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babylonsister

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Tue Jul 11, 2017, 05:53 PM Jul 2017

The Rude Pundit: Random Thoughts on Trump(s) and Russia


http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2017/07/random-thoughts-on-trumps-and-russia.html

The Rude Pundit

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7/10/2017
Random Thoughts on Trump(s) and Russia


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3. First off, this "adoption" thing is a bullshit excuse. It has to do with the Magnitsky Act, passed by Congress and signed by President Obama in 2012 in order to punish Russian government officials and oligarchs who are involved in human rights abuses and fraud. It froze the assets of some really rich Russian dicks, and Putin had a hissy, so he banned Americans from adopting Russian babies. Putin hates the Act and wants it repealed. The lawyer who Junior met with, Natalia Veselnitskaya, is involved in an effort to get it repealed. Adoption is part of it, but this is about cold fuckin' cash and power.

4. But the really fucked-up part of this is that when a Russian associated with the Kremlin wanted to get together at Trump fuckin' Plaza because she had dirt on Hillary Clinton, Junior's response was, "Well, sure" when it should have been "I better call the FBI." But he couldn't do that because Junior is cut from the same scuzzy cloth as his father and the Trumps likely owe the Russians a metric fuck-ton of money and jump when told to.

4a. One fun part that hasn't gotten much discussion: Veselnitskaya "recalled that after about 10 minutes, either Mr. Kushner or Mr. Manafort left the room." She makes it seem that it's because nothing significant was discussed. But it could have been that they thought, "Oh, crap, this is illegal" and got the fuck out of Dodge. (Or they were rushing to tell Daddy about what they learned. He was in the building that day, June 9, 2016.)

5. Look, I'm not running around with my hair on fire and game theorizing the shit out of all this on Twitter. I've been circumspect, definitely leaning towards the "this is hinky" side of things with Russia. But at some goddamned point, if you keep sucking dicks for money for meth, you're a meth whore. Sure, sure, you suck one or two dicks and get paid and then go buy meth, maybe we can let it slide as tweaker shit. But if you're doing it every day, then you, my friend, have a problem with meth. And handling your finances. But mostly meth.

It's becoming more difficult to deny that the Trump administration is a meth whore. And we know who the john is.
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The Rude Pundit: Random Thoughts on Trump(s) and Russia (Original Post) babylonsister Jul 2017 OP
These people are wealthy, but they really aren't all that bright. CanonRay Jul 2017 #1
I just think it's naive to think this was an "introductory" meeting. DefenseLawyer Jul 2017 #2
+1000 smirkymonkey Jul 2017 #3
 

DefenseLawyer

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2. I just think it's naive to think this was an "introductory" meeting.
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 06:56 PM
Jul 2017

Manafort, Page, Flynn, even Jared, had extensive Russian ties long before this meeting.

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