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rainyday
What an idiot.
stormcrow
Collaborating with the enemy. What is it with Donald Trump & Fox TV when it comes to loving all things Putin? Why do they choose to ignore all of the thousands of innocent Ukrainians who’ve been murdered? Or ignore all of the Ukrainian hospitals, orphanages and schools that have been deliberately targeted and bombed by the Russians? Can anyone explain this love and respect Trump & Fox TV have for a terrorist and murderer?
Michael Machida
Trump needs to be placed in a cool dark jail for the rest of his life.
cleo
Wasn't there some little thing about 'innocent until proven guilty'? It's up to the accuser to prove the accusation.
Former President Trump is really barking up the wrong tree with this. Hasn't he noticed his pal Putin has a few other, more pressing things on his plate right now, like a failed war, a punctured economy, explaining to thousands of Russian babushkas why their teenage conscript sons won't be coming home, and evading the (I hope) inevitable Kremlin coup?
Nator
There are a lot of people for whom 'owning the libs' has become more important than anything else. It's become so tied up with their personal identity that they're willing to put it above people's lives, safety, family and country.
And Putin doesn't like BLM, Women's Rights, LGBT rights and all that 'woke' stuff, so he's basically their hero.
You're right though, it is weird to find millions of Americans who are actively wishing that their leader and their government was much more like that of Russia.
Mickelicious
Just when you thought you'd heard it all...
dagon
this is how little people even know about this laptop or the Biden family corruption in Ukraine, China and Russia.
Your support for the incorruptible Trump regime is admirable.
But seriously I don't get it unless you are are so blinkered or monetarily beholden.
Peter14
Considering all the illegal things Trump and his children have done in their lives, Hunter Biden would have to have received a Billion dollars to come even close to being as dirty as the Trumps are known to be.
I do not believe Trumps deflections for a second. And since he has nothing on Biden himself, Trump goes for the family looking for anything he can use to discredit the man he has nothing on.
As a hypothetical, assuming for a second Hunter may have done something wrong or questionable, there is no reason to think he would have told anyone about it, including family. So how would it be anything more than a family embarrassment of a wayward son?
Trump and his children are lowlife's, and he is trying to drag others down to his level.
wtfjapan
If Hunter is "innocent" let him prove his innocency.
Any objections?
same could be said of Trump, hasnt proven or provided any evidence that he is innocent of his accused crimes.
fortunately the legal system in the US is innocent until proven guilty, the prosecution has to provide evidence of the accused guilt.
youve got a former president asking a foreign dictator long time political and Military rival of the US
for help in his political campaign. magaloids are ignorant of these treasonous acts, imagine if it was Hillary asking Putin for the same thing of Trump jnr, the far right would be in meltdown
Bob Fosse
Not surprising he has unusual priorities. He was more concerned about Better Midler and shower pressure than the economy.
It would have been better if he’d asked his best buddy to withdraw from Ukraine but I guess he’s more interested in other things.
Juanito3001
Cannot imagine a more despicable act than Trump asking Putin for help. Desperate for power and a very dangerous personality. He would turn a dime if he could make 15 cents by selling out his own country and their allies. Queens NYC Mafia mentality without a once of empathy for the suffering in Ukraine or anywhere else!
Jimizo
@Eastman
Defensible point. Comical evasion of the article itself, but a defensible point.
So what do you think of Trump’s words here?
Just say what you think.
dagon
"That's a lot of money," he said. "She gave him $3.5 million, so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer."
Trump is just jealous if that money from Russia was going into Biden coffers.
With all the money that him and Don Jr. and Ivanka have gotten it seems he has gotten greedy.
The American oligarch problem is probably worse than Russia.
Peter14
So many pro Russians defending Trump, while so many anti democracy Americans support Putin and Trump.
The US future is truly in jeopardy as long as Trump wields any political power over the Republicans.
Trump could still be the end of the US and that is thanks in no small part to his misguided supporters who will become the US version of the SS in any future Trump presidency. No loyalty to America, only personal loyalty to Trump. Same as for Hitler, Stalin, Xi and Putin. Putting a person before one's country always spell disaster in the end.
Dig up dirt. Biden should ask Putin for all the dirt he has on Trump and his family. I am sure the dossier on that would require many briefcases to carry.
PTownsend
Pretty lame, to be expected from a grifting gangster, however.
How about his words, what he later called a 'joke', which was to bomb Russia using a plane with Chinese markings? That was about as funny as his putative joke to inject a disinfectant?
TeslaInvestor
Is this clown still running his mouth?
The Federal Reserve just admitted yesterday that aggressive COVID stimulus caused the recent inflation spikes. These stimulus measures were started by Trump to save his failing Presidency, so the inflation crisis is entirely Trump's fault.
