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Donald Trump a de facto Russian asset, FBI official he fired suggests

Andrew McCabe says Trump-Putin interactions ‘raise questions’, as Harris says Putin would eat Trump ‘for lunch’

Donald Trump can be seen as a Russian asset, though not in the traditional sense of an active agent or a recruited resource, an ex-FBI deputy director who worked under the former US president said.

Asked on a podcast if he thought it possible Trump was a Russian asset, Andrew McCabe, who Trump fired as FBI deputy director in 2018, said: “I do, I do.”

He added: “I don’t know that I would characterize it as [an] active, recruited, knowing asset in the way that people in the intelligence community think of that term. But I do think that Donald Trump has given us many reasons to question his approach to the Russia problem in the United States, and I think his approach to interacting with Vladimir Putin, be it phone calls, face-to-face meetings, the things that he has said in public about Putin, all raise significant questions.”

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Speaking to One Decision, McCabe said: “You have to have some very serious questions about, why is it that Donald Trump … has this fawning sort of admiration for Vladimir Putin in a way that no other American president, Republican or Democrat, ever has.

nifty ,
@nifty@lemmy.world avatar

But undecided voters need to think of their pocketbooks tho

Dagwood222 ,

Stalin used to use the term ‘useful idiots’ for Westerners who would help advance his interests. Sometimes they were sincere progressives who thought that Stalin was a trusted ally, and others were blatant opportunists.

Or as Khrushchev said, ‘when the time comes to hang the West an American businessman will sell us the rope.’

wired.com/…/if-trump-is-laundering-russian-money-…

foreignpolicy.com/…/how-russian-money-helped-save…

Juice ,

Kruschev didn’t say that

Diva ,
@Diva@lemmy.ml avatar

yeap pretty sure that was Lenin, lmao

Juice ,

Lenin never said it either

Diva ,
@Diva@lemmy.ml avatar

I feel like it’s the case for most idioms attributed to famous people

Juice ,

I don’t know there are these ideas get stuck in our head and we just assume they are true for some reason. This “the capitalist will sell us the rope we will use to hang him” is prolific, its everywhere and one has to wonder why. There’s no truth in it. People would attribute it to Marx too but Marx would never say that. I think its a cultural relic that serves to make communism sound badass and scary. But hanging capitalists will not put the world on the path to socialism, if anything the opposite must be true.

Diva ,
@Diva@lemmy.ml avatar

I always read it metaphorical in terms of ‘they make available the resources with which to undermine them’

Juice , (edited )

Well Marx already has the formulation of “capitalism creates its own gravediggers” which is his idea that the material conditions created by capitalism create individuals who are committed to overthrow it, and so the challenge historically is how to get these people all pulling the same correct direction, and once you do, how do you keep it from breaking apart or giving into reformism or whatever.

But there’s something about the way it is framed? Those of us who want to see capitalism overthrown are able to read something more abstract into it, but the metaphor persists more or less intact. The brutality of it never gives way to the truth that we read into it. So in that way when we accept the truth there is violence that hitches a ride in our reasoning. How far are we then from Bordiga’s formulation of “Socialism and Barbarism”? Idk. Everyone knows that quote, but people don’t know about Matewan, or the American Strike waves of 1932, or Burkina Faso, or Pancho Villa.

In short, is what we are learning and repeating educational in a revolutionary way? After all, as Paulo Friere said, “When education isn’t liberating it is the dream of the oppressed to become the oppressor.”

cheddar ,
@cheddar@programming.dev avatar

It was Buddha actually.

Juice ,

That’s my favorite part of the movie, Krishna is in the office about to gun down Jesus, when Buddha kicks down the door and is like “Life is suffering, prepare to live!” And then shoots all the mobsters with a drum loaded Thompson machine gun, before killing Krishna and saving Jesus. And then the sex scene is so passionate

cheddar , (edited )
@cheddar@programming.dev avatar

You either reply with contact details of your dealer or a magnet link to this movie.

Juice ,

Ohio is my dealer

Orbituary ,
@Orbituary@lemmy.world avatar

I thought I read it in an Oscar Wilde book.

Emotet , (edited )
@Emotet@slrpnk.net avatar

Yup. A variation of the quote (basically capitalists instead of American businessmen) is commonly attributed to Lenin instead of Khrushchev. But that, too, can’t be verified and is said to be fake.

ReverendIrreverence ,
@ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.world avatar

What McCabe should have said, probably wanted to say and would be correct in saying was that Drumph is a “Useful Idiot” to Putin

homesweethomeMrL ,

Donald Trump a de facto Russian asset, FBI official he fired suggests

No shit? Gee thanks corporate news. Hey can you also let us know how the 2017 Superbowl worked out? We’re all on fuckingpins and needles over here.

FlyingSquid ,
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He refused to commit to saying who should win in Ukraine during the debate. I don’t think any more need to be said.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

IDK why everyone is banging on about this like its some new revelation. He’s said the same thing all along.

ThePantser ,
@ThePantser@lemmy.world avatar

If it’s not repeated then it’s doomed to be forgotten. We move too fast in the information age and there is too much information to keep in mind. We must repeat the important things.

recklessengagement ,
@recklessengagement@lemmy.world avatar

This is a good sentiment. Just because your specific in-group believes something doesn’t mean its common knowledge. It is still deserving of attention.

eran_morad ,

That conclusion is exceedingly obvious to anyone with a functional mind.

InverseParallax , (edited )

It’s cowardice.

If they know for a fact he’s a busted flush, they’ll all come out of the woodwork gunning for him, but they’re all such complete cowards that nobody will stand up if there’s any chance he might be able to hit back.

Also:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/96eaca21-2a33-47a5-8711-8aaddef51f9a.jpeg

fine_sandy_bottom ,

It’s all most comical how easily manipulated he would be.

“Oh hey DJT, old mate vlad here. I saw your bigly crowd at that thing. Now do you think you could throw Ukraine under the bus for me? That would be rad”

grue ,

Trump is a Putin fanboi.

cabron_offsets ,

Fucboi

HubertManne ,

You know so often these things say fired but (from wikipedia):

"As part of the settlement, the government agreed to "rescind and vacate" McCabe's termination, correct its records"

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