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deminks

(11,014 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 01:14 PM Sep 2018

Pootey is feeding Donnie's delusions of 'deep state'

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/bombshell-book-claims-putin-directly-feeding-trumps-delusions-deep-state-fighting-friendship/

The Washington Post has printed an excerpt of reporter Greg Miller’s new book — called “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy” — and it contains some shocking new revelations about the relationship between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to Miller’s reporting, Putin regularly feeds Trump’s paranoia about a secret “deep state” that is preventing him from achieving his goals of forming a lasting alliance with Russia.

“In phone conversations with Trump, Putin would whisper conspiratorially, telling the U.S. president that it wasn’t their fault that they could not consummate the relationship that each had sought,” reveals Miller. “Instead, Putin sought to reinforce Trump’s belief that he was being undermined by a secret government cabal, a bureaucratic ‘deep state.'”

White House aides also tell Miller that Putin once told Trump to be wary of “the subordinates fighting against our friendship.”

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Whispering sweet nothings in his ear - literally.

Consummate the relationship? Is that what they do in their meetings with no one else in the room?

WAPO link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-apprentice-book-excerpt-at-cias-russia-house-growing-alarm-about-2016-election-interference/2018/09/18/51eb1732-b5c5-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?utm_term=.7a1d553a08a1
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Pootey is feeding Donnie's delusions of 'deep state' (Original Post) deminks Sep 2018 OP
meh, he might be but the far right in this country has been nursing.... Thomas Hurt Sep 2018 #1

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. meh, he might be but the far right in this country has been nursing....
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 02:18 PM
Sep 2018

these shadow gov't-esque conspiracies for decades...with rotating boogeymen.

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