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Russia providing mood music for House impeachment drama
AP ^ | 11/17/2019 | AAMER MADHANI and ANDREW TAYLOR

Posted on 11/17/2019 10:31:00 AM PST by McGruff

For all the talk about Ukraine in the House impeachment inquiry, there’s a character standing just off-stage with a dominant role in this tale of international intrigue: Russia.

As has so often been the case since President Donald Trump took office, Moscow provides the mood music for the unfolding political drama.

“With you, Mr. President, all roads lead to Putin,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared last week, and not for the first time.

In her testimony before the House impeachment panel last week, diplomat Marie Yovanovitch suggested that the president’s actions played into the hands of Vladimir Putin

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: peach45; peachfotyfi; pelosi; russiarussiarussia; schiff; tds; witchhunt; yovanovitch

1 posted on 11/17/2019 10:31:00 AM PST by McGruff
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Aren’t the Dems steering this vehicle coupe? So if its going to Russia its because “THEY” chose this highway.


2 posted on 11/17/2019 10:34:30 AM PST by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: McGruff
“With you, Mr. President, all roads lead to Putin,”

Said the head communist of the leftists in the house coup caucus.

3 posted on 11/17/2019 10:37:39 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Retvet

Russia must own the Dems.

Still suspect all the “foreign aid” that was being laundered back into US politicians pockets wound up being used for “blackmail” of said politicians by those countries to try to force out PDJT who is busting up the gravy train.

This is why the hint of “treason” wafts through a panicked DC establishment


4 posted on 11/17/2019 10:38:22 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible")
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To: McGruff

If it weren’t for the Swamp, relations with Russia would have been normalized fully, and we would be allied with them against China.

Instead, we have the current state of affairs, because the swamp needs to make illicit funds.


5 posted on 11/17/2019 10:44:00 AM PST by datura
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To: McGruff

The Democrats have been in Russia’s back pocket for decades. Haven’t we all known that? Joe McCarthy was politically and personally destroyed for exposing that link. During the Cold War most of those Americans caught spying for the Soviet Union were connected to the Democrats. In the eighties Reagan was considered Darth Vader and was considered less trustworthy than Soviet leaders like Mikhail Gorbachev when it came to nuclear weapons, and in the related nuclear freeze movement when constant accusations were made that America was the one who was going to blow the world up. Who in this country made those insinuations publicly? It was DEMOCRATS, so please cut the crap AP when it comes to accusing this president of being a Russian dupe. We know who the real Russian puppets were and who continue to this day to be in their service. It’s the media and the party properly represented by a jackass!


6 posted on 11/17/2019 10:50:34 AM PST by dowcaet
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7 posted on 11/17/2019 10:57:42 AM PST by McGruff (Does no one is above the law apply to Democrats?)
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"As has so often been the case since President Donald Trump took office, Moscow provides the mood music for the unfolding political drama."

Obama/Clinton went to Putin with their "reset button." Obama promised the Russians he would have "more flexibility after the [2012] election." Obama took missiles out of Eastern Europe. Obama/Clinton let Russia gain control of a large chunk of our uranium production. Millions of Russian rubles went into the Clinton's pockets. Obama refused to arm the Ukraine.

Trump armed the Ukraine, and increased our energy production, which hurt Russia. Yet Trump is somehow Russia's stooge.

Putin allegedly wanted to interfere in the 2016 election to create chaos and division in America, to undermine confidence in our democracy and our institutions. But in the last three years, who has been sowing chaos and division, belittling America, undermining our foreign policy, brought Congress to a standstill, and caused a loss of confidence in our institutions? The Democrats and their comrades in the media.

If the Russians are playing mood music, the Democrats are the ones dancing to it.
8 posted on 11/17/2019 10:59:52 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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“... we have the current state of affairs...”

The Chinese are stalling on the trade deal waiting for the 2020 elections hoping for Biden to win. Also they have been following the impeachment, hoping that the Prez will be gone sooner than the 2020 elections. Thanks Nancy and the rest of the Rats. Pillsbury, can’t think of his first name, deals with the Chinese and aware of their maneuvers, he was a guest on Lou Dobbs awhile back.


9 posted on 11/17/2019 11:30:11 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: datura

If it weren’t for the Swamp, relations with Russia would have been normalized fully, and we would be allied with them against China.
Instead, we have the current state of affairs, because the swamp needs to make illicit funds

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This true. And I think Putin would prefer an alliance with USA instead of China. The Chinese Commies make no secret that they want to take down USA and become the World’s leader.


10 posted on 11/17/2019 11:35:11 AM PST by greeneyes
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To: mo

FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!


11 posted on 11/17/2019 12:34:19 PM PST by RedEyeJack (What was the basis for the restriction?)
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https://www.dailysignal.com/2016/12/14/ted-kennedy-made-secret-overtures-to-russia-to-prevent-ronald-reagans-re-election/

Ted Kennedy Made Secret Overtures to Russia to Prevent Ronald Reagan’s Re-Election


12 posted on 11/17/2019 5:41:03 PM PST by bitt (I hired Donald Trump to fire people like Yovanovitch.)
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To: MtnClimber

The President “found” the money.


13 posted on 11/17/2019 5:50:31 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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