Russian Media Wants Moscow to Grant Asylum to Trump

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: The Daily Beast

Russian state media—a reliable barometer of the mood at the Kremlin—remains fixated on election-related events in America. Affectionately referring to Donald Trump as “our Donald,” “Trumpusha” and “Comrade Trump,” Russian lawmakers, experts and pundits repeatedly have expressed their concerns about the future of Moscow’s all-time favorite U.S. president.

Co-host of Russian state TV news talk show 60 Minutes Olga Skabeeva brought up the possibility that President Trump would end up seeking asylum in Russia to escape any prosecutions in the United States following the conclusion of his sole presidential term. Skabeeva emphasized that this was by no means a joking matter: “It’s all very serious,” she said, as she pondered out loud about the nature of criminal charges Trump might soon be facing.

Experts in the studio enthusiastically discussed the likelihood of Trump being charged with a bevy of offenses from tax evasion to fraud and sexual assault. They concurred that Trump’s presidential pardon would not help him in state cases, unlike the recently advanced constitutional amendment in Russia that secured lifetime immunity from criminal prosecution for the country’s former presidents. Russian President Vladimir Putin can relate to Trump on a very personal level—not only where it comes to a ruthless pursuit of power, but also with respect to the intense fear of accountability if that power was to ever slip away. While Putin’s grip on Russia is feverishly safeguarded, Trump's fate is far from certain.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-media-wants-moscow-to-grant-asylum-to-trump-to-help-him-dodge-prosecutions

[Roy Rolling]

1. Perfect

The next president of Russia: Comrade Trump—Make Russia Great Again

[Raster]

2. I thought he was already doing that.

[NurseJackie]

51. 💥 Air Force One needs a Lo-Jack installed... 💥

Air Force One needs a Lo-Jack installed... or something that would cause the internal technology to self-destruct so that Trump couldn't give AF1 to the Russians in exchange for asylum.

[olegramps]

54. Do they offer free psychiatric care?

[Lock him up.]

60. Nah. Too much Polonium there...

If he can't (or refuses to) pay his debts to the local mob.

oRange anus is a cowaRd, remember that.

[LisaL]

3. Russia can have him.

NT

[NCjack]

30. From USA with love.

[DENVERPOPS]

46. You can bet Putin would love to have him

and all his children and associates.

Trump, his spawn, and associates would not be given the glorious lifestyle in Russia that they are thinking they would get. Putin would put them all in a Gulag and torture them endlessly to get all the intelligence and U.S. secrets they possess.........Putin would put each of them on display at a table sitting in a chair and have them bad mouth the U.S. just like a POW......

[keithbvadu2]

71. No torture needed if you give Trump family hotels, loans, and patents.

[mitch96]

4. GOOD send his ass to Moscow... Him, Snowden and Steve Segal can talk about the good old days.nt

[bluestarone]

5. And 70 million people want this TRAITOR?

Russia can have this ASSHOLE!!!!

[thesquanderer]

16. And most of the 70 million will approve of him anyway.

The response won't be, "I guess we were wrong about his not having Russian ties." It will be, "he'd never be treated fairly in the U.S. courts, so he had no choice." Or maybe "that's what the Deep State forced him to do."

[DENVERPOPS]

48. Or the Dems

paid Putin to protect him and his worthless spawn from the U.S. government........

[paleotn]

72. Maybe we can ship them his followers as well?

Just asking.

[CatMor]

6. Russia you have our wholehearted approval ..

to take trump off our hands. We'll even pay for his air fare. Thank you.

[William Seger]

7. Free shipping!

[ffr]

24. +1

[iscooterliberally]

27. Brilliant!

[mahina]

28. Great offer

My buddy who worked in the forest service suggests we consider using animal control instead of the secret service to extract him from the White House.

They can dart him, weigh him, tag him and transport to a safe area where he won’t interact with people. HA!

I have a cute meme of this but am not good at posting photos anymore.

