Trump: "I Think it Was Russia"

a reply to: worlds_away

I respect the voters. Of course. My fellow Americans.
I have my opinion of the man to which I'm entitled.
I don't think he's qualified. I believe he's a loose cannon and dangerous.
There's no secret written between the lines. It's pretty straight forward.
And please don't tell me more Americans felt differently because we both know thats not true.

a reply to: Sillyolme and others



I left the USA years ago. But I cannot just sit back because the USA is not a tiny dot in the ocean it is one of the richest countries in the world with a level of influence that is truly global. If for example the USA goes into recession the rest of the world will follow with some countries going into recession. That is why the antics of a president elect and a president are of vital importance to us.

Sorry if I come across as lecturing.

a reply to: banjobrain


What? Who? Manbehindthemask a conservative? WTF! I have been giving him stars!! I m a liberal ( = Mr live and let live, Try to get on with everyone by not being rude or boorish unnecessarily).

Still I see some good posts here. Some conservatives are OK.

a reply to: Vector99

Let's just ignore the two step where he doesn't actually ever answer any of those questions.

m.youtube.com...

originally posted by: Tiger5
a reply to: Sillyolme and others



I left the USA years ago. But I cannot just sit back because the USA is not a tiny dot in the ocean it is one of the richest countries in the world with a level of influence that is truly global. If for example the USA goes into recession the rest of the world will follow with some countries going into recession. That is why the antics of a president elect and a president are of vital importance to us.

Sorry if I come across as lecturing.

🍻 it's all ok

a reply to: Sillyolme

Really...

So CNN should just make something up then because they are mad they got ignored and called out?

originally posted by: Vector99
Now as you can clearly see and will blatantly ignore, CNN clipped together pieces of an entire press conference into a few quotes, which were responses to different questions at different times. However, they spin it as if it were one sentence, one question in a contextual manner, when indeed it isn't.

Liberal logic is amazing, props on being the first one!

originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask

originally posted by: khnum
a reply to: JinMI

Sorry wrong poster,but his debt to asset ratio is very healthy its doubtful a foreign entity could financially comprimise him

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No , its not, Not even close almost 1/2 billion in debt is not a healthy debt ratio, even for a man who says hes worth as much as he is..........

OK I have seen this happen in real life with a company valued at $3 billion.

The Bank reviewed the debt (Upwards) and raised the interest rate by 3% despite the company always meeting their monthly payments. Within the same financial quarter the bank then reviewed the properties held as assets and then revalued them downwards. The overall effect bust the company.

(Sarcasm alert) This could never happen to the Donald as he has no property assets!! He also went bankrupt several times since 1990.

a reply to: Sillyolme

You may not think he's qualified, but he won. Love him or hate him, he beat a ton of competition. You say you respect the voters, I'm not so sure.

Since you've brought it up: In American elections, correct me if I'm wrong, the popular vote means nothing. And I can't be any more sure than you can every single Americans feelings on the issue, only those who voted. Maybe those opinions are the only ones who matter? He still won the election.

originally posted by: reldra

originally posted by: khnum
Where was the outrage in 2015 when China hacked US government databases of 22.1 million individuals confidential information,were any Senators talking about throwing rocks at China?

This is 2016 and the topic is Russia, the US election and the President Elect's relationship with that government. Shall we stay focused?

You are referencing and sourcing talking points from the press conference, that was one of them.

sigh... nevermind, not worth it. have fun in your reality.

No matter what trump said : where is the F**king proof !

Give me some evidence and I show you why it's fake.

originally posted by: pirhanna
Really, thats the nature of world politics. Every country tries to influence elections in other countries. Lord knows ours is all up in everyones business all the time. Obama attempted to influence the Brexit vote openly for effs sake.

So what is crossing the line? Id say that election rigging is that line. If they didnt do that, then its really moot. Clinton lost the election because she was a terrible excuse for a candidate with a crate full of dark skeletons.

Clinton won the popular vote didn't she? That crate full of skeletons, are they all real or are they as real as a Russian Golden shower?

a reply to: worlds_away

You are not wrong.

Popular vote in presidential election counts only so far as to accumulate Electoral College votes.

So it's only within each state that the popular vote matters at all, that and everything else on the ballot. Only in the Presidential election does the total popular vote not matter. Trump could have lost by 10 million votes...as long as he scored his votes in the right states, he still wins.

Unfortunately, he did. Fortunately, she did not... Meh. He's the Pres., or will be next week, whether I, or anyone else, likes it or not.

Instead of whining, incessantly, about it, perhaps we, those who didn't especially want him elected, could consider ways to actually help him succeed, and perhaps mitigate any damage he might do. But that'd probably be too easy...wouldn't it, oh incessant whiners?

FYI, I wasn't necessarily calling you an incessant whiner.

To return to the OP. It is better that Trump has now acknowledged the obvious. Better late than never I suppose. It is just that some of us were way ahead of him on that one.

a reply to: reldra

Trump ALWAYS new it was Russia behind the WiliLeaks hacks. Jeez, he even called on Russia, publically, since they did such a good job with the DNC, to see if they could hack/find Hillary Clinton's Secretary of State emails!

He believes that Russia will stop, simply due to his willing it.

Trump also said that Russia would never annex the Crimean Peninsula while he was president either. Then he found out that they already had! LOL!

originally posted by: reldra

originally posted by: khnum
Where was the outrage in 2015 when China hacked US government databases of 22.1 million individuals confidential information,were any Senators talking about throwing rocks at China?

This is 2016 and the topic is Russia, the US election and the President Elect's relationship with that government. Shall we stay focused?

Not anymore.

originally posted by: Vector99

originally posted by: reldra

originally posted by: khnum
Where was the outrage in 2015 when China hacked US government databases of 22.1 million individuals confidential information,were any Senators talking about throwing rocks at China?

This is 2016 and the topic is Russia, the US election and the President Elect's relationship with that government. Shall we stay focused?

You are referencing and sourcing talking points from the press conference, that was one of them.

sigh... nevermind, not worth it. have fun in your reality.

But the topic is not the entire event.

He just had the intelligence briefing the day before he said that, why would he have commented before the info anyway ? Question is why did it get leaked to NBC ? Why are the democrats leaking secret info to the media ?

I think you may be one of the suckers falling for this establishment propaganda. ( If I read you correctly)

If it is not an elaborate show, then the current segment of the establishment does not want Trump and also wants war with Russia.

All this rhetoric kills two birds with one stone.

originally posted by: Arizonaguy
Part of the art of the deal is being able to bluff. sometimes you have inside information. Instead of ridiculing Trump, perhaps you should be asking who is he attempting to bluff? Could be Putin, could be the media, it could be people like you.

From all accounts it looks like he is trying to bluff people like you. IE Trump supporters.

a reply to: MysticPearl

The OPs argument doesn't hold weight because it's not 2016 when this started?? Trump only admitted this yesterday. May I recommend laying off the mimosa's in the morning? SMH