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1/The President's recent actions have once again raised concerns abt his alignment w/Russia's Putin, and of Putin's influence over him/American policy. It began w/their long call, in which Trump once again gave Putin a pass for attacking US. A thread: nytimes.com/2019/05/03/us/… …
2/As a reminder, the 2017 IC report on Russia found "Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election represent the most recent expression of Moscow’s longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order." dni.gov/files/document…
3/Within a few days of his call w/Putin, Trump appears to have abandoned the US-led pro-democracy position on Venezuela, and more closely aligned himself w/Putin, Maduro and authoritarianism. washingtonpost.com/politics/a-fru… Remains a jawdropping aboutface.
4/Within days of the Putin call, Trump dramatically escalated his trade war with China, a strategy which could end up weakening or even ending the global economic system the US built after WWII. Consistent w/Russia's prime objective. france24.com/en/20190307-eu…
5/In the critical days in the run up to the European elections, the Administration has sent clear signals of their alignment with right wing, pro-Russian political forces. First, the Sec of State, publicly blows off Angela Merkel. upi.com/Top_News/World…
6/Next the President brings the most Russia friendly, anti-EU elected leader in Europe to the Oval Office and praises him for being "respected," and says their political missions are similar.
7/And today this image and message is being seen throughout Europe - the American Secretary of State going to Russia itself, not calling on Russia to cease its aggressive actions vs Europe/West, not asking for 12 hackers to be expedited back to US.
8/In recent months President has threatened to or taken aggressive action against China, Europe, Iran, Mexico, Canada, Venezuela and Cuba. But Russia, the country working to end US global order/US influence, gets kisses, friendly visits, summit meetings. newsweek.com/donald-trump-m…
9/On the issue of foreign interference, every one - the President, the AG, Kushner, Rudy - have sent clear signals that they believe what Russia did in 2016 is okay and are inviting them to return on Trump's behalf this election. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
10/The President's actions these past few wks have raised fresh, urgent questions abt Putin's influence over him, providing ample justification for various Congressional probes to proceed, particularly @repadamschiff's counter-intel investigation. cnn.com/2019/05/08/pol…
11/Ending with this one, about the connection between the tariffs and the weakening of the global order America built and has led, and which the IC says Russia wants to weaken, destroy. nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opi…
12/Adding a new one to this thread. President expresses concerns abt Iran policy just after Pompeo goes to Russia. Sure it is a coincidence.
13/Hard not to be worried about exposure of US intelligence assets in Russia to Trump, Kushner now. Another deeply concerning pro-Putin move by the President in recent weeks.
