America isn’t the dictatorship Russia is…yet…
I think it’s time we start referring to this kind of activity as quid pro quo.
Well Congress passes a bill that Trump refuses to implement yet Congress does nothing. I would at least expect the Dems to say something. This complete silence is inexcusable.
When Trump took the oath of office including to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States” he had his fingers crossed.
Cadet Bone Spurs became The Quisling President.
When President Obama imposed the sanctions (prior to congress), Donald Trump reacted by saying that he knew that Putin was very smart and would not respond to the sanctions by imposing reciprocal sanctions, because Trump was going to be sworn in shortly and would repeal the President’s sanctions. And this is what Flynn was talking to Kysliak about when he was taped by the NSA and FBI.
It is clear to anyone who is not a fucking Republican or named Hugh Hewitt exactly what happened and is still happening.
“No collusion. No collusion.”
Because collusion is too even-handed a term. It suggests two parties working together, in secret. In actual fact, this is a one-way street. Trump is doing Putin’s bidding, because he has to. That’s not collusion, that’s enslavement.
Tell us again, Dotard, how not applauding for you at the State of the Union is treason. Go ahead, I’m waiting.
The article was too kind to say it, but I’ll state it more bluntly: Trump has done everything possible to push a Russian agenda. He has always lent Putin his ear when asked, and has always positioned his Administration, since the day after the election, to find ways to pay Putin back for the assistance he received in the election.
Trump has run into resistance from Mattis and other professionals in the bureaucracy and Trump is too weak to overcome it, and perhaps is concerned about exposing himself. Trump is a Russian asset and has behaved that way from the beginning. He is incapable of fulfilling the oath of office. Had the electors known what we know now about the extent of Russian interference and the cooperation of the Trump campaign, they would not have cast their ballots in the EC for him. He’s a traitor and must be removed from office.
And as the Russia expert Amy Knight points out in a history of the Magnitsky affair in the New York Review of Books, laws like Magnitsky that punish Russia for internal human rights abuses strike at the source of Putin’s power: his ability to turn the law off and on when it suits him.
And that is what really gives Trump a chubby.
“I think that Putin and his supporters are beginning to realize now that Trump can’t just wave a magic wand and have sanctions go away,” Knight adds. “There are a lot of things he can’t do! I don’t know that they’re so much disappointed in Trump as disappointed in finding out that in fact he has quite a few constraints.”
I am extremely disappointed here in Russian counter intelligence. They spent all that time meddling in elections, but no one thought to think about what they could do with their prize once they got it? It’s all there in black and white, the constitution and the law, but coming from a politically corrupt culture, they didn’t think those little things mattered.
This is actually an important sociology lesson.
And that’s on top of him being a sexual predator. Lock him up for life.
Honestly they were probably planning on, and would have benefited more, by having Trump lose the election. As an opposition party/spoiler element there would be a lot less scrutiny.
I think its time that we start to think that, wittingly or unwittingly, Trump may be an agent of Russia and Vladimir Putin.
Another great piece from Mr. Thielman.
I only wish it included that Trump’s State Dept. gave a no-bid contract to guard our embassy in Moscow to…
(…drumroll…)
…a Russian company founded by a KGB general and close friend of British traitor/Kremlin mole Kim Philby.
What could possibly go wrong with that?
Nice summary, Sam!
In part, because Trump is not nearly as smart as Putin.
Yeah, I think they were as surprised by Trump’s win as we were honestly.
Of course that’s true. It’s patently obvious.
But we need to start using phrases that will stick in the public consciousness when the midterms comes around. This is “quid pro quo,” plain and simple, and it puts us on offense.
The things Russia did for Trump are out in the open (election tampering, releasing hacked emails, Facebook/Twitter bots/ads). The things Trump did for Russia are out in the open (friendly Sec State, reduced sanctions and non enforcement of sanctions). It’s all there and there’s a name for it: quid pro quo.
Is it Kislyak or Kisylak? It’s spelled both ways in the article.
Trump isn’t different from any employee anywhere in the world. I know that when my boss calls I always listen attentively.