And he also knows that even if the Republican base turns on Putin, Trump will not.
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If Trump ever openly utters real, i.e. serious, criticism of Putin, the blackmail/kompromat will be unleashed and Trump will be a dead duck. That’d be worth seeing.
Let’s recall what exactly Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani were doing in Ukraine
The New York Times revealed that handwritten ledgers recovered from Yanukovych’s estate showed nearly $13 million in previously undisclosed payments to Manafort from Yanukovych and his pro-Russian party. Manafort was pushed out of his job as Trump’s campaign chairman less than a week later.
After Trump won the election, the Senate report says, Manafort and Kilimnik worked together on a proposed “plan” for Ukraine that would create an Autonomous Republic of Donbas in separatist-run southeast Ukraine, on the Russian border. Manafort went so far as to work with a pollster on a survey on public attitudes to Yanukovych, the deposed president. The plan only would need a “wink” from the new U.S. president, Kilimnik wrote to Manafort in an email.
Manafort continued to work on the “plan” even after he had been indicted on charges of bank fraud and conspiracy, according to the Senate report.
With Manafort’s conviction in 2018, Rudy Giuliani came to the fore as the most Ukraine-connected person close to President Trump. Giuliani had long jetted around Eastern Europe. He’d hung out in Kyiv, supporting former professional boxer Vitali Klitschko’s run for mayor. One of Giuliani’s clients for his law firm happened to be Russia’s state oil producer, Rosneft.
Giuliani ended up working with a pair of émigré business partners, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, to make contacts in Ukraine with corrupt and questionable prosecutors, in an effort to turn up “dirt” on Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, who had served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company. Giuliani also worked to sow doubt about the ledger that had revealed the secret payments to Manafort, meeting with his buddies in a literally smoke-filled room.
Tucker wants his audience to just forget about what he said last week after ‘pivot’ on Ukraine
Tucker Carlson is utterly baffled that people would think he is rooting for Vladimir Putin and Russia in its war on Ukraine. “You know, it’s such an awful thing to say,” he said on his Fox News show Monday, after playing a clip of Congressman Eric Swalwell saying he and other Republicans were on Putin’s side. “We hesitated to play that, even—it’s very common, you hear it every day. The question is: Why are they saying that? It doesn’t make any sense.”
Gaslighting, of course, has become Carlson’s specialty. In reality, Carlson spent most of the month prior to the invasion praising Putin and echoing Russian propaganda: running down Ukraine, deriding it as a “State Department client state”—not a democracy, but “a tyranny”—and claiming that Russia just wants to keep its borders secure, everything the fault of Joe Biden. So much so that he became the hero of Russian state television, where his rants were translated and replayed, and he was praised as an astute American.
Now that the horror is hitting home, Carlson suddenly has realized that he backed the wrong horse and is scurrying hard to dig his way out. The first step in that, of course, is gaslighting his audience about what he had been saying just the week before, and blaming the war on Putin now—yet somehow it’s still all Joe Biden’s fault. Those clips have yet to appear on Russian TV.
The major tone shift occurred Friday, a day after the invasion: “It’s a tragedy, because war always is a tragedy, and the closer you get to it, the more horrifying it seems,” he said. He also squarely put the onus on Russia and Putin: “He is to blame for what we’re seeing tonight in Ukraine.”
‘John Bolton absolutely eviscerated pro-Putin’ claims about Trump and Russia
“As we heard time and time again, every time Congress passed sanctions against Russia, Donald Trump was the one that his advisers were having to drag him along,” Scarborough added. “He was constantly complaining and blackmailing Ukraine. As John Bolton said, his national security adviser said, Trump was the one that was blackmailing Ukraine and didn’t want to send those weapons because he was trying to dig up dirt. He was trying to get servers.”
A stunning number of Trump’s closest associates had deep ties to the Kremlin. The significance of this cannot be overstated
Russian intelligence targeted voter rolls in all 50 states, which is not thought to have had consequences, but demonstrated the reach and ambition of online interference. This weekend, British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr said on Twitter, “We failed to acknowledge Russia had staged a military attack on the West. We called it ’meddling.’ We used words like ‘interference.’ It wasn’t. It was warfare. We’ve been under military attack for eight years now.”
