Trump is a master propagandist. He blitzes you with the Gish Gallop whenever evidence or serious accusations supported by evidence are presented in the mainstream media. He attacks the person presenting the evidence or the accusations and accuses them of doing what he himself is guilty of. He tries to confuse issues. He does not want the mainstream public to be able to remember the evidence and accusations supported by evidence against him. He does not want the mainstream public to be able to construct a good case that he is (witting or unwitting) a pawn or agent of Putin. Whenever new evidence or new accusations supported by strong evidence emerges, then inevitably when the media person is discussing this, they will show a clip of Donald speaking and performing this version of the Gish Gallop or they will show and read his tweets in which he has this version of the Gish Gallop. At the time when the media shows this, I often get lost or lose the new evidence or serious accusations supported by strong evidence. I then challenge myself to respond off the top of my head with evidence that he is a witting or unwitting pawn of Putin. I do remember some of the evidence, but it becomes hard and that is the entire point of what he is doing.
Therefore, I thought it would be very useful to compose a list of evidence or facts that show Trump is a witting or unwitting pawn of Putin. After composing the list, it will be important to include links that document each fact. I have started us off with a list of 22 such facts. However, I would like to ask for the community’s help in constructing this list and off providing good links to document each claim. I am, therefore, asking for your help. Please help me by adding to our list of facts that support our thesis and please help by providing links to support each claim. When you add your evidence and link(s), I will update the diary and include your information in the list. Thank you so much for all of your help !!!
1. Donald Trump demonstrated that he would take Putin’s word over the assessment of our intelligence community.
2. Donald Trump lied when he dictated the reasons for Comey’s firing when he was on the plane.
3. Donald Trump publicly asked for Russia’s help in recovering Hillary Clinton’s emails.
4. Donald Trump swiped the notes of the interpreter in a meeting with Putin alone (alone besides interpreter and Putin).
5. Donald Trump had five meetings with Putin and there were zero notes of those meetings.
6. Donald Trump’s manager, Paul Manafort, changed the Republican Platform during the Republican Convention with respect to Ukraine.
7. Donald Trump promoted the United States leaving NATO which is a major foreign policy goal of Putin and Russia.
8. Donald Trump, immediately after a discussion with a telephone discussion about Syria, over the objections of General Mattis and John Bolton promoted the idea of immediately and abruptly leaving Syria.
9. Donald Trump told Lester Holt that he fired James Comey to relieve himself of pressure due to the investigation of his ties to Russia.
10. Donald Trump has tried to avoid placing sanctions on Russia that passed Congress by a margin no less than 517-5.
11. Donald Trump positively responded to Putin’s offer to investigate as a team composed of Russians and Americans the Russian hacks into the DNC servers.
12. Donald Trump has consistently refused to characterize Putin as a monstrous enemy.
13. Donald Trump has refused to seriously work on protecting our federal elections from cybersecurity attacks from the Russians.
14. Donald Trump has refused to show his tax returns which could show his financial obligations to the Russians unlike the past presidents of both parties for the last fifty (50) years.
15. Donald Trump’s son said that Russians form “a disproportionate cross-section” of his loans.
16. Donald Trump has lied about his attempts to have a Trump Tower built in Moscow.
17. Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions because he recused himself from the Russia / Trump investigation.
18, Donald Trump illegally selected Mr. Whitaker when there was no emergency only on the basis of Whitaker’s known views of opposing the Mueller investigation.
19. Donald Trump selected Mr. Barr who had previously sent as a private citizen Donald Trump a 19 page document attacking the Mueller investigation and asserting that the president has the most extraordinary powers, a unitary executive theory, and a theory that Trump could not have obstructed justice by firing James Comey, theories that have no support in the US Constitution nor in United States law.
20. Donald Trump has an amazing and unprecedented number of members of his administration that have deep ties to Russia.
21. Donald Trump has an unprecedented number of members of his campaign staff and his administration who acted as unregistered foreign agents, lied about meetings with Russians, and lied to the FBI.
22. Donald Trump was in his Trump Tower only a few floors above when the meeting between Russian attorney with ties to Putin and / or Putin’s allies Natalia Vesilnitskaya and Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump jr after his son responded to the offer by the Russians of dirt on Hillary Clinton by saying, “If it is what you say it is, I love it !!!” Therefore, since the meeting included his very own son and his own campaign staff and involved obtaining dirt on Hillary Clinton and was in his own building and he was in the very same building as the meeting only a mere few floors above it, he knew of the meeting before, during, and after the meeting.
23. Donald Trump at the behest of Putin threatened the mighty little nation of Montenegro.
24. Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, shared campaign polling with Russia.
Tuesday, Jan 15, 2019 · 1:04:29 PM +00:00
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At such a dire serious time, I will provide a link to what I personally find the funniest diary I have ever read on Daily Kos. I have been a member of Daily Kos since 2005 (I lost my old user name and had to start over). This goes back aways, but it is worth it. Read the comments. It makes me laugh until tears come out of my eyes, I literally roll on the floor laughing from this. It is that funny to me and to apparently a great many other people who found it ironic as did I.