This is Mr. T.'s most recent hed: "Donald Trump's 2017 Oval Office meeting with top Russian officials Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Kislyak is looking very different today."
I beg to differ. When I saw that photo, and read that US press people were barred, I knew then he was a Russian asset / careless / had no idea of how to behave as potus - and didn't care / felt he could operate as a king / had no judgment at all / burned Israel without understanding what he had done / was gonna make a HUGE mess / and was a quart low, if not psychotic.
And the suspicion persists that Putin has some serious blackmail on him, almost certainly from his sexual behavior since all the hotel rooms are so bugged.
KGB "target spotters" would be derelict in their espionage duties not to have begun surveilling and cultivating access and influence with Trump starting from his first visits to Russia:
‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
David Smith
6–7 minutes
Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian.
Yuri Shvets, posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares the former US president to “the Cambridge five”, the British spy ring that passed secrets to Moscow during the second world war and early cold war.
Now 67, Shvets is a key source for American Kompromat, a new book by journalist Craig Unger, whose previous works include House of Trump, House of Putin. The book also explores the former president’s relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“This is an example where people were recruited when they were just students and then they rose to important positions; something like that was happening with Trump,” Shvets said by phone on Monday from his home in Virginia.
Shvets, a KGB major, had a cover job as a correspondent in Washington for the Russian news agency Tass during the 1980s. He moved to the US permanently in 1993 and gained American citizenship. He works as a corporate security investigator and was a partner of Alexander Litvinenko, who was assassinated in London in 2006.
Unger describes how Trump first appeared on the Russians’ radar in 1977 when he married his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech model. Trump became the target of a spying operation overseen by Czechoslovakia’s intelligence service in cooperation with the KGB.
Three years later Trump opened his first big property development, the Grand Hyatt New York hotel near Grand Central station. Trump bought 200 television sets for the hotel from Semyon Kislin, a Soviet émigré who co-owned Joy-Lud electronics on Fifth Avenue.
According to Shvets, Joy-Lud was controlled by the KGB and Kislin worked as a so-called “spotter agent” who identified Trump, a young businessman on the rise, as a potential asset. Kislin denies that he had a relationship with the KGB.
Then, in 1987, Trump and Ivana visited Moscow and St Petersburg for the first time. Shvets said he was fed KGB talking points and flattered by KGB operatives who floated the idea that he should go into politics.
The ex-major recalled: “For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery. ******
The article continues, never a paywall at the G - I want to add that the Guardian's coverage of the Hamas attacks and Israel's response is a travesty of fair-minded, balanced journalism, which only heightens the contrast with their excellent coverage of all sorts of other subjects, and makes the slanted pro-Palestinian bias all the more shameful -it's a pattern stretching back decades. Fortunately they ARE capable of superb journalism, it's a strange situation. *****
In 1987, a young real estate developer traveled to the Soviet Union. The KGB almost certainly made the trip happen.
By LUKE HARDING
November 19, 2017
Luke Harding is a foreign correspondent at the Guardian. Excerpted from the book Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win published by Vintage Books, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright 2017 by Luke Harding.
It was 1984 and General Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov had a problem. The general occupied one of the KGB’s most exalted posts. He was head of the First Chief Directorate, the prestigious KGB arm responsible for gathering foreign intelligence.
Kryuchkov had begun his career with five years at the Soviet mission in Budapest under Ambassador Yuri Andropov. In 1967 Andropov became KGB chairman. Kryuchkov went to Moscow, took up a number of sensitive posts, and established a reputation as a devoted and hardworking officer. By 1984, Kryuchkov’s directorate in Moscow was bigger than ever before—12,000 officers, up from about 3,000 in the 1960s. His headquarters at Yasenevo, on the wooded southern outskirts of the city, was expanding: Workmen were busy constructing a 22-story annex and a new 11-story building.
In politics, change was in the air. Soon a new man would arrive in the Kremlin, Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev’s policy of detente with the West—a refreshing contrast to the global confrontation of previous general secretaries—meant the directorate’s work abroad was more important than ever.
