In 2018, in Helsinki, when Trump met with his idol Putin, after a secret one on one meeting their translators were ordered to destroy all notes of, he contradicted his own intelligence services about well-documented Russian meddling in the 2016 election (“The Russiagate Hoax” according to MAGA orthodoxy). In answer to a question he said, standing next to his close friend, Vladimir, “I don’t see any reason why Russia would have meddled in the election.” The next day, after backlash, Trump clarified that he’d meant to say exactly the opposite of what he’d actually said, as so many of us so often do. He claimed to have been tripped up by the double negative in that sentence. A nice sixty second video of him making both statements appears here. In any event, the idiotic, lying retraction was seemingly accepted by corporate media without much of a ripple.
He’s up to the same thing seven years later, his main trick, the only thing he really is an expert at, continually lying to cover up, or at least muddy, his other lies. Before the summit with the aggressor in the Russia-Ukraine war Trump said he would not walk away without a cease fire and would impose serious sanctions on Russia. After the aborted meeting, where, after public fawning by Mr. Trump, who applauded his Russian counterpart as he walked the red carpet, a ceasefire and sanctions were both taken off the table, Trump beamed about confirmation of one of his pet theories by Mr. Putin.
Putin himself said, Trump proudly reported, that Trump won by a mile in 2020, that mail-in voting guarantees massive fraud (see Heritage Foundation’s own voter fraud database [2] for definitive disproof of this widespread far right myth, snarlingly parroted by Bill Barr publicly before the 2020 election), and that’s why he “lost” a rigged election Biden cheated in with fraudulent votes. So Putin PROVED that Trump’s claims are correct and all the so-called Election Truthers, a crazed offshoot of those who opposed the Birthers and the incredibly smart Flat Earthers, are big, fat, smelly liars. “I don’t know why Vladimir WOULD lie about the certain fraud of mail in voting?” His takeaway from Putin’s confirmation of this pernicious anti-democratic myth? US only country to use infamously corrupt mail-in voting (although Putin’s Russia allows mail-in and internet voting, as do dozens of democracies). That would have to be scored: Putin lies, Trump lies.
Putin, the world’s wealthiest dictator, is a KGB trained expert at manipulation, intimidation and murder, and Trump is transparently the easiest president in American history to manipulate. Tell him he’s great, that he doesn’t smell bad, that he’s a genius and he will eat whatever you’re holding right out of your hand. This is the secret to Stephen Miller’s and Laura Loomer’s great success, they are experts at making Trump feel powerful, infallible, invulnerable, the greatest winner ever and not a deviantly corrupt, mentally unbalanced old man visibly losing his tenuous grip on reality with every passing day.
Meanwhile, as a result of the Artist of the Deal’s masterful negotiation with his master, Vladimir Putin, Russian tanks ravaging Ukraine today are flying Russian and American flags. USA! USA!!!
By the way, I love this picture of Putin, taken the other day while Trump hosted the war criminal in “Russia”, or Alaska, or whatever. Thank you to Rapert Murdoch’s NY Post.
[1] Apologies for the outdated, now offensive term. “Stupid” or “dumb” just didn’t seem to do it.
[2] These slick, lying Nazis, authors of Trump’s blueprint for American Autocracy, Project 2025, have made the actual database quite a bit harder to access, after years of showing detailed findings of the vanishingly rare, statistically insignificant amount of voting fraud since 1982, a rate almost as low as the proportion of multibillionaires (like the owners of the Heritage Foundation) in the general population.
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