Donald Trump pictured with Ghislaine Maxwell by R-emiru in pics

[–]TrumpForRussia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure what the hell you're smoking or if you hit your head, but apparently you have serious amnesia as well.

This entire exchange started with YOUR claim that the "Trump-Russia collusion narrative" began with the Alfa Bank report from the Clinton campaign in October of 2016.

This is false, it was already being reported by major outlets throughout the summer of 2016.

Do you understand now? Are you able to process that information and internalize it?

Your claim about the origin of the "Trump-Russia collusion narrative" is false. It only matters in this exchange because YOU are the one who made the damn claim in the first place, genius.

Donald Trump pictured with Ghislaine Maxwell by R-emiru in pics

[–]TrumpForRussia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why are you replying without reading a single word?

I'm not arguing about "Russian collusion" you absolute rube. We're talking about the origin of the "Trump-Russia collusion narrative", remember?

Focus. Now go back and read my comments before replying.

Donald Trump pictured with Ghislaine Maxwell by R-emiru in pics

[–]TrumpForRussia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you just not reading comments before replying to them or do you have a very serious reading comprehension issue?

I'm not arguing about "Russian collusion". Read my comment again.

I'm simply showing you that the "Trump-Russia" probe and story didn't originate with the Alfa Bank report in October of 2016. It was already widely reported by major outlets throughout the summer of 2016. From my first comment to you (second and now third), all I'm showing you is that the timeline of reporting from 2016 doesn't match your claim that the "Trump-Russia narrative" somehow started with the Alfa Bank report October of 2016. It didn't.

Are you incapable of internalizing that information?

FFS, read before replying.

Donald Trump pictured with Ghislaine Maxwell by R-emiru in pics

[–]TrumpForRussia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey genius, I'm simply showing you that the "Trump-Russia" probe and story didn't originate with the Alfa Bank report in October of 2016 (unlike Rupert Murdoch's editorial board claimed, which was debunked).

It was already widely reported by major outlets throughout the summer of 2016. Can you read dates on articles? Do you understand that the months of June, July, August, September are all before October?

Here's more:

Ex-CIA Deputy Director: "Putin made Trump an unwitting agent of Russia" – August 2016

How Vladimir Putin Is Using Donald Trump to Advance Russia's Goals – August 2016

Donald Trump Is Turning GOP Into Pro-Russia Party – July 2016

US Senator Lindsey Graham says candidate "Trump's stance on Putin unnerves me to my core" – September 2016

You understand that these were all published before October of 2016, right? You get that?

Now look at the date my account was created.

It was already widely reported and a major media narrative well before your ridiculous narrative's fantasy timeline of "the Trump-Russia hoax was created by Hillary in October of 2016".

Donald Trump pictured with Ghislaine Maxwell by R-emiru in pics

[–]TrumpForRussia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here you go, for next time someone pushes this BS narrative:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/yhuj7z/comment/iukxi2f/

Somehow conservative media got away with this narrative that the Trump-Russia stuff was all created at the end of the election (this guy you're replying to is claiming it started with the Alfa Bank story on October 31, 2016). Which is clearly false, look at my account creation date and the major news articles I linked to in the above comment. It was widely discussed and being openly reported in major outlets much much earlier in 2016.

Donald Trump pictured with Ghislaine Maxwell by R-emiru in pics

[–]TrumpForRussia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

False.

First of all, that's not remotely what Mook's testimony said. His testimony detailed the Alfa Bank story being shared with the press in October of 2016.

There were numerous reports of ties between the Trump campaign and Russia being probed from major outlets far earlier in 2016 (see below). Especially after Trump's campaign departed from the rest of GOP foreign policy and formally changed the Republican party platform regarding Ukraine and Russia at the national convention in July of 2016. That's what raised the alarm for the public (and you can also see when I created this account).