Nibek32
Trump would not have won the 2016 election without Putin’s help. Makes sense he is asking for more help now as his life unravels. The man is desperate. Everything he touches crashes and burns. Just look at his social media platform. Lol it’s such a failure, nobody even joined.
Busby
Trump once again showing us;
He worships Putin - who is also his loan broker (just ask Eric)...
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/332270-eric-trump-in-2014-we-dont-rely-on-american-banks-we-have-all-the-funding-we
He has a weird, unhealthy obsession with Hunter, as does many of his followers...
He can't let go of his 2020 defeat - it eats at him, and highlights his clear mental breakdown...
He's backing a whole bunch of flawed, kooky candidates that will all lose in Nov, ensuring the Dems keep the House and Senate...
When he's in trouble, he pulls out Nixon's playbook (erasing phone tapes/records)...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-calls-seven-hour-gap-january-6/
But he'll continue to tease and fleece his flock of their money - then quit at the last minute because he couldn't stand losing twice...
Welcome to MAGA-world...
UChosePoorly
Unreal.
Peter14
EastmanToday 01:44 pm JST
Yes, I object. It is much easier to make an accusation of guilt than to prove it.
How about.
If Hunter is "guilty" let someone prove his guilt.
Any objections.
How do you prove innocence against an accusation made with no proof? You say, I'm innocent, prove otherwise.
Who do you side with? He who makes an accusation without proof or he who says he is innocent against such a proof-less accusation?
Jimizo
Trump may up the ante even further running for President in 2024.
His supporters have already completely humiliated themselves defending him and believing his trash conspiracy theories.
Can he push them even further?
Paustovsky
@Eastman
Guilty. Thought so. You haven't got a silk-stockinged leg to stand on.
Bob Fosse
Where do you get your news? Do recommend a reliable source.
Peter14
Trump wants to be an Autocrat in power for life and passing leadership down to his most able and despicable child. Fox wants to support Trump and his attempts to kill American democracy so they can become the State sanctioned media outlet, as all other free media gets shut down.
They are in it for themselves and for their power. They want to be as rich as Putin is and control an empire.
takeda.shingen.1991@gmail.com
At a time when the US is supplying it's ally, Ukraine, with weapons to defend itself from the Russian invasion this crook has the audacity to call on Putin for "help" with a political favor. I have a hard time understanding how/why people think Trump is looking out for anyone besides himself. Pretty sick.
The Avenger
For God’s sake, is this the new normal in American politics??
When Putin is slaughtering innocent people, Trump just wants political dirt.
PRICELESS: FBI gets grilled over Hunter's laptop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KfpZRaTkwY
Peter14
KaerimashitaToday 02:53 pm JST
That Trump and his brood will soon be behind bars? Let us all hope so.
For what exactly? He has not done anything except become a Trump target. Is that somehow making Hunter illegal? How much time do you do just for being a Trump target?
OssanAmerica
I'm so tempted to suggest that Trump be stripped of US citizenship and deported to Russia, but I don't want to jeapordize any chances of his spending any time in a Federal penitentiary.
Bob Fosse
The gift that keeps giving. It keeps him out of trouble elsewhere at least.
Someone should just give him a manila envelope full of Qanon forum printouts with ‘Top Sekret!’ stamped on it. That’d keep him busy for a while.
Nibek32
Trump is just desperate for a headline. The guy is mentally sick.
Mickelicious
Credit where due, Putin has played a blinder sowing division with Brexit, Trump, etc.
Jimizo
Come on, Bass.
The stolen election crowd completely humiliated themselves. Remember those defending his birtherism?
One of the worst moral failures was the inability to call him out for retweeting dodgy material from racist groups. Utter degradation, but I still think he’s capable of even more extreme attention-seeking antics.
I just wonder how far he’s prepared to go for publicity, and how far his supporters are prepared to go with him.
Is there a ‘Oh, come on…’ point for his followers?
Peter14
Biden is not the sharpest pencil in the box but Trump is just broken.
The only thing that comes from Trumps mouth is BS. Literally anyone is a better option for America than Trump.
I dont care if the Republicans win if anyone else is leading it. Trump is an ongoing disaster for himself, his associates and for his country. He is divisive when we need cohesion he is self obsessed when we need selfless and his vision of himself is like the wicked witch expecting the mirror to say he is the most beautiful in the land. Nothing else matters to Trump but Trump. Blindly following such a person is sadly delusional.
Thunderbird2
And so the snake slithers out from under his rock again... Sod off back to your hole Trump! You are irrelevant.
While the world (well, most of it) rallies against Vlad the Invader, Trump thinks it's okay to tap his paymaster for info. Classy.
