Donald Trump: Putin would return 'total traitor' Snowden if I'm president

The Washington Times ^ | 7/9/2015 | David Sherfinski

[caww]

...”So what I do is of no relevance”...

Then why bother? You appear to be simply an attention seeker.

[Balding_Eagle]

What did they say about Obama?

Not that you clarify anything, you’re being paid to obfuscate.

[nickcarraway]

No, I just want to tell the truth about Trump. You seem to be saying conservatives should just shut up and accept socialism. Someone just posed a what if. I told you it won’t happen.

[wardaddy]

Who are you supporting in the primaries

Btw

Think about it Nick when you claim 70% for Hillary

She is not popular and won’t attract blacks like Obama did

Even then Obama only got 53%

No one has ever gotten 70%

not even in FDR second term....or LBJ or Nixons second.....all those got highest ever at 60-61%

It’s amazing how many got less than 50% including one notable tall skinny odd looking hollow eyed bearded man from Illinois who only got 39%

I get it you think Trump will lose badly but likely it won’t be by much....

[cripplecreek]

I me me me me I I me I I me I

[muir_redwoods]

can you name three of these victims and draw me a straight line between Snowden’s actions and these victims deaths? Thanks.

[ScottinVA]

Trump: “When I’m President, I’ll get that Super Bowl ring back.. Did you know I’ll have a diplomatic team that is SO terrific.. SO great.. is that my plane up there?”

[bert]

drivel

[ETL]

considering the mutual animus between Putin and Obama

Animus between Putin and Obama? Obama and Putin are butt buddies! Obama has been bending over backwards to appease Putin in areas such as missile defense, Iran, and nukes. One has to be mighty "flexible" to bend over as far as Obama has.
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From the campaign trail, 2008...

Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs

February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com

A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.

The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:

Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.

First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]

Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

I will not weaponize space.

I will slow our development of future combat systems.

And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.

Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.

You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.

Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090412030633/http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp

"MissileThreat.com is a project of The Claremont Institute devoted to understanding and promoting the requirements for the strategic defense of the United States."
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Jan 2012...

Obama To Betray Missile Defense Secrets To Moscow
Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 9, 2012 | IBD staff

Appeasement: From ObamaCare to recess appointments, honoring the Constitution has not been an administration hallmark. But when it comes to betraying secrets to mollify the Russians, it becomes a document the president hides behind.

It was bad enough that the 2012 defense authorization bill signed by President Obama set America on a downward spiral of military mediocrity.

He also issued a signing statement, something he once opposed, saying that language in the bill aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 — linchpin of our missile defense — might impinge on his constitutional foreign-policy authority.

Section 1227 of the defense law prohibits spending any funds that would be used to give Russian officials access to sensitive missile-defense technology as part of a cooperation agreement without first sending Congress a report identifying the specific secrets, how they'd be used and steps to protect the data from compromise.

The president is required to certify that any technology shared will not be passed on to third parties such as China, North Korea or Iran, that the Russians will not use transferred secrets to develop countermeasures and that the Russians are reciprocating in sharing missile-defense technology.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
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Mar 2012...

"Obama was talking with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev when neither of them realized that their conversation was being picked up by microphones. Here is what they said:

Obama: “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space.”

Medvedev: “Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you ...”

Obama: “This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.”

Medvedev: “I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.”

“This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.” That statement tells us much about the president’s mindset.

The specific mention of missile defense is worrisome enough. Mr. Obama has retreated from the missile defense plan that was negotiated with European allies during the George W. Bush administration. Apparently, he is signaling Moscow that he intends to retreat further. The clear implication from the president’s comments is that he cannot tell the American people before the election what he plans to do after the election.

In addition, there is the phrase “on all these issues,” implying more is at stake than just missile defense.”

Article: Obama plans double cross on missile defense
When it comes to keeping America safe, we shouldn’t be too flexible:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/obama-plans-double-cross-on-missile-defense/print/
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Aug 2015...

Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs

[sauropod]

Ok now he’s talking out his rear end.

[ETL]

From Investor’s Business Daily, 2012:

“In his signing statement, Obama said he would treat these legal restrictions as “non-binding” and that “my administration will also interpret and implement section 1244 (sic) in a manner that does not interfere with the president’s constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and avoids the undue disclosure of sensitive diplomatic communications.”

Betraying our secrets is easy for a president who betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Moscow.

Poland was to host ground-based interceptors such as those we’ve deployed in California and Alaska, with missile-tracking radar deployed in the Czech Republic.
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Obama pulled the plug when Moscow objected. Never mind, he said, we have a better approach: a four-phase plan that calls for using three versions of the Navy’s Standard SM-3 interceptor missile that forms the backbone of its Aegis missile-defense system.

The fourth phase consists of a missile still on the drawing board scheduled for deployment by 2020, a version of the SM-3 called the Block IIB. It would intercept hostile missiles in the “early intercept” phase before an enemy missile could release its warheads and decoys. The Russians want the SM-3’s secrets, and Obama appears to be willing to turn them over.

The president wants to save the New Start Treaty, which the Russians have threatened to abandon if we try to fully implement President Reagan’s dream of defeating a nuclear missile attack.

Russia has unilaterally asserted that any qualitative or quantitative improvement in U.S. missile defenses would be grounds for withdrawal from the treaty.

Read More At Investor’s Business Daily:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010912-597158-obama-gives-russia-missile-defense-secrets.htm#ixzz3jXmMbVwY

[nikos1121]

He would trade NOTHING... I repeat NOTHING. Putin, would do it, because he would want to do it, and in the future Trump would do the same for him.

YOu think Putin wants Snowdon there? He keeps him there as a thumb in the eye of Obama, who is weak.

[nikos1121]

I think you put it better than anyone...

[ETL]

You think Putin wants Snowdon there? He keeps him there as a thumb in the eye of Obama, who is weak.

It's not "weakness". Obama shares the same New World Order goals as KGB Putin. Weak US, substantially stronger Russia and China. Every move he's made in the area supports this.

[Nextrush]

I don’t support Trump and will exercise that option later on.....

[GSWarrior]

Big ol’ shark jump right here,

[redfreedom]

I would say your scenario is more correct than others. Snowden got caught up in a game much larger than he is.

In my mind he’s a traitor, not a whistle blower.

Trump will likely command a similar level of respect from foreign leaders (friend and foe alike) that Reagan enjoyed. This is a total 180 contrast to our current regime where our allies fear us more than our enemies.

Many think of Snowden as some sort of hero for ratting on the NSA. This was purposely and willfully done with intent to do harm. Now we have Hillary with her non-secure email with classified that was likely hacked by foreign powers. Both should be prosecuted.

[ETL]

From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."

http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2005/09/war-games-russia-china-grow-alliance

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170287,00.html
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Sept 11, 2014

China and Russia to build major seaport: report

China and Russia will build one of the largest ports in north-east Asia on Russia’s Sea of Japan coast, reports say, in a further sign of the powerhouses’ growing alliance.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-11/china-and-russia-to-build-major-seaport-report/5738036

[Steamburg]

Truly principled conservatives are as common as hen’s teeth. They have proven that in every primary as long as I can remember and that goes back to Goldwater.
Soon “principled conservatives” won’t have a ball to take home or a home to take it to.

[Jarhead9297]

He doesn’t want to be president? Could have fooled me.
If he were the nominee Hillary would have a chance at 70%?
Where the hell are you pulling these figures? Obviously you haven’t seen the polls.

When everything comes out?
Pray tell what possibly could come out about a man that has been and continues to be an open book his entire life? I find it extremely hard to believe anything that we don’t already know about Trump “comes out”

What is your angle?