And There It Is

[ItsjustMe]

Putin rejects Donald Trump's criticism of Biden family business

[Walleye]

1. Putin is a lot smarter than trump and a much better politician

[soothsayer]

2. It does triple duty

1) sucks up to Joe
2) provides continuing cover while he attacks the election anyway
3) serves as a burn notice to his little apprentice in the WH

[relayerbob]

5. Also tells his oligarch friends, it is open season

I suspect he will curtail the last minute hacking, though, as he knows that if it doesn't work, he will be on a much hotter hot seat when Joe gets sworn in. Just speculation on this last, but clearly Trump is very far under the bus

[crickets]

7. I like this. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

3. So, Russia, if you're listening...

[Blue Owl]

4. Hey Donny have a cup of tea next to that open window

[volstork]

11. I like the way you think.

indeed!

[Leghorn21]

6. This is so wild

Lordy please make sure Whiney PeePaw hears about this!!!

PLEASE!!!!!!

[Baked Potato]

8. After big-Rudy tugged on little-Rudy, apparently Vladdy has seen enough.

[Bev54]

9. Is anyone buying this bullshit

I mean if I hear one media outlet give him credit for trying to cover his own ass and once again trying to make it look like the US intel have it wrong and he is not involved. Innocent of all the bullshit, if anyone falls for that then there is no hope.

[volstork]

10. That's it folks.

Game, set, match.

It's all over.

[doc03]

12. Damn Trump has lost his biggest supporter nt

[jayfish]

13. It's a Trap.

...best to just ignore it. If you cite Putin now you validate what came before.

[Captain Zero]

14. This above. If you cite Putin now you validate what came before.

Good point jayfish.

If I said anything I'd say. "Who knows exactly what this means. Must be a new way Trump and Putin are COLLUDING."

[Silent3]

15. That's what I thought. I can easily see Republicans taking this as...

...a sign that Biden is mixed up with the Russians, and that their Dear Leader never was. Republicans will have no trouble pivoting back to treating Putin as the bad guy once again, who can't be trusted, even after Trump explicitly expressed faith in Putin over our own intel services.

[brush]

21. Let's not misread the obvious. Putin knows trump is going to lose...

and is washing his hands of him. It's not rocket science.

[Silent3]

23. I'm not misreading this, I'm just saying there's another way...

...a pro-Trump person can take this message. And Putin is smart enough to be aware of the dual effect.

[lagomorph777]

26. Not validation of Putin; we're noting that Putin seems to be moving on from Trump.

Unlikely that what he moves to will be a good thing.

[Whiskeytide]

16. Please don't take anything Putin says at face value. There are always multiple hidden agendas. n/t

[brush]

19. It's not that well hidden. Putin knows trump is going to lose...

thus he has no further use for him.

[Whiskeytide]

24. IMO, he doesn't really care who wins and is just playing both sides. He only wants ...

... chaos and instability in the US. That’s going to happen no matter who wins the election. It’s harder to counter his moves when we are in a cold civil war amongst ourselves.

[brush]

25. Yes. Putin is smart, wanting chaos here. IMO he'd still rather have trump who is a walking,...

talking chaos spreader, not to mention him being a covid spreader also, which adds to it.

We're close to the end of this madness though. And when we're able to look back on it, we'll all agree that this trump administration has been inept and incompetent and all of that of course, but it's also been cunning and evil in how he and Kushner wrote off blue states and allowed tens of thousands of Americans to die, only to see the virus spread to red states as well because of their colossal foolishness in assuming the virus would stay in blue states and be gone anyway when the weather warmed up.

They should all be impeached because of it. Wait, no. Impeached is to lenient, they should all be exiled permenantly for what they didn't do—protect the American people.

[OneBlueSky]

17. aahhh . . . Donald Trump, meet Vlad the Impaler! . . . (n/t)

[brush]

18. Now trump knows how it feels to be used and discarded.

Get used to it, trump. After you lose you'll get that a lot.

[roamer65]

20. Putin's minions told him the margin is too big to fix.

[Cha]

22. This is so Surreal! & Putin doesn't think

even russian interference can help his Puppet now.

That's what I see