{"id":72649,"date":"2017-05-15T10:43:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T14:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=72649"},"modified":"2017-05-15T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T14:43:03","slug":"trump-russians-laughing-over-dems-tying-election-loss-to-comey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=72649","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Russians &#8216;Laughing&#8217; Over Dems Tying Election Loss to Comey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_72650\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/8f49bcff-6c61-4714-8d05-69e156060207.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72650\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72650\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/8f49bcff-6c61-4714-8d05-69e156060207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/8f49bcff-6c61-4714-8d05-69e156060207.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/8f49bcff-6c61-4714-8d05-69e156060207-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-72650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AP)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>By Todd Beamon<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump Thursday poked at the continued fallout over his firing of FBI Director James Comey \u2013 saying on Twitter that &#8220;Russia must be laughing up their sleeves watching as the U.S. tears itself apart over a Democrat excuse for losing the election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the president&#8217;s tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russia must be laughing up their sleeves watching as the U.S. tears itself apart over a Democrat EXCUSE for losing the election.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/862767872879325185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Trump fired Comey Tuesday \u2013 telling NBC News Thursday that the former FBI director was &#8220;a showboat&#8221; \u2013 as the agency continues his investigation into Russian meddling in the November election.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have slammed Trump&#8217;s action \u2013 and the president has fired back by noting that they had called for Comey&#8217;s ouster after he reopened the Hillary Clinton email probe less than two weeks before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump also has come under fire for Wednesday&#8217;s meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.<\/p>\n<p>Kislyak is at the center of the investigation of possible ties between Trump campaign officials and Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Michael Flynn was fired as national security adviser over concerns that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about his previous conversations with Kislyak.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/trump-democrats-election-russia\/2017\/05\/11\/id\/789637\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/trump-democrats-election-russia\/2017\/05\/11\/id\/789637\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}