Trump Rages: "If Russia Interfered, Why Didn't Obama Stop Them?

[Geaux4it]

He has by calling out fake news. A Russian ploy of misinformation. One of the sources CNN uses

-Geaux

So,attacking American journalism,is a more reasonable, sustainable and tactical response than actually calling out the Russians?

Who's your enemy? Russia or the American press?

The American Press like CNN. They wouldn't know journalism if it was flat in their face

-Geaux

So you would ignore, or at least tolerate a foreign threat to our electoral system and increase cynicism over American journalism? I just don't understand your priorities, or your overwhelming cynicism.

Because I believe the MSM is making a mountain out of a mole hill. So the Russians put out misinformation but it is up the reader to decide what is fact and what is fiction.

-Geaux

Unqualified spammers working in anonymity fill our eyes with fake information daily. Poorly conceived, awkwardly written and un researched information used only to validate the cynicism of others and induce incredulity among the more informed. This is what passes as "journalism" today.

Some have a political agenda that includes discrediting journalism along with science, government, their political opposition and facts. What causes such belief in lies? What is the root of this cynicism? And why should we pay attention to them?

It appears you're implying the reason Mr Trump won was that those who voted for him, believed everything they read that shined a bad light on the opposition. While it may have been a small contributing factor, the root cause if you will for Mr Trumps victory was a direct result of the path Obama put America on the last 8 years. And in full disclosure, DJT's victory was also a referendum on the Republican Party. America was just sick and tired of the one party system consisting of Democrats and Republicans

-Geaux

 

[Seawytch]

You gotta love it... they knew the Russians hacked, they believe in favor of the Trumpster, but did absolutely nothing. Are these people mental?

The people who are "mental" are those insisting that President Obama did "nothing" about Russia attacking our democracy.

So, what did he do?

I must have missed it. So did the rest of the nation!

You didn't read the whole thread if you "missed it". g5000 posted extensively on what the Obama Administration did, wanted to do and were prevented from doing.

Who is doing nothing is Crooked Donnie Small Hands.

 

[Geaux4it]

You gotta love it... they knew the Russians hacked, they believe in favor of the Trumpster, but did absolutely nothing. Are these people mental?

The people who are "mental" are those insisting that President Obama did "nothing" about Russia attacking our democracy.

So, what did he do?

I must have missed it. So did the rest of the nation!

You didn't read the whole thread if you "missed it". g5000 posted extensively on what the Obama Administration did, wanted to do and were prevented from doing.

Who is doing nothing is Crooked Donnie Small Hands.

And the excuses were summed up as I quote "We choked" per Obama cabinet official

-Geaux

 

[Political Junky]

Good question

-Geaux
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President Trump is on a warpath this morning, raging against the hyporcrisy of Obama excuse-maker Jeh Johnson's comments. First, Trump asked a tough question...

Donald J. Trump

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By the way, if Russia was working so hard on the 2016 Election, it all took place during the Obama Admin. Why didn't they stop them?




And then slammed the Democratic Nation Committe's seming ignorance...

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Donald J. Trump

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...Why did Democratic National Committee turn down the DHS offer to protect against hacks (long prior to election). It's all a big Dem HOAX!




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...Why did the DNC REFUSE to turn over its Server to the FBI, and still hasn't? It's all a big Dem scam and excuse for losing the election!




These are good questions, which, of course, will never be answered. As The Hill notes, Trump’s comments are the latest indication he does not accept the intelligence community’s unanimous conclusion — released last October — that Russia tried to interfere in contest by hacking political groups and spreading fake news.

Trump Rages: "If Russia Interfered, Why Didn't Obama Stop Them?" | Zero Hedge

Trump lied for months, now he casts blame on Obama.

 

[Geaux4it]

Good question

-Geaux
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President Trump is on a warpath this morning, raging against the hyporcrisy of Obama excuse-maker Jeh Johnson's comments. First, Trump asked a tough question...

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump
By the way, if Russia was working so hard on the 2016 Election, it all took place during the Obama Admin. Why didn't they stop them?




And then slammed the Democratic Nation Committe's seming ignorance...

Follow
Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump
...Why did Democratic National Committee turn down the DHS offer to protect against hacks (long prior to election). It's all a big Dem HOAX!




Follow
Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump
...Why did the DNC REFUSE to turn over its Server to the FBI, and still hasn't? It's all a big Dem scam and excuse for losing the election!




These are good questions, which, of course, will never be answered. As The Hill notes, Trump’s comments are the latest indication he does not accept the intelligence community’s unanimous conclusion — released last October — that Russia tried to interfere in contest by hacking political groups and spreading fake news.

