{"id":38549,"date":"2018-07-22T18:03:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T01:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38549"},"modified":"2018-07-23T00:27:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T07:27:28","slug":"stop-the-presses-trump-says-russian-election-interference-is-all-a-big-hoax-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38549","title":{"rendered":"STOP THE PRESSES! Trump Says Russian Election Interference is &#8216;All a Big Hoax&#8217; (Again?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This roller coaster ride is really getting ridiculous. After a week of Donald Trump swerving in every direction at once he is now taking another sharp turn toward the sort of absurdity that usually accompanies acute mental decline or senility. However, in Trump&#8217;s case it&#8217;s just more evidence of a mind that is incapable of rational thought or honesty. It&#8217;s the cognitive processes of a malignant narcissist gone wild.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-putin-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38550\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2244649162216533\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember when Trump held a news conference with Russian president Vladimir Putin and, responding to a question about whether Russia was interfering with American elections, he said <em>&#8220;I don\u2019t see any reason why it would be&#8221;<\/em> Russia? And then, after he was deservedly raked over the coals for taking the word of our enemy over the that of our intelligence community, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38494\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump back-flipped<\/a><\/strong> and said that he meant to say <em>&#8220;wouldn&#8217;t&#8221;<\/em> instead of <em>&#8220;would&#8221;<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>That was just last week. And in the aftermath of that public display of treason, Trump and his defenders in the right-wing media insisted that all along he has declared his commitment to the conclusions of the American intelligence agencies with jurisdiction over these matters. State TV (aka Fox News) even <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38518\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">put together a little propaganda video<\/a><\/strong> to drive the point home. Although in their inept sycophancy they actually proved the opposite of their intention.<\/p>\n<p>Well now Trump is back to calling all of the intelligence agencies that he so earnestly claimed to believe, liars. In a new tweet that was aimed at besmirching his arch nemesis, President Obama, he said that the claims of Russian election hacking were <em>&#8220;all a big hoax.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So President Obama knew about Russia before the Election. Why didn\u2019t he do something about it? Why didn\u2019t he tell our campaign? Because it is all a big hoax, that\u2019s why, and he thought Crooked Hillary was going to win!!!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1021158915206152193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Poor Donald just can&#8217;t seem to hold a coherent thought in his cartoon brain for more than hour. His argument is now that Obama&#8217;s failure to do anything about Russia&#8217;s cyber attack is evidence that it never took place. So is Trump saying now that he actually meant he doesn&#8217;t see why it <em>&#8220;would&#8221;<\/em> be Russia in the first place? Is he arguing that Obama should have told him about the Russian interference that he says never happened? And the lame excuse that he meant <em>&#8220;wouldn&#8217;t&#8221;<\/em> was, as Trump might say, all a big hoax?<\/p>\n<p>For the record, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/dec\/29\/barack-obama-sanctions-russia-election-hack\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Obama did plenty<\/a><\/strong> when he found out about Russia&#8217;s hacking. He ordered new sanctions against Russia that included expelling thirty-five diplomats, restricting the activities of Russian intelligence services and their operatives, and closing two compounds used by Russians in the U.S. He also admonished Putin in no uncertain terms that this behavior would not be tolerated. Notice that he didn&#8217;t ask Putin whether or not he did it. Obama simply told him forthrightly to stop. And he would have done more, but was obstructed by Mitch McConnell and Republicans in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Trump is lying when he says that Obama didn&#8217;t tell him about the hacking. Trump was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/18\/world\/europe\/trump-intelligence-russian-election-meddling-.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">personally informed<\/a><\/strong> of the election tampering by Obama administration national security officials. So now he&#8217;s denying that the disclosures he personally participated in took place. This is not a failure of memory. This a deliberate lie. We know this because he was reminded of it just four days ago by the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The brazen and corrupt dishonesty of Donald Trump is on scale never before seen in American politics. And what&#8217;s even more frightening is that his glassy-eyed disciples will believe anything he says no matter how ludicrous and contradicted by demonstrable facts. Add to that the traitorous complicity of the Republican Party as whole and we have the makings of a constitutional crisis. The Congress needs to step up and hold Trump accountable. And the only solution at this late date is impeachment and removal from office. And if Congress won&#8217;t remove Trump, then the American people will remove Congress.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This roller coaster ride is really getting ridiculous. After a week of Donald Trump swerving in every direction at once he is now taking another sharp turn toward the sort of absurdity that usually accompanies acute mental decline or senility. However, in Trump&#8217;s case it&#8217;s just more evidence of a mind that is incapable of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38550,"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":false,"_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":[1,1200,8,13],"tags":[183,554,33,1211,1072],"class_list":["post-38549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-scandalous","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-putin-2016.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-a1L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66345,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66345","url_meta":{"origin":38549,"position":0},"title":"Trump Admits that He Has Been Protecting Vladimir Putin and Russia From &#8216;Really Bad Things&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/27\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The evidence that Donald Trump has been perhaps the best investment that Vladimir Putin ever made is difficult to dismiss. 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