{"id":34067,"date":"2017-03-03T13:14:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34067"},"modified":"2017-03-03T14:04:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T22:04:21","slug":"srsly-trumps-utterly-idiotic-reason-to-investigate-ties-to-russia-lets-call-his-bluff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34067","title":{"rendered":"SRSLY? Trump&#8217;s Utterly Idiotic Reason To Investigate &#8216;Ties To Russia&#8217; &#8211; Let&#8217;s Call His Bluff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence of Donald Trump&#8217;s unsavory connections to Vladimir Putin and Russia are continuing to mount. Most recently his new Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, was revealed to have given false testimony at his confirmation hearing. He said that he had not met with Russian officials during the campaign, but now admits that wasn&#8217;t true. These revelations have ignited renewed efforts to appoint a special prosecutor to look into every aspect of the Trump administration&#8217;s relationship with Russia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tweet-schumer-putin.jpg\" alt=\"Schumer Putin\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34070\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1645084715506317\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now Trump himself is proposing an investigation of sorts. In a tweet that must have gotten past his handlers, Trump said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We should start an immediate investigation into <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenSchumer<\/a> and his ties to Russia and Putin. A total hypocrite! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ik3yqjHzsA\">pic.twitter.com\/Ik3yqjHzsA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/837722869106880517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>SRSLY? The photo in Trump&#8217;s tweet is of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sharing a donut with Putin at the opening of a gas station in New York. It was the first domestic franchise station owned by a Russian oil company. They were essentially participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the new business.<\/p>\n<p>So Trump wants to probe Sen. Schumer&#8217;s <em>&#8220;ties to Russia and Putin&#8221;<\/em> because they were sharing Crispy Cremes at a public event? That is hardly comparable to AG Sessions <em>&#8220;forgetting&#8221;<\/em> about a private meeting with the Russian ambassador in his office. And Schumer didn&#8217;t misinform a senate committee while under oath.<\/p>\n<p>The picture Trump tweeted appears to have been dredged up by Gateway Pundit, a notoriously unreliable source. It went from there to the Drudge Report and other wingnut blogs. That&#8217;s presumably where Trump found it. Then, without the least bit of coherent thought, he blasted it out to his 26 million (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/02\/07\/trumps-twitter-followers-data\/#bhIEZCqcWaqg\" target=\"_blank\">mostly fake<\/a><\/strong>) Twitter followers.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Schumer had an appropriate reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happily talk re: my contact w Mr. Putin &amp; his associates, took place in &#39;03 in full view of press &amp; public under oath. Would you &amp;your team? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yXgw3U8tmQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/yXgw3U8tmQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/837730437564936192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Indeed. If Trump wants to initiate an investigation we should eagerly accommodate him. Call his bluff. Let&#8217;s appoint a special prosecutor with a mandate to delve into everything related to the Russian connections of candidates and politicians. That would include Trump&#8217;s alleged collusion with Russia&#8217;s election tampering. Also, his former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn&#8217;s activities during the campaign. Throw in Trump&#8217;s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, and his foreign policy advisor, Carter Page, and his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and his Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get to the bottom of all of it. In the process, I don&#8217;t think Sen. Schumer has much to worry about. But the American people deserve the truth. This is an investigation that needs to begin immediately. And let the chips fall where they may.<\/p>\n<p><em>[<strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Trump also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/837770149767827456\" target=\"_blank\">went after Nancy Pelosi<\/a><\/strong>. The offer still stands. Investigate everything, you fat coward]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence of Donald Trump&#8217;s unsavory connections to Vladimir Putin and Russia are continuing to mount. Most recently his new Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, was revealed to have given false testimony at his confirmation hearing. He said that he had not met with Russian officials during the campaign, but now admits that wasn&#8217;t true. These revelations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200,16],"tags":[1230,554,1211,1072],"class_list":["post-34067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-donald-trump","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tweet-schumer-putin.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-8Rt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66517,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66517","url_meta":{"origin":34067,"position":0},"title":"The Putin Whisperer: Trump Brags that &#8216;Putin Speaks to Me, He Doesn&#8217;t Speak to Anybody Else&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/16\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The steamy romance between Donald Trump and his favorite authoritarian dictator (besides himself), Vladimir Putin, has been a staple of the gossip rags for years. 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