You're not crazy: Trump just blamed Obama for the Russian attack that Trump says didn't happen

[DonViejo]

MONDAY, JUN 26, 2017 5:00 AM EDT

You’re not crazy: Trump just blamed Obama for the Russian attack that Trump says didn’t happen

President Trump called the Russian hack a "hoax" and then blamed it on Obama, On the same day! Insane or brilliant?

BOB CESCA

You’re not insane. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, is currently blaming the previous president, Barack Obama, for not doing enough — indeed, for not doing anything, he says, to prevent the Russian attack on the 2016 election, which Trump has repeatedly said is a hoax. In other words, Trump wants to know why didn’t Obama prevent this thing that never actually happened. Again, you’re not insane.

It’s difficult to know where to begin unpacking Trump’s latest series of public statements regarding the Russian attack and the subsequent Trump-Russia scandal, chiefly because we’re unraveling the words of someone whose growing insanity makes us feel like we’re all going a little bit crazy too. Imagine for a moment trying to deconstruct the words of George W. Bush if he had denied the 9/11 attacks ever took place, and then if he blamed Bill Clinton for not doing enough to prevent the, you know, nonexistent attacks. This is where we are with our very own Mad King and his stunted, upside-down view of how presidents are supposed to behave and communicate.

For months now, Trump’s been telling us that the Russian attack is a Democratic hoax — a big, fat sour-grapes excuse for why Hillary Clinton lost the electoral vote. He keeps saying this despite the assessment of all 17 intelligence agencies, countless federal law enforcement officials, dozens of respected members of Congress, and, indeed, a growing number of high-profile Republicans, all of whom say that Russia launched a major cyber-attack against us and it’s likely to get much worse before it gets better. Yet Trump keeps denying this despite what he’s almost certainly been told in classified briefings and intelligence assessments.

Last week, the Washington Post published a bombshell report about how the intelligence community and the Obama White House dealt with the attack amid the harrowing events of the most raucous and unpredictable presidential campaign in modern history. Included in the article was a quote from an unnamed former Obama official who said the 44th president “choked” in the face of the attack. Anyone who remembers the incendiary climate of the campaign has to give Obama a bit of latitude for not turning the attack into a political psycho-bomb, with Trump and his legion of Pepe-cultists accusing the president, not to mention his former secretary of state, of trying to rig the election against the screechy reality show host.

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http://www.salon.com/2017/06/26/youre-not-crazy-trump-just-blamed-obama-for-the-russian-attack-that-trump-says-didnt-happen/

[DK504]

1. Just heard this on Stephanie Miller,

via stand in hosts Frangelia. As Francis says; we ain't' BooBoo The Fool! The WH has stated that Hair Twittler's insane word vomit is considered an official statement.

So Trump has vehemently denied there was an attack, now he claims President Obama did nothing on said non-attack. I just love it when the Pee Pee Prez begins his morning word vomits.

[SHRED]

2. The AHCA must be in trouble...distraction.

[ewagner]

12. I think it's more sinister than that....

It's a distract0r for sure....but what it's distracting us from is what worries me..

McConnell doesn't have the votes as of this morning...to get them he needs bribery (legal and illegal) to get the votes...how he does that is what we're being distracted from...

[kentuck]

3. Why?

I'm sure he has his reasons.

He didn't do it and anyway, he deserved it??

[Raven]

4. As much fun as it is to poke holes in the logic of this guy's tweets,

it really is beginning to frighten me that he is so unhinged and irrational. And it's getting worse by the day.

[procon]

5. If Trump now believes what the intelligence agencies have been telling him

all along, then what is he going to do about it now? Seriously, besides inviting the Russian's top spymaster into the Oval Office and wanting to give them back their posh estates that double as spy bases, what steps is Trump taking to safeguard our voting system from more hacks? What is he doing to protect all the critical infrastructure, communications, transportation, financial and emergency computer systems across the country?

Edited to add that if Trump responds the same way he did after his hotel chain was hacked multiple time and guest's credit card and personal data were stolen, he'll continue to ignore the problem, hide it, and do nothing. At least with his hotels, the Feds intervened and fined him, forced him to notify customers, and fix his computer security issues. Who will step in to save us now?

[ewagner]

13. Trump knew it all along....

He just can't keep it secret anymore.

[marylandblue]

6. So Obama colluded with the Russians to help Trump win?

[BumRushDaShow]

11. That's what he's saying and also saying that doing this hurt Hillary.

[jaxind]

7. tRUMP says Obama should have done something...

tRUMP says Obama should have done something about Russia's hacking....could you even imagine if the reaction of tRUMP and the rethuglicans if Obama had done something??! You think they're complaining NOW...they would have been f'in bat-shit crazy mad as hell complaining had Obama said or done anything BEFORE the election!!

[gordianot]

8. This sort of thinking is very common with preadolescents.

Trying to turn the argument against your accusers when you have been caught in an obvious lie. Ask any elementary or middle school principal how this magical thinking works.

[LiberalBrooke]

14. Exactly

Children think that way. Fortunately most of them grow up. Not don the con.

[gordianot]

15. At the age of 70+ it makes Donald something special worthy of consideration in the DSM.

Look in the section of personality disorders it is also probably cognitive.

[WinkyDink]

9. It's because he cannot think beyond 140 characters. What he means is that HIS COLLUSION is a HOAX,

an UNTRUE allegation, but it is nonetheless TRUE that Obama knew of Russian interference.

At least, that's the sense I make of it all.

Of course, the truth is exactly the opposite, as always with DJT.

[packman]

10. Not his fault - Early Trump Family video shows it

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It's a medical condition -