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Lynda Phoenix's avatar

How does this not define Trump as a traitor? He's not just selling out Ukraine to Russia but seemingly the American people also. How are even Republicans ok with this?

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

Growing up during the Cold War, I experienced the pronounced anti-Russian biases that existed. My slightly anglicized surname meant that I could be harassed at traffic stops, or while cashing a check. My grandparents’ accents made them vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. After showing off his German-Scots “good blood” for decades, Trump sold out completely to Putin—not just himself, but America. 🇺🇸

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Jennifer MacKenzie-Gray's avatar

Spot on . It’s so sad and disappointing to put it mildly.

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Teri's avatar

Thank you, Adam. Is "treason" no longer in the vocabulary of this country?

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Tori lawson's avatar

Trump is doing what Putin is telling him to do

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Jennifer MacKenzie-Gray's avatar

Yes, that’s the part that is so shocking … it’s RUSSIA?? It’s certainly NOT a country to emulate .

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Mimi Iannillo's avatar

Adam, you’re a gem. This is horrifying! I don’t always know what goes on behind the curtain and don’t believe one word that comes dripping out of their filthy mouths. I know that I It’s reporting from you and the wonderful people that explain what’s going on behind that curtain.

Thank you, Adam

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Paul Dionne's avatar

You are very correct Adam. This is NOT a President for America or the World. His American Agents have been trying to REMOVE the very best of America since 2016. His first term. What a DISASTER that was. Not even 1 year into his second term and America is now falling apart ?. The Destruction of so much of the American Society is the Republican Party's fault. His supporters have turned many Nations away from America and will never view America in the same way again. CRIMINAL MURDERER PUTIN IS THE BEST REPUBLICAN HE EVER HAD. America can STOP this entirely, with it's support of Ukraine. LIAR FELON RAPIST TRAITOR MURDERER TRUMPF and his followers don't. CRIMINAL MURDEROUS PUTIN knows what America will do.

NOTHING!!! America has the most DESTRUCTIVE person ever in it's White House!!!.

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Lgsnchz's avatar

He truly needs to go!!!!

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Hound's avatar

A lot of them need to go. Trump is just the ugly orange face on this horrid machine. One of the things that needs to come out of this is that how can some moron like Trump be able to intimidate so many people unless those people were cowardly right wing republican trash? The fact that these sissy boys were intimidated by Trump shows just how weak and pathetic they are. The fact that Trump was able to defeat Hillary shows the truth about MAGATS. She called them a basket of deplorables and then she apologize for when she should’ve doubled down.

The way you can be a guy like Trump is by dropping all the civility and dealing with people like him. I would love to have debated Trump because one of the things I would’ve said to him is, “Donald buffoon you wear orange clown paint, WTF is wrong with you you bozo”.

When you’re dealing with a narcissist you don’t argue with them, you demolish them. When Michelle Obama would say, “When they go low we go high”. When they go low we treat it like a hockey game and retaliate and send the cheap shot artist to the locker room with a few less teeth. That’s how you deal with punks and bullies.

The Republicans on the 2016 debate stage or some of the most pathetic and cowardly sissy boys I’ve ever seen. The worst of the bunch was lying Ted Cruz. Any man who won’t defend his father or his wife is not a man, he’s a weasel.

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Benjamin Cintron's avatar

DT is alway's on Putin's side cause DT & his crime syndicate family owe Putin plenty. I remember Don jr. stated that if the trump family needed money they just had to call Russia 😯 DT will betray Zelensky & Ukraine just wait.

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dovie bruder's avatar

He already has by cutting back on funds allotted by congress. He actually must allow funds allotted by congress to proceed, but he cuts back however he wants and the republicon majority does nothing to stop him!! Are they all on the epstein list that he is not releasing and that is the reason they do not go against his unlawful executive orders?? There is just so much unknown ! We must vote 💙 and save our democracy. If we don't we are beingbtreasonous to our country !!! 💙🫂💙

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Hound's avatar

Putin is holding something over Trump‘s head. I’m thinking that if it’s something of a pedophile nature Trump could just say the pictures are fake. But right now not all of his MAGATS will believe that.

Putin could die of natural causes such as a fall out of a window or contaminated vodka.

On the other hand Putin might have video and audio of Trump doing something unspeakable with Russian kids. The Russians probably know more about Trump perversion than we do.

I’m wondering if there could be a way to leverage Trump by telling him that the dirt will not come out on him if he sends Ukraine everything they need to finally put a nail in the Russian coffin. ⚰️ Trump probably won’t live much longer. He has serious health problems, so if he is not brought to justice in a court and just dies from natural causes, at least he’ll be gone but in the meantime, Trump can be blackmailed and double crossed.

