Trump downplays Chinese election interference five days after describing breach of historic proportions
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/21/politics/china-trump-election-interference
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/21/politics/china-trump-election-interference
53 Comments
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 102 pts · 33d
And what's his view on the report that said Russia helped him win the election? Why hasn't he arrested anyone for treason?
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 33d
I think the more salient question is:
Why didn’t Merrick Garland?
Asafum@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 33d
Because he's the biggest fucking coward this country has ever had to suffer the existence of. I almost hate him as much as I do the Republicans
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 33d
The fall of the US lands squarely on Biden and Garlands shoulders.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 33d
People being like "The President can't tell the DOJ...." Yes he can, he can tell them to get off their asses because he's their top boss.
Mirshe@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 32d
Literally we've been watching Trump do it for a year and a half. He can absolutely tell them "get shit in gear on this or you're out".
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 31d
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
Other than the people actually doing it and all the people who voted for it, yes.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 33d
Look, the Democrats don't want to prosecute white collar criminal behaviour, some of their best friends are white collar criminals... namely the Republicans sitting across from them in congress.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 5 pts · 33d
Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith who investigated and charged Trump with crimes but then the American public decided they collectively didn't give a fuck what Trump has done and re-elected him as president.
Don't try to shift blame here it was the voters and the non-voters who gave Trump a get out of jail free card.
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 32d
I agree that Trump was reelected
I do not agree that had Merrick Garland not slow walked the prosecution, that would have been the case
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -2 pts · 32d
It was the most complicated prosecution in US history and it would have gone somewhere if he wasn’t re-elected.
Four years is a heartbeat in cases less complicated than that one.
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 32d
OMG
we saw it happen on live TV
journalist recorded all the planning that they did on parlor
this was an opening shut case
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -2 pts · 32d
You’re thinking open and shut but it really wasn’t.
Trump was the president.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 32d
I see a lot of blaming Biden and Garland, but not much mention of SCOTUS which was instrumental for trump getting away.
Whether he was in real trouble they inserted themselves and saved him. They even invented absolute immunity when a case was so damning and straight forward that didn't look like there was a possibility of him getting away.
I suspect the result would still be the same even if Biden and Garland did it exactly the way people accusing them due those political hacks (they don't deserve to be called judges, they are anything but).
Sadly, right now even if progressives will massively win in 2026, 2028 and following elections they still will be similarly blocked on every step unless SCOTUS is unfucked which as I understand will have to be done by expanding the court.
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 32d
This is very true
They just made up some bullshit that said you can’t keep him off the ballot.
Even though we saw him do this on TV
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 33d
Because Biden told him not to
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 33d
When you consider how many billions of dollars and thousands of man hours Americans invested into getting Donald Trump elected, it's all very surreal to hear how Russia stole the election. It wasn't Vladimir Putin trying to fuck with the recounts in Georgia or purging voter roles in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. As far as I'm aware, no Russians sit on the SCOTUS.
It's not going to be Russians who are fucking with the 2026 election results, either.
For the same reason Biden didn't, presumably. For the same reason he didn't "Lock Hillary Up!" in 2017.
And, to be... uh... fair? to Trump, he absolutely did try to prosecute James Comey and John Bolton and Letitia James. Not to mention... NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, Sen. Alex Padilla, Rep. LaMonica McIver, Judge Hannah Dugan, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, and one of the staffers for Rep. Jerry Nadler.
Trump's been all on board with Lawfare, particularly with respect to anyone who intercedes against his mass arrest of migrants.
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 33d
Both trump and Russia can be guilty of trying to steal the election.
Trump just attempted to sue people who reported that he was trying to steal the election, that isn't being lawful it's the exact opposite.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 33d
The need to displace blame onto Evil Foreigners every time domestic billionaires fuck your country is how Americans made Trump viable to begin with.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 33d
It's easier to be mad at the last straw than the rest of the haystack on your now dead camel.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · -2 pts · 33d
Did these documents prove or even suggest that someone committed treason?
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 49 pts · 33d
The day he’s finally brought to heel by the ultimate human equalizer, death, will feel so liberating I don’t know if anything in human history will ever top the collective decline in tension by more people simultaneously.
It won’t be the end of the problems he created but it will be so nice once he’s really gone
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 36 pts · 33d
I’m honestly assuming shit will be so fucked up by then that it will be of little comfort.
