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Putin Takes a Call

13 Sunday Mar 2022

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Putin's War Crimes, The Hague, Vladimir Putin, War in Ukraine

Putin the Pariah

10 Thursday Mar 2022

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Moscow Mitch, Putin and Republican Party, Putin's War, Russia, Russia Gate, Trump and Putin, Trump Impeachment, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

Putin’s Patsies

28 Monday Feb 2022

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Cartoons of Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, josh hawley cartoon, Mike Pompeo, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

Listening to his master’s voice

15 Friday Nov 2019

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Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, corruption, Donald Trump, impeachment, social media, testimony, Twitter, Vladimir Putin

Ah, Vladimir Putin is calling the tunes.

“Россия” (Russia) – a variant of the Russian presidential flag.

This morning, while Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch is testifying in Congress:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.
9:01 AM · Nov 15, 2019

He really is that stupid.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

Previously:

Impeachment: read the transcripts (November 4, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): Is somebody going to tell her?

14 Thursday Nov 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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4th Congressional District, corruption, Donald Trump, impeachment, KGB, missouri, social media, Soviet Union, Twitter, Vicky Hartzler, Vladimir Putin

Uh, Vladimir Putin was a KGB agent in the Soviet Union.

He wants to take over the territory, resources, and people of Ukraine.

Ukraine is in a shooting war with Russia, which is lead by Vladimir Putin.

American economic and military support is essential to the survival of Ukraine.

Donald Trump withheld appropriated military support from Ukraine in order to extort the manufacture of political dirt from Ukraine directed at one of Donald Trump’s American political rivals.

“Россия” (Russia) – a variant of the Russian presidential flag.

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

Late this morning:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
Nine weeks of this tainted, Soviet-style show trial and we’ve seen that @SpeakerPelosi and @RepAdamSchiff are more interested in impeaching @realDonaldTrump at all costs than working on the pressing issues that face our country today.

Let’s get back to doing the people’s work.
[….]
11:04 AM · Nov 14, 2019

There was much hilarity in the responses:

“Soviet-style show trial” doesn’t mean what you think it means. When were they ever publicized with the accused being able to question witnesses. You don’t refute these facts: Trump set up a back channel to Ukraine to get dirt on an opponent and extorted Ukraine to get the dirt

How many weeks of Benghazi hearings were there?

the sham is the republicans refusing to even listen to the testimony of non partisan ambassadors who are speaking plainly about the president’s bungled attempts to extort anther country for personal gain

Trump is free to testify under oath and clear it all up.

Vicky, Vicky, Vicky. Or whoever writes your Tweets. History will judge you harshly. This extraordinary refusal to see any fault in the supreme leader is not American in any way.

Funny. Says the Republican whose party has cozied up to the Russians.

Oh you like your candidates to sell us out to Russia, got it!!!

Who did you swear an oath to when taking your job? The people and our country or a habitual liar and white nationalist? Your party will be judged harshly for your inability to step away from your party and have some common sense.

Did you watch and listen? If you did, you wouldn’t have made such a red scare tweet. Stop being stoopid Vicky. Geez

Hard to believe this comes from someone supporting “soviet style” attempts to impede a democratic process; how else to describe the thugs break in to a secure facility. The soviet style has continued with suppression of witnesses, hiding of evidence and propaganda spewing.

Go to Hell you traitor.

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

Vladimir Putin didn’t need to win a cold war, he just needed to wait long enough to find a few penny ante grifters willing to sell America out for a quick buck

08 Saturday Dec 2018

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Cheap Grifters, Donald Trump, impeachment, Individual 1, investigation, It's Mueller Time, Michael Cohen, Robert Mueller, Russia, special counsel, Vladimir Putin

And he found them.

Client state.

From a filing yesterday by the Special Counsel:

“…By publicly presenting this false narrative, the defendant deliberately shifted the timeline of what had occurred in the hopes of limiting the investigations into possible Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election—an issue of heightened national interest.

The defendant’s false statements obscured the fact that the Moscow Project was a lucrative business opportunity that sought, and likely required, the assistance of the Russian government. If the project was completed, the Company could have received hundreds of millions of dollars from Russian sources in licensing fees and other revenues. The fact that Cohen continued to work on the project and discuss it with Individual 1 well into the campaign was material to the ongoing congressional and SCO investigations, particularly because it occurred at a time of sustained efforts by the Russian government to interfere with the U.S. presidential election. Similarly, it was material that Cohen, during the campaign, had a substantive telephone call about the project with an assistant to the press secretary for the President of Russia.

The defendant’s false statements to Congress began in approximately late August 2017, when he submitted his written statement about the Moscow Project to SSCI and HPSCI. His false statements continued through his oral testimony before the committees in October 2017. And when Cohen first met with the SCO in August 2018, he repeated many of his prior false statements about the circumstances of the Moscow Project.1 Only when the defendant met with the SCO a second time on September 12, 2018—after he had pled guilty in United States v. Cohen, 18-cr-602…”
Page 3, Case 1:18-cr-00850-WHP Document 15 Filed 12/07/18 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK – The Special Counsel’s Office

Individual 1 is Donald Trump (r).

