Tweetizen Trump – 2017-06-22: “Korea! Elections! Russia! Russia! Russia!”

Tweetizen Trump – 2017-06-22: “Korea! Elections! Russia! Russia! Russia!”

I’m on vacation, Donald, so it’s hard to keep up — but I didn’t want you to think I had forgotten about you …

(Tweets may be reorganized to group topically and/or coherently.)

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► While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know China tried! [1]

How do you know this, Donald? What have they “tried”? What have we tried? Is that read on China’s “trying” based on intelligence, or what China has told you?

Not that I mistrust you, Donald, of course. I mistrust China. As you used to profess to, before they started acting all nice and respectful toward you.

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► Things are looking great for Karen H! [2]

► Thank you @FoxNews “Huge win for President Trump and GOP in Georgia Congressional Special Election.” [3]

► Congratulations to Karen Handel on her big win in Georgia 6th. Fantastic job, we are all very proud of you! [4]

► Ralph Norman ran a fantastic race to win in the Great State of South Carolina’s 5th District. We are all honored by your success tonight! [5]

Interestingly different tone between those two congratulations, Donald.

► Well, the Special Elections are over and those that want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN are 5 and O! All the Fake News, all the money spent = 0 [6]

Was there any particular “fake news” in those elections you wanted to call out? Does “all the Fake News” mean “all the media attention”? Because that would be kind of weird to say, Donald.

But, yes, the five special elections in deeply red districts went red. In some cases (like in South Carolina) it was far closer than expected, and in others it was still a remarkable showing for such deeply conservative districts.

But, yes, when all was said and done, the GOP won those districts.

Of course, the Dems lost a bunch of special elections in 2005, too. Then in 2006 …

► Democrats would do much better as a party if they got together with Republicans on Healthcare,Tax Cuts,Security. Obstruction doesn’t work! [7]

Really, because the GOP seems to have made it work for the last eight years, even with the Dems inviting in Republican amendments on the ACA, etc. And they obstructed and stonewalled and dragged their feet and filibustered and blocked everything they could … and, look, they won back both houses of Congress and the Presidency.

► I certainly hope the Democrats do not force Nancy P out. That would be very bad for the Republican Party – and please let Cryin’ Chuck stay! [11]

Stay classy, Donald. Always.

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So the following is a remarkable chain of tweets, Donald (I actually missed one in when first copying them over). It sounds like you’re back to denying Russian interference with the 2016 election — claiming Jeh Johnson said there wa no “grand scheme,” that the Obama Administration did nothing about it, that the Dems committed a “HOAX,” and that it’s all a “big Dem scam” and “excuse for losing the election!” [14]

Is that really the case, Donald? Do you really, truly not believe that Russia was interfering in the election, even as there was further testimony on Capitol Hill yesterday about attacks on states? [15]

Or are you just trying to shout down people who are saying inconvenient and irritating things to you about all this?

► Former Homeland Security Advisor Jeh Johnson is latest top intelligence official to state there was no grand scheme between Trump & Russia. [8]

And as with all the other Obama Administration folk who have testified on the subject, his knowledge stopped as of the day you assumed office. He cannot speak for anything that has come out of DHS (or the Mueller investigations) since then.

At the same time, Donald, he also testified that the scope and size of Russian interference in the election, based on the knowledge he had at that point, was “unprecedented”. [16]

So why do you believe him on the one thing that’s convenient for you, but deny the rest of what he had to say?

► 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? [9]

Yes, it took place during the Obama Administration. There’s still a lot we don’t know about what steps prior, during, and after the various hacking attempts were made by the various cyber-security arms of the Federal Government. And, in reality, the only successfully exploited hacks that we know of, I believe, were the hack of the DNC server and the separate phishing attack on John Podesta’s Gmail account.

As to the question of why the Obama Administration wasn’t even more public about it, various folk yesterday, including (cough) Jeh Johnson, addressed that.

“One of the candidates, as you recall, was predicting that the election was going to be ‘rigged’ in some way. We were concerned that by making the statement we might, in and of itself, be challenging the integrity of the election process itself.” [16]

In other words, Donald, you, yourself, made it toxic to talk too much about Russian interference while it was happening, and the Obama Administration made the decision, rightly or wrongly, to not outwardly make the proverbial federal case about it.

Of course, they thought you were going to lose badly, so it wouldn’t make a difference. That was clearly an error.

► ..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! [13]

The DNC says that the DHS offer came some time after the break-in had been announced, and that they had already long been in touch with the FBI and their own security company on how to secure their servers.

► ..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! [10]

You keep asking that question, Donald. The answers haven’t changed, no matter how many times you ask it. The DNC decided that having their own private security group (one that remains praised by both the FBI and DHS folk who have addressed the issue) analyze the systems and turn their results over to law enforcement would suffice; those agencies, in turn, though they would of course have preferred to get their own hands on the boxen, have not criticized the information they received.

As to why, that remains only speculative. But given strained relations between elements in the Democratic party and the FBI (after all the email brouhaha), and ties between your campaign (e.g., Giuliani) and groups with the FBI, they may have been concerned, wrongly or rightly, that turning over servers with a mass of campaign information in them to the FBI would have led to leaks of still more sensitive or embarrassing information.

You know, Donald — all those “leaks” you keep kvetching about?

Finally, of course, we’ve previously (and multiple times) dismissed the “it’s all an excuse” thing, given that large-scale and detailed reports about Russian interference came out months before the election, when nobody (except, possibly, you, Donald) thought the Dems were going to lose.

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► With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea……whether there are “tapes” or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings. [12]

Well, that’s kind of anticlimactic, but not a huge surprise. Given that you, yourself, raised the issue of “tapes,” you’ve only yourself to blame, Donald, for letting this particular issue stretch on for so long.

Assuming that people believe you, of course,

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You and/or your Social Media Minions also tweeted about …

… condemning the North Korean regime.
… meeting the President of Ukraine
… going to Iowa for a big campaign rally (a total of three tweets on that particular soiree).

(Only researched the @RealDonaldTrump account today, Donald. But that’s where the juicy stuff usually is.)

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[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877234140483121152
[2] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877350761742688256
[3] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877353797760286720
[4] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877355739383287808
[5] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877363446530007040
[6] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877372660455546880
[7] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877474368661618688
[8] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877878375045447680
[9] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877879361130688512
[10] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877889199353077760
[11] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877892883352702976
[12] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877932907137966080, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877932956458795008
[13] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877889199353077760
[14] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/06/22/trump-russian-interference-is-all-a-big-dem-hoax/
[15] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/trumps-denial-of-russian-interference/531243/
[16] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/us/politics/jeh-johnson-testimony-russian-election-hacking.html

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