I think President Trump knew exactly what he was doing - telling the bad guys to get off his back.

[lo yeeOn]

Otherwise, they will keep exploiting his fear for them and destroy him
in the end. Someone who thinks that Trump firing Comey for
self-preservation is right. They will destroy him if he let them.

Trump planned the meeting down to the last detail - inviting Henry
Kissinger in, either for the meeting or right after. Of course, Trump
wanted the meeting and invited his Russian guests right after he fired
Comey to show the neocons whoz the boss!

New York Times: With Awkward Timing, Trump Meets Top Russian Official

President Trump with the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov,
left, and the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, at the White House
on Wednesday. The White House did not allow American news
organizations to photograph the meeting. Images were released
through the Russian Foreign Ministry. Credit Russian Foreign Ministry
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So, the Russians brought along their own photographer and shot this
picture. I don't think Trump, who was the host, chose an awkward time
to meet with the Russians. I think Trump knew exactly what he was
doing. "Awkward time" was just the Grey Old Lady's spin - to make the
casual reader think that Trump didn't know what he was doing. Yeah,
right!

lo yeeOn

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Trump Russia meeting: Lavrov praises Trump and Tillerson after talks

Sergei Lavrov and Donald Trump said they had constructive
discussions about Syria
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Moscow and Washington are looking to "remove all the barriers" to
having a better relationship, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
has said following talks at the White House.

Mr Lavrov met with President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson on Wednesday.

Improved relations and the war in Syria apparently dominated the
agenda.

But critics questioned the timing of the meetings, a day after Mr
Trump fired FBI director James Comey.

Mr Comey was leading an investigation into alleged Russian
interference in last year's US election.

Clearly impatient with journalists' repeated questions about Mr Comey,
Mr Lavrov rejected claims that Moscow had intervened in the
presidential election as "fabrications".

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The strange Oval Office meeting between Trump, Lavrov and Kislyak
Washington Post - 6 hours ago

Although the encounter between Trump, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov,
and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak took place in the center of American
power, it was TASS, the official Russian news agency, that had the
pictures. According to Andrei Sitov, the TASS ...