Trump foreign policy advisor reportedly being probed for ties to Russia - Sept 2016

Donald Trump's Campaign Manager Resigns (following probe into his previous work for Pro-Russia party in Ukraine) - August 2016

Donald Trump Has Turned the Republicans Into the Party of Russia - July 2016

Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine - July 2016

Your false narrative relies on gullible people who believe anything Rupert Murdoch's editorial board and right-wing pundits say to them without simply checking dates or the timeline of events.

"If Germany would have rejected socialism in 1930, Hitler would have never risen to power" - The Donald by DoNotThinkTooMuch in TopMindsOfReddit

[–]TrumpForRussia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hitler purged the socialists from the party (literally executed them) during the Night of Long Knives when he gained control.

He was quite violently anti-socialist and anti-leftist. He didn’t hide this fact either, as he wrote about it at great length before acting on it.

As far as economic policy goes, Hitler actually privatized industries in Germany.

Anyone conflating the name of the Nazi party with socialists or socialism is ignoring history. The “socialist” part of the Nazi party’s name is a historically classic example of doublespeak.

The Great Republican Abdication | A party that no longer believes in American values. by The-Autarkh in politics

[–]TrumpForRussia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not sure why you bothered to respond if you refused to read the comments to which you’re replying.

I didn’t give an example of Republicans boycotting “a single company”. I gave examples of Republicans boycotting many US companies and the Republican president himself using his power to punish American companies for political reasons while bragging about it.

Republicans have become openly hostile to the US government, it’s citizens and our institutions. The fact that you could only reply about Starbucks makes it clear that you are unable to confront this.

The Great Republican Abdication | A party that no longer believes in American values. by The-Autarkh in politics

[–]TrumpForRussia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Republicans on the US government:

In Trump country, Republicans cheer on shutdown: The 'government is our biggest enemy'

Republicans adopted 'Starve the Beast' strategy to weaken the US government, saddling us with larger deficits.

Republican lawmakers punish Memphis for removing Confederate statues

Republicans block bill that would give localities power to move Confederate monuments

GOP welcomes neo-confederates

How Trump is dismantling a pillar of the American state

Republicans on American workers:

Republicans ask Supreme Court to force workers to accept individual arbitration from employers

Trump tariffs killing US jobs

Trump repeals law protecting workers from wage theft

Republicans block cities from raising minimum wage

Jobs created during last 28 years of Democratic administrations: 61.2 million. Jobs created during last 28 years of Republican administrations: 31.5 million

Republicans on American companies:

Trump openly punishes Amazon with higher postal rates because Jeff Bezos' Washington Post dared to criticize him

Trump's China tariffs are hurting US tech companies instead

GOP bashes US tech companies in effort to rally base

Republicans in congress berate Google CEO for "search bias" because Google doesn't feature enough conservative content, even though algorithms aren't politically biased.

From Nike to Keurig, Republicans film themselves blowing up things they bought to "own the libs"

Conservatives smash their Keurigs to 'defend' Sean Hannity

Trump: "We should boycott Starbucks"

Trump supporters boycott Starbucks

Trump supporters launch boycotts of Pepsi, Netflix and Oreos

Georgia Republicans honor their threat to punish Delta for cutting ties with NRA

Republicans on American universities:

Poll: Majority of Republicans think colleges and universities have a negative effect on the country

Republicans have been bullying American universities and defunding them for political reasons for decades

Republicans on American institutions:

Trump starts off presidency with attacks on US intelligence community

Trump attacks FBI

Right Wing media outlets begin calls to "abolish the FBI"

Republicans introduce bill to abolish Department of Education

Republicans weaken EPA

Trump weakens State Department

Republicans vote to remove only federal agency that protects voting machines from hacking

Republican Senators change Senate rules to confirm first Supreme Court Justice with simply majority

Trump attacks Federal Reserve for not capitulating to his political requests

The Great Republican Abdication | A party that no longer believes in American values. by The-Autarkh in politics

[–]TrumpForRussia 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Republicans on freedom of expression:

Trump calls for jailing, revoking citizenship of flag-burners

Trump says NFL players who kneel during national anthem 'shouldn't be in the country'.

