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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 12:51 PM Feb 2017

Russian Parliament member pees himself over Trump finding "the necessary independence"

Jealous Putin orders Russian state media to stop fawning over Trump: sources

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The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that Russian officials are furious over Flynn’s resignation, saying that it’s a sign that Trump has been co-opted by the “Washington establishment.”

Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the foreign-affairs committee in the Russian parliament, called this “not just paranoia but something even worse.” On Facebook he wrote: “Either Trump hasn’t found the necessary independence and he’s been driven into a corner… or Russophobia has permeated the new administration from top to bottom.”

Another member of the Russian parliament, Alexei Pushkov, tweeted after the announcement: “It was not Flynn who was targeted but relations with Russia.” And then he really went on a rant:

“Flynn was ‘let go’ not because of his failure, but because of the aggressive ‘Russian for the Exit!’ newspaper noise; paranoia and witch hunt,” Pushkov tweeted. “Kicking out [Flynn] was the first act, the next target will be Trump himself.”


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/jealous-putin-orders-russian-state-media-to-stop-fawning-over-trump-sources/
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