WHY VLADIMIR PUTIN’S RUSSIA IS BACKING DONALD TRUMP - Newsweek

[Lucinda]

BY KURT EICHENWALD ON 11/4/16 AT 5:50 AM


I'm just going to post this one paragraph...LOTS more at the link including in depth reporting of how Russian disinformation is effecting the election and why Putin is so set on Hillary's defeat.

"...Trump’s behavior, however, has at times concerned the Russians, leading them to revise their hacking and disinformation strategy. For example, when Trump launched into an inexplicable attack on the parents of a Muslim-American soldier who died in combat, the Kremlin assumed the Republican nominee was showing himself psychologically unfit to be president and would be forced by his party to withdraw from the race. As a result, Moscow put its hacking campaign temporarily on hold, ending the distribution of documents until Trump stabilized, both personally and in the polls, according to reports provided to Western intelligence..."

http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-russia-hillary-clinton-united-states-europe-516895

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. K & R.

Can't read til later, though. Gotta go out and catch the last hours of sunlight. Bookmarking.

[Lucinda]

2. Thank you!

[Persondem]

3. Get this freakin' story out there people. Thank you for the link.

Post it everywhere you can. K & R

[Lucinda]

4. Thank you for the kick

Much appreciated!

[triron]

9. anyone have email addresses for some of the commentators on CNN?

[Merlot]

14. This is an amazing article -Everyone should read & pass it along!

[napi21]

5. HA! Even the Ruskies recoignize he not fit to lead the Country. That sure says a lot about

his supporters!

[Lucinda]

6. So weird that Putin is in the "anybody but Hillary camp" especially

when the alternative is pretty much crazy. Putin must be pretty confidant that they can keep little Donald in line, if he would willingly help that whacko get elected.

[Hortensis]

7. Russia's "buyer's remorse" is a real good one too. Lol.

"By October, “buyer’s remorse” had set in at the Kremlin, according to a report obtained by Western counterintelligence. Russia came to see Trump as too unpredictable and feared that, should he win, the Kremlin would not be able to rely on him or even anticipate his actions."

They belatedly realized Trump's so unstable that Prez Trump, imagining he'll be "leader of the world or something," as he put it, would pose a serious danger to them.

[Persondem]

8. I have been all over Twitter with this link and the hashtag #PutinsIdiot NT

[Lucinda]

10. I'll find it and retweet!

[tavernier]

11. K & R