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NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts)
Wed May 10, 2017, 12:46 PM May 2017

He's mocking us - Slate - "Trump Also Just Met With Henry Kissinger -

, aka Richard Nixon’s National Security Adviser

By Ben Mathis-Lilley

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/05/10/henry_kissinger_in_oval_office_reporters_say.html


Pool brought into the Oval. It's Trump and ... Kissinger. pic.twitter.com/1F1CPO4kQw

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) May 10, 2017
This is truly incredible: Less than a day after firing his FBI director in Nixonian fashion amid reports that federal authorities have issued subpoenas related to the investigation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's potential connections to Russian sabotage of the 2016 election, Donald Trump just posed for pictures in the Oval Office with Henry Kissinger, who became Richard Nixon's national security adviser after collaborating in the North Vietnamese sabotage of the 1968 election.

Per a report from the White House press pool, Trump said Kissinger was present to discuss "Russia and various other matters."

Trump also met Wednesday with Russia's foreign minister and ambassador to the U.S.

What is going on?

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He's mocking us - Slate - "Trump Also Just Met With Henry Kissinger - (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal May 2017 OP
He's so against Americans JustAnotherGen May 2017 #1
He denigrates the office of the President. gademocrat7 May 2017 #2
Don't take that bait, Hillary met with him... moriah May 2017 #3

moriah

(8,311 posts)
3. Don't take that bait, Hillary met with him...
Wed May 10, 2017, 12:56 PM
May 2017

... he's too used to scripted reality TV for me to to nibble at that until we see what plays out.

The optics of "Hey, you hated him then I fired him and you're pissed" are what their propaganda people are pushing. It's a 140 character soundbyte, where "This is all old news, why are you getting around to it *now*?" is harder for low consumers of political information to understand as both truthful and on point.

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