Donald Trump has revealing meltdown about Russia indictments
One day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted thirteen Russians for conspiring to rig the election in Donald Trump’s favor, suffice it to say that Trump isn’t taking the news particularly well. Not only is he melting down about the indictments, he’s unintentionally giving away revealing clues about what may have truly been going on between him and Russia before he announced his candidacy for president.
Here’s what Trump tweeted this morning: “Funny how the Fake News Media doesn’t want to say that the Russian group was formed in 2014, long before my run for President. Maybe they knew I was going to run even though I didn’t know!” It sounds like he didn’t think this tweet through before posting it, because that final sentence is a doozy. For starters, Trump was tweeting back in September of 2014 about the possibility of running for president, so he’s being disingenuous here. But if he wasn’t serious about running back in 2014 when he was tweeting about it, he just gave something away here.
Trump just said that perhaps the Russians knew he was going to run for president before he did. That actually fits quite well with the increasingly substantiated theory that the Russians decided in 2014 to begin paving the way for their puppet Trump to become president so he could lift the recently enacted sanctions, and that the Russians then later informed Trump that he would have to run in order to fulfill his obligations to them.
So even though he was perhaps trying facetiously steer attention away from what really happened, Donald Trump may have just given away what really happened. We know from these indictments that the Russians did begin planning to install Trump as president back in 2014. How could they have known he was going to run before he knew he was going to run? There’s only one possible answer to that: they told him to, and he obliged.
Bill Palmer is the publisher of the political news outlet Palmer Report