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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMister TFG has committed yet another federal crime
Link to tweet
Trump reveals he's been in direct or indirect contact with Putin and has convinced him to continue to hold an American hostage in Russia and interfere with our sovereign elections in order to try to elect the traitor Trump.
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So, a reporter languishes in a Russian prison, as well as other Americans, while Mister 🍊 conducts his own foreign illegal policy. The MEdia is more interested in the lack of integrity of Nicky somebody than a mob boss playing with the life of their colleague for his own benefit. When you're a celebrity, they let you do anything...
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brewens
(13,886 posts)get him back like that and get Putin to say he'd consider it. Anything but that.
ZonkerHarris
(24,460 posts)Democrats hate him so we will trade the whole country for some reporter?
thats what he selling here
He's dumb as shit
ColinC
(8,502 posts)Diraven
(602 posts)Except Reagan wasn't stupid enough to announce that he was cool with Iran taking hostages to help him win.
wryter2000
(46,363 posts)Reagan was pretty damned stupid.
CincyDem
(6,484 posts)viva la
(3,452 posts)Remember Nixon meddled in 1968 with the peace talks too.
GOP traitors.
DENVERPOPS
(9,113 posts)Everyone says: Reagan did this, and Reagan did that. Same with WBush did this, WBush did that........
In Reality, it was HWBush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/ETC that did this and that during the Reagan occupation of the White House....and
In Reality, it was Cheney/Rumsfeld/ETC that did this and that during the WBush occupation of the White House.......
Reagan and WBush were just "front" men for all the Nefarious shit that was going on behind the curtains and in the shadows....
Everyone always asks, who is running this show from the shadows.....I think the person that is the common theme through all of their past 40-50 years is HWBush......Director of the CIA, VP under Reagan, President for a term to clean up after shit during the Reagan Years including pardoning a hundred of Reagan's admin who were indicted for crimes, then HW's same minions were totally running things during the W administration. After that, HW was running things over *Carlisle Group* (sp?) where he was Chairman of the Board for years and years. Carlisle is fascinating little Private corporation, therefore little is known about them. It is a collection of 602? Millionaires and Billionaires. During the run up to the Iraq War, during the Iraq war, and after the Iraq war. Carlisle was the middleman between the seven major Manufacturers of the Military Industrial Complex, and the Pentagon. All Weapons sales, etc were routed thru the Carlyle group, marked up for their profits, then sold to the Pentagon........Some have estimated the Actual, Real, True, honest costs of the Iraq war is in the TRILLIONS, not the 3 Billion Rumsfeld estimated it would cost, to try to sell the U.S. Citizens on the war.....
Have no idea who the Republicans are that are running things from the sidelines from 2016>>>>Trump doesn't have anywhere near the IQ, nor the clarity to direct 2015-2024. (Most obvious by now, is of course Putin has his hand in things. Actually both hands and both feet. But there are others covertly lurking in the shadows of the Republican Party. There are probably Zillionaire oligarchs, CEO's, private societies, right wing conservative groups that all have little get togethers to orchestrate, organize and take actions they decide on.......
It is amazing what goes on out of public view........for instance, every late summer/early fall, in the tiny town of Saratoga Wyoming, with it's small one runway airport, goes from hardly any planes, to about 20-30 high end Corporate Jets lining the tarmac. This has gone on since the '60's. Each corporate jet brings the CEO of a BIGGIE in the Airline Industry. They go to a very exclusive, very fancy, and extremely private dude ranch located in the forest/mtns around Saratoga. They call themselves the "THE Conquistadors Club". They meet for about a week sharing information and most likely colluding to decide all kinds of things in the Airline industry behind closed doors.......There are probably countless other groups meeting to decide all kinds of things, away from they meddling eyes of the public and government.....
NBachers
(17,325 posts)CincyDem
(6,484 posts)Blue Owl
(51,181 posts)wryter2000
(46,363 posts)Lord have mercy.
AllaN01Bear
(19,899 posts)spanone
(136,222 posts)Sort of...
GB_RN
(2,541 posts)But only if you make him vile, vulgar, uneducated and uncouth, and then add in twisted, vindictive, compulsive lying, a lower IQ to start with and then toss in more dementia than in a nursing home memory care unit.
😂
🤣
OMGWTF
(4,065 posts)GB_RN
(2,541 posts)I call him Cantaloupe Caligula. 😁
calimary
(81,993 posts)Gotta say, he sure does inspire great cleverness!
