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Make no mistake, the GOP leadership, the Christian Nationalists, the NRA, and Trump and his MAGA followers are all ultimately puppets of Putin. Weakening Democracy around the world, destroying NATO, and the destruction of the USA have always been his goals. He found some willing puppets, and some techniques that are working.
Spot on analysis. Putin has a very willing asset in Trump. Putin owns Trump. I wonder what it is that Putin has on Trump? Sexual? Financial? We may never know unless Putin tells us.
The 2024 US presidential election is literally the most important election since the beginning of America.
Choose wisely!
LOL Why would you trust anything Putin has to say? We know the whole "Hunter Laptop" thing was a "trumped up" lie to try to impeach Biden yet he just backed Biden!!! That is such an obvious ploy! No way Putin wants Biden in power especially after Biden publicly and officially castigated Putin for killing Navalny and supports Ukraine while Trump, by contrast, refuses to comment and wants to dismantle NATO. I mean, seriously, what could be more clear? Russians are laughing at duped Republicans because of Putin's successes with "Fifth Column" propaganda.
LOL Why would you trust anything Putin has to say? We know the whole "Hunter Laptop" thing was a "trumped up" lie to try to impeach Biden yet he just backed Biden!!! That is such an obvious ploy! No way Putin wants Biden in power especially after Biden publicly and officially castigated Putin for killing Navalny and supports Ukraine while Trump, by contrast, refuses to comment and wants to dismantle NATO. I mean, seriously, what could be more clear? Russians are laughing at duped Republicans because of Putin's successes with "Fifth Column" propaganda.
You might be right, but that may not be the case. Obama, Putin, and Biden play excellent international chess, like at the Masters level. Obama was ready to steal a move form Putin, and McConnell acted to protect Putin's interests and blocked Obama. Putin THINKS he is the best in the world, despite the fact that Biden stole a move from him in Ukraine. He is playing the long game, and expects to win.
Trump comes to the game and is not playing chess, not even checkers, he is playing tic-tac-toe and cheating at that. You never have any idea WHAT he might do, and neither does HE! When in office Trump was tipping the board and the world was at greater risk than it ever saw during the cold war! Our friends do not want Trump, but neither do our ENEMIES!
Better to have someone you might beat, but that will be gone in 4 years if you cannot, than a nutcase that might get us ALL killed and that we cannot get RID of!
Trump wants POTUS as dictator for life, and if he gets it we might not have to worry about climate change because we will not make it to see how that comes out!
Trump wants POTUS as dictator for life, and if he gets it we might not have to worry about climate change because we will not make it to see how that comes out!
Our friends do not want Trump, but neither do our ENEMIES!
You'd have to have rocks in your head to not believe that certain leaders (yes, plural) want Trump back in office.
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May I cordially suggest that what we are actually seeing is: "a very fundamental sea change" in both domestic and(!) international politics. Which is now being portrayed by those who realize that they are losing control as: "the actions of a maniacal dictator who must be stopped to save 'Our Democracy.™'"
Special counsel Robert Hur is expected to testify at a public hearing to the House Judiciary Committee today. I repeat a question I asked earlier in this thread: Should we the public get to hear the audio recordings Hur made of Biden during his investigation?
"Hur just confirmed that Biden had documents marked classified from when he was a senator. Some of those documents reportedly came from a secure SCIF, which would likely require Biden himself to remove them." https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/s...74683149275445
NBC (paraphrasing): According to Hur, Biden shared classified materials, as a private citizen, with his ghostwriter and got an 8M dollar advance on his book.
NBC (paraphrasing): According to Hur, Biden shared classified materials, as a private citizen, with his ghostwriter and got an 8M dollar advance on his book.
There was so much gold in that hearing, and this is what you got from it?
NBC (paraphrasing): According to Hur, Biden shared classified materials, as a private citizen, with his ghostwriter and got an 8M dollar advance on his book.
Except, the actual evidence and the testimony of the citizen and the writer do not support that conclusion. He REFERRED verbally to some documents when talking to those people. As far as I can tell, he never SHARED Federally classified documents them with anyone that we can document.
That said, I have not yet been able to view all of the available testimony myself. And I would like to.
I am dealing with a few things right now that are taking most of my time, so I may NEVER have time.
Argue it 1mil ways left, 1mil ways right, it does not matter in a 2-tier justice system. If you are not in that tier, you may be go to prison for breaking a window. If you're in that tier, doing crimes without recourse is a normal day affair.
I did not realize Biden had at least two lawyers at his interview helping with his memory problems. Probably the reason they won't release the audio tapes - can't have a confused old man fumbling around on tape.
"In his five-hour interview with special counsel Robert Hur, President Biden repeatedly mixed up dates, countries and the timeline of significant events, including the years his son Beau died and Donald Trump was elected, according to a transcript of the interview reviewed by Axios.
Why it matters: The transcript supports Hur's account that Biden had multiple mental lapses, despite recent pushback from the president and the White House.
Hur is testifying before Congress on Tuesday in his first public remarks since the report on Biden's handling of classified documents became public in February.
Zoom in: Over the course of the two-day interview, which took place in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Biden repeatedly asked for help remembering certain important dates — and his lawyers frequently stepped in.
"When did I announce for President [in 2019]?," he asked.
"If it was 2013 — when did I stop being vice president?"
"In 2009, am I still vice president?"
"Trump gets elected in November of 2017?," Biden asked, before someone noted it was November 2016.
Twice on the same day, Biden struggled to find the words for "fax machine."
"You see where there's a printer and there's a–what do they call it, the machine that–?" he asked until White House counsel Ed Siskel offered up "fax machine" in both instances.
Between the lines: After the report was released, Biden disputed Hur's statement that he didn't remember the year his son Beau Biden died.
"When I was asked the question, I thought to myself: It wasn't any of their damn business," Biden said in February.
The transcript, however, shows that Biden himself brought up his son, not Hur, and that he did have trouble recalling that Beau died in 2015 until White House lawyer Rachel Cotton helped.
While talking about the years 2017 and 2018, Biden said: "Remember, in this time frame, my son is — either been deployed or is dying" and adds: "And, and so what was happening, though — what month did Beau die? Oh, God, May 30 —" before Cotton offered that it was in 2015" https://www.axios.com/2024/03/12/bid...iew-transcript
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