It's strategic. Nothing is his fault; even the things he directly triggers. It's always someone else's fault. He is jealous of Obama & uses him as a regular target to blame. If he had any sense of reality, he'd look in the mirror & see his everyday "f ups".

Racist.

Really? So you've forgotten about the 8 years of its W's fault.

Its always the predescessors fault, never gonna change.

And yes, I know you're gonna say it was all W's fault.

Really? So you've forgotten about the 8 years of its W's fault.

Its always the predescessors fault, never gonna change.

And yes, I know you're gonna say it was all W's fault.

Well, I am not sure what "all his fault" refers to, but since You asked. Yes Really!!!
I recall W completely tanking the economy in 2008 and Obama getting it back on track, I also recall W and his war mongering cronies getting us involved in America's longest standing military conflict, by jumping in to war under completely falsified and trumped up evidence and pretenses. Funny how even the root word "trump" means fabricated and falsified..........Peace..........joe

Really? So you've forgotten about the 8 years of its W's fault.

Its always the predescessors fault, never gonna change.

And yes, I know you're gonna say it was all W's fault.

Well, I am not sure what "all his fault" refers to, but since You asked. Yes Really!!!
I recall W completely tanking the economy in 2008 and Obama getting it back on track, I also recall W and his war mongering cronies getting us involved in America's longest standing military conflict, by jumping in to war under completely falsified and trumped up evidence and pretenses. Funny how even the root word "trump" means fabricated and falsified..........Peace..........joe

Well said.

Stating the obvious, it is a crutch and deflects attention away from him to something else.

There are always issues that new Presidents have to deal with that should've or could've been handled differently. This is the easiest thing to do, dwell on the past rather than knowing you can't do anything about the past and instead look forward. For Trump especially, it is who he is, he would rather blame and be combative and most importantly expresses his weak leadership abilities. It is fine to mention the past in the context of the now, but the focus must be on the way ahead. Some people can do that and some people can't.

Because he's a treasonous puppet of a foreign power, a traitor who both stands to become greatly enriched by that power and is beholden to that power due to that power holding evidence of immorality and law breaking. Pretty clear, especially in light of this farcical "summit" taking place. "Putin didn't know"….really…if a flea farts in St. Petersburg, Putin knows about it before the smell fades.

[Edited on 7/16/2018 by rmack]

Really? So you've forgotten about the 8 years of its W's fault.

Its always the predescessors fault, never gonna change.

And yes, I know you're gonna say it was all W's fault.

Well, I am not sure what "all his fault" refers to, but since You asked. Yes Really!!!
I recall W completely tanking the economy in 2008 and Obama getting it back on track, I also recall W and his war mongering cronies getting us involved in America's longest standing military conflict, by jumping in to war under completely falsified and trumped up evidence and pretenses. Funny how even the root word "trump" means fabricated and falsified..........Peace..........joe

Well said.

x2.

If Mueller and anyone else in Washington do nothing in response to this treason in front of our eyes, then my blame will shift from Trump to the politicians in Washington who are apparently too scared to act.

If Mueller and anyone else in Washington do nothing in response to this treason in front of our eyes, then my blame will shift from Trump to the politicians in Washington who are apparently too scared to act.

X2

I said in a post on this site the other day that Trump would bend over for Putin in Helsinki. Is there any doubt he did? Wouldn't you like to know what Putin has on Trump that makes him such a pu$$y?

If the GOP Congress doesn't stand up to Russian Don now, then there is no hope for them. One would have thought that after his statements on Charlottesville that would have been enough, but evidently it takes more than blatant racism to have the GOP distance themselves? Is treason a big enough reason, or will this just be all forgotten and forgiven next week?

No American president has ever appeared as a supplicant to a foreign power who attacked us - an attack that the intelligence community says is ongoing.

No American president has been so eager to placate a hostile foreign power. And no American president has been under a credible shadow of allegedly conspiring with a hostile foreign power.

No American president has so attacked our allies and heaped scorn on his fellow citizens while heaping praise on a hostile foreign power.

No American president has been so ill-prepared for diplomacy and statecraft and then insisted on handling negotiations with a hostile foreign power alone.

- Dan Rather

[Edited on 7/16/2018 by BoytonBrother]

At a news conference after the summit, President Trump was asked if he believed his own intelligence agencies or the Russian president when it came to the allegations of meddling in the elections.

