Putin Echoes Trump Argument On Russia Investigation: It's Dems' 'Fiction'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By MATT SHUHAM Published MAY 30, 2017 4:46 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin echoed President Donald Trumps argument against the investigation into his countrys possible collusion with Trumps campaign and associates, calling it Democrats excuse for losing the presidential election.
In an exemplary tweet Tuesday morning, Trump wrote that the federal and congressional Russia investigations were a lame excuse for why the Dems lost the election.
Hours later, the French newspaper Le Figaro published an interview with Putin, which had taken place Monday, in which the Russian leader called allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election fiction, driven by desire of those who lost the U.S. elections to improve their standing by accusing Russia of interfering.
[P]eople who lost the vote hate to acknowledge that they indeed lost because the person who won was closer to the people and had a better understanding of what people wanted, he added.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/putin-gop-language-russia-investigation
msongs
(67,193 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,660 posts)No doubt about it. Fake news equals fiction.
unblock
(51,974 posts)dalton99a
(81,065 posts)C Moon
(12,188 posts)C'mon traitors! You can do better than that!
Bleacher Creature
(11,235 posts)I mean seriously, could they be any more on the same page???
It's almost as if Putin is trolling Trump.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Trump is going to become synonymous with "incompetent boob" very soon and for the rest of living memory. He is dumber than W and Quayle and Palin rolled into one fat-ass, bad hair, pussy-grabbing, uncouth vicious package...and now Putin is basically telling the world "hey look...POTUS is MY bitch, any questions?"
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)Putin interviewed on Monday. Trump tweets on Tuesday.
Nitram
(22,663 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)There is a LOT of overlap between Trump's talking points and Moscow's...