Donuts with Putin: Trump tweets it makes Schumer a hypocrite
Spying allegations against the Russian Ambassador to the USA are nothing but groundless assumptions by mainstream media; as no American intelligence official has ever voiced such accusations, according to Russia’s presidential spokesman.
The President issued a statement saying, “Jeff Sessions is an honest man”.
And at any rate, responding to serious allegations with a troll on Twitter is not the kind of response one would normally expect from the president of the United States.
Trump has called any developments about links between Russian Federation and his campaign officials a “total witch hunt”.
The above photo shows Senator Chuck Schumer and Vladimir Putin openly walking the streets of New York City in 2003. He then challenged Trump to do the same.
Nancy Pelosi told Politico this week that she has never met with Sergey Kislyak, a claim which was immediately contradicted by photographic evidence of Pelosi meeting with Kislyak in 2010.
At least five trump associates have met with the ambassador during the campaign and transition.
“There can not be even the scintilla of doubt about the impartiality and fairness of the attorney general, the top law enforcement official of the land”, Schumer said.
The official called the sit-down at Trump Tower in NY a “brief courtesy meeting”.
Schumer said he’d be happy to have a public discussion to hash out their respective ties – or lack thereof – to Russian Federation.
US Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee and former 2016 presidential candidate, had words of caution for Trumpabout future dealings with Putin.
Fiona Hill, a dual US-UK citizen and the co-author of a seminal psychoanalysis of the Russian leader called Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin, is to serve as Trump’s Russia adviser on the National Security Council, reports Foreign Policy.
As calls for an investigation into the Obama campaign’s connections to Russia grew louder, news broke that Obama’s new attorney general had been less than honest during his confirmation hearing when asked if he had contact with the Russians.