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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsthe new rightwing meme: trump was joking about russia hacking....
they really think we're stupid, folks.
trump surrogate steve cortez just put forth the same bullshit on m$nbc
Newt Gingrich says Donald Trump was joking about Hillary Clintons e-mails
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/07/27/newt-gingrich-says-donald-trump-was-joking-about-hillary-clinton-mails/vx5Ml4OXKJmfIcFMaDv6BK/story.html
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)spanone
(135,958 posts)Satch59
(1,353 posts)And he tweeted and doubled down... I don't mind if this is cutting into convention prep...this needs to be blasted all day and then we'll have the superstar line up to underscore what a disaster he is.
patricia92243
(12,607 posts)Blanks
(4,835 posts)If he really has the kind of debt in Russia that they're talking, they'll go down with him if it gets a lot of attention.
Skinner
(63,645 posts)emulatorloo
(44,276 posts)spanone
(135,958 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,520 posts)Does he need you to tell us what he means? Seems rather weak.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)lapfog_1
(29,244 posts)it wasn't a joke.
Second, the russian hack of the DNC email (then given to wikileaks) has nothing to do with the private server that Hillary used while SecState.
I knew they were going to conflate the issues...
The hack of the DNC emails were not classified information, they were emails between staffers at the DNC. They showed nothing illegal. They were disgusting only because of the tenor of the emails and the "fiction" of DNC neutrality in the primary battle.
Wounded Bear
(58,799 posts)I'm pretty sure. On a par with the Watergate break-in.
lapfog_1
(29,244 posts)going on at the DNC. Repugnant perhaps, unfair, most likely, but not illegal.
Wounded Bear
(58,799 posts)the content is immaterial to whether or not there was a crime. The crime was the hacking.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)if contacted by Putin and was told, "You asked, we are prepared to deliver."
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Remember this one?
sofa king
(10,857 posts)He just asked a foreign nuclear power to commit espionage for him. That's as funny as a "Prison Bitch" tattoo, which Trump may wind up sporting, some day.
malaise
(269,365 posts)Too late
spanone
(135,958 posts)2naSalit
(87,012 posts)as the punchline, right?
Fuckwads, we are hip to the stench on your crock of poo... he was not joking, was as serious as a heart attack which he seemed to be near to having as he tried to deflect and spin as he realized he can't squirm out of this one with ease.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)We don't believe it of course, but GOPers will believe the lying Newt.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)If her deleted emails are just personal stuff, then where's the 'national security' concern? And if there were a concern, why is everyone calling the email thing 'unimportant'? (That's the setup; I'm not asking for an explanation.) It can't be both.
Now, on the third day of the DNC, all media is talking about...Donald Trump. And almost everyone here plays into it because people are SO SURE that they've got him 'this time' that they don't see what his game is (or when they do, they just can't help but jump in feetfirst before thinking the whole thing through). It'd be hilarious if it wasn't happening to us. ...okay, to be fair it IS hilarious to the media too, primarily because the Medes have betrayed us so often that any taste of Schadenfreude for them is a good thing, but after that it loses its humor.
But he'll use this tactic all the way to the White House if people don't start to clue in to what he's doing. He's using your polarization training against you, and he's really good at it (in a sick, disgusting, slimy sort of way).
spanone
(135,958 posts)the media is gonna report on him anytime he's on teevee. when they bring in giuliani and newt to explain trump, he's stepped in it.
duncang
(1,907 posts)The talking head repubs say he is joking, but then out of the other side of their mouths say he says what he means. Get your story straight it's not both.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,514 posts)few hours to get their shit straight. If fascism doesn't win on November. My hope is this fat fuck hypocrite Gingrich is shun forever for tying himself to this this piece of shit white supremacist.... I doubt it. But i can still hope.
nolabear
(42,009 posts)"Oh, you have no sense of humor. You're just too stupid to get it. Geez, can't you even get that right?"
In Trump's case not only does he do it but his lackeys are doing it for him.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)'It was a tongue in cheek comment" ... "he was pointing to Clinton's criminality jokingly" ..... on and on an on ... every moron out thre appears to be buying it hook, line, and sinker
spanone
(135,958 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,843 posts)Further adventures in back-pedaling.
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)And there is no room for stupid jokes as President!
Ilsa
(61,721 posts)Trump to look at recognizing Crimea as Russian territory, lifting sanctions
M_Demo_M
(158 posts)It shows that he is not fit to be commander-in-chief. You just can't make comments like that as President when the whole world watches every word you utter.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Lisa D
(1,532 posts)Especially after Trump doubled-down with that tweet after the press conference.
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)Then ask them why not
0rganism
(23,996 posts)trump's jokes never seemed all that funny to me in the first place, but now that he's actually the R nominee they are among the unfunniest shit i've ever heard
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,509 posts)they tell you not to joke because you will be taken seriously. It's been this way before 9/11 either.
Foreign policy in the race for the most powerful position in the country should be likewise.
But "I was only kidding" seems to be the fall back whenever a rightie is called out on a comment no matter how stupid, racist, sexist or homophobic it is.
Wounded Bear
(58,799 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)He's a serial philanderer just like his squeeze Drumpf.