{"id":306,"date":"2017-03-03T20:07:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T01:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2017-03-03T20:07:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T01:07:40","slug":"following-trumps-address-to-congress-he-quickly-returns-to-the-old-true-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/306","title":{"rendered":"Following Trumps Address To Congress He Quickly Returns To The Old (True) Trump…"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump is back to playing Twitter in Chief<\/em>. As his administration is coming under increasing scrutiny for contact with the Russian Government, and, Attorney General Sessions failure to disclose his contact with Russian official(s) during confirmation hearings, Trump has went into full attack mode. His modus operandi of course is to deflect attention from his administration by claiming democrats are hypocrites, having done the same themselves. He apparently fails to recognize his comparisons are ones of apples to oranges.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

President Donald Trump, his administration under siege for contacts with Russian officials, is calling for “an immediate investigation” into Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer’s own ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

Trump’s evidence? A 14-year-old photo of Schumer and Putin holding coffee and doughnuts in a New York City gas station.<\/p>\n

The president on Friday tweeted a photo of the two men, calling for a probe into Schumer’s “ties to Russia and Putin” and called the New York senator “A total hypocrite!” Trump did not say where the photo came from, but Schumer quickly pointed out that it was taken in 2003 when Putin ventured to New York to celebrate the opening of a Russian-owned Lukoil gas station on Manhattan’s west side.<\/p>\n

Several news organizations covered that event, which drew far more political star power than the average gas station opening.<\/p>\n

Schumer, in his own tweet, said he would “happily talk” under oath about his meeting with Putin, which took place “in full view of press and public.”<\/p>\n

Skip<\/p>\n

Trump’s tweet came just hours after the conservative website Drudge Report made the photo its lead image. And that was a day after the photo was unearthed by the pro-Trump blog Gateway Pundit, which ran it with the headline “Where’s the outrage?”<\/p>\n

Trump targeted congressional Democrats<\/span><\/u><\/a> for their encounters with Russians over the years even though the party’s criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions centered on his failure to acknowledge his meetings when questioned at his Senate confirmation hearing and in written responses to the Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n

Skip<\/p>\n

Trump also tweeted Friday about House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi<\/span><\/u><\/a>, who was among the first to call for Sessions to resign.<\/p>\n

In his tweet, Trump linked to a 2010 photo in which Pelosi and other lawmakers, including Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, now the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, are shown meeting with Russian officials, including then-President Dmitry Medvedev and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.<\/p>\n

Skip<\/p>\n

Pelosi then needled Trump by saying he didn’t “know the difference” between an official meeting photographed by the press and a “secret” meeting that Sessions “lied about under oath.”<\/p>\n

It is not improper for elected officials to meet with foreign diplomats’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See full article FOL<\/i><\/b>BELOW THE FOLD<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump is back to playing Twitter in Chief. As his administration is coming under increasing scrutiny for contact with the Russian Government, and, Attorney General Sessions failure to disclose his contact with Russian official(s) during confirmation hearings, Trump has went into full attack mode. His modus operandi of course is to deflect attention from … Continue reading Following Trumps Address To Congress He Quickly Returns To The Old (True) Trump…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-government","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-4W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":96,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/96","url_meta":{"origin":306,"position":0},"title":"Flynn’s Activities While NSA Must Be Investigated, So Should The White House…","author":"Les","date":"February 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I don\u2019t know whether Russian oligarchs own him financially or whether Russian spies own him personally because of alleged indiscreet behavior during his trips to Moscow. But Trump\u2019s willingness to attack allies like Australia, bluster at rivals like China, threaten enemies like Iran and North Korea and bully neighbors like\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Government"","block_context":{"text":"Government","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/government"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":110,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/110","url_meta":{"origin":306,"position":1},"title":"Where There Is Smoke, There Is Usually Fire…","author":"Les","date":"February 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"CNN is reporting the Trump campaign was involved in extensive communications with the Russians during the 2016 presidential election campaign. Communications between Russian operatives and the Trump campaign certainly is cause to raise owns eyebrows. If true it lends credibility to the argument the presidential election was influenced by the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Foreign Relations"","block_context":{"text":"Foreign Relations","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/foreign-relations"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":362,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/362","url_meta":{"origin":306,"position":2},"title":"Trump Taps Jon Huntsman For US Ambassador To Russia…","author":"Les","date":"March 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"POLITICO - Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman has been offered the job of U.S. ambassador to Russia and is in the process of submitting paperwork to accept the position, two administration sources have confirmed. Huntsman, who served as ambassador to Singapore under President George H.W. Bush and then to China\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Government"","block_context":{"text":"Government","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/government"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":342,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/342","url_meta":{"origin":306,"position":3},"title":"Is It Wise, Or Even Possible, To Believe Anything Trump Says?…","author":"Les","date":"March 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Contradicting repeated denials from Donald Trump and his team, Newsmax reported on May 14,\u00a02016 that Trump met Russian Ambassador Kislyak at a VIP reception in Washington on April 27. And while meeting the Russian ambassador is fine, why lie about it? UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal of May 13, 2016\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Government"","block_context":{"text":"Government","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/government"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":313,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/313","url_meta":{"origin":306,"position":4},"title":"The President Of The United States Is A Conspiracy Theorist…","author":"Les","date":"March 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump is, in essence, a conspiracy theory nut job. He bought into the birther movement of the far right. Now he has made wild accusations that President Obama had his phones wiretapped. This folks is something you would expect from Alex Jones, Stephen Banning, Joseph Farrah, Rush Limbaugh, INFOWARS, Breitbart,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Government"","block_context":{"text":"Government","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/government"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":163,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/163","url_meta":{"origin":306,"position":5},"title":"As Trump Continues To Struggle…","author":"Les","date":"February 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It is an understatement to say the Trump administration is in disarray bordering on total chaos. Maybe it is by design. After all Trump selected Stephen Bannon, the former executive director\u00a0of Breitbart News\u00a0to be his Chief White House Strategist. As you probably know Breitbart is one of the right's biggest\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Government"","block_context":{"text":"Government","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/government"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}