General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary Clinton told America that Donald Trump is a puppet of Putin
Link to tweet
She told American voters plainly at the third and final presidential debate about Russias blatant interference in this years election, but did so in the collegial, high-minded spirit of American politics without directly accusing her opponent or threatening to lock him up as did the demagogue Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton delivered her next words in the icy manner of a world stateswoman, expressing not only the gravity of the situation, but the favoritism and the danger that it represented.
Its a message that Trump needed to shout down. Because it is true.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/watch-hillary-clinton-tried-to-warn-us-about-russia_us_584c1bf2e4b0171331051102
LisaM
(27,830 posts)There is still an element of the hard left that ansolutely won't acknowledge Russian interference in the 2016 election, and in particular, against her.
I can't help but wish Obama's administration would have spoken up. It was the right thing to do and it doesn't matter who they thought would win the election. Doing the right thing can always be a good choice.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)delisen
(6,044 posts)Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Link to tweet
?s=20
dlk
(11,576 posts)Instead, we have a Russian asset in the White House.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/world/make-russia-great-again-if-trump-lifts-sanctions-putin-could-finally-establish-his-country-as-an-equal-to-u-s&pubdate=2016-12-03
?itok%3Dvn7Kgy9i
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)whether they are a pastor or an ex-marine or a school teacher or principal it's all the same. They will not believe. They used to be your friends and classmates but now you don't recognize them. What happened to them? What changed them? Was it the greed for money? I'm so sad I have lost so many friends over this orange Julius....
I know how you feel. I'm still trying to understand it. Are they brainwashed? I'm looking forward to the day Trump is out of office. Hopefully the next President will be a decent man or woman. Someone with hope who inspires good.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)so will they be; all gone! 🥴
ffr
(22,671 posts)mastermind
(229 posts)they would be fine with any fascist president, even putin, so they can continue to live their putrid, fascist lives in a capitalistic plutocracy.
Farmer-Rick
(10,207 posts)GWC58
(2,678 posts)wiggs
(7,817 posts)broken public discourse that should have otherwise been the antibody to a foreign invasion.
Took 40 years of right wing think tanks, consolidation of wealth and power, consolidation of media, constant dumbing down of issues, polarization, fomenting fear and hate to get to a point where an obviously poisonous bad actor could be elected into public office and IT TAKES THREE YEARS for the public to process it, discuss it with seriousness (still not on all media)...and still outcome of the battle to come is uncertain.
The root of this is clear...republicans are at the source of it en mass but so are all of those who trade duty for greed and power.
An amazing and chilling story. We have to not only reverse the course of the last two years but also undo 40 years of groundwork that got us here.
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)she was then being briefed as a presidential candidate about national security issues. Which is one of the reasons I think there could be some bombshells the FBI has we don't know.
Another is the look on Feinstein's face after a briefing early in the Trump admin. She looked scared.
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)"NotAPuppet! NotAPuppet! You'reThePuppet!
He sounds like he's seven years old, in a sandbox.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)She warned us and his defensive response was confirmation imo.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,207 posts)the FBI was tying itself in knots over her e-mails. Their leader even wrote a letter setting Trump up with an October surprise....how special. All The While a f*cking Traitor was conning all of them.
Then he turns around and fires the guy who gave him his October surprise. If he had NOT fired Comey, I believe that the FBI would still be going on about Hillary's e-mails.
If they had been doing their job, we would NOT have had president a**hole Trump and the first nude lady right now.
ananda
(28,876 posts)As I've said, we've known this for over two years!
Texin
(2,597 posts)She was right on both counts. Perhaps, the only thing she got wrong was the depth of his depravity, the total immersion he is engaged in in self-delusion, and the lengths he would eventually go to serve his Russian master(s).
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Link to tweet
?s=20
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)But those emails and something about her somebody didn't like, so why should anyone listen to her?
BENGHAZI !!! All of us listened, all of us knew the stakes. Sadly many didnt, others didnt seem to care, talking to you Susan Sarandon & Rosario Dawson, just to name a few. 😡
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Link to tweet
?s=20