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 Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:54 pm Post subject: In Russia he LOVE putin, Genius to right |
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We know Trump was doing Putins bidding all 4 years. To prove it when the world in crises from Putins attack his Biiitch calls him a genius. When we are essentially at war with the dictator with his finger on launch of nuclear weapons this traitor gives him the high five.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/one-tweet-that-perfectly-sums-up-the-gop-s-laughable-ukraine-hypocrisy/ar-AAUhL6g
One tweet that perfectly sums up the GOP's laughable Ukraine hypocrisy
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arly Thursday Moscow time, Russian President Vladimir Putin began what could become the biggest ground conflict in Europe since World War II. With sirens sounding in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and reports of explosions in multiple cities, it’s more important than ever to put politics aside here at home and present a unified front abroad. Yet while some leading Republicans have rightly put country over party, too many, led by the former president (and the party’s current leader), are trying to use this moment to score cheap political points by siding with our adversaries.
This week, we’ve watched former President Donald Trump openly root for Putin, Fox News host Tucker Carlson feed his viewers daily diatribes apologizing for Russia’s autocratic strongman and the House GOP leadership turn a mundane presidential snapshot into a preposterous symbol of purported weakness for America’s president.
Sadly, this is nothing new. Republicans have become masters of the hypocritical art of politicizing national security in recent decades, dating back to at least 9/11.
I know a thing or two about how dangerous politicization of American national security can be. I was a young civil servant in the Bush administration’s State Department when the World Trade Center was attacked. This moment of national unity was sullied somewhat by President George W. Bush and his partisan allies, who used war as a political issue throughout the 2002 midterms.
“We can go to the country on this issue because they trust the Republican Party to do a better job of protecting and strengthening America's military might and thereby protecting America," Bush adviser Karl Rove said at the time. This despite the fact that these very Democrats opposed Bush’s misbegotten military strategy to begin with.
Calling Democrats weak on terrorism may have helped Republicans win the elections that year, but positioning themselves as brawny avengers would cost America dearly. In March 2003, America invaded Iraq in what would become one of the country’s gravest strategic mistakes in decades. Thousands of soldiers died, and trillions of U.S. dollars were wasted.
Later, when President Barack Obama took the reins in the White House, in no small part because of his opposition to the Iraq War, Republicans lambasted him for seeking a diplomatic arrangement to withdraw U.S. troops.
The disingenuousness has continued. If Democrats push for diplomacy, they are liable to be labeled enablers of terrorism and corrupt regimes, even if, in reality, unprovoked U.S. aggression has arguably hurt our global standing and created more national security problems than it has solved. But now, we are seeing the opposite dynamic play out, as a Democratic president is being criticized for standing up to a demonstrably despotic autocrat.
As tanks roll through Ukrainian streets, we are once again watching GOP leaders divide instead of unify. For Trump and Carlson, Putin isn’t just a political role model. He is a symbol they can use to troll their “true” adversaries — the current American president and his supporters.
This is almost as reprehensible as it is dangerous. Statements of support for Putin’s “genius” only make sense if the speaker of those words values despots over democrats. Meanwhile, America is fighting to maintain our democracy at home. |
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-putin-savvy-genius/
Yes, Trump Called Putin’s Ukraine Strategy ‘Savvy’ and ‘Genius’
However, the former U.S. president did not publicly condone the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-claims-once-warned-friend-023203603.html
But Trump just praised Putin’s invasion days ago. And John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, has accused Trump of setting the stage for Putin’s invasion by constantly criticizing Ukraine and delaying arms shipments to the nation — and lavishing praise on Putin.
Trump “did not” take a tough stance on Putin, Bolton said earlier this week on Newsmax.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ex-rand-paul-aide-pardoned-by-trump-is-charged-with-funneling-russian-money-into-2016-election/ar-AAUKBId
Aformer campaign staffer and the grandson-in-law of US Senator Rand Paul who received a presidential pardon from former President Donald Trump has been charged with directing Russian money into the 2016 presidential election, according to the US Department of Justice.
| Quote: | Aformer campaign staffer and the grandson-in-law of US Senator Rand Paul who received a presidential pardon from former President Donald Trump has been charged with directing Russian money into the 2016 presidential election, according to the US Department of Justice.
Business Insider reports that Jesse Benton, Mr Paul's former aide, "conspired to illegally funnel thousands of dollars of foreign money from a Russian foreign national" into the 2016 campaign.
He also managed Senator Mitch McConnell's 2014 campaign.
Mr Benton received a $100,000 wire transfer from an unnamed Russian national in October of 2016, according to the indictment. He was allegedly promised that he would get to "meet a celebrity" at a Philadelphia fundraiser a month earlier.
Though prosecutors did not name the candidate involved in the memo, Insider confirmed that Mr Trump was hosting a fundraiser in Philadelphia the night of the fundraiser mentioned by the Russian national.
That individual was present at the fundraiser, according to prosecutors. His travel to the US was allegedly made possible by a co-conspirator in the case, conservative author Roy Douglas Wead. According to prosecutors, all three had taken officials with "Political Candidate 1," who is believed to be Mr Trump.
Both men are accused of passing off the donations as payments for "consulting work." Mr Benton reportedly kept $75,000 of the donation, while the rest was given to the candidate.
