How Much Damage has the Trump-Putin Collusion Inflicted on America?

[Joinfortmill]

https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-much-damage-has-the-trump-putin-dfb

This is a 'must read' people. (my words)

'If Trump shared American secrets with Putin, our intelligence agencies are not going to call a press conference to let us all know...In 2019 The Washington Post revealed that, throughout his presidency, Donald Trump was having secret phone conversations with Russia’s President Putin (over 20 have been identified so far, including one just days before the 2020 election)...The Washington Post reported last August that Trump had a habit of carrying top-secret information that could severely damage our national security, leaving it in hotel rooms in hostile nations.

In his first months in office, Trump outed an Israeli spy to the Russian Ambassador in what he thought was going to be a “secret Oval Office meeting” (the Russians released the photo to the press), resulting in MOSAD having to “burn” (relocate, change identity of) that spy.,,That, in turn, prompted the CIA to worry that a longtime American spy buried deep in the Kremlin was similarly vulnerable to Trump handing him over to Putin...The CIA concluded that the risk Trump had burned or was about to burn our spy inside the Kremlin was so great that — at massive loss to US intelligence abilities that...they pulled our spy out of Russia in the first year of Trump’s presidency, 2017.

in Helsinki on July 16, 2018, Trump and Putin talked in private for several hours and Trump ordered his translators’ notes destroyed...Three weeks after Trump’s July 16, 2018 meeting with Putin in Helsinki, Senator Rand Paul made a solo trip to Moscow to personally hand-deliver a document or package of documents from Trump to Putin. Its contents are still unknown, although Paul told the press it was a “personal” letter of some sort.

From campaigning to destroy NATO to opposing aid to Ukraine to demolishing the free world’s confidence in America’s ability to keep top secret information confidential, Trump’s goal appears to be,... to “Make America Russia.”

[louslobbs]

1. Probably much more than the powers that be

will ever admit…..much more!

[zuul]

2. We probably only know a fraction of what actually happened.

Hopefully the Department of Justice knows a lot more.

[hibbing]

16. It is always worse than what we imagine n/t

[Botany]

3. Some of the damage

The Ukraine War



14 million dead (real #) world wide from c-19



J-6



Stolen national secrets



Stolen Presidential Election



The selling out of America

[Traildogbob]

10. Excellent

Post Botany.

[orangecrush]

23. D.U. REC

[CrispyQ]

27. +1

Look at him in that last photo, all puffed up on himself, thinking he's running with the big dogs, all the while Lavrov & Kislyak are laughing at his stupidity & ignorance.

A friend of mine scoffed when he announced he was running. Then she scoffed when he won the nomination. When he won, she said, "It's just four years." I think a lot of poeple thought that. I remember going to bed in tears & spending the day after in tears & feeling in shock for days. Weeks, even.

[Botany]

35. It was as if a cold damp blanket was over me

..... and from the get go it was obvious that the election was dirty and then stories out of Moscow about parties.

[anarch]

4. it seems reasonable to assume that any information provided to TFG was passed along to Putin

no matter how classified or sensitive. I'd guess he expedited delivery of the really sensitive, national security items--like, "Oh wow boss, I've got something really good for you this morning, I wanted to call right away..." and it's an assessment of vulnerabilities around U.S. nuclear weapons programs or something

[Wounded Bear]

5. More than we'll probably ever know...

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Russia Stood Behind Trump...even in the Oval Office.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stands behind then-pee-resident Donald J Trump.



Photo courtesy of TASS because no other news media were invited in to witness the moment.

[crickets]

20. Russian asset on display. nt

[iluvtennis]

7. KnR. n/t

[rubbersole]

8. A Russian asset for decades.

Laundering Russian mob money through the NY real estate markets was donnie's stock and trade. Putin was grooming him for bigger things.

[Boomerproud]

9. I think the truth would be too much for us to handle.

The people who know will never tell.

[llashram]

11. we will not ever

get the total damage done by the grifting traitor running the Republikkkan Party. Let's get real here: the Republican Party wants their man to be a dictator for life. And every other Republican POTUS till the time ends. They hopefully have made serious mistakes by them letting Trump continue to lead them off cliffs like lemmings.

[llashram]

12. traitorous snake

I remember that Helsinki meeting where when they came out of that meeting trump with a hangdog look like he had just gotten paddled by the principal. And Putin looked like he was the cat that captured and ate the mouse. Seemingly now in retrospect, trumps continuing traitorous actions can be understood.
There are photos of him walking out of the meeting.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trump+and+Putin+photos+of+Helsinki+meeting&t=newext&atb=v373-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2F

[Ponietz]

17. I cried for my country that day

The traitor sided with Putin over our own intelligence agencies.

[thomhartmann]

13. Any DU member has my full permission to republish any of my articles in full here

with no need to just excerpt or even to hotlink to the original story. I've been a member at DU here almost since the beginning and have never objected to posts or argued copyright when folks reprint my stuff. My only goal is to get the information out...

This article, in particular, involved a lot of research and has pretty outrageous details, like when Trump appears to have burned American spies around the world, leading to multiple executions of American agents, handing them to Putin via Rand Paul. Feel free to cut and paste the entire piece...

- Thom

[Celerity]

14. thank you for all you have done over the years

[crickets]

21. Thank you! nt

[2naSalit]

25. Thank you!

This is vital info for those of us who give sh*t.

[Joinfortmill]

28. Thanks so much.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

30. Thank you very much.

[cynical_idealist]

15. remember that show The Americans

I thought in the last episode they could have mentioned they
were working on a "real estate developer".

I hope all his crimes are revealed and "justice" is applied

[Wild blueberry]

18. What was Ron Johnson (and other GQP) doing in Moscow July 4, 2018?

Two weeks before Helsinki meeting. What did they bring before, as Rand brought after?

For me, one of the very worst moments of Dumpy's presidency* was that meeting in Helsinki.
The press conference was dreadful, but learning that the translator's notes were destroyed, poison.

Thank you for this article, Thom Hartmann!

[2naSalit]

26. +1

[republianmushroom]

19. 28 months and counting

[Stuart G]

22. K & R

[orangecrush]

24. Letting this Russian asset get into the oval office

Is a massive intelligence failure.

I hope our intelligence services, now unhobbled, retaliate exponentially and with extreme prejudice.

[Joinfortmill]

29. Amen to that

[MerryBlooms]

31. r&k So many unanswered questions about the shady deals

we know about... Imagine how many went on we have no idea about.

[KewlKat]

32. Let's not forget about that interpreter that was ordered to give her notes to the Orange Anus

and never speak about what was said.

[Blue Owl]

33. K&R for exposure