Russia accuses Trump of cancelling Putin meeting over 'domestic political situation'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY JOHN BOWDEN - 11/30/18 08:23 AM EST

Russian officials on Friday cast doubt on President Trump's official reason for canceling a planned bilateral summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin saying that the "US domestic political situation” was the reason for Trump's decision to not meet with Putin.

Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for Russia's foreign ministry, said there was reason to doubt the Trump administration's given explanation of rising tensions between Russia and Ukrainian forces along the border of Crimea for the cancellation, according to CNN.

“Was the provocation organized by Kiev in this region the real reason for cancellation?” Zakharova said in a press conference first reported by Russian news agency RIA Novosti. “Publicly, we heard just such an explanation, we took note of it. Is this a reality?"

"I think that you still need to look for answers in the US domestic political situation," she added.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/419061-russia-trump-canceled-putin-meeting-over-domestic-political-situation

[ananda]

1. Right ee o

The noose closes just a little bit tighter.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. When even Russia criticizes Trump......

You know things are BAD.

Watch this space. Russia has the gkkds, along with Mueller, on Trump.

[HopeAgain]

3. The problem with kopramat

is that it becomes of little use once the mark becomes otherwise compromised. I expect thing to turn ugly between Russia and Trump.

[watoos]

7. Yeah, Trump has been a failure of a puppet.

Repeal of the Magnitsky Act isn't going to happen.
Repeal of sanctions for drilling in the arctic aren't going to be lifted.
Will be interesting to see what happens with this renewed Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Wonder if the NRA will have to pay back all of that Russian money it funneled to Republicans? I mean Putin's guy Rohrabacher got beat. Nunes did squeak by.

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Now that would be justice if NRA had to answer to that dirty Russian money.

[Grasswire2]

27. yes, he will be no use to Putin anymore except as a foil. nt

[getagrip_already]

4. a rawstory report (yeah, I know) said russia was summoning him to the meeting....

Can you imagine if the russians had summoned obamma - and he showed up?

This very notion should be appalling to ANY american, let alone the GOP. For russia t just say "we are going to meet" and have trump do it, should be enough to hot rail conviction in the senate.

Should be, but putin has spent millions on buying the gop, and senators especially. They will dismiss it as theatrics.

Disgusting.

[watoos]

8. What's wrong with Raw Story?

It's more truthful than the NY Times.

[getagrip_already]

14. It's not so much the content as the methods.....

RawStory seemingly plagiarize's (imho and many other people) stories from other sources and put their own by-line on it. Usually they will have some teenie-tiny tag saying it originally appeared on "x" or "y", but rarely do they provide a link to the story itself unless it's a site like salon.

They are an aggregator, which is very useful, but they take credit for stories they really didn't write - just edited.

A very dubious practice to say the least.

[Qutzupalotl]

25. Their headlines tend to be hyperbolic.

Although not as bad as Politicus USA.

In this case, the Russians never used the word for “summoned.” It is true that they did not accept the cancellation, which is weird.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. They collect articles and implicitly pass them off as their own,

which they get away with by including a link to the original article, but the pieces are structured to look like Raw Story's original work. Their headlines are often exaggerated and inaccurate, written to operate as clickbait, which is pretty much all Raw Story has become.

[Roy Rolling]

11. Makes Sense

I never considered Trump was summoned. Maybe on the wild end of conspiracy theories, but 100% plausible. And as "our dear leader" said yesterday, nothing is off the table.

[sarge43]

5. Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird; it's a plane. It's Captain Obivious!

[watoos]

10. It's the Baby Trump blimp.

I wonder if he got to see it when he got off the plane?

[rurallib]

6. When the boss sets up a time for your evaluation, you'd better show up!

Or there will be consequences.

[watoos]

12. Trump is bawling under his desk he doesn't want to go to the principal's office.

[Maeve]

9. They just called him 'weak'

Not in so many word, mind you, but....strong men don't bow to 'domestic political situations'

[Squinch]

13. Russia is very comfortable about trying to dictate the actuons of Individual 1.

[barbtries]

15. no shit.

i don't even believe it, i think he's going to meet with Putin. somehow or another. putin calls, trump jumps.

[Midnightwalk]

16. I think it's an act

The optics would be particularly bad right now. Trump gets to say he did something on Ukraine. Putin gets to act like Trump isn't a puppet.

I've read some think that Putin might be regretting cultivating Trump. I think reducing American influence in the world, hurting our economy, causing domestic instability are more important to him long term than getting sanctions lifted,etc.

It's cheaper to compete by taking us down some notches.

Who knows how it will play out. Maybe there will be blow back that makes him regret. I think American's have short term memories. The Russians can play nice for a few years and get sanctions removed in less time than it will take to undo the damage caused.

[Cirque du So-What]

17. Start tweeting back, coward

I *triple dog* dare ya!

[duforsure]

18. Coming from putin

Like with trump this could be all for PR, and they really meet in secret to get their stories straight, and for trump to get his orders.

[Crowman2009]

19. Whoopsie! Looks like even Pooty-poot got conned by Donnie Dumbo!

[mpcamb]

24. Nah. That Haldeman phrase:"Let him twist slowly, twist slowly in the wind."

That's where they'll leave trump.

[flibbitygiblets]

20. Sounds like Individual 1 is getting a shitty year end review

Putin knows trump is going down. Once trump is no longer of value, Putin is going to say, America is a weak failure, look at what your democracy has done.

Which is what he wanted all along.

[ffr]

21. Comes across as staged.

[mpcamb]

23. What do you do with a 'useful idiot' who is no longer useful?

Who becomes more trouble than he's worth?
Who becomes a burden?

frump will need to avoid high buildings and Saudi embassies.
A US impeachment trial may start looking good.