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Originally Posted by rtd353
Imagine if Obama had been a republican president, knew about Russian interfering in a presidential election and did nothing about it. Democrats would be charging him with treason, calling for execution etc..
Imagine...is what you would be doing if you think he took no action. That is yet another fake talking point of the right. Even though this information was made known to the Obama administration late in his final term, dozens of options were discussed in late term meetings. Before the election, Obama issued several warnings to Russia, including one from BHO to Putin.
Post warning actions include: expulsion of dozens of diplomats, closing of two Russian compounds, economic sanctions, and a plan for planting cyberweapons in Russian infrastructure.
Trump is even on record saying he disagreed with BHO closing the compounds as a sanction for the election meddling. He wants to reopen them. So by account #1, Trump denies the meddling even happened. By account #2, he says that it happened and was known about prior to the election, but falsely says nothing was done by the Obama administration. By account #3, he says the Obama administration went too far by shutting down the compounds as sanctions for the meddling. So which one is it?
Trump is a lying, sniveling scumbag. A pure conman. He makes up whatever rhetoric backs his thoughts at the moment, no matter how much his talking points contradict his other talking points. Nobody can say that Obama didn't do anything. He had limited time to do something about it and may not have gone far enough, but he didn't sit on his hands and do nothing.