Donald Trump rewrites history about his ‘Russia, if you’re listening’ comment about Clinton's emails

[tulc]

PolitiFact - Donald Trump rewrites history about his ‘Russia, if you’re listening’ comment about Clinton's emails

Trump said the media distorted his "Russia, if you’re listening" comment in 2016 by cutting out "the laugher, the joke."

The laughter was not cut. The full video shows that no laughter followed.

Trump has recast the delivery and response of his 2016 press conference in an effort to distort the media’s coverage. We rate this statement False.

...it's like he doesn't think anyone will ever check what he says...or that his base will simply believe him over what they can see for themselves.
tulc(is going to need more coffee)

 

[Albion]

PolitiFact - Donald Trump rewrites history about his ‘Russia, if you’re listening’ comment about Clinton's emails

...it's like he doesn't think anyone will ever check what he says...or that his base will simply believe him over what they can see for themselves.
tulc(is going to need more coffee)

Everybody who wasn't in Hillary's corner at the time the words were spoken to a nationwide audience knew immediately that it was a joke on Trump's part.

And even so, it was not until later when the Hillary campaign started to spin the comment and argue that Trump was literally inviting the Russian government to meddle that her supporters picked up the cue and began talking as though that was what they always thought he meant.

 

[HTacianas]

PolitiFact - Donald Trump rewrites history about his ‘Russia, if you’re listening’ comment about Clinton's emails

...it's like he doesn't think anyone will ever check what he says...or that his base will simply believe him over what they can see for themselves.
tulc(is going to need more coffee)

Everyone who saw that knew it was a joke.

 

[Cimorene]

PolitiFact - Donald Trump rewrites history about his ‘Russia, if you’re listening’ comment about Clinton's emails

...it's like he doesn't think anyone will ever check what he says...or that his base will simply believe him over what they can see for themselves.
tulc(is going to need more coffee)

The Mueller Report showed that Russia 1st tried to hack Hillary Clinton's email server the exact day Trump made that "joke" about finding her emails. So I guess if that was a "joke" it got lost in translation to them.

 

[Jamsie]

PolitiFact - Donald Trump rewrites history about his ‘Russia, if you’re listening’ comment about Clinton's emails

...it's like he doesn't think anyone will ever check what he says...or that his base will simply believe him over what they can see for themselves.
tulc(is going to need more coffee)

Typical responses by trumplicans following the sanders/trump playbook: #3 - "It was a joke, of course. Don't you know about jokes?"

 

[summerville]

Everyone who saw that knew it was a joke.

Trump jokes a lot, he just isn't very funny. He's too dumb to do comedy.

 

[Mountainmanbob]

what they can see for themselves.
tulc(is going to need more coffee)

What we see are the ((( Exact results )))
that we were hoping for from Trump.

True -- his base is still in full support
and the Starbucks coffee is good this morning
whole bean fresh ground.

M-Bob

 

[Yarddog]

PolitiFact - Donald Trump rewrites history about his ‘Russia, if you’re listening’ comment about Clinton's emails

...it's like he doesn't think anyone will ever check what he says...or that his base will simply believe him over what they can see for themselves.
tulc(is going to need more coffee)

His base won't check or care. They embrace whatever he says.

 

[tulc]

Everyone who saw that knew it was a joke.

They talked about that very thing in the article:

"Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump told a roomful of TV cameras and reporters (including this fact-checker). "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens."

Trump delivered his comment (around minute 13:30 on the C-SPAN video) with a straight face. We didn’t hear any laughter after what he said; it was news. The Q&A continued with Trump calling on a reporter who asked about the minimum wage.

tulc(hopes that clears up any misunderstanding)

 

[Cimorene]

Trump jokes a lot, he just isn't very funny. He's too dumb to do comedy.

He's a comedian's dream bc of the material he provides for them, he just doesn't do the comedy on purpose.

 

[grasping the after wind]

It takes a good deal of imagination coupled with a huge dollop of wishful thinking to consider the "Russia, if your listening," comment to be anything more than a sarcastic dig at Hillary Clinton and the MSM.

 

[SoldierOfTheKing]

Fact of the matter is, Russia probably did have those missing emails. After she placed them on her private server, God only knows who got a hold of them...

 

[Mountainmanbob]

Fact of the matter is, Russia probably did have those missing emails. After she placed them on her private server, God only knows who got a hold of them...

Russia and China to say the least.
They are closer than we think.
M-Bob

 

[SoldierOfTheKing]

Russia and China to say the least.

...and who knows how many hackers around the world.