Kryuchkov faced several challenges. First, a hawkish president, Ronald Reagan, was in power in Washington. The KGB regarded his two predecessors, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, as weak. By contrast Reagan was seen as a potent adversary. The directorate was increasingly preoccupied with what it believed—wrongly—was an American plot to conduct a preemptive nuclear strike against the USSR.
It was around this time that Donald Trump appears to have attracted the attention of Soviet intelligence. How that happened, and where that relationship began, is an answer hidden somewhere in the KGB's secret archives. Assuming, that is, that the documents still exist. ****** The article continues, I can can recommend Harding's book as well, still worth reading for historical background on subsequent events still unfolding - the specter of third party candidates hurting Biden or Trump is seemingly becoming a real possibility, for example - the idea that Trump might somehow win the Nov. 5, 2024 presidential election is maybe less preposterous than it seems on first inspection.
Wow, Richard! Thanks for posting the excerpts. The description of Trump as “extremely vulnerable intellectually and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery” shows they had him pegged immediately.
That's been my hunch for years. I think he was filmed in a very compromising situation, one he would be loathed to have exposed. One that despite all his other sexual misconducts, would absolutely not be condoned. I think it was a set-up, so they could pull the puppet strings and have the goods on him.
I think he and Putin both answer to Mogilevich. So what if he has a pee-pee tape; the Russian Mob only has to use a threat of force. And that 2017 meeting behind closed doors doesn’t look different to me compared to when it happened--tRump is a traitor and he has compromised national security from the very start. Why else would he task his son-in-law, Jared, to pull classified information from the archives (without a security clearance, no less.)
It has been in print, in reputable publications, that the Russians started buttering him up maybe 20+ years ago ... as they did with others, if they could. They just never dreamed this schmuck would be potus. The Ruski's version, I guess, of "You can't have too many friends."
Junior said the Russians funded their real estate constructions. Sounds like the Russians had a long-term plan for domination by controlling hapless schmucks like Trump.
I totally agree with you."Trump trusted Putin over his own intelligence agencies" speaks very loudly that his only allegiance was and is to himself. No way does this man deserve to be anywhere near to the Oval Office again. It scared the bejesus out of me then that he had access to the nuclear codes. He is unfit to run and it is a disgrace that he is the front-runner for one of our 2 major political parties. He is MORE than a quart low.
We are in agreement, save for one element. He never could have activated the codes. I think Milley may have talked about this recently. Mercifully, the top tier of the Pentagon knew he wasn't presidential material from the get-go, and therefore stripped him of the "football" abilities the other presidents had. Do not ask me how I know this.
Is there ever a point where “enough” is known of TFG’s behavior that the various indictments come to ONE conclusion? I know “innocent until proven” but how much more needs proving? Must we continue to be exposed to the boil on America’s arse?
Trump has admitted he admires Putin, but it isn't a mutual admiration society. Putin views Trump as a useful fool and has said as much to close associates.
Trump is cunning like Putin and manipulative and shares other negative traits but nowhere near as intelligent; he is stupid by comparison.and equally cruel.
But to share critical highly classified material on Israel is unforgivable. That is a treasonable act.
I read today that in spite of Trump's comment that General Mark Milley should be executed Nikki Haley said that shouldn't disqualify Trump from running for president again, The article goes on to say in effect the idea of executing Milley is now the Party line and that we are being prepared for an authoritarian crackdown and that we are in a phase of the public getting used to the idea of violence. The exact words are in the following link
I do not think the DOJ waits for people to experience neurological (or any) medical calamities. But since you mention a stroke ... let us hope for a locked-in stroke ... like old Joe Kennedy had. One hears and sees everything, but cannot speak or gesture. 😊
And rumor had it that Rose, after years of Joe’s significant abuse, saw that he had a stroke, parked him in his wheelchair and walked away, making sure he turned into pure vegetable before she called for help. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it sure is a lovely story. I can substitute, Donny boy and Melania, and watch that movie in my head
I wouldn’t doubt it she always looks like she ate a fart when she’s anywhere near him. Smacking his hand away. Can’t blame her. Some jobs are dirtier than others.
