Breaking News: Russia Backs Trump's Re-election, and He Fears Democrats Will Exploit Its Support

[mobeau69]

A classified briefing to lawmakers angered the president, who complained that Democrats would “weaponize” the disclosure.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/politics/russian-interference-trump-democrats.html

[rzemanfl]

1. Does he think we don't already know? n/t

[Thomas Hurt]

2. He probably thinks he swept that all under rug with Barr.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. Kick - Here's the first 4 paragraphs from the story

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/politics/russian-interference-trump-democrats.html

By Adam Goldman, Julian E. Barnes, Maggie Haberman and Nicholas Fandos

Feb. 20, 2020, 4:55 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected, five people familiar with the matter said, in a disclosure that angered Mr. Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him.

The day after the Feb. 13 briefing to lawmakers, Mr. Trump berated Joseph Maguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place, people familiar with the exchange said. Mr. Trump cited the presence in the briefing of Representative Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat who led the impeachment proceedings against him, as a particular irritant.

During the briefing to the House Intelligence Committee, Mr. Trump’s allies challenged the conclusions, arguing that Mr. Trump has been tough on Russia and strengthened European security. Some intelligence officials viewed the briefing as a tactical error, saying that had the official who delivered the conclusion spoken less pointedly or left it out, they would have avoided angering the Republicans.

That intelligence official, Shelby Pierson, is an aide to Mr. Maguire who has a reputation of delivering intelligence in somewhat blunt terms. The president announced on Wednesday that he was replacing Mr. Maguire with Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany and long an aggressively vocal Trump supporter.

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Wow! Not the fact that Russia's interfering, but that Trump is trying to keep it from Congress (he failed) and he fired Maguire over it!

[tiredtoo]

4. Thanks for sharing this.

I don't like when a link is provided and we have to pay to read it. I also don't like when trump puts a lackey in this position.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. Anytime

[mobeau69]

7. Erase your history and you're good to go.

[kimbutgar]

6. The MF45 commercials write themselves

MF45 Putin endorsed

Putin with thumbs up with MF45

Putin Approved

If I could vote for the US President it would be MF45 signed Putin


Putin and MF45 sitting’ in a tree k I s s I n g🎶

I approve this man....signed Putin

Billboards all over those red states with these type of messages with a link to his endorsement.

[mobeau69]

8. Normally this would be lights out for any candidate getting news like this.

But we crossed into the Trumpian Zone. The deplorables love Putin.