Trump co-chair on Crimea: He was 'thinking about something else'

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Donald Trump’s campaign co-chairman offered up an alternate explanation for the Republican nominee’s recent comments about the geopolitical situation between Russia and Crimea: He “was thinking about something else” when he said that Vladimir Putin would not invade Ukraine.

“I think, you know, I’ve run for office and I would — the phenomena I thought of when I was listening to the interview, Mr. Trump was thinking about something else and he answered the question when he was thinking about something else,” Sam Clovis told MSNBC, adding, “I’m not trying to offer an excuse. But I will say, this is the — this is — the circumstance sometimes that, that — that happens. I think what was really at the heart of this.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-crimea-ukraine-sam-clovis-226501

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Really, what nominee of a major political Party, with professional staff and foreign policy advisors HASN'T mixed up Crimea with..."something else"?

[C_U_L8R]

1. Did the dog eat your tax returns too, Donnie?

The Trump campaign is seriously stuck in third grade

[jpak]

2. He was thinking about Poland

yup

[underpants]

3. People forget about Poland

They do.

[Kber]

6. No how many times you remind them.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

26. Never forget!

[underpants]

4. Well crimea river - “I’m not trying to offer an excuse.

[olddad56]

5. says a bit about Trump's attention span.

[BadGimp]

7. I give em points for a very creative response..

Q: Should America trust a President who thinks about the wrong thing when the important thing is what he or she is supposed to be thinking and talking about?? just askin people..

[dbackjon]

15. Sorry London - I meant to nuke Tehran

[Thinkingabout]

8. Trump tweets or says things and for the next few days his usual splainers run

Out and lie saying he did not say what we thought, read what we thought, and then give a complete new version of what they want you to believe. Sam Clovis looked uncomfortable this morning trying to explain the remarks said about the Khans. Cory Lewandowski was lying and spinning what Khan said on CNN this morning, he isn't working on FOX, he was corrected. I don't think he is used to being corrected. It is funny the RNC convention talked about Hillary lying and many of their points were lies and Trump has been on a Lyin' Train for many years.

[rurallib]

9. so he pushes the nuclear button because he "was thinking about something else"

could happen to anybody, you know. "Sorry about your country - how about some of my great Trump steaks?"

[underpants]

10. He thought he was warming up his Taco Bowl

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. It's unbelievable he can still get over 40% in polls

He doesn't know what the fuck he's saying. He doesn't know what the fuck is going on in the world. He's about as well informed as Palin, but even she knew when she had to hesitate because she was out of her depth. He makes Dubya look statesman-like.

[volstork]

12. Probably thinking about

who he planning to screw tonight.

[uawchild]

13. That's a LIE!

We all know Trump NEVER thinks. Thinking of something else my patootie...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. "Oh, you said 'is this a good time for lunch?', not 'launch'." My mistake.

[thucythucy]

21. What movie is that? nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

24. The Bedford Incident

The Bedford Incident

The Bedford Incident is a 1965 Anglo-American Cold War film starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier and coproduced by Richard Widmark. The cast also features Eric Portman, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam and Wally Cox, as well as early appearances by Donald Sutherland and Ed Bishop. The screenplay by James Poe is based on the 1963 book by Mark Rascovich. That, in turn, was patterned after Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; at one point in the film, the captain is advised he is "not chasing whales now".
....

Plot

The American destroyer USS Bedford (DLG-113) detects a Soviet submarine in the GIUK gap near the Greenland coast. Although the U.S. and the Soviet Union are not at war, Captain Eric Finlander (Richard Widmark) harries his prey mercilessly while civilian photojournalist Ben Munceford (Sidney Poitier) and NATO naval advisor Commodore (and ex-Second World War U-boat captain) Wolfgang Schrepke (Eric Portman), look on with mounting alarm.
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Actual Cold War incident

In October 1962, shortly before the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet submarine B-59 was pursued in the Atlantic Ocean by the U.S. Navy. When the Soviet vessel failed to surface, the American destroyers began dropping training depth charges. However, unlike in The Bedford Incident, the Americans were not aware that the B-59 was armed with a T-5 nuclear torpedo. The Soviet captain, believing that World War III might have started, wanted to launch the weapon. However, his flotilla commander, Vasili Arkhipov, who, by happenstance, was using the boat as his command vessel, refused to endorse the command. After an argument, it was agreed that the submarine would surface and await orders from Moscow. It was not until after the fall of the Soviet Union that the weapon's existence and how close the world came to nuclear conflict was made known.

Good movie. Worth watching.

[thucythucy]

25. Thanks!

I'll check it out.

[Thor_MN]

16. “I’m not trying to offer an excuse."

Yeah, Sam, you kinda really are...

[JackRiddler]

17. This will be the go-to excuse for all, and totally plausible.

He probably was, he always is.

[NuclearDem]

18. Probably just confused it with Crimea, Missouri.

[Rex]

19. Oh sure, why not!?

[Skittles]

20. no doubt he was thinking of himself

[sarcasmo]

22. President Trump invades "something else"

[Coventina]

23. This thread needs.....

They Might Be Giants!!!

[SwankyXomb]

28. Really, every thread needs the Johns.

And they usually have a song that is on point.

[Coventina]

29. Agree completely!!

[unblock]

27. "listen, i thought he said 'crime, yeah'! is putin going into crime, yeah?"

"so i said, no, we're not gonna let that happen. not gonna let that happen.
it's not gonna happen.
some people are saying that putin's already in crime, yeah?
people have heard that. i've heard that. i hear a lot of things.
but i know putin really well. i never met the guy.
i don't know who he is at all, but i know him really well.
really, really well.
and i gotta tell ya he's not into crime, yeah.
not into crime at all.
that's not gonna happen."

[Penn Voter]

30. Well, he couldn't

blame the earpiece this time.