[TheRealThing]

Following their meeting, a reporter at the Helsinki Conference between Trump and Putin asked Trump if he would take the opportunity to state to the world whether he believed Putin's response to Russian election meddling or the position of the US Intelligence Community. Trump bought up the fact that we still haven't seen the servers and Putin brought up the fact that there was 400 million dollars worth of campaign contributions made to the Clinton campaign coming out of Russia. I cannot imagine a more outrageous gotcha setup, nor could the effort have been any more transparent. Since when does some bozo reporter suppose himself worthy to drive US foreign policy? Answer, the curiously timed indictments last Friday and election night 2016.

At this moment the US Intelligence Community (by all reports) have stated that they never got their hands on the DNC servers (and others) which were supposed to have been hacked. Instead, when FBI investigators tried to get their hands on the servers, on-site DNC officials told them no dice and threw them out of the place. Subsequent efforts by the FBI were steadfastly met with Dim stonewalling.
THE HILL---
The FBI requested direct access to the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) hacked computer servers but was denied, Director James Comey told lawmakers on Tuesday.

The bureau made “multiple requests at different levels,” according to Comey, but ultimately struck an agreement with the DNC that a “highly respected private company” would get access and share what it found with investigators.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-secur...nc-servers

This soap opera-ish saga, ongoing now for two years and which is so far based on nothing, has now gone global as the press corps at today's proceeding had the gall to drape dirty laundry all over the world stage. So where does that leave us?

The most succinct answer would be in La-La Land. Without the server, all the US has by way of concrete evidence is the word of John Podesta and the DNC I suppose. I for one would prefer the US not push the Helsinki meeting to the threshold of a televised international falling out between this world's greatest nuclear superpowers, but that's just me.

The liberal press corps to include the devious Neil Cavuto, are doing flip flops nonetheless, and calling our President's post meeting press conference performance a national disaster. Meanwhile John Brennan who represents the finest of our Intel community in the minds of the media, tweeted while the President's words still hung in the air the word "traitorous" to describe Mr Trump's statement. So Brennan can call the sitting President a traitor as he stands on the world stage alongside Vladimir Putin, but the President has no right to ask for the server which started the whole mess in the first place? News flash, Putin's no idiot. If we have the goods on Russia there are much better ways to deal with the matter than to call him out like highschoolers shouting over the lunch tables. But past that would not a US Intelligence Community examination of the server answer the question about the extent of Russian interference rather profoundly?

I don't blame MR Trump for not taking the bait. The reporter who no doubt considers himself an epic genius, was trying to spark a shoving match between world leaders. Turns out he's somewhat short of that grand status because his effort failed. That didn't stop Neil Cavuto and his hastily garnered hit parade of neverTrumper libs from doing a spontaneous hit job on the President anyway. Hopefully Cavuto's audience will finally realize his act. I for one am out.