The GOP can continue to condemn Biden for not being tough enough on Putin while praising Trump for supporting Putin.
Trump missed an opportunity to explicitly contend that Ukraine was stolen from Putin and that he is simply trying to recover his property.
During the summer of 2020 the Trump administration anticipated that it would lose a legitimate election to Biden and started acquiring legal personnel for a post-election fight to overturn the election. Fighting Jan. 6 committee, John Eastman details how he came into Trump’s post-election fold excerpt: “Ms. Mitchell had been deputized by President Trump himself in late August 2020 to undertake that effort on his behalf,” Eastman says in the filing by attorneys Anthony Caso and Charles Burnham. “As a member of the Election Integrity Working Group and in furtherance of my representation of President Trump as candidate and his campaign committee, I began conducting legal research and collaborating with academic advisers and other supporters of the President about the myriad number of factual and legal issues we anticipated might arise following the election,” Eastman reveals. Mitchell directed questions about Eastman’s assertion to her attorney John Rowley, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, Eastman’s filing is the first-ever formal description of his legal work for Trump. He described his legal relationship with Trump in court papers filed in the U.S. District Court of Central California, where he’s been ordered by a judge to produce thousands of pages of records to the Jan. 6 select committee. Eastman has attempted to shield many of these records by claiming attorney-client privilege, which prompted the select committee to demand evidence of his legal relationship with Trump, the Trump campaign or the White House.
Trump rioter arrested. https://chicago.suntimes.com/metro-...s-he-stayed-front-lines-during-capitol-breach excerpt: "A man who allegedly bragged that he “stayed on the front lines” during the U.S. Capitol breach in spite of tear gas and flash-bang grenades has been arrested and charged for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. Athanasios Zoyganeles, 44, is charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was arrested Tuesday."
Scandal-plagued GOP candidate spotted at Mar-a-Lago after Trump made 'disparaging comments about him': report excerpt: "On Tuesday, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman revealed that disgraced former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, now running for Senate, was spotted at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club in South Florida. This comes after former Trump, who reportedly initially gave his blessing for Greitens to enter the race, has turned on him and privately fumed that he could jeopardize Republican chances of holding Missouri's Senate seat if he wins the nomination."
More incoherent babble from Trump. Why don’t they (Trump and 62 percent of the GOP who thinks Putin is a stronger leader than Biden), all just move to Russia….???
Prime Minister Justin Pierre Trudeau of Canada better watch out in 2024 If Trump gets in and begins amassing US troops near the US-Canadian Border
‘Very creepy video’ leads to arrest of Chicago man following Capitol riot by: Andy Koval Posted: Feb 22, 2022 / 06:53 PM CST Updated: Feb 22, 2022 / 06:55 PM CST ‘Very creepy video’ leads to arrest of Chicago man following Capitol riot | WGN-TV excerpt: "WASHINGTON — A Chicago man is facing federal charges for allegedly breaching the Capitol during the 2021 insurrection. The Justice Department said three different people tipped them off about Athanasios Zoyganeles due to Facebook posts he made at the Capitol. A tipster told authorities Zoyganeles posted a “very creepy video of him in the Capitol saying Nazis, where are you?” documents state. According to the documents, Zoygangeles allegedly told a friend on Facebook, “No im done i was teargassed maced and they were throwing flash bangs at me but I still stayed on the front lines. It wasn’t easy but we did it.” A search warrant placed Zoygangles’ phone inside the Capitol for nearly an hour. He was charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building."
Fox says Trump was just trolling the media when he praised Putin. Fox News host rushes to do clean-up for Trump after he gushes over 'genius' Putin excerpt: "In reality, Trump's praise of Putin was not a one-time occurrence, and he has regularly praised not only Putin, but also North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, whose "love letters" he brought with him to his home in Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House. Additionally, Trump would also advocate for Russia's interests, such as when he said that the country deserved to be allowed back into the G7 organization of the world's strongest economies."
Analysis: Donald Trump sides with Vladimir Putin as Joe Biden tries to stop a war - CNNPolitics excerpt: "The idea that Trump's toughness prevented Putin from invading Ukraine is undermined not only by his chummy exchanges with a leader who imprisoned opponents and presides over a country where journalists are often killed. One of the goals of Putin's pressure on Ukraine -- as he has made repeatedly clear -- is to drive NATO back to its boundaries at the end of the Cold War and to divide the Western alliance. With Trump in power, the Russian leader didn't need to bother with the latter goal, since his counterpart in the White House frequently berated trans-Atlantic allies and cozied up to US enemies."
Trump sides with Putin as Biden tries to stop a war | CNN Politics excerpt: "Trump's former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, a possible future Republican presidential candidate, also recently praised Putin, a scourge of democracy, as a "very talented" and gifted statesman. "He was a KGB agent for goodness sakes. He knows how to use power. We should respect that," Pompeo told Fox in January. The fact that this is coming from leading members of the party of ex-President Ronald Reagan, who beseeched then-Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" in divided Berlin and was credited with winning the Cold War, represents a startling transformation. And it shows how far the GOP has traveled away from its respect for fundamental US democratic values in the pursuit of power."
Trump called NATO a paper tiger. Putin doesn't see NATO as a paper tiger. Why is Russia ordering troops into Ukraine and what does Putin want? excerpt: "What's Putin's problem with Ukraine? Russia has long resisted Ukraine's move towards European institutions, both Nato and the EU. Now, Mr Putin has claimed Ukraine is a puppet of the West and was never a proper state anyway. He demands guarantees from the West and Ukraine that it will not join Nato, a defensive alliance of 30 countries, and that Ukraine demilitarise and become a neutral state. As a former Soviet republic Ukraine has deep social and cultural ties with Russia, and Russian is widely spoken there, but ever since Russia invaded in 2014 those relations have frayed."