Putin's Puppet

[Kid Berwyn]

When remembering who put you there.



Source: https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/trump-welcomed-russian-foreign

[Gothmog]

1. Lavrov came to perform the Annual Employee Review.

Link to tweet

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Consulting with CHAOS

CNN’s Ana Navarro-Cárdenas and Carrie Cordero are reporting what their eyes tell them.



Trump does not consult with CONTROL on his secure shoe phone.

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. Dump never has a real smile on his face except when his Russian handler is in the White House.

It seems to give him great joy to not only commit treason but to proudly broadcast to the American people who owns him.

What a disgrace.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. When you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you...

He is a disgrace.

[spanone]

3. how can trump handle all that business on his desk????

talk about 'do-nothing'

[Kid Berwyn]

11. What occupies his "mind"...

Trump is a moron fixated by fabric swatches.

Trump, the billion-dollar loser — I was his ghostwriter and saw it happen

Charles Leerhson
Yahoo.com, May 9, 2019

EXCERPT...

I tend to see my time with him — the first part of it, anyway, before things started going bad in a hurry — as his “King Midas” period. I never said this to him; if I had, he probably would have thought I was suggesting he enter the muffler business. But there was a stretch of months when everything he touched turned into a deal. The banks seemed to accept the version of him depicted in his first book, “The Art of the Deal,” which we now know from his previous ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, was entirely invented. They believed it over what they saw on his balance sheets or heard coming out of his mouth, and they never said no to his requests for more money. Often they came up with things he could say yes to before he could think of them himself. As a result, a failing real estate developer who had little idea of what he was doing and less interest in doing it once he’d held the all-important press conference wound up owning three New Jersey hotel-casinos, the Plaza Hotel, the Eastern Airlines Shuttle and a 281-foot yacht.

A real go-getter, right? But Trump’s portfolio did not jibe with what I saw each day — which to a surprisingly large extent was him looking at fabric swatches. Indeed, flipping through fabric swatches seemed at times to be his main occupation. Some days he would do it for hours, then take me in what he always called his “French military helicopter” to Atlantic City — where he looked at more fabric swatches or sometimes small samples of wood paneling. It was true that the carpets and drapes at his properties needed to be refreshed frequently, and the seats on the renamed Trump Shuttle required occasional reupholstering. But the main thing about fabric swatches was that they were within his comfort zone — whereas, for example, the management of hotels and airlines clearly wasn’t. One of his aides once told me that every room at the Plaza could be filled at the “rack rate” (list price) every night, and the revenue still wouldn’t cover the monthly payment of the loan he’d taken out to buy the place. In other words, he’d made a ridiculous deal. Neither he nor the banks had done the math beforehand. Or perhaps Trump knew it because someone had told him, but didn’t want to think about it. The one thing he is above-average at is compartmentalization.

Source:

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-the-billiondollar-loser-his-ghostwriter-recalls-the-king-midas-years-090000640.html

[Botany]

4. Posing with the Foreign Secretary Lavrov whose country rigged our elections in the Oval Office

This picture alone should get Trump thrown from office.


‘Putin Has Won’: Mueller Report Details the Ways Russia Interfered in the 2016 Election

https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-has-won-mueller-report-details-the-ways-russia-interfered-in-the-2016-election-11555666201

[Kid Berwyn]

15. Funny Papers show GOP means "Gofers Of Putin"

Why Marsha Blackburn fell on a grenade for Donald Trump

Tennessee senator blocks a bill to mandate reporting foreign election aid, Because the GOP has a Russia problem.

Sophia Tesfaye
Salon, June 14, 2019

At least a dozen Republican congressional campaigns used materials stolen from Democrats by Russian hackers during the 2016 election. Several other Republican campaigns received millions in contributions from an oligarch with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2018, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called on the National Republican Congressional Committee to make a bipartisan pledge not to utilize stolen or hacked information in House elections. After months of negotiations, in September of 2018, House Republicans backed out and refused to sign the pledge. These are just some of the often-overlooked reasons why Republicans have been so reluctant to criticize President Trump’s willingness to accept “dirt” on an opposing candidate from a foreign government.

One day after Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he wouldn’t necessarily go to the FBI in the event his re-election campaign is contacted by foreign groups, Senate Republicans killed legislation to safeguard American democracy from foreign interference.

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., failed in his attempt to unanimously pass a bill that would require candidates to report election assistance offered by foreign governments to federal officials. Under Warner’s Foreign Influence Reporting in Elections (FIRE) Act, campaigns would have to report contacts with foreign nationals who are trying to make campaign donations or coordinate with the campaign to the Federal Election Commission, which would then notify the FBI. It’s already illegal for electoral campaigns to knowingly accept help from a foreign entity or power.

“This legislation is pretty simple, even for this body. It would require that any presidential campaign that receives offers of assistance from an agent of a foreign government has an obligation to report that offer of assistance to law enforcement, specifically the FBI,” Warner said on Thursday. “We ought to make clear that if any foreign power tries to intervene again in an election, the least we can do is ask for a requirement to report it to law enforcement.”

