{"id":82678,"date":"2020-06-30T20:01:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T00:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=82678"},"modified":"2020-06-30T20:01:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T00:01:52","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-june-29th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=82678","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, June 29th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Monday, June 29th, 2020…but before we begin, THIS is a PRIME example of why The Donald sometimes drives us to distraction<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump pushes back on NY Times report on Russian Afghan attacks, says ‘nobody briefed’ him, Pence<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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“…This echoed a statement from Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who said he “confirmed that neither the president nor the vice president were ever briefed on any intelligence alleged by the New York Times in its reporting yesterday<\/em><\/span>.”<\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

Think about it: The Times<\/em> published their piece Friday; Trump tweeted his response early Sunday morning.\u00a0 Had you<\/em><\/span> been President, what would’ve been your<\/em><\/span> first move upon learning of the story?\u00a0 What would have occupied your time<\/em><\/span> in the interim?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Likely the same as ours: we’d have had the heads of every single intelligence organization assembled in the White House to ascertain if The Times<\/em> account was accurate<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 If any<\/span><\/em>\u00a0answered in the affirmative, we’d have immediately determined why they didn’t see fit to inform the President or Vice President, then<\/em><\/span> had them explain before a camera<\/em><\/span> their reason for withholding<\/em><\/span> the information, then<\/em><\/span> had their scalp(s).<\/strong><\/p>\n

If all assembled confirmed<\/em><\/span> Trump’s assertion the report was more fake news from an increasingly unreliable paper of record, we’d have had several of them on FOX News<\/em>\u00a0Saturday and Sunday morning stating such<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sorry, but a potential bombshell like this requires a prompt, reasoned<\/em><\/span> and on-point<\/em><\/span> response, NOT some half-baked tweet containing Twitter tags and a juvenile reference to “Corrupt Joe Biden”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The point is NOT whether the previous President and Vice President coddled the Russians or engaged in manifestly corrupt practices…<\/strong><\/p>\n