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CNN's Zakaria: 'Dirty Little Secret'—Trump Was Tough on Russia!
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/01/2021 9:10:23 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

With the liberal media apparently feeling confident that President Trump will be leaving office, they seem to be acknowledging inconvenient truths about the president that they have kept buried for the last four years.

Take CNN host Fareed Zakaria, on this morning's New Day. Discussing how foreign policy might be different under a Biden administration, Zakaria began with platitudes about other countries being hopeful that the US would get "back in the game" and "help organize cooperative solutions around the world, get engaged with problem solving," on "climate change" and other issues.

But then Zakaria dropped a bombshell. Asked how things would be different with Russia, he said:

"I think in general, there isn’t going to be as much difference as people imagine. The Biden folks are pretty tough on Russia, Iran, North Korea. You know, the dirty little secret about the Trump administration was that while Donald Trump had clearly had a kind of soft spot for Putin, the Trump Administration was pretty tough on the Russians. They armed Ukraine, they armed the Poles. They extended NATO operations and exercises in ways that even the Obama Administration had not done.

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1 posted on 01/01/2021 9:10:23 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: miss marmelstein; patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; ...

It was a “dirty little secret” that Trump was tough on Russia? WHY?? Who kept it a secret and for what purpose??

I think we can guess the answer: admitting it would have undermined the MSM/Democrat “Russia Russia Russia” attack on Pres. Trump.

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 01/01/2021 9:12:10 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Might be the same Fareed Zakaria that said there was 100% no election fraud.
That’s 100% not credible, GPS.


3 posted on 01/01/2021 9:16:05 AM PST by Son House
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It wasn’t a secret from conservatives. Only morons that get their news from CNN.


4 posted on 01/01/2021 9:16:06 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Excellent deduction and posting of that deduction:

It was a “dirty little secret” that Trump was tough on Russia? WHY?? Who kept it a secret and for what purpose??

I think we can guess the answer: admitting it would have undermined the MSM/Democrat “Russia Russia Russia” attack on Pres. Trump.

5 posted on 01/01/2021 9:16:16 AM PST by Grampa Dave (If voting could change anything, they would not let us do it...!!! Posted by glasseye, 12/19/2020!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Biden folks are pretty tough on Russia, Iran, North Korea."

Hmm... Isn't an important adversary missing from this list? Could it be CHYNA?
6 posted on 01/01/2021 9:22:29 AM PST by Hetuck ("We will Barry you" - Nikita Khrushchev)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I expect my Russian stockholdings to do much better under Biden. He will probably loosen the restrictions imposed under Trump. The thing with Trump is that he was very conciliatory in words with Putin, but he really crapped all over Russia. There’s just no way, for instance, that either Biden or Obama would have authorized airstrikes on Russian mercs advancing on (while firing artillery rounds at) US troops in Syria. In fact, I’m not sure any president since 1945 would have. Trump is sui generis - one of a kind. Any other president would have instructed US troops to back off.


7 posted on 01/01/2021 9:22:52 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The bastards lied.


8 posted on 01/01/2021 9:26:49 AM PST by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quiality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: Hetuck

[”Biden folks are pretty tough on Russia, Iran, North Korea.”

Hmm... Isn’t an important adversary missing from this list? Could it be CHYNA? ]


Biden’s people are known for *talking* tough. Policy-wise, they are door mats. All of these countries will see a huge improvement in terms of US sanctions quietly removed. And unlike under Trump, in a Biden administration, Putin will *never* have to worry about advancing Russian forces coming under attack from US troops.


9 posted on 01/01/2021 9:28:38 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And just like that, the “Russia threat” magincally vanishes.


10 posted on 01/01/2021 9:31:47 AM PST by montag813
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Dirty little secret: Hollywood is remaking “The Incredible Mr. Limpet,” starring Fareed Rafiq Zakaria as Mr. Limpet.


11 posted on 01/01/2021 9:33:05 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: montag813

I said all along if Trump leaves, suddenly you’ll start hearing the Press saying things like “Maybe we were a bit too hard on Trump”, and start walking back the things they said about him.

They sure did the same with Reagan and Bush, of course only once they were no longer a threat.


12 posted on 01/01/2021 9:33:26 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It’s only a secret because you so called “journals” refused to report it.


13 posted on 01/01/2021 9:35:05 AM PST by mware (RETIRED)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And Biden will Bend Over for China.


14 posted on 01/01/2021 9:35:47 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

dirty little secret = we suppressed this info from the general public for political reasons.


15 posted on 01/01/2021 9:37:56 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

CNN and MSNBC have the UGLIEST people on TV!


16 posted on 01/01/2021 9:42:06 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Discussing how foreign policy might be different under a Biden administration.

Cash causes white flag to spring up every time.


17 posted on 01/01/2021 9:48:43 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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“And Biden will Bend Over for China”

Just checked, and the School Marm says: incorrect use of the future tense.

Dirty BIG Secret... Biden bought and paid for by China... and the media covered it up... to provide aide and comfort to an enemy of the United States, by altering the outcome of an election.


18 posted on 01/01/2021 9:59:17 AM PST by Sense
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It’s always huge news when CNN reports the truth. Huge.


19 posted on 01/01/2021 10:06:56 AM PST by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.dirt road.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Trump killed 200 Russian mercenaries in the middle of the Syria desert and dared Putin to say anything about it.


20 posted on 01/01/2021 11:21:52 AM PST by struggle
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