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/06/why-marsha-blackburn-fell-on-a-grenade-for-donald-trump/


PS: Thank you for the heads-up to WSJ, Bitany! Even Murdoch can’t shut up his employees when it comes to that truth: Putin has won.

[dalton99a]

5. "President Putin's representative inspects U.S. branch manager's office"

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Lavrov has more right to be there than Trump.

He bought it fair and square, per Citizens United.

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Following Citizens United, foreign-owned corporations funnel millions into US elections

by Karl Evers-Hillstrom and Raymond Arke
OpenSecrets.org, March 22, 2019

After the FEC hit the Jeb Bush-affiliated Right to Rise super PAC with a record fine for illegally soliciting donations from foreign donors, focus has shifted to how many foreign-owned companies actually participate in American elections. The answer? Quite a few.

Foreign-based corporations or U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-based corporations have contributed millions of dollars to super PACs and hybrid PACs following Citizens United v. FEC, the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that opened up federal elections to direct corporate contributions.

Foreign nationals are barred from contributing to federal committees. However, a foreign corporation’s U.S. subsidiary is allowed to contribute to outside spending groups such as super PACs as long as no foreign national directs the contribution.

London-based British American Tobacco acquired Reynolds American, Inc. in July 2017 after owning a major stake in the U.S. company since 2004. Following the transaction, RAI ramped up its political giving, doling out $1.2 million to super PACs, more than any other domestic subsidiary in the 2018 cycle.

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https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/03/citizens-united-foreign-owned-corporations-put-millions-in-us-elections/

[5X]

6. Lavrov's meeting...

Link to tweet

?s=20

[dalton99a]

7. Yep.

[Kid Berwyn]

17. You know who else says that?

“He berated Mueller, the former head of the FBI, for stating that President Donald Trump was not fully exonerated in his eponymous report on his findings of the nearly two-year-long investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the possibility of obstruction of justice by the President.”

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/politics/john-ratcliffe-dni-dan-coats/index.html

So the rat what Trumputin once wanted in charge of the intelligence community also worked to denigrate Mueller, the Republican who proved in court a conspiracy run by Russia to game our democracy to benefit the GOP.

[5X]

18. the real photo

Link to tweet

?s=20

[lsewpershad]

8. He sits there

and grins like the mindless fool he is.

[Kid Berwyn]

14. Maybe Putin's hypnosis induces Trump's mindlessness?

TRUMP WAS 'HYPNOTIZED' BY PUTIN AND SHOULDN'T MEET HIM 'ONE-ON-ONE,' SENATOR SAYS

BY JASON LEMON
Newsweek, 11/27/18

Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon has warned that President Donald Trump should not be allowed to meet "one-on-one" with Russian leader Vladimir Putin during the G-20 summit in Argentina in late November.

The lawmaker raised his concerns, which are shared by many other politicians, about the president's relationship with the Russian leader on CNN's New Day on Tuesday. Merkley said that Trump should not meet with Putin while his presidential campaign team remains under investigation for possible collusion with the Russian government.

"I don't think he should meet one-on-one, and it's [for] a list of reasons," the senator said. "First, he's under investigation for possible collusion with the Russians. We don't know what kind of connections he has financially, conflicts of interest. There was no transparency on his last meeting, this one-on-one meeting, where only a translator was there. We still don't know what was said at that meeting."

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-hypnotized-putin-shouldnt-meet-one-one-senator-says-1233825

[raging moderate]

12. .

That's not a real smile.
Look at Trump's eyes.

[Kid Berwyn]

13. They express fear.

Trump knows the Speaker is right...

ALL ROADS LEAD TO PUTIN.



What Malcolm Nance said:

Anyone who has ever talked to a bookie knows that a person in debt never insults the person that they owe money to. So, by bringing this up, and making Donald Trump… Using his natural populous traits. When he used to do worldwide wrestling, he came on as the evil guy with a big check, and then by the end of the wrestling match he would be embracing the guy who was the hero, the good guy. Putin, I’m sure, and his psychologist, and his scholars, saw that he had a draw for the base level American, the Wal-Mart shopping American. Even though he was a brash, supposedly rich guy, he had a way of touching them. I am absolutely certain that this was the calculation that they made, that he was not only popular in Russia, he was the kind of authoritarian Putin would like to fund, because Putin had been funding authoritarian governments all over Europe. To get the United States, and put this guy in as an ally, would just be monumental.

Snip...

Then they found the black book with all of the cash payments in there, which identified that Manafort may have made somewhere between $20 and $70 million of black money that he was money laundering into the United States. The very fact that he would come back again as Donald Trump’s campaign manager, shows a level of George Smiley-John le Carré level coordination, that those of us in the intelligence community just would have to chase down. Because as I like to say, “Coincidence takes a lot of planning.” That’s an old intelligence community dictum.

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Source: https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/22/from-useful-idiot-to-working-asset/