Trump-Putin bromance is now a NO-mance: "Kremlin-backed media turns on Trump." #WhyVladWhy #Sad

[Miles Archer]

Kremlin-backed media turns on Trump
News outlets funded by Putin’s government rooted for Trump’s election but now relish the chaotic first weeks of his administration.
By MICHAEL CROWLEY 03/07/17 05:06 AM EST



“Sessions Scandal: ‘U.S Headed to Constitutional Crisis,’” reads a March 3 headline on the website of the Kremlin-funded English language network RT.

“Immigrants See American Dream Fade in Wake of Surge Hate Crimes,” Sputnik News, another English language outlet bankrolled by the Kremlin, reported the same day.

“America is in the grips of hatred,” the Russian television commentator Dmitry Kiselyov told viewers of the Rossiya 1 network on Sunday night. The popular host, appointed directly by Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggested the political discord could lead to violence in gun-friendly America — “a dangerous combination with free-flowing firearms,” he said.

It’s not that the Kremlin-controlled outlets which all but explicitly rooted for Trump to defeat Hillary Clinton last fall have changed their view of the New York mogul. It’s that Moscow’s main goal was always to undermine the U.S. political system, regardless of who is in the White House, experts said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/donald-trump-russia-media-235755

[yankeepants]

1. That poor horse.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

2. I think they achieved their goal. n/t

[WePurrsevere]

3. Who here is truly surprised by this?

It’s that Moscow’s main goal was always to undermine the U.S. political system, regardless of who is in the White House, experts said.

IMO the same can be said for the Leninist, Bannon and his pseudo news site Breitbart. I'd go even further and include the RW & Republican/corp owned/run media.

[Martin Eden]

4. "Undermine the US political system "

Maybe Putin & Bannon are the real bromancers.

[March 4th]

5. Russia wants to Undermine our Political System?

Well blow me down!

[Miles Archer]

12. Welcome to DU, March 4th.

[March 4th]

13. Thanks

But how did you know I was drinking beer at the moment?

[Mr. Ected]

6. Putin planted a bomb to blow the USA sky high

He probably didn't realize that Trump was not only a short fuse, but an accelerant as well.

[Hortensis]

7. Suspect 45's secretly pleased by that "flattering" photo.

Don't see any explicit attacks on 45, though. As bromances go, this might just be a pettish fuss, easily kissed and made up--even if ultimately doomed to fail.

[Progressive dog]

8. The goal of Putin has always been obvious,

I want to know what Trump and his co-conspirators get for selling out their country.

[lastlib]

9. Stock in Rosneft, apparently........?

a yuge cut of those big Siberian oil reserves that ExxonTillerson were after.

[NewJeffCT]

11. Yes

I think it was 19% or something like that? 19% of $500 billion is a YUGE amount of money.

[retrowire]

10. Methinks this is of further aid to Trump

Now his supporters can say, "see Russia hates him! How could they be in collusion!"

And we're left looking like conspiracy theorists trying to explain it.

Sigh...

[Botany]

14. This is a calculated move to help Trump

n/t

[Thrill]

15. I don't buy it

[bdamomma]

16. putin must love

all this he is back in the saddle again. Putin is just sitting back laughing at the US.

[Adrahil]

17. It was win-win for Putin.

If Trump's connections stayed hidden Putin could turn the screws and really clean-up in Eastern Europe and Syria.

If he is exposed (as he know has been), then he has a petulant man-child in the White House that he can manipulate and/or roll over.