Trump's "Obama used UK to spy on me" line came from Putin.

[SunSeeker]

On AM Joy this morning, Joy Reid had my favorite, Malcom Nance, on there along with a bunch of other experts. They pointed out that Fox's Andrew Napolitano got that UK spying line from conspiracy theorist Larry C. Johnson on RT (Russia Today, Putin-controlled Russian state television).

I did a Google search and found a good recitation of the details here: https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/14/fox-news-conspiracy-obama-asked-british-intelligence-wiretap-donald-trump-echoes-rt-interview/215678

So, Trump was repeating Putin propaganda designed to sow discord among NATO allies and further Putin's key goal to dissuade European countries from joining/supporting NATO. Putin needs to weaken NATO so he can invade his neighbors with impunity.

Up to now, I had assumed Trump/Napolitano had just pulled that UK spying line out of their ass. Now I know it is even worse than that. Trump really is Putin's asset. 

[dalton99a]

1. Putin's goal is chaos and paralysis in the West.

[SunSeeker]

4. Correct, so he can reassemble the former Soviet Union and expand his kleptocracy.

Vladimir Putin famously called the breakup of the USSR "the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century."

[monmouth4]

2. I don't doubt for a second that he's Putin's asset..n/t

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. There was a time republicans didnt like communist murderers, which is what

Putin started out as, now he is just a murderer who steals capitalists capital.

Even Nixon would find the current party disgusting.

[elias7]

5. If he doesn't recast, it is proof....PUPPET!!!

"No puppet, no puppet, you're the puppet..." comedy gold!

[kimbutgar]

6. There is private line or an untraceable cell phone that is connected to putin and chump talks

To him or though an intermediary to get his marching orders or talking points often.

[sheshe2]

7. Putin is the ventriloquist

...drumpf is just the dummy.