Michael: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?"
Posted on 12/19/2015 1:03:17 PM PST by Trumpinator
Trump Brushes Off Putin’s Alleged Killing Of Journalists
Zeke J Miller @ZekeJMiller
Dec. 18, 2015
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump brushed off well-documented allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin has had political opponents and journalists killed, following praise from the Russian leader for his presidential campaign.
In an interview with “Morning Joe†Friday, Trump said he was pleased to be praised by Putin. “Sure, when people call you brilliant it’s always good, especially when the person heads up Russia,†he said.†Putin had called Trump “bright and talented†and all-but-endorsed his campaign this week.
But when host Joe Scarborough raised doubts about whether Putin’s support should be coveted, Trump brushed it off.
“He also is a person that kills journalists, political opponents and invades countries. Obviously that would be a concern, would it not,†Scarborough asked.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
If we can be shown evidence Putin ordered journalists killed then I would be against Putin cooperation if at all possible. So if there is proof - put up.
I am pretty sure Mike had evidence of a dead hooker in a senator’s bed.
Per wiki, there are at least ten theories concerning Litivinenko’s death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko_assassination_theories
From the article, excerpts:
“Litvinenko’s widow Marina Litvinenko told Mail on Sunday that she believed the Russian authorities could have been behind the murder, although she didn’t think President Putin himself was directly involved.”
2. “Boris Kagarlitsky, a political dissident of the Soviet Union and of post-Soviet Russia, said the Russian authorities are unlikely to have orchestrated Litvinenko’s death.[29]
“Personally, I don’t think that a decision like this was made at a high level. For Russian authorities, Litvinenko’s killing causes more harm than good. This is so obvious that I don’t think Russian authorities or even secret-services heads are as incompetent as to not understand this,” Kagarlitsky said. “Because this is happening under the eyes of the whole of Europe and to put it mildly, it doesn’t improve the reputation of Russia and its current leaders.”
He says individual agents in Russia’s secret services were most likely to have poisoned Litvinenko with the aim of discrediting the Kremlin.”
3. “According to an article in the Moscow Times [an anti-Putin English language publication], analysts have agreed that the Kremlin had little motive to kill Litvinenko. They point out, that it was clear that the fallout from his death would be more damaging to the government than any of Litvinenko’s criticism or his private investigations into Politkovskaya’s death and Russia’s 1999 apartment bombings.
4. “It has been claimed the death of Litvinenko was connected to Boris Berezovsky.” . . .
“After Litvinenko’s death, traces of polonium-210 were found in an office of Berezovsky.[40] Russian prosecutors were not allowed to investigate Boris Berezovsky’s office in London for the radioactive trace.[41] Russian authorities have also been unable to question him [before his death]. The Foreign Ministry complained that Britain was obstructing its attempt to send prosecutors to London to interview more than 100 people, including Berezovsky.”
What a great movie.
Trump on Putin negotiations: “I made him an offer he couldn’t refuse”
As for killings by the US, the Serbs might say we do it. The Serbs never did anything to us, and yet we killed quite a few, including women and children. There are threads her on FR pointing to Jeb B and Terri Schiavo.
I believe he has, particularly the one in London who died of thallium poisening. But then look at how many of the Clintons’ enemies have mysteriously died. Huckabee had a great one liner, “I’ve beaten the Clinton machine my whole career and I’m still alive to talk about it”. In either case there’s no proof, just a lot of “coincidence”.
Michael: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?"
Sure. None of those E. European countries had anything to fear from kind, benevolent Russia. And the invasions? They were for those nations’ own good. Moldova? Georgia? Ukraine? Those military juggernauts posed a clear danger to Russia.
Stop pushing the homo agenda here on FR! Are you a Hillary supporter, too? LOLOL
Hell, “journalists” have been responsible or the killing of many American soldiers over the years.
And how many American soldiers has the Obama Administration killed with their leaked operations information.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/mar/11/journalist-safety-vladimir-putin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/19/AR2009011902604.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11212072/Russian-actor-and-Putin-critic-found-dead-in-Moscow.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anna_Politkovskaya
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mi5-believe-vladimir-putin-behind-3897973
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/dec/18/observer-editorial-putin-russia-journalists-murdered
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2014/07/16/open-letter-to-russias-putin-on-tenth-anniversary-of-forbes-editor-paul-klebnikovs-murder-why-havent-you-solved-this-case/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10728908/Billionaire-critic-of-Putin-may-have-been-murdered-rules-coroner.html http://www.amazon.com/Putins-Labyrinth-Spies-Murder-Russia/dp/0812978412
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/22/brits-investigate-the-assassination-of-the-spy-who-warned-us-about-putin.html#
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/21/malaysia-airlines-flight-father-letter_n_5607856.html
http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2014/07/13/19336.shtml
November 1998 - Less than four months after Putin takes over at the KGB, opposition Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, the most prominent pro-democracy Kremlin critic in the nation, is murdered at her apartment building in St. Petersburg.
