This article is based on research I did early this morning. Subsequent events are as extreme as they are horrid, but except for a brief segment at the end, I will let that pass for now and cover them in depth tomorrow, after I have time to research them. So please understand this article covers only what happened right after the two turds were dropped into the bowl.
President Donald Trump met and shook hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday to kick off their long-anticipated meeting in Finland, but made no mention of thorny issues like election meddling, Syria or Crimea in his opening remarks.
The two leaders began the summit by walking quietly into a room in the Presidential Palace in Helsinki. Against the backdrop of six U.S. and Russian flags, Putin broke the silence with brief remarks.
But when Trump spoke, he didn’t address some of the issues vexing politicians back home, in Europe and the Middle East, such as the federal indictments last week of Russian military intelligence officers, Russia’s defense of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or the annexation of Crimea.
Instead, he started his remarks by congratulating his counterpart on hosting the World Cup… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <ABC News>
Here’s a clip of their opening remarks from BBC.
Even then, their body language made it clear that Putin was in control.
It went from bad to worse.
The joint press conference with Donald Trump and Vladmir Putin after their one-on-one meeting, a meeting in which Donald Trump insisted there be no note-takers to record their conversation, has been nothing short of a disaster for America and democracy. Before the pair even got started, a reporter was forcibly hauled out by security. Trump and Putin eventually took their respective podiums to begin taking questions and Donald Trump’s responses were shocking, chilling, unpatriotic and downright dangerous. Former CIA Director John Brennan called the performance “nothing short of treasonous.”… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <Daily Kos>
Until tomorrow, stay tuned please.
RESIST!!
VOTE BLUE!!
10 Responses to “Two Turds in the Bowl!”
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I have nothing right now. I’ll wait for tomorrow too.
Ditto!
“Wink-Wink” !!!
I’m seeing this word being used a LOT as a one-word summary of what traitorous Twitler did today – but as a clever graphic:
It’s a tossup which one is worse.
John Brennan??? There is no such person, never was…it is all fake news…hell, just ask Fox and Friends! I will not watch any more of the their meetings, well, maybe what TC posts, this Orange clown is so full of S***hole.
i found this;
The strongest condemnation of all, though, came from Republican Senator John McCain.
“Today’s press conference in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory,” the representative from Arizona said in a statement. “The damage inflicted by President Trump’s naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate. But it is clear that the summit in Helsinki was a tragic mistake.”
He added: “No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant. Not only did President Trump fail to speak the truth about an adversary.”
https://www.newsweek.com/what-treason-trump-putin-1026808
For me it’s already ‘tomorrow’, but I’ll restrict myself to adding that it will be to no one’s surprise that media here said this was an enormous victory for Putin and so easily made; Drumpf handed it him on a platter.
Angry, disgusted
. Time for him to go!
From AlterNet :
The grossest display of incompetence yet. Welcome to The Amateur Hour!
Some Republicans have said that they will no longer support Drumpf. Are they willing to put their money where their mouths are and cut him loose?!?
Thanks, Hugs, and Amen. See today’s!