Putin is someone who should never have been born but that also goes for Trump. The problem is, Putin has a much higher functional IQ than Trump how he can play Trump like a violin. I think there’s a site of Trump that loves being a submissive to a strong man like Putin. deep down men like Trump have the mentality of a prison bitch. A sissy weakling is Trump‘s authentic self. Perhaps the person or animal known as Bubba has something to do with this?

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Jennifer MacKenzie-Gray's avatar

I agree with all of this . I’ve always thought that Putin had Trump’s head over a barrel due to something corrupt or disgusting of a pedophile nature.

I really like your idea in the beginning of fourth paragraph. There COULD be a way of leveraging Trump by showing him that he could solve this problem by just giving Ukraine what it needs . Then none of his skeletons would have to come out of the cupboard re Epstein and whatever else he is hiding.

To myself and many others here in the U.K. it is so so sad that a country we used to look up to and hope to emulate is in cahoots with RUSSIA??

But now , the U.S.A. , in the form of Trump , is abandoning Europe.

That would have been unthinkable for decades. Also the U.K. and the U.S.A. were always two countries who had each other’s backs. But now?

The Trump administration has done so much damage to America but also to the world and in so many ways. It’s all very destructive and sad.

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Jim Ryan's avatar

EU needs to get off its ass and start doing what they were depending on the US for.They should have been doing it since tge day after Putin err I mean Trump was elected

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Miguel Sanchez's avatar

Your comment could have been pertinent some time ago. But no longer. Inform yourself of what the EU has been doing lately.

During decades, we have been a prosperous market for US dominance and a convenient remote field of its confrontation with Russia. That was our duty for having benefited of US' efforts against nazism. But it didn't leave us much agency.

Now that TACO is exploding alliances, don't think for a minute that Europe will remain idle.

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HungarianAgrarian's avatar

Excuse me, but where does it say that the first lady has full immunity?

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Linda Green's avatar

Twice impeached convicted felon self-proclaimed sexual assulter self-proclaimed daughter ogler and self-proclaimed pageant peeping tom always has been putin's puppet.

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Waskily Wabbit's avatar

Trump’s plan has been to get Americans on his side about how bad the EU is. He is very transparent about doing this. So now he drops out of NATO. Because the great deal maker thinks he by dropping out can negotiate a better deal for the United States. OOPS 😬 The rest of NATO has been waiting for this to happen so they can say. WELL IT WAS FUN WHILE IT LASTED BY AMERICA.

We are about to find ourselves on the outside looking in. This new group that will replace NATO also includes Canada, Japan and Australia. They don’t have to go do any hunting for money they currently have $2. Trillion dollars in backing and they can now start buying munitions from other places besides America. Who will that hurt? Well there will no longer be requirements from NATO Members to buy munitions from the US. European ammunition companies will become very valuable.

Putin will get is greatest wish. To break up NATO. OUR stock market was trying to decide if it was good or bad news and it was down and up and all over the place. Actually these people from the NATO. Breakup will still buy from us for awhile but as soon as they can get their own factories built up and get their own war plane maker expanded they will start slipping away from the US a little at a time which means lots of good paying jobs will also start going away. In the future they will track back to what triggered the American downfall. It will be the TRUMP thinking he is a great business man and threatening our allies trick. See trump is a businessman and our allies are our friends which we support and they support us. That relationship will start going away now. They will not be at war with the US but they will not be good friends either. No more information sharing. The American dollar will no longer be the currency of the world. It going to probably be the EURO. OUR DOLLAR being the currency everyone could count on is what has allowed us to run up our massive debt. It’s going to be interesting to watch how this plays out.

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Chris Smith's avatar

WTF???

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Real Apprentice's avatar

Another masterclass from the Very Strong Administration™: doing Moscow’s long-term strategic work for free, no briefing papers required. Trump couldn’t outmaneuver Putin in a hotel lobby, but somehow we’re supposed to believe this is all part of a genius plan?

The good news is this only works if everyone else plays along, and they’re not. Europe remembers why the EU exists, NATO remembers why it was built, and voters are starting to notice when “America First” looks a lot like “America, Hold Putin’s Coat.” Sunlight still works. Institutions still matter. And every time this clown show exposes itself, it gets easier to stop.

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Martin Olson's avatar

Sunlight still works, except for those locked in shadow.

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Real Apprentice's avatar

That group seems to be growing smaller though.

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Terry Little's avatar

#TrumpTraitorTrash

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