Russia, if you’re listening …
by digby
You’ve probably seen this, but if not, here is your president telling everyone that he is open to receiving all dirt on his opponent no matter who is offering or how it is obtained:
EXCLUSIVE: Pres. Trump tells @GStephanopoulos he wouldn't necessarily alert the FBI if approached by foreign figures with information on his 2020 opponent: "It’s not an interference. They have information. I think I’d take it." https://t.co/yWRxMOaFqW pic.twitter.com/qwLw53s5yc— ABC News (@ABC) June 12, 2019
“Opposition research” used to be research done by the other party. The assumption was that foreign adversaries would considered hostile to the US and therefore, one wouldn’t want their help to win. Not a good look. But Trump believes that anyone who likes him and wants to help him win is his friend, regardless of their motives. After all, he just reassured Kim Jong Un this week that his CIA would never try to recruit high-level assets in his government to try to ascertain important information about the secretive regime. Kim is his friend. The CIA (and all the assets around the world who fouled their trousers when they realized the president of the United States could easily sell them out to one of his “friends”) were reportedly uhm … upset.
Trump’s been looking at the polls. He knows he needs some help…
Update:
If he can’t handle George Stephanopoulos why in the hell do these people think it’s ok for him to meet with Vladimir Putin by himself?
Ingraham tonight said, “Setting aside the question of why you would have George Stephanopoulos standing over the president in the Oval Office––I don’t know who approved that––what about this notion of accepting foreign Intel about an opponent? Is that a risk for President Trump, getting pulled back into Mueller? Again, why he was put in that situation is beyond me.”
Victor Davis Hanson agreed that “you shouldn’t ever talk to George Stephanopoulos,” and said Trump probably “intended to” bring up something like Adam Schiff getting called by Russian pranksters.
He added, “I think the cardinal rule is in Trump’s case you don’t even discuss that. You just say I don’t want to talk about it.”
Ingraham said it seemed like he was “playing with” Stephanopoulos a bit, but added, “Putting him in that situation, I don’t get it.”
This is even more pathetic:
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