Mister TFG has committed yet another federal crime

[deminks]

Link to tweet

Trump reveals he's been in direct or indirect contact with Putin and has convinced him to continue to hold an American hostage in Russia and interfere with our sovereign elections in order to try to elect the traitor Trump.

End snip

So, a reporter languishes in a Russian prison, as well as other Americans, while Mister 🍊 conducts his own foreign illegal policy. The MEdia is more interested in the lack of integrity of Nicky somebody than a mob boss playing with the life of their colleague for his own benefit. When you're a celebrity, they let you do anything...

[brewens]

1. If that was going to be a campaign issue, Trump just threw it away. He could have played that better. Maybe promise to

get him back like that and get Putin to say he'd consider it. Anything but that.

[ZonkerHarris]

54. whats his logic here? Who is he trying to sell on this? His base? They dont care about reporters.

Democrats hate him so we will trade the whole country for some reporter?
thats what he selling here
He's dumb as shit

[ColinC]

2. Isn't that like a reverse Iran hostage plot? I'm confused.

[Diraven]

4. It's exactly that

Except Reagan wasn't stupid enough to announce that he was cool with Iran taking hostages to help him win.

[wryter2000]

6. Yeah, and

Reagan was pretty damned stupid.

[CincyDem]

27. Remind me...were the hostages loaded up on a plane during the inaugural speech????

[viva la]

38. Yes-- it was very obvious that Reagan had coordinated with Iran

Remember Nixon meddled in 1968 with the peace talks too.

GOP traitors.

[DENVERPOPS]

49. Actually

Everyone says: Reagan did this, and Reagan did that. Same with WBush did this, WBush did that........

In Reality, it was HWBush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/ETC that did this and that during the Reagan occupation of the White House....and

In Reality, it was Cheney/Rumsfeld/ETC that did this and that during the WBush occupation of the White House.......

Reagan and WBush were just "front" men for all the Nefarious shit that was going on behind the curtains and in the shadows....

Everyone always asks, who is running this show from the shadows.....I think the person that is the common theme through all of their past 40-50 years is HWBush......Director of the CIA, VP under Reagan, President for a term to clean up after shit during the Reagan Years including pardoning a hundred of Reagan's admin who were indicted for crimes, then HW's same minions were totally running things during the W administration. After that, HW was running things over *Carlisle Group* (sp?) where he was Chairman of the Board for years and years. Carlisle is fascinating little Private corporation, therefore little is known about them. It is a collection of 602? Millionaires and Billionaires. During the run up to the Iraq War, during the Iraq war, and after the Iraq war. Carlisle was the middleman between the seven major Manufacturers of the Military Industrial Complex, and the Pentagon. All Weapons sales, etc were routed thru the Carlyle group, marked up for their profits, then sold to the Pentagon........Some have estimated the Actual, Real, True, honest costs of the Iraq war is in the TRILLIONS, not the 3 Billion Rumsfeld estimated it would cost, to try to sell the U.S. Citizens on the war.....

Have no idea who the Republicans are that are running things from the sidelines from 2016>>>>Trump doesn't have anywhere near the IQ, nor the clarity to direct 2015-2024. (Most obvious by now, is of course Putin has his hand in things. Actually both hands and both feet. But there are others covertly lurking in the shadows of the Republican Party. There are probably Zillionaire oligarchs, CEO's, private societies, right wing conservative groups that all have little get togethers to orchestrate, organize and take actions they decide on.......
It is amazing what goes on out of public view........for instance, every late summer/early fall, in the tiny town of Saratoga Wyoming, with it's small one runway airport, goes from hardly any planes, to about 20-30 high end Corporate Jets lining the tarmac. This has gone on since the '60's. Each corporate jet brings the CEO of a BIGGIE in the Airline Industry. They go to a very exclusive, very fancy, and extremely private dude ranch located in the forest/mtns around Saratoga. They call themselves the "THE Conquistadors Club". They meet for about a week sharing information and most likely colluding to decide all kinds of things in the Airline industry behind closed doors.......There are probably countless other groups meeting to decide all kinds of things, away from they meddling eyes of the public and government.....

[NBachers]

48. Remember the split screen views of the speech and the hostages.

[CincyDem]

50. Yeah. I thought the was inauguration but then wasn't sure. Thanks.

[Blue Owl]

3. K&R for exposure

[wryter2000]

5. How stupid is Trump?

Lord have mercy.

[AllaN01Bear]

15. and yet "we dont negotiate with terrorists" hem

[spanone]

7. Right out of the Ronald Reagan playbook.

Sort of...

[GB_RN]

9. Sure, Reagan Might Have Pulled This Stunt...

But only if you make him vile, vulgar, uneducated and uncouth, and then add in twisted, vindictive, compulsive lying, a lower IQ to start with and then toss in more dementia than in a nursing home memory care unit.

😂

[spanone]

11. 👍🏼

🤣

[OMGWTF]

22. Combine Reagan's dementia, Nixon's paranoia, GeeDumbya's intellect with Caligula's morals and you have TSF.

[Joinfortmill]

26. Rofl

[GB_RN]

39. There's A Very Reason Good Why...

I call him Cantaloupe Caligula. 😁

[calimary]

55. That's a good one!

Gotta say, he sure does inspire great cleverness!

[Retrograde]

8. Oh, we will be paying a lot

Donnie may not be paying anything out of his pocket (not that he ever does), and the US will not be ponying up any cash, but there are other forms of payment - and you can bet that Putin knows just what he wants from the US

[vanlassie]

23. Trump can pay Putin in secrets.

[Think. Again.]

