Russia just said the unverified report paid for by political opponents is "A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE." Very unfair!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017
Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA – NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017
I win an election easily, a great "movement" is verified, and crooked opponents try to belittle our victory with FAKE NEWS. A sorry state!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017
Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to "leak" into the public. One last shot at me.Are we living in Nazi Germany?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017
Ought to be a heck of a press conference today, if Trump doesn’t chicken-out. Maybe we’ll find out what is the special info that Trump knows about the hacks that is unknown to everyone else.
I’ve always thought that Barack Obama would be a good man to know in a knife-fight, so I don’t have any difficulty imagining that he may have greenlighted the humiliation of Trump, the ruin of Putin’s prize on the evening before The Donald’s first press conference, and as he was delivering his valedictory. Indeed, I think there is an almost irresistible symmetry to it; part of me hopes that’s what happened.
The difficulty with that scenario is that Trump is so egregiously a foul human being that I don’t have any difficulty believing the stories, or that things just happened to work-out as they have. And there is this:
The summary is based on memos generated by political operatives seeking to derail Mr. Trump’s candidacy. Details of the reports began circulating in the fall and were widely known among journalists and politicians in Washington.
That’s delicious: Trump complains that the press is unfair, when the truth is that the press protected him by refusing to go with salacious gossip; there was no story until CNN was able to verify that the rumors had been presented to Trump as part of the intelligence briefing.
Seriously: I won’t be a bit surprised if today’s press conference is cancelled.