Confirming all except that he thinks it's terrible. His comparison to Russia makes it hard to tell if he thinks it's a good thing or bad.

I give lots of ****s about Russia, mostly because of Crimea, nukes, and the potential for geopolitical instability.

Also lol this is USA#1, other countries arent supposed to pick our leaders. Cmon bro

To be fair, trump is mostly telling the truth here based on his standards--at least I believe russia hasn't tried to leverage him at all (they wouldn't have needed to with the russian ties in the admin, that might not be because leverage but simply incompetence/$$$/arrogance) and he likely has no loans there. I'd be surprised if he didn't own stuff over there though. He might have nothing to do with russian gov't too which is what I think he means by no nothing.

At least there's something out of this--it'd look totally absurd if he let putin just take ukraine now or drop the sanctions instead whatever the hell they were gonna argue.

His denials make me think of this.
www.cnn.com/2017/01/11/politics/trump-ties-with-russia/

That's what he said. Hope someone points this out in the press conference.

Well I was way off on the timing of a few months. Spicer's comment that there was no contact during the campaign stood unchallenged for only a few hours.

God Trump is dumb. The fact there are STILL 40+% of the country supporting this guy is unbelievably depressing.

Leaks are treasonous and...accurate? Also they are fake news. Got it.

And guys, please stop with the "Trump couldn't have done XYZ, that would be incredibly stupid!" He IS incredibly stupid. His whole program is a giant sea of stupid.

Russia breaks missile treaty, got caught with spy ship, and neither are a priority on the list of the concerns right now.

If they were ever going to start some **** now would be the time unfortunately. We are led by someone who struggles with basic logic, has a personality disorder and has no earthly idea what he is doing. His cabinet is also in shambles and has no idea what they are doing.

Lol 2020 polls this far out but Morning Consult has generic D beating Trump by 8 and Trump beating Warren by 6. http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign...-match-up-poll

Western part went preety much how they wanted, Eastern not so much, preety cool link.

That is where you are wrong. Understanding the reality of countries that are completely different to your own its quite hard.
And btw you are confusing lack of knowledge with lack of judgement, they are not the same.

From Evan McMuffin's feed: Having honed their skills against USA#1 in 2016, time to move on to the EU

How Vladimir Putin and Russia are using cyber attacks and fake news to try to rig three major European elections this year

A weakened NATO and ambivalent US allows Russia to run roughshod over eastern Europe. This destabilizes much of the world in ways we haven't seen in decades and puts all sorts of really scary **** back on the table. We've had a sort of detente between all of the major military powers for quite some time, with the understanding that economic cooperation is better for all involved. Russia seems all too willing to upend the status quo, and the most important thing Putin needs to move forward with that is to convince the US to stay out of it.

Joy Reid last night showed that Trump tweet and then like 20 something instances during the campaign where Trump praised Wikileaks (and that one time when he straight up asked Russia to wink wink nudge nudge hack Hildawg and find her "30,000 missing e-mails).

But seriously gais he hates leaks

I think this is what Trump wants: he wants to force European nations -- essentially NATO allies -- back into the draconian world of power.

He's overturning the Kagan doctrine of Paradise and Power.

In Trump's world, there can be no egalitarian oasis.

Is there a pol with the surname "King" that doesn't make people want to eat charcoal when he opens his mouth? I can't find one

There have got to be factions forming even within Trump's inner circle, such as it is. Hey, has anybody seen those long knives that were just on the desk over here?

Do you honestly believe Donald Trump understands any of what you just said?

You were spot on yesterday wheat but he has so many ties to Russia dating back to the 90s.

He repealed dodd frank within 2 weeks after railing against wall Street all campaign. They have no shame.

yeah Trump is just faking the inability to see more than 2 minutes into the future, he's sekretly really smart with a bigly grand plan

lol talking on the phone in 2017 about anything sensitive

and noon presser!?!

here we go

like I'm 100% positive that he will be unveiling that thuper sekret strat to defeat ISIS that he bragged about on the campaign trail

and then you will see, all of you will see