BREAKING: Russia is aiding Pres. Trump in 2020 election, according to The New York Times. Aired on 02/20/2020.
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Russia Is Aiding Pres. Trump In 2020 Election, According To The New York Times | MTP Daily | MSNBC
Trump is Russia’s First Lady.
I would rather think one of the dems got to be Putins ‘lady’ in exchange for the Russian Steele dossier. Its must have been good since they also promised to run his scare campaign side by side with Russia for 3 years now. Screaming Russia Russia Russia all the time, prompting him up like this powerful man. I wonder what they said during getting f…… Oh mr. Putin its so good, well do anything for you while screaming Russia russia russia russia russia russia russia russia russia russia russia 🤣🤣
ABSOLUTE TOO MUCH ESTROGEN.
That’s HILLARY, after she gave Putin 20% of our uranium
@Dae Dotfan19 Kids dont run around screaming Russia Russia Russia all the time 😁 Running Putins scare campaign side by side with Russia, they know he’s a loser with a tiny economy. They dont waste time prompting him up like this big powerful man. Its laughable.
@MrClaushk Me personally to be honest bro. I don’t find none of this funny. We have an ignoramus for a president. So I don’t find any of this to be funny homie. And that’s just me personally.
It’s not really news to anyone with a brain. Like they were just going to stop.
Well Donald Dunce is Putin’s favorite marionette.
Of course it’s not. Since when has FAKE NEWS ever been REAL NEWS?
Sorta an OXYMORON, eh?
🤣
Socialist propaganda
We must put up a Russian Stop sign and all vote like fanciful elves
But didn’t Susan Collins day that president Trump learned his lesson
Vote out Collins (ME), Gardner (CO), McSally (AZ), Tillis (NC), Ernst (IA)
If the Democrats gain these seats, and only lose Doug Jones (AL), they will win the Senate.
Ya, what do think someone who is spineless is going to say?
3guys1girlandfetus haha!
@enRuTuu 60
Unfortunately she is still breathing
He did and is going after the traitor Hillary that gave 20% of our uranium to Putin, for a huge contribution to her foundation
*OF COURSE THEY ARE, JUST LIKE IN 2016.*
*AND THE FASCIST G.O.P. TRAITORS WELCOME IT.*
#TRE45ON
@Patriot Spring
Sorry to disagree.
What he attempted to do to our Veterans was uncalled for.
Until I see Trump reduce pharmaceutical costs while many Americans currently cross the he border for some cost relief I might cut him some slack.
The writing is on the wall.
You can reduce your quality of life on behalf of Trump and the 1%, that’s your prerogative.
Are you talking about Hillary giving Putin 20% of our uranium, for a huge contribution to her foundation
@Mario Lopez Sure, we can disagree in a civilized manner. I appreciate you not resorting to insults as most who do not support tend to do. Have a good night.
@Patriot Spring
According to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Trump’s budget proposal will cut $1.5 trillion from Medicaid, $845 billion from Medicare and $25 billion from Social Security over the next ten years.
Apparently, your “due diligence” did not include reading the actual budget proposal itself or any information beyond your own threshold of bias.
@G.W. Rick Cuts mean nothing if nobody loses benefits.
Putin to Trump “Slow Down Numbnut You’re too Obvious” 🙄🤪
Dittzx in third grade !
So sad yet so true.
Terri Jones
I know you an tell by his vocabulary and sense of humour !
Putin never thought we’d let Trump last this long. That’s why Pence has been waiting in the wings. Think how Vlad will laugh when Pence and Moscow Mitch turn America into Handmaid’s Tale.
I do not drink, however, when tRump moves to Russia after he loses in 2020, I will have a double whiskey, maybe a triple.
Zeno of Citium
So not an over the top TDS theory then ? 😂
Catherine Andujar
Russia, Russia, RUSSIA ! 🤣 I bet you’ve all got Reds under your beds ! 🕵️♀️ 🛏 😂😂👍
You trash said you would leave the country if Trump wins. Bernie has a Russian passport. Go with him.
@Brian Smith – No…not when you consider Trump. How could anyone get caught paying off hookers, and still be president…thats rather insane too. Or, Helsinki…whoa.
Trump have to rely on foreign help AGAIN to be re-elected. That’s another crime! Putin’s puppet without a doubt. Traitor!
