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That is Bill Maher’s “bumper-sticker slogan” for Dems, to simply respond to Donald Trump, and Trump’s sycophantic enablers:
“They're not on our side … They're not on America's side.”
Here’s a few Putin ass-kissing events from Trump-world, which back up that Maher’s plain-as-day thesis …
Trump publicly sides with Putin on election interference
by MATTHEW NUSSBAUM, Politico — 07/16/2018
Trump’s remarkable statements, during a joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, after holding a two-hour one-on-one meeting with Putin, came after special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russians on Friday over allegations of involvement in the state-ordered election-interference operation.
Trump repeatedly attacked the FBI, praised Putin as a “good competitor,” refused to say Russia was accountable for any aspects of fraying U.S.-Russia relations, and attacked Mueller’s inquiry as “a disaster for our country.”
At press conference, Trump sides with Putin over US intelligence
www.bostonglobe.com — July 2018
HELSINKI — In an extraordinary embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump openly questioned his own intelligence agencies’ firm finding that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election to his benefit, seeming to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s insistence that Moscow’s hands were clean.
The reaction back home was immediate and visceral, among fellow Republicans as well as usual Trump critics. ‘‘Shameful,’’ ‘‘disgraceful,’’ ‘‘weak,’’ were a few of the comments.
Trump is on Putin's side, not America's
www.chicagotribune.com — July 2018
President Donald Trump faced that moment Monday in Helsinki, meeting privately for more than two hours with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and taking part in a news conference afterward. He made unmistakably clear which side he takes — and it’s not America’s.
It was a performance that was simultaneously predictable and astonishing. Anyone who has paid attention to Trump’s policies and attitude toward the Russian autocrat saw nothing more than the dismal culmination of his long pattern of accommodation and appeasement.
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On Tuesday, back in Washington, he said grudgingly that he “accepts” the conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. But it was too little, too late.
Before inauguration, Trump had reportedly already seen evidence Putin personally ordered election interference
www.cnbc.com — July 2018
The American president claimed his Russian counterpart was “extremely strong and powerful in his denial” of any election meddling — even though Trump said he has “great confidence” in the U.S. intelligence community. He subsequently said he had misspoken a single word, and that he actually accepts the intelligence findings that Russia meddled in the U.S. political race.
That did not address Trump's multiple comments that suggested he sided with Putin over the American intelligence community. The president did not reverse statements in which he gave clear credence to Putin's denial of Russian involvement, raised doubts about his own intelligence agencies' conclusions and advanced discredited conspiracy theories about election meddling.
“Two times” is the charm …
*resident Donald Trump said he pressed Russian President Vladimir twice about alleged meddling in the US election last year.
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"I said, did you do it? And he said no, I did not. Absolutely not. I then asked him a second time in a totally different way. He said absolutely not," he told Reuters.
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"I think we had an excellent meeting. One thing we did is we had a ceasefire in a major part of Syria where there was tremendous bedlam and tremendous killing. And, by the way, this is now four days,” he said.
“The ceasefire has held for four days. Those previous ceasefires haven't held at all.
“That's because President Putin and President Trump made the deal, and it's held.
About that “Absolutely not” ...
"The Russian state has never interfered ... into internal American affairs including election process."
— Vladimir Putin on Monday, July 16th, 2018 in a press conference
PolitiFact: That is a “Pants on Fire” lie.
Oh by the way …
Syria bombardment resumes after ceasefire deal breaks down
www.aljazeera.com — July 5, 2018
The Syrian government and its closest military ally, Russia, have intensified their bombing campaign in the southern province of Deraa, after ceasefire deal between rebels and Russians broke down on Wednesday.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from Beirut, said that had air raids intensified on Thursday as government troops advanced steadily to recapture lost territory.
The same day Trump asked Russia to find Hillary Clinton's missing emails, Russians tried to hack Clinton-affiliated emails — www.businessinsider.com
An indictment from the special counsel Robert Mueller's office on Friday alleges that Russian intelligence officers tried to hack email accounts affiliated with Hillary Clinton's campaign on the same day Donald Trump urged Russia to find emails that had been deleted from her personal accounts.
"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump said at a press conference on July 27, 2016, referring to the deleted emails. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."
If all those Republican capitulations are not enough to show that Bill Maher is basically right:
“They're not on our side … They're not on America's side.”
Well then, they’re this little GOP Putin-parade, done on the 4th of July no less ...
On Tuesday afternoon, the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Intelligence Committee issued some important findings, concluding that the U.S. intelligence community was correct in its assessment: Russia attacked the U.S. elections in 2016 and did so in the hopes of putting Donald Trump in the White House.
It was right around this time that seven Republican members of Congress – six senators and one House member – were in Moscow. Making matters much worse, however, is what the GOP lawmakers had to say while they were there. The Washington Post reported:
Republican members of Congress sounded a newly conciliatory tone in meetings with Russian lawmakers and officials here on Tuesday in a rare visit to Moscow and a preview of the looming summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) told Russia’s foreign minister that while Russia and the United States were competitors, “we don’t necessarily need to be adversaries.” … “I’m not here today to accuse Russia of this or that or so forth,” Shelby told Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.
Who do these GOP puppets work for anyways, the America people, or Trump’s pal Putin?
Well former-Republican Steve Schmidt has a few thoughts on the subject …
Steve Schmidt: By A fluke, Voters Elected An Imbecilic Con Man | MSNBC
Why is it, that only former Republicans, and disowned Republicans have the guts to call out Donald Trump for the imbecilic conman, traitorous chump, that he really is.
Dems, unless you want 2 more years of the “Fucking Moron” at the helm — now is the time to start raising the rhetorical temperature.
It’s time to Dump Trump. “He’s not on our side … The GOP is not on America's side.”
“'We're not socialists -- they're traitors.”
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