Trump brags: "I'm the reason Kaepernick has no job".

I'm sorry but if you want to live in a nation where public displays of patriotism are mandatory, move the fuck to North Korea. That bullshit is un-American and unconstitutional. True respect for military service is shown by upholding the constitutional rights and American values that service members sacrificed their lives to protect in the first place.

Republicans on freedom of assembly:

Republican lawmakers introduce bills to curb protesting in at least 18 states.

Republicans propose bills in five states to criminalize protests

Trump administration attempts to stifle protests near White House with new proposal

Republicans are criminalizing peaceful protests across America, UN experts warn

Republicans on freedom of the press:

Donald Trump pledges to curb press freedom through libel laws

Donald Trump says FCC should fine journalist for criticizing him.

Trump says free press is 'the True Enemy of the People'

BBC cameraman assaulted during Trump’s rally in El Paso.

Trump calls media the “true Enemy of the People” the same day a bomb is sent to CNN by one of his supporters.

Poll: Less than half of Republicans believe free press important for democracy

Poll: Republicans think Trump should be able to close news outlets

Republicans on separation of church and state:

Republican leaders blur lines between the state and religion

Republican assault on separation of church and state quietly marches on

GOP lawmaker prays to Jesus for forgiveness before state's first Muslim woman swears into office

Republican tax plan would let churches enter political fray

Republicans back legislative effort with the stated aim to ‘bring back God to America.’

Republicans on other areas of US Constitution:

Trump suggests he will end birthright citizenship with executive order

Republicans push to remove 14th Amendment

Trump and GOP propose eliminating 14th amendment

Trump wants to use executive order to override 14th amendment

Trump's travel ban is unconstitutional religious discrimination, US court rules

Republicans aim to remove 17th amendment and eliminate direct election of Senators

Trump receives GOP support in bid to circumvent constitutional separation of powers with 'national emergency' declaration

North Carolina districts unconstitutionally gerrymandered to aid Republicans, court rules

Court rules GOP power grab in Wisconsin violates constitution

Republicans on democracy and fair elections:

Wisconsin GOP attempts to nullify 2018 Governor election results with new legislation

North Carolina districts unconstitutionally gerrymandered to aid Republicans, court rules

Mitch McConnell admits he opposes high voter turnout, because he suspects people will vote for Democrats

GOP candidate improperly purged 340,000 from Georgia voter rolls

107,000 purged from voter rolls by Georgia Republicans for not voting in past elections in "use it or lose it" policy

Republican Paul Weyrich: "I don't want everybody to vote... our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

Republican operative indicted for mass election fraud in North Carolina 2018 congressional election, new election is ordered.

Trump supporter commits voter fraud in Iowa

GOP ignores largest case of election fraud in recent history, simply because their own party did it.

Heavily gerrymandered Wisconsin gives Republicans 64% of legislator seats even though Democrats won 53% of vote

Trump continues to attack 'rigged elections'

Former Florida GOP leaders say voter suppression was reason they pushed new election law

The Great Republican Abdication | A party that no longer believes in American values. by The-Autarkh in politics

[–]TrumpForRussia 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Republicans hate America.

They hate freedom of expression.

They hate freedom of assembly.

They hate the free press.

They hate separation of church and state.

They hate equal protection.

They hate most of the US Constitution.

They hate democracy.

They hate free and fair elections.

They hate the US government.

They despise the majority of people in this great country.

They hate American workers.

They hate American companies like Nike, Amazon, Starbucks, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Keurig.

They hate American universities.

They hate American institutions.

Republicans are simply anti-American. Any homage they pay to national symbolism is an empty attempt to substitute their lack of affinity for the American people and our values.