A stunning number of Trump’s closest associates had deep ties to the Russian government. They included Paul Manafort, who during his years in Ukraine worked to build Russian influence there and served as a consultant to the Kremlin-backed Ukrainian president who was driven out of the country – and into Russia by popular protest in 2014 (the Russian line is that this was an illegitimate coup and thus a justification for invasion is still widely repeated). Manafort was, during his time in the campaign, sharing data with Russian intelligence agent Konstantin V Kilimnik, while campaign advisor Jeff Sessions was sharing information with the Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Manafort, Donald Trump Jr and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner held an illegal meeting in Trump Tower with a Kremlin-linked lawyer on June 9, 2016, where they were promised damaging material on the Clinton campaign.
After being seated next to Putin while being paid to speak at a dinner celebrating RT, Russia’s news propaganda outlet, Michael Flynn briefly became Trump’s national security advisor. He was soon was fired for lying to White House officials and later pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.
Ike didn’t boast. He was a solid leader who earned the respect of all that served with him, even foreign commanders. Even Field Montgomery, albeit grudgingly.
Being one of my heroes, I take offense at Dwight D. Eisenhower being characterized as ‘strutting’ on V,E, Day, not that he didn’t have every right to do that having led the Allies to victory against staggering odds. He just wasn’t the sort of person to do that sort of thing.
He is far more accurately characterized by this letter he wrote prior to the D-Day invasion which would be published should it fail:
“Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”
I am sure what he felt on V.E. Day was simply a tremendous surge of relief but at the same time great sorrow over the troops who did not survive the war in Europe that he had led into battle.
The likes of DDE, both as soldier and statesman, will not likely be seen again.
braindead Premium Member about 2 years ago
Trump still idolizes Putin.
And he also knows that even if the Republican base turns on Putin, Trump will not.
.
If Trump ever openly utters real, i.e. serious, criticism of Putin, the blackmail/kompromat will be unleashed and Trump will be a dead duck. That’d be worth seeing.
rekam Premium Member about 2 years ago
So glad Trump Isn’t our president now.
Packratjohn Premium Member about 2 years ago
Most pigeons are smarter than most politicians, and trump.
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Turns out that Putin also appears to be a rotten chess player.
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Traitor Trump is always playing with himself.
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Let’s recall what exactly Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani were doing in Ukraine
The New York Times revealed that handwritten ledgers recovered from Yanukovych’s estate showed nearly $13 million in previously undisclosed payments to Manafort from Yanukovych and his pro-Russian party. Manafort was pushed out of his job as Trump’s campaign chairman less than a week later.After Trump won the election, the Senate report says, Manafort and Kilimnik worked together on a proposed “plan” for Ukraine that would create an Autonomous Republic of Donbas in separatist-run southeast Ukraine, on the Russian border. Manafort went so far as to work with a pollster on a survey on public attitudes to Yanukovych, the deposed president. The plan only would need a “wink” from the new U.S. president, Kilimnik wrote to Manafort in an email.
Manafort continued to work on the “plan” even after he had been indicted on charges of bank fraud and conspiracy, according to the Senate report.
With Manafort’s conviction in 2018, Rudy Giuliani came to the fore as the most Ukraine-connected person close to President Trump. Giuliani had long jetted around Eastern Europe. He’d hung out in Kyiv, supporting former professional boxer Vitali Klitschko’s run for mayor. One of Giuliani’s clients for his law firm happened to be Russia’s state oil producer, Rosneft.
Giuliani ended up working with a pair of émigré business partners, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, to make contacts in Ukraine with corrupt and questionable prosecutors, in an effort to turn up “dirt” on Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, who had served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company. Giuliani also worked to sow doubt about the ledger that had revealed the secret payments to Manafort, meeting with his buddies in a literally smoke-filled room.
https://www.rawstory.com/giuliani-ukraine-2656824016/
The Traitor Trump admin worked with Russia to undermine the Ukraine and the USA.
Zebrastripes about 2 years ago
Great cartoon, artistry, and nailed it with the message!
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
John Bolton: “sanctions were imposed w Trump complaining about it, saying we were being too hard”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/1/2083225/-John-Bolton-sanctions-were-imposed-w-Trump-complaining-about-it-saying-we-were-being-too-hard?utm_campaign=trending
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Tucker wants his audience to just forget about what he said last week after ‘pivot’ on Ukraine
Tucker Carlson is utterly baffled that people would think he is rooting for Vladimir Putin and Russia in its war on Ukraine. “You know, it’s such an awful thing to say,” he said on his Fox News show Monday, after playing a clip of Congressman Eric Swalwell saying he and other Republicans were on Putin’s side. “We hesitated to play that, even—it’s very common, you hear it every day. The question is: Why are they saying that? It doesn’t make any sense.”