Trump Rages: "If Russia Interfered, Why Didn't Obama Stop Them?" | Zero Hedge

Trump lied for months, now he casts blame on Obama.

Obama official: We 'choked' on Russia response: report

The Obama administration was slow and cautious in its response to the Kremlin's efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election, according to an explosive Washington Post report published Friday.

The Obama White House anxiously considered for months how to punish Russia for a coordinated influence and hacking campaign intended to politically damage Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and elect Donald Trump.

The slow response has led to second-guessing in the aftermath.

“It is the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend,” the Post quoted one Obama administration official as saying. “I feel like we sort of choked.”

Obama official: We 'choked' on Russia response: report

 

[Seawytch]

You gotta love it... they knew the Russians hacked, they believe in favor of the Trumpster, but did absolutely nothing. Are these people mental?

The people who are "mental" are those insisting that President Obama did "nothing" about Russia attacking our democracy.

So, what did he do?

I must have missed it. So did the rest of the nation!

You didn't read the whole thread if you "missed it". g5000 posted extensively on what the Obama Administration did, wanted to do and were prevented from doing.

Who is doing nothing is Crooked Donnie Small Hands.

And the excuses were summed up as I quote "We choked" per Obama cabinet official

-Geaux

No, the response was three "best of bad choices".

"We were concerned that, by making the statement, we might in and of itself be challenging the integrity of the — of the election process itself."

Here is a timeline of how the Obama administration responded to the Russian meddling — and how he was criticized for it.

July 2016: Nearly 20,000 election-year emails from Democratic National Committee staff members are published by WikiLeaks, on the eve the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) resigns as chairwoman over some of the emails. Some intelligence Democrats point the finger at Russia.

Middle of summer 2016: Top Democrats in Congress say they realized the extent of the hacking, and that it was from Russia. "In the late summer of last year, it became apparent that the Russians were doing more than gathering foreign intelligence — that they were in fact dumping it in a way designed to potentially influence outcomes, not by affecting the vote machines, necessarily, but by affecting American public opinion with the dumping of these emails," recalled Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, in a recent committee hearing.

Late July: The U.S. government makes a concerted effort to investigate Russia meddling in the election. As former CIA director John Brennan recalled to Congress in June 2017: "When it became clear to me last summer that Russia was engaged in a very aggressive and wide-ranging effort to interfere in one of the key pillars of our democracy, we pulled together experts from CIA, NSA and FBI in late July to focus on the issue, drawing in multiple perspectives and subject matter experts with broad expertise to assess Russian attempts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election."

July 27: Trump calls on Russia to hack Clinton's emails to see if she didn't turn any over to the FBI that she should have.

July 27: Schiff and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who are among the eight members of Congress who get regular classified briefings by intelligence officials, write to President Obama "urging that the administration declassify and release any intelligence community assessments related to the DNC hack, and develop a swift and powerful response."

Early August: The Washington Post reports that Obama received an "eyes only" envelope by courier from the CIA that "detailed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s direct involvement in a cyber campaign to disrupt and discredit the U.S. presidential race" and to help Trump win. "An intelligence bombshell," The Post called it.

August 2016: The Obama administration discovers some entity trying to break into voter registration systems across states.

Also August: Then-Republican nominee Trump starts saying the election is rigged.

Also August: Then-CIA director John Brennan calls his counterpart in Russia and tells them to knock it off.

Aug. 15: The Department of Homeland Security issues a statement warning state governments that some kind of entity was trying to hack into states' voter registration systems. Then-DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson would go on to issue several other statements over the next few months. "In the late summer, fall, I was very concerned about what I was seeing, and this was on my front burner all throughout the pre-election period in August, September, October and early November — to encourage the states to come in and seek our assistance," he told Congress in June 2017. "And I'm glad that most of them, red and blue, did."

September 2016: Obama directly confronted Putin at a world leaders meeting in China, telling him to stop -- or else, according to Post reporting.

September: Top members of Congress get a secret briefing by the intelligence community that Russia is interfering in the election, but to what end, they aren't sure. The intelligence community privately says agencies are conducting a broad investigation. The Washington Post later reported that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voiced doubts about the accuracy of this in those secret meetings.

Sept. 22: Frustrated that the Obama administration still had not made a public statement about the extent of Russian hacking, Schiff and Feinstein, the top Democrats on Congress's intelligence committees, take matters into their own hands and issue a rare public statement attributing the hack to Russia and senior levels of the Russian government. Here it is in full:

Based on briefings we have received, we have concluded that the Russian intelligence agencies are making a serious and concerted effort to influence the U.S. election.
At the least, this effort is intended to sow doubt about the security of our election and may well be intended to influence the outcomes of the election—we can see no other rationale for the behavior of the Russians.
We believe that orders for the Russian intelligence agencies to conduct such actions could come only from very senior levels of the Russian government.
We call on President Putin to immediately order a halt to this activity. Americans will not stand for any foreign government trying to influence our election. We hope all Americans will stand together and reject the Russian effort.​

Sept. 28: McConnell and the other top three congressional leaders write a letter urging states to use the federal government's help to prevent hacking into their voter registration systems. It makes no mention of Russia.