April 2003 - Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, is gunned down at the entrance of his Moscow apartment block. Yushenkov had been serving as the vice chair of the group known as the “Kovalev Commission†which was formed to informally investigate charges that Putin’s KGB had planted the Pechatniki and Kashirskoye apartment bombs
July 2003 - Yuri Shchekochikhin , a vocal opposition journalist and member of the Russian Dumaand the Kovalev Commission, suddenly contracts a mysterious illness. After his sudden death on July 3rd. The Russian authorities refused to allow an autopsy, his relatives “managed to send a specimen of his skin to London, where a tentative diagnosis was made of poisoning with thallium†(a poison commonly used by the KGB, at first suspected in the Litvinenko killing).
June 2004 - Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, Professor of Ethnology and expert on racism and discrimination in the Russian Federation is shot dead in his home in St Petersburg.
July 2004 - Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition Forbes magazine, is shot and killed in Moscow.
September 2004 - Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin. Yushchenko’s chief of staff OlegRibachuk suggests that the poison used was amycotoxin called T-2, also known as “Yellow Rain,†a Soviet-era substance which was reputedly used in Afghanistan as a chemical weapon. Miraculously, he survives the attack.
September 2006 - Andrei Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank, who strove to stamp out money laundering the highest-ranking reformer in Russia, is shot and killed in Moscow.
October 2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, author of countless books and articles exposing Russian human rights violations in Chechnya and attacking Vladimir Putin as a dictator, is shot and killed at her home in Moscow.
November 2006 - Alexander Litvinenko, KGB defector and author of the book Blowing up Russia, which accuses the Kremlin of masterminding the and Pechatniki andKashirskoye bombings in order to blame Chechen terrorists and whip up support for an invasion of Chechnya (which shortly followed), is fatally poisoned by radioactive Polonium obtained from Russian sources.
On January 19, 2009, Russian human rights attorney Stanslav Markelov was shot in the back of the head with a silenced pistol as he left a press conference at which he announced his intention to sue the Russian government for its early release of the Col. Yuri Budanov, who murdered his 18-year-old client in Chechnya five years earlier. Also shot and killed was Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student who was working for Novaya Gazeta and who had studied under Anna Politkovskaya, reporting on the Budanov proceedings.
On July 14, 2009, leading Russian human rights journalist and activist Natalia Estemirova , a single mother of a teenaged daughter, was abducted in front of her home in Grozny, Chechnya, spirited across the border into Ingushetia, shot and dumped in a roadside gutter.
http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/putinmurders/ Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3dd_1401997313#XRRREys6DwG6l1tA.99
On Ukraine, see my post 63.
As for Georgia, the EU itself put the blame directly on Georgia for starting that conflict.
“But the conclusions will discomfit the western-backed Georgian leader, Saakashvili, who was found to have started the war with the attack on Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, on the night of 7 August last year, through a “penchant for acting in the heat of the moment”.
The war started “with a massive Georgian artillery attack”, the report said, citing an order from Saakashvili that the offensive was aimed at halting Russian military units moving into South Ossetia.
Flatly dismissing Saakashvili’s version, the report said: “There was no ongoing armed attack by Russia before the start of the Georgian operation ... Georgian claims of a large-scale presence of Russian armed forces in South Ossetia prior to the Georgian offensive could not be substantiated ... It could also not be verified that Russia was on the verge of such a major attack.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/30/georgia-attacks-unjustifiable-eu
Yup. The Russians attacked when Georgia started shelling its own territory. Wait a minute....
I would like Putin to turn Rachel Maddow orange for Christmas
Clinton’s drinking buddy Boris Yelstin had an aide who was CONVICTED of having a reporter critic murdered. There is no evidence however of Putin or anyone in his circle having journalists killed. But yet this has taken on an air of certainty among liberals.
Then Joe S criticized Putin for killing journalists. I though Joe was talking about collateral damage from air sticks. So when Trump responded that we have done the same it made perfect sense to me.
Oh, and I saw your #63. I didn’t expect much else to be reported by the Russian government. Although it was fun to watch the Russians scramble when the government accidentally released those casualty figures.
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