Starting in 2014,Trump Tweeted 9 Times to Deleted Russian Twitter Accounts About Running for POTUS

[bathroommonkey76]

You can't make this shit up!

From November 2014 through January 2015, five months before he announced his bid for the Presidency, Donald Trump fired off nine weird tweets to two Russian accounts about running for President. And this, as far as I can tell, hasn’t been reported anywhere.

All these tweets are still live. At least for now. You can read them here; just search “Russia” and scroll down. Two of the accounts were @VladimirRussia7 and @russiannavyblog, and they’ve since been deactivated, and I believe @russiannavyblog deleted his account last night, after I first retweeted his Trump tweets. I’m close to certain he’s ex-CIA, but more on that in a little. Anyway, those handles are dead, but the tagged accounts on some of these tweets are still active, including one apparently belonging to a British medical journalist and human rights activist Dr. Rita Pal; someone with the handle @russia890; and, of course, @monkiekaty.

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[UPDATE: Dr. Pal contacted me on Twitter and said her handle was quoted mistakenly by Trump, or by @russiannavyblog, in one of these tweets. She made quite clear she didn't support Donald Trump or say what the tweet said. Interestingly, she did shoot some sarcastic tweets at Trump on that same day, and Trump, mistaking them for support, retweeted two of them: here and here. This might explain why her handle was included. Dr. Pal is a committed humanitarian and by all appearances rather heroic. Please stop sending her abusive Direct Messages, because she needs to leave them open to get confidential information from Kashmir.]

All these tweets are at least a little weird. But it's weirder that, given how many rabid professional and citizen journalists plus all the nuts ripping into both Trump's tweeting data and the Russia investigation, no one has picked up on these tweets. For now, I want to note that Trump was continually quoting some dude named Vlad with a not-so-subtle wink that he was about to run for President.

But what's going on here? Obviously I don't believe @VladimirRussia7 is Vladimir Putin. But why would Donald Trump quote tweets in broken English about being “the great teacher” during Christmas from a nobody admirer no one can verify named Vladimir? Well, yeah, okay, you're right. It's Trump. But five of them? From the same non-famous person? Did Trump maybe think, or wish, this guy was Putin? My bet: he wanted us to think it was Putin. He can't be that dumb, right?

Read more:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/05/trump-tweeted-nine-times-to-deleted-russian-twitte.html

[tanyev]

1. Verrry interesting.

[R B Garr]

2. This should have been uncovered long ago! The "favorite billionaire" is sure interesting

when you look at how he campaigned and who he chose to target. The whole banter about running for Prez from Vlad. "Russia, if you're listening,"...

[Rollo]

3. I wouldn't put it past Trump for him to have fabricated all the supposed Russian tweets...

He's got a record of that sort of thing, calling up journalists and posing as "John Miller" to praise himself...

Creepy.

[bathroommonkey76]

4. There are sites that can go back and find old tweets from accounts on Twitter.

More journalists need to start looking to see what they can uncover.

[Rollo]

5. Yeah, but what's one more string of lies from Trump?

Like sand in a desert...