Posted on 09/13/2023 5:14:21 PM PDT by Kazan
Russian President Vladimir Putin knocked the criminal cases against former President Trump on Tuesday, calling them a demonstration of the “rottenness” of the American political system.
“As for the prosecution of Trump, for us what is happening in today’s conditions, in my opinion, is good because it shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others democracy,” Putin said during a speech at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia.
He argued that “everything that is happening with Trump is the persecution of a political rival for political reasons.”
“That’s what it is,” the Putin continued. “And this is being done in front of the public of the United States and the whole world.”
Trump currently faces dozens of criminal charges across four different cases in Georgia, Florida, New York and Washington, D.C. The former president and some of his supporters have argued that these charges are politically motivated as Trump continues to lead the GOP by a wide margin in the 2024 presidential race.
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To the bone.
Its what the USSR used to say about US racism. Its a propaganda “hook”. Take your opponents flaw as a talking point, to excuse your own much worse crimes.
They made much hay with, say, Paul Robeson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU_-0qKhNeg&pp=ygUTcGF1bCByb2Jlc29uIG1vc2Nvdw%3D%3D
Putin simply throws his political opponents in prison, or murders them, just as the Soviets blithely murdered millions, while Robeson et al sang their praises.
Putin FTW again.
Denouncing Globohomo for hypocrisy is like shooting fish in a barrel.
We’re all part of the same hypocrisy, Vlad.
He’s right..Union government is rotten.
He ain’t wrong
And Gregory Hines, in "White Nights".
Trump / Putin 2024!
“That’s the pot calling the kettle black.” says Alexi Navalny, from prison.
“...Putin simply throws his political opponents in prison, or murders them,...”
and how many J6 protestors are in prison??? how many been disposed of by arkancide??? and on and on???
Well, if the shoe fits...
The whole world can see what a Banana Republic we have become.
Well, Putin would know from rotten now, wouldn’t he?
“Well, Putin would know from rotten now, wouldn’t he?”
He’s just jealous cause we copped the idea from him.
Michael Corleone's words never rang more true. Murders‽ What about Jerry Luther Park? Seth Rich, Donald McHenry and Kevin Ives?
Is "Godfather II" fiction or incisive political commentary?
well if anybody would know about persecuting politicians, it’s Putin
how many opposition candidates has this thug murdered? including with radioactive Polonium?? (even North Korea, Iran, and Cuba don’t do that!!)
plus how many thousands of innocent citizens, who dared to criticize him?
Well, he’s right, but it’s the pot calling the kettle black.
I've been saying this for decades - the US can't teach representative government to others because it cannot maintain it itself. Thus the inevitable failures in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
A healthy representative government requires a population with the right culture and morals to sustain it, as de Toqueville and others understood two centuries ago. We've lost the foundations, so the rot has creeped upwards to infect the institutions build on those foundations. Nothing will be immune.
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