Victor Teo
Unplug your TV Vic, before you slip into a full blown MSM induced coma ! 🥾📺 They are playing you like 🎻 ! 😃👍
Of course, and McConnell has killed EVERY BILL to protect the US elections. They WANT help from Russia and Trump doesn’t want the people to KNOW that Russia is already interfering.
Mitch got a sweetheart deal a multi-million dollar aluminum plant in Kentucky via a Russian oligarch .
@majtom58 How would his world come crumbling down?
@Patriot SpringTrue, Russia has been interfering for years, however Russia never had a dimwit in the White House that was so easily manipulated to do Putin’s bidding.
@Wrangler 4×4 He’s not doing Russia’s bidding.
@Patriot Spring The Trumpsters are the only segment in the entire civilized world that don’t think so. However, I pray that I’m wrong
Moscow Mitch will look the other way and keep making rubels of russia.
…and Republicans refused to pass bills to secure the elections essentially inviting the Russians to rob America yet again.
LOL Only one that helped Trump get elected was Liberal Mainstream Media 5 billion in free advertising and endless airtime
That too@Brawndo CEO
Republicans not only had Democrats, they hate democracy itself.
Richard Grenell, Trump’s inexplicable pick for the Director of National Intelligence, has less than zero experience in intelligence or national security. He had even less experience in diplomacy when Trump named him as the Ambassador to Berlin. What Grenell does have however, are shady connections to Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs, who are connected to the Russian mob, and the Kremlin. And this is the man that Trump’s wants to trust with the entire treasure trove of Amercan intelligence and classified information.
In interviews, Lev Parnas described a meeting he and Rudy had in London where they met two associates of indicted Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, one of whom was on his legal team. The Washington Post reported on that meeting, and a Firtash lawyer confirmed that a meeting with Giuliani happened. Parnas said he was in the meeting, and that Giuliani used it to try to get material from the oligarch that would bolster his attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Trump.
Firtash is wanted in this country on multiple felony corruption and bribery charges. DOJ prosecutors say Firtash is an “upper-echelon associate” of Russian Organized Crime.
“Firtash is at dead center of the greatest corruption operation in Ukraine’s history,” said a former senior U.S. diplomat who served in the region. “He managed the flow of natural gas from Russia to Ukraine and beyond and it kept Ukraine dependent on Russia’s gas supplies.”
In 2013, as the Obama administration was pushing an anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine, federal prosecutors in Chicago indicted Firtash, charging him with a scheme to bribe Indian officials to obtain a lucrative mining deal to sell titanium to Boeing for the 787 Dreamliner. He was arrested in Vienna in March 2014, and released on $174 million bail and has been contesting his extradition to the U.S. ever since. The $174 million bail, said to be the largest in Austrian history, was paid by the Russian billionaire Vasily Anisimov, who is also under U.S. sanctions.
After the meeting, two of Giuliani’s allies joined Firtash’s legal team. Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova began representing Firtash in the summer of 2019, and worked to score political gifts for Trump from Firtash. Parnas said they also tried to leverage their Trumpworld connections to help Firtash.
“During the situation that was going on with the Firtash case, Victoria called Ric Grenell because he was the ambassador to Germany and Vienna was in the same orbit there,” Parnas said. “She basically asked him, if he sees any pressure coming from DOJ to extradite Firtash, if he could let us know. She told me that Grenell said he would.”
Buy some more tinfoil hats, you’re boosting my aluminum stock.
Trump has no experience and did more in 3 years then what Obama did in 8
@Patriot Spring Reliable news sources are reporting the same story. Maybe you should buy stock in Fancy Bear.
@S Like CNN, Wapo, MSNBC, and the NYT?
In Sept, one month before Lev Parnas was indicted on campaign finance charges, his wife received a $1 million wire transfers from a bank account in Russia. The the source was a lawyer for Dmytro Firtash, according to a court filing by U.S. prosecutors.
Firtash is a Ukrainian oligarch who made a fortune in the natural gas trade, and is perhaps the most enigmatic figure in the scandal related to Trump’s impeachment.
A billionaire with close ties to the Russian mob, Firtash is facing bribery-related charges here in the U.S. and fighting extradition from Vienna. He once attempted to buy the famous Drake Hotel in NY with the now imprisoned Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager. He’s seen by Ukrainian anti-corruption activists and Western governments as a corrupt instrument of Russia.
