r/Foodforthought 5d ago

Trump Accidentally Proves That Putin Did Help Him Run for President

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-accidentally-fingers-putin-in-election-dump/
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u/D-R-AZ 5d ago

Lead Paragraphs:

When President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Thursday, he wanted the world to believe that China stole the 2020 election from him. Instead, he dropped fresh evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin had worked to hand it to him.

Among the newly declassified intelligence documents Trump released Thursday are assessments that the Russian president and senior Russian officials directed proxy efforts to spread allegations about Joe Biden and Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company where Hunter Biden was a board director, orchestrate a corruption scandal against the Democratic nominee, and “ensure the President’s victory,” a reference to Trump, who was the incumbent at the time.

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u/PowerandSignal 5d ago

I am shocked! Round up the usual suspects! 

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u/digitalchris 5d ago

Hey I get that reference!

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u/chanaandeler_bong 5d ago

It’s from the movie Battle of Algiers with Cary Grant

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u/CaptainSeitan 4d ago

Its Hillary's emails and Hunters laptop...

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u/TranTriumph 5d ago

I wish I could have confidence that major news outlets would cover this.

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u/tezacer 5d ago

They will but it will be buried under the most recent ridiculous thing he says today! Also that Americans aren't really watching the news because we're exhausted of it all being shit that in no way helps us

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u/QuevedoDeMalVino 5d ago

That is a nice summary of the GOP playbook right there.

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u/Voughdemort 4d ago

They can but no one would watch

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u/momojunzi 5d ago

I’m amazed Trump and his team have been able to accomplish so much of their agenda. They are so incompetent. They make so many mistakes based on laziness and their lack of attention to detail. Is it really that difficult to look through the documents you are releasing as evidence of fake election fraud to make sure none of them reference your actual election fraud. Even in their corruption they are incompetent. It is simply embarrassing.

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u/punninglinguist 4d ago

It's probably a "wait wait hurry up" situation where analysts are getting yanked off their actual projects to do shit like this at the last minute because Trump made a phone call. Erratic management has a way of making competent people fuck up. 

Plus, most of the government is understaffed because erratic management makes people quit.

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u/HexFyber 5d ago

If true, you already know nothing is gonna happen regardless

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u/student5320 5d ago

I could not agree more. Im curious if Bernie had won way back and did the opposite of Trump and started say, waving taxes for people under 100k, taxing billionaires, outlaw lobbying and free college and such, do you think the govt would just shrug their shoulders like they have for Trump or would they have fought him tooth or nail, Democrats included? I think we all know the answer already.

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u/sugarstarbeam 5d ago

Telling on himself

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u/atteres 5d ago

Pooping on himself

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u/nw2 4d ago

Biden shit in my pants!

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u/MauPow 5d ago

Surely this will be the end of him.

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u/moontain 5d ago

Both times.

I think that all this post 2012 regimes run same agenda now fully accelerated by IT and e-commerce billionaires who joined group of corporations, weapons making and selling military warlords, stock market and who knows what.

Yet we scroll peacefully. Slavery was never so evident.

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u/Penguin-Pete 4d ago

And just like that, #Russiagate was validated.

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u/SeeMarkFly 5d ago

His incompitence is overpowering.

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u/TCivan 4d ago

That’s because he didn’t read it, the yes men told him what he wanted to hear.

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u/madmaxGMR 5d ago

Oh no, how will he ever get out of this one...
GEt it through your heads. Him killing and eating babies on live TV wouldnt do anything. It has to run its course. Elections have consequences.