The New York Times is reporting John Bolton writes in his upcoming book that he was concerned Trump was doing favors for autocratic leaders. Michael Schmidt and Philip Rucker discuss. Aired on 01/27/20.
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NYT: John Bolton Was Worried Trump Was Doing Favors For Autocratic Leaders | The 11th Hour | MSNBC
I want to see witnesses and a real trial…
Something you will never get in the House.
@Roger Jones not
Call and tell them you want witnesses 202-224-3121
@connie baldwin I guess witness tampering and leaking false information to the press is ok if you’re a Democrat. Remind me again is trump in bed with putin or are we facing World war 3? You Democrats change the narrative so much I can’t keep track.
Now let’s here your low IQ throw the insults instead of disproven information.
Btw I voted for Johnson in 2016 but will be voting Trump 2020 just to see liberals cry. Hope you enjoy!
I wish t’rump would do America a favor and resign already.
Save him the embarrassment of losing in a landslide in 2020. 😆😂
Dear American friends!
*Don’t hope for the 2020 election!*
*It will not save you.*
Trump doesn’t care about your vote.
Trump will stay president, no matter what.
Let me explain.
First the principles:
a.) Donald Trump wins by cheating. Not only on the golf course, also in his businesses, and in politics.
b.) Donald Trump’s key to success is not getting caught cheating. Bribery, extortion, whatever it takes.
Now to the 2020 election:
Trump and his lakeys knew that this was coming. So they prepared themselves (probably assisted by Russian intelligence) in two ways:
*1.) Prepare for election meddling*
a. Moscow Mitch has prevented any legislation to protect future elections.
b. The federal election commission FEC is “out of order”. After the resignation of its vice chair, GOP member Matthew Peterson, there are only three members left, but after FEC regulations it takes 4 members for any decision.
*2.) Prepare the courts*
Install as many ultra-right judges as possible in federal courts and especially the US supreme court that is responsible for matters of the presidential election.
So here’s my crazy prophecy:
*Step 1*
Russia alters the outcome of the 2020 election in favour of the DEMOCRATS. Their presidential candidate wins with a landslide, in all states.
*Step 2*
Trump and the GOP immediately raise concerns about the legitimacy of the election results.
*Step 3*
Soon thereafter technical information is being leaked that actually proves enormous Russian involvement with voting machines and voter databases, in favour of the DEMOCRATS.
*Step 4*
Trump and the GOP turn to the supreme court to decide.
*Step 5*
The supreme court with Bratt Kavanaugh and without Ruth Bader Ginsburg clearly decides in favour of Donald Trump to rerun the whole thing.
*Step 6*
Trump then refuses to do a rerun of the presidential election. With the enormous federal debt (he himself created) the government could not afford to repeat the costly election.
*Step 7*
The Democrats turn to the supreme court about this.
*Step 8*
Trump’s decision is again confirmed by the GOP dominated supreme court.
*Step 9*
Four years later dictator Trump rules over the fourth Reich of white Arian Americans with more power and immorality than Adolf Hitler could have ever imagined.
Wait and see!
I fear you will call me Nostradamus in 11 months.
You’ve only got one chance:
Take him out now!
Put him in jail.
Together with his immoral family, his corrupt administration, and his traitorous GOP lakeys.
And throw away the keys.
Hope you survive this nightmare!
All the best from Germany
Ro G – That would make America great again.
Ro G djt is a shameless creature he has no moral s. or ethics his aim is to become a dictator of US for life republicans will support him to do that 💩💩💩👎🏿
@Booster Paine He can be pardoned for any Federal crime, which means he can not be prosecuted for them in a criminal court. If he has been removed from office, a presidential pardon can not return him to office. If the Senate has also barred him from future Federal office, a presidential pardon can not erase that either. Once out of office, for whatever reason, a Presidential pardon cannot protect him from prosecution for State charges. A presidential pardon cannot erase an impeachment.
Vote all Republicans out in 2020.
👣💙
@James Mines
The Military protects the constitution NOT Trump. The Generals hate Trump as well. They don’t like traitors.
Whatever. That’s not how things are done in new mother Russia.
We at least, need to get that fat, orange, clown out. We have had enough, of this circus.
It’s who ever the military supports. Plus US doesn’t have the stomach
for civil war. It’s become weak.
If Trump is re-elected in 2020, it will be the last election for President we have in America.
On Dec 16th 2019, Rudy admitted in an interview with Laura Ingraham, that as Trump’s personal lawyer, he became a central figure in US foreign policy in Ukraine, promoting Trump’s desire for an investigation into nonexistent Ukrainian election meddling; taking trips to advance a bogus investigation into the Bidens; and, by his own admission, exerting control over US diplomatic staffing in that country to serve the interests of his client.
Rudy admitted he played a leading role in the removal of Marie Yovanovitch, which set the stage for Trump efforts over the summer to bribe Ukraine into investigations of the Bidens for Trump’s own political gain.
