The president tweets:
Everyone here is talking about why John Podesta refused to give the DNC server to the FBI and the CIA. Disgraceful!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2017
John Podesta responds:
1/ On a x-country road trip with my wife;
— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) July 7, 2017
2/ Pulled in for a pit stop in E. Fairmont W. Va. to see that our whack job POTUS @realDonaldTrump is tweeting about me at the G20.
— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) July 7, 2017
3/ Get a grip man, the Russians committed a crime when they stole my emails to help get you elected President.
— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) July 7, 2017
4/ Maybe you might try to find a way to mention that to President Putin.
— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) July 7, 2017
5/ BTW, I had nothing to do with the DNC.
— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) July 7, 2017
6/ God only knows what you'll be raving about on twitter by the time we get to Utah.
— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) July 7, 2017
7/7 Dude, get your head in the game. You’re representing the US at the G20.
— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) July 7, 2017
The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake explains why Trump’s tweet was wrong on so many levels.
Why did the DNC refuse to give the FBI access? I hadn’t heard that.
it’s possible that you hadn’t heard it because it isn’t true.
I’m certain that if the FBI had a warrant, they had access, and if they didn’t they should be told to go pound sand.
From the link: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-director-comey-agency-requested-access-to-dnc-servers/
I mean, sounds like they used a reasonable workaround, but it’s pretty amazing that they must’ve distrusted the FBI so deeply (for good reason) that they insisted on an intermediary company.
So you believe Trump
Here he is at the G20, spending his time, how else, but tweeting dumb stuff. The thought that anyone else at that summit would be “talking about Podesta” what with the economic issues to be sussed out is laughable.
Podesta is right that he should get his “head” in the game. Problem is this clown has no “head” as it were.
This is the Leader of The Free World, folks.
Former leader of the free world.
. . . out of his ass first.
Two twitterers made for each other.
Unfortunately, the first lady of Poland gets the “made it worth watching with popcorn” award.
Which is weird because the Polish government that her husband heads is extremely right-wing.
No doubt that last year’s goings on of two US federal agencies has all the G20 attendees agog.
“Everyone here is talking about . . . ” is one of those Trumpian locutions that means “I made this lie up out of whole cloth.” No further comment necessary.
Unlike many, I don’t have TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome). However, this tweet just indicates that he is inhabiting another cosmos. As Barney Frank stated, “On what planet, madame, do you spend a majority of your days?”
It’s not good when he is at the G20 thinking about John Podesta. That is wrong on many levels.
It is remotely possible that Trump was talking nonstop about Podesta at dinner with Shinzo Abe and Moon Jae-in Thursday night (and bragging about his victory, giving them copies of his famous map, etc.) while they sat in baffled silence, and he never realized that the only one talking was him.
Does he ever realize?
Very possible.
But then it’s on them that they meekly sat listening to such mindless shit.
niceties to be observed.
Not that Trump knows anything about any of that.
Just another episode of “Caligula, American Style”…though I enjoy “Mr. Twit goes to Washington” more!