Trump was given a briefing on the Russian interference in the election in August of 2016. They have just released a transcript of that briefing. And Trump asked the briefer, “Joe, are the Russians bad?”
That man would be elected president of the United States just three months later.
This document was declassified by Trump’s DNI flunky John Ratcliffe and provided to the ridiculous Senate Russia investigation. Apparently, they think this somehow helps Trump because the briefing was held by Peter Strozk and they were on the lookout for anything Trump said that could give them clues if he was aware of the Russian interference. As usual, these people see this as a grotesque abuse of power even though they were cheering on the ongoing investigations of Hillay Clinton at the time and demanding more.
But what these documents really show is that candidate Trump was an ignoramus. Surprise.
Let’s not forget that what Trump did know during this period was that he was in the midst of a deal to build Trump Tower Moscow and that would require the approval of Vladimir Putin. I’m sure he was planning to leverage such briefings into a close personal relationship with him after the election should he lose. And I would guess that he still is.
By the way, he said he spoke with Putin yet again today. Indeed, he’s been talking to him very regularly of late. We have no idea what they’ve been talking about.