Or maybe he was just ordering lunch.TDS: The Double Sirloinburger

Anybody else see this guy Clarke making the rounds? Some scary chit.

Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism coordinator, said President Trump's behavior at Monday's summit was reminiscent of someone who was acting like a "controlled asset" for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Clarke said Trump is acting in a way that he thinks Putin wants him to behave.

"I have been very reluctant to come to the conclusion that he's a controlled asset, but that's the term we use in the intelligence community when we have someone in another government who, for whatever reason, does what we want them to do because we're bribing them, because we have something on them. He is acting like a controlled asset," Clarke said.

Isn't the term "controlled azz"?

Trump appears to be under a spell of sorts, kinda scatter-brained, stepping on himself, correcting himself in a way that makes no sense, saying one thing, then contradicting himself within 24 hours...

when it's all added together, Trump's words and actions result in a net gain for Putin's aims and desires...

wonder if the Russian interpreter was a hypnotist, or if Putin has a background in it?

I dunno..

Almost 700 Russian people and companies are under U.S. sanctions. Individuals face limits on their travel and freezes on at least some of their assets, while some top Russian state banks and companies, including oil and gas giants, are effectively barred from getting financing through U.S. banks and markets. They include billionaires such as Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg; close political allies of Putin including his former chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, and Dmitry Rogozin, a deputy prime minister from 2011 to 2018; and corporate titans such as Rosneft PJSC, Gazprom PJSC, Sberbank PJSC and VTB Group.



You'd think if he had been hypnotized the sanctions would be lifted... 🤔

Trump has tried to block or overturn all Russian sanctions .
The only reason they're in place is because of congress.

Trump is Russia's puppet. And he's starting to come apart at the seams.

soooooo, stand back!!

those in place are mostly the old ones from the Ukraine and Crimea forays Russia did when Obama was in charge.

Congress ordered new sanctions on the Russians when intel proved they meddled and interfered in our 2016 Presidential elections. In response, Congress passed legislation by more than 95% in both Houses ordering Trump to impose new, more severe, sanctions, and he has failed to do it. The GOP controlled Congress lacks the will and/or courage to hold Trump's feet to the fire on this obvious contempt of Congress...

JUN 11, 2018 | 11:40 AM
| WASHINGTON

Citing “malicious” cyberattacks by Russian government agents, the Trump administration on Monday imposed economic sanctions on several Russian companies and persons accused of supporting Moscow’s spy networks.

Although Trump has spoken frequently of making Russia a closer ally, his administration has nevertheless imposed numerous sanctions packages for human rights violations, meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and other acts. By a nearly unanimous vote, Congress ordered some of the sanctions, which Trump then enacted only reluctantly.

In Monday’s action, the Treasury Department said it was blacklisting five Russian companies and three Russian citizens, most of whom have supplied material to or worked with Moscow’s Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, the main successor agency to the Soviet Union’s KGB.

All worked on development of “offensive” cyber and underwater capabilities, posing a danger to the security of the United States and its allies, Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said.

“The United States is committed to aggressively targeting any entity or individual working at the direction of the FSB whose work threatens the United States,” Mnuchin said.

Mnuchin said Russia’s “malign” activities included cyber intrusion into the U.S. energy grid and other infrastructure; an internet-chewing worm called Notpetya that cost several global conglomerates millions of dollars in damage; and the tracking of and possible interference with undersea communications cables that carry most of the world’s telecommunications data.

The blacklisting means any property or assets that the targeted people and companies have in U.S. jurisdiction will be frozen, and U.S. citizens may not do business with them.


:-k

5 new companies and three new guys, with Russian intelligence back-grounds being black-listed...woooowwww............are they among those Mueller indicted last week?



Contrast the general outrage in the US, OMG's from GOP Congressmen and FOX Trumpists, and hysteria from left and right media reacting to Trump's wrap-up speech and upon his return from his meeting with Putin....


and compare it to the celebratory reaction in Russia..

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/17/629796887/better-than-super-russia-reacts-to-trump-putin-summit-in-helsinki 



objectively, judging from the reactions on each side of the ocean...one team threw a no-hitter....and the other team scored several own goals...

I'm glad that:
A. you follow our President on twitter.
B. You think of me often.

I don't think I ever laid claim to inventing the acronym.

Stop being so obtuse.

(I used it correctly this time).