March 21, 2018: Trump Kisses Up to Putin

 

3/21/18: President Trump makes time in his busy schedule to call Shirtless Strongman Vladimir Putin to congratulate him on winning reelection, in a contest in which leading opposition choices were barred from running.

 

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Vladimir

 

 

Yes, indeed. The President of the United States congratulated the man accused of ordering spies to use a nerve agent in an attempted assassination on British soil. Putin is the same leader who unleashes Russian mercenary forces in Syria, which led recently to a bloody confrontation with U.S. troops and allied forces. 

(Luckily, U.S. forces called in air strikes and managed to kill as many as 500 Russians and Syrians with no loss of life on our side. 

Trump to Putin: "I can't quit you."

Senator John McCain responds: 

[An] American president does not lead the free world by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections [emphasis added, here and below]. And by doing so with Vladimir Putin, President Trump insulted every Russian citizen who was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election to determine their country’s future, including the countless Russian patriots who have risked so much to protest and resist Putin’s regime.

 

Later, Pinocchio Sanders admits that Trump did not mention Russian meddling in the 2016 election during his call. 

Apparently, he and Vlad talked about March Madness. And office pools. Putin is picking Trump University to win it all.

 

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WHEN IT COMES to dictators and autocrats the current occupant of the White House has a soft spot for anyone who takes the law into his or her own hands. Trump has commended Egypt’s brutal president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, known for killing 800 protesters in a single day and jailing tens of thousands of dissidents, for doing “a fantastic job.” Trump also told reporters President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines was doing “an unbelievable job on the drug problem” in his country when that “job” involved the extra-judicial murder of more than 12,000 Filipinos. 

In fact, when Trump visited Manila he laughed along with Duterte when the latter referred to reporters as “spies.” 

Now, scumbag leaders are following his lead. According to Reuters, Duterte recently closed down one news site, calling it “a fake news outlet” that had been “throwing trash and shit all along.” 

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“Fake news is like poison or a gun and it can kill our beautiful society.” 

Cambodian official

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Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia also cited Trump’s attacks on “fake news” to justify his decision to shut down an independent newspaper, the Cambodia Daily. The Daily had criticized his rule. 

Reuters explained: 

In his latest attack on Saturday, he backed Trump for announcing “fake news” awards. “I think President Donald Trump has correctly created an award that he just announced in recent days, the Fake News Award,” he said. “And in Cambodia there is also this type of media.”

 

One Cambodian government official defended such tactics: “Everyone, including ordinary citizens, has to fight against fake news because fake news is like poison or a gun and it can kill our beautiful society.” 

Speaking of poison: Did you know Putin allegedly has a hit list? Sergei Skripal, a recent victim in England, made that list. 

Guess who else Vladimir wants to murder? Christopher Steele: the guy behind the Steele dossier, the file that hints at all kinds of perverse links between Trump, Trump aides, and assorted Russians.