OMG A #TrumpRussia Confession in Plain Sight

[deminks]

Last edited Mon Nov 27, 2017, 09:12 AM - Edit history (1)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/24/a-trumprussia-confession-in-plain-sight/

At about 11:14pm on November 6th, 2012, enough states were called for President Obama that he was declared the winner of the election by NBC News. That was quickly followed up by a similar call on Fox News and finally by CNN. At 11:29pm, Donald Trump blasted out the following defiant tweet:

We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!
10:29 PM - Nov 6, 2012

Somewhere in Russia, Konstantin Rykov saw Trump’s tweet pop up in his Twitter feed.

(snip)

What was our idea with Donald Trump?

For four years and two days .. it was necessary to get to everyone in the brain and grab all possible means of mass perception of reality. Ensure the victory of Donald in the election of the US President. Then create a political alliance between the United States, France, Russia (and a number of other states) and establish a new world order.

(snip)

On Monday, the leaders of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party traveled to Moscow and signed a “working agreement” with Russia’s ruling United Russia party. In announcing the pact, Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache mentioned that he also met with retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s designated national security adviser, in Trump Tower a few weeks ago. “Internationally, the Freedom Party continues to gain in influence,” he wrote. Norbert Hofer, the Freedom Party candidate who recently lost his bid for Austria’s presidency, traveled to Moscow with Strache.

The Freedom Party, founded by ex-Nazis in the 1950s, is one of several far-right, anti-immigrant parties gaining popularity throughout Europe. After signing the cooperative agreement, Strache offered to act as “a neutral and reliable intermediary and partner” between the incoming Trump administration and the Kremlin.

(snip)

So much more at the link, Cambridge Analytica, Austrian Freedom Party, Nigel Farage...

Explains why Steve King, Marsha Blackburn, and Michelle Bachmann were partying with Nazis at the inaugural. Pootey funds them. Republicans are so far up their ass in this, the sun has quit shining on their faces.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10029451134

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Steven King warned us against tRump

Steve King is not Steven King

Link to tweet

https://steveking.house.gov/

King Introduces “Freedom from Union Violence Act”
Nov 16, 2017 Press Release

Legislation Closes Loophole Allowing Extortion, Violence, Sabotage by Union Members

[whopis01]

7. Steve King is Steven King but is not Stephen King. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Your OP is very interesting. Rykov's name has popped up in recent reports.

You excerpted the key motivation:

For four years and two days .. it was necessary to get to everyone in the brain and grab all possible means of mass perception of reality. Ensure the victory of Donald in the election of the US President. Then create a political alliance between the United States, France, Russia (and a number of other states) and establish a new world order.

Here is a thread about Seth Abramson tweets that name Rykov.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029886007

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Another DU thread about Rykov's Twitter feed

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/1016197054

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

4. Totally speechless. Recommended reading.

Thanks for this deminks.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Told ya.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029322103

[dalton99a]

14. +1

[Scarsdale]

6. This fits in with

the organization calling for a "New World Order" that the gop have been involved with for years. They have yarly conferences, and discuss "ruling the world" All they needed was a brain-dead arse like tRump to bluster his way into the WH, and then the plan could proceed. I doubt that he even is aware of what is happening, too busy golfing. The powers that be already knew what kind of "leader" he would make. We are royally screwed as a country.

[2naSalit]

8. K&R

[lark]

9. Exactly!

My dream is for Mueller to take down the entire Repug party as cooperating with a foreign country to steal the election. They are traitors from the top down, drumpf, his kids, Sessions, Flynn, Ryan, McConnell, Rohrbacher - all tools of Russia. In a fair world everything they've done would be undone by convictions, but in the real world they will retain all the incompetent federal judges they've installed to subvert our democracy, including Gorsuch.

[pangaia]

10. This is a dupe post.

GOOD!! We need to keep 'duping' it.

[Ezior]

11. The thing seems bogus though

As the pic he claims to have received from Trump was originally posted by Melania a few days (EDIT -correction: hours) earlier:

Link to tweet

[mr_lebowski]

12. Recall you're reading something translated from Russian ... and if you parse closely ...

"Suddenly! There was a thin squeak of warning in the DM.

It was a message from Donald Trump. More precisely a picture. In the picture he was sitting in the armchair of his jet, smiling cheerfully and showing me the thumb of his right hand."

Though it's 'implied by the verbiage', the guy does not actually claim that he personally received this tweet from Trump, to him (I mean, tweets aren't really LIKE THAT, are they?). And we're also not reading the native Russian here, as Russian speakers.

Granted, we good people should ALSO not interpret what we're reading as definitely meaning 'he got a tweet from Donald Trump', so there's that, and it's not an insignificant point.

If you read it as 'then, almost like it was A SIGN that appeared from teh Heavens, this appeared on the Twitter!' ... type of thing ... I think you'll be reading the tweet correctly.

That doesn't make the rest of the story bogus/non-factual, however.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. It does seem crazy and hard to believe. I'm not 100% sold on that part of the story, HOWEVER....

Whether it was Melania who first took that photo or not, Rykov did post the same photo to his Instagram page that night. Meaning at the very least, Rykov had Donald Trump on his mind all the way back in 2012. Now, by the time Election Night 2012 had rolled around, most Americans had long forgotten about Donald Trump's flirtation with running for the GOP nomination back in 2011. They viewed it as nothing more than a publicity stunt on his part. But Rykov clearly hadn't forgotten.

Also, let's not forget Trump's noted habit of retweeting and responding to random people (even bots) on Twitter after they throw him some love. It doesn't matter how despicable they are. Their Twitter handle could literally be "WhiteGenocideTM" but if they compliment Trump, that's all he cares about.

And here's more. On Rykov's Twitter that night, he posts this after receiving word of Mitt Romney conceding to President Obama:

Link to tweet

Translated by Google as:

Konstantin Rykov

@ rykov

Romney uncovered. Congratulated Obama. I wonder what Trump will say?

10:00 PM - 6 Nov 2012

Again.....why the hell is Konstantin Rykov so concerned about what Trump thinks back in November 2012?

And even weirder is one of his responses, which shows a screen cap of Trump's Twitter responses that evening. That comes from Yulya Alferova, who would later usher Trump around Moscow during his Miss Universe 2013 visit along with her then husband and fellow friend of Rykov, oligarch Artem Kluyshin. Both of them would later start to heavily promote Trump as a potential presidential candidate shortly after the 2013 pageant.