When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP

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1. It’s not propaganda, it’s Russian money.

2. Trump sells Florida swamplands to Russians for huge profits. Johnson gets Russian money into his non-existent bank account. Both these guys are just real Americans worshipping money, and the Russians call them sir, a lot. No propaganda here, just profit.

3. As an Aussie and an ally, I’m disgusted.

4. The contemporary far left and far right in the US are both of Russian design. Putin succeeded in dividing this country into camps of redneck sociopaths and naive neo-socislists whose contrived and incessant squabbling ends up helping only Russia.

   Putun’s a fkn moron and a butcher, but this kind of thing is his specialty; his expertise, unfortunately, is up to snuff.

5. Well at least some of them are admitting it now and it’s a topic of discussion. What the outcome will be is anyone’s guess.

6. Call me when a top Republican actually does something about Russian propaganda infecting the GOP.

7. So this on another post and thought I would share:

   Trump is so obviously compromised by Russia it’s ridiculous.

   **June 2013**: Trump tweets “Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow – if so, will he become my new best friend?”

   **September 2013**: “So we’ve invited President Putin, that’ll be interesting. I know he’d like to go.”

   **October 2013**: Trump tells Larry King that Putin has done “a really great job outsmarting our country.”

   **November 2013**: Trump says “I do have a relationship and I can tell you that he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today. He’s probably very interested in what you and I are saying today, and I’m sure he’s going to be seeing it in some form, but I do have a relationship with him and I think it’s very interesting to see what’s happened.”

   **February 2014**: “When I went to Russia with the Miss Universe pageant, (Putin) contacted me and was so nice. I mean, the Russian people were so fantastic to us,” he said on “Fox and Friends.” “I’ll just say this, they are doing – they’re outsmarting us at many turns, as we all understand. I mean, their leaders are, whether you call them smarter or more cunning or whatever, but they’re outsmarting us. If you look at Syria or other places, they’re outsmarting us.”

   **April 2014**: “We just left Moscow,” Trump said. “He could not have been nicer. He was so nice and so everything. But you have to give him credit that what he’s doing for that country in terms of their world prestige is very strong.”

   In the same interview, Trump praises Putin’s invasion of Crimea.

   “Well, he’s done an amazing job of taking the mantle,” Trump said. “And he’s taken it away from the President, and you look at what he’s doing. And so smart. When you see the riots in a country because they’re hurting the Russians, OK, ‘We’ll go and take it over.’ And he really goes step by step by step, and you have to give him a lot of credit.”

   **April 2014**: Trump says at a New Hampshire event that Putin is “absolutely having a great time.” He says “Russia is like, I mean they’re really hot stuff” and “and now you have people in the Ukraine — who knows, set up or not — but it can’t all be set up, I mean they’re marching in favor of joining Russia.”

   **May 2014**: ”I own Miss Universe, I was in Russia, I was in Moscow recently and I spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer, and we had a tremendous success.”

   **2014**: James Dodson, a sports writer, claims that during a game of golf Eric Trump said to him: “Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.”

   **March 2015**: Trump tells the Daily Mail about his relationship with Putin: “the relationship is great, and it would be great if I had the position I should have.”

   **September 2015**: Trump tells reporters at Trump Tower that “Putin is a nicer person than I am.”

   **October 2015**: Trump tells conservative radio host Michael Savage he’s met Vladimir Putin.

   **December 2015**: Trump says at an event in South Carolina that Putin says he’s “brilliant.” And attacks his opponents, saying, “they want me to refute his statement.”

   [And many more along those lines](https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/03/politics/trump-putin-russia-timeline/).

   **December 2016**: One of Europe’s top intelligence figures puts together the Steele Dossier, reporting that Putin has blackmail on Trump, allegedly for something he did in a hotel room in Russia in 2013 during the Miss Universe visit.

   Trump flips to claiming he’s never met or spoken to Putin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxYE9ZpMPGY&t=25s

   **September 2016**: During the 2016 presidential debates: “**I don’t know Putin**. I have no idea,” Mr Trump said. “**I never met Putin.** This is not my best friend.”

   When Hillary Clinton said it was “pretty clear” Mr Putin would “rather have a puppet as president of the United States,” Trump replied with: “No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet. You’re the puppet.”

   Followed by years of Trump praising Putin, the only world leader he never criticizes while constantly criticizing democratic countries and allies. Refusing to implement sanctions on Russia for its hacking of the US which were passed with a veto proof majority. Attempting to blackmail Ukraine with having to invent something on Biden or having aid withdrawn. Declaring he’s decided to believe Putin over his US intelligence agencies.

   **February 2022**: Trump calls Putin ‘genius’ and ‘savvy’ for Ukraine invasion

   **February 2024**: Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies

   **February 2024**: Trump won’t say if he wants Russia or Ukraine to win the war

   https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/s/vdryx6v6nl

8. The next election is so simple.

   Do you want religious oppression or individual freedom?

   To support free Ukraine or Communist Russia?

   To improve working conditions for the worker or cuts to social security and Medicare?

   To protect the environment or let corporations pollute without repercussions?

   To tax and work you to death or finally tax the wealthy to pay their fair share?

   To let you decide if you want an abortion or let the state decide for you.

   To have mass shootings or responsible gun control?

   To be taught the history of America or just the white racist version?

   Do you want to restrict your right to vote or open absentee voting to give you the working person a better chance to vote?

   Do you want your Saturday night entertainment to be mandatory attendance at this week’s book burning?

   Guess what side the corrupt Republican party is on? Vote democratic before the Republican party takes that away too!

   Vow to vote and vote DAMMIT! Only YOU and YOU alone can save America. Don’t expect the rest of us to bail your ass out. VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS!