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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump couldn't possibly be a Russian asset...could he? [View all]
Another excellent MUST read by Thom Hartmann:
Trump couldn't possibly be a Russian asset...could he? = Rawstory
Imagine youre in the FBI overseeing national security and a candidate for President [Trump] hired a man whod:
-taken $66 million from Russian intelligence services via Putin-friendly oligarchs
-helped Russia install their own puppet government in Ukraine in 2010,
-was paid $1 million a year to help the corrupt dictator Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), solidify his relationship with Moscow,
-forced his party to remove references in their platform to defending Ukrainian democracy,
-gave a Russian intelligence agent top-secret insider campaign information about voters in 6 swing states so they could run an ultimately successful micro-targeted Facebook campaign to help [Trump]
-offered to run the campaign for free because hed been well-compensated by Russian intelligence services, and then
-repeatedly lied to the FBI about his connections to Putin and Russia, leading to his being charged, convicted, and imprisoned until [Trump] pardoned him.
-taken $66 million from Russian intelligence services via Putin-friendly oligarchs
-helped Russia install their own puppet government in Ukraine in 2010,
-was paid $1 million a year to help the corrupt dictator Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), solidify his relationship with Moscow,
-forced his party to remove references in their platform to defending Ukrainian democracy,
-gave a Russian intelligence agent top-secret insider campaign information about voters in 6 swing states so they could run an ultimately successful micro-targeted Facebook campaign to help [Trump]
-offered to run the campaign for free because hed been well-compensated by Russian intelligence services, and then
-repeatedly lied to the FBI about his connections to Putin and Russia, leading to his being charged, convicted, and imprisoned until [Trump] pardoned him.
This above was just a piece of all the QUESTIONABLE incidents correctly cited by the author.
To which, my answer to his question would be, if Donald WALKS like a duck, LOOKS like a duck, and QUACKS like a duck, then he quite possibly COULD be.....

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He was on prime time cable at 8PM. He had a big, beautiful set on the RT network.
Earth-shine
Aug 2023
#40
If Trump is a Russian asset that explains the inflationary spiral its economy suffers.
jaxexpat
Aug 2023
#13
Sure, but. The way Russia and other intelligence services use Russia's terms:
Hortensis
Aug 2023
#19