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HipChick

(25,485 posts)
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 05:10 PM Feb 2017

Russia: Trump Has 'Betrayed' Russia


Rut-Roh..Russia Govt. also claimed they did not watch the Presser yesterday..


Early setbacks leave Russians wondering if ‘f*ggot’ Trump is the tough leader they once believed

President Donald Trump has faced multiple setbacks in his first month in office, and it’s leading some of his fans in Russia to question if he’s really the tough leader they once believed.

As Foreign Policy notes, the tone against Trump has shifted over the past week, as many Russian politicians are questioning whether he really has the will to take on his political opposition, both in terms of his rivals in the Democratic Party and within the intelligence community.
In fact, one popular picture that’s making rounds on Russian social media this week is a photograph of graffiti sprayed on the side of a garbage depot that reads, “Trump is a f*ggot.”

Moscow-based photographer Sergey Sukhorukov was among the Russians who shared the photo on his Facebook page this week, where he also wrote that Trump had “betrayed” Russia despite the fact that the country had “believed” in him. In particular, he ranted against a statement from White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer this week saying that Russia should give Crimea back to Ukraine.
Elsewhere, Foreign Policy reports that right-wing politician Nikolai Travkin was deeply unhappy with Trump’s decision to fire former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn, and he said that Trump’s decision to ax the Russian-friendly adviser meant that he was now “close to failure.”

And Leonid Slutsky, head of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said this week that he and his colleagues had gotten ahead of themselves by assuming that Trump would carry out Russia’s foreign policy wishes instead of his own country’s.

“We were too early in our decision, made with absolute sympathy towards President Trump’s constructive rhetoric, that he would somehow be pro-Russian,” he said.

Earlier this week, we also learned that Russian President Vladimir Putin had instructed state media to stop being quite so effusive in its praise for Trump, as one Russian reporter told Bloomberg TV that “the fate of Russia-American relations is much less predictable than it was just a few weeks ago.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/early-setbacks-leave-russians-wondering-if-fggot-trump-is-the-tough-leader-they-once-believed/
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Aviation Pro

(12,140 posts)
2. Upload poised....
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 05:14 PM
Feb 2017

....Internet open, make ready to fire the pee tape and the tax returns.

The fucking clown is going down.

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
13. That's my read of the situation as well.
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 05:52 PM
Feb 2017

The cat is out of the bag. We know that the Russians have the goods on him and I mean more than just sex tapes. In spite of his denials, I still believe he owes them money and I don't believe for a second that Putin will allow whatever debt is owed to go unpaid.

50 Shades Of Blue

(9,954 posts)
3. Sounds like a disinformation campaign to make people think that
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 05:16 PM
Feb 2017

Russia and Trump aren't really likethis when they sure as fuck still are.

manicraven

(901 posts)
4. Comical! They're trying to distance themselves in order to save DJT from going down in flames.
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 05:21 PM
Feb 2017

'Cause if he goes down, they don't get their trillion dollars when the sanctions are lifted. They'll also take loads of blame for causing all of this via their meddling and will have both the Republicans and the Democrats furious with them and will not be getting their way. They just didn't expect DJT to bungle so magnificently that there are daily calls for his impeachment and investigations starting up, so here they come to his rescue because they need to prop him back up!

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
14. I presume our Intel people are still listening in on any communications between tRump or
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 05:55 PM
Feb 2017

people in his administration. And that bunch of nimrods weren't smart enough to stay off the phone last year so does anyone think they're any smarter now??

👮‍♀️👮🏾👮‍♀️ Lock them up! 👮‍♀️👮🏾👮‍♀️

denverbill

(11,489 posts)
5. I think they are just playing down their love for him right now.
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 05:25 PM
Feb 2017

They were so obviously fawning over their puppet and realized they screwed up. Now they have to pretend they don't like him as much so they can use him more stealthily.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
7. Thanks HipChick
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 05:32 PM
Feb 2017

Perhaps you would like to join those of US who plan to send rump a postcard, with the new Superwoman stamp.

We will time them to arrive on the Ides of March, the 15th. We could use some comical and non-threatening language. Any suggestions?

Cha

(297,029 posts)
8. I take it putin has more control over his state media than trump
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 05:34 PM
Feb 2017

has over here. fake fox was always in the rw controlled.

Wait what? trump isn't pro putin? when did that happen? Are they throwing a fake?

rainbow4321

(9,974 posts)
16. Russia doesn't know know how to deal with free press
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 07:16 PM
Feb 2017

Did they forget that the US actually has media that is not state-controlled (well, minus Fox News).

They thought all of this would stay hush-hush....and now it's not.

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