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FrankandBeans's avatar

I have no idea how we rectify this. This country has never seen the likes of Trump. At the very least, maybe he gets impeached. In both houses this time. He needs to go down in shame and then go to prison where he belongs. We can’t let him get away with what he’s doing to us!

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Mavis Lee's avatar

Oh absolutely! He's a traitor. I firmly believe he's compromised by Putin and it's Putin directing the destruction of America!. That's why they're operating at lightening speed to get our data, purge our administrative agencies. Put a drunk at DOD, a spy in Intelligence, and a QAnon QUACK with Russian ties over the FBI.. so that we can't respond to a attacks. This is treasonous, big time!

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Pat Duran's avatar

I think you're exactly right. Putin has every geopolitical incentive to weaken not just the US, but to weaken the western alliance generally. He also has an axe to grind because of the fall of the USSR, which he blames on the US, and because of the role our State Department had in encouraging the Russian pro-democracy movement (now destroyed). For Putin, this is personal.

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Mavis Lee's avatar

Yup..and he's enjoying every minute of this. I'm waiting until we start calling this what it is, a coup.. directed by Putin. I think the very next steps are to start going after Republicans in the house and senate RELENTLESSLY.Call them out. by name, on the floor of Congress, the halls, in their communities and on social media. They should be made to answer everyday for their traitorous choices..After all, without Republicans, Trump is just a FREAK show instead of the THREAT he is. They were supposed to be our guardrails against fascism...Nothing but snakes..the whole lot of them.

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Tricia's avatar

Just today I received email advertisements from Starlink and Tesla. I was subscribed to their investment company and I didn’t even do it! I’m painstakingly shutting down my 25 year old gmail account and going with Proton — a swiss email provider. My phone is locked down as a phone, texting, camera. No social media, no banking, no shopping online. I have gone into my credit history and deleted old accounts and locked them. I now use a credit union as a middle man to pay all my basic living bills. Then roll over all savings into a brokerage account.

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Shame On ‘em's avatar

Being a traitor and committing treason as a president should be punishable by a noosing and dropping the bottom out from under his azz.

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Jessie's avatar

READ Craig Unger's book(s) available from your public library:

American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery Hardcover – January 26, 2021

by Craig Unger (Author)

This is a story about the dirty secrets of the most powerful people in the world—including Donald Trump.

Based on exclusive interviews with intelligence officers in the CIA, FBI, and the KGB, thousands of pages of FBI investigations, police investigations, and news articles in English, Russian, and Ukrainian. American Kompromat shows that from Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, kompromat was used in operations far more sinister than the public could ever imagine.

The book addresses what may be the single most important unanswered question of the entire Trump era: Is Donald Trump a Russian asset?

The answer, American Kompromat says, is yes, supporting that conclusion with the first richly detailed narrative on how the KGB allegedly first “spotted” Trump as a potential asset, how it cultivated him, arranged his first trip to Moscow, and pumped him full of KGB talking points.

Among its many revelations, American Kompromat reports for the first time that:

• According to former KGB major Yuri Shvets, Trump first did business over forty years ago with a Manhattan electronics store co-owned by a Soviet émigré, triggering protocols through which the Soviet spy agency began efforts to cultivate Trump as an asset, launching a decades-long “relationship” of mutual benefit to Russia and Trump, from real estate to real power.

• Trump’s 1987 invitation to Moscow was billed as a scouting trip for a hotel, but according to Shvets, was actually initiated by a high-level KGB official. These sorts of trips were usually arranged for "deep development."

• Before Trump’s first Moscow trip, he met with Natalia Dubinin, who worked at the United Nations library in a vital position usually reserved as a cover for KGB operatives.

• In 1987, according to Shvets, the KGB circulated an internal cable hailing the successful execution of an active measure by a newly cultivated American asset who took out full-page ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe promoting policies promoted by the KGB. The ads had been taken out by Donald Trump, who, Shvets said, would become a “special unofficial contact” for the KGB.

In addition to exploring Trump’s ties to the KGB, American Kompromat also reveals:

• How Jeffrey Epstein and Trump jostled for influence and financial supremacy for years. Epstein became a millionaire in part with the help of Ghislaine Maxwell’s father—media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who allegedly served as a spy and likely gave Epstein a sum between $10 and $20 million before his death in 1991.

• How the Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking operation provided a source and marketplace for sexual kompromat.

• How the Epstein-Maxwell ring helped enable young women with possible ties to Russian intelligence to gain access to the highest levels of Silicon Valley and the worlds of artificial intelligence, supercomputers, and the internet. This, at a time when Vladimir Putin has asserted, “Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere [artificial intelligence] will become the ruler of the world.”

• How John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff in Mar-a-Lago’s Palm Beach County, says he acquired 478 videos confiscated from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, fled to Moscow, became only the fourth American to win asylum in Russia, and immediately gained access to Putin’s inner circle, showing the ongoing power that comes from kompromat and how its value is highest before it is “used.”

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Paul Kaufman's avatar

I believe it!

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Mavis Lee's avatar

I've some of the artices on this. There was one a few years back in the Guardian. There is no doubt Trump is working for Putin. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

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Tina's avatar

By all rights...he should be hung!

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Jeanne Nichols's avatar

But then we get JD Vance who is not a major improvement....

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FrankandBeans's avatar

He wasn’t elected either!!

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Tina's avatar

But almost everyone hates JD!

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Mavis Lee's avatar

He's an even bigger problem. because he's a traitor and he's smart.

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Susan Raquel's avatar

Yeah he is smart; but, I think he is outsmarting himself. I believe he is more dangerous than Trump.

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Mavis Lee's avatar

Yes, he is.. but Trump is made more dangerous as a puppet of Putin. I firmly believe Putin has kompromat on Trump and is directing the take down of America from within... that's pretty dangerous.

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Steve Doll's avatar

He'll just try to con the prison guards into sneaking him out in the laundry.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Trump is a symptom of the problem. The problem itself goes back at least to the beginning of the Reagan administration. The disintegration of the Republican Party has played a major role -- Dana Milbank's THE DESTRUCTIONISTS is good on this.

P.S. What do you see as the chances of Trump being impeached by a Republican-run House and convicted by a Republican-run Senate? True, the Republican majorities are slim, but that's still a virtually insurmountable hurdle.

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Thebabe22's avatar

I had no problem idea that the republic collapsed so quickly. All those swing states. Just, just enough to not be able to ask for a recount. Isn’t that so strange! The contest to get your names was so easy.

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Kathy McLain's avatar

He needs more them impeachment. He needs to be tried for treason. He should have been during his first run. If Congress had done it's job, chances are we wouldn't be here now. Both parties need to recognize the dangers and work together to rectify the situation. Also I think there are a number of Congressmen he seems to control. We need to find out what he's holding over their head and then everyone one of them needs to be dismssed, empeached or something. This is the government of the people. It's high time they get back to working for the people, not a party, not a president, and certainly not the likes of Elon Musk. Where are all those dedicated military groups we see going in to take care of dictators and radical groups.. We could sure use one about now.

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Wayne Masters's avatar

I fear the two pathological narcissists have access to this

https://www.exascaleproject.org/

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