GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump again whined to his supporters that the four criminal indictments and 91 criminal charges against him were politically motivated and that the prosecution of him was an assault on American democracy, the New York Times reported on December 16, 2023.
Trump told a crowd in Durham, N.H., that President Joe Biden, a Democrat, was behind the persecution of Trump.
Trump cited Russian president Vladimir Putin as his source.
Who better to endorse your claim that your political opponent is trying to destroy American democracy than a murderous sociopath and suspected war criminal who wants to destroy American democracy?
Trump referred to Putin by his first name and Biden by his last name.
“Even Vladimir Putin says that Biden’s — and this is a quote — politically motivated persecution of his political rival is very good for Russia, because it shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy,” Trump said.
He then added: “So, you know, we talk about democracy, but the whole world is watching the persecution of a political opponent that’s kicking his ass. It’s an amazing thing. And they’re all laughing at us.”
No, the world is not laughing at us . . .
In addition, Trump praised other authoritarian leaders, calling Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban “highly respected” and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “very nice.”
Trump again referenced Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany by saying that immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” a phrase Hitler reportedly used in Mein Kampf, his book that outlined his antisemitic political philosophy.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-immigrants-poisoning-blood-181843345.html
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Orban, Kim, and Hitler may be nice but they’re no Vladimir Putin.
Trump speaks of Putin the way poets talk of love.
“I actually had a very good relationship” with Putin, Trump said on the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
There is no one who Trump speaks about with such devotion and none he will defend with such passion than he does when he refers to Putin.
This includes his wife Melania, or “Melanie,” as he has called her.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/19/politics/melania-trump-hospital-release-kidney-procedure/index.html
Has Trump ever called Vladimir Putin by the wrong name?
Trump, who supports Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and famously defended Putin in an interview with Bill O’Reilly of Fox News, who called Putin a “killer.”
https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/04/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin/index.html
John McCain, the late GOP presidential candidate and U.S. senator, called Putin a “thug and a murderer” because, well, Putin, is a well-documented “thug and murder.”
Trump gushes ad nauseum about Putin, who the International Criminal Court in The Hague has charged with war crimes for, among other things, “involving accusations that Russia has forcibly taken Ukrainian children.”
Trump doesn’t like children either.
Except with lots of catsup.
Here is a list of other alleged crimes committed by Putin since he took control of Russia in 2000. According to Quartz, Putin “has created a regime under which his opponents are murdered; political prisoners are sent to Siberia for decades behind bars; minority rights are suppressed; opposition is quashed; foreign territory is forcefully annexed; and Syria’s bloodthirsty president, Bashar Assad, enjoys direct military support for his massacres.”
https://qz.com/862764/heres-a-list-of-abuses-in-vladimir-putins-russia
Trump described Putin’s invasion of Ukraine not as “horrific,” “illegal,” and “criminal,” as other world leaders did, but as “genius” and “savvy.”
“ ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful,” Trump said in a radio interview. “He used the word ‘independent’ and ‘we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.’ You gotta say that’s pretty savvy.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/23/trump-putin-ukraine-invasion-00010923
How would Trump have responded to Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939 or Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
“They saw all the ships in the harbor and said, ‘we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.’ You gotta say that’s pretty savvy.”
NBC News’s Kristin Welker, host of Meet the Press, told GOP presidential candidate Trump during an interview in September 2023 that Putin had praised him for saying that he would end the war in Ukraine if he were president.
Trump practically blushed.
“Well, I like that he said that. Because that means what I’m saying is right,” Trump said.
In 2018, Trump said he believed Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies when Putin told him Russia had not meddled in American elections.
“President Putin says it’s not Russia,” Trump said. “I don’t see any reason why it would be.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/17/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-praise-00116414
Me neither.
The Trump-Putin love affair is even more dysfunctional that that of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
What does Trump see in Putin behind those steely-blue eyes?
Trump is envious of Putin because Putin can do whatever he wants without have to pay attention to such trivialities as civil liberties.
Trump “admired” Putin’s capacity to kill anyone he wanted, former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said.
“I think [Trump] feared [Putin]. I think he was afraid of him. I think that the man intimidated him. Because Putin is a scary man, just frankly, I think he was afraid of him,” Grisham said, adding, “I also think he admired him greatly. I think he wanted to be able to kill whoever spoke out against him. So I think it was a lot of that. In my experience with him, he loved the dictators, he loved the people who could kill anyone, including the press.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/09/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-stephanie-grisham
To Trump, things are transactional.
He loves Putin because Russia loaned him money after U.S. banks wouldn’t give him anything after a series of bankruptcies.
Trump has said he has no investments in Russia.
Trump was, to state the obvious, lying.
“Trump’s dodge — that he has no businesses in Russia, so there is no connection to Putin — is a classic magician’s trick,” Time magazine said. “Show one idle hand, while the other is actually doing the work.”
The truth is, according to the magazine, “that that several of Trump’s businesses outside of Russia are entangled with Russian financiers inside Putin’s circle.”
https://time.com/4433880/donald-trump-ties-to-russia/
And there’s more.
Some of Trump’s top financial advisors are also tied up Russian money, Max Boot, the former op-ed editor of the Wall Street Journal and now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in the Los Angeles Times.
https://time.com/4433880/donald-trump-ties-to-russia/
Chris Cillizza, editor at large for CNN, says Trump loves Putin and he’s obviously not afraid that everyone knows it.
“When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time. Or in the case of Donald Trump, the 10th time,” Cillizza said.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/politics/trump-putin-ukraine-russia-smart/index.html
The same goes when Trump tells you he wants to be a dictator.
Biden campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodriguez responded to Trump’s statement by saying: “Donald Trump has been telling us exactly what he will do if he’s reelected and tonight he said he will be a dictator on day one . . . Americans should believe him.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-wont-dictator-elected-day-one-rcna128267
It’s one of the few things Trump says that Americans should believe.