As I'm involved in a work on Locked-In Syndrome, I beg to differ. I want to know that he knows what he's hearing and seeing, even if all he can do is grimace, grunt, or growl.
Actual LIS patients can only eyeblink. They don't have the ability to grunt, growl, or grimace; all of those involve nerves that are gone in LIS, even if the patient wants to use them. That's why I specified that I hope he has just that teeny bit of reactivity there. So we know that he knows. A small clinical point, but appropriately mean-spirited. :)
He’s lived this long breaking all health rules for longevity, so I suspect he will live many more years, defying our hopes and expectations, just as he always has.
When I saw and read about that meeting-it sealed for me my steadfast conviction then and there that Trump was a traitor without any hesitation.
That meeting pulled all of my spooky feelings and I've often wondered what the hell those two goons were doing in the Oval office when the Secret Service could not be allowed to search them, because of their diplomatic status.
I just wonder what kind of listening devices those two 'diplomats' were using to record Trump because I can guarantee they were recording him, and why did Trump bar western journalists from the meeting? Because he didn't want his handlers to not tell him his orders.
And people want him back in office? I'd rather have him in prison without bail for the next 12 months because it looks like Aileen Cannon is going to let him walk. Someone put him in prison and shut him up.
He's a traitor and always has been. I was not joking back then, and I''m certainly not now. Only now we're getting evidence of his treason, confirmed by a certain Australian billionaire who happened to be there when Trump was bleating out secrets about our nuclear submarines to him at Mar-a-Lago.
It's been said that Trump is not anti-Semitic because of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who is Jewish. I would almost bet that he despises Kushner because he's always been a bigoted racist, and just because his baby girl married one doesn't mean he's changed.
Every day is a new low with Trump. When is the last time anything Trump did or said was something positive or helpful to anyone. Every day Trump acts as Putin's Puppet, and sadly more and more of his acolytes follow his lead. When we finally discover WHY Trump is the Puppet it will make a great story.
I remember the day I read about this incident. From that point on I had NO Doubt that the US was in trouble. I was concerned before this, but to block US reporters, and host Russian reporters said it all for me. Wasn't it shortly after this that several member of Congress went to Russia as a group? Not against reaching a hand across the water for diplomacy, but the group that went seamed odd to med.
Yes, let's send an Optometrist to do a Diplomat's job. Same guy who arrived late, holding up the Oath Ceremony for The Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson.
This is Mr. T.'s most recent hed: "Donald Trump's 2017 Oval Office meeting with top Russian officials Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Kislyak is looking very different today."
I beg to differ. When I saw that photo, and read that US press people were barred, I knew then he was a Russian asset / careless / had no idea of how to behave as potus - and didn't care / felt he could operate as a king / had no judgment at all / burned Israel without understanding what he had done / was gonna make a HUGE mess / and was a quart low, if not psychotic.
All of that, plus he owed Putin for making sure that he got elected to the presidency.
And the suspicion persists that Putin has some serious blackmail on him, almost certainly from his sexual behavior since all the hotel rooms are so bugged.
KGB "target spotters" would be derelict in their espionage duties not to have begun surveilling and cultivating access and influence with Trump starting from his first visits to Russia:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book
EXCERPT -
‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
David Smith
6–7 minutes
Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian.
Yuri Shvets, posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares the former US president to “the Cambridge five”, the British spy ring that passed secrets to Moscow during the second world war and early cold war.
Now 67, Shvets is a key source for American Kompromat, a new book by journalist Craig Unger, whose previous works include House of Trump, House of Putin. The book also explores the former president’s relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“This is an example where people were recruited when they were just students and then they rose to important positions; something like that was happening with Trump,” Shvets said by phone on Monday from his home in Virginia.
Shvets, a KGB major, had a cover job as a correspondent in Washington for the Russian news agency Tass during the 1980s. He moved to the US permanently in 1993 and gained American citizenship. He works as a corporate security investigator and was a partner of Alexander Litvinenko, who was assassinated in London in 2006.
