Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Richard Smith]

As I have said many times before, all the disaster we have faced is due to Criminal Donald and here's another one with high gas prices. The right wing media, GOP politicians, and right wing propagandists falsely attack President Biden for political purposes. But the truth and the evidence is debunking all their lies.       

At least you are acknowledging that we are living is a state of constant disasters under Biden.  The worst year in American history since the Civil War.  And it gets worse every day.  Biden's weakness and incompetence were demonstrated throughout his long career in politics.  No American voter should have expected anything differently now that he is completely senile.  It is just too bad that the people of Ukraine also have to pay the price for the American public buying the hoaxes perpetuated by the likes of Rick and CNN during the 2020 election.  Those chickens have come home to roost. 

[Rick Plant]

Fake billionaire has to scam money from his cult of suckers.

Trump scrambles at damage control after being caught grifting MAGA supporters with phony 'contest'



Donald Trump released a statement on Saturday attempting damage control after being caught fundraising off of a phony contest.

"Former president Donald Trump’s political group sent at least 15 emails in recent weeks offering small-dollar donors the chance to win a coveted prize if they gave money: dinner with Trump in New Orleans last Saturday," The Washington Post reported Friday. "But no such winner was flown to New Orleans last weekend, according to four people familiar with the matter. No flight or “very nice” hotel was booked. Trump had no individual meeting with a small-dollar donor, instead only privately greeting a handful of Republican Party donors who gave large checks, taking pictures with some of the party’s most well-heeled members and speaking to a larger group of donors who each gave tens of thousands of dollars."

Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich admitted that no prize was ever awarded.

"President Trump has awarded more than 100 prizes to contest winners across America, but due to an administrative error in this individual circumstance, the contest winner was not properly notified for last weekend’s event in New Orleans. Consistent with the rules of the sweepstakes, a substitute prize will be awarded to the winner," Budowich claimed.

Even though his own spokesperson confirmed newspaper's reporting, Trump claimed in a statement that "reporting by the Washington Post was inaccurate and, Fake News."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-grift-2656941542/

[Rick Plant]

At least you are acknowledging that we are living is a state of constant disasters under Biden.  The worst year in American history since the Civil War.  And it gets worse every day.  Biden's weakness and incompetence were demonstrated throughout his long career in politics.  No American voter should have expected anything differently now that he is completely senile.  It is just too bad that the people of Ukraine also have to pay the price for the American public buying the hoaxes perpetuated by the likes of Rick and CNN during the 2020 election.  Those chickens have come home to roost.

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We lived under 4 years of disaster under Criminal Donald and he handed them all off to Biden to deal with. 4 years of weakness from an absolute moron who had no business being in the oval office. The only reason Donnie was installed was because Putin needed a stooge to do his dirty work for him and Donnie delivered.

John Bolton said Putin put off invading Ukraine while Trump ‘did a lot of his work for him’
‘To Putin’s mind...a weaker Nato is a stronger Russia’

A former United States national security secretary adviser has said Vladimir Putin did not invade Ukraine while Donald Trump was president because of his hostility towards Nato, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

Speaking with Julie Mason, a journalist and the host of Julie Mason Mornings, John Bolton said Mr Trump’s known hostility of Nato meant Mr Putin was reassured of his aims while the Republican was in office.

“I think one of the reasons that Putin did not move during Trump’s term in office was he saw the president’s hostility of Nato,” Mr Bolton said on Wednesday when asked about the situation in Ukraine.

“To Putin’s mind its a binary proposition, a weaker Nato is a stronger Russia so I think Putin saw Trump doing a lot of his work for him, and thought maybe in a second term Trump would make good on his promise to get out of Nato”.

The New York Times revealed in 2019 that Mr Trump told White House aides about his desire to remove the US from Nato, and a year later even referred to Germany as “delinquent” before removing 12,000 US troops from the Nato member and US ally in 2020.

Mr Bolton, who was asked whether or not a second Trump term would have helped Ukraine, said “I think we’d be in a lot worse state” and that Russia’s president had expressed as far as back as 2005 that he viewed the fall of the Soviet Union as a “tragedy”.

“He said back in 2005 in an address to the state duma, the parliament, that the break up of the Soviet Union had been the greatest tragedy of the 21st century and clearly he wanted to reverse it”, Mr Bolton told the radio host. “(We were) underestimating his determination to get back into control (of) and perhaps actual sovereignty (over) parts of the former Soviet Union”.

“I think a lot of people believed he would not carry through with a lot of the threats that he made”, Mr Bolton, who served as Mr Trump’s national security advisor from 2018 to 2019, said.

He told Vice News in a recent interview that he also doubted Mr Trump’s enthusiasm for standing in Mr Putin’s way, with the Republican forced to roll back on comments that described the Russian leader as “savvy” and a “genius” for launching an invasion of Ukraine, its neighbour, on a false pretext.

