{"id":310497,"date":"2017-05-30T19:43:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-russian-officials-must-be-laughing-at-the-u-s\/"},"modified":"2017-05-30T19:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:43:41","slug":"trump-russian-officials-must-be-laughing-at-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-russian-officials-must-be-laughing-at-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: \u2018Russian officials must be laughing at the U.S.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/335569-trump-russian-officials-must-be-laughing-at-the-us\"><strong>TheHill<\/strong><\/a><br \/>May 30, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Trump early Tuesday said Russian officials are likely \u201claughing\u201d at the U.S. amid continuing reports related to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussian officials must be laughing at the U.S. &amp; how a lame excuse for why the Dems lost the election has taken over the Fake News,\u201d Trump tweeted Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russian officials must be laughing at the U.S. &amp; how a lame excuse for why the Dems lost the election has taken over the Fake News.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/869509894688387072\">May 30, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The president has claimed in the past that possible Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election is an excuse created by Democrats to explain his win over\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/hillary-clinton\" data-nid=\"188224\">Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span>. He has referred to the related investigation as a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d and criticized the recent naming of a special counsel to lead it.Trump\u2019s latest comments come after reports last week that son in law and senior aide Jared Kushner in December sought to establish a backchannel line of communication between the Trump transition team and Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/335569-trump-russian-officials-must-be-laughing-at-the-us\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2017  at  8:47 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/trump-russian-officials-must-be-laughing-at-the-u-s.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p>        <!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n --><\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/trump-russian-officials-must-be-laughing-at-the-u-s.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TheHillMay 30, 2017 President Trump early Tuesday said Russian officials are likely \u201claughing\u201d at the U.S. amid continuing reports related to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race. \u201cRussian officials must be laughing at the U.S. &amp; how a lame excuse for why the Dems lost the election has taken over the Fake News,\u201d Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-310497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}