As Trump Panic-Tweets, Putin Cracks His Whip and Shows Him Who's Boss

[dajoki]

As Trump Panic-Tweets, Putin Cracks His Whip and Shows Him Who’s Boss
https://observer.com/2018/11/trump-panic-tweets-putin-cracks-whip/

This was the week that the bottom fell out of Donald Trump’s presidency. After almost two years of White House denials that Candidate Trump had any ties to Russia in 2016, that turns out to be just one more Trumpian lie. No amount of “NO COLLUSION” tweets from the Oval Office can undo the damage that has now been done.

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In other words: you don’t get to cancel meetings, we do—and if you think the Kremlin will help you out, Don, have we got news for you. Peskov’s statement leaves no doubt whom the Kremlin thinks runs the Trump-Putin relationship. Given how distracted President Trump is with the Mueller investigation as it closes in on the Oval Office, it would be tempting for the White House to ignore the Kremlin.

That would be a bad idea, as Moscow just made clear. As always, the threat of what Vladimir Putin knows about Donald Trump is unspoken but indelible. Kompromat is the coin of the realm in Putin’s Russia, and his Kremlin wants everybody—above all President Trump—to know it.

The ridiculous hidden truth about Donald Trump’s run for the White House is that it was a publicity stunt, an effort by the reality TV showman to up his brand and cash in. Trump’s desire to make “his” Moscow tower happen during the campaign demonstrates what our 45th president’s real priorities were. Neither Trump nor any of his key advisers in 2016 actually planned to win the race. Yet, somehow, they did.

Worse, they involved Russians, many of them linked to the Kremlin, in their bizarre get-rich-quick scheme that masqueraded as a presidential campaign. That was their fatal error, since Muscovite footprints guaranteed a degree of scrutiny that Team Trump and its perennially shady deals had evaded for decades. Now it’s up to Team Mueller to unravel it all, as they are doing, one prosecution at a time, getting ever closer to people with the last name Trump.

[EricMaundry]

1. Yessir

Spot on.

[Kitchari]

2. K&R n/t

[dalton99a]

3. .

[PeeJ52]

4. That freeze frame...

... tells it all... Perfect!

A thousand words!

[Rural_Progressive]

6. Donne O would be fun to fleece at poker

the boy just does not have a poker face and he's got more tells than you can shake a stick at.

[DesertRat]

9. That pic deserves the Pulitzer. nt

[colorado_ufo]

12. Brings back memories of the old song

" I'm On the Outside Looking In"

[Chemisse]

5. The piece makes it easy to understand what's happened in the last few days. n/t

[ananda]

7. Great article! I think it's true that ..

.. 45 truly thought he would lose the election.

However, all the hacking, voter suppression,
and election fraud changed things.

And now everyone is screwed! 45 is literally
taking us all down with him.

[George II]

8. I'll bet that high five was meant to say to trump, "this could have been you!"

Sometime soon, if not already, he'll be re-enacting this scene:

[MrsCoffee]

10. Yet somehow they did? No. There was a fuck ton of planning, stealing, hacking, bribing,

tampering and probably much darker shit than that.

Not just somehow they won.

Fuck sakes.

[Lonestarblue]

16. Absolutely agree.

I have never understood the almost universal assumption that Trump never planned to win the presidency. Too much effort was put into the data mining, stealing of emails, negative social media stories, and possibly the manipulation of votes in three key states. Trump always projects his actions on others, and he spent the last weeks before the election claiming that it was being rigged. It was—by those who planned all along to see him elected, including Russia and Trump himself. Trump correctly saw the presidency as a way to enormous enrichment of his family enterprise. He just expected that he would get away with his criminal and corrupt actions as he had his entire life in NY.

[Johnny2X2X]

11. This happens when you get in bed with gangsters

What is happening is Trump desperately wants to try to cover up his crimes, Russia on the other hand could care less about covering their crimes up, in fact they might be inclined to want to make it all public. Russia doesn’t have anything to lose, Trump does.

[colorado_ufo]

14. Putin is pissed that sanctions are still in place.

Donnie has yet to come through with the deal they made. Now Putin will put the squeeze harder and harder on him at every opportunity.

[erronis]

17. He looks under the sheets one last time and sees the horse's head - just before

the end of his movie.

[Farmer-Rick]

13. So, did the Saudis just get the OK to build a luxury hotel in Moscow?

Looks like they just agreed to some kind of deal.

[colorado_ufo]

15. The prince initiated that bro shake.

He is anxious to be recognized as just as big a strong man as Putin. After all, he murders journalists, too, and does it in nasty ways that rival Putin's.

[andym]

18. It was an accidental win.

Trump got lucky-- the Russians helped him more than expected with Wikileaks and targeted Facebook manipulation and then Comey chipped in to push him over the finish line. Because the GOP had spent years maliciously attacking Hillary, especially with Benghazi, the combined weight of the twin negative stories dragged her down on election day, giving Trump the victory.

[dajoki]

19. You are correct...

I don't think that comey gets enough credit for the outcome of the 2016 election.