Fox News' Shep Smith Smacked Down Trump for Not Going After Russia for Election Meddling

[bostonangler]

Fox News host Shepard Smith chastised President Donald Trump Monday afternoon for his weekend tweet storm and for failing to address or promise ways to hinder Russia from meddling in future United States elections. The berating followed revelations made by the Special Counsel investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Smith, who has often challenged Trump despite the president’s frequent praise of Fox News, tore down the president’s tweets about the Russia investigation and how Trump littered attacks on many officials, including those within his administration, but not Russia.

“The president spent the weekend defending himself, misrepresenting the truth and attacking others from his phone in Florida,” Smith said, according to Mediaite. “The president attacked the Justice Department, the FBI and his national security adviser H.R. McMaster. He attacked Congressman Adam Schiff, Democrats and the DNC. He attacked Hillarious Clinton, President Obama, the previous Congress and the news media before going after Oprah Winfrey.”

Smith continued: “He did not attack Vladimir Putin or Russia, nor did he express concern that the Russians attacked the United States, nor did he pledge in any way to put measures in place to stop future attacks.”

After summing Trump’s numerous attack tweets, Smith stated: “The president’s spokespersons have been on television denouncing the meddling, the president has not. Not once, not on camera, not on Twitter, not anywhere.”

Trump has repeatedly denied that any collusion took place between his former campaign and Russia to win the White House. But his critics have often questioned why he has made little effort to prevent another Russian attack in the 2018 midterm elections and beyond.

The president’s deflections and accusations continued into Monday before Smith took to the air. Trump questioned why Obama had not done more about Russian interference when he knew about it, tweeting: “Obama was President up to, and beyond, the 2016 Election. So why didn’t he do something about Russian meddling?

Trump’s barrage of social media messages followed Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities on Frida. The charges included criminal fraud with the intent of tipping the 2016 election in Trump’s favor or any other candidate besides democrat Hillarious Clinton.

“Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong - no collusion!” Trump tweeted Friday after the indictment became public.

Trump was later heavily criticized for accusing the FBI of investigating Russian election meddling instead of working on a tipster’s warning of the shooter who allegedly killed 17 people at a Florida high school last week.

“Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter,” Trump tweeted Saturday. “This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign - there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud!”

[markb57]

denounced what, an unofficial report from the shill Mueller?

[billjr]

How is he still working for Fox? He is a cnn stooge 100%. Every time I see him I want to reach through the TV and ***** slap him.

 

[markb57]

Shep and Juan Williams are the token libs that Fox have on to maintain balance. Anyone with half a brain ignores them

[DinarDavo]

1 hour ago, markb57 said:

denounced what, an unofficial report from the shill Mueller?

 

Exactly!    

[Karsten]

1 hour ago, markb57 said:

Shep and Juan Williams are the token libs that Fox have on to maintain balance. Anyone with half a brain ignores them

 

I used to watch Fox or listen all day long....Shep used to have some common sense until he came out as *** and POTUS Trump took office....He is nothing more than a Paid Talking Head. Fox is pretty much worthless after losing all their key people over this or that that someone said....Juan is a fool and so is Richard what ever.

 

If you can get it and are a New Hound look up OAN or One America News.....It is News and not Opinion like Fox has turned into......Just one step about the Swamp Channels

 

Karsten

Edited February 20, 2018 by Karsten

[yota691]

 

[yota691]

 

[yota691]

 

[bostonangler]

Mark Levin is anything but a patriot... He is so anti-constitution it is ridiculous. But to your point, yes America is guilty of messing with elections for a very long time. It's called Karma, what comes around goes around and we as a nation are feeling the downside of our past indiscretions.

 

JMHO

 

B/A

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

'Socialist Shep' is an epic fail as a "News"man.

He clearly paid no attention to Trump's speeches during the European swing,

or to the action Trump has taken on behalf of our Anti-Putin Allies..

 

Shep is a little kommie tool and every day sounds more and more like the usual lefty parrots 

spewing the hateful rhetoric of the left and trying to sow the seeds of hate & divisiveness.

 

Maybe we should arrest HIM for colluding with evil forces to bring down our Government.

 

Yup, Shep is colluding with kommies.  

 

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[Indraman]

1 hour ago, yota691 said:

 

 

Sounds pretty "right-on" to me. Obama is the Putin of Israeli Elections, and did the very thing that Russia is being accused of doing.

 

Indy

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

Exactly, INDRAMAN...

 

Yet the left won't even own it.  

 

The hypocrisy is deafening.  

 

They supposedly lament the fact that we can never get the Russian 'perps' here to face Justice,

and yet their own kind ARE here and they haven't rounded THEM up to face Justice...?!!

 

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Edited February 20, 2018 by SgtFuryUSCZ

[bohica]

Smith is an idiot.  If he cannot keep his opinion based then he has no place in media.  If he wants to run a commentary show then run a commentary show.  if he wants to run a news show then keep his opinions to himself.  

 

[bostonangler]

7 minutes ago, bohica said:

commentary show

 

Isn't that what all the cable news channels have become? They are all just talk radio with pictures... JMHO

 

B/A

[bostonangler]

1 hour ago, SgtFuryUSCZ said:

colluding with kommies

 

Ha Ha Ha... It looks like a lot of people in your state colluded with the Kommies when they attend the rallies that were Kommie calls to action... It is sad they were able to trick voters so easy... Just post something on social media and the dweebs show up in droves... Americans really have become a bunch of sheeple...

