Obama to hold press conference at White House on Friday

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Wheatly said:
I had a nanoliter of hope that Trump wouldn't be a POS like his campaign would have suggested.. maybe Obama thought the same after he met with him.

That hope has gone down the drain with his cabinet nominations
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If I remember correctly, the meeting between the two gave Obama hope. I think its the Russia thing that has Obama uneasy. However, I wouldn't doubt if this is a, "happy holidays" kind of thing.
 
The only reason I think something might happen is that POTUS press conferences are almost never announced 18 hours before they happen unless it's something important.
 
This is not about changing the EC vote. I wish liberals would get off that pipe dream. This is to box in Trump and I hope the CIA has credible info for their own sake. Right now the FBI is throwing the CIA under the bus and clear evidence will reveal who the true partisan is.
 
Going to need better discussion sources than some intelligence analyst on Twitter and Newsmax, folks.

The original Reuters article is good, but everything after has been subpar. Do better.
 
faisal233 said:
This is not about changing the EC vote. I wish liberals would get off that pipe dream. This is to box in Trump and I hope the CIA has credible info for their own sake. Right now the FBI is throwing the CIA under the bus and clear evidence will reveal who the true partisan is.
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I'm sure the bus is big enough for both Trump and Comey to go under.
 
BrokenFiction said:
David Yankovich ‏@DavidYankovich 6m6 minutes ago
I suggest watching White House press conferences this week, & Trump's Twitter response. Smooth transition isn't happening.

David Yankovich ‏@DavidYankovich 2h2 hours ago
It seems that this entire week has been leading up to this. CIA leaks, WH getting more vocal, Trump not acknowledging Russian interference.

David Yankovich
‏@DavidYankovich
From what I am hearing, @POTUS has determined that orderly transition cannot be accomplished and is no longer priority due to Trump/Russia.

Could be something here.
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He may have sources, but in reading some of his tweets...it feels he has opinions that lean left and are vocal about them. I don't think Obama would drop a bomb and go on vacation for the holidays right after. Unless he cancels those plans, I don't expect him to put the weight of this country's politics out there right now.
 
http://www.npr.org/2016/12/15/505775550/obama-on-russian-hacking-we-need-to-take-action-and-we-will

President Obama says the United States will respond to Russian cyberattacks that the intelligence community has concluded were part of an effort to influence the 2016 presidential election.

In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep that will air Friday on Morning Edition, Obama said, "I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections ... we need to take action. And we will — at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicized; some of it may not be."

U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that hackers working for Russia hacked into the Democratic National Committee's computer network, as well as the private email of John Podesta, a top adviser to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

With the question of Russia's ultimate motivation for the hack becoming increasingly divisive, Obama was careful to not endorse a CIA assessment, reported by NPR and other news outlets, that asserts that Russia's goal was to elect Trump.
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Obama said his goal is for a definitive White House report on the matter to be issued before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. He was also careful to say that while the Russian hacks benefited Trump, he is not suggesting Trump's campaign helped coordinate the attacks or played any role in them, other than to exploit them for political advantage. "They understood what everybody else understood, which was that this was not good for Hillary Clinton's campaign," the president said.

Obama acknowledged that every "big power" spies and collects intelligence on each other, but, he said, "There's a difference between that and the kind of malicious cyberattacks that steal trade secrets or engage in industrial espionage, something that we've seen the Chinese do. And there is a difference between that and activating intelligence in a way that's designed to influence elections."

Obama discussed cybersecurity with Vladimir Putin during a 90-minute meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit held in China in early September. The president characterized the meeting at the time as "candid, blunt, businesslike."

While Obama is threatening to retaliate against Russia, he has only about five weeks left in the Oval Office. Trump has dismissed — in fact, mocked — intelligence assessments tying the DNC and Podesta hacks to Russia, and he campaigned on improving the U.S. relationship with the country.

In his interview with NPR, Obama appeared mystified by that stance.