Retrograde
(10,235 posts)Donnie may not be paying anything out of his pocket (not that he ever does), and the US will not be ponying up any cash, but there are other forms of payment - and you can bet that Putin knows just what he wants from the US
vanlassie
(5,732 posts)![](/emoticons/pals.gif)
Think. Again.
(10,067 posts)ramapo
(4,602 posts)I simply cant believe the shit this guy gets away with
peppertree
(22,076 posts)![](https://www.gregpalast.com/wp-content/uploads/1200_October-Sup.jpg)
Red Mountain
(1,753 posts)but what is Putin going to get? Few of the missing classified files?
Volaris
(10,329 posts)TomSlick
(11,230 posts)TFG does say he has assurances from Putin, only that "Putin ... will do that for me."
Ms. Toad
(34,423 posts)than his insistence that Mexico would pay for the wall meant he had assurances from the Mexican president to that effect. It's just the way he talks.
k55f5r
(236 posts)than you or I would. A quick text to Melanoma or to Sean Hannity that they pass on would seem to be the best way to give him his marching orders.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,667 posts)AllaN01Bear
(19,899 posts)3825-87867
(876 posts)donnie has a secret plan to end the war in Vietn...Ukraine!
Think. Again.
(10,067 posts)...his son-in-law is going to bring peace to the middle east three years ago.
DoBW
(899 posts)high on his own supply
PlutosHeart
(1,368 posts)with a parallel universe of craziness and reality along with a parallel government running alongside our real government.
Make this stop.
Joinfortmill
(14,799 posts)tavernier
(12,517 posts)Probably not.
LiberalArkie
(15,766 posts)Irish_Dem
(50,349 posts)Emile
(24,231 posts)niyad
(114,965 posts)patphil
(6,352 posts)He should be arrested immediately.
We may not be paying anything but HE should be paying big time.
Irish_Dem
(50,349 posts)Kid Berwyn
(15,606 posts)Ben Barnes, former Lt. Gubner of Texas, went public
44 years later.
Reagans Treason: October Surprise and the $23 Million Payoff
by Greg Palast
20, 2023
Excerpt
In Austin, Texas, I received unshakeable evidence that Barnes was the fixer who got Congressman Bushs son out of the Vietnam draft. (This, while Bush Sr. was voting to send other mens sons to Vietnam.)
What did Barnes get for his burial of Reagans deal with Iran and Bush Jr.s draft dodging?
In 1999, I was investigating a company, GTech, which ran both the British and Texas lotteries. Texas had disqualified GTech from operating the state lottery based on strong evidence of corruption. But oddly, the new Governor of Texas, George W. Bush, fired the lottery director who banned GTEch. Then Bushs new lottery commissioner gave GTech back its multi-billion-dollar contract, no bidding.
Notably, Bushs firing of the states lottery director came two days after a meeting with GTechs lobbyistBen Barnes.
Barnes fees from GTech? $23 million.
Continues
https://www.gregpalast.com/reagans-treason-october-surprise/
Follow the money, somebody said.
rampartc
(5,565 posts)he and carter had reached a deal, but in iran the president has a supreme leader, and the ayatollah quashed it pursuant to the deal with reagan.
here is an early report of the event
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-10-25-mn-285-story.html
Bayard
(22,583 posts)And any number of other things--acting as a foreign agent, setting policy/relations with another country without the authority, etc. I wish we could get the reporter's family's reaction to this little announcement, in prime time.
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Turbineguy
(37,558 posts)Maraya1969
(22,698 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,799 posts)Mr.WeRP
(192 posts)Dave Bowman
(2,074 posts)The damage he's doing and the high number of victims is terrible.
GiqueCee
(785 posts)... with the Iran hostages, and nobody called him on it. The corrupt media let him skate. "The Great Communicator" my ass. He was a weasel.
Mblaze
(277 posts)I should have read the responses first but I was too eager to express my disgust. 😀
GiqueCee
(785 posts)... it just means we're on the same wavelength. In the heat of the moment, we just gotta let it out. I'm sure there are many who made the same connection.
Mblaze
(277 posts)Reagan's October Surprise. Filthy tricks and colluding with our enemies is the legacy of the Republican Party.
ECL213
(240 posts)I couldn't understand how anybody could have hated their President so much.
I quit drinking three years ago, and all I can say is when this motherfucker drops dead, I will pop the cork on a bottle of champagne and dance on his motherfucking grave.
NHvet
(243 posts)Nixon and the Vietnam Peace talks
Reagan and Iran hostages.
Seems to be a feature and not a bug of the GOP that they will, lie, cheat, and steal to remain in power.