[pandr32]

38. LOL!

[cheri010353]

8. I would love to rid our nation of the disgusting excuse for a human being

as well as his vermin offspring. However, he has an awful lot of sensitive information that our enemies would love to have in order to do even more damage than they already have. And he would be beyond the reach of any legal consequences.

[onetexan]

9. The con's been oneof them all along. This media float is just to gauge the public's

Feelings on it. Its already a done deal IMO.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Biden said it best

"I will govern as an American president."

The unstated subliminal implication being 'not as a Russian one.'

[onetexan]

12. Perfect! He couldnt have said it better :)

[thesquanderer]

14. I think he meant not as strictly a Democratic (or Republican) one...

...but it works either way.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. That's what made it such a great way of putting it

It drew in voters committed to America, and they could read into it whatever they wanted. So my subliminal read might not have matched yours, but we both voted the same way. It was a great nod to the idea that everything doesn't have to be weaponized into partisan, divisive statements, that there is a durable and constant political middle where understatement thrives. Masterful, really. One could imagine any of our best presidents having uttered the same thing.

[Texin]

33. It goes back to the late '70s (or earlier) at Brighton Beach:

home of Russian mobsters. Everything he is he learned at Brighton Beach and at Fred's knee.

[msfiddlestix]

40. When I first learned the history of how Russian Mobsters immigrated here

from Soviet prisons (Siberia?) shocked and surprised me. Learned about this after Puten's Puppet was installed, early 2017.

Quite astounding that it wasn't given national attention at the time it started or anytime after.

Still to this very day.

Our brilliant cable news jocks haven't mentioned nary a word as far as I know.

[keithbvadu2]

73. "The con's been oneof them all along."

"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/world/make-russia-great-again-if-trump-lifts-sanctions-putin-could-finally-establish-his-country-as-an-equal-to-u-s&pubdate=2016-12-03

[Wicked Blue]

10. I'm sure there is a nice mental asylum in Russia

with an opening, just WAITING for him.

[2naSalit]

13. Unlelss they can...

"Beam" themselves over there, I doubt they'll get of the continent. As severe national security threats, each one of them, they won't be going much of anywhere I would think.

[Hortensis]

15. Putin stashes deposed dictators and others forced to flee the law

in their home countries , etc., in a little village not far from Moscow. It's even supposed to have an area of luxury housing.

Edward Snowden may be there, and if so he and Trump could be expats together. Melania might prefer the company of various eastern Europeans who had to flee their countries, but if so she'd have it. Although I heard she forced Trump into renegotiating their prenup after he was elected...?

[Nasruddin]

62. Known as the Village

... or maybe Colony 3

[Hortensis]

65. :)

[bluestarone]

17. GOOD! and

Take your WHOLE FUCKING FAMILY WITH YOU!!!

[niyad]

18. This isn't Borowitz or The Onion???

Proof positive that the murdering, orange psychopath is a f'n traitor.

[Turbineguy]

19. A fine plan.

A penthouse apartment with windows that open.

[Marcuse]

20. I'm not sure this would even be necessary. I don't think he's learned anything.

[generalbetrayus]

68. Good point! I've been trying to reassure myself in recent months that he has no secrets to share

because he never listens for long at his national security briefings. And he probably misremembers most of the statements he actually heard from briefers. He might actually provide a service to the U.S. by giving the Russians garbled information.

[area51]

22. Time for some Beatles:

[yuiyoshida]

23. NO SIR, The State of New York Southern District has plans for

Donald J. Trump.

Not only that... Trump had access to TOP SECRET information, stuff the Russians would love to get , all wrapped up in glitter paper and ribbons. That fucker will SELL OFF THE USA's secrets just to live in Russia? No fucking way, Jose.

[keithbvadu2]

74. Even worse, Jared had access to TS info.

Even worse, Jared had access to TS info.

Jared thinks a security clearance is a license to sell our country's secrets for profit.

And Jared is far more capable of retaining and organizing that info.

