PELOSI: the Russians but not top Congressional Leadership were notified of in advance

[kpete]

Link to tweet

From WAPO:

...Trump said Sunday that he had contacted two Senate Republicans, Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (N.C.) and Judiciary Chairman Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), ahead of his announcement in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. He called Burr “a great gentleman” and Graham “a very strong hawk” who “agrees with what we’re doing now.”

Asked whether he had informed Pelosi, Trump replied, “No, I didn’t. I didn’t do that. I wanted to make sure this kept secret. I don’t want to have men lost, and women. I don’t want to have people lost.”

At another point in his remarks, Trump said he was “going to notify [congressional leaders] last night, but we decided not to do that, because Washington leaks like I’ve never seen before.”

“Washington is a leaking machine,” he said. “And I told my people, we will not notify them until our great people are out — not just in, but out. I don’t want to have them greeted with firepower like you wouldn’t believe.”

[kimbutgar]

1. More evidence by Speaker Pelosi that mf45 is controlled by Putin

Just like she pointed out to him last week in that infamous picture.

[dalton99a]

3. +1. 'All roads with you lead to Putin'

[spanone]

2. K&R...👍🏼

[pwb]

4. Yea Trump is scared shitless of Putin.

He thinks it doesn't show.

[irisblue]

5. Did he call Carter, Bush & Obama? 🤔

[stopdiggin]

12. why? (nt)

[irisblue]

14. Current occupant letting previous POTUS know what is up

Like when Mr O called Shrub about Ben Ladin

[stopdiggin]

22. OK. I see your point.

although Obama's courtesy call (apparently) did not extend to all previous occupants -- but, still, kind of a classy thing to do. And Obama was that kind of guy.

(there was kind of a special circumstance with the Bush/Bin Laden thing .. with Bin Laden having become a boogie man, and a real sore spot, for Bush.)

[SlogginThroughIt]

13. Huh?

[irisblue]

15. Mr Obama called Mr Bush, did the current occupant show any class like that

Source-https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/george-bush-reacts-publicly-osama-bin-laden-death/story?id=13592860

Snip-"I was eating souffle at Rise Restaurant with Laura and two buddies," Bush said when asked what he was doing when he received the call from President Obama, according to an ABC News contributor who attended the event.

[SlogginThroughIt]

16. Ah I see.

No he didn't even let our own congress know what was goin on.

[irisblue]

18. When Pres Obama addressed the nation after 11pm on a Sunday night

The chatter on DU till the early hours was quite something.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Trump is all about shadow government.

[UniteFightBack]

7. This right here is the story. nt

[struggle4progress]

8. "We're playing 'Putin says'! Get with the program!"

[YOHABLO]

9. Oh please, Trump is just giving the middle finger to all Democrats. Back at yuh Trump.

[Maeve]

10. That's ok, the Russians say it maybe didn't happen!

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/russian-military-undercuts-trump-by-expressing-valid-doubts-about-the-reality-and-success-of-isis-raid/

“We are not aware of any assistance having being given to US Air Force flights into the air space of the Idlib de-escalation zone in this operation,” a source in the Russian defense ministry added.

[ffr]

11. K&R

Thank you POTUS Nancy Pelosi.

[kentuck]

17. Did he not notify Mitch McConnell either?

Did he notify no-one in the Congress?

[irisblue]

19. He said only Burr and Graham.

Wonder how McConnell feels about a snub like that.

[crickets]

20. He's petty as a grade schooler, without enough self perception to be embarrassed. nt

[brutus smith]

21. Time to start building the gallows.