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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe President of the United States is a Russian espionage agent.
why is no one saying that?
Priebus and other WH staff who tried to shut down the investigation into the Russian info. committed obstruction of justice, as did everyone who lied about their involvement.
Why is no one saying that?
I guess treason is out, since selling out your country for money is not covered, nor is Russia technically an enemy, altho it seems difficult to discuss being in a Cold War with an ally.
Thoughts?
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)(interesting he was even there)
and he looks like Fatty Arbuckle.
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)LisaM
(27,811 posts)While it's strange, being at the convention doesn't seem the worst thing in the world - influential people, other ambassadors (from what I've heard), etc.
But to be at a Trump rally is a horse of a different color.
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)LisaM
(27,811 posts)It's just startling.
Rhiannon12866
(205,327 posts)She really has been hitting it out of the park lately with these new revelations and she does not back off, just keeps promoting these important stories despite the latest distractions!
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)...were private citizens.
Methinks Manafort will roll on trump someday.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...tRump* seems to have more loyalty and fealty to Putin* and Russia than to the United States.
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Huge ego, easily manipulated.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Some ego shine, but it appears his handlers had considerable influence.
However, I will continue to trust that his nature will show again.
George II
(67,782 posts)...I suspect the SOTU will be a totally disaster. Look for the eyerolls of Pence and Ryan when he speaks.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)actually, did not watch, but did read a transcript.
George II
(67,782 posts)...all I've seen have been small pieces that have been run as part of news reports.
I can't stomach him.
Mr. Evil
(2,844 posts)Like having a weakness for deviant sexual desires and other warped pleasures.
All these smug republican traitors are in for a real shit-storm when the shit actually hits the fan. And it will! They don't seem to realize the dangerous game they're playing and who is actually making the rules and it isn't 45! Someone will get disappeared, someone will cough it up. Dominoes, anyone?
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)...Putty says HRC disrespected him when she called out that Russia elections weren't free and fair when she was SecState
elmac
(4,642 posts)that Putins main motivation for interfering with the election was payback for Bill Clinton bringing Poland into NATO which was in direct conflict with some Soviet breakup promise or agreement made by Bush Sr. Putin probably didn't think Americans were dumb enough to elect sniffles. Some ruskies in power already have buyers remorse.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,311 posts)as of today:
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
They have over 800,000 followers, so this should be entering the larger conversation soon.
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)are in the same exact category.
triron
(22,003 posts)What do you know about them (Rogue Potus staff)
Qutzupalotl
(14,311 posts)but some say they are psyops taken over by Bannon.
They claim to be several people taking turns posting at various hours of the day, usually not from the WH. They seem to exhibit different writing styles, consistent with their explanation that they are different people. Sometimes snarky, sometimes insightful.
Take what they say with a grain of salt. I find them interesting nevertheless.
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,705 posts)join the outrage.
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)hating black people, gays and liberals is more important to half of America than the survival of America itself.
I often wonder how much violence we would have seen if the Russians hadnt hacked the electoral systems in the various rust belt states thus stealing the election.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/states-major-election-hacking-228978
trof
(54,256 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Which is why the IC may be releasing things in bits and pieces.
So the press, the public and politicians can acclimate themselves.
By the time this is done, only a small number of people will still swallow Trump/Bannon/Breitbart's bullshit concerning this mess.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)my mood has been mostly gleeful since all the news broke, but once in awhile I think of how much damage he can do even in a short time, and shudder.
coco22
(1,258 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)dlk
(11,566 posts)Although he's not bright enough to be an assassin, given his brown-nosing of Putin, Trump could very well be a Russian agent.
I have seen both versions and it really sounds like he is. Beware!!
Cha
(297,220 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)now he's just an open book, open border, stand down for Vladdy kind of guy
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,870 posts)lastlib
(23,226 posts)He and his crew are too deeply in bed with Russian connections for anything else to be true.
Sedition might be a makeable case, though. Certainly Racketeering. And if the GOPeee isn't a corrupt organization, then neither is the Mafia. So there's RICO.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and it appears that the "blackmail" they say they have has to do with with years of money laundering.
more and more people are putting the pieces together.
lastlib
(23,226 posts)Russia has HUGE undeveloped oil reserves in Siberia. They need ExxonMobil (Tillerson) to develop them. They need the Crimea to give them a warm-water seaport to pass it thru to market. They got it, but US sanctions put a big smack on 'em. They need 'em lifted, and OrangeTurd is just the guy to do it. They had to intervene in our election to keep Hillary out, b/c she would've hit 'em harder. Rosneft( the Russian state oil company) recently sold millions of shares of its stock to a Cayman Islands shell company (*undisclosed investors* but you can BET OrangeTurd is getting a piece of it).
Follow the Benjamins.....
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)They got into this thing thinking they could make a bunch of money. The Income taxes will tell the tale.
Hekate
(90,683 posts)...have been actually "turned" by Kislyak, as he is reputed to be incredibly skilled at doing that.
Trump is being managed and manipulated, no doubt by a combination of cash and blackmail. I wonder what kind of leash the others are on?
As for Russia not being an enemy, I think it's pretty clear the Intelligence professionals consider Russia hostile. I think Putin is comfortable with the dynamics of a Cold War -- but the actions of interfering with our election(s) and that if other nations really was an act of war -- just cyber-war, which we are all going to have to figure out how to wage pretty quickly before every Western nation finds itself "electing" a RW white nationalist for president or prime minister.