Back In The USSR Timeline Part 10 — In Front of the Whole World
Trump and Putin did a joint press conference in Helsinki during NATO after their 2 ½ hour private meeting in July of 2018. Putin made Trump and the press wait by being late so he could show the world who was boss. Putin denied interfering with the election and Trump said he believed him. 12 Russian intelligence officers had just been indicted a few days earlier and Trump didn’t mention it. Nor did he mention Russia invading Crimea and East Ukraine. Trump said that both countries were at fault for the riff between the two. He said somebody interfered in the election, but it wasn’t Russia. It could have been anybody. Putin handed him a soccer ball (with a recording device inside no doubt) and told him the ball was in his court for all the whole world to see.
Before they had their private meeting Trump tweeted: “Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!” The tweet was retweeted by Sergey Lavrov’s foreign ministry with the comment, “we agree.”
The President humiliated the United States by conceding to a hostile foreign power on foreign soil. Trump refused to defend America by saying that we had to find a way to get along with Russia. He bowed down to a dictator, a former KGB officer, a murderer. He took credit for repairing the relationship like he did saving the world from nuclear war after getting cozy with North Korea.
Putin told Trump he’d offer his own law enforcement to help him figure out who did it. Trump actually gave serious consideration to Russian investigators questioning American citizens such as Bill Browder, the man who lobbied for the Magnitsky Act who Putin had been trying to assassinate for years. He was also thinking about letting them question a former ambassador, Michael McFaul, about his work with the US government. Michael McFaul wrote a book about Putin to warn the world.
Putin really wanted the Magnitsky Act sanctions lifted because it kept oligarchs from hiding their money. They must have talked about it during their private meeting.
Trump was shown evidence two weeks before the inauguration that Putin got him elected. He knew it on the day he got sworn in. He knew it when he fired Sally Yates, Preet Bharara and Jim Comey because they investigated it, making him a party to conspiring to protect a foreign adversary.
The 12 Russian intelligence officers who were indicted 3 days before Trump met with Putin were charged with hacking into the Democratic National Committee to sabotage the 2016 presidential election. After the election, the Russians kept messing with the Democrats by making up bogus stories to get them fighting with each other. One of the stories was Hillary Clinton was running again in 2020 and the other was Walk Away, where voters were supposedly leaving the Democratic party out of disgust. Both were lies and linked to Russian influence networks.
Trump called the media the enemy of the people. He called the European Union a “foe.” He attacked a former US president. He met with, congratulated and flattered a ruthless dictator who has beaten up, shot, jailed and poisoned anyone who crosses him. Putin is a killer and Trump wanted to be his friend. Trump is compromised. He is a traitor. He committed treason in front of the whole world.
Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted that Putin was invited to the White House before the midterms. Right after she tweeted, the Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats was asked about it during an interview at the Aspen Security Forum, in front of the world. He knew nothing about it.
