Posted on 03/03/2017 1:01:37 PM PST by ConservativeMind
On Friday afternoon, President Trump tweeted an image of Senator Chuck Schumer standing next to Russian President Vladimir Putin. It depicts the two men seemingly cordially holding coffee and donuts.
“We should start an immediate investigation into @SenSchumer and his ties to Russia and Putin. A total hypocrite!” Trump wrote.
The image and the narrative framing itself is ripped directly from The Drudge Report, which included the picture and a related story at the top of its homepage on Friday.
The defensive posture from Trump and supportive media outlets is a response to the news on Thursday that Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he would be recusing himself from any investigations into the alleged ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Sessions recused himself after the revelation that he had spoken with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak—and told the Senate that he had no such contact with Kremlin officials.
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And I actually agree with your username. The 17th must be repealed. these populist career politicians U.S. senators have destroyed the U.S. Republic. The state legislature should select senators as that would get the states representation. And term limits. Career politicians have ruined the USA.
Go Trump!
Go Drudge. Don’t stop at the edge of nice.
There are plenty of people who deserve serious punishment in DC. Righteous justice everywhere, everyone of them, I pray.
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