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DemocracyMouse

(2,275 posts)
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 12:49 PM Oct 2019

An astonishing quote from the New York Times:


...and we have already forgotten: Trump is a Russian asset...

"Try to remember, if you can, how astonishing it was on Jan. 6, 2017, when America's intelligence community made public its finding that Russia had intervened in our election to help Trump. Imagine if we knew then [AND COULD REMEMBER NOW] just a fraction of what we know now, like the November 2015 email exchange between Felix Sater, a Trump associate and convicted felon with ties to Russian organized crime, and the Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, recently the subject of an FBI raid. Sater boasted:

"Buddy, our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin's Team to buy in on this."


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/trump-tower-putin-felix-sater.html
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DemocracyMouse

(2,275 posts)
3. I'm certainly glad we're nailing him for the Ukraine/China examples of flagrant election law breakin
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 12:57 PM
Oct 2019

... and nailing him for the SHEER HORROR of separating innocent children from innocent parents on our southern border, and the SHEER HORROR of abandoning the Kurds to — good God, good freakin' God — genocide by that Turkish sicko Erdogan.

But the monstrous event that got the devil on a roll was Putin and the Russian crime syndicate.

NEVER FORGET

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
5. and we must remember that anyone who supports tRump now is a traitor and should be treated
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 01:49 PM
Oct 2019

with contempt.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
8. Indeed.
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 01:56 PM
Oct 2019

I have a coworker. It’s rough on me when I have to work with her. Partly because I can’t fathom being a trumphead. The thought of it just gives me acute cognitive dissonance.

lindysalsagal

(20,581 posts)
7. Well, yes, but, without Congress's GOP approval, he never would have won. Blame the KGOP.
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 01:50 PM
Oct 2019

THEY ALL TOOK THE RUSSIAN MONEY AND THAT'S FINALLY COMING OUT!!!

dlk

(11,512 posts)
12. The evidence has always been hiding in plain sight
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 02:36 PM
Oct 2019

Too many Americans have had the belief, "it can't happen here." Unfortunately, it already has.

patphil

(6,150 posts)
13. It's amazing that the United States, a country that has engineered coups and placed their puppets
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 02:38 PM
Oct 2019

in positions of power in many countries over the past 100 years or so, would find themselves on the receiving end of what is essentially a coup engineered by a foreign government.
There is an old saying. "Karma is a bitch".
I think that's rather sexist.
It's probably better just to say that what goes around comes around.
Or, what you sow you shall reap.

We have a group of monsters running our country, and the head beast is a Russian asset.
We have to win the White House and the Senate to take our country back.
The future of the Republic is at stake.

Patrick Phillips

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