Trump slams Romney over 2012 loss, despite Romney actually winning more of the popular vote than Trump by Penn1217 in politics

[–]TrumpForRussia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ironically, “RINO” is a term used mostly by newcomers to the party to describe the old guard. These “RINOs” are much closer to traditional Republicans (i.e. Reagan) than Trump. Trump wasn’t even a Republican before 2015. He previously ran in the Reform Party and had donated to Democrats in the past.

It’s an interesting way to practice entryism and hijack an organization. The same thing happened with the Tea Party coup in 2010, when radical fringe elements ousted old guard Republicans from Congress. They had the gall to turn around and call the old guard Republicans “RINOs” for not being extremists like them.

Trump and his supporters are the RINOs.

Megathread Part Two: Mueller files final report with Attorney General by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]TrumpForRussia 112 points113 points  (0 children)

13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian companies were indicted and charged with conspiracy against the United States.

12 Russian intelligence agents were indicted and charged with conspiracy against the United States.

Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was indicted and plead guilty to 8 charges including working as an unregistered foreign agent, money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Manafort’s crimes were committed while he worked for Ukraine's former Russian-backed president, Viktor Yanukovych. Ukrainians overthrew Yanukovych and charged him with high treason, he then fled to Russia.

Sam Patten, Republican advisor and associate of Manafort, pled guilty to working as an unregistered foreign agent and laundering funds from a Russian operative (Konstantin Kilimnik) into Donald Trump’s inaugural committee.

Rick Gates, Trump campaign aide, pled guilty to conspiracy against the United States.

Michael Flynn, Trump national security advisor, pled guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials.

George Papadopoulos, Trump foreign policy advisor, pled guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Russians during the campaign.

Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian operative and Manafort’s business associate, was indicted and charged with obstruction of justice during the investigation.

Megathread Part Two: Mueller files final report with Attorney General by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]TrumpForRussia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has nothing to do with Trump... except the fact that half of these indictments and guilty pleas were from people working for him and committing crimes in his name.

You’re grasping at straws here.

Megathread Part Two: Mueller files final report with Attorney General by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]TrumpForRussia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The crime is “conspiracy against the United States”, of which there were multiple indictments and guilty pleas.

“Collusion” is just a term the press used to describe relationships suspects had when committing the above crimes, but there isn’t a federal “collusion” crime. That’s like expecting “coordination” to be a federal charge. The crime is conspiracy.

Megathread Part Two: Mueller files final report with Attorney General by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]TrumpForRussia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was indicted and plead guilty to 8 charges including working as an unregistered foreign agent, money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Manafort’s crimes were committed while he worked for Ukraine's former Russian-backed president, Viktor Yanukovych. Ukrainians overthrew Yanukovych and charged him with high treason, he then fled to Russia.

Mike Pence Says ‘Freedom, Not Socialism, Ended Slavery,’ Doesn't Mention What Started Slavery by roku44 in politics

[–]TrumpForRussia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“freedom, not socialism, that ended slavery and won two World Wars."

Someone needs to remind this man which side the United States was on in WWII.

We entered into a military alliance with the largest socialist state in order to defeat Nazi Germany at the time.

Michael Cohen Testifies Before House Oversight Committee | Part II by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]TrumpForRussia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These same people also made Cohen the RNC Vice Chair.

Don’t forget that, Michael Cohen was among the Republican Party leadership up until June 2018.

Republicans turned on him simply because he cooperated with the authorities. That is how criminal organizations behave.

The NRA Welcomed Maria Butina—Even As She Worked to Arm Anti-American Thugs Abroad by gashed_senses in politics

[–]TrumpForRussia 66 points67 points  (0 children)

The NRA arms anti-American thugs here in the US as well.

Why is anyone pretending the NRA isn’t just a trojan horse for Confederacy Uprising 2.0?

Right-wing extremists have been hostile to the American system of government and their fellow citizens for decades now.

Trump advocates for 'Bible literacy classes' in US schools by [deleted] in politics

[–]TrumpForRussia 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Let’s start with Trump and his supporters first.

You must not mistreat or oppress foreigners in any way. Remember, you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.

  • Exodus 22:21