{"id":5365,"date":"2017-01-11T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T13:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5365"},"modified":"2017-01-11T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T13:47:12","slug":"tweet-storm-of-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5365","title":{"rendered":"Tweet-storm of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russia just said the unverified report paid for by political opponents is &quot;A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE.&quot; Very unfair!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/819155311793700865\">January 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA &#8211; NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/819159806489591809\">January 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I win an election easily, a great &quot;movement&quot; is verified, and crooked opponents try to belittle our victory with FAKE NEWS. A sorry state!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/819162968592183298\">January 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to &quot;leak&quot; into the public. One last shot at me.Are we living in Nazi Germany?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/819164172781060096\">January 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ought to be a heck of a press conference today, if Trump doesn&#8217;t chicken-out.  Maybe we&#8217;ll find out what is the special info that Trump knows about the hacks that is unknown to everyone else.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/interrupt.gif\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that Barack Obama would be a good man to know in a knife-fight, so I don&#8217;t have any difficulty imagining that he may have greenlighted the humiliation of Trump, the ruin of Putin&#8217;s prize on the evening before The Donald&#8217;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&#8217;s what happened.<\/p>\n<p>The difficulty with that scenario is that Trump is so egregiously a foul human being that I don&#8217;t have any difficulty believing the stories, or that things just happened to work-out as they have.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/10\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-russia-intelligence.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">And there is this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The summary is based on memos generated by political operatives seeking to derail Mr. Trump\u2019s candidacy. <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Details of the reports began circulating in the fall and were widely known among journalists<\/span> and politicians in Washington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously: I won&#8217;t be a bit surprised if today&#8217;s press conference is cancelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia just said the unverified report paid for by political opponents is &quot;A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE.&quot; Very unfair! &mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017 Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. 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