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LonePirate

(13,431 posts)
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 07:03 PM Feb 2018

A true patriot would resign his office if he had received election help from a foreign government

A true patriot and lover of America would resign from his elected office if it was determined he was the beneficiary of election assistance by an adversarial foreign government. A true patriot believes in the integrity of the American electoral process and would do anything to support and maintain that integrity.

The fact that both the current president and vice president have no intentions of resigning tells you everything you need to know about their lack of love for America and their lack of respect for its electoral processes.

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A true patriot would resign his office if he had received election help from a foreign government (Original Post) LonePirate Feb 2018 OP
K&R (unless you are Paul Ryan). n/t rzemanfl Feb 2018 #1
But those "very fine people" need a leader darn it ck4829 Feb 2018 #2
They actively sought out help, and gladly accepted it Freethinker65 Feb 2018 #3
True Patriot WestIndianArchie Feb 2018 #4
That's it. Welcome aboard!1 UTUSN Feb 2018 #6
I Agree. True Patriots Should Not Take Foreign Cash Vogon_Glory Feb 2018 #5

ck4829

(35,091 posts)
2. But those "very fine people" need a leader darn it
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 07:10 PM
Feb 2018

All those 'forgotten people', you know... like the guy who would rather commit seppuku than say a liberal was right about something, the person who would choose doing nothing all day than work alongside a black person and/or a GLBTQ person, and the person who thinks the zenith of not just American history but all history was when his ancestors owned humans as property.

What will they do without Trump, they're the real victims here!

Freethinker65

(10,057 posts)
3. They actively sought out help, and gladly accepted it
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 07:14 PM
Feb 2018

Did this go back years because of Trump's business dealings, money laundering, etc. or did it happen closer to/during the campaign?
Regardless, there is nothing patriotic about this administration.

Vogon_Glory

(9,132 posts)
5. I Agree. True Patriots Should Not Take Foreign Cash
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 09:11 PM
Feb 2018

But there is the matter of quantity and amends. I remember right-wingers bellowing with outrage because the Gore campaign might accidentally accepted some campaign contributions from some Buddhist nuns. But unlike Donald Frederickovitch, the Gore campaign tried to do right.

There is NO valid comparison between what happened with the Gore campaign and what Trump-ski did. Trump and many Republicans KNOWINGLY took massive campaign contributions and election assistance from unfriendly foreign powers.
These are not the actions of a patriotic American party, these are the actions of a kleptocratic Latin American-style banana republic political party.

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