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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Sun May 5, 2019, 08:19 PM May 2019

Durbin: Trump gets "googly eyed" when talking to Putin

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-highest ranking Democrat in the Senate, slammed President Trump for his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being "dazzled" by strongmen around the world.

"This president is totally dazzled by Vladimir Putin, by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, by authoritarian leaders in countries like Brazil," Durbin said on "Face the Nation" Sunday. "He gets on the phone with them and loses it, gets all googly eyed over their assertions that they have nothing to with what's going on in Venezuela."

The Illinois Democrat referenced a telephone call between Mr. Trump and his Russian counterpart that lasted more than an hour on Friday. The president, according to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, discussed special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation "very briefly," and only in the context that "it's over" and found no "collusion."

Although the special counsel did not establish a criminal conspiracy between Trump campaign associates and the Kremlin, his report outlined a broad, sophisticated effort by Moscow to sow discord among the American public and interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/durbin-trump-gets-googly-eyed-when-talking-to-putin/ar-AAAW5vH

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Durbin: Trump gets "googly eyed" when talking to Putin (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2019 OP
Trump is a Putin fanboy Skittles May 2019 #1
. dalton99a May 2019 #2
Photo evidence Blue Owl May 2019 #3
I don't believe a sane man would say that Putin was smiling malaise May 2019 #4
Love the affectionate way Trump described that moment emmaverybo May 2019 #5
The scariest thing isn't FoxNewsSucks May 2019 #6

malaise

(268,931 posts)
4. I don't believe a sane man would say that Putin was smiling
Sun May 5, 2019, 08:52 PM
May 2019

when they were not on a video call.
This is some crazy shit

emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
5. Love the affectionate way Trump described that moment
Sun May 5, 2019, 09:06 PM
May 2019

And like the murderous snake Putin was some kindly old fount of wisdom, reassuring his baby blimp Donnie, when the two of them are in cahoots to undermine our democracy. And Europe’s. They both favor Marine Le Pen, daughter of an occupation Nazi, who now dissembles in her positions to try to win over France. She came close last election.
I said to a pro-immigrant, fairly progressive friend in France that gosh darned Macron should just step down in the face of these protests.
She said but then, we don’t know what we might get. Possibly Marine Le Pen.
Such a far right shift is a danger throughout Europe.
And Putin has been putting his rubles and propaganda in there.

FoxNewsSucks

(10,429 posts)
6. The scariest thing isn't
Sun May 5, 2019, 10:43 PM
May 2019

the way MF45 lusts for Putin, Kim, Mr Bonesaw and pretty much any dictator, that's just puppy love.

It's that republicons want to have that same kind of power here. Jail their opponents. Hack and dismember anyone who dares speak against them. Fix every election so that they "win" overwhelmingly. Loot the treasury, line their pockets.

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