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Trump Answers Ukraine Question By Attacking Hillary Clinton For Not Visiting Wisconsin
Posted on Wed, Sep 25th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
Donald Trump held his first press conference since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry, and he was unable to offer a credible defense for why he pressured a foreign leader to interfere in an American election.
Instead, Trump talked about his Electoral College victory and attacked Hillary Clinton for not visiting Wisconsin in 2016.
Why should the American people, then, be comfortable with an American president asking a foreign leader for information about an American citizen? one reporter asked Trump.
What came next from the president was a rambling dose of word salad in which he stumbled into a rant about the 2016 election.
Trump said:
Well, I think you can look at your senators and you can look at Biden and you can at all these other people. But what were looking for is corruption. An investigation started called the Russian witch hunt, affectionately, and it was a total phony scam. It was set up by people within the government to try and stop somebody from getting elected, and after that after that person, namely me, won and convincingly won at 306 to 223 in the Electoral College. Which, by the way, when you run a race if youre running electoral, you know, if you go by the college, electoral college, thats a much different race than running popular vote. And its like the 100-yard dash or the mile. You train differently. And I cant help it that my opponent didnt go to Wisconsin and should have gone much more to Michigan and Pennsylvania and other places, but thats the way it is. We won an election convincingly. Convincingly.
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Caliman73
(11,726 posts)Because that should have been the only follow up question asked until he actually gave a relevant answer.
dhol82
(9,352 posts)Caliman73
(11,726 posts)It was a rhetorical question. I am sure if Trump was in Europe, that question would have been asked by the press there.
Volaris
(10,269 posts)If hes blaming his current presidential problems on the fact that hillary isn't president just now because he cheated his ass off...
Well then I guess that's the first right thing hes said in about 2 and a half years hahaah..
Yes donald, if hillary were in fact president right now, you wouldn't have to be impeached and spend the rest of your worthless life in prison.
Glad were all on the same page with that!
Idiot.
uponit7771
(90,304 posts)malaise
(268,720 posts)It was stunning to watch - he's stark raving mad and he's terrified.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,262 posts)I didn't see but about 15 seconds of that thing. It was nuts. Reading that little piece was too much crazy, too.
ITTMF until he cracks completely.
struggle4progress
(118,236 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)he gives off the vibe that he actually believes there is a large brick campus somewhere named The Electoral College.
Which, by the way, when you run a race if youre running electoral, you know, if you go by the college, electoral college, thats a much different race than running popular vote. And its like the 100-yard dash or the mile. You train differently.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,262 posts)I never thought about it, but it would fit his warped view and arrested development.
Put a sign on a cell block, "The Electoral College", and it will make his arrest easier.
Wounded Bear
(58,605 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,262 posts)More energy than TrumPutin, but anyway
Cha
(296,875 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,262 posts)He looks like a pouty brat! Of course, that's how he acts, too.
I'm glad Schiff got ahead of the GOPer spin on this one.
Mahalo, Cha!