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Trumps is NOT Hitler. He's Quisling (Original Post) ThoughtCriminal Jun 2019 OP
Quisling did not come to a good end. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2019 #1
Trump is an economic terrorist and agent of chaos. gordianot Jun 2019 #2
Trump is a sick turd who deserves a good flush. Lint Head Jun 2019 #3
Plain as day since Helsinki. Kid Berwyn Jun 2019 #4
Trump's biographers and historians will be trying to decipher this mystery for years sop Jun 2019 #5
Hitler was more courageous misanthrope Jun 2019 #6
Paul Krugman: "A Quisling and His Enablers" klook Jun 2019 #7

Kid Berwyn

(14,876 posts)
4. Plain as day since Helsinki.
Sun Jun 9, 2019, 11:35 PM
Jun 2019

“I don’t see why it would be.”

And the next day.

“I don’t see why it wouldn’t be.”

White House even produced fake news coverage, omitting Putin’s admission he supported Trump in 2016.

WHITE HOUSE VIDEO DOESN'T CONTAIN PUTIN'S ADMITTED SUPPORT OF TRUMP IN 2016 ELECTION FROM HELSINKI NEWS CONFERENCE

https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-edits-video-transcript-trump-putin-1041506

The planet is going to suffer. And We the People arethisclose to losing our Constitution and our freedom.

klook

(12,154 posts)
7. Paul Krugman: "A Quisling and His Enablers"
Mon Jun 10, 2019, 04:01 PM
Jun 2019

From The New York Times, June 11, 2018:

This is not a column about whether Donald Trump is a quisling — a politician who serves the interests of foreign masters at his own country’s expense. Any reasonable doubts about that reality were put to rest by the events of the past few days, when he defended Russia while attacking our closest allies.

We don’t know Trump’s motivation. Is it blackmail? Bribery? Or just a generalized sympathy for autocrats and hatred for democracy? And we may never find out: If he shuts down the Mueller investigation and Republicans retain control of Congress, the cover-up may hold indefinitely. But his actions tell the story.

As I said, however, this isn’t a column about Trump. It is, instead, about the people who are enabling his betrayal of America: the inner circle of officials and media personalities who are willing to back him up whatever he says or does, and the wider set of politicians — basically the entire Republican delegation in Congress — who have the power and constitutional obligation to stop what he’s doing, but won’t lift a finger in America’s defense.

More at link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/trump-quisling-enablers.html

Krugman's analysis holds up, a year later.
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