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vkkv

(3,384 posts)
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 08:16 PM Jul 2016

Trump Pushed For GOP To Change Ukraine Position, Now Claims He Didn’t

Source: HuffPo


The pro-Russia change was the only party platform tweak the Trump camp cared about, sources say.

WASHINGTON ― Both Donald Trump and his campaign chairman said Sunday they had nothing to do with altering the Republican Party’s position on Ukraine ― which must have been news to GOP leaders who confirmed last week that Trump’s campaign insisted on exactly that change.

The modified party platform drops its call to provide arms to Ukraine in response to Russia’s occupation of that country’s Crimea province in 2014. It represents a victory for Russian president Vladimir Putin, who soon after annexed the region.

Two Republican National Committee officials acknowledged privately last week that Trump’s campaign pushed for the change, which was made in platform committee meetings in the days prior to the start of the Republican convention in Cleveland two weeks ago.

Nevertheless, the celebrity businessman told ABC News on Sunday that he didn’t even know about the change until afterward.

“I wasn’t involved in that. Honestly, I was not involved,” Trump said.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-ukraine-putin_us_579e5a56e4b0693164c19e09?section=



Right, Trump does not lie...

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TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
1. WaPo - Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine (July 20)
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 08:25 PM
Jul 2016

Wow, that took a long time for Trump to suddenly realize that his campaign watered down the GOP's platform on Russia. That was the only issue that Trump took a stand on.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-campaign-guts-gops-anti-russia-stance-on-ukraine/2016/07/18/98adb3b0-4cf3-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html

The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.

Throughout the campaign, Trump has been dismissive of calls for supporting the Ukraine government as it fights an ongoing Russian-led intervention. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, worked as a lobbyist for the Russian-backed former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych for more than a decade.

Still, Republican delegates at last week’s national security committee platform meeting in Cleveland were surprised when the Trump campaign orchestrated a set of events to make sure that the GOP would not pledge to give Ukraine the weapons it has been asking for from the United States.

Inside the meeting, Diana Denman, a platform committee member from Texas who was a Ted Cruz supporter, proposed a platform amendment that would call for maintaining or increasing sanctions against Russia, increasing aid for Ukraine and “providing lethal defensive weapons” to the Ukrainian military.
 

vkkv

(3,384 posts)
4. Yes, and today: “I wasn’t involved in that. Honestly, I was not involved,”
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 08:52 PM
Jul 2016

Nevertheless, the celebrity businessman told ABC News on Sunday that he didn’t even know about the change until afterward.

“I wasn’t involved in that. Honestly, I was not involved,” Trump said.

dem in texas

(2,674 posts)
2. Liar! Liar! Pants on Fire!
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 08:38 PM
Jul 2016

This man should is playing with the security of our country. And lying about it.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
3. He's already TOLD us....
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 08:44 PM
Jul 2016

He could shoot someone in the street in broad daylight and it wouldn't matter! And in essence, he KEEPS proving that's true. Just look at his loyal, numb-nuts faithful!

You watch - he's gonna pivot on climate change when he thinks it'll serve him and he'll propose we start putting up ice makers at the poles. His flock will KNOW he's a fucking genius!

riversedge

(70,239 posts)
5. Nasty Quinnpac polling asking about Hillary
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 09:18 PM
Jul 2016

and lying. Remember that? About time there was some polling done on Trump and his lies.

TheBaculumKing

(102 posts)
6. Why is the Media Not DEMANDING to Know Who Did?
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 09:22 PM
Jul 2016

Sure as hell SOMEBODY forced the changes, and folks involved know who it was.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
7. He wasn't involved in planning the convention, either.
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 09:37 PM
Jul 2016

I guess the Russkies hacked the RNC platform committee's computers, and nobody noticed.

The usual 'cat ate my homework' excuse from the guy who claims he hires the best people, then micromanages them to get the best results.

TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
8. You Would Think That He Would Notice Several Media Stories...
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 10:39 PM
Jul 2016

...reporting it, since he is such a narcissist. Shoot, I almost think that it is as bad if he had no idea what his campaign did.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
10. That's not a new style repug candidate they're running, there. He's exactly the same as all of them
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 11:23 PM
Jul 2016

Nixon, Raygun, Poppy, l'il bush, and now dRumpf all claim that 'overzealous underlings did it', 'we weren't involved or in the loop', 'mistakes were made (that just happened to benefit their cronies and their political ideologues)'. They're all in the know enough to understand that things are going exactly like they want them to go, and they have plausible deniability in case their side gets caught stealing and breaking the law.

They're packaging this orange hitler like he's a wildly different break from tradition breath of fresh air. He's the same exact lazy ass, hands off, head up his hindquarters boss that all the rest of the gop's felony laden leaders have been. (O.K. I'll admit that Nixon, Poppy, and dick Cheney weren't lazy, they were just extra evil to make up for not being lazy.) The flunkies do all the dirty work he wants done while he looks the other way and whistles up into the air. But he's disguised as 'not your standard politician', and he's faking like he's a tough no nonsense micromanager who knows and keeps track of everything and tells any underling that doesn't do exactly what he wants 'you're fired.' Until he gets caught, then he has nothing to do with it, and knows nothing.

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