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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 08:30 AM Mar 2017

No longer a useful idiot Putin takes a dump on Thump

Kremlin-controlled news outlets used to root for Donald Trump’s election. Now they’re reveling in the chaos and division of his early presidency.

“Sessions Scandal: ‘U.S Headed to Constitutional Crisis,’” reads a March 3 headline on the website of the Kremlin-funded English language network RT.

“Immigrants See American Dream Fade in Wake of Surge Hate Crimes,” Sputnik News, another English language outlet bankrolled by the Kremlin, reported the same day.

“America is in the grips of hatred,” the Russian television commentator Dmitry Kiselyov told viewers of the Rossiya 1 network on Sunday night. The popular host, appointed directly by Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggested the political discord could lead to violence in gun-friendly America — “a dangerous combination with free-flowing firearms,” he said.

It’s not that the Kremlin-controlled outlets which all but explicitly rooted for Trump to defeat Hillary Clinton last fall have changed their view of the New York mogul. It’s that Moscow’s main goal was always to undermine the U.S. political system, regardless of who is in the White House, experts said.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/donald-trump-russia-media-235755



Putin wins either way. He gets Thump to do his bidding or he benefits from the chaos Thump creates.
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No longer a useful idiot Putin takes a dump on Thump (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 OP
You know what's funny? Politico was strongly Anti-Hillary as well. DetlefK Mar 2017 #1
THIS BumRushDaShow Mar 2017 #2
So where's the pee tape, Vlad? Warren DeMontague Mar 2017 #3
much as i would hate it to be that that brings him down, mopinko Mar 2017 #6
At this point it is so publicized that it wouldn't shock much or do much. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2017 #7
i think it depends mopinko Mar 2017 #13
also depends mopinko Mar 2017 #14
Pootie's goal is to breakup the United States. roamer65 Mar 2017 #4
They've planted the seeds and tilled the fields. bluedigger Mar 2017 #5
.... trusty elf Mar 2017 #8
Putin has basically achieved his goal of dismantling democracy. world wide wally Mar 2017 #9
Yes to all the comments, plus/or Ligyron Mar 2017 #10
putin did what he wanted to do. create chaos. nt Javaman Mar 2017 #11
Or both....nt 2naSalit Mar 2017 #12
They're just keeping up appearances Blue_Tires Mar 2017 #15

mopinko

(70,222 posts)
6. much as i would hate it to be that that brings him down,
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 09:28 AM
Mar 2017

i'll take it.

so many real reasons to take them all down, and send them all to prison, and it will be the shock of this tape that will send us into spasms.

mopinko

(70,222 posts)
14. also depends
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 01:01 PM
Mar 2017

how much of any of it traces back to drumph shells.
miss america in moscow anyone? pimping out the losers?
drumph modeling anyone?
backs up jane doe?
jeremy epstein bff?

roamer65

(36,747 posts)
4. Pootie's goal is to breakup the United States.
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 09:06 AM
Mar 2017

He sees it as revenge for the breakup of the Soviet Union. That is why he has coddled the California secessionist movement as well.

Ligyron

(7,639 posts)
10. Yes to all the comments, plus/or
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 10:56 AM
Mar 2017

Their public disapproval throws shade on the team Trump/Russian connection.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
15. They're just keeping up appearances
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 01:10 PM
Mar 2017

The Russians are old school and at least *TRY* to pretend Trump isn't their total muppet, but Trump has been sabotaging this effort almost daily...

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