President Trump now recognizes Russian interference in bizarre Tweetstorm

[The Mikado]

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So...two things. One, Trump is now referring to himself as "T." Secondly...Trump has overnight changed his claim from "There was no interference" to "Blame Obama for not stopping Russian interference."

[Person Man]

Nuclear Elmo?

[NewYorkExpress]

We have entered the Trumpian Twilight Zone, folks.

[ProudModerate2]

Is there still any doubt that our president has some screws loose under that orange hair of his ?

[Middle-aged Europe]

You know, sometimes I'd pay real money if Trump would just shut the f**k up.

[KingSweden]

How have his attorneys/comms staff not committed mass seppuku yet?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

How have his attorneys/comms staff not committed mass seppuku yet?

Unlike some of the people who've worked for him, they're smart enuf to get paid in advance.

[pbrower2a]

Here's the rationale for Obama. He is a stickler for legal precedent and for political protocol. As a sitting President he has no prerogative to interfere in an election. Exposing the Trump campaign for its collusion with a foreign power would be interference in the political process -- and it could backfire. Above all it might interfere with any legal process involving perpetrators.

Such is his character, and it served him well as President. Such also distinguishes him in an important way from Donald Trump but not from the better Presidents of American history.

... We now have a pretext for removing the President on grounds of diminished capacity.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

 Trump acknowledging reality is so rare, that it's a major story when it happens.

[EnglishPete]

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So...two things. One, Trump is now referring to himself as "T." Secondly...Trump has overnight changed his claim from "There was no interference" to "Blame Obama for not stopping Russian interference."

Nope. If you look carefully at the wording of the tweets the first is a report of a report. The other two are comments about the Obama admin's reaction to the reports. In other words the tweets do not state any opinion on whether the reports were accurate, the questions are posed as a hypothetical.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

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So...two things. One, Trump is now referring to himself as "T." Secondly...Trump has overnight changed his claim from "There was no interference" to "Blame Obama for not stopping Russian interference."

Nope. If you look carefully at the wording of the tweets the first is a report of a report. The other two are comments about the Obama admin's reaction to the reports. In other words the tweets do not state any opinion on whether the reports were accurate, the questions are posed as a hypothetical.

So when did you stop beating your wife?

(In case you didn't get it, that's a famous apocryphal loaded question.)

[EnglishPete]

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So...two things. One, Trump is now referring to himself as "T." Secondly...Trump has overnight changed his claim from "There was no interference" to "Blame Obama for not stopping Russian interference."

Nope. If you look carefully at the wording of the tweets the first is a report of a report. The other two are comments about the Obama admin's reaction to the reports. In other words the tweets do not state any opinion on whether the reports were accurate, the questions are posed as a hypothetical.

So when did you stop beating your wife?

(In case you didn't get it, that's a famous apocryphal loaded question.)

Yes that apocryphal loaded question is famous on this side of the pond as well.

[EnglishPete]

If we look at these tweets in the context of @realDonaldTrump's previous tweets on this same subject

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So here the point if posed explicitly as a hypothetical. If Russia was really hacking the election then why didn't the Obama admin stop them, why did the DNC refuse to hand over its servers to the FBI for examination and why did they refuse help from the DHS. The implication is that none of that behaviour makes sense unless the DNC and Obama Administration didn't actually believe the Russian hacking story to be true.

Now look again carefully at the latest tweets quoted by the OP Trump starts by referencing a report that Obama admin knew far in advance of Russian hacking and did nothing about it. All three tweets then ask why they didn't do anything about it. The implied hypothetical in the question here is that if  they believed the Russian interference story to be genuine why did they do nothing about it. The implied answer is that they wouldn't have so therefore they did not believe the story to be genuine.

[ShamDam]

If we look at these tweets in the context of @realDonaldTrump's previous tweets on this same subject

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So here the point if posed explicitly as a hypothetical. If Russia was really hacking the election then why didn't the Obama admin stop them, why did the DNC refuse to hand over its servers to the FBI for examination and why did they refuse help from the DHS. The implication is that none of that behaviour makes sense unless the DNC and Obama Administration didn't actually believe the Russian hacking story to be true.

