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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas everyone just forgotten this from 2016? ...
Trump campaign guts GOPs anti-Russia stance on UkraineWAPO: By Josh Rogin July 18, 2016
The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform wont call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-campaign-guts-gops-anti-russia-stance-on-ukraine/2016/07/18/98adb3b0-4cf3-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html
As I recall, it was the ONLY change trump made to the GOP platform after securing the nomination. Isn't this kind of important to ponder NOW, given that the White House is trying to wipe off all of their fans?
It seems pretty clear to me that Putin was directing trump's foreign policy well before the election. And I understand they eventually DID receive lethal weapons as part of the assistance package, but that was after political pressure - and likely approved by Putin playing a longer game.
Fucking with Ukraine seems to have been pretty high on trump's gift list to Vlad.
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Has everyone just forgotten this from 2016? ... (Original Post)
Whiskeytide
Nov 2019
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IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)1. Read this last night
All Putin All Roads All every Time
Botany
(70,504 posts)2. Fun fact
Guess who else was in the room or close by when Manafort, the Trump Campaign people, Ambassador Kislyak,
and other Russians when they talked about changing the Platform to make it more Putin/Ukraine thug friendly?
Mitch McConnell. At that point McConnell knew "the fix was in."
triron
(22,002 posts)3. I bet he did as well. So did Trump.
Botany
(70,504 posts)4. Waterboard Mitch's ass. Have him sing like a birdy and then send him to the Super-Max Fed. in CO.
About Russia fucking with our elections: Ryan knew, Mitch knew, McCarthy knew, Pence knew,
and Session knew that the fix was in for 2016.
triron
(22,002 posts)8. Also Trump of course.
UpInArms
(51,283 posts)6. Merrick Garland
How could Moscow Mitch have known a Democratic candidate would not be in office?
UpInArms
(51,283 posts)5. It was the alarm bell for me
When I heard that ...I knew something horrible was coming at us
malaise
(268,993 posts)7. Add Paul Manafort to the mix
Lock them all up
triron
(22,002 posts)9. Bet Putin knew.