12-15-2020, 05:41 PM
(12-15-2020, 05:20 PM)hollodero Wrote: Now for me, that is not quite true. Trump's uber-friendly politics towards Putin and his oligarchs were just one of many signs. There was Manafort giving private briefings, there is the whole suspicious Deutsche Bank issue, of course there was a massive influence campaign in favor of Trump in 2016, there were Trump tower meetings, there was Roger Stone's connection to Wikileaks, there was Trump lieing to the people on Putin's behalf, and the Russian foreign minister getting a secret meeting in the WH, handing out classified information included, there was a concealed Trump tower Moscow deal, there was Eric Prince backchanneling, Flynn and Sessions kind of backchanneling and lieing about it, Felix Sater backchanneling (or whatever that was), Russian infiltration of the NRA (Maria Butina, countering this Chinese spy admirably), there is a whole lot of issues (and there is more to mention than I did).
I didn't say there was more, I said it was all some needed. In any event my position on this was about the assertions that the GOP as a whole are in Putin's pocket, which is absurd.
Quote:And the Chinese? They placed someone on Swalwell's team and he was not aware for some time. Apparently Hunter did business with them. I don't see much more on this side of the story, and it seems to be way less at this point. When Biden starts believing Xi over his own intelligence, I will start to see the argument made.
Eh, who knows how much happened with Swallwell. He passed on an opportunity to say he did not sleep with the woman, nor was he the only person she got close to. Of course, this does not mean that the Dems are in Xi's pocket either.
As for Trump, he doesn't believe anything he doesn't like, this is not restricted to Putin, our intelligence or anything else.