Rudy: “I forced her out because she’s corrupt,” Giuliani said. I came back with a document that will show unequivocally that she committed perjury when she said that she turned down the visa for Viktor Shokin because of corruption …. there’s no question that she was acting corruptly in that position, and had to be removed. She should have been fired, if the State Department weren’t part of the deep state. I believed that I needed Yovanovitch out of the way,” he said. “She was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody.”
Keep in mind, Rudy is NOT, I repeat NOT, a State Department employee. He has not been appointed by Trump for some sort of special diplomatic role. He has no official title, and he has no security clearance. He is simply serving as Trump’s personal goon, I mean attorney.
@Mind Freshener Yeah nice try. If that were actually true it would be all over the news. Want to know what happens when you Google “Marie Yovanovitch persona non grata”? Nothing about Yovanovitch, but small blurbs about several of Trump’s picks being declared ‘persona non grata’ instead.
Nice backfire!
“nonexistent Ukrainian election meddling”
Except for the fact the Ukrainian Government has charged tried and convicted people of meddling in the 2016 US Elections… Makes Sense your sources must be Top-Notch
Mind Freshener post your evidence supporting your claim that Ukraine was going to declare Ambassador Yovanovitch persona non grata.
You would be correct. In what world is this okay? All other presidents have had to follow a different set of rules, such as turning to the agencies that they have on hand at any time, you know, official channels? To me that cries of wrong-doing. They don’t want officials in their “business”.
Smells like a cover up looks like a cover up… lo and behold a cover up
@MrSmokelife Despite the money only being released after Trump was caught, as shown by several government agencies, including the Office of Management and Budget.
https://www.axios.com/read-trump-administration-ukraine-aid-documents-fd1a45f9-dd8b-4401-ac9a-9d6acd09d9bb.html
Which, unfortunately, is collaborated by Bolton’s book. You are grasping at straws. Poorly.
Cover up. I guarantee you couldn’t give me a simple paragraph of what just transpired at the trial. Uniformed, misinformed, sheep to corrupt bought n paid media. Wake up!!!
@Slow. Down You mean Republicans refusing to call in witness’s or allow evidence in this so called “trail”.
The American people are quite aware.
Drake Fire you’re so clueless to due process and facts of the case lmao. Did Republicans get witnesses? How did the impeachment start? What were the transcripts of the calls? Did you not watch the hearings? The subponeas weren’t even valid, you fool. How tf can you not even know what is going on, listen to the actual transcripts of the calls, and yet make such a boisterous claim? So you’re ok with the corruption of Biden, Romney, Kerry, Schiff, and many others stealing n laundering money? Like you clearly have no idea what the trials or hearings are even about, you’re just repeating the corrupt bought n paid media. You’re js another uninformed, misinformed citizen siding w corruption like a sheep.
@Slow. Down Just because the Republican star witness stabbed the party through the front doesn’t mean you didn’t get witnesses. In fact, most Republicans refused to come forward.
PS: Upvoting yourself? Do you really need to boost your own ego that badly?
Technically, Trump isn’t doing favors for Putin, China, and MBS. He’s actually repaying a debt.
@Percy Williams Trump never was The President, Putin was all along.
Percy Williams I think that is why he keeps saying that he doesn’t take his $450,000 a year pay , instead he donates to charity, to drugs (?) was his most recent comment about it. So that nobody will look where it actually goes, to his dealer Russia. Has he finally handed over his tax records?
Yeah all those Russian loan has to be paid back some how
Exactly!!!!!!!
The Blade nope, too many bed bugs 🐛. bankrupt yet again and good for the trumpanzee
Hmmm
Trump doing favors for autocrats..that’s crazy ..
Who could have warned them ?!
Answer : objective observation
The “Russia, if you’re listening” speech comes to mind lol
@Rafiki That’s Pam Bondi in the video you didn’t watch. I assure she is not smoking crack. She’s smoking RATS.
Stephen anyone with a brain!!
@MrSmokelife maybe she should try it with facts and proof, not conjecture
Maybe star opening an investigation on the Bidens
A lot of Americans have traded their country for a red hat.
@Ben Peterson So, democrats. They hate Jesus.
@Ivan Shivolski this is your perspective not mine as I stated it is not democratic or Republican
No, they traded it for Sickle & Hammer.
Barr should be investigated and could be the leaker! Doubtful but one never knows.
Very Doubtful he’s as evil and corrupted as the day is long.
I truly hope that one day we are able to find out who the anonymous source has been in the White House. I often wonder if it is Kellyanne… I really don’t like her at all but there is something off there with her husband being outspoken against this “president” and her complete opposite behavior. I cannot imagine what that relationship looks like unless, like I said, she despises the “president” as well. I did hear a story a few years ago and I am not sure the source but someone said that Kellyanne had made the statement of feeling like she needed a shower after she had been in the presence of the “:president”.
Barr Investigated…by WHO.
DOJ can’t be Trusted,
‘EXHIBIT A’
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/03/26/fbi-and-doj-sued-for-failure-to-report-9-11-evidence-to-congress/
He is being investigated at the request of the Bar Association
@Debra Cottrill oh. ‘An American Horror Story’
The book manuscript was seen by one person in the White House but he can’t read
He looks at the pictures, while he plays, with his Sharpies.
