Weatherman2020
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Kinda interesting that the Chuck Todds of the world are willing to tarnish His Barackness to get to Trump. The hate is that strong.
Mueller Indictment Contradicts McDonoughâs Claim That Obamaâs Warning to Putin Was âImpactful.â
Todd asked McDonough about Sen. Mark Warnerâs (D., Va.) comment last July, acknowledging the Obama administration âchokedâ in its handling of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
âIt became very clear to us what the Russiansâ intentions were, so we took a series of pain-staking steps, including the president directly confronting President Putin, us going to Congress to press them to work with us to make sure that the states were doing everything they could to protect the sanctity of every Americanâs vote,â McDonough said.
He said he believes the discussion between Obama and Putin was âvery impactful,â adding that some of the things they feared Russia would do, it didnât do.
Todd then played a clip of Obama from December 2016, recalling his direct conversation with Putin in September 2016 at the Group of 20 meeting in Hangzhou, China.
âI felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didnât happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out⌠and in fact we did not see further tampering of the election process,â Obama said.
Todd pushed back against this claim and said that based on Special Counsel Robert Muellerâs recent indictment of the Internet Research Agency, Obamaâs claim is ânot true.â
Mueller Indictment Contradicts McDonoughâs Claim That Obamaâs Warning to Putin Was âImpactful.â
Todd asked McDonough about Sen. Mark Warnerâs (D., Va.) comment last July, acknowledging the Obama administration âchokedâ in its handling of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
âIt became very clear to us what the Russiansâ intentions were, so we took a series of pain-staking steps, including the president directly confronting President Putin, us going to Congress to press them to work with us to make sure that the states were doing everything they could to protect the sanctity of every Americanâs vote,â McDonough said.
He said he believes the discussion between Obama and Putin was âvery impactful,â adding that some of the things they feared Russia would do, it didnât do.
Todd then played a clip of Obama from December 2016, recalling his direct conversation with Putin in September 2016 at the Group of 20 meeting in Hangzhou, China.
âI felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didnât happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out⌠and in fact we did not see further tampering of the election process,â Obama said.
Todd pushed back against this claim and said that based on Special Counsel Robert Muellerâs recent indictment of the Internet Research Agency, Obamaâs claim is ânot true.â