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Judging by his remarks on Wednesday, He, Trump doesn't know anything more about Russia beyond what he learned eating chicken Kiev in Brighton Beach.

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Future Historians Are Not Going to Believe That This Happened

Another day, another Trump episode that won't cost him a vote.


GETTY SARA D. DAVIS

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
JUL 27, 2016

PHILADELPHIA—Having been out of the news for about 11 seconds over the last 24 hours, He, Trump had another "episode," carefully disguised as a press conference, in which he spent the first several minutes talking how bold he was to have a press conference.

Wheezing as though he were breathing underwater, he served up the usual farrago of bullshit and poll numbers, inexactitude and counting up which of his convention pronouncements got the most applause. He supported torture again. He said he "hoped" Russia had the 33,000 e-mails that were deleted from Hillary Rodham Clinton's account.

"If it is Russia, which it's probably not, nobody knows who it is, but if it is Russia, it's really bad for a different reason, because it shows how little respect they have for our country. When they would hack into a major party and get everything, but it would be interesting. I will tell you this. Russia, if you're listening, I hope you find the thirty thousand emails that are missing. I think you'll probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let's see if that happens next."

Make America Great Again!

"I'm gonna renegotiate so much of everything."

"These people up there have something bad going on."
I'm convinced.

"France isn't France any more."

Je m'appelle Donald LePen.

Look, if he buttonholed you at the 19th hole and ran this rap, wheezing and babbling, you'd flee for the putting green, but we're beyond that point now.

This gabbling flummery is what a substantial portion of the American electorate wants in a leader, so there we are.

The only interesting part of the extended spotlight walking was the repeated questioning that he got about his prolonged slow dance with Vladimir Putin.

Judging by his remarks on Wednesday, He, Trump doesn't know anything more about Russia beyond what he learned eating chicken Kiev in Brighton Beach. How could anyone ever think otherwise?

"He said one nice thing about me. He said I'm a genius. I said thank you very much to the newspaper and that was the end of it. I never met Putin."

Wait, back there, Time magazine? You have something to share with the class?

At Tuesday's debate, real estate mogul Donald Trump argued that he understands Russian leader Vladimir Putin because they both were featured on a September episode of the TV news show 60 Minutes.

"I got to know him very well because we were both on 60 Minutes, we were stablemates," he said. Then he seemed to reference the show's ratings. "We did well that night."

And, at the end, just to be consistent, he went completely mad.
"Her aide, Huma Abedin, is married to Anthony Weiner, who's a sleazebag and a pervert, and I'm not saying anything, that's recorded history. I don't want Huma going home and talking about these things with Anthony Weiner."

None of this will matter to anyone who supports his campaign. He could give a batshit press conference every day and not lose a single vote. But it's nice to keep a record, because future historians are not going to believe this happened.

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