{"id":25896,"date":"2017-01-16T09:48:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25896"},"modified":"2017-01-16T09:48:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:48:43","slug":"putins-perverted-puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/16\/putins-perverted-puppet\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin’s Perverted Puppet"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, we discussed how the US intelligence community had been in possession of the dossier that indicated Trump had been coopted by the Russian government through blackmail, and that he was a willing participant in hacking the US government.  They say they have made no determination about the accuracy of that material, but there is now evidence that they are lying to the American people.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0116trump-gs\"The humor writer Andy Borowitz recently joked<\/a> that Donald Trump had been named the Kremlin\u2019s \u201cemployee of the month.\u201d I giggled at that, and then winced. It\u2019s painful even to joke about.<\/p>\n

Some of the most explosive reports about America in the last few days appeared<\/a> in Israeli newspapers<\/a>. They suggested that American intelligence officials had warned Israel to \u201cbe careful\u201d about sharing classified information with the Trump White House, for fear that it would be given to Russia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

American intelligence officials reportedly cautioned that Vladimir Putin might have \u201cleverages of pressure\u201d to extort Trump. That presumably was a reference to the hanky-panky recounted in the dossier<\/a> alleging that Moscow compromised Trump by filming him cavorting with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel.<\/p>\n

Perhaps more troubling are suggestions of collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <NY Times<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Photo credit: Democratic Underground<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

The way I see it, unless the US intelligence community had more evidence than completely unverified claims, they would not be warning their counterparts in other countries.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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