Express sister
Trump led an insurrection against US democracy.
You supported the Qanon whackjobs who went along with it as "very smart people".
Express sister
Yeah. You prove guilt, not innocence.
Express sister
Another wonderful prediction. From someone who foretold that Russia would never invade Ukraine. And then got mad at Biden (who, tbf, is a bad President) because they were wrong.
Cool.
Jimizo
A bit childish.
Trump promoted the stolen election nonsense and ‘apoplectic’ doesn’t come close to what that created.
That caused psychotic episodes among the weak and the uneducated.
Busby
BINGO! Thanks for finally admitting Trump is in Putin's pocket for all his Russian oligarch loans...sure explains all the Putin adoration....
A weird, sick, fixation, but just like CRT, it's all just made up just to manipulate and con the MAGA-masses...
He's trying to out himself behind bars? Well, that explains why he keeps obsessing and talking about it...
So what happened to Mo Brooks?
https://time.com/6160419/donald-trump-mo-brooks-un-endorse/
itsonlyrocknroll
I hope in 2024, US electorate will be presented with candidates other than Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
Surely there has to be someone out there?
Simon Foston
mrtinjpToday 07:34 pm JST
Right, he's not. He's expecting Putin to support him.
ReynardFox
“I called you a genius. I praised your invasion. I did good, right? You’ll help me out now, right?”
Bleh, watching Trump grovel and simper for Putin to help him is somehow more distasteful that watching Don Jr. beg in vain for his papa’s attention.
Sorry, Don. But Vlad has bigger things to worry about tight now than the whinging of pawns who have outlived their usefulness.
Jimizo
@blue in green
Fair point, but people with even half a brain know that the media does this with headlines.
That’s why sensible people read the article.
Just out of interest, is there any media you know which doesn’t do this? Also, what do you think of Trump’s words as quoted in the main body of the article?
Just say what you think.
u_s__reamer
$3.5 million is chump change to billionaire Putin who now with much more important stuff on his plate of Ukraine will see no compelling reason to pay any more attention to the ousted Maga-Lardo grifter. He's already had a great return on his little investment in Trump that brought 4 years of presidential mayhem that weakened America's security and standing in the world and created the confusion that has enabled him to sneak under America's radar to make his long-planned invasion of Ukraine. That Trump is still at large to torment Americans with his baleful influence and poison US politics is proof of Putin's "savvy genius" aided and abetted by Biden's deliberate but misguided appointment of an ineffective AG.
mrtinjp
25% said they would not have voted for him had they known about this laptop or that the contents were real.
It was known, but except a few no one reported this...
https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/
Addfwyn
Pretty sure this would rank pretty low on Putin's priority list right now. He might have a few things just a tiny bit more important going on. I don't think "placating American politician" even makes the top 100.
Jimizo
@Algernon Lacroix
What’s your opinion on Trump’s words here?
You clearly avoided commenting on them with ‘No need to ask Putin for help’
Just say what you think.
If you are okay with it, just say so.
Ego Sum Lux Mundi
No, only Russians can be 'oligarchs' - the obscenely rich and powerful in the West are termed 'billionaires'. Didn't you read the AP style guide?
Jimizo
Hysterical.
Jimizo
Yes. Many are. They are there to grab attention.
Were you not aware of this?
bass4funk
If you say it like that then lump the current President in there as well and how do we know this…years and years of video to prove it. Once again, the left can’t say Jack about Trump when their own President has a history written and filmed evidence of lying.
mrtinjp
Trump is so un American supporting Putin as he does
Trump is as American as its gets, and this America first is what is hated and attacked, and he is not supporting Putin just stating facts.
bass4funk
Not at all, seems with each passing day with more and more lawsuits being eventually dropped that’s it’s actually the opposite and still the clock is ticking on the left. Time running out.
Yes, being the Republican nominee.
Algernon LaCroix
Not at all. The Democrats under Biden Sr have hastened the decline of the US at speeds even they couldn't have predicted, through both malice and incompetence. And instead of trying to fix problems, they're more interested in distractions hoping that the focus will go off them for a while. Hunter Biden is a symptom of the malaise that's just piling up together with rampant inflation, a self-inflicted fuel crisis and chest-thumping over Ukraine (another crisis with a Hunter Biden link, care of his father).
For all Trump's many faults, he's much tougher than Biden and it's unlikely Putin would've invaded Ukraine under Trump's watch. The Biden administration, though, is weak and just about everyone knows it.
bass4funk
What???
Not in the US
Not according to the all the polls, literally all of them.
Apparently, you have not been watching the news on a daily basis. Almost 2 years with this President and nothing has gone right, absolutely nothing. Again, look at the polls, they look like death for the Democrats, over 30 Dems will not seek re-election this fall. That’s beyond bad.
