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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-election-hacking-nothing_us_5905f3b7e4b0bb2d086f397b?ncid=engmodushpmg0000000404/30/2017 12:21 pm ET
Hacking of the Democratic National Committees computers and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podestas email during the 2016 presidential campaign had nothing to do with us, President Donald Trump told John Dickerson on CBSs Face the Nation Sunday.
Had nothing to do with this, and everyone knows it, the president added.
But thats not what intelligence information has shown. The U.S. intelligence community has argued, both publicly and via anonymous leaks in the press, that Russia interfered in the election in an effort to help Trump win. But Trump refuses to accept that, too. Ill go along with Russia, Trump told Dickerson immediately before speculating that the hacking also couldve been China, couldve been a lot of different groups.
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Seriously?? Now, it's China's fault. Wow, dude is delusional.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)administration are.
Cha
(297,120 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)what the speaker says, no more, no less, to understand his lies and obfuscations.
http://www.statementanalysis.com/
In this case, Trump uses the general pronoun "this" without explicit antecedent; he refers to a vague "us" to disperse personal guilty knowledge; and he deliberately uses confusing sentence structures.
As to the last: If the subject is the "hacking," Trump replied, "had nothing to do with us."
What, then, does the following "Had nothing to do with this" mean? No subject, no reference for "this."
"Everyone knows it." Trump cannot know what "everyone knows," and again, he uses a pronoun ("it" without clear antecedent.
All of the above is to say: Don't try to figure out "what Trump means."
It's "how" and "why." The "how" is to speak in meaningless vagueness with "this," "it," and "could've been."
The "why" is to lie to your face and get away with it.
iluvtennis
(19,844 posts)..vague intentions.
NewDealProgressive
(98 posts)So they're admitting that something happened but they had nothing to do with it.
That's a step in the right direction.
oasis
(49,370 posts)Drip, drip, drip.
trusty elf
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Skittles
(153,141 posts)TRAITOROUS BASTARD
C Moon
(12,212 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,648 posts)The denials always preceed the indictments....