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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue May 30, 2017, 05:46 PM May 2017

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 Trump’s argument against the investigation into his country’s possible collusion with Trump’s 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

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Putin Echoes Trump Argument On Russia Investigation: It's Dems' 'Fiction' (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP
putin and trump conspiring to cover up. how quaint nt msongs May 2017 #1
Confirmed! Trump and Putin on the same side bucolic_frolic May 2017 #2
They're even coordinating the cover-up! unblock May 2017 #3
Supporting his Employee of the Year like any good boss dalton99a May 2017 #4
So I guess that's the traitor theme from here on out. C Moon May 2017 #5
I love this story. Bleacher Creature May 2017 #6
So we know what the Party line is officially....good to know. Moostache May 2017 #7
The timeline says that Trump echoed Putin. GeorgeGist May 2017 #8
Thanks, Vlad, for confirming the truth of the story by denying it. Nitram May 2017 #9
Axis of Evil : Trump, Putin and Fox Fake News. Nt joeybee12 May 2017 #10
For someone who isn't owned by Russia Blue_Tires May 2017 #11

Bleacher Creature

(11,235 posts)
6. I love this story.
Tue May 30, 2017, 06:07 PM
May 2017

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)
7. So we know what the Party line is officially....good to know.
Tue May 30, 2017, 06:11 PM
May 2017

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?"

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
11. For someone who isn't owned by Russia
Wed May 31, 2017, 03:17 PM
May 2017

There is a LOT of overlap between Trump's talking points and Moscow's...

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