Tip o' the hat to DUer Emulatorloo who pegged everything back in June 2016.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12512189115#post1

1. I want to know if Russian intelligence is feeding this info to Trump

Given Trump's many complimentary statements about Putin, I hope some intrepid reporters do some serious investigation. Would make Watergate look like a parking infraction in comparison

If only more of us weren't so blind back then to what should have been so obvious.

[Madam45for2923]

1. Yep, big tip of the hat!

[FSogol]

2. Did you notice this about that thread:

Of the 11 people in that thread,

4 are banned or on indefinite flagged for review

and

4 are inactive or haven't agreed to the TOS.

Conclusion: There was a whole lotta trolling going on...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Yeah, there was a huge exodus in June and July 2016.

But some stuck around, and then managed to get tombstoned later on.

[FSogol]

6. Good riddance. n/t

[lpbk2713]

8. I noticed that.

Several haven't posted since the summer of 2016. Maybe their mission is accomplished.

[emulatorloo]

10. Yeah it's interesting to read now. Those of us who figured this out early got lots of pushback

as evidenced by some of the replies in that thread.

Thinking Putin was working w Trump campaign was a minority position for a long while.

[Honeycombe8]

3. I appreciate the tip o' the hat to him, but many people were noticing that back then.

Remember when Trump called out to Russia from his podium, "Russia, if you're listening, find those missing Clinton emails," and then the emails were released within days?

I noticed that as an instruction to Russia at the time, and said so (not in this forum), as did others. When he won on 11/8, I wondered if Russia had arranged the election, since it didn't make sense.

We all noticed his complimentary statements about Putin, to the point that Clinton referred to him in one of the debates as a PUTIN PUPPET. His response, "No puppet. No puppet. You're the puppet."

With all due respect, many noticed or thought he was a Putin Puppet, from the summer of 2016.

[FSogol]

5. Who first called Trumpy a puppet on DU? Had to have been before the debate. n/t

[RandomAccess]

7. Exactly. Well said.

[brush]

9. Yeah, it was pretty common knowledge here, plus the Assange connection.

[emulatorloo]

11. Thanks, Tommy. I definitely was not the only one, as evidenced in this thread.

But it was a minority viewpoint back then and there was a lot of pushback in General Discussion Primary in 2016 initially.

[highplainsdem]

12. Yep!

[orangecrush]

14. ....

[MarianJack]

15. The "brilliant" American news media determined that they had 2 jobs in 2016.

One was to continually obsess over Hillary Clinton's emails and to echo every rightist smear of the past 30 years without fact checking at all.

The other was to ceaselessly fawn over all that was Trump because he'd be "good for ratings!"

PEACE!