Little Eric Trump, Donald Trump’s mini-me
by digby
Poor Eric got all tongue tied trying to talk about Russia today:
“What started off as a hoax – you know, Trump won the election because of Russia – has been proven to be nothing further from the truth,” Eric Trump said on “Fox & Friends.”
Nothing has been proven on that front: It is out of the immediate scope of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe to determine if Russian meddling tipped the election in Trump’s favor. Neither has Mueller concluded, one way or the other, whether the Trump campaign knowingly worked with Russia to influence the election. (Donald Trump Jr. and several other senior campaign officials have acknowledged meeting with Russians promising dirt on Hillary Clinton, though.)
“But the Russians being bold enough to meddle has to be stopped, and I hope that gets addressed,” co-host Brian Kilmeade said.
“I agree and I wish Obama would have done that,” Trump replied. “If he knew, which he clearly did, I wish he would have stopped it. And the big question is: why did he do nothing about it?”
He might ask Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY): the Washington Post reported in December 2016, citing “several” unnamed officials, that McConnell had raised doubts about the intelligence reports showing Russia hacked Democratic officials’ emails, and other measures, when briefed about them before the election.
McConnell, in the paper’s words, “made clear to the administration that he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to affirm that story earlier this year. McConnell, Biden said, “wanted no part of having a bipartisan commitment saying, essentially, ‘Russia’s doing this. Stop.’”
Right. The Russian interference story was a hoax but he thinks Obama should have stopped the interference.
They are starting to trip over themselves now. The hoax story was important because it explained why they have done nothing to address the problem and have actually attempted to obstruct the punishments the Obama administration imposed and have refused to implement the sanctions. Now that they can’t deny it happened they are left with whining, sniveling and blaming the Obama administration for not stopping it and are left dumbstruck when asked what they plan to do about it.
It’s fine with their cult followers. Obama can be blamed for everything and Trump is infallible.
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