DC: President Donald Trump chose to have the indictments of 12 Russian hackers announced before his Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a Tuesday Bloomberg report.
Trump wanted the indictments announced ahead of the Monday summit to give him leverage over Putin, a source familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on Tuesday. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave Trump the option of having the indictments released before or after Helsinki, according to the report.
Rosenstein cited national security concerns to allow him to share details of grand jury proceedings with Trump.
Rosenstein announced Friday that a grand jury had indicted 12 Russian intelligence operatives for hacking and releasing Democrats’ emails during the 2016 presidential election. The hackers worked for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff, or GRU, according to the indictment.
Trump also walked back an earlier statement when said in Helsinki that he didn’t “see any reason why it would be” Russia behind meddling in the 2016 presidential election. more here
“Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave Trump the option of having the indictments released before or after Helsinki” “Rosenstein cited national security concerns” right,,, He has a nothingburger, and just got Trump trolled again. Where’s the server?
I don’t believe Bloomberg. They’ve been part of the cover-up. They’ve been too anti-Trump for too long. Maybe the report is true but how can anyone be sure?
Again with the anonymous highly placed sources. Perhaps the ultimate goal is to so confuse people that the truth cannot be recognized even when you see it.
I read that the cia can hack computers and make it look like a foreign country did it.
and didn’t brennan start all this russian election interference nonsense to start with?
and since when did any USA law enforcement group look at any dnc or hillary server to start with to determine who hacked what ?
and what about the awan brothers and wasermann ?
seth rich ?
even when they make it up there is no consistency.
It’s time for Trump to release the unredacted DOJ and FBI documents and get this shit show moving forward! All this national security bullshit is just that, bullshit! The only ones that don’t know for sure how bad Obama, Clinton and the gang sold us out, is us. It’s time for us to find out.
Trump knew that if he had chosen to delay the indictments, the DOJ would leak the whole story anyway and the media would couch it as a desperate attempt by Trump to hide the collusion and appease Putin. He also knew that everybody would see the announcement of indictments before the summit as DOJ playing politics. Which is why the DOJ/media now want us to know that Trump made them do it.
I hate having to think like this all the damn time, but the layers of bullshit must constantly be peeled back.