Thom Hartmann: Does Putin Own Trump?

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1. Jon Awbrey says:

   February 20, 2025 at 12:20 pm

   If you have to ask, you can’t afford him.

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   • Bob Shepherd says:

     February 20, 2025 at 11:21 pm

     haaa!!!

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2. Joe Jersey says:

   February 20, 2025 at 12:31 pm

   Trump is Putin’s stooge and useful idiot, destroying and crippling the government from within. It just boggles the mind, it’s the stuff of fiction except that it’s all too real.

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3. retired teacher says:

   February 20, 2025 at 12:58 pm

   Hartmann does not indulge in pure speculation. He lists dates, related events and people to make his case. He provides so many breadcrumbs from so many questionable encounters and associations it is hard to ignore the connection between Trump and Putin. Although not stated, Musk it seems is a link to this toxic cabal.

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4. Birdchum says:

   February 20, 2025 at 1:38 pm

   yes, Putin owns Trump. Whether it’s promises of wealth, hotel rights, along with kompromat, I don’t know.

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   • dianeravitch says:

     February 20, 2025 at 2:59 pm

     Putin has very bad Kompromat on Trump.

     Trump will insult and mock anyone but not Putin.

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5. quikwrit says:

   February 20, 2025 at 1:48 pm

   GET THE TAPES

   Get the video tapes of what happened with Trump in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Moscow in 2013 and you’ll know why Trump had to become Putin’s Puppet.

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6. loved2teach says:

   February 20, 2025 at 2:18 pm

   Lefties need to start name calling the Name-caller-in-chief—-Benedict Donald, since he’s now the Traitor-in-Chief.

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   • Joe Nashville says:

     February 20, 2025 at 4:08 pm

     After January 6, I started calling him Donald bin Laden. He really should have been persona non grata after that (perhaps tarred and feathered too).

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     • dianeravitch says:

       February 20, 2025 at 4:11 pm

       The biggest failure heee was Mitch McConnell, who blocked Trump’s second impeachment because he thought he was finished.

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     • Roy Turrentine says:

       February 20, 2025 at 8:17 pm

       Diane: the thing I hold against Mitch is the way he lead Republicans in an all out hostility to Obama, openly opposing legislation that he approved of so that Obama would not take credit for it. He openly admitted that he would oppose even legislation he supported, just so the Democrats would seem ineffective. In short, he made modern partisan politics seem normal. From there, the trashing of other political norms was easy for Trump. McConnell had two chances to make amends by voting for the demise of Trump. He struck out.

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7. Roy Turrentine says:

   February 20, 2025 at 2:24 pm

   Down at the country store in my youth, the affirmative answer to a rhetorical question was: “has a cat got an ass?”

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8. NYC public school parent says:

   February 20, 2025 at 3:04 pm

   Kamala Harris nailed this at the debate. I was just watching the clip again of her calling out Trump’s kowtowing to Russia and thinking about how good she was. If the so-called liberal media was not so determined to make fascism cool again, Trump’s cognitively impaired performance at that debate would have been covered as the major narrative of every story about Trump. But Trump’s unfitness to be president was off limits as a news story because it was far more important to write 500 stories about what the people at the diner who loved Trump “knew” – that the economy was terrible because of the Dems and Trump would fix it.

   As Kamala said to Trump at the debate, Putin is “a dictator who would eat you for lunch”.

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   • dianeravitch says:

     February 20, 2025 at 4:09 pm

     Sadly, Putin just ate Trump for lunch, then vomited when he discovered that he’s full of s–t.

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     • NYC public school parent says:

       February 20, 2025 at 7:39 pm

       We live in very dangerous times. I am very grateful for this blog, and I thank you for always speaking truth to power. You are amazing!

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9. NYC public school parent says:

   February 20, 2025 at 3:15 pm

   The NYT normalizes this as “Trump Flips the Script on the Ukraine War, Blaming Zelensky, Not Putin”.

   “Flipping the Script” – as if there is no truth anymore, there are just “scripts” – thank you NYT for helping to reinforce the right wing agenda that there is no longer truth or reality, but just “scripts” and isn’t this new “script” of Trump’s so interesting!

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   • NYC public school parent says:

     February 20, 2025 at 7:36 pm

     When I want trustworthy information and opinion about the law, I don’t rely on the uninformed musings of a random media critic who belittles and insults anyone who takes seriously the fact-based knowledge of a legal scholar.

     Likewise, when it comes to getting trustworthy information about the media coverage of politics and its failures, I don’t rely on the uninformed musings of a random lawyer who belittles and insults anyone who would take seriously the fact-based knowledge of respected media critics.

     Orwell wrote quite a bit about how the misuse of language can be dangerous. It’s one thing for one party to traffic in doublespeak – it’s another for the so-called liberal NYT to repeatedly give credibility to that doublespeak in news article after news article instead of calling it out.

     An astute comment from a comment on a media critic’s blog:

     “Here’s how badly legacy media has collapsed. Judd Legum’s Substack blog Popular Information is headlined today: “In botched DEI purge, OSHA trashes workplace safety guidelines.” By contrast, the NY Times’s The Morning newsletter is headlined: “Cutting red tape.” The author writes: “Democrats may not approve of Trump’s targets — foreign aid and consumer protection agencies — or the potential constitutional crisis he initiated when he tried to eliminate them. But some Democrats might envy the speed at which he cut through red tape.”

     Doge’s purges are “cutting through red tape”.

     When the NYT presents the “absurdities” that the
     Republicans offer in a way that transforms those absurdities into something that is equally as valid as any other fact, the road to atrocities is very short indeed.

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10. FLERP! says:

    February 20, 2025 at 4:15 pm

    All astute observers know the real villain is the New York Times, of course.

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11. Jon Awbrey says:

    February 20, 2025 at 5:50 pm

    We Are At War With NATO
    ❢ ❢ ❢
    We Have Always Been At War With NATO

    • http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/2.html

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12. Bob Shepherd says:

    February 20, 2025 at 11:22 pm

    Hi, Dear Diane, and friends on her blog!!! Here’s my commentary on this thread. Seriously, it is:

    Interrogation and Credo

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    • retired teacher says:

      February 21, 2025 at 8:22 am

      Good to hear from you, Bob. Hope you are well.

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    • Callisto says:

      February 22, 2025 at 7:49 am

      My vote goes to plant psychotherapist. “I believe you have the power to change … sunlight into energy.”

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