Mr Benton was previously convicted of campaign finance fraud relating to Mr Paul's 2012 presidential campaign. He was sentenced just says before the Philadelphia fundraiser and was sentenced to two years of probation and a $10,000 fine.
After his conviction, Mr Trump pardoned Mr Benton.
Prior to the Iowa caucus in 2011, three of Mr Paul's top staffers - including Mr Benton - arranged for a $73,000 payout to the then-Iowa state Senator Kent Sorenson, according to The Daily Beast.
Mr Sorenson then immediately quit as the state chair for former Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachman's presidential campaign and switched to work on Mr Paul's campaign.
Ultimately Mr Benton, along with senior aides John Tate and Demetri Kesari, were all convicted on campaign finance charges. Mr Kesari was the only one to serve prison time, and the only one not to receive a presidential pardon from Mr Trump.
His current charges are much more serious, and could land him and Mr Wead in prison for between five and 20 years. |
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| Trump has always cheated. Now he's found a way to do it, and talk people into committing crimes to benefit them, promising them pardons. Malibu Bard's kind of criminal. |
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officer and gentleman Vindman tried to stop trump from harming democracy in Ukraine. Thus right wingers including those on this forum and their hate causing what is happening in Ukraine
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/when-ukraine-needed-u-s-backing-all-they-got-was-donald-trump-s-corruption-134928965510
When Ukraine needed U.S. backing, all they got was Donald Trump's corruption
| Quote: | | Ali Velshi looks at how Donald Trump's personal abuse of the U.S. relationship with Ukraine contributed to Ukraine's vulnerability to Russian aggression, and talks with Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (ret.), formerly a Ukraine expert on the National Security Council who testified in Donald Trump's first impeachment. |
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/vindman-ukraine-fighter-jet-hang-up-pretty-absurd-134925893990
Vindman: Ukraine fighter jet hang-up 'pretty absurd'
| Quote: | | Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (ret.), formerly a Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, makes the argument that providing fighter jets to Ukraine is necessary to prevent humanitarian catastrophe at the hands of Russia's brutality, and expresses concern that coordination of the aid is happening awkwardly and in public. |
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real-human said:
| Quote: | When Ukraine needed U.S. backing, all they got was Donald Trump's corruption
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To me, it looks like Ukraine has received substantial backing from the US and Trump. How much have other NATO countries given to Ukraine? A story from 2019:
| Quote: | Since the early 1990s, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. has given billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine, a country that has long struggled with internal corruption and Russian antagonism.
That money is now at the epicenter of an impeachment inquiry rattling President Trump's White House, with House Democrats accusing the chief executive of withholding almost $400 million to pressure the country’s new leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate work done by former Vice President and Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, for a Ukrainian gas company.
“We do a lot for Ukraine; we spend a lot of money and a lot of time,” Trump told Zelensky during a July 25 call, according to a rough transcript provided by the White House. "I would like you to do us a favor."
The transcript has become a key exhibit in the impeachment inquiry, and Trump has acknowledged that he withheld the aid while denying any improper motivation. One reason he has cited is the desire to pressure other European countries to give more money to Ukraine.
Over the past two decades, the amount of aid given by the U.S. to the Eastern European nation has steadily increased, according to data compiled by the U.S. Foreign Aid Office.
The Bush administration gave the least amount of aid to Ukraine, compared (so far) with the Trump administration and the Obama administration. During President George W. Bush’s eight years in office, from 2001 through 2008, the U.S. government provided about $1.1 billion to Ukraine, government figures reveal.
Congress almost doubled the amount of aid provided to Ukraine during President Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House, supplying $2.1 billion.
The amount began to spike in 2010 -- the same year that Ukraine held a presidential election. But the biggest jump came between 2015 and 2016. In 2015, the U.S. gave about $314 million to Ukraine; in 2016, that skyrocketed to $523 million, 63 percent of which went toward the military.
The increase came almost two years after an incredibly tumultuous year for Ukraine, which was thrust into a violent revolution in February 2014 when pro-European, anti-Russian protesters marched in the nation’s capital, Kiev, ultimately overthrowing the Ukrainian government and pro-Kremlin leader.
Less than one month later, the Russian military seized control of Crimea and, via a dubious referendum, annexed the peninsula.
Lawmakers approved another significant chunk of aid in 2017 -- the first year of Trump's term, giving Ukraine $446 million. In 2018, that slipped to $350 million. |
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/money-to-ukraine |
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| techno900 wrote: | real-human said:
| Quote: | When Ukraine needed U.S. backing, all they got was Donald Trump's corruption
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Lawmakers approved another significant chunk of aid in 2017 -- the first year of Trump's term, giving Ukraine $446 million. In 2018, that slipped to $350 million. |
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/money-to-ukraine[/quote]
again you did not click on the link to hear what the Ukraine military expert from Ukraine said that trump did on the phone call which he as an expert on Ukraine says were the repercussions of the trump hate. The destabilizing effect of trump holding back the funds to effect the usa election. Again trump was impeached over this but the right wing would not allow him to be removed, which would have shown the world there are consequences for Trump weakening another democracy giving more power to Putin to invade.
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