“You never know with Trump,” Mr Bolton said. “It depends on what time of day it is, it depends on what he thought his political benefit would be at any given moment. I don’t think ultimately he would have stood in Putin’s way”.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/john-bolton-putin-ukraine-invasion-trump-b2032764.html

[Rick Plant]

A weak and useless Donald Trump put our safety in security in jeopardy as he took the side of a dictator over our own U.S. Intelligence in Helsinki. We are now suffering the consequences of those 4 disastrous years as Donnie gave Putin whatever he wanted for his Ukraine invasion.   

Trump has taken Putin's side. His stability and America's safety are now in question.

Donald Trump has taken a side and it's not ours. He waltzed into a media event with Vladimir Putin, a professional intelligence officer, and imperiled America.

July 16, 2018


Donald Trump shows his weakness to Putin on the world stage in Helsinki 

The Helsinki summit is over, and we are all left struggling to find the words to capture the nightmare that in the space of less than 24 hours destroyed years of American diplomacy, sacrifice and leadership.

So perhaps we should just admit what our own eyes cannot deny: We have now witnessed the very worst humiliation of a president of the United States ever, and one of the lowest points in the history of the American presidency.

The summit was completely in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s control, and it showed. That was to be expected from an incompetent leader believing he could waltz unprepared into a news media event with a professional intelligence officer. A summit without an agenda is a bad idea from the start, but President Donald Trump clearly wanted to replicate the artificial media high of his trip to Singapore to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — another disgraceful episode in itself — and garner high ratings and hollow applause from his usual fans and camp-followers.

But Kim is a young and relatively inexperienced brute, whose personal stature and weird mien do not play all that well on television. And all Kim needed to do was share a stage with an American president to accomplish his mission. Kim is crude and dangerous, but he is an amateur.­­­

Putin was careful and icily competent

Putin, however, is no amateur. He performed brilliantly, turning every issue back to the Americans, and Trump took it all. Ukraine? The Americans should talk to their Ukrainian friends, not us. Espionage? Pish-posh. We’re not that kind of country, but if you’d like us to look into it, hand over Putin opponent Bill Browder. Syria? Of course, we’d love to remain involved there under the guise of humanitarian aid, thank you for the invitation. Putin did what one would expect him to do, and his behavior was icily competent and carefully executed.

Trump, who understands none of these issues, stood there waiting for his few openings to plead his usual litany of insecurity and victimhood. Things have never been worse, Trump said, although Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, who weathered the Berlin Blockade, the Cuban missile crisis, and the 1983 war scare, would probably disagree. It’s doubtful Trump knows about any of those things, as they happened long ago and did not directly involve him personally, and therefore are not important.

Had the summit ended before the two leaders took any questions, it would have been a U.S. defeat, largely because it gave Putin a chance to refute all charges against his regime and to stand — like Kim — on a stage with the putative leader of the Free World after directing multiple attacks on the U.S. and its allies.

Once the questions began, Trump's behavior was not only shameful, but bizarre and seriously worrisome. The president of the United States not only sided with the Russian president, but he did so against the American intelligence community, the American law enforcement community, and the American system of justice.

Given an opportunity to hold Russia accountable for anything — anything at all — the president instantly equivocated, blaming both countries. He babbled, literally, about servers. He attacked Democrats. He rambled about the Electoral College. He revealed, again, his obsession with Hillary Clinton, and noted that in Russia, no one would have lost her emails.

Putin, meanwhile, was serene, as well he should have been. He chuckled warmly as he instructed us all in the nature of intelligence tradecraft. "Do you think that we try to collect compromising material (on all high-ranking American businessmen)?" Of course the Russians do this. The only person in the world who doesn’t seem to understand this is Trump. Instead, responding to whether Putin had "compromising material" on him, he ran to Putin’s defense — and his own: If they had it, "it would have been out long ago." That’s not only a stupid dare, but a statement that could come back to haunt Trump.

By the end of this circus, Trump was practically mewling, begging for Putin's approval, saying that Putin's denials were "extremely strong and powerful," almost in a kind of strangely erotic tone of admiration.

The very last thing the president of the United States did at a summit with the Russian president was to attack an FBI agent. His last words, just before "thank you," were "witch hunt." Putin could not have scripted it better.

Trump stability, US safety in question

Every single person involved in this fiasco — national security adviser John Bolton chief among them — should be given no rest from questions about why this happened, what they intend to do now, and whether they think they can still serve the president now that he has unveiled a new policy of no-limits appeasement.

Meanwhile, Trump's performance will raise concerns not only about the president's personal stability, but about the future and safety of the United States and its allies that will last long beyond this moment. Trump thinks he solved everything in four hours, but we are all now in more danger than we were a day ago.

The Russians, at this moment, continue to attack us and they will attempt to interfere in the 2018 elections. Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, has told us point-blank that all of the warning lights of an impending attack of some kind are flashing red, which is not language that the DNI — and a Trump ally — would use lightly. If Putin now thinks he can act against the U.S. and NATO with impunity, as he surely must, then we are headed for one of the most dangerous periods since the end of the Cold War.