Now look again carefully at the latest tweets quoted by the OP Trump starts by referencing a report that Obama admin knew far in advance of Russian hacking and did nothing about it. All three tweets then ask why they didn't do anything about it. The implied hypothetical in the question here is that if  they believed the Russian interference story to be genuine why did they do nothing about it. The implied answer is that they wouldn't have so therefore they did not believe the story to be genuine.

[Hindsight was 2020]

This might be the dumbest 180 Trump and his supporters have done and that is saying something

[kyc0705]

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So...two things. One, Trump is now referring to himself as "T." Secondly...Trump has overnight changed his claim from "There was no interference" to "Blame Obama for not stopping Russian interference."

Nope. If you look carefully at the wording of the tweets the first is a report of a report. The other two are comments about the Obama admin's reaction to the reports. In other words the tweets do not state any opinion on whether the reports were accurate, the questions are posed as a hypothetical.

There's one of two possibilities here:

1. Donald Trump is confirming that the Russians attempted to influence the election.
2. Trump is not confirming this, but is so unable to clearly structure his comments that it sounds like he's insinuating something entirely different.

[Zioneer]

The fact that this man was elected is still mind-boggling.

[Hermit For Peace]

The fact that this man was elected is still mind-boggling.

This. Utterly.

[Middle-aged Europe]

The fact that this man was elected is still mind-boggling.

This. Utterly.

Because the system is broken.

[Hermit For Peace]

The fact that this man was elected is still mind-boggling.

This. Utterly.

Because the system is broken.

So after this debacle of a presidency, we need to learn from it and create something that is more equitable for everyone. It's painfully obvious that Trump and his party don't care about anyone but the rich, and big business. Painfully obvious.

[ProudModerate2]

If we look at these tweets in the context of @realDonaldTrump's previous tweets on this same subject

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So here the point if posed explicitly as a hypothetical. If Russia was really hacking the election then why didn't the Obama admin stop them, why did the DNC refuse to hand over its servers to the FBI for examination and why did they refuse help from the DHS. The implication is that none of that behaviour makes sense unless the DNC and Obama Administration didn't actually believe the Russian hacking story to be true.

Now look again carefully at the latest tweets quoted by the OP Trump starts by referencing a report that Obama admin knew far in advance of Russian hacking and did nothing about it. All three tweets then ask why they didn't do anything about it. The implied hypothetical in the question here is that if  they believed the Russian interference story to be genuine why did they do nothing about it. The implied answer is that they wouldn't have so therefore they did not believe the story to be genuine.

LOL.
Didn't they show a game like that in a Battlestar Galactica (1970's) or Star Trek episode ?

[ProudModerate2]

EnglishPete trying to decipher trump's tweets is comical, at best.
trump's tweets are so full of sh*t and mind-boggling, that anyone can decrypt his incoherent babbling words and give you 18-1/2 different meanings (most of them being on the bizarre side).
trump is like an 80 year old man, stuck in the body of a 13 year old bully-like teenage girl.
Both hilarious and sad (for our nation).

[Cory]

So here the point if posed explicitly as a hypothetical. If Russia was really hacking the election then why didn't the Obama admin stop them, why did the DNC refuse to hand over its servers to the FBI for examination and why did they refuse help from the DHS. The implication is that none of that behaviour makes sense unless the DNC and Obama Administration didn't actually believe the Russian hacking story to be true.

Now look again carefully at the latest tweets quoted by the OP Trump starts by referencing a report that Obama admin knew far in advance of Russian hacking and did nothing about it. All three tweets then ask why they didn't do anything about it. The implied hypothetical in the question here is that if  they believed the Russian interference story to be genuine why did they do nothing about it. The implied answer is that they wouldn't have so therefore they did not believe the story to be genuine.

Jesus dude I honestly hope you're being paid for all this effort.