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2016 Postmortem

kudzu22

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2. First question from the White House press corps:

Reply to Richard D (Original post)

Sun Dec 18, 2016, 10:40 PM

Dec 2016

Mr. President if you knew about Russian attempts to affect US politics since last year, why are you only bringing it up now? Why did you not make it public before the general election? Would you ask for the same delay if Hillary had won?

Sorry, it would be a colossal mistake to do anything other than what he did. He handled it the only way he could.

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What Obama should have said at the press conference [View all] Richard D Dec 2016 OP

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First question from the White House press corps: kudzu22 Dec 2016 #2

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