Unger describes how Trump first appeared on the Russians’ radar in 1977 when he married his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech model. Trump became the target of a spying operation overseen by Czechoslovakia’s intelligence service in cooperation with the KGB.
Three years later Trump opened his first big property development, the Grand Hyatt New York hotel near Grand Central station. Trump bought 200 television sets for the hotel from Semyon Kislin, a Soviet émigré who co-owned Joy-Lud electronics on Fifth Avenue.
According to Shvets, Joy-Lud was controlled by the KGB and Kislin worked as a so-called “spotter agent” who identified Trump, a young businessman on the rise, as a potential asset. Kislin denies that he had a relationship with the KGB.
Then, in 1987, Trump and Ivana visited Moscow and St Petersburg for the first time. Shvets said he was fed KGB talking points and flattered by KGB operatives who floated the idea that he should go into politics.
The ex-major recalled: “For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery. ******
The article continues, never a paywall at the G - I want to add that the Guardian's coverage of the Hamas attacks and Israel's response is a travesty of fair-minded, balanced journalism, which only heightens the contrast with their excellent coverage of all sorts of other subjects, and makes the slanted pro-Palestinian bias all the more shameful -it's a pattern stretching back decades. Fortunately they ARE capable of superb journalism, it's a strange situation. *****
See also this from Politico on Trump in Russia:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/
In 1987, a young real estate developer traveled to the Soviet Union. The KGB almost certainly made the trip happen.
By LUKE HARDING
November 19, 2017
Luke Harding is a foreign correspondent at the Guardian. Excerpted from the book Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win published by Vintage Books, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright 2017 by Luke Harding.
It was 1984 and General Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov had a problem. The general occupied one of the KGB’s most exalted posts. He was head of the First Chief Directorate, the prestigious KGB arm responsible for gathering foreign intelligence.
Kryuchkov had begun his career with five years at the Soviet mission in Budapest under Ambassador Yuri Andropov. In 1967 Andropov became KGB chairman. Kryuchkov went to Moscow, took up a number of sensitive posts, and established a reputation as a devoted and hardworking officer. By 1984, Kryuchkov’s directorate in Moscow was bigger than ever before—12,000 officers, up from about 3,000 in the 1960s. His headquarters at Yasenevo, on the wooded southern outskirts of the city, was expanding: Workmen were busy constructing a 22-story annex and a new 11-story building.
In politics, change was in the air. Soon a new man would arrive in the Kremlin, Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev’s policy of detente with the West—a refreshing contrast to the global confrontation of previous general secretaries—meant the directorate’s work abroad was more important than ever.
Kryuchkov faced several challenges. First, a hawkish president, Ronald Reagan, was in power in Washington. The KGB regarded his two predecessors, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, as weak. By contrast Reagan was seen as a potent adversary. The directorate was increasingly preoccupied with what it believed—wrongly—was an American plot to conduct a preemptive nuclear strike against the USSR.
It was around this time that Donald Trump appears to have attracted the attention of Soviet intelligence. How that happened, and where that relationship began, is an answer hidden somewhere in the KGB's secret archives. Assuming, that is, that the documents still exist. ****** The article continues, I can can recommend Harding's book as well, still worth reading for historical background on subsequent events still unfolding - the specter of third party candidates hurting Biden or Trump is seemingly becoming a real possibility, for example - the idea that Trump might somehow win the Nov. 5, 2024 presidential election is maybe less preposterous than it seems on first inspection.
Wow, Richard! Thanks for posting the excerpts. The description of Trump as “extremely vulnerable intellectually and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery” shows they had him pegged immediately.
You are some researcher.
Not a lot of people seem to know he’s been a Russian asset for decades. Betcha’ not many of them became potus. Talk about luck!
Add that to the long list. Plus…he wants to BE the American Putin.
That's been my hunch for years. I think he was filmed in a very compromising situation, one he would be loathed to have exposed. One that despite all his other sexual misconducts, would absolutely not be condoned. I think it was a set-up, so they could pull the puppet strings and have the goods on him.
