Laurence Tribe: "Why would Trump want to destroy NATO?"

[Miles Archer]

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Laurence Tribe Retweeted NYT Opinion
Why would Trump want to destroy NATO? (Why the softball question?)

The answer is obvious: to please Putin, do his bidding, keep his political and financial help flowing in midterms and 2020, and keep the lid on all the dirt Putin has on Trump & his circle.

Next question?

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[onecaliberal]

1. To split apart the western alliance.

[dalton99a]

2. Yep. The whole world sees it

(except MAGAland)

[RKP5637]

3. To promote putin's plan of divide and conquer IMO. NATO is a major threat to Putin. n/t

[duforsure]

4. Maybe like with other area's they're doing this to,

He attacks an agency ,Department, or institution, then installs their people that'll bow down to them and be complete loyalist to them. He's doing this in many area's. Soon he'll announce they are restructuring only to remove all not completely loyal to him , and installing only those that'll kiss his ring. Putins done this in Russia to.

[bdamomma]

5. this is all Putin

this is his plan to dominant. He is using tRump, tRump doesn't know anything and we are here if we don't vote in November we lose everything. Listening to Malcolm Nance on Stephanie Miller.

Russia is using propaganda with this Walk Away movement and telling Democrats to walk away. Don't believe it.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Hey, N.Y. Times, it's because he's a traitor and Russian agent.

[Phoenix61]

7. I don't think Putin has anything on Twitler

I think Putin, being the good KGB agent he is, is playing to Twitler's greed and ego. He has already given him a lot of money. Now all he has to do is flatter the shit out of him and promise him even more money.

[turbinetree]

8. Foreign influence.....................

Congress Can Stop Foreign Secret Spending on US Elections Right Now

Following the release of a Senate Judiciary Committee report suggesting “the Kremlin used the National Rifle Association [NRA] as a means of accessing and assisting Mr. Trump and his campaign,” Americans are right to wonder how much longer Congress is going to look the other way while foreign actors secretly influence US elections.

In the years since the US Supreme Court’s overreaching Citizens United v. FEC decision, Congress has watched political groups that do not disclose their funding sources spend hundreds of millions to elect and defeat political candidates. But rather than ensure that none of those millions came from the bank accounts of foreign individuals, corporations or governments, Congress has failed to pass basic disclosure laws that would both deter and ferret out illegal foreign spending. Federal agencies also have fallen down on the job by failing to require disclosure: the US Securities and Exchange Commission on corporate political spending, the Internal Revenue Service on nonprofit spending and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on entities across the board.

The law banning foreign nationals from spending money in US political campaigns is solid and unambiguous. It is illegal for foreign actors to directly or indirectly spend money or provide things of value in connection with US elections.

Enforcing the ban, on the other hand, is riddled with easily exploited loopholes — a fact perfectly demonstrated by Russians allegedly funneling money through the NRA to promote Trump’s candidacy and evading detection until after the election. A simple rule requiring the disclosure of major donors quickly would patch this obvious hole, but Republicans in Congress repeatedly have blocked such an easy fix. The DISCLOSE Act, newly reintroduced in the Senate this month, is a chance for them to correct this error, as well as fix the limitations on disclosure rules that have snuck into the appropriations packages over the last few years.

https://truthout.org/articles/congress-can-stop-foreign-secret-spending-on-us-elections-right-now/

[Blue_Tires]

9. NEVER FORGET:

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[hedda_foil]

12. ∆∆∆ THIS! ∆∆∆ As soon as he got back from his 1987 trip to the then USSR he started bashing NATO.

[snort]

15. That is how long he has been an asset.

[Hekate]

16. 1987? That's 30 damn years ago. My gods. Thanks for this post. nt

[procon]

10. It certainly doesn't benefit the US to antagonize the european countries

that serve as the primary bulwark against the east. Our own national security depends the intel they gather and pass one to us. The east, including Russia, benefits if NATO is weakened and the US becomes more isolated.

[maryellen99]

11. Also to make it easier for Putin to militarily take back the Baltics

Keep an eye on what happens when the World Cup ends. The Russian Navy has been on high alert since the start of it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. My take is that Trump has absolutely no idea what NATO

actually is, or how it works. All he knows is that he's been told that it's not very good, the U.S. spends too much money on it, and that we can do just fine without it.

Putin may be saying some of those things, but the underlying problem is Trump's phenomenal ignorance about everything.