Donald's indulgences: America should be crystal clear on how Trump enabled Vladimir Putin - New York Daily News
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Via: john-russell • 2 years ago • 12 commentsBy: nydailynews (nydailynews. com)
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By Daily News Editorial Board New York Daily News| Mar 02, 2022
Donald Trump lives through a looking glass bordered by a gold-plated frame. It is only in this alternate reality that he can blame his successor's weakness for inviting Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
To be sure, decades of failures by western leaders, including by American presidents of both parties, helped give Putin the yellow if not the green light to do his worst. But nothing compares to the consistent coddling delivered by Trump as a candidate and in his four years in power.
A very abbreviated recap:
During the presidential transition period, Trump spoke openly about easing off sanctions that had been imposed on Russia for its election meddling. Weeks into his term, after he said he respected Putin and was challenged that the Russian president was "a killer," Trump pushed back with this apologia: "What, do you think our country's so innocent?"
In mid-July 2017, Trump tried to weaken new congressionally imposed sanctions against Russia — before they passed by veto-proof majorities and he begrudgingly signed them into law, calling them "seriously flawed."
On that ignominious day in July 2018, standing alongside Putin, Trump was asked whether he sided with U.S. intelligence agencies' universal assessment that Russia had interfered in the 2016 elections. His reply: "President Putin says it's not Russia. I don't see any reason why it would be." Deference has rarely been so devious.
As former national security adviser John Bolton documents, in 2019, Trump tried to block sanctions against Russia for the poisoning in England of former Russian military officer Sergei Skirpal and his daughter. He told his secretary of state to call his Russian counterpart and blame "some bureaucrat" for them.
The coup de grace: In 2019, rather than deliver congressionally authorized military aid to Ukraine, Trump tried to make it contingent on Volodymyr Zelensky announcing an investigation into Joe Biden's son Hunter.
The former U.S. president who today can't stop admiring Putin's supposed strength and cunning is the same sad man who, looking forward to the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, mused about Putin becoming "my new best friend." Best friend of Ukraine's worst enemy.
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When you are going to lie tell a fucking whopper and hope people are stupid enough to believe it. Democrats have so many mottos these days, it is hard to keep track of them.
Reality- to this stupid fiction.
Now tell us all which President dropped all sanctions on the Nord Stream II pipeline as soon as he took office w/o getting jack shit in return? Which President went on his knees begging Putin to increase oil production and sell to the US? Which President did the Russian build up of troops at the Ukraine border begin under; and the invasion of Ukraine start?
Pretty easy questions to answer for anyone not suffering rampant TDS.
Didnt you see these ?
Do you remember this?
Joe Biden leveraged aid to remove top prosecutor as part anti-corruption efforts
It's true that Joe Biden leveraged $1 billion in aid to persuade Ukraine to oust its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, in March 2016. But it wasn't because Shokin was investigating Burisma. It was because Shokin wasn't pursuing corruption among the country's politicians.
Russia attempted to influence that election, but there is no evidence whatsoever they actually interfered with it
Biden's weakness gave Putin the green light to invade
Only a Democrat would seed an article attempting to place blame on the man no longer in office for events occurring during a Democrat's term of office.
Funny how so many "progressive liberals" insist on living in the past.
I dont know that Trump is to "blame" for what is now happening in Ukraine.
But he wants credit for being anti-Putin during his term, and that is ridiculous. Whatever was anti-Putin during the Trump administration happened in spite of Trump, not because of him.
Should we wait for you to back that up or just move on and write this off as being another unfounded claim by the left?
Write it off, of course.
No need to spin it JR, I know exactly what you mean--it never, ever changes--Orange Man Bad!!!!!!!!!!!
No matter who is President or which party has majority control.
No matter what world events occur AFTER the Bad Orange Man left office.
Money he had stashed in Russia is now history.