Oct. 7: The Russian government hacked into Democrats' emails, according to a public statement by then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Homeland Security Secretary Johnson. They conclude "that the intelligence community is confident the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations." This marks the first public U.S. acknowledgment that the Russian government interfered in the election.

Also Oct. 7: The Washington Post publishes an Access Hollywood video of then-candidate Trump bragging about grabbing women's private parts, burying the intelligence community's announcement about Russia.

November-December 2016: Seven Democratic senators send a short letter to Obama to ask him to declassify details of Russian meddling. "We believe there is additional information concerning the Russian Government and the U.S. election that should be declassified and released to the public," they say.

Dec. 6: Top Democrats send another letter to President Obama asking him to brief "all members of Congress on Russian interference in the U.S. election."

Dec. 9: The Washington Post reports on a secret CIA assessment that concludes Russians intervened in the U.S. election to try to help Trump win the presidency, rather than with the sole goal of undermining Americans' confidence in their electoral systems.

Obama orders a comprehensive review of what happened, going back to 2008, with plans to make it public, The Post reports.

Dec. 29: Obama announces sanctions on Russia for election meddling, kicking out 35 Russians expected to play a role in the hacking and taking over two Russia compounds in the U.S.

December-January: President-elect Trump repeatedly refuses to acknowledge the intelligence community's public assessments — and private briefings to him — that Russia hacked in the election to help him win. "It could have been China," he said as recently as May 2017.

Jan. 6: In what The Washington Post calls a "remarkably blunt assessment," the intelligence agencies release a declassified report saying that Putin ordered the hacking and elevation of fake news in the United States to help Trump win. It determines: Russia “developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump” and repeatedly sought to artificially boost his election chances.

May and June 2017: Former Obama intelligence officials go before Congress to assert that Russia interfered in the election. Former CIA director Brennan testifies before Congress and says this: "It should be clear to everyone that Russia brazenly interfered in our 2016 presidential election process and that they undertook these activities, despite our strong protests and explicit warning that they not do so."

June 2017: Former Obama intelligence officials defend waiting until October to announce what they had known for several months, that Russia was interfering in the election. Here's Johnson speaking to Schiff this week:

This was a big decision, and there were a lot of considerations that went into it. This was an unprecedented step. First, as you know well, we have to carefully consider whether declassifying the information compromises sources and methods. there was an ongoing election, and many would criticize us for perhaps taking sides in the election. So that had to be carefully considered. One of the candidates, as you'll recall, was predicting that the election was going to be rigged in some way. And so we were concerned that, by making the statement, we might in and of itself be challenging the integrity of the — of the election process itself.

This was — this was a very difficult decision. But in my personal view, it's something we had to do. It got careful consideration, a lot of discussion. My view is that we needed to do it, and we needed to do it well before the election, to inform the American voters of what we knew and what we saw, and that it would be unforgivable if we did not, pre-election. And I'm glad we did it.
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[Hum Dinger]

The reason that Obama did nothing to stop Russia's influence in the elections is that he believed that their efforts were impotent.

Rightfully, he believed that only complete idiots would vote for Trump.

Unfortunately, he grossly underestimated the number of complete idiots we have in this country.

So it was OK for Russia to hack the election because Hillary was supposed to win...that's amazing

No, President Obama chose not to take action because he did not believe that Russia would be successful.

Any action he took would most likely have been seen as a partisan attempt to influence the election in Clinton's favor and may have had negative political repercussions.

He apparently decided to leave it to the next President to decide what actions should be taken.

He just didn't anticipate that the next President would be a Putin ass-kissing slime ball.

Yeah, he left it to the next President all right! Obama kicked the 35 Russians out of the country in December.

Wait! What? I thought you said he left it for the next President?

So why do you lie?

Kicking those 'Diplomats' out of the country was more symbolic than anything else.

Why are you brain dead? Family trait?

 

[NYcarbineer]

The Trumptards are now attacking Obama for not doing enough about something the Trumptards also insist never happened.

Goddam that's funny.

 

[Siete]

Obama's gone, Trump is our President now. You know, the guy with Putins cock in his mouth.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

obama thought that he might be able to use phony collusion against Trump and let it stay.