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applegrove

(118,659 posts)
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 09:00 PM Oct 2019

Trump Viewed Ukraine as Adversary, Not Ally

Trump Viewed Ukraine as Adversary, Not Ally

October 21, 2019 at 8:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/10/21/trump-viewed-ukraine-as-adversary-not-ally/

"SNIP.....

Associated Press: “The president sees the Eastern European ally, not Russia, as responsible for the interference in the 2016 election that was investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller.”

“It’s a view denied by the intelligence community, at odds with U.S. foreign policy and dismissed by many of Trump’s fellow Republicans. But Trump’s belief suggests the extent to which his approach to Ukraine — including his request, now central to impeachment, that the Ukraine president do him a ‘favor’ and investigate Democrats — was colored by a long-running, unproven conspiracy theory that has circulated online and in some corners of conservative media.”

Said Trump in private: “They tried to take me down.”

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Trump Viewed Ukraine as Adversary, Not Ally (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2019 OP
President is following conspiracy theories. applegrove Oct 2019 #1
Well, if Putin is your ally, then Ukraine is your opponent... Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #2
He isn't that stupid. Putin and Hungary prez pressured him. Claritie Pixie Oct 2019 #3

Claritie Pixie

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3. He isn't that stupid. Putin and Hungary prez pressured him.
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 09:04 PM
Oct 2019

I wish people would quit it with the "babe in the woods'" schtick.

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