Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Trump says he doesn't remember
Date:	11/3/2017 12:43:45 PM

the meeting that Poppandropulus says that he offered to set up a meeting with Putin.  He says it was an insignificant meeting.  The press however, is insisting that it was a significant meeting, and have the picture to prove it.  And now other advisor is telling Mueller that he personally talked to Jeff Sessions about it.  

I'm inclined to beleive Trump.  I can't imagine the number of meetings there must have been during the campaign that were populated by would-be advisors, proposing all nature of outlandish things.  But in my mind, it doesn't matter if it was brought up in the meeting - but what counts is the outcome and Trump never acted upon it.  But I guess in the media, that doesn't matter, because it supports their premise that Trump won the election because of the Russians.  I ask you, were you ever in a meeting where someone threw something out, and it just lay there - no action was taken, no one was told to pursue it?  I've heard lots of outrageous things said in meetings, but if there is no follow through - then what is the big deal?

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	More fake news
Date:	11/3/2017 3:47:22 PM

It gets even better.  The breathless news about Carter Page telling Sessions about Russia turns out to be a complete joke.  Apparently he came up to Sessions after some dinner, thanked him for it and mentioned casually that he was going to Russia to give a speech.  He said in his testimony that Sessions didn't even acknowledge the comment and turned to shake hands with someone else.  He further said he would be very surprised if Sessions even remembered the conversation and that it had nothing to do with the campaign.  And it also turns out that Sessions rejected Papadopolous' suggestion of a Putin-Trump meeting.  Both of these are exculpatory but you wouldn't know form the way it was being covered.  No wonder Trump rails about the fake news.