the new rightwing meme: trump was joking about russia hacking....

[spanone]

they really think we're stupid, folks.

trump surrogate steve cortez just put forth the same bullshit on m$nbc


Newt Gingrich says Donald Trump was joking about Hillary Clinton’s e-mails

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https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/07/27/newt-gingrich-says-donald-trump-was-joking-about-hillary-clinton-mails/vx5Ml4OXKJmfIcFMaDv6BK/story.html

[Stuart G]

1. It ain't a joke, and neither is Trump..nt

[spanone]

2. ^^^100%^^^

[Satch59]

3. Not a joke...

And he tweeted and doubled down... I don't mind if this is cutting into convention prep...this needs to be blasted all day and then we'll have the superstar line up to underscore what a disaster he is.

[patricia92243]

4. Republican family member says it is a joke :(

[Blanks]

5. It'll be interesting to see how long they back him...

If he really has the kind of debt in Russia that they're talking, they'll go down with him if it gets a lot of attention.

[Skinner]

6. His comments were a joke but not in the way Gingrich means. (nt)

[emulatorloo]

9. You nailed it.

[spanone]

23. and they would be funny if he was running for county dog catcher.

[Kingofalldems]

7. Why didn't he say so Newty?

Does he need you to tell us what he means? Seems rather weak.

[redstatebluegirl]

8. My high school friend said it was a joke and is being blown out of context by "lame stream media"

[lapfog_1]

10. First off

it wasn't a joke.

Second, the russian hack of the DNC email (then given to wikileaks) has nothing to do with the private server that Hillary used while SecState.

I knew they were going to conflate the issues...

The hack of the DNC emails were not classified information, they were emails between staffers at the DNC. They showed nothing illegal. They were disgusting only because of the tenor of the emails and the "fiction" of DNC neutrality in the primary battle.

[Wounded Bear]

33. The original hack was illegal....

I'm pretty sure. On a par with the Watergate break-in.

[lapfog_1]

39. The DNC emails showed no illegal activity

going on at the DNC. Repugnant perhaps, unfair, most likely, but not illegal.

[Wounded Bear]

40. I'm talking about hacking the server....

the content is immaterial to whether or not there was a crime. The crime was the hacking.

[63splitwindow]

11. Joke, huh. What would Don the Con do...

if contacted by Putin and was told, "You asked, we are prepared to deliver."

[JaneQPublic]

12. Another GOP "joke" that launched an international crisis

Remember this one?

[sofa king]

13. Good luck selling that one.

He just asked a foreign nuclear power to commit espionage for him. That's as funny as a "Prison Bitch" tattoo, which Trump may wind up sporting, some day.

[malaise]

14. They're trying to clean up his shit

Too late

[spanone]

15. yep, he already doubled down.....dumbfuck

[2naSalit]

16. With a mushroom cloud

as the punchline, right?

Fuckwads, we are hip to the stench on your crock of poo... he was not joking, was as serious as a heart attack which he seemed to be near to having as he tried to deflect and spin as he realized he can't squirm out of this one with ease.

[Avalux]

17. Could you imagine if Obama made a 'joke' like that?

We don't believe it of course, but GOPers will believe the lying Newt.

[Shandris]

18. He was. It was a setup.

If her deleted emails are just personal stuff, then where's the 'national security' concern? And if there were a concern, why is everyone calling the email thing 'unimportant'? (That's the setup; I'm not asking for an explanation.) It can't be both.

Now, on the third day of the DNC, all media is talking about...Donald Trump. And almost everyone here plays into it because people are SO SURE that they've got him 'this time' that they don't see what his game is (or when they do, they just can't help but jump in feetfirst before thinking the whole thing through). It'd be hilarious if it wasn't happening to us. ...okay, to be fair it IS hilarious to the media too, primarily because the Medes have betrayed us so often that any taste of Schadenfreude for them is a good thing, but after that it loses its humor.

But he'll use this tactic all the way to the White House if people don't start to clue in to what he's doing. He's using your polarization training against you, and he's really good at it (in a sick, disgusting, slimy sort of way).

[spanone]

20. no he wasn't. you should watch it.

the media is gonna report on him anytime he's on teevee. when they bring in giuliani and newt to explain trump, he's stepped in it.

[duncang]

19. Even trying to play it off as some kind of joke should shut down by media.

The talking head repubs say he is joking, but then out of the other side of their mouths say he says what he means. Get your story straight it's not both.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

21. These assholes are calling liberal talkshows to repeat this stupid shit. it took them a

few hours to get their shit straight. If fascism doesn't win on November. My hope is this fat fuck hypocrite Gingrich is shun forever for tying himself to this this piece of shit white supremacist.... I doubt it. But i can still hope.

[nolabear]

22. The exact gaslighting that every abuser uses after they do something horrific.

"Oh, you have no sense of humor. You're just too stupid to get it. Geez, can't you even get that right?"

In Trump's case not only does he do it but his lackeys are doing it for him.

[Lisa D]

31. +1000

[etherealtruth]

24. they have hit the media is a tidal wave ...

'It was a tongue in cheek comment" ... "he was pointing to Clinton's criminality jokingly" ..... on and on an on ... every moron out thre appears to be buying it hook, line, and sinker

[spanone]

25. they call it 'damage control'.

[DinahMoeHum]

26. Joking?? Bull. Shit.

Further adventures in back-pedaling.

[liberal N proud]

27. My response: Running our country is no joke

And there is no room for stupid jokes as President!

[Ilsa]

28. Has anyone told Newt that Traitor Trump is all good with Putin stealing Crimea?

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-crimea-sanctions-russia-226292

Trump to look at recognizing Crimea as Russian territory, lifting sanctions

[M_Demo_M]

29. Even IF it was a joke it shows

It shows that he is not fit to be commander-in-chief. You just can't make comments like that as President when the whole world watches every word you utter.

[Glimmer of Hope]

35. Exactly. As president every single word you utter matters. There is no time or place for "jokes."

[Lisa D]

30. No one believes that.

Especially after Trump doubled-down with that tweet after the press conference.

[world wide wally]

32. Ask any one of his defenders if they would buy a used car from Trump.

Then ask them why not

[0rganism]

34. it's not funny anymore

trump's jokes never seemed all that funny to me in the first place, but now that he's actually the R nominee they are among the unfunniest shit i've ever heard

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

36. When you get into line to board in an airport

they tell you not to joke because you will be taken seriously. It's been this way before 9/11 either.

Foreign policy in the race for the most powerful position in the country should be likewise.

But "I was only kidding" seems to be the fall back whenever a rightie is called out on a comment no matter how stupid, racist, sexist or homophobic it is.

[Wounded Bear]

37. Sense of humor?

[roamer65]

38. Gingrinch is a joke.

He's a serial philanderer just like his squeeze Drumpf.