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Umberto Eco Makes a List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism”
1. The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
4. Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
5. Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”
6. Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”
7. The obsession with a plot. “The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia.”
8. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”
10. Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”
11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”
12. Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”
13. Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”
14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
@Rand Kocher “- All of the threat of Totalitarianism is from the left.” That’s a right-wing talking point propagated precisely so you WON’T see the threat from them.
@BMrider75,
The Nation was deeply divided before Trump came down the escalator.
Obama was the most divisive President in American history. It seemed like every week for 8 years he was pitting another group against another, but the reason he did that is because he was also the President that used the most nasty, unAmerican Progressive Activism in American history. Creating hate, animosity, Dividing the Nation and destroying the economy is right out of the Progressive handbook of which Obama followed to the letter!
– As a reaction to this, President Trump has only ever said, “We are all Americans!” And he has also improved the lives of all Americans equally, as he campaigned he would!
– There’s nothing whatsoever about President Trump!
@Rand Kocher My God, dude, you are mental.
Well down
That is why delusion is difficult to treat. Acknowledging a delusion shatters everything you have ever believed and questions your own validity.
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche
the stable genius will be the butt of jokes for the next 100 years. and the more he talks, the more jokes there will be. I know it is against your nature, but mr giant orange snowflake, it is in your “best interests” to RESIGN NOW.
(yeah, I know you won’t – that’s what makes “stable genius” funny).
@Rebecca Swanson Agree with Atheism? Atheism is the natural state. Without any indoctrination or cohersion or forced education of small kids, nobody would have a religion.
Women in the West do better than men in nearly area relevant to well-being.
There’s a mole in the WH and I’m so glad. Who ever is leaking they are very courageous.
@oldrrocr He will be replaced by a girl
@Patricia roe Pence wants to be President. Is he beyond sabotage?
@Kim Coates I can’t say Pence is the mole in the WH. But he would know if the WH mouse sneezed. He would be the first person to benefit from Trump being put out. And I don’t view him to be a person who can be trusted. He would not make any better a President than Trump. But take my word for it he’d like the chance.
And they may be someone that would benefit from Trump being put out. There is no honor among thieves and liars. And the WH has become a den for them.
Roger jones are you so narrow minded in seeing almost everyone in trumps administration either resigns or is fired? This guy you call president is a fraud and crook! By the way…I love your mug-shot!
“Doing favors for autocrats” aka “turning tricks for Putin”.
I am not “worried” Trump is doing favors for autocratic leaders, I am certain he is.
did you ever notice that trump has insulting names for EVERYONE – everyone except Putin?
and did you ever notice that when they are together that trump follows Putin around like a fanboy?
Not enough? Well, bless your heart.
Every administration does positive things for other strategic partners and offers negative reinforcement for adversaries around the world (carrots vs sticks, depending on the situation and the country). The difference is, this man asks for /personal/ favors–like help with the election–and likely owes for personal favors, rather than “favors” done for our country. (In fact, you wouldn’t even use the term “favor” if it referred to a good thing provided country to country, because that’s a personal term.)
He puts himself first, not America. And in supporting him, Rs put party over country. (Many but not all Rs.)
Yeah. I don’t spend much time wondering either.
Their is a reason Russia wanted the Traitor to win the Election…
Putin gamble will cost him, any sympathy he gained from Trump will be meaningless if Trump loses the election.
Yeah, to lift sanctions and to pay back Russia for securing all his loans and to undo any good the previous president did. To continue laundering his money through hotels. To rig the system so the rich doesn’t pay taxes and the ones that already cheated the government don’t get caught. Rig the judicial system with judges that look the other way. To pardon criminals as leverage to recruit them as mob members. I could go on but I trust you get the picture that it wasn’t to serve we the people. The fanatics are still enjoying minimum wage and high taxes.
Debra Cottrill
Wish we had an answer…
Vote all REPUBLICANS out TODAY!
Vote all democrats out today!!!
Are you that uninformed and naive? Never ceases to amaze me how misinformed ppl are to side with enermies laundering our $$. Who get played by bought n paid for corrupt media.
When you have to look under every rock and in every dark corner to scrape up a lawyer or two in Washington, of all places, and you’re the PRESIDENT..geeeeez!
Yep.. it’s because he is a nightmare of a client. They never know what he is going to say or when and he does not listen to them. I don’t think he has the capability of listening for long periods of time. I think the smart people around him (if there are any left) would have to treat him like a toddler.. small amounts of information in small increments so that he does not lose his train of thought. He is known to have the attention span of a gnat.
Whores do not “do favors”: Under the concept of “Free-market economics”, They provide services.
Please, language. I’m pretty sure no prostitute is a traitor to its country. Much less any of those ladies wants to be compared to IMPOTUS
@Alvaro Carboni Prostitutes haggle over prices, whores don’t. ..
He was doing a favor for an autocratic leader: Himself.