The FBI declined comment for this story, but in testimony before the House Intelligence Committee last year, then-director James Comey said that Crowdstrike “ultimately shared with us their forensics.”
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