Gay sex tape would do the trick nicely
I think he and Putin both answer to Mogilevich. So what if he has a pee-pee tape; the Russian Mob only has to use a threat of force. And that 2017 meeting behind closed doors doesn’t look different to me compared to when it happened--tRump is a traitor and he has compromised national security from the very start. Why else would he task his son-in-law, Jared, to pull classified information from the archives (without a security clearance, no less.)
It has been in print, in reputable publications, that the Russians started buttering him up maybe 20+ years ago ... as they did with others, if they could. They just never dreamed this schmuck would be potus. The Ruski's version, I guess, of "You can't have too many friends."
Junior said the Russians funded their real estate constructions. Sounds like the Russians had a long-term plan for domination by controlling hapless schmucks like Trump.
"We have all the money we need from Russia."..direct quote from Eric!!
Exactly.
I had the same response at that photo. I just summarized it as, "Oh, shit."
I totally agree with you."Trump trusted Putin over his own intelligence agencies" speaks very loudly that his only allegiance was and is to himself. No way does this man deserve to be anywhere near to the Oval Office again. It scared the bejesus out of me then that he had access to the nuclear codes. He is unfit to run and it is a disgrace that he is the front-runner for one of our 2 major political parties. He is MORE than a quart low.
We are in agreement, save for one element. He never could have activated the codes. I think Milley may have talked about this recently. Mercifully, the top tier of the Pentagon knew he wasn't presidential material from the get-go, and therefore stripped him of the "football" abilities the other presidents had. Do not ask me how I know this.
Oh whew! Thanks for clarifying this to me.I have lost some past sleep thinking about the horrors of this possibility.
Yup.
He’s a fūkking traitor, for any and all to see. He belongs either in Florence, CO or a gallows 😡‼️
Gallows so he can’t flap his fat ugly hateful mouth anymore
Florence , CO? What did they do to deserve DT in their neighborhood?
It is a Superman Federal Prison.
I would go for the gallows. Can anyone even IMAGINE the deafening uproar if any Dem were revealed as doing these things????? The Dems are enablers!
This from the National Constitution Center defining treason:
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-iii/clauses/39
Arrest and throw that motherf*cker in jail right NOW!
Is there ever a point where “enough” is known of TFG’s behavior that the various indictments come to ONE conclusion? I know “innocent until proven” but how much more needs proving? Must we continue to be exposed to the boil on America’s arse?
Trump has admitted he admires Putin, but it isn't a mutual admiration society. Putin views Trump as a useful fool and has said as much to close associates.
Trump is cunning like Putin and manipulative and shares other negative traits but nowhere near as intelligent; he is stupid by comparison.and equally cruel.
But to share critical highly classified material on Israel is unforgivable. That is a treasonable act.
I read today that in spite of Trump's comment that General Mark Milley should be executed Nikki Haley said that shouldn't disqualify Trump from running for president again, The article goes on to say in effect the idea of executing Milley is now the Party line and that we are being prepared for an authoritarian crackdown and that we are in a phase of the public getting used to the idea of violence. The exact words are in the following link
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nikki-haley-trump-exposes-gop-135849687.html
Is it just me or is the DOJ just waiting for him to stroke out so they don't have to arrest him?
I do not think the DOJ waits for people to experience neurological (or any) medical calamities. But since you mention a stroke ... let us hope for a locked-in stroke ... like old Joe Kennedy had. One hears and sees everything, but cannot speak or gesture. 😊
And rumor had it that Rose, after years of Joe’s significant abuse, saw that he had a stroke, parked him in his wheelchair and walked away, making sure he turned into pure vegetable before she called for help. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it sure is a lovely story. I can substitute, Donny boy and Melania, and watch that movie in my head
Yeah, but Melanie is probably a Russian asset put i place to watch over Drumpf.
I wouldn’t doubt it she always looks like she ate a fart when she’s anywhere near him. Smacking his hand away. Can’t blame her. Some jobs are dirtier than others.
I'd never heard that, but as payback to an adulterous spouse it sounds perfectly understandable, if not pleasurable.
As I'm involved in a work on Locked-In Syndrome, I beg to differ. I want to know that he knows what he's hearing and seeing, even if all he can do is grimace, grunt, or growl.
