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blitzen

(4,572 posts) Thu Nov 29, 2018, 09:38 PM Nov 2018

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Let's not let the media forget Putin's chief motive for rigging the election for Trump: fear of HRC

Putin knew/knows that Hillary was a bad ass woman who would not let him mess with NATO, steal more of Ukraine, run his global organized crime organization with impunity, etc., etc.

With all the various speculations on Putin's motives that I've heard today on MSNBC/CNN (leverage over Trump, deals with Trump, an easy tool for oligarch money laundering, dividing the US., etc.), the overriding motive was that he was intimated by Hillary's strength, her knowledge that he is mega-Mafia boss, and her willingness to use that knowledge against him.

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Let's not let the media forget Putin's chief motive for rigging the election for Trump: fear of HRC (Original Post) blitzen Nov 2018 OP

Probably a lot of truth in that statement... Wounded Bear Nov 2018 #1

Not really. The motivation was to fuck up Voltaire2 Nov 2018 #2

Wounded Bear

(58,618 posts)

1. Probably a lot of truth in that statement...

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Thu Nov 29, 2018, 09:39 PM

Nov 2018

Voltaire2

(12,977 posts)

2. Not really. The motivation was to fuck up

Reply to blitzen (Original post)

Thu Nov 29, 2018, 10:33 PM

Nov 2018

our government by putting an orange shit gibbon into the White House. Mission Accomplished.

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