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applegrove

(133,089 posts)
Sat Jul 7, 2018, 02:58 PM Jul 2018

Putin Tells Trump That 'Deep State' Is Against Them

https://politicalwire.com/2018/07/07/putin-tells-trump-that-the-deep-state-is-against-them/

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Some White House officials worry that Russian president Vladimir Putin,” who has held several calls with Trump, plays on the president’s inexperience and lack of detailed knowledge about issues while stoking Trump’s grievances,” the Washington Post reports.

“The Russian president complains to Trump about ‘fake news’ and laments that the U.S. foreign policy establishment — the ‘deep state,’ in Putin’s words — is conspiring against them, the first senior U.S. official said.”

Putin has told Trump: “It’s not us. It’s the subordinates fighting against our friendship.”

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SunSeeker

(58,374 posts)
1. Putin is Trump's handler.
Sat Jul 7, 2018, 03:04 PM
Jul 2018

And he has proven quite good at it. Hell, every 2-bit dictator has been able to play Trump like a fiddle. They know what makes the dotard tick. He is one of them, but dumber.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. Bingo,we have a winner!
Sat Jul 7, 2018, 03:27 PM
Jul 2018

Nance outed Trump this past week as a Compromised Asset of Putin's. And if anyone knows,Malchm would ,

Yonnie3

(19,567 posts)
2. "inexperience and lack of detailed knowledge" what a polite way to say willful ignorance nt
Sat Jul 7, 2018, 03:04 PM
Jul 2018

DonCoquixote

(13,980 posts)
5. More like a pimp and one of the dumber prostitutes
Sat Jul 7, 2018, 03:23 PM
Jul 2018

And you know which one is the Pimp, it ain't Donnie.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
7. By now, anyone who doesn't acknowledge that we're getting seriously fucked, is utterly lost.
Sat Jul 7, 2018, 03:34 PM
Jul 2018

By now, anyone who doesn’t acknowledge that we're getting seriously fucked, is utterly lost, in some kind of trance. Sorry for the rough language, but this is deadly serious. The U.S. has been under attack, and a soft coup (not so soft now) has taken place. Americans’ shared history, tradition, protocol, have all been turned on their heads. A deeper resentment is growing between liberals and conservatives (those terms seem quaint now). If it’s allowed to fester...I can’t finish this sentence, I don’t want to go there.

Which is exactly what Putin wants, and about which the Trump team have conspired: flood the media with so much outrageous crap, until the citizenry is staggering under the weight of it, dumbfounded and exhausted.

Volaris

(11,794 posts)
10. Don't listen to your friends, baby...they're just jealous that you're with me...
Sat Jul 7, 2018, 07:53 PM
Jul 2018

They want to break us apart I didn't mean to hit you, but you know how it happens when you make me mad...

That's our fuckjng president. The intelligence version of a domestic abuse victim.

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