[yuiyoshida]

78. I sure hope the FBI and the Justice Department shadow him

and maybe catching him in the act of selling U.S. Secrets. He will go to prison for life.... and no pardon will work for him then. Besides, I kinda think the southern district of New York might want to speak to Ivanka and Jared ..about some possible crimes there related to Trump himself.

[Javaman]

25. he's got to get their first.

LOL

fat chance of that happening.

but he will try oh boy will he try.

in the end, he will be brought up on charges and tied up in law suits and civil suits for the rest of his and his moronic spawns lives.

[iscooterliberally]

26. We could build a giant trebuchet and fling Trump towards Russia.

[StClone]

29. Russia is an Asylum posing as a rundown Trailer park with nukes.

I have kept track of what Russia has been saying about Trump through his presidency. They have gone from showing him as a strong man, then as he was becoming feckless, a buffoon (to run the USA down) now to a charitable figure in need of Mother Russia.

I love that they want to offer a home for this crooked slob "because he will be charged with a bevy of offenses from tax evasion to fraud and sexual assault." Win? Win? Not so fast Trump will spill our secrets! And we want our pound of flesh off this obese criminally insane pos. No asylum no matter what!

[NCjack]

32. I suspect that Trump has already delivered all that he has in possession

and that he can remember. All of his golf courses and hotels likely have Russian spies to pump him dry and give him the latest instructions from Putin.

[hadEnuf]

31. Any more doubts that "Trumpusha" has been and still is a Russian asset?

[apnu]

36. I think the term is 'useful idiot'

And yes that makes him an asset. One so dull, it doesn't know it is an asset.

[Escurumbele]

47. We cannot underestimate the buffoon, he is ignorant, lacks vocabulary, and many other

good attributes, but I don't think he is a total idiot.

I think his intelligence can only process evil stuff, mafia type stuff, and he is willing to commit treason for personal gain. I do believe that he is looking for an escape because he knows that the likelihood of him and maybe some or all of his children going to jail is high, so I would not put it past him to try to negotiate something with Russia so that he can move there.

He is not an idiot, he is just evil to the core, and he can only rationalize evil stuff.

If he is an idiot, how is it that he has kidnapped the entire republican party?

[hadEnuf]

52. I think Putin may have stuff on him.

But he is a useful idiot as well.

[apnu]

34. Trump has all of America's state secrets, this is what they want.

They what him to provide intel on American secrets only the Executive Office and Commander-in-Chief has access to.

They know Trump is easily controlled and cheap to control. He's so emotionally unstable he'll blab anything/everything for a sandwich or a hooker.

[Escurumbele]

44. I have to think that the Intelligence Agencies are not providing key information to the buffoon

They know he is a danger to the country, and I don't think they doubt he is a witting agent. That question of whether trump may not be a witting agent is bull, the guy is evil and he will do anything that he feels benefits him...

If I were part of an intelligence agent I would give him bad intelligence briefings, and some to confirm that the buffoon is giving Russia intelligence information, that should not be too difficult to do. You know, some bogus information that would prompt the Russians to react.

[Nasruddin]

63. Can't be helped

And people in his orbit, who would presumably have to join him in exile, many of them are neither as addled or lazy as the regime chief.

[keithbvadu2]

75. For greater effect, make the hooker look like Ivanka.

For greater effect, make the hooker look like Ivanka.

[Harker]

35. Vintage Trumpsky Vodka

for everybubba!

[Kid Berwyn]

37. He can join Kim Philby and all the rest from Cambridge in hell, too.

Bigly hot, for ever. Be sure to say, “Hi!” to Benedict, Donald.

[Botany]

39. Vlad's got this "fixer upper" in Tomsk

Plenty of room for Don, family, Barr, Ron Johnson, and others.

[Nitram]

41. Please, please, please take Dump off our hands!

[Ford_Prefect]

42. Some people are saying there's some nice Crimean beachfront that needs developing...

Or maybe Trump International Hotel and Tower (Baku)???

[link:|

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Hotel_and_Tower_(Baku)

[Escurumbele]

43. I have a feeling that comrade Vladimir doesn't want the idiot around

The buffoon's usefulness has run out, Putin may be able to extract some more "USA National Secret Information" from the buffoon, but not much.

