Media hysteria after Trump-Putin press conference unwarranted

Eddie Scarry:
You can acknowledge that President Trump gave an embarrassingly weak performance at the press conference following his face-to-face meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, while rejecting the media’s weird preoccupation that Trump didn’t publicly insult Putin to his face.

In 2018, every day goes down as a bad day if Trump didn’t use it to condemn Russia for interfering with the 2016 election.

If you didn’t watch the conference live on Monday and instead only saw the media’s coverage of it, you’re forgiven for maybe falling under the impression that Trump disowned the U.S. intelligence community and pledged allegiance to Putin.

“Trump sides with Putin over US intelligence,” said a headline at CNN’s website.

Politico declared that Trump “publicly sides with Putin on election interference.”

What Trump actually did was give a typical noncommittal response to an issue he hates talking about: His win, and whether an outside influence had anything to do with it.
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Trump has been accused of conflating Russian meddling in the election with the charge that he and his campaign colluded with teh Russians.  While Trump can say that US intelligence has uncovered some Russian pulling some cyber pranks, he correctly has no confidence in the conspiracists like John Brennan who think he had something to do with it.  Neither Brennan or Bob Mueller have surfaced any evidence of the campaign colluding with Russia, although there is substantial evidence of the Hillary Clinton campaign doing so and trying to use the FBI to attack Trump and his campaign.

The overblown significance by the media and the Democrats about the Russian pranks by comparing it to Pearl Harbor attacks or 9-11 is absurd.  It makes about as much sense as comparing a jihadi who blows himself up before he can attack to a significant terror attack.

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