Don't Tell His Cult, But Trump Got Owned By Putin

by John Ziegler | 5:29 pm, July 8th, 2017

While I am an outspoken conservative critic of President Trump, I sincerely try to keep an open mind about the things that he does or says, and earnestly hope that he does the best for our country that he can. I did not want him to get the worst of his first meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, but the evidence is overwhelming that, unfortunately, he did. In fact, he got owned.

The first strong sign that this sad result was inevitable were the reports that United States officials (who had been left out of the meeting limited to just two people and a translator on each side) desperately, and unsuccessfully, commissioned Melania Trump to try to break up the meeting when it went well past its scheduled duration. Whether you are in a fight, or making love, if your own wife wants it to stop, that’s a really bad sign.

This bizarre episode had remarkable similarities to the scene in the movie Rocky IV where the trainer (U.S. officials) for Apollo Creed (Trump) screams “Throw the damn towel!” at Rocky (Melania) in an effort to end the fight just before Ivan Drago (Putin) delivers the death blow. Hopefully, the ultimate ramifications won’t be nearly as dramatic, but someday they might be.

The biggest story coming out of the summit was that Trump had chided (too strong a term?) Putin about his meddling in the 2016 election, but Putin immediately denied it ever even happened. Putin is claiming that Trump accepted him at his (extremely dubious) word, and the pushback from the White House (and even from Russia hawk Nikki Haley) has been so meek as to effectively accept that this absurd reality is true. The fact that there are no plans for Russia to be punished by Trump for what they did is the ultimate proof that Putin is essentially telling the truth.

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