I thought that was implicit.
Actual LIS patients can only eyeblink. They don't have the ability to grunt, growl, or grimace; all of those involve nerves that are gone in LIS, even if the patient wants to use them. That's why I specified that I hope he has just that teeny bit of reactivity there. So we know that he knows. A small clinical point, but appropriately mean-spirited. :)
We think alike
How delicious!
OH! I like it. A just reward for sure.
That would be doing the world a favor -- stroking out -- but he's never done a favor for anybody.
He’s lived this long breaking all health rules for longevity, so I suspect he will live many more years, defying our hopes and expectations, just as he always has.
Oh, please don't even dare think that.
I have visions of him dropping dead shortly before the election and all his devoted followers stop voting at all in mourning.
My friend says he's Satan and won't die so there's that...
Garland the coward
My mind wanders to Loose Cannon. Will we learn that she too is a Russian asset? What about Jared? What about the Putinistas in Congress?
I think she’s just kissing Traitor Tot’s capacious ass so that he’ll nominate her to the SC if he’s re-elected.
When I saw and read about that meeting-it sealed for me my steadfast conviction then and there that Trump was a traitor without any hesitation.
That meeting pulled all of my spooky feelings and I've often wondered what the hell those two goons were doing in the Oval office when the Secret Service could not be allowed to search them, because of their diplomatic status.
I just wonder what kind of listening devices those two 'diplomats' were using to record Trump because I can guarantee they were recording him, and why did Trump bar western journalists from the meeting? Because he didn't want his handlers to not tell him his orders.
And people want him back in office? I'd rather have him in prison without bail for the next 12 months because it looks like Aileen Cannon is going to let him walk. Someone put him in prison and shut him up.
He's a traitor and always has been. I was not joking back then, and I''m certainly not now. Only now we're getting evidence of his treason, confirmed by a certain Australian billionaire who happened to be there when Trump was bleating out secrets about our nuclear submarines to him at Mar-a-Lago.
It's been said that Trump is not anti-Semitic because of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who is Jewish. I would almost bet that he despises Kushner because he's always been a bigoted racist, and just because his baby girl married one doesn't mean he's changed.
He's not changed. He's still a traitorous pig.
Very well said, Mary. You checked all the boxes!!
From now on he should be referred to as Traitor Trump.
it looked pretty sinister then
He was, is, and always will be a threat to the whole world, not just the "free world."
Every day is a new low with Trump. When is the last time anything Trump did or said was something positive or helpful to anyone. Every day Trump acts as Putin's Puppet, and sadly more and more of his acolytes follow his lead. When we finally discover WHY Trump is the Puppet it will make a great story.
Maybe the famous Golden Shower Dossier?
Thank you Lucian. This is what happens when a want to be dictator has access to our national secrets. They end up in the shitter so to speak.
I sure wish the Mossad would treat DT like they treat other enemies.
YES ! I have so often wished for that!
Thank you so much for continuing accurate coverage of what I regard, broadly, as the most important “story” of my increasingly grizzled life. 🙏
I remember the day I read about this incident. From that point on I had NO Doubt that the US was in trouble. I was concerned before this, but to block US reporters, and host Russian reporters said it all for me. Wasn't it shortly after this that several member of Congress went to Russia as a group? Not against reaching a hand across the water for diplomacy, but the group that went seamed odd to med.
They didn't go for the borscht.
Wasn’t that Henry Kissinger when GOLDA Meir tried to charm him with her borsch?
Don’t bother seeing the movie, it goes south from there.
Yes = that was weird...I wondered at the time also.
I'm mad at myself for not writing letters to each one of them, at the time.
I seem to recall most of them were southern republicans which made it even weirder!
Being born and raised in Kentucky, Rand Paul is a source of embarrassment, and frustration.
Yes, let's send an Optometrist to do a Diplomat's job. Same guy who arrived late, holding up the Oath Ceremony for The Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/sen-rand-paul-meets-russian-senators-moscow-invites/story?id=57057225
If I recall correctly, they spent July 4th there.
yes!!!