I think we KNOW the answer to this but

[PsychoBabble]

The real question is ... why didn't TRUMP tell Putin ... "NO!"??

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

So:

Russia is back, and ...
Trump CAN'T say "no."

The White House was even willing to eat the embarrassment of the Russian Tass photos so that Putin had his worldwide proof of power ...

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And ... Trump HAD NO FEAR of telling USA MSM to stay out of the meeting.

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Why did Trump agree to meet with Lavrov today? Because Putin personally asked him to

For Lavrov, just having this meeting and the photo-op itself is a big demonstration to the world & to the Russian people that RUS is back"

WH furious over Russian government photos of Trump meeting with Lavrov/Kislyak. "They tricked us," an official said of Russians "They lie."

[MontanaMama]

1. I'm waiting for Putin

To test Dump's loyalty by asking him to do something outrageous. Dump understands and values loyalty and demands it from those around him. He will have no problem doing whatever Putin tells him to do. I'm preparing for something horrific.

[PsychoBabble]

2. I view this as a pretty direct, public tug on the puppet strings by Putin

[PsychoBabble]

4. Putin: I just stole your Porsche and crashed it into the ditch

Trump: Did you have fun?

[Alice11111]

16. and pissed on your 1st Amendment, and US journalists,

In front of the world.
Your intelligence people look like idiots too.

From, BFF Putin

[MontanaMama]

5. You know it!!

Make no mistake, this was a test. Putin is a mob leader and he will test Dump The Puppet again.

[malaise]

3. How were they tricked

They allowed the photographers and cameras. More fugging lies

[brush]

6. I don't think Putin asked. I think he told him to meet with Lavrov, and that Comey...

better be gone by then.

[Wounded Bear]

7. You don't say "no" to the boss...

just ask Comey.

Trump can't tell him no.

[world wide wally]

8. Has the new "I was just following orders" become "Because Putin asked me to" ?

[PsychoBabble]

9. Shocking part? Answer could literally be ... "YES."

If true kompromat or Trump/Russian $ laundering leverage exists, then why not?

[ProudLib72]

10. Because

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[PsychoBabble]

11. New Rule - Don't travel to Mars.

[Alice11111]

12. Did anyone notice how Tillerson very contemptuously waived

Off the US media after the Russian's sarcastic remark, "Was he fired?"

[PsychoBabble]

13. Yes, and when he was in Russia ...

He did not defend US press.

He is just a quieter/non-crazy version of Trump's 'CEO-in-Chief"

[Alice11111]

14. He seems surprisingly inept, at PR & substantively, for

someone who ran the world's largest corporation for decades, even if he's just a kiss ass. So much of this does not add up.

[PsychoBabble]

15. I've always thought so, too, and so

... also thought, there is another hidden agenda here. Visible pieces were not adding up.

[Alice11111]

17. Perhaps, someday we will know the missing pieces,

Cuz I'm not buying this. You don't insult your own country, by insulting it's press publicly, when you are w the Russians..repeatedly. This, right after the Russian ridiculed our press, right in SSs face. Till's response, a snarling, dismissive slap toward the press, like go fuck yourselves.