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Putin's Useful Idiot At Work

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  1. adoo

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    If this were being written into a movie, the audience would be saying it was too hard to believe without showing a motivation for why the President elect is openly routing for an adversary of the U.S.

    Yet this is real life, and we don't have a rational reason why, and some of his audience isn't even demanding one.
     
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    NEED MOAR SANCTIONS!!
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    This is getting somewhere beyond bizarre.
     
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    And our president-elect sides with Russia...
     
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    Very hard to believe. This guy is a world class moron. If this was the godfather, I can see a Fredo type of face-off.

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    Putin's Useful Idiot At Work

    The useful idiot complied, inviting both the Russian Prime Minister as well as Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. in the meeting, the useful idiot revealed a highly classified info to the Russian officials.



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    The Useful Idiot Then Double Down
    This AM, he then took to Twitter to defend his actions, that he has the right to share info w the senior Russian officials, in the face of intense criticism, including from some of his fellow Republicans.



    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-tweets-idUSKCN18C19Y

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    The optics for the White House went from bad to worse on Monday when WaPo reported Trump had disclosed highly classified intelligence about ISIS to top Russian officials during the Oval Office meeting, which was closed to US media.


    Putin Offers to Provide a Transcript


    Amidst all the intense criticism directed at his useful idiot, that his puppet, the Russian dictator has stepped up to bailed out Trump, saying that he will give the U.S. Congress evidence that Trump didn’t reveal highly classified information to top Russian officials.



     
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    It would be funny if Putin offered a tape of the meeting too.
     
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    I am sure both the WH and the Russian government have tapes of the meeting, that's how things are done.
     
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    He has a bigger smile with meeting the Russians then he has had meeting with any American.
     
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    How the Trump administration’s secret efforts to ease Russia sanctions fell short

    almost as soon as they took office, the Trump administration tasked State Department staffers with developing proposals for the lifting of economic sanctions, the return of diplomatic compounds and other steps to relieve tensions with Moscow.

    Since this was the same State Department bureau that had helped develop the punitive measures in the first place, and actively pushed for them under the leadership of Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland, who had just resigned, the tasking order left staffers feeling “deeply uncomfortable,”

    These concerns led some department officials to also reach out to Malinowski, an Obama political appointee who had just stepped down. Malinowski said he, along w some career State Dept employees, called Senators Cardin / McCain and other congressional allies, and urged them to codify the sanctions —


    effectively locking them in place — before Trump could lift them
    The lobbying effort produced some immediate results: On Feb. 7, Cardin and Sen. Lindsay Graham introduced bipartisan legislation to bar the administration from granting sanctions relief without first submitting a proposal to do so for congressional review. “Russia has done nothing to be rewarded with sanctions relief,” Graham said in a statement at the time.


    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-ad...se-russia-sanctions-fell-short-231301145.html
     
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    The Hill is reporting that U.S. officials believe that Russian hackers planted a false news account , which is friendly to Iran and critical of Trump, in Qatar's state news agency, contributing to tensions among key U.S. allies in the Gulf,

    yet another eg of Trump being a useful idiot to Putin, bigly

    http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/336638-us-suspects-russia-planted-fake-news-in-qatar-report
     
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    Trump has been more than that; he has also been Xi's useful idiot

    Since Trump took office




    China continues to manipulates its currency, but it's been to appreciate the CNY/CNH vs. the USD

    China's PMI (Purchasing Managers' Index) for both mfg and non-mfg sectors has been positive, over 50, every month

    Chinese exports continue to grow, above analysts' estimate, providing empirical evidence that currency manipulation has little impact on trade.

    China's trade surplus with the U.S. continues to widen; in May it was $22.0 billion in May, up from $21.34 billion in April​


    Trump has been useful, to Xi, insofar helping to provide empirical evidence that a stronger Chinese currency has little or
    no impact on trade w the US
     
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    Agent Orange has also been very useful to Xi

    As Trump Bets on China’s Help on North Korea, Aides Ask: Is It Worth It?

    A growing number of Mr. Trump’s aides fear that the bet is not paying off.

    In April, he said Mr. Xi would be his partner in curbing Mr. Kim. Two weeks later, the Treasury Department declined to designate China as a currency manipulator, something Mr. Trump had promised to do during his presidential campaign.​

    “There is a perception that the Chinese played to his vanity and fleeced him,” said Christopher R. Hill, a special envoy on North Korea during the George W. Bush administration. “It puts him in an awkward position. My sense is they know that calculation and want to deliver on it.”​

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-trump-north-korea.html?_r=0
     
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    That was hilarious. It was also sad at the same time.
     
  18. Invisible Fan

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    Calling him Agent Orange is getting stale.

    But if he keeps it up, it's more like Agent Orange Chicken.
     
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    White House plans to push House GOP for friendlier Russia sanctions deal
    http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/17/trump-white-house-russia-sanctions-deal-239636
     
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    My fellow Trump apolgists,

    Can you fathom a Democrat majority Congress passing a bill with explicit terms that disallows their own party's president to alter sanctions to a nation because they don't trust their own party's president handling sanctions with said nation?

    Trump's own party doesn't trust him with Russia. At this point, if you are still an apologist for this idiot, you are either trolling or as close to an objective idiot as one can approach.
     
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