Trump at the presser with Putin: it gets worse

The Very Stable Genius demonstrates The Art of the Disingenuous Deflection:

President Trump declined to endorse the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election in an extraordinary press conference with Russian president Vladimir Putin on Monday.

When asked about the intelligence community’s assessment, Trump changed the subject to the Democratic National Committee’s servers and Hillary Clinton’s emails.

“Why was the FBI told to leave the office of the Democratic National Committee? I’ve been wondering that,” the president said. “What happened to Hillary Clinton’s emails? 33,000 emails gone, just gone.”

Also says, "President Putin, he just said it's not Russia." So I guess there's no point in further pursuing the matter of the 12 Russian military officers our DoJ indicted last Friday.

And here's one I'd really like to know more about. Did this come up in the one-on-one?

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coates gave a stern assessment of the cyber war that other countries are waging against the United States and used an analogy famously spoken before 9-11.

The “lights are blinking red.”

Speaking to the Hudson Institute on Friday, July 13, 2018, Coates had this warning to give on the eve of President Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin via CBS News

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned of an impending, potentially devastating cyberattack on U.S. systems, saying the country’s digital infrastructure “is literally under attack” and warning that among state actors, Russia is the “worst offender.”

Speaking at a scheduled event at the Hudson Institute, he adopted the language of former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet who, in the months ahead of the 9/11 attacks, warned that the “system was blinking red.” Coats, citing daily attacks from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, said, “Here we are, nearly two decades later, and I’m here to say the warning lights are blinking red again.”

He said the aggressors’ targets were diverse, and included businesses, federal, state and local governments, the U.S. military, academic and financial institutions, and critical infrastructure. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security had already detected Russian government actors exploring vulnerabilities in energy, nuclear, water, aviation, and manufacturing sectors, he warned.

I'm sure the shills are working on their spin, but so far, all I've come across on either side of the spectrum is dismay and alarm.