Schumer responds to Trump: I'll talk about my Putin meeting, will you?
BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 03/03/17 01:49 PM EST  242


Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is firing back at President Trump after Trump tweeted a photo of Schumer with Vladimir Putin, saying he's perfectly willing to talk about his meeting with the Russian leader and challenging the president's team to do the same.

"Happily talk re: my contact w Mr. Putin & his associates, took place in '03 in full view of press & public under oath. Would you &your team?" the Senate minority leader wrote.


Moments before, Trump called Schumer a "total hypocrite" for demanding a probe into the Trump campaign's potential ties to Russia, tweeting a 2003 photo of Schumer and Putin eating doughnuts during Putin’s trip to New York to attend the opening of a Russian gas company’s station.
 
“We should start an immediate investigation into @SenSchumer and his ties to Russia and Putin. A total hypocrite!” Trump tweeted.


The photo resurfaced late Thursday on the pro-Trump blog Gateway Pundit — asking “Where’s the outrage?" — before being used as the lead image on the the conservative website Drudge Report Friday.
Schumer and other Democrats have repeatedly called for an independent investigation into ties between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday said he would recuse himself from Russia probes after it was revealed that he spoke with Russia’s U.S. ambassador twice during last year’s presidential race, then denied speaking with Russians during his Senate confirmation hearings. Sessions's has since maintained that he spoke with the diplomat as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, not Trump's campaign.

But Schumer quickly said that the recusal isn't enough, arguing that "DOJ regulations clearly require the appointment of a special prosecutor and the administration shouldn't ignore clear regulations a second time.”

Last edited by Goose (3/03/2017 2:26 pm)

Well, with EVERYONE so far on the R-tribe, they seemed to be HIDING the fact of the conversations. 

Yeah, what the heck is going on ? 

Just Fred wrote:

Judas Priest!  So 14 years ago Putin meets Schumer at a friggin' public gas station to celebrate the opening of a service station that was purchased by Luk Oil, a Russian-based oil company.  Yeah, that's the same as private meetings between Russian officials and Trump surrogates during Trump's presidential campaign.

Who would be dumb enough to equate these two senerios?

For the answer you seek, Grasshopper, you must go to the beginning of this thread, and to the Donald's Twitter account. 
 

Last edited by Goose (3/04/2017 5:20 am)