Republican Senators Urge Kremlin Appeasement, Kissing Slav Putin's Fat Ass

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Remember Helsinki! ‘The Appeasement Summit,’ Revisited.

by Andrew Goutman · August 8, 2018

The following video, 3 minutes, 10 seconds long, was published by Guardian
News and shown here courtesy of YouTube. It expertly reprises the most
damning of President Trump’s remarks at the press conference with Russia
president Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland.

In the constant chaos of endless news cycles, we must never let the
American people forget about Helsinki.

A member of a state Republican organization:

I just kept watching…and I just kept waiting, and waiting, and waiting
for him to do something. Anything. I yelled [at the TV], Stand up for your
country, for the love of God! And nothing. Not even a peep.

Tom Nichols, a professor of national security writing on the History News
Network website:

We have now witnessed the very worst humiliation of a president of the
United States ever, and one of the lowest points in the history of the
American presidency.

Photo montage by Joe Darrow.
The Firehose of Falsehood

Yes, I realize the summit between President Trump and Russian president
Putin was over three weeks ago. The thing is, we live in a 24-hour news
cycle and experience “rapid and continuous” information chaos, based on a
Russian propaganda model that’s been adopted by Trump and his minions.
(see graphic)

They don’t want you to catch your breath and focus on the really bad
things.
Taking Putin’s Side Over America’s

And what could be worse than watching an American president desperately
flattering a foreign adversary, taking a murdering thug’s word over the
American intelligence community, not holding the adversary accountable for
verifiable attacks on our country and pronouncing a “good deal” to the
thug’s proposal to send our former Russian ambassador to the Kremlin for
interrogation (in a rare act of independence, the Senate nixed that one,
98-0)?



It’s all there in the video.

Disclosure: I am a Democrat but am also a dedicated politico. I observe
most political transactions analytically, judging mainly on how they
affect the balance of power between left and right.

But I will admit to you that I felt the sting of shame when I watched that
press conference. It wasn’t even about my disdain for Donald Trump. That
was my country being humiliated. I had the same reaction as the Republican
party official quoted above.

Keeping It Alive

Trump’s performance at the Helsinki press conference has done him some
damage in the court of public opinion. A new Quinnipiac poll revealed this
surprising result: 51 percent of voters believe that “the Russian
government has compromising information about President Trump.” To put it
another way, more than half of Americans believe Putin has dirt on Donald
Trump.

Keep this alive.



The poll, which surveyed 1,177 voters from July 18 through July 23, also
disclosed Trump’s approval rating as below 40 percent following his summit
with the Russian president. Close to 54 percent of respondents said the
American president was not acting in the best interests of the United
States. Seventy-three percent called the summit a “success for Russia.”

Keep this alive.

As for hard-core Trumpsters, they’re lost to us for now. I heard recently
that their new conspiracy theory was that Trump is working with Robert
Mueller to shut down a pedophilia ring run by Hillary Clinton and
President Obama. As Elaine Benes exhorted frequently on Seinfeld, “Good
job!”
Coda

We have no idea whether Robert Mueller has the proverbial “smoking gun.”

We have one right here.

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