Gaslighting, of course, has become Carlson’s specialty. In reality, Carlson spent most of the month prior to the invasion praising Putin and echoing Russian propaganda: running down Ukraine, deriding it as a “State Department client state”—not a democracy, but “a tyranny”—and claiming that Russia just wants to keep its borders secure, everything the fault of Joe Biden. So much so that he became the hero of Russian state television, where his rants were translated and replayed, and he was praised as an astute American.
Now that the horror is hitting home, Carlson suddenly has realized that he backed the wrong horse and is scurrying hard to dig his way out. The first step in that, of course, is gaslighting his audience about what he had been saying just the week before, and blaming the war on Putin now—yet somehow it’s still all Joe Biden’s fault. Those clips have yet to appear on Russian TV.
The major tone shift occurred Friday, a day after the invasion: “It’s a tragedy, because war always is a tragedy, and the closer you get to it, the more horrifying it seems,” he said. He also squarely put the onus on Russia and Putin: “He is to blame for what we’re seeing tonight in Ukraine.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/1/2083266/-Tucker-wants-his-audience-to-just-forget-about-what-he-said-last-week-after-pivot-on-Ukraine?utm_campaign=recent
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Trump’s Truth Social team has ‘fallen on its face’ – and the former president isn’t even using his own app
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-truth-social-app/
Pravda = Truth in Russian
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
‘John Bolton absolutely eviscerated pro-Putin’ claims about Trump and Russia
“As we heard time and time again, every time Congress passed sanctions against Russia, Donald Trump was the one that his advisers were having to drag him along,” Scarborough added. “He was constantly complaining and blackmailing Ukraine. As John Bolton said, his national security adviser said, Trump was the one that was blackmailing Ukraine and didn’t want to send those weapons because he was trying to dig up dirt. He was trying to get servers.”
https://www.rawstory.com/john-bolton-donald-trump-2656824534/
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Trucker convoy protest in Washington DC flops as no-one shows up
Organisers had expected thousands of people to attend Freedom Convoy event
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trucker-convoy-washington-dc-protest-b2026209.html
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
It’s time to confront the Trump-Putin network
A stunning number of Trump’s closest associates had deep ties to the Kremlin. The significance of this cannot be overstated
Russian intelligence targeted voter rolls in all 50 states, which is not thought to have had consequences, but demonstrated the reach and ambition of online interference. This weekend, British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr said on Twitter, “We failed to acknowledge Russia had staged a military attack on the West. We called it ’meddling.’ We used words like ‘interference.’ It wasn’t. It was warfare. We’ve been under military attack for eight years now.”A stunning number of Trump’s closest associates had deep ties to the Russian government. They included Paul Manafort, who during his years in Ukraine worked to build Russian influence there and served as a consultant to the Kremlin-backed Ukrainian president who was driven out of the country – and into Russia by popular protest in 2014 (the Russian line is that this was an illegitimate coup and thus a justification for invasion is still widely repeated). Manafort was, during his time in the campaign, sharing data with Russian intelligence agent Konstantin V Kilimnik, while campaign advisor Jeff Sessions was sharing information with the Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Manafort, Donald Trump Jr and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner held an illegal meeting in Trump Tower with a Kremlin-linked lawyer on June 9, 2016, where they were promised damaging material on the Clinton campaign.
After being seated next to Putin while being paid to speak at a dinner celebrating RT, Russia’s news propaganda outlet, Michael Flynn briefly became Trump’s national security advisor. He was soon was fired for lying to White House officials and later pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/02/time-to-confront-trump-putin-network
librarylady59 about 2 years ago
This is pretty good. I chuckled while seeing the truth of it.
Scoutmaster77 about 2 years ago
Ike didn’t boast. He was a solid leader who earned the respect of all that served with him, even foreign commanders. Even Field Montgomery, albeit grudgingly.
Bill D. Kat Premium Member about 2 years ago
Being one of my heroes, I take offense at Dwight D. Eisenhower being characterized as ‘strutting’ on V,E, Day, not that he didn’t have every right to do that having led the Allies to victory against staggering odds. He just wasn’t the sort of person to do that sort of thing.
He is far more accurately characterized by this letter he wrote prior to the D-Day invasion which would be published should it fail:
“Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”
I am sure what he felt on V.E. Day was simply a tremendous surge of relief but at the same time great sorrow over the troops who did not survive the war in Europe that he had led into battle.
The likes of DDE, both as soldier and statesman, will not likely be seen again.