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Fox’s Harris Faulkner On Trump’s Dinner Meeting With Putin: Democrats Are Just Jealous

Posted by Ellen -7835.60pc on July 19, 2017 · Flag

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Fox News host and Donald Trump fangirl Harris Faulkner didn’t just dismiss Trump’s furtive, hour-long meeting with Vladimir Putin as two chaps “lingering over dinner.” No, Faulkner went the extra mile to suggest that suspicions are mere partisan jealousy of Trump’s awesome deal-making skills.

On the Outnumbered show today, guest Chris Stirewalt feigned even-handedness by blasting the administration’s communications about Trump’s newly-discovered hour-long chat with Vladimir Putin with only a Russian translator on hand. But more significantly, he dismissed the president’s secret discussion with a U.S. adversary as nothing to care about:

STIREWALT: I will tell you this. If [the Russia scandal] is overblown, if this is, as the former speaker said, nothing and it’s not there then it will be the saddest story of a mishandled scandal in the history of mishandling scandals.

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You watched how the press responded – so, after dinner at the G20, the president, who saw that his wife was seated next to Vladimir Putin, went over there and he took her seat and he sat down and they lingered over dinner for an hour. The Washington Post reports this as “Secret Meeting!” Well, it wasn’t a secret meeting. … It was a lengthy lingering over dinner together in a public place.

But the question for the White House is, why not let that be known so that it doesn’t get found out later?

If you ask me, “lingering after dinner” suggests 10-15 minutes among companions, not an hour-long conversation between two world leaders who are adversaries. Furthermore, there are plenty of things to be concerned about in the discussion, including this: what was it that Trump wanted to discuss with Putin that he didn’t want to discuss in front of our own secretary of state? Trump had just concluded a very lengthy meeting with Putin that had included U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Yet Trump initiated this later discussion with Putin outside of Tillerson’s presence.

Cohost Meghan McCain expressed the only concern about the meeting during this segment. She asked if the “sticking point” wasn’t the fact that Trump used a Russian translator and not an American translator. At that point, Stirewalt immediately acknowledged, “They did it wrong.”

So it was not just a matter of “lingering over dinner.” But nobody lingered over that ramification.

Yet Faulkner went on offense on behalf of her Dear Leader:

FAULKNER: Democrats have just got to be jealous over this. They’re just – because, yeah, OK, they sat and lingered over dinner. This is how the president gets his deals done. He had a steak and succotash, he’s having a lunch right now (with GOP senators).

[…]

What I’m saying is, I mean, the interpreter not withstanding ‘cause that’s a problem. I mean, if you don’t have our people at the table represented in a way in which everybody understands every word that’s being said, without that. But I do find it interesting that there’s a problem for Democrats every time something like this happens going forward that potentially is business being done.

Sure, potentially business was being done. And it was potentially business that benefits Trump, not the U.S. It was also potentially something much worse given Russia’s interference in our 2016 election and questions about the Trump campaign’s involvement in that.

But if Faulkner really thinks Trump was working on some kind of great deal, she kept to herself what kind of deal that was. Because so far, we have heard crickets about any deal. Other than Trump's plan to create a "cyber security unit" with Russia that was so widely-ridiculed he had to back off.

Watch Faulkner’s excuse away potential treason below, from the July 19, 2017 Outnumbered.

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Douglas Snyder commented 2017-07-20 17:21:48 -0400 · Flag
Really people since when is it ok to meet in secret with
a foreign Government; not advising THE PUBLIC OF SUCH A MEETING; finding out that it was Russia. In case most Americans don’t know Russia is not our Friend but our enemy. We have had to many American soldiers die because of their communistic interference in the world; Ronald Raegan would be rolling in his grave if he knew such treason was going on in our present government ""IDIOTS""
Bemused commented 2017-07-20 09:25:58 -0400 · Flag
John Howard: Harris’ appearance is totally irrelevant to her real problem, namely her increasingly lame word salads (I do love the latter as an insult).
truman commented 2017-07-20 09:19:12 -0400 · Flag
The White House will announce today that the Orange Orangutan agreed to return Alaska to Russia. Another great deal from our deal maker.
scooter commented 2017-07-19 19:56:14 -0400 · Flag
Harris, let me make it simple for you. Dems are not jealous. Dems suspect treason. Is that clear enough for you?
john howard commented 2017-07-19 18:20:27 -0400 · Flag
To each his own, she has said a lot worst about other people, I guess I am not the turn the other cheek type.
Bemused commented 2017-07-19 16:43:12 -0400 · Flag
Wrote a long comment on the futility of name-calling. Deleted it, but would beg to suggest that we don’t copy the hate-filled far right on this. of the sort of actions that name-calling haters can do.

I lived many years in Yugoslavia and witnessed what can happen if there’s no reaction to that sort of talk. This comment is my attempt to tone it down a bit. We have better things to do, I believe.
mj - the same one commented 2017-07-19 16:34:35 -0400 · Flag
Faulkner went the extra mile to suggest that suspicions are mere partisan jealousy of Trump’s awesome deal-making skills.

Hey, Harry — would those be the same “awesome deal making skills” that were on display during the recent attempt to repeal and replace the ACA?

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Laney Wildcats commented 2017-07-19 15:05:05 -0400 · Flag
No she doesn’t looking like a long neck ugly rooster
john howard commented 2017-07-19 14:55:18 -0400 · Flag
Do she understand her black ass is who trump and putin hate.








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