But the president, the commander in chief of our armed forces, the man whose oath requires him to defend us, has taken sides. He has taken Putin’s side. We are in significant peril, and it will not abate soon.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/07/16/donald-trump-sides-vladimir-putin-most-danger-since-cold-war-column/786850002/

[Richard Smith]

"The Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling, it's an outrage and an atrocity that should never have been allowed to occur.  We are praying for the proud people of Ukraine. God bless them all."

Donald J. Trump (statement on 02/26/22)

[Rick Plant]

Kevin McCarthy has changed his tune because he saw the new polls which shows the overwhelming majority of Americans 80% supporting Ukraine and President Biden to take on Russia. Too late for Kevin and the GOP to change now when they were supporting Pro Putin lover Criminal Donald's continued praising of Putin and spent years attacking Ukraine with false Russian propaganda.

McCarthy distances himself from Trump by condemning Putin’s actions -- here’s why its already too late



House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has a habit of echoing former President Donald Trump's baseless claims and conspiracy theories but he's opted to break from Trump on one of the most critical topics being discussed right now: Russian President Vladamir Putin.

According to The Washington Post, McCarthy's recent discussion with reporters included a rare moment in which he refrained from echoing the words of the former president. Speaking to reporters during his latest news conference, the high-ranking Republican lawmaker admitted he disagrees with Trump's remarks describing Putin as "savvy" and a "genius."

“I do not think anything’s savvy or genius about Putin,” McCarthy told reporters. “I think Putin is evil. He’s a dictator. And I think he’s murdering people right now.”

McCarthy's remarks come less than a month after Trump's interview on a right-wing radio broadcast where he praised Putin's leadership on the invasion of Ukraine.

“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent,” Trump said.

He later added: “Here’s a guy that says, you know, ‘I’m gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent’ — he used the word ‘independent’ — ‘and we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.’ You gotta say that’s pretty savvy.”

Although McCarthy is choosing to publicly disagree with Trump now, the damage is already done. For months now, many Republican lawmakers have echoed Trump's praise and admiration of Putin. Now, Republicans are backpedaling. It's highly likely that this situation will get far worse before it improves but Republicans did not consider that possibility while championing Putin's actions.

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-kevin-mccarthy-2656948506/

[Rick Plant]

This psychotic lunatic is trying to incite more violence based on a bogus conspiracy theory. This Russian asset continues to divide America and cause chaos based on race.

Trump blasted for telling followers they 'must lay down their very lives' to defend against CRT



Donald Trump is calling on his followers to "lay down their very lives" to defend the United States against critical race theory. The disgraced former president delivered that dangerous call to arms at his "Save America" rally Saturday night in Florence, South Carolina.

"Getting critical race theory out of our schools is not just a matter of values, it's also a matter of national survival," Trump told his MAGA supporters. So-called critical race theory is not something that is taught in K-12 grades, it is a college-level interdisciplinary means to examine social and institutional constructs surrounding race.

"We have no choice," Trump continued, a claim he often makes when speaking falsely.

That's when he laid the groundwork for weaponizing his followers in the racist battle inside his mind that one day may erupt in physical war on our streets.

"The fate of any nation depends upon the willingness of its citizens to lay down – and they must do this – lay down their very lives to defend their country. If we allow the Marxists and communists and socialists to teach our children to hate America there will be no one left to defend our flag or to protect our great country or its freedom."

Backlash was strong and swift.

"Calling for political violence to stop the teaching of accurate history in our schools is what fascism looks like," commented Indivisible's Sarah Dohl.

"Trump doesn’t want a political party. He wants an army. He’s a TV terrorist yes. But he’s also a real fascist," wrote Condé Nast Legal Affairs Editor Luke Zaleski. "Attacking the Capitol, waiting, calling it off, then telling them he loved them after they terrorized the country and got his message across was a kind of a hint, folks."

Zaleski later added: "Trump is a traitor and political mob boss."

Civil-rights lawyer Subodh Chandra described Trump's remarks as a "call to a violent race war. Over nothing but the teaching of our actual history. (CRT is not taught in public schools.)"

"Donald Trump," said Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts, "who seems to be in the running for 2024, tells a nation awash in guns to kill or be killed in order to stop anyone from 'hating our country.'"

"Scenes from a slow civil war," observed Vanity Fair contributing editor Jeff Sharlet, who exposed the international right-wing Christian fundamentalist theocratic organization known as The Family.

"What does this mean?" asked Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy professor Don Moynihan. "If you are a teacher in a state you probably feel less and less safe by the extremist nature of this rhetoric."

"Encouraging his fanboys to commit political violence again. Why is he still at large?" asked Salon's Bob Cesca.

https://www.rawstory.com/tv-terrorist-donald-trump-blasted-for-telling-followers-they-must-lay-down-their-very-lives-to-defend-against-crt/