{"id":131146,"date":"2016-07-27T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T16:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/27\/donald-trump-is-a-dolt-from-russia-with-love-edition.html"},"modified":"2016-07-27T10:16:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T16:16:58","slug":"donald-trump-is-a-dolt-from-russia-with-love-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/27\/donald-trump-is-a-dolt-from-russia-with-love-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is a Dolt (From Russia with Love Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, just to be sure I have this straight, Donald Trump, the GOP Nominee for President of the United States &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. <i>Hopes<\/i> Russia hacked Secretary of State Clinton&#39;s official email system, so that they can release the &quot;30,000 emails that are missing&quot; for the benefit of the American press.<\/p>\n<p>2. Refuses to opine on whether Russia should be meddling in the US election, saying that&#39;s up to the President to tell them not to. &quot;I&#39;m not going to tell Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>3. Thinks that if the Russians did hack the DNC&#39;s email servers (as experts have suggested) and released information from them to Wikileaks in order to influence the US election, well &#8230; that&#39;s just a sign that Russia doesn&#39;t respect Obama and wouldn&#39;t respect Clinton. Because &#8230; reasons.<\/p>\n<p>And this is the man who claims that he can work better with (and be respected by) Vladimir Putin &#8212; the man who jokes about Russia hacking US State Department files and doesn&#39;t seem to think it&#39;s his job as a major party nominee to suggest that foreign intervention in US politics, by a rival if not hostile power, is a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>Dolt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/28\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-russia-clinton-emails.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/5jkgdm74xmA3L8j7mVhKWtGTF8UjF9VEStGNDM_LM2R0jOiqBstdD1-k3n58ZooDZqKFV9Yta1annaLCdXONlxYjIhLJiYmdmip7CMLxUjUrQ4caOEbgQ9-tQU6Bhjrw95HiRbj9mUNicecPWn_h=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/28\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-russia-clinton-emails.html'>Donald Trump Challenges Russia to Find Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s Missing Emails<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n&ldquo;Russia, if you&rsquo;re listening, I hope you&rsquo;re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,&rdquo; Mr. Trump said, essentially sanctioning a foreign power&rsquo;s cyberspying.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/BzzLhwqWEDK'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, just to be sure I have this straight, Donald Trump, the GOP Nominee for President of the United States &#8230; 1. Hopes Russia hacked Secretary of State Clinton&#39;s official email system, so that they can release the &quot;30,000 emails that are missing&quot; for the benefit of the American press. 2. Refuses to opine on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/27\/donald-trump-is-a-dolt-from-russia-with-love-edition.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Donald Trump is a Dolt (From Russia with Love Edition)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132779,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/tweetizen-trump-2017-02-07-the-ny-times-are-poopy-heads.html","url_meta":{"origin":131146,"position":0},"title":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2017-02-07 &quot;The NY Times Are Poopy-Heads!&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Feb-17 8:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"Was this a Cranky Day or a Boastful Day? Well, sort of a mix. Let's hit the Twitter feed!===\u25ba Will be interviewed on @oreillyfactor tonight at 8:00 P.M. [1][*]What? No \"Enjoy!\" Should I be reading anything into the lack of admonition to \"enjoy\" your interview?And later ...\u25ba An extended interview\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131164,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/31\/that-time-trump-was-incoherent-about-ukraine-and-russia.html","url_meta":{"origin":131146,"position":1},"title":"That time Trump was incoherent about Ukraine and Russia","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 31-Jul-16 3:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"'Donald Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin won't make a military move into Ukraine -- even though Putin already has done just that, seizing the country's Crimean Peninsula. \"He's not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He's not going to go into Ukraine, all right? 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