“…the defendant provided a detailed account of his involvement and the involvement of others in the Moscow Project, and also corrected the record concerning his outreach to the Russian government during the week of the United Nations General Assembly. The defendant also provided information about attempts by other Russian nationals to reach the campaign. For example, in or around November 2015, Cohen received the contact information for, and spoke with, a Russian national who claimed to be a ‘trusted person’ in the Russian Federation who could offer the campaign ‘political synergy’ and ‘synergy on a government level.’ The defendant recalled that this person repeatedly proposed a meeting between Individual 1 and the President of Russia. The person told Cohen that such a meeting could have a “phenomenal” impact ‘not only in political but in a business dimension as well,’ referring to the Moscow Project, because there is ‘no bigger warranty in any project than consent of [the President of Russia]’…”

Page 5, Case 1:18-cr-00850-WHP Document 15 Filed 12/07/18 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK – The Special Counsel’s Office

Cheap grifters, all of them.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

Previously:

There’s a sense of…panic (December 7, 2018)

Enjoy this brief moment of Zen… (December 7, 2018)

Think again, Skippy (December 7, 2018)

Apparently the Russian GRU has a favorite in the Missouri U.S. Senate race

26 Thursday Jul 2018

Posted by Michael Bersin in Claire McCaskill, US Senate

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Claire McCaskill, Donald Trump, missouri, Vladimir Putin

“Make America Great Again”

And it’s not Claire McCaskill (D).

A statement:

McCaskill Statement on Report of Attempted Russian Hacking
Attempted hack of Senator’s official office was unsuccessful
Thursday, July 26, 2018
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill released the following statement in response to the report that Russian hackers attempted to target her Senate computer network:
“Russia continues to engage in cyber warfare against our democracy. I will continue to speak out and press to hold them accountable. While this attack was not successful, it is outrageous that they think they can get away with this. I will not be intimidated. I’ve said it before and I will say it again, Putin is a thug and a bully.”

How it looks in Missouri:

Tony Messenger @tonymess
This week in #MoSen: @clairecmc says ‘Putin is a thug’ after Russians try to hack her U.S. Senate email. @HawleyMO says the one word that describes @realDonaldTrump is ‘courage’ after the U.S. president sides with the thug over American intelligence agents. Advantage: McCaskill.
9:12 PM – 26 Jul 2018

Which side are you on, Josh, which side are you on?

Russian reversal

18 Wednesday Jul 2018

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, #TreasonSummit, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

In America children play with puppets. In Russia Vladimir Putin runs an American puppet.

Where’s Roy, Annie, Vicky and the rest of Missouri’s Washington GOP gang?

16 Monday Jul 2018

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Ann Wagner, Donald Trump, Roy Bunt, Treason, Trump-Putin press conference, Vladimir Putin

Today Donald Trump kissed up to Putin and sold out the United States. His performance was so horrifying that a former CIA director, John Brennan, characterized it as exceeding “the threshold of high crimes & misdemeanors. It was nothing short of treasonous.” Former National Intelligence Director James Clapper added that, “on the world’s stage, in front of the entire globe, the President of the United States essentially capitulated and seems intimidated by Vladimir Putin. So it was amazing and very, very disturbing.”

All of which tends to confirm what we’ve all known all along: our president owes Putin big-time and is running scared as the extent of the debt is close to being exposed by the special prosecutor.

Even a few Republicans were outraged by the Trump’s craven performance (see here and here). But not all. Not even very many.  As Paul Waldman noted in The Washington Post:

When it comes to Republicans, we’re faced with two related issues. First, there are members of their party who actively benefited from Russian manipulation of our election, and even sought out help that turned out to come from Russia, whether they fully understood it at the time. Second, much of the rest of their party is now arguing that it’s really no big deal if the Russians manipulate American elections, so long as the GOP is the one that benefits. […]

We all know how eager the Trump campaign was to work with the Russian government when the campaign believed the Russians had dirt on Clinton to share. But just as we’ve seen so many times before, Trump’s naked corruption is merely a more unapologetic version of what’s happening within the Republican Party. So the question now is: Is this still going on? Are any Republican candidates currently receiving information obtained through Russian hacking about their opponents?

Which leads me to ask: what does GOP Senator Roy Blunt have to say about how Donald Trump is putting the security of our country at risk? Or my 2nd district GOP representative, Ann Wagner? So far nothing but crickets. And that goes for the rest of the Missouri delegation.

But it’s early times yet – just a few hours after the press conference after all. I’ll be watching to see how our GOP delegation responds after they’ve  had a chance to test the direction of the wind in order to decide where their convictions lay.  Who knows, just because they didn’t condemn daddy right away doesn’t mean they won’t manage to summon up some mild distress as long as it doesn’t look like it’ll get the red-meat pitchfork brigade too fired up.

I’ll be getting back to you when/if I learn who has an incipient backbone and who doesn’t. It’s important. We’ve got vitally important midterms coming up – and Trump’s public stance, in terms of what he says and his policies amounts to a giant “so what?”. All of which leads one to really worry about what deals may have been made – or further elaborated – in the two hours when the dictator and the wannabe dictator conferred unattended.

Сделать Америку великой Снова.

14 Wednesday Dec 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Donald Trump, election, hacking, president, Russia, Vladimir Putin

Well.

U.S. Officials: Putin Personally Involved in U.S. Election Hack
by William M. Arkin, Ken Dilanian and Cynthia McFadden
Dec 14 2016, 6:31 pm ET

U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

Two senior officials with direct access to the information say new intelligence shows that Putin personally directed how hacked material from Democrats was leaked and otherwise used. The intelligence came from diplomatic sources and spies working for U.S. allies, the officials said.

Putin’s objectives were multifaceted, a high-level intelligence source told NBC News. What began as a “vendetta” against Hillary Clinton morphed into an effort to show corruption in American politics and to “split off key American allies by creating the image that [other countries] couldn’t depend on the U.S. to be a credible global leader anymore,” the official said….

So, we’re a client state then?

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