PUTIN DERANGEMENT SYNDROME: “Trump’s affinity for Putin seemed to glow red during a notorious 2018 Helsinki news conference when he sided with the former KGB agent’s denials of election interference over US intelligence agencies’ findings.”-@washingtonpost
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“So much else erupted:
* revelations he was pursuing a Moscow hotel deal during campaign
* exposés of biz relations with oligarchs
* criticism of NATO alliance
* allowing Russian troops to take over U.S. bases in Syria
* pressure on Ukraine pres to say that Kyiv hacked DNC”-#WaPo
* revelations he was pursuing a Moscow hotel deal during campaign
* exposés of biz relations with oligarchs
* criticism of NATO alliance
* allowing Russian troops to take over U.S. bases in Syria
* pressure on Ukraine pres to say that Kyiv hacked DNC”-#WaPo
“‘Wow,’ wrote @McFaul ‘We still need to understand why Trump remains so intent on appeasing Putin.’ @MalcolmNance in ‘The Plot to Betray America’ makes a persuasive..case the president* is indeed Moscow’s man in Washington. In essence—it’s a progress report in a mole hunt.”-#WaPo
“Trump’s crude nationalist populism in many ways apes Putin’s kleptocratic rule.”-@JStein_WaPo
Unger, Nance, McFaul... all conclude Trump’s PDS (Putin Derangement Syndrome):
You could hear the gasps at Langley:
