{"id":47948,"date":"2020-12-19T09:34:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T17:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47948"},"modified":"2020-12-19T09:49:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T17:49:28","slug":"wtf-trump-pardons-russia-for-hacking-u-s-blames-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47948","title":{"rendered":"WTF? Trump Pardons Russia for Hacking U.S., Blames China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After days of conspicuous silence, Donald Trump has finally addressed the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/16\/politics\/us-government-agencies-hack-uncertainty\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a><\/strong> that Russia hacked into several U.S. government agencies including the Pentagon, the Treasury Department, and Homeland Security. It was a cyber attack that officials described as <em>&#8220;significant and alarming.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-putin-lap.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38123\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s appalling negligence and dereliction of duty is emblematic of his weakness as a <em>&#8220;leader,&#8221;<\/em> as well his servile relationship with Vladimir Putin. And as if to reinforce his dangerous deficiencies and suspect loyalties, Trump took to his Twitter machine to post this on Saturday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!). There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election, which is now obvious that I won big, making it an even more corrupted embarrassment for the USA. @DNI_Ratcliffe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecPompeo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SecPompeo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1340333619299147781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump is, once again, contradicting his own administration to arrive at these ludicrous conclusions. Secretary of State, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/12\/19\/pompeo-russia-behind-cyberhack-of-us-agencies-448625\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Pompeo said<\/a><\/strong> that <em>&#8220;This was a very significant effort, and I think it\u2019s the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, it wasn&#8217;t sufficient for Trump to absolve Russia of its obvious guilt. Nope, he was compelled to cast blame on China with absolutely zero evidence. And he also lashed out at the media for reporting the truth as supplied by his own intelligence agencies. And even found a way to connect this to his fantastical delusions that he won the election. But at least he got it right that this is all an <em>&#8220;embarrassment for the USA,&#8221;<\/em> although he fails to realize that he&#8217;s the reason.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to elaborate on this blatant abdication of duty, patriotism, and trust. Trump has literally given up on pretending that he is the least bit interested in the welfare of America or it&#8217;s people. He has demonstrated that previously by presiding over an utterly incompetent management of the deadly coronavirus pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 320,000 Americans.<\/p>\n<p>And now Trump is sucking up again to his BFF Putin who he has never once been able to criticize. Whether it was Russia&#8217;s interference in the 2016 election, or his placing bounties on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan, Trump has reliably come to Putin&#8217;s defense. So it leaves us with one pressing question: Whose side is Trump on?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter recently suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Thanks for your support.<\/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\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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>After days of conspicuous silence, Donald Trump has finally addressed the report that Russia hacked into several U.S. government agencies including the Pentagon, the Treasury Department, and Homeland Security. It was a cyber attack that officials described as &#8220;significant and alarming.&#8221; Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram. Trump&#8217;s appalling negligence and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38123,"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":[1,1200,8,13,16],"tags":[554,1211,1072],"class_list":["post-47948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-scandalous","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-putin-lap.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ctm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55024,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55024","url_meta":{"origin":47948,"position":0},"title":"James Carville Whales on CNN&#8217;s GOP Pundit and Republicans Who Worship Putin","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/8\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the most bizarre perversions of rational policy making in the era of Donald Trump has been the embrace by Trump, and his tainted Republican Party, of Russia and its murderous dictator, Vladimir Putin. 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