Thread by @DemocracyStorm

Is Trump a Russian Agent?

Let me count the ways
Thread:

1) From 2003 to 2017, people from the USSR made 86 all-cash purchases, (money laundering?) of Trump properties, totaling $109 million

2) The Russians interfered in the 2016 U.S. election to help elect Trump president.

3) Trump encouraged the Russians to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails on July 27, 2016

4) 101 contacts between Trump’s team and Russia linked operatives and the Trump team tried to cover up every single one of them.

5) Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and Michael Flynn, all with suspiciously close links to Moscow

6) Manafort now admits to offering polling data that could have been used to target the Russian social media campaign on behalf of Trump.

7) Trump associate Roger Stone reportedly knew in advance that the Russians had hacked Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails.

8) Trump fired Comey to stop the investigation of the “Russia thing” — and then bragged about having done so to the Russian ambassador

9) Trump has refused to consistently acknowledge that Russia interfered in the U.S. election or mobilize a government-wide effort to stop future interference.

10) On a daily basis, Trump attacks and undermines the Justice Department and the FBI, institutions that stand on the front lines of combatting Russian espionage and influence operations in the United States.

11) Trump attacks and undermines the European Union and NATO — he has suggested that France should leave the E.U. and that the United States should leave NATO, reportedly saying, “NATO is as bad as NAFTA.” The E.U. and NATO are the two major obstacles to Russian designs in Europe

12) Trump supports populist, pro-Russian leaders in Europe, such as Viktor Orban in Hungary and Marine Le Pen in France, just as the Russians do.

13) Trump even praised Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats & (DO NOT CONGRATULATE) congratulated Putin on winning a rigged reelection.

14) Trump “has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Putin, including taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials.

15) Trump defends the Russian invasion of Afghanistan(!!)

16) Trump is pulling U.S. troops out of Syria, handing that country to Russia and its ally Iran, prompting Mattis to resign

17) Trump has effectively done nothing in response to the Russian attack on Ukrainian ships in international waters, thereby encouraging greater Russian aggression.

18) Trump is sowing chaos in the government, most recently with a government shutdown and “acting” appointees in key posts such as the Defense Department and Justice Department, thus furthering a Russian objective of undermining its chief adversary. /end

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