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05 Oct, 2024

