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This week’s show can’t wait until Friday, the Trump Putin summit in Helsinki was an unmitigated disaster. Democrats universally condemned Trump, many Republicans have as well.. Here’s where things went completely off the rails.
Trump called the European Union a “foe”.
Trump has called the media “the enemy of the people”.
Trump congratulated Putin for winning his election earlier this year, a man who kills journalists at home & assassinates foes in Europe, just for putting on a soccer tournament.
Serious question, what would Trump be doing differently.. if he were actually a paid Russian agent? He’s finally good at something. Putin looked pleased.
Senator Mark Warner tweeted;
"The president of the united States sided with Vladimir Putin over the unanimous assessment of the American intelligence community," Sen. Warner says. cbsn.ws/2LnO1sz
Conservative Bill Cristol tweeted:
Putin won. America lost.
Trump’s own Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats released a STATEMENT
“The role of the Intelligence Community is to provide the best information and fact-based assessments possible for the President and policymakers. We have been clear in our assessments of Russian meddling in the 2016 election..."
Here’s my question; why is he still in office? If only there were a way to chat
This week has already been rough. And it’s only Wednesday! You know that here on the show, we offer you the facts, and the fact is we have a President who talks out of both sides of his mouth. It gets difficult to keep things into a singular coherent message.
Luckily, through a stroke of good fortune, we have stumbled onto a device that can help make sense of our President’s stream of consciousness. Today, we proudly unveil our “Ultra Right Wing Magic Eightball!”