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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon't ever forget that The Russians wanted something in return for offering dirt on Hillary!
The Russians wanted Trump to end the sanctions and who knows what else.
bringthePaine
(1,729 posts)"keep your eye on the ball"
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Has he all along been giving them top classified secrets , like he gave them in the oval office?
ancianita
(36,126 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,020 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)He has partnered with the Cosa Nostra and Russian mob his entire life. He was never held accountable for all of his law breaking, until now. He is a pathetic, very afraid "man" right now. When Mueller releases his bombshell report we need enough Republicans to do the right thing.
blue-wave
(4,356 posts)That won't happen.
We need lots and lots of Democrats elected this midterm election. That way, we won't need any of the GOPee traitors. Work to GOTV!!!!!!
watoos
(7,142 posts)is going to be earth shattering. We can impeach Trump in the House when we gain control, but we need enough Republicans in the Senate to do the right thing to convict. Once Trump is out of office he can be indicted and convicted without having to go through the right wing SC.
blue-wave
(4,356 posts)We need 2/3rds in the Senate to convict, don't we? If only we had 2/3rds with "D's".....but that's a dream, I know.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)And maybe keep Junior out of jail, or at least reduce his sentence. So, is Ivanka involved? Maybe keeping her out of jail would get him to resign. Make him promise to spend the rest of his life on the golf course at Trump properties.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)I think televised public hearings where morons like Don Jr, Jared Kushner, Carter Page and others testify before sharp questioners like Ted Lieu, Gerry Nadler, etc will cause public support for Donny Dollhands to shrink, if not plummet. Especially if they start throwing each other under the bus to save their own asses.
Once that happens, Republicans may be emboldened to turn on Trump and it could swing votes in the Senate to "Guilty" if it comes to convicting for impeachment indictments.
Botany
(70,539 posts)... a man they owned in the White House. Trump is working for Russia end of story.
watoos
(7,142 posts)there are millions of his followers, so called Americans, who don't care if Russia is working with Trump as long as Republicans (real Americans) get elected.
I live in Alabama, half way between Pittsburgh and Philly, and "my friends" are scary. They love Trump. These people have been here before Trump, he just gave them the freedom to come out of the shadows. My 85 year old golfing buddy is a Korean war vet, he does Meals on Wheels, he does military funerals, and he told me the biggest mistake our country ever made was giving women the right to vote.
These people will not change but we need to make sure that the rest of us drown them out, overwhelm their bigotry.
This is the biggest election in our history. VOTE.
Racerdog1
(808 posts)Orange puppet being led around by Pootin.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)lark
(23,134 posts)1 - Fuck up the US economy so that business goes to Russia instead of us - Russia got a 2 billion $$ soybean contract from China, previously held by US after tariffs were raise
2 - Remove all sanctions. Since drumpf couldn't do this he fired the entire staff so there is no group to implement the sanctions and none have been put in place. A Russian on the list was seen at the WH not long after drumpf fired the staff that would keep him out of the US.
3 - Probably most importantly, get NATO out of the way of Russia. He's working diligently on that, lying all the way, but getting huge pushback from some cabinet members. Of course, there is still the imminent threat that Russia would invade and drumpf would refuse to honor our treaty because, after all, it's only Ukraine and lots of people there speak Russian.
4 - Weaken liberal democracies & push towards fascism every way possible. He's doing that with Brexit and EU & Canadian tariffs.
5 - Weaken America by exploding racial tensions, labor laws & education. Destroy the middle class by ending unions, removing any healthcare assistance by government, stealing their Medicare and SS money for rich and allowing big pharma to charge totally exorbitant prices for Medicare and not allowing Medicare to negotiate better prices, which Tricare and other insurance plans can do.
I suspect the list is even worse and includes destroying the free press and judiciary and suspending the constitution.
dlk
(11,574 posts)I don't remember reading of any, other than false and bizarre conspiracy theories. Funny that.
brush
(53,801 posts)began releasing DNC emails at the height of the 2016 campaign one hour after the surfacing of the "Access Hollywood" tapes where trump admitted to grabbing the genitals of women.
That my friend, was no coincident.
What it is is evidence of collusion right before our eyes, just like the trump tower meeting.
Wounded Bear
(58,676 posts)In the end, there wasn't much "there" there. It was a bunch of personal emails between co-workers, with some strategies and comments that in and of themselves had zero political meaning.
The whole shit-a-roo was a nothing burger amplified by the press into a boogeyman that the RW used to leverage 100k people in 3 states to swing the election.
brush
(53,801 posts)and all the rest were able to keep saying "but what about her emails" for the rest of the campaign.
Initech
(100,089 posts)Let's make sure they never get it!
Kaleva
(36,318 posts)Too bad so many Americans couldn't see the obvious.
keithbvadu2
(36,853 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,866 posts)FakeNoose
(32,680 posts)Also several other western European nations have made their own Magnitsky laws.
Russian oligarchs' money is being tied up in many countries now. It's costing them billions.
Wounded Bear
(58,676 posts)Putin wanted the sanctions lifted so he could get Standard Oil co-operation to drill for Arctic/Siberian oil.
brush
(53,801 posts)because of sanctions that trump hasn't been able to discontinue.
BTW, that potential oil deal is why oilman Rex Tillerson was Sec't of State.