Donald Trump Doesn't Need to Be a Russian Agent to Be Dangerous - Joy-Ann Reid

[DonViejo]

The president is a Bizarro Nixon without the intellect, whose greed and neediness and vaingloriousness have made our commander in chief a national-security threat.

JOY-ANN REID
05.12.17 1:00 AM ET

The Russians took a victory lap inside the White House on Wednesday, perhaps finally proving that Donald Trump is no deft foreign agent, but has by virtue of his pride and impetuousness been made Russia’s fool.

It’s not enough that Trump and his team of amateurs led a Russian video crew, complete with all of their electronic equipment and God knows what else—listening and surveillance devices, maybe?—inside the Oval Office to photograph the president of the United States grinning alongside Sergey Kislyak, ambassador and known spy recruiter, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who literally laughed at American reporters on his way in the door with Putin pal and America’s constantly upstaged secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. They did so while barring their own country’s media. And so, the only photographs of that shameful klatch come from Russia’s official media arm, TASS.

To make matters worse, the Trump team now says it was duped—that they didn’t know the man traveling with Lavrov was a reporter and not just Lavrov’s personal photographer, or that the pictures would be released, which of course they were immediately. Whodathunkit! A foreign power and nearly century-long U.S. adversary that essentially made war on us by attacking our election wasn’t honest with the White House team? Someone get a historian on this immediately.

To add insult to injury, the meeting came the day after Trump shocked all of Washington and summoned the ghost of Richard Nixon by firing the man investigating his campaign for collusion with Russia in its attack on our election (recall that the first count of impeachment against Nixon was obstruction of justice) and on the same day he held a rather ironic meeting with Nixon’s foreign minister, longtime Putin pal and morally questionable figure Henry Kissinger.

It’s as if everyone but Trump is in on the joke: that he is being strung along by cannier men, a Bizarro Nixon without the intellect, whose greed and neediness and vaingloriousness have made our commander in chief a national security threat.

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[JohnnyLib2]

1. Really pleased to see Trump portrayed this way.

His "greed and neediness and vaingloriousness" were apparent all through the campaign, from before revelations about Russian interference were known. Unfit then, unfit now, and "a national security threat." Thank you, Joy-Ann Reid!


And thanks for posting!

[tblue37]

2. US media were barred because Trump didn't want anyone to know that an extra Russian--the

spy recruiter that his team is in trouble for having undisclosed meetings with--had secretly slipped into the Oval Office for an undisclosed meeting with Trump.

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. Reid's employer played a big role in getting Trumpy elected.

Day after day went by while MSNBC raked in the cash with Trumpy as the marquee item. It was all about profits. Now we have a Russian stooge in the White House and the clean-up is dragging along, with the entire GOP in full support of Trumpy.

Well played, MSNBC!