"President Putin says it's not Russia. I don't see any reason why it would be," he replied.

When the FBI or CIA say something is true, I believe it.

Of course Putin isn't going to admit Russia's involvement...just as I am sure that the US would not admit their involvement in foreign affairs if we were being accused of such.

So this issue needed extensive planning, coaching so that Trump could respond to Putin's anticipated claim of innocence. There were many ways this could've been done, and still had some kind of constructive meeting on other issues, but Trump is not interested in listening to even his top advisors.

Trump is not a statesman, he is not a patriot. He views being President of the United States simply as being President of a corporation and all the other countries are just competing businesses. The difference is that the stakes are never this high in the corporate world. I too would like to find some mutual areas that Russia and the United States can have cooperative relationships on...even in the middle of their cyber attacks (I assume our country does the same, I'd be disappointed if we didn't).

Being naive and idealistic and uneducated on geo-political issues the POTUS has to deal with is one thing and can be minimized with proper coaching and to some extent Presidents Obama and Bush 43 and Clinton and Reagan and so on must've all gone through a process to get ready for meeting like this. And I am sure that made all of our prior Presidents more effective and more prepared for what they were about to engage in.

But Trump is a loose canon. Nobody can tell him anything. To say that he is out of his league is an understatement. There are people ready and willing to assist and guide him, that is what they were appointed for, but he ignores them.

It is the same thing as always with him. US intelligence isn't important to him. I don't see how people serving this President can continue to do so, but in fact their service to their country and our country is more important than ever - they indeed work for America and not simply the President. People like Dan Coats, he is a statesman, he is a patriot. He is serving his country. Just like people at the FBI and all of our intelligence agencies. That has to be the only way to look at it, if I was in their position. You feel unappreciated, but you know at the same time that your work is critical and no matter your feelings on the President, his time will pass and America will always live on.

When the FBI or CIA say something is true, I believe it.

Of course Putin isn't going to admit Russia's involvement...just as I am sure that the US would not admit their involvement in foreign affairs if we were being accused of such.

So this issue needed extensive planning, coaching so that Trump could respond to Putin's anticipated claim of innocence. There were many ways this could've been done, and still had some kind of constructive meeting on other issues, but Trump is not interested in listening to even his top advisors.

Trump is not a statesman, he is not a patriot. He views being President of the United States simply as being President of a corporation and all the other countries are just competing businesses. The difference is that the stakes are never this high in the corporate world. I too would like to find some mutual areas that Russia and the United States can have cooperative relationships on...even in the middle of their cyber attacks (I assume our country does the same, I'd be disappointed if we didn't).

Being naive and idealistic and uneducated on geo-political issues the POTUS has to deal with is one thing and can be minimized with proper coaching and to some extent Presidents Obama and Bush 43 and Clinton and Reagan and so on must've all gone through a process to get ready for meeting like this. And I am sure that made all of our prior Presidents more effective and more prepared for what they were about to engage in.

But Trump is a loose canon. Nobody can tell him anything. To say that he is out of his league is an understatement. There are people ready and willing to assist and guide him, that is what they were appointed for, but he ignores them.

It is the same thing as always with him. US intelligence isn't important to him. I don't see how people serving this President can continue to do so, but in fact their service to their country and our country is more important than ever - they indeed work for America and not simply the President. People like Dan Coats, he is a statesman, he is a patriot. He is serving his country. Just like people at the FBI and all of our intelligence agencies. That has to be the only way to look at it, if I was in their position. You feel unappreciated, but you know at the same time that your work is critical and no matter your feelings on the President, his time will pass and America will always live on.

How can Dan Coates continue to serve in this administration? I am from Indiana was no fan of Coates as my senator, before or after his lobbying gigs, but surely he has a scarp of personal dignity. How can you be the point-man between this president and 17 intelligence agencies that were just smeared in order to try to suck up to Putin?

How can people continue to be involved in this? The only one that makes sense to me is Mike Pence because I know what kind of (sub)human he is. Read his quote about this on a day where even Newt Gingrich was bashing Trump...

Envies what he imagines is a much larger penis than he, but more to the point, loathes the black man because he, Donald J.Trump, is a vile racist....Occam's razor again!?!?