2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAnyone else on the Trump campaign team being paid by the Russians?
Donald Trump's whole campaign organization might have to be checked on. The Russians may have other people planted inside. Trust but verify as the old GOP hero used to say.
2naSalit
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(5,942 posts)MBS
(9,688 posts)Long, remarkable, disturbing front-page story in today's WashingtonPost.
I can't post the link right now, but if you search for "Flynn Putin Trump Washington Post", it should come up. Note the photo with Flynn and Jill Stein dining amicably with Putin in Moscow on occasion of RT 10th anniversary.
I just cannot get that photo out of my mind.
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Blue_Tires
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(9,688 posts)MBS
(9,688 posts)in today's hard-copy paper, front-page, long story.
Completely creepy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nearly-the-entire-national-security-establishment-has-rejected-trumpexcept-for-this-man/2016/08/15/d5072d96-5e4b-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story.html
It was a jarring moment in a race full of them a retired three-star general comparing a presidential candidate to the al-Qaeda militants he faced in Afghanistan and Iraq, calling for a former senator and secretary of state to be imprisoned. The appearance was only the latest eyebrow-raising episode involving Flynn, 56, who was one of the most respected military intelligence officers of his generation but who has spurned the decorum traditionally expected of retired U.S. flag officers and become the only national security figure of his rank and experience to publicly align himself with Trump, the Republican nominee.
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He has called President Obama a liar, declared the U.S. justice system corrupt and insisted that he was pushed out of his assignment as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency because of his views on radical Islam. The claim has left former superiors seething, including Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., according to current and former officials who said Flynn was removed because of management problems.
Like Trump, Flynn has advocated forging closer ties with Russia. In interviews with The Washington Post, Flynn acknowledged being paid to give a speech and attend a lavish anniversary party for the Kremlin-controlled RT television network in Moscow last year, where he was seated next to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
plus, this photo: Flynn sitting to the left of Putin, and across the table from (wow) Jill Stein at a Moscow dinner honoring the 10th anniversary of RT.
Wow. And this is the move of a patriot- how, exactly?
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