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Budi

(15,325 posts)
Sat Jan 15, 2022, 04:47 AM Jan 2022

JFC . "Russia accused of forging a 2019 letter to Sen Tom Cotton, claiming to be from Greenland's...

The Danish intelligence has accused Russia of forging a 2019 letter to Senator Tom Cotton, claiming to be from Greenland's foreign minister & alleging there'd be an independence referendum.

Tom Cotton claims to have given Trump the idea to buy Greenland.

https://reuters.com/world/europe/d

"Never in their wildest dreams did Russian intelligence think that Cotton and Trump would fall for this."




Bet Russia got the idea from a Nigerian Prince
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JFC . "Russia accused of forging a 2019 letter to Sen Tom Cotton, claiming to be from Greenland's... (Original Post) Budi Jan 2022 OP
Didn't TFG also offered to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland? left-of-center2012 Jan 2022 #1
Fools die for want of wisdom malaise Jan 2022 #2
Pretty sure Putin and the rest of the Kremlin found it so. Hortensis Jan 2022 #8
Indeed malaise Jan 2022 #9
Indeed malaise Jan 2022 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author malaise Jan 2022 #3
Oh, they knew IQ45 would. SergeStorms Jan 2022 #4
It sounds like a Nigerian Prince letter UpInArms Jan 2022 #5
and is so full of mistakes ... TomWilm Jan 2022 #7
TC followed Trump's lead to betray our troops to say that TBI was just a headache. keithbvadu2 Jan 2022 #6
damn uponit7771 Jan 2022 #11
OMG, these effing rubes. tanyev Jan 2022 #12
Tom Cotton surely knew it was fake, as tight as he is with his Russian handlers. Midnight Writer Jan 2022 #13

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Pretty sure Putin and the rest of the Kremlin found it so.
Sat Jan 15, 2022, 08:18 AM
Jan 2022

Wonder if tRump realized then who held him up for humiliation. He would have been fine with Russia's mischief making against Greenland itself.

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SergeStorms

(19,192 posts)
4. Oh, they knew IQ45 would.
Sat Jan 15, 2022, 06:23 AM
Jan 2022

"Never in their wildest dreams did Russian intelligence think that Cotton and Trump would fall for this."

Oh, they knew IQ45 would fall for this hook, line, and sinker, and that Cotton was the right person to bait the hook. Putin has been playing Trump as a virtuoso plays a Stradivarius (Trump is the Stradivarius of egotistical nitwits) for decades.

Putin and Russian intelligence must laugh themselves sick over the way they can manipulate Trump into doing anything they wish. Putin groomed the rich, spoiled, playboy since the 90s, and they've known from day one how Trump's ego was the biggest, fattest target on the planet.

They could make Trump do, or say, anything they wanted, and they manipulated him right into the White House, and beyond. Trump has payed enormous dividends for their relatively small investment they made in him.

TomWilm

(1,832 posts)
7. and is so full of mistakes ...
Sat Jan 15, 2022, 07:54 AM
Jan 2022

... that nobody locally would take it seriously. If Russia wrote this, their spies are really getting worse at the job!

keithbvadu2

(36,752 posts)
6. TC followed Trump's lead to betray our troops to say that TBI was just a headache.
Sat Jan 15, 2022, 07:26 AM
Jan 2022

TC followed Trump's lead to betray our troops to say that TBI was just a headache.

Midnight Writer

(21,743 posts)
13. Tom Cotton surely knew it was fake, as tight as he is with his Russian handlers.
Sat Jan 15, 2022, 11:30 AM
Jan 2022

He was merely following orders.

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