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Anthony Scaramucci Hints at Putin and the KGB’s Mystery ‘Hold’ Over Trump
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protip: there is no russian kompramat. never was. it's headline grabbing laziness. donald trump was born a nyc construction scion raised equally in both the kkk and mafia. trump perfers russian strongmen and fascists, he thinks democracy is weak and worthless. there's no gotcha. trump does what he wants because it pleases him. that it. this was always the fight. if the million dead from a purposefully inept covid response didn't tell you that last time, i don't know if there anything anyone can say. in a free, fair, and safe (last?) election young democrats couldn't be bothered to cast a ballot for the continuation of democracy, and so we get fascist disassembly instead
The narrative was that trump might turn on putin, because Russia is doing terribly on the war front. That seemed possible, but Trump is so easily influenced he bought in to the Russian propaganda the second Putin talked to him.
Trump turns on everybody, but he's never turned on Putin. I don't think there was ever a possibility Trump was going to go against Russia, the source of that was probably people around Trump who are less subservient to Putin.