 

B/A

[MyLadiesDaddy]

1 hour ago, bostonangler said:

Mark Levin is anything but a patriot... He is so anti-constitution it is ridiculous. But to your point, yes America is guilty of messing with elections for a very long time. It's called Karma, what comes around goes around and we as a nation are feeling the downside of our past indiscretions.

 

JMHO

 

B/A

You should get off CNN, MSNBC, and THE GUARDIAN, and listen to Mark Levin for a couple of hours. He's probably the most constitutionally correct person on the radio. Once again your poor reading skills are showing, along with your hatred of anything that is American. 

[Synopsis]

2 hours ago, yota691 said:

 

 

All You Snowflake Elitist Socialist Liberal Leftists, go to the 5:55 mark and especially at the 6:30 mark then let the statement at the 6:44 mark sink in.

[bostonangler]

30 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

You should get off CNN, MSNBC, and THE GUARDIAN, and listen to Mark Levin for a couple of hours. He's probably the most constitutionally correct person on the radio. Once again your poor reading skills are showing, along with your hatred of anything that is American. 

 

I do watch CNN but not the others... You do seem to make a lot of assumptions. I have listened to Mark Levin, he is divisive not what America needs.

I do not hate all things American. Again a sad assumption on your part.

 

If fact you seem to be the one that lives by the mantra "my way or the highway" which is not what makes America great. You have been much more open minded in the past and now have joined the ranks of those who follow blindly... You don't think so... Say one thing you don't like about Trump. Come on you can do it... Somewhere inside you there still is that guy who wasn't a Kool-Aid drinking sheeple. 

 

B/A

[bostonangler]

22 minutes ago, Synopsis said:

 

All You Snowflake Elitist Socialist Liberal Leftists, go to the 5:55 mark and especially at the 6:30 mark then let the statement at the 6:44 mark sink in.

 

Some are acting as though Obama is the first to interfere??? Really???

 

B/A

[Indraman]

The irony is that same argument has been made with regards to the Russian Collusion. I agree, this is a common practice by nations to influence other countries elections. However, when this argument was used on the Russian Collusion incident, the Left and MSM portrayed it as the greatest scandal in modern American history.

 

Indy

[Synopsis]

3 minutes ago, bostonangler said:

 

Some are acting as though Obama is the first to interfere??? Really???

 

B/A

 

Did You, BostonAngler, even listen to ALL these two DEMOCRATS were believing, saying, AND (mind You) acting on from the 5:55 mark on???!!!

[bostonangler]

6 minutes ago, Indraman said:

The irony is that same argument has been made with regards to the Russian Collusion. I agree, this is a common practice by nations to influence other countries elections. However, when this argument was used on the Russian Collusion incident, the Left and MSM portrayed it as the greatest scandal in modern American history.

 

Indy

 

I agree Indy, MSM and our politicians are practicing the old game of divide and conquer...

 

B/A

[bostonangler]

2 minutes ago, Synopsis said:

 

Did You, BostonAngler, even listen to ALL these two DEMOCRATS were believing, saying, AND (mind You) acting on from the 5:55 mark on???!!!

 

I guess I'm different most... I don't believe the politicians on either side. They come out swinging and act like they are defending anyone who will follow them... Then when the camera go off they head to the buffet table and eat their free lunches that we pay for...  The sad part is people actually believe that any of them are doing anything more than cashing in on our ticket. I'm not sure how they succeeded but they have. They have divided the public and eat at the trough... Makes you wonder how did any of us fall for this?

 

B/A 

[MyLadiesDaddy]

1 minute ago, bostonangler said:

 

I do watch CNN but not the others... You do seem to make a lot of assumptions. I have listened to Mark Levin, he is divisive not what America needs.

I do not hate all things American. Again a sad assumption on your part.

 

If fact you seem to be the one that lives by the mantra "my way or the highway" which is not what makes America great. You have been much more open minded in the past and now have joined the ranks of those who follow blindly... You don't think so... Say one thing you don't like about Trump. Come on you can do it... Somewhere inside you there still is that guy who wasn't a Kool-Aid drinking sheeple. 

 

B/A

You say that Mark is divisive by defining agreeing with people that are clearly showing signs of sever mental instability as uniting. Bet you will not understand that sentence one bit You want me to say something about President Trump that I don't like? I can do you one better I can tell your something that if he doesn't fix soon he may completely loose my support over. 

FIRE ANYONE UNDER HIS COMMAND  OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT THAT WAS INVOLVED IN THE CLINTON COLLUSION AND SMEAR CAMPAIGN.FIRE HIS ATTORNEY GENERAL IF HE CONTINUES TO SIT ON HIS LAZY BUTT AND DO NOTHING TO BRING LAW AND ORDER BACK TO AMERICA. 

You will say that is divisive because it doesn't agree with your politically correct mentality, which I call liberal insanity. 

And you have no idea what made America great. 

The fact that we told the King of England to kiss our A$$ because he wouldn't allow people to worship God as they chose to. 

That made America great. 

The fact that we used to believe that we could do anything we set our minds to. 

That made America great.

The fact that we took care of ourselves and those we loved and did so without government interference.

That made America great.

The FACT that we lived by the Ten Commandments of God.   

That made America great.

The fact that we were once a moral people.

That made America great. 

 

So what destroyed America?

Liberalism, Godless liberalism. And the fact that Godless and lazy people need the Government to do as much for them as it possibly can. 

And for the record I personally don't think that even President Trump will be able to make America Great Again without bringing America to her 

knees before God the Father.