And you’ll have Jeffries tweeting that he was a fun hang or some shit.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 32d
I don’t disagree, but even outside of that, death is the only thing that he cannot somehow snake his way out of, and while it’s not enough for his crimes, will still feel good, at least for me
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d
Trump's seen time and time again that if you append Terrorists, Leftists, or China to a civil rights violation, you can get a plurality of TV talking heads to defend it.
bigbangdangler@reddthat.com · 36 pts · 33d
Oh, you mean he didn't get the response he wanted and so he'll backpeddle and come up with something else?
It's always the same. This moron has a single MO.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 33d
Some lackey pointed out that all the interference was done to help him.
deacon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 33d
Technically incorrect but totally accurate.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d
I remember seeing posts on here with screenshots where people were complaining CNN didn't bother airing the speech for I'm sure many reasons including who goes on CNN to listen to Trump rant about anything.
But now that he's downplaying it it's almost like CNN somehow knew not to waste their time.
Kushan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 32d
He's not a moron. I don't know why people keep saying Trump is a moron, he's one of the most successful grifters and con artists that ever lived. No moron could do that.
No, you see, Trump says moronic shit all the time but that doesn't make him a moron, his brain-dead base that fucking believes it are the morons.
Trump keeps saying the most moronic shit and they continue to believe him. If you wanted to fleece as many people as possible and they believe everything you say, no matter how fucking stupid, you'll continue to say stupid shit and keep that gift going.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 32d
He doesn't have to be cognizant of this strategy for it to work, though. A savvy grifter and a moron born to wealth with all the golden parachutes he could ever need are very difficult to distinguish between.
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 32d
He is a moron, and constantly demonstrates that by failing to achieve simple goals. He's also a narcissistic psychopath with dementia.
His supporters are largely also morons and they think he's really smart.
If he was as smart as he claims himself to be, his plans wouldn't be as transparent and obvious, and he wouldn't keep being struck down by even his own judicial appointees.
sportsjorts@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 32d
America isn’t even a country anymore it’s just a bunch of superpowers and corporations and billionaires with their hands up the ass of a fucking dumb as fuck child rapist.
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 32d
USA number 1!
username123@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 32d
Number 1 in bullshit.
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 29 pts · 33d
No repercussions for China after national address on the crisis.
Tariffs for Canada for smoke wafting in his direction, but no firefighters.
What a fucking clown.
updn@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 32d
Why do people keep calling him a clown? Genuine question. I thought clowns were supposed to be funny or at least try to make people laugh. This guy is not a clown?
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 32d
To "clown around" is to be inept or incompetent at a role. Calling someone a clown in a derogatory context references that meaning.
updn@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 31d
He’s not a clown, though? He’s been scamming his way through life his whole life, at the expense of others. That’s not really clownish.
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 31d
Would you say he's competent at being president of the US ?
updn@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 31d
Of course not, but it’s not because he’s clowning around. It’s because he’s an insatiable narcissist that is social media fodder for deplorable people. Not really very clownish.
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
A clown with a flamethrower is pretty scary.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
He's a sad clown with his thumb up his ass. He genuinely does make the hateful laugh.
Monte_Crisco@thelemmy.club · 18 pts · 32d
He never skips TACO Tuesday.
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 32d
Were getting Tacos every day of the week now..
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 14 pts · 33d
The speech didn't land, so he's trying to forget about it and go on to the next distraction.
Also, is he continuing to glue more gold crap to the wall behind him?
Monument@piefed.world · 8 pts · 33d
Tinpot dorktator.
The fact that he’s an evil POS that’s materially harming billions of people notwithstanding, he’s a fucking dweeb. An absolute goon. A caricature of a villain that’s obsessed with cartoonish trappings of wealth and power.
Railing5132@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 32d
While gutting CISA's election security group and the federal election commission's cybersecurity department. Wonder why...
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 33d
This is a contradiction to anyone with a brain. But, it's not for MAGA. China will be used as a fear tactic for election interference. He doesn't actually want to imply he'd do anything against China though. The target isn't China. It's voters. Why would he piss off China when they are saving his ass right now by buying 40% less crude?
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 33d
This was the case the first time around on this shit carousel - corporate news sewers constantly print whatever the demented rapist does or says as if we don't know what the fuck is going on.
Makeitstop@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 33d
Of course, China was never the problem for him. When he made allegations of Chinese election interference he wasn't targeting China, he was targeting elections.
artyom@piefed.social · 7 pts · 33d
He never described "beech of historic proportions", he just declassified evidence of a bunch of stuff we already knew like publicly available voter information, and the very typical online propaganda campaigns that didn't change any votes that were cast.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 31d
It was based on publicly available data, most likely, so not really a breach at all.
CNN is brain dead. Kick the respirator's power cord out of the wall.