Nothing to dig, just wait, it’s coming and the left are terrified of it.
bass4funk
Smart enough to put fear in all our enemies and at least the Saudis answered his calls. He know our adversaries better not get on our bad side and he also made sure not to push them either. 4 years and zero problems, no wars.
But he can back it up as well.
Not according to conservatives. Trump or DeSantis, that’s it.
you don’t, but judging by the polls the rest of the country does.
And the future of this nation and right now under the current guy, it looks bleak.
bass4funk
Nope, and here is the thing, the left for some reason are freaking out when the GOP retake the House as they will start their own investigation into the Biden’s specifically Hunter and it seems like they’re already trying to clean aisle 6 up before it even starts.
And the right doesn’t when it comes to this President.
Be very careful. You don’t know what the GO have on Biden. They have to wait until November to let the country know, but for now, we don’t know.
Why? Educated, doing exceptionally well for themselves and the best part is, everything the left threw at them didn’t stick.
bass4funk
Not really.
Some did, but that didn’t even start with him or his party
But when the Ayatollah is not called out on his tweets or the other looney left fools, their tweets are ok? Why?
I wonder once the GOP win in November if the Democrats will accept the results?
bass4funk
Neither can this President.
Look at the polls. He even lost Chuck Todd and that’s hard to do.
No, I’m addressing the left or to put it more bluntly, Trump haters
Algernon LaCroix
No need to ask Putin for help. Hunter is bound to put his foot in it sooner rather than later. He's the gift that keeps on giving.
It's hilarious to watch the left go apoplectic about this, having the laptop affair proved true after they so strenuously denied it for the last 18 months. Seems that anything they deny is true, and anything they promote is false. No surprise really.
Raw Beer
So Trump saying Putin should release evidence equals asking him to "dig up dirt"?
If there is any evidence of wrong doing, he should release it.
He's not asking him to fabricate anything, like the Steele dossier.
Kaerimashita
Peter
I think your wish may well come true. Hunter may well have to at least cop a plea or maybe even do time,.
Yes, DT and his offspring have been convicted multiple times of wrongdoing. Have they?blue in green
No bias in that headline, nope, none at all...
If a wife of the Mayor of Moscow decided to "gift" one of Trump's sons millions of dollars,
would that not be an open target of curiosity, as to why?
How is asking for that reason in this case, digging for dirt?
This MSM press is so flip, with words, using them to skew, confuse, distort-
Everything but make clear.
Is it any wonder at all, MSM influenced ignorance, is shown in most comments here?
bass4funk
Ok and?
Not unhealthy, valid, more to come.
Says the people that are trying to put him behind bars
Yeah, backing non-Washington establishment is just so bad, Which establishment are terrified that a big majority of them will win.
Blacklabel
Dad Biden will be resigning soon after he pardons Son Biden.
Just the fact that this article was even allowed to be written/posted here means the tide is finally shifting to the truth of what happened.
Someone smells indictment and impeachment in the air.
painkiller
In his election campaign for the 2016 that he won, Trump publicly called on Moscow to find missing emails from his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Naturally, the woke crowd give Hillary a pass on those 30,000 missing emails.
Can't wait til 2024.
Remember--there is Trump within Triumphant.
Blacklabel
yeah sure this is digging for dirt, to settle once and for all a legitimate allegation that Hunter got money from Moscow.
Congress trying to get into Trump lawyer emails, totally NOT digging for dirt at ALL. no way man!
legitimate inquiry, right?
I see it now.
While Hunter Biden did receive 3.5 million dollars from the ex wife of the mayor of Moscow, it is not clear the exact purpose of the transaction or that his father is in fact the "big guy" mentioned, as the elder Biden is not exceptionally large.
Fact check- FALSE.
Blacklabel
so the laptop is real, right?
receipts from it- not to mention the emails, video and pictures.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grassley-johnson-allege-100000-payment-chinese-oligarchs-hunter-biden-provide-receipt
Yes I think Putin would know why 3.5 million dollars was given to Hunter Biden. No reason to not ask him to provide those details if no one else will.
Kaerimashita
More storm in a teacup nonsense. What he said is kind of nothing. Maybe kind of true. And we immediately see all the old nonsense about treachery and conspiracy and all come out again. Weird how he triggers people.
Blacklabel
it was hilarious yesterday on Twitter when liberals were mocking other posters about "James" Biden.
post- James and Hunter Biden got paid by the CCP. see the receipt here.
liberals- who is "James" Biden, there is no James Biden. haha you are so stupid.
this is how little people even know about this laptop or the Biden family corruption in Ukraine, China and Russia.
25% said they would not have voted for him had they known about this laptop or that the contents were real.