Firtash provided documents to Giuliani that he used to further his discredited claim that Joe Biden engaged in wrongdoing in Ukraine. The question over Firtash’s role in the effort to smear Biden deepened when Parnas said the oligarch’s involvement came from an explicit quid pro quo. In exchange for Firtash’s help in their effort to damage Biden, Parnas assured the oligarch they (Rudy, Trump, and Parnas) would make his U.S. legal troubles disappear.
In other words, according to Parnas: Guiliani, was so eager to help Trump and hurt Biden, that he turned to a man Ukrainian activists call their country’s most dangerous oligarch — and offered the equivalent of a get-out-of-jail-free card.
“Some folks might wonder what Mr. Giuliani was thinking. The better question is whether he WAS thinking,” said Chuck Rosenberg, a former federal prosecutor and senior FBI official. “This is so foolhardy and so reckless, that it is difficult to fathom what he was doing or how he thought it could succeed.”
Firtash lived up to his end of the alleged bargain: His lawyers provided a now-discredited affidavit from a Ukrainian prosecutor accusing Biden of wrongdoing. But Giuliani’s team did not deliver.
According to Parnas and a senior U.S. official, Firtash’s lawyers, Giuliani associates Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing, were unable to convince Attorney General William Barr to intervene in the Firtash case. The alleged scheme, one former U.S. official said, was stunning in its audacity.
“Think of it this way,” said the official, who has deep knowledge of Ukraine’s politics and Firtash’s history. “You have the president’s personal lawyer trying to get the president’s official lawyer, the attorney general, to get the Justice Department to drop charges against an oligarch supported by Russia. That’s what was happening.”
“Firtash is at dead center of the greatest corruption operation in Ukraine’s history,” said a former senior U.S. diplomat who served in the region. “He managed the flow of natural gas from Russia to Ukraine and beyond and it kept Ukraine dependent on Russia’s gas supplies.”
Anders Aslund, a former Swedish diplomat who has studied Ukraine’s economy for years, said Firtash is more of a purveyor of bribes than a proper businessman. “He has essentially been used by the Russians to buy political power in Ukraine,” said Aslund. “He’s the person who has spent the most money on behalf of the Kremlin on Ukraine’s politicians.”
In 2013, as the Obama administration was pushing an anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine, federal prosecutors in Chicago indicted Firtash, charging him with a scheme to bribe Indian officials to obtain a lucrative mining deal to sell titanium to Boeing for the 787 Dreamliner. He was arrested in Vienna in March 2014, and released on $174 million bail and has been contesting his extradition to the U.S. ever since.
The $174 million bail, said to be the largest in Austrian history, was paid by the Russian billionaire Vasily Anisimov, who is also under U.S. sanctions.
David J – Can you provide the source for this please? A webpage link is fine. Thanks.
@Patriot Spring lol this is part of court testimony you uneducated hack.
@Eco Geek Sure it is.
@Eco Geek shut up, stupid…
Just because Bernie was a Russian passport doesn’t mean anything
Hard to believe that this qualifies as “news” when it’s what all Republicans have been openly striving for, the perpetuation of a Russian agent in the White House. They don’t like justice or the US constitution but they do like a traitor who cedes control to Putin. The only thing that’s slightly confusing here is that Republicans don’t speak Russian and nor do they have a sinister Nazi accent (except for Mitch McConnell). Perhaps the NYT should run a story on that instead.
WE KNEW IT WOULD HAPPEN AGAIN!! CHUMP CAN’T WIN WITHOUT THEIR HELP!!
Russia owns the senate thrue Moscow mitch and investing in his State for citzen United
“I prefer my intelligence chiefs who don’t have integrity.”
MatchstalkMan Or intelligence
Those who still support trump have no excuse left except they love the traitorous orange criminal they worship! Vote Blue and Remove ALL the traitors!🇺🇸🌊🌀🌊🌀🌊
TDS
@Joe Paleface yes, you are tedious
So now we get someone acting like they know how to run national intelligence agencies. He’ll fit perfectly in this matryoshka of incompetence and corruption.
Thank Moscow Mitch for opening the doors wide for foreign interference, intervention and corruption. That’s Mitch’s snuggly sweet spot. Why else would he singlehandedly stop all legislation under the Trump administration. The only thing those Republican Senators have done in 3 years is pass that rip-off tax bill for billionaires.