Unreported nugget in Mueller report: Russia may have wanted to offer Trump

[triron]

land in Crimea?

Link to tweet

[safeinOhio]

1. They want Alaska back....n/t

[DonaldsRump]

9. They can have the portion of Alaska that Sarah Palin occupies! n/t

[calimary]

16. Well, there's Sarah Palin - who claims to have a front row seat to Vladimir's turf.

I’m sure she’d love it.

Why not a swap? trump gets a piece of Crimea and Vlad gets a piece of Alaska? Deal?

[manor321]

2. So many fascinating things.

FYI, the article says Mueller's team responded to her but they never got a response.

[struggle4progress]

3. Trump to look at recognizing Crimea as Russian territory, lifting sanctions

By TYLER PAGER
07/27/2016 01:26 PM EDT


Donald Trump said Wednesday that, if he is elected president, he would consider recognizing Crimea as Russian territory and lifting the sanctions against Russia.

At a wide-ranging news conference, Trump said he “would be looking into that” when asked about his stance on Crimea and Russia. The Crimean Peninsula has been part of Ukraine for decades, but Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed the territory in March 2014 after a popular revolt toppled Kiev's pro-Russian government ...

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-crimea-sanctions-russia-226292

[triron]

4. Good for context!

[struggle4progress]

5. Trump's talking points on Crimea are the same as Putin's

By Christian Caryl
July 3, 2018

A few days ago, reporters on Air Force One asked President Trump if he would accept Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. They had good reason to do so. As Trump prepares for his July 16 summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, there have been signs that the U.S. president might be considering some sort of grand bargain that might entail recognition of Moscow’s claims.

You’d think that the journalists’ question would be an easy one to answer. Putin seized the territory from Ukraine using a cunning blend of subterfuge and military force, in the process flouting a series of international agreements signed by his own government. The international community has overwhelmingly condemned this smash-and-grab — the diplomatic equivalent of an armed robbery. Until that moment four years ago, no country had annexed the territory of a European neighbor since World War II.

So how did Trump answer? “We’re going to have to see,” he said ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/07/03/donald-trumps-talking-points-on-crimea-are-the-same-as-vladimir-putins/?utm_term=.ad7498ceb5d0

[struggle4progress]

6. Trump Won't Follow Congressional Directives on Russia and Crimea

Posted Aug 14, 2018 9:32 AM
Niels Lesniewski

President Donald Trump objects to an effort by Congress to prevent his administration from recognizing Crimea as part of Russia ...

Language in the fiscal 2019 defense authorization, which Trump signed into law Monday during a ceremony at Fort Drum in upstate New York, purported to impose a funding blockade on the Pentagon acting on recognition of Crimea as part of Russia ...

“My Administration will treat these provisions consistent with the President’s exclusive constitutional authorities as Commander in Chief and as the sole representative of the Nation in foreign affairs, including the authorities to determine the terms upon which recognition is given to foreign sovereigns, to receive foreign representatives, and to conduct the Nation’s diplomacy,” Trump said in the signing statement ...

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/trump-wont-follow-congressional-directives-russia-crimea

[struggle4progress]

7. 'I don't like what is happening either way'

Chris Baynes
Tuesday 27 November 2018 13:55

Donald Trump has avoided singling out Russia over its aggression against Ukraine, implying both countries were to blame for increased tensions around the Crimean peninsula.

In his first comments since Moscow’s forces shot at and seized three of Kiev’s navy vessels, the US president said: “We do not like what’s happening either way. We don’t like what’s happening, and hopefully it will get straightened out” ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-russia-ukraine-crimea-putin-black-sea-navy-boats-kerch-strait-poroshenko-a8653616.html

[Turbineguy]

8. A funkhole

Crimea is nice, climate-wise.

[trueblue2007]

10. traitor !!!!

[machoneman]

11. No, I think it meant raw land for a new Trump Tower. That and the fact that he...

favors Russia's seizure lend a kind of two-fold imprimatur to o.k.ing the takeover....from who became the next American president (small p, like his dick!).

[Wounded Bear]

15. Wouldn't doubt it...nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. But nothing, nothing at all, enough to charge Trump or his corrupt family members.

"They didn't know they were committing a crime" so its all okay.

Isn't that what Mitch and Ryan were using as excuses for Trump when he was sworn in? Mueller is a good loyal Republican too.

[SunSeeker]

14. Yep. Mueller was being way too solicitous of the Trump Crime Family. nt

[coeur_de_lion]

13. Give him the land!

And let him go live there if he likes Russia so much.