"The irony of all this, of course, is that for most of my presidency, there's been a pretty sizable wing of the Republican Party that has consistently criticized me for not being tough enough on Russia," he said. "Some of those folks during the campaign endorsed Donald Trump, despite the fact that a central tenet of his foreign policy was we shouldn't be so tough on Russia. And that kind of inconsistency I think makes it appear, at least, that their particular position on Russia on any given day depends on what's politically expedient."

The president cited a recent Economist-YouGov poll that found Republican voters view Putin much more favorably now than they did before the 2016 presidential election.

"This is somebody, the former head of the KGB, who is responsible for crushing democracy in Russia, muzzling the press, throwing political dissidents in jail, countering American efforts to expand freedom at every turn; is currently making decisions that's leading to a slaughter in Syria. And a big chunk of the Republican Party, which prided itself during the Reagan era and for decades that followed as being the bulwark against Russian influence, now suddenly is embracing him."
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What's coming likely isn't about Trump (directly), it's about Russia. And it's probably major. The leak last week was deliberate and likely crescendoing into what's about to happen. There are other news stories dropping left and right- Sweden, info about a possible Pentagon hack (NBC). The hammer is likely coming down.
 
BrokenFiction said:
David Yankovich ‏@DavidYankovich 6m6 minutes ago
I suggest watching White House press conferences this week, & Trump's Twitter response. Smooth transition isn't happening.

David Yankovich ‏@DavidYankovich 2h2 hours ago
It seems that this entire week has been leading up to this. CIA leaks, WH getting more vocal, Trump not acknowledging Russian interference.

David Yankovich
‏@DavidYankovich
From what I am hearing, @POTUS has determined that orderly transition cannot be accomplished and is no longer priority due to Trump/Russia.

Could be something here.
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Uh...this has the potential to be huge. Ruh roh.
 
BrokenFiction said:
David Yankovich ‏@DavidYankovich 6m6 minutes ago
I suggest watching White House press conferences this week, & Trump's Twitter response. Smooth transition isn't happening.

David Yankovich ‏@DavidYankovich 2h2 hours ago
It seems that this entire week has been leading up to this. CIA leaks, WH getting more vocal, Trump not acknowledging Russian interference.

David Yankovich
‏@DavidYankovich
From what I am hearing, @POTUS has determined that orderly transition cannot be accomplished and is no longer priority due to Trump/Russia.

Could be something here.
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Oh shit, this better be good.
 
One of my Bernie or Bust far left friends is having a meltdown on FB, claiming that the stories of Russian interference are an elaborate con by the Democratic party, backed by the billionaire oil tycoon owner of the Washington post and CIA (who is stirring up the fake rebellion in Syria alongside ISIS and AL-Qaeda), to justify action against Russia in Syria to seize control of the Qatar-Syria oil pipeline.

...this is the kind of liberal who was "too principled" to vote for Hillary.
 
Spoiler: it's nothing and you're going to be disappointed.

I can't believe some of you still think something will keep him from being inaugurated in January.
 
VendettaRed07 said:
She would have been impeached day one. She suffered more scrutiny and investigations prior to the election than Trump is poised to be subjected to post.

This needs to be constantly reminded to people.
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Yup. Our best bet is a less terrifying piece of shit alternative to Trump like Kasich or whoever
 
VendettaRed07 said:
She would have been impeached day one. She suffered more scrutiny and investigations prior to the election than Trump is poised to be subjected to post.

This needs to be constantly reminded to people.
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Remind them also that impeachment means nothing without a Senate to convict, and the Senate wouldn't convict. It would just be a ridiculous, partisan charade.

guek said:
Huh? Impeached for what?
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It doesn't matter with a Republican House.
 
Dirca said:
Spoiler: it's nothing and you're going to be disappointed.

I can't believe some of you still think something will keep him from being inaugurated in January.
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Its called, "hope" which I blame no one for having, but yes. No one is being realistic due to fear. Can't blame people.
 
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