Mike Pompeo Just Used Russian Propaganda At Press Conference

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Trump and Pompeo are using a conspiracy theory of Russian origin to put more pressure on Ukraine to try to get them to investigate the Bidens. It is vital for Trump’s 2020 reelection hopes that Russia be cleared so that they will be free to interfere in the election next year to help Donald Trump.
The Secretary of State just stood up before the cameras on national television and gave his support to Trump’s attempt to solicit foreign election interference by repeating Russian propaganda.
Ukraine did not hack the DNC, or interfere in the 2016 election. There is no server. It is all a piece of conspiracy theory propaganda pushed by Russia to attack Ukraine and give them more room to attack the United States in 2020.

To read more:

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/11/26/mike-pompeo-russian-propaganda.html

And Pompeo's lies will be repeated by the GOP, and FOX.

[BigmanPigman]

1. All their talking points come from Putin, their real leader.

I wish they would all move to Russia since they love him so fucking much!

[guillaumeb]

2. Putin really should hire smarter double agents.

He can afford better than Trump.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Maybe being a stupid fool it just what Putin desires.

[ArtTownsend]

5. Putin is Russia's leader, not America's, last I checked.

[BigmanPigman]

6. He is the unspoken leader of the GOP.

Currently it seems that they have changed their defense and are saying it outright and often in their support of Putin over the constitution. He is their leader and they are saying so by repeating Putin's talking points right and left to the media. It has increased a lot over the past few weeks even. I expect it to increase even more. They are enabling Putin and not our democracy.

[ArtTownsend]

7. According to whom?

[BigmanPigman]

12. My ears and their words when they speak are the proof.

Add that to most of the reporters covering them. Fiona Hill even told the GOP members of the committee that she wished they would stop pushing Putin's agenda and talking points.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/politics/ukraine-russia-interference.html

[ArtTownsend]

15. I know what the narrative is. Don't gaslight me. Americans put Trump in office, not Putin.

[guillaumeb]

8. Putin is a crooked oligarch.

Trump is a would be crooked oligarch.

Of the two, Putin is far smarter.

[ArtTownsend]

9. OK, but Putin is not in charge of the Trump administration.

Or the US Republican Party.

[guillaumeb]

11. There is the Putin/NRA connection.

And the well documented Russia/GOP/2016 connection.

And the Deutsche Bank/Trump connection.

And the evidence of Russian mobsters and oligarchs paying far above list price for Trump condos.

And the McConnell/NRA/Russian money connection.

And the McConnell/Rusal/refusal to impose sanctions nexus.

[ArtTownsend]

18. Republicans are corrupt and love money and power. True.

[guillaumeb]

10. If you are a believer in power politics,

as Putin is, seizing Ukraine would be a huge win for Putin.

And, to your second point, and third, Putin's seizure of Crimea fits.

Who do you trust?

[ArtTownsend]

13. I trust people who believe that democracy begins at home and aren't so fixated on grand geopolitics

Perhaps that makes me provincial, but I don’t care.

[guillaumeb]

14. Democracy can begin at home.

The globe is my home.

[ArtTownsend]

16. Good luck.

[guillaumeb]

17. And to you as well.

[jberryhill]

20. Classic talking points

I remember when this place was crawling with "Ukrainians are Nazis" propaganda.

Are there far-right nutjobs in Ukraine? Yes, like many places in eastern Europe.

But what is particularly amusing is how de-nazification was the justification for continued Soviet domination of East Germany for decades.

Same shit, different day.

[guillaumeb]

21. And, ironically enough,

many very fine Trump supporters are actually Nazis.

But in this case, no matter one's thoughts on isolationism versus intervention, the Ukraine story is Russian disinformation in action.

[dalton99a]

19. Kick