Current Events > Trump: I hadn't thought of asking Putin to extradite indicted Russians

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Asked about his goals for the meeting, Mr. Trump said only, "I'll let you know after the meeting," promising "nothing bad" is going to come out of the world leaders' discussion.

"I think it's a good thing to meet. I do believe in meetings. I believe that having a meeting with Chairman Kim was a good thing. I think having meetings with the president of China was a very good thing. I believe it's really good. So having meetings with Russia, China, North Korea, I believe in it. Nothing bad is going to come out of it, and maybe some good will come out."

Mr. Trump, who was briefed on the indictment of the 12 Russians before Rosenstein's announcement Friday, said he "hadn't thought" about asking Putin to extradite them to the U.S. -- the U.S. has no extradition treaty with Russia. Mr. Trump continued to blame the Obama administration for its response to Russia's attempts to interfere in the 2016 election, as he did in tweets on Saturday.

"Well, I might," Mr. Trump said when Glor asked about possibly extraditing the Russians. "I hadn't thought of that. But I certainly, I'll be asking about it. But again, this was during the Obama administration. They were doing whatever it was during the Obama administration."

Mr. Trump also insisted the Republican National Committee had superior cybersecurity systems to the DNC's, and that is why the DNC was hacked. "And I heard that they were trying, or people were trying, to hack into the RNC too," the president continued. "The Republican National Committee. But we had much better defenses. I've been told that by a number of people. We had much better defenses, so they couldn't. I think the DNC should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked. They had bad defenses and they were able to be hacked. But I heard they were trying to hack the Republicans too. But -- and this may be wrong -- but they had much stronger defenses."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-russia-low-expectations-putin-meeting/
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Bringing back something I posted yesterday, I don't understand how ANYONE could be ok with a one-on-one Trump-Putin meeting.

Even if you 100% believed nothing untoward happened during the campaign/election, is the president of the US meeting with the president of Russia not an official act of state, occurring in those roles? There should be verifiable official records and there should be press access.

It seems incredibly unlikely that their meeting would be purely personal, and they were not going to discuss anything relating to policy, governance, etc, and even if that were the case, the conflict of interests (real or apparent) seems unprecedented given ongoing investigations and the findings of others conducted thus far.
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Cybersecurity defenses don't need to be tested when you let them right in.
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It is pretty insane it is being allowed to go ahead, and nothing good is going to come from it. Russia isn't a friend of the West, and while we should retain diplomatic ties with them just for the sake of everyone it doesn't mean we should start buddying up with them when they have shown a clear agenda to destabilizing the rest of the world and intent to expand their power with hostile takeovers.
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Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/884016887692234753
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He had to have been trolling, right?
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ledbowman posted...

Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/884016887692234753

What a fucking moron. He's the dumbest president ever. Period
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ledbowman posted...

Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/884016887692234753

That's like discussing how to improve home security with a burglar.
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Thompson posted...

ledbowman posted...

Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/884016887692234753

That's like discussing how to improve home security with a burglar.

That tweet is a year old
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