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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe WH cannot be this stupid. Or can it? The incompetence is getting ridiculous.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/they-tricked-us-white-house-furious-russia-posted-trump-photos-on-official-government-accounts/Trump met russian ambassador Kislyak inside the Oval Office for a photo-op. US-media was excluded. Journalists from the russian state-run press-agency "TASS" were allowed in.
Now the WH is pissed that the photos the state-run press-agency took are being posted on state-run social media accounts.
The official also said that the White House did not anticipate that the photos would ever be used by the Russians for propaganda purposes.
Words fail.
Zoonart
(11,750 posts)It is a condition of sale.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)spanone
(135,636 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)Instead, Trump ended up looking like a moron (again).
What an ignoramus.
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global1
(25,169 posts)If they can't even handle a foreign visit correctly - how the hell will they handle a real crisis that they will encounter.
Our enemies, seeing this incompetence will look for opportunities to take advantage.
Somehow - this really needs to be remedied. Trump has become our countries greatest 'security risk'.
brush
(53,475 posts)Get these Russian loving incompetents out of the White House.
Puh-leeze!
Guys/girls with cameras, taking pictures in the oval office, in this internet/social media world, and the boobs on the trump staff actually thought nothing was going to appear online.
They can't be that stupid. I think what happened is they didn't anticipate the backlash of not letting the America press in the meeting. But they couldn't let the American press in while they were receiving their marching orders.
What a conundrum. What to do?
Better let Conway out to gish gallop and lie this away too like she did the Comey firing.
Kber
(5,043 posts)We were too stupid to anticipate that the guys with cameras would, you know, take and post pictures?
Wow - so when does Spicer get back from his Navy duty? I think they are missing him.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)that Putin has it all on tape?
Trump's insatiable petty ego is a known known.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)multiplies x10 when the emperor is a deranged narcissist
rogue emissary
(3,147 posts)A photographer for a Russian state-owned news agency was allowed into the Oval Office on Wednesday during President Trumps meeting with Russian diplomats, a level of access that was criticized by former U.S. intelligence officials as a potential security breach.
The officials cited the danger that a listening device or other surveillance equipment could have been brought into the Oval Office while hidden in cameras or other electronics. Former U.S. intelligence officials raised questions after photos of Trumps meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov were posted online by the Tass news agency.
/Why was the meeting between Trump, Lavrov and Kislyak so strange?/
Among those commenting on the issue was former deputy CIA director David S. Cohen. Responding to a question posed online about whether it was a sound decision to allow the photographer into the Oval Office, Cohen replied on Twitter: No it was not. He declined to elaborate when reached by phone.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-to-meet-russian-foreign-minister-at-the-white-house-as-moscows-alleged-election-interference-is-back-in-spotlight/2017/05/10/c6717e4c-34f3-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html?utm_term=.4830342ae565
MedusaX
(1,129 posts)For use in any upcoming court proceedings...
What a bunch of dumb asses!