Headline, NY Times, Saturday: "PUTIN LED SCHEME TO HELP TRUMP, REPORT SAYS."
Headline, NY Times, Saturday: "PUTIN LED SCHEME TO HELP TRUMP, REPORT SAYS."
Now, just try to imagine the Reich-wing shit-storm that Conservative meatsticks would cause if Clinton had won the election and that headline had said "Clinton" instead of "Trump".
They'd set their hair on fire and go bat-shit crazy 24x7. For years!! The Reich-wing's Noise and Rage Machine™ would go into overdrive and there wold be demands for Congressional investigation and for the Attorney General to begin investigations and prosecutions for treason.
Instead: ...sound of crickets....
"We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process denigrate Secretary Clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump. We have high confidence in these judgments." - Declassified version of “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections: The Analytic Process and Cyber Incident Attribution", page 1.
Trump adviser Paul Manafort was an adviser to an ally of Vladimir Putin.
Trump's choice for National Security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, has appeared regularly on the Kremlin's propaganda outlet, RT, has dined with Putin and gave speeches in Russia. (And his son is a lying alt-right bigot.)
Trump picked Carter Page for foreign policy adviser, whom U.S. intelligence officials are looking into for his Kremlin ties.
Author of Trump's first major foreign policy speech, Richard Burt, earned hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting one of Vladimir Putin’s top geopolitical priorities.
Trump's NY State campaign chairman, Michael Caputo, lived in Russia throughout the 1990s and had a contract with Gazprom Media in 2000 to improve Vladimir Putin’s image in the United States.
And for Secretary of State Trump has picked Rex Tillerson, because he was able to strike "a deal" with Russian state-owned oil, ending with Putin awarding him Russia's Order of Friendship medal in 2013.
I'm sure Stalin would have called them - "useful idiots".
And those are things we know. The report was sanitized for public distribution, so you can only imagine what was held back.
Reagan would be ashamed of all of this.
We now have a real "Manchurian Candidate" - about to be in the White House - and all that that implies. And the silence is amazing.
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