On Saturday night’s episode of MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime, Hylton spoke to former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul—an Obama appointee—about Trump’s summit with Putin in Anchorage on Friday.
“A lot of the press corps that was there, they reported in the minutes and hours after the presser that they saw members of the administration, like Karoline Leavitt, look ashen, almost frightened after what they had seen behind closed doors. What did that indicate to you?” Hylton asked McFaul.
McFaul responded, “We should all be glad that we did not go to Alaska, because I was in Helsinki with you. And I was in Geneva when President Biden met. They traveled a long way for nothing in return, those journalists.”
He continued, ”But that suggests to me that this was a bigger disaster than they’re letting on. To your point, they’re trying to spin it, although they’re not even trying to spin it. That’s a really interesting thing.”
”When I worked at the White House and we would have meetings like this, I was the SAO—the senior administration official—that would call up journalists, that would call The New York Times to say, ‘This is what was discussed,’ to push it this way. They’re not even attempting to do that because they know they don’t have anything to work with.”
We’re owned by Russia and Putin came in there just making demands while Trump groveled. Thats what happened. The US President groveled to the Kremlin. Enjoy your meals.
Yep. Everyone in that room was owned, but didn’t think much of what that meant until then. That one report by the fox news lady right afterwards was blunt as hell when describing the whole situation. ‘It was not good.’
They finally learned the truth?
Lol no
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They watched him dementedly barf out a bunch of national security secrets because Putin’s his new Epstein buddy and he wanted to impress him with how much he knew.
Let’s see the possibilities are 1. Trump completely caved 2. Trump and Putin divided up Ukraine like Poland 3. Trump showed dementia.
Now 2 they might actually be excited, so maybe take that one off the list.
This time around the administration is doing a better job keeping it’s people believing, but it makes sense that some of them will start to crack
She ashy AF before that meeting.
Sorry but I don’t think she’s smart enough to be worried about anything she might have heard about the meeting.
Maybe they misread her face and it was actually hung over.
President Trump knows what he’s doing.
…prove it
The sad part in all this is I would bet good money a lot of people got involved with this shit show thinking it would actually live up to the promises they were making and are slowly being crushed by the weight of reality sinking in. Not apologizing for them, just realizing they are humans too, and how soul crushing that must be to see your hopes and dreams for a better world slip away like sand in an hourglass.
You’re more forgiving than I; I doubt any of them believe they’re doing anything but carving up the common wealth for themselves in one way or another.
Honestly this screams of “[politician] SLAMMED by comment” when the comment was effectively “I don’t agree with [politician]”.
Are there pictures of these “ashen” staff?
The guy is saying he used to be in her shoes and that she was acting odd after this meeting. Her body language immediately following the meeting was cause enough for concern. Then, they didn’t try to push the narrative around the topic of conversation during this meeting, showing to him that the conversation was about topics that they wouldn’t want discussed at all in the media.
He’s an expert, giving his expert opinion. That doesn’t mean he’s right, but he’s not talking out of his ass for no reason.
“Ashen” implies a visual indication. It’s not too much to assume there’d be photos.
I guess you’re right. I dont see why it matters if the ashen description is accurate. I take all the news and editorials with a large grain of salt.
