Matthew blog 3/14/18

The string of rants - which aides were given no heads up about - made clear that if anyone was preoccupied by Russia, it was surely the President. 

With a pair of national crises before him — another deadly shooting and another wave of evidence that Russia interfered in an American election — Trump demonstrated Sunday morning which was occupying more of his attention: Rather than outlining steps to protect the nation against more shootings or tampering in upcoming elections, he made the moment about himself.

Trump has yet to detail what he or his administration plan to do to punish Russia for meddling in the 2016 election. Special counsel Robert Mueller, in a thorough indictment released Friday, detailed how hundreds of  Russian


operatives -- including a close associate to Russian President Vladimir Putin -- interfered in the election by organizing political events and used social media to tout Trump and criticize Hillary Clinton.

In a series of tweets -- over a dozen since the indictment was revealed -- Trump has repeatedly said his 2016 campaign did not collude with Russian operatives ("no collusion!" he wrote), labeled Adam Schiff, the ranking member on the House Intelligence committee, a "leakin' monster of no control" and lamented the fact that "they are laughing their asses off in Moscow."

The tweets come hours before Trump will meet with House Speaker Paul Ryan, a lawmaker who has tried to avoid commenting on the President's Twitter missives. The messages threaten to overshadow a previously planned meeting on the party's legislative agenda and mid-term election outlook. 

And they are a sign that neither embattled White House chief of staff Jo
Kelly — on property for the weekend at Mar-a-Lago — or other advisers who met with the president on Saturday can keep him on track.

"If it was the GOAL of Russia to create discord, disruption and chaos within the U.S. then, with all of the Committee Hearings, Investigations and Party hatred, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They are laughing their asses off in Moscow," he wrote. "Get smart America!

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messages shed light on a President who has been almost entirely focused on the past -- how the Russian allegations impact the legitimacy of his presidency and accusations against his 2016 campaign -- and not how
 he will work to stop Russia from meddling in the future. 

I think that,yes maybe Russia had to do with 2016 elections and cause of that trump and Putin are like best buds,but doesn't mean that he should blame everyone except the Russians. With all that has been over the past few months it's been very odd that trump is now just firing his Secretary of State and wants a new guy because he likes what he says and all the tweets sent by him have so frond a pond that people are starting not to care. And also with the tweets I saw something that was saying about how maybe the tweets are Russia or they were during the election and the email with Clinton was also there's, but I really think just that there bff, it doesn't mean that he can just be mad at everyone and not Russia