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True Earthling

(832 posts)
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 12:36 PM Oct 2016

Why is this not being talked up more? Trump's deep connections with the Russians

Why is this not being talked up more?

Putin made headlines back in July claiming the U.S. election is rigged..now Trump is parroting the same line...Trump invites the Russians to hack Hillary's emails and we get the DNC hacked by Russia...WTF!!!!!

Trump's Russian ties...

Remember...Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort worked for and was paid $12.7M by a pro-Russian Ukranian oligarch who had ties to Russia's intelligence service.

Due to Trump's many bankruptcies major U.S. banks stopped lending Trump money...so Trump looked to institutions...many with financial ties to Russia.

One is Bayrock which has been accused of money laundering, tax evasion and racketeering. A lawsuit claimed Bayrock was supported by criminal Russian financial interests. Bayrock financed multiple Trump projects around the world. Trump hired one of Bayrock's principal partners as a senior advisor in the Trump organisation....

So who's the puppet? ... Hillary or the one who wants to be best friends with one of the world's most brutal thugs.



If the Russian president could design a candidate to undermine American interests—and advance his own—he’d look a lot like Donald Trump.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html

Ukraine prosecutor confirms Paul Manafort's name appears in secret cash ledger

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-prosecutor-confirms-paul-manaforts-name-appears-in-secret-cash-ledger/

Manafort’s man in Kiev
The Trump campaign chairman’s closeness to a Russian Army-trained linguist turned Ukrainian political operative is raising questions, concerns.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/paul-manafort-ukraine-kiev-russia-konstantin-kilimnik-227181#ixzz4NjODPgnL


Trump's opposition research firm: Russia's intelligence agencies

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-boot-trump-russian-connection-20160725-snap-story.html

Donald Trump’s Many, Many, Many, Many Ties to Russia

http://time.com/4433880/donald-trump-ties-to-russia/

VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS THE US ELECTIONS ARE RIGGED. IT’S NOT A DEMOCRACY (VIDEO)

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/07/05/vladimir-putin-says-the-us-elections-are-rigged-its-not-a-democracy/

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Why is this not being talked up more? Trump's deep connections with the Russians (Original Post) True Earthling Oct 2016 OP
Some people say Trump is Putin's useful idiot get the red out Oct 2016 #1
Sad thing for Putin is that dRumpf's so useless. Mc Mike Oct 2016 #6
Sorry red republicans. Better dead than red! ffr Oct 2016 #2
Yeah - the Repubs have always been anti-Russian..how can they embrace this guy? True Earthling Oct 2016 #3
Because M$M are useless. They want to keep a horserace going in order to draw viewers and $$'s. BlueCaliDem Oct 2016 #4
Because it's rigged!!!!! moondust Oct 2016 #5

get the red out

(13,466 posts)
1. Some people say Trump is Putin's useful idiot
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 12:41 PM
Oct 2016

But I am more inclined to be he's an idiot Putin has by the balls.

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
4. Because M$M are useless. They want to keep a horserace going in order to draw viewers and $$'s.
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 01:03 PM
Oct 2016

Hillary Clinton has been a powerful presidential candidate from the get-go: the most qualified, connected, and beloved in the Democratic Party...so they needed to take her down a few pegs, and have worked tirelessly to do just that.

First they used Trey Gowdy and the always froth-covered Republican surrogates. She didn't flinch and neither did her supporters.

Then they tried to use Bernie Sanders (while giving him huge passes of things in his past). Her supporters did not flinch.

Now they're using WikiLeaks and the kitchen sink...still no flinching!

They finally (and much too late) awakened to discover that a racist bigot, sexual-assaulter Putin-puppet is heading the Republican Party's ticket, and they're in a panic. After giving him nearly $2 billion dollars worth of free and unchallenged advertising while working overtime to take Hillary Clinton down on the dumbest, most unsubstantiated rumors.

Word must've come down from the upper echelons of the money pyramid and their money-masters that they're not charmed by Trump who is showing the GOP's true face day in, day out, and they've decided to take him down even if Hillary wins the White House. The thinking now is, at least they'll be able to invest in down-ticket RW-candidates in order to stop Hillary from pushing for progressive policies - those she ran on and what Senator Sanders helped her craft after the primaries.

moondust

(19,981 posts)
5. Because it's rigged!!!!!
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 01:20 PM
Oct 2016

Last edited Fri Oct 21, 2016, 03:12 PM - Edit history (1)

Oh wait...it's supposed to be rigged against him--not for him. My bad. Don't sue me!

I keep thinking a big part of his candidacy is simply worldwide advertising of his "brand" in an effort to sell more of his stuff in places like...
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RUSSIA!!!!!!

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