I cannot imagine Putin wanting to see the idiot's face after this stunt, he has done his job, not particularly well, but Putin did gain some ground thanks to the idiot.

And...the idiot doesn't have the money he says he has, I know he is taking some of the "defense money" into his pocket, but not enough to pay all the debts he has, so why would Putin want him around? I think "comrade trump" is going to learn what total loneliness is all about. Amen.

[pandr32]

45. Let Russia take their stooge

They showered him with money, cyber support, counsel, and smiles of approval from Daddy Vlad.

They made sure their stooge was operational to their advantage.

tRumpy revered Daddy Vlad--probably the only other person aside from Ivanka who somehow managed to hold his attention and praise. He tried to kowtow to other dictators, but likely under the counsel of Daddy Vlad in order to further destroy our America--more for Vlad than for tRumpy who was enjoying feeling like a powerful man himself, but without foresight and intelligence. He probably even made sure the presidential seal was on his toilet paper in order to constantly be reminded of his important station.

tRumpy made off like a bandit. He had a job he didn't actually do, but with all its trappings and perks which he fully enjoyed. The media hung on his every lie, he fattened his offshore bank accounts--including those of his spawn, and had White House staff treat him like the most powerful man in the world as they tiptoed around him while he watched TV and yelled at his aides. He propped up his golf resorts with our money and languished at them for a full one third of his four year term with Secret Service following his every move--even on the greens. He redesigned Air-force One to his garish tastes, and much of his quarters at Our White House as well. He never spent a penny the whole time.

So let Russia have him.

They will have to indulge him and that will grow tiresome. He came to think of himself as Daddy Vlad's favorite. He will continue to want the attention of their media and public. He can't help himself. It won't be long before he is invited to tea.

[rickyhall]

49. Welcome home comrad trump.

[MineralMan]

50. Let's all chip in to pay for a charter flight to Moscow

for Trump and his brood.

[Vinca]

53. Works for me. Take his kids, too.

[WhiteTara]

55. That makes him a flight risk and his passport

should be surrendered immediately and I hope the warrants are at the ready for 12:01.

[Dem forever]

56. Good bye asshat and family

Dumpster and family needs to watch what they eat over the next few years. Vodka and gang has ways of shutting him and his family up for good. He is the man who knew too much.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

57. I've been saying this for a while now. He's making a fuss about not conceding only to increase

donations. When inauguration day comes he and his family will take off for a nation that doesn't have an extradition agreement with the US.
This is why his Pentagon purge and the classified information that is at risk because of it is disturbing. Something tells me he's just getting himself set up to screw America in ways that haven't been thought of yet thanks to the cooperation of the Republican/Russian party leaders in Congress.

[DeminPennswoods]

58. Works for me

nt

[flibbitygiblets]

59. Tell them they have to take Melanie and the kids too -- and no re-grifting!

They may want to stay away from tea...and windows...

...or not...

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

61. Only if they take his cult with him.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

64. Trump could make easy money selling them all our state secrets

and betraying our country again, while living in luxury as Putin's Poodle.

[FakeNoose]

66. Has Chump even asked for asylum?

I doubt that he has or that he'd want it. Maybe sometime in the future if he's convicted of major crimes and looking at life in prison with no parole, THEN maybe he'd be interested in moving to Moscow.

But as it is now, he's got another 4 years of grifting (at least) to look forward to. The rightwing stooges have deep pockets in the US, and Chump doesn't know a word of Russian.

[Sapient Donkey]

67. These guys are good at stirring the pot.

[myohmy2]

69. maybe...

...trump's been mumbling too much to himself lately, to an imaginary 'Presidency' he thought was coming?

...could that be the reason he needs an asylum in Russia?

...

[Cha]

70. trumpushaSHIT should end up in

Siberia

[keithbvadu2]

76. America's pal Vlad.

America's pal Vlad.

[Joinfortmill]

77. They want U.S. intel.

[penbo]

79. a deep breadth