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Title: Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Asks Alexander Vindman If Trump is Russian ‘Asset’
Post by: mystery-ak on September 14, 2020, 04:20:25 pm
Joel B. Pollak 14 Sep 2020

The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg scored the first post-impeachment interview with Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman on Monday and asked what he described as the “key question”: “Does he believe that Trump is an asset of Russian intelligence?”

Vindman’s answer largely regurgitates left-wing conspiracy theories about Russian influence (original emphasis):

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    “President Trump should be considered to be a useful idiot and a fellow traveler, which makes him an unwitting agent of Putin,” he says. Useful idiot is a term commonly used to describe dupes of authoritarian regimes; fellow traveler, in Vindman’s description, is a person who shares Putin’s loathing for democratic norms.

    But do you think Russia is blackmailing Trump? “They may or may not have dirt on him, but they don’t have to use it,” he says. “They have more effective and less risky ways to employ him. He has aspirations to be the kind of leader that Putin is, and so he admires him. He likes authoritarian strongmen who act with impunity, without checks and balances. So he’ll try to please Putin.”

    Vindman continues, “In the Army we call this ‘free chicken,’ something you don’t have to work for—it just comes to you. This is what the Russians have in Trump: free chicken.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/14/atlantics-jeffrey-goldberg-asks-alexander-vindman-if-trump-is-russian-asset/ (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/14/atlantics-jeffrey-goldberg-asks-alexander-vindman-if-trump-is-russian-asset/)
Title: Re: Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Asks Alexander Vindman If Trump is Russian ‘Asset’
Post by: goatprairie on September 14, 2020, 05:08:31 pm
The question has to be asked: how insane are these people?
Title: Re: Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Asks Alexander Vindman If Trump is Russian ‘Asset’
Post by: Fishrrman on September 14, 2020, 10:18:03 pm
"how insane are these people?"

It's still almost two months to the election.
My reply is:
"You ain't seen nuttin' yet..!"
Title: Re: Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Asks Alexander Vindman If Trump is Russian ‘Asset’
Post by: LottieDah on September 14, 2020, 10:55:30 pm
If Trump were in cahoots with the Russians wouldn't the Russians try to make all those dumbass issues with liberals go away?
Title: Re: Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Asks Alexander Vindman If Trump is Russian ‘Asset’
Post by: jafo2010 on September 15, 2020, 06:16:25 am
Vindman is a traitor.  He should have been court marshaled and booted from the military.