Zelensky Campaign Dined At Trump Hotel | Talking Points Memo

There’s a prelude to the now-infamous July call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump leaned on the foreign leader to manufacture dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1254438

nefarious: adjective: : flagrantly wicked or impious : evil

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Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer also made a brief appearance, but he left for another event.

He had a previous appointment to be really awful and soulless at something else.

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The grift never ends…

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What an insidious way to poison someone.

Gotta make sure they toss in another crime while they are working on the main crimes.

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What if it turns out ttump ordered interference in the Ukraine election?

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What do you mean “if”?

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Good question.

Pootie sure is happy to have a naive, inexperienced newbie as Prez in Ukraine, who doesn’t understand the undercurrents. It’s entirely possible.

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Although wouldn’t go too deep on this one. Putin was already meddling enough in the election, may not have wanted more hands in the pot.

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I agree. But, still, it would be another thing that Pootie could hold over Spankee’s head. One of many.

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Quite possible that all sides were in on it. That whole election was a shit-show.

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Yup. You know, like people getting suckered into starting off with small, seeming harmless or insignificant little acts, which eventually increase in seriousness, then turn into real crimes, because along the way the one doing the grooming gathers up more and more evidence against the poor schmuck who just agreed to steal a pack of chewing gum “for a lark”…

Pootie has apparently been grooming Spankee for a long, long time – there’s been an awful lot of rubles flowing into TT and other projects. Even if all he asked for was for Spankee to just stay out of the way, or to call off the CIA, or whatever, it would have been enough to tip things even more quickly.

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“I just did it as a favor. I showed up, sat down, ate dinner and left. I didn’t really speak to anybody because they spoke in a different language.”

Yes, a meeting was set up between people speaking two or more different languages, and no provision was made by either party to facilitate translation of the discussion among those assembled.

Seems legit.

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Yup. Especially when you consider how very few people in the world speak English as a second language…

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Certainly none of the people in Ukraine would be at all fluent in English…

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The dinner in question took place April 16 at the Trump International Hotel’s BLT Prime.

Bigly Lotta Treason

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:laughing:

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