34. I'm pretty sure that's already happening.

[ramapo]

10. Absolutley unbelievable

I simply can’t believe the shit this guy gets away with

[peppertree]

18. It is the Republican way

[Red Mountain]

12. Paying nothing.....

but what is Putin going to get? Few of the missing classified files?

[Volaris]

19. The balkans and half of poland.

[TomSlick]

13. Playing the Devil's advocate.

TFG does say he has assurances from Putin, only that "Putin ... will do that for me."

[Ms. Toad]

24. Agreed. It no more means he was in contact with Putin,

than his insistence that Mexico would pay for the wall meant he had assurances from the Mexican president to that effect. It's just the way he talks.

[k55f5r]

53. Pretty sure putin doesn't like talking to Smelvis any more

than you or I would. A quick text to Melanoma or to Sean Hannity that they pass on would seem to be the best way to give him his marching orders.

[NoMoreRepugs]

14. Trump is a master strategist people - let me hear from you. Yeah, right.

[AllaN01Bear]

16. grr

[3825-87867]

17. Not only that, but...

donnie has a secret plan to end the war in Vietn...Ukraine!

[Think. Again.]

35. AND...

...his son-in-law is going to bring peace to the middle east three years ago.

[DoBW]

20. Komrade Vonshitzenpants

high on his own supply

[PlutosHeart]

21. It is bad enough we in the USA are having to deal

with a parallel universe of craziness and reality along with a parallel government running alongside our real government.

Make this stop.

[Joinfortmill]

25. ENOUGH! Someone, throw this beast into jail.

[tavernier]

28. Was this on the national news tonight?

Probably not.

[LiberalArkie]

29. Kind of sounds like the GOP during Jimmy Carters term and the Iranian hostages and "America Held Hostage" on ABC

[Irish_Dem]

36. Yes it is the same thing.

[Emile]

30. Fucking traitor.

[niyad]

31. Somebody else wrote this. No way he got the reporter's name correct.

[patphil]

32. Colluding with a foreign government to hold an American citizen hostage until after he's elected is despicable.

He should be arrested immediately.
We may not be paying anything but HE should be paying big time.

[Irish_Dem]

37. Reagan did it and nothing happened to him.

[Kid Berwyn]

42. Got away with it because Corporate McPravda looked away.

Ben Barnes, former Lt. Gubner of Texas, went public… 44 years later.



Reagan’s Treason: October Surprise and the $23 Million Payoff

by Greg Palast
20, 2023

Excerpt…

In Austin, Texas, I received unshakeable evidence that Barnes was the fixer who got Congressman Bush’s son out of the Vietnam draft. (This, while Bush Sr. was voting to send other men’s sons to Vietnam.)

What did Barnes get for his burial of Reagan’s deal with Iran and Bush Jr.’s draft dodging?

In 1999, I was investigating a company, GTech, which ran both the British and Texas lotteries. Texas had disqualified GTech from operating the state lottery based on strong evidence of corruption. But oddly, the new Governor of Texas, George W. Bush, fired the lottery director who banned GTEch. Then Bush’s new lottery commissioner gave GTech back its multi-billion-dollar contract, no bidding.

Notably, Bush’s firing of the state’s lottery director came two days after a meeting with GTech’s lobbyist—Ben Barnes.

Barnes’ fees from GTech? $23 million.

Continues…

https://www.gregpalast.com/reagans-treason-october-surprise/

Follow the money, somebody said.

[rampartc]

56. ahmajinadad (sp?) wrote in an atlantic article, circa early 1990s

he and carter had reached a deal, but in iran the president has a supreme leader, and the ayatollah quashed it pursuant to the deal with reagan.

here is an early report of the event

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-10-25-mn-285-story.html

[Bayard]

58. Absolutely this!

And any number of other things--acting as a foreign agent, setting policy/relations with another country without the authority, etc. I wish we could get the reporter's family's reaction to this little announcement, in prime time.

.

[Turbineguy]

33. Trump is a fuck-up.

[Maraya1969]

40. I hate that MF'er. I hope that journalist's family contacts the FBI about what he is doing.

[Joinfortmill]

41. Liar

[Mr.WeRP]

43. If only Garland would get on that...

[Dave Bowman]

44. I'm close to reconsidering my stance on death penalty for traitors and spies because of him...

The damage he's doing and the high number of victims is terrible.

[GiqueCee]

45. Reagan pulled the same stunt...

... with the Iran hostages, and nobody called him on it. The corrupt media let him skate. "The Great Communicator" my ass. He was a weasel.

[Mblaze]

47. Sorry that I wrote the same thing.

I should have read the responses first but I was too eager to express my disgust. 😀

[GiqueCee]

52. No need to apologize...

... it just means we're on the same wavelength. In the heat of the moment, we just gotta let it out. I'm sure there are many who made the same connection.

[Mblaze]

46. This reminds me of

Reagan's October Surprise. Filthy tricks and colluding with our enemies is the legacy of the Republican Party.

[ECL213]

51. I used to hear stories of people who celebrated JFK's assassination, and...

I couldn't understand how anybody could have hated their President so much.

I quit drinking three years ago, and all I can say is when this motherfucker drops dead, I will pop the cork on a bottle of champagne and dance on his motherfucking grave.

[NHvet]

57. Republicans over the years, seeking the presidency have a practice of meddling in international affairs without license.

Nixon and the Vietnam Peace talks
Reagan and Iran hostages.

Seems to be a feature and not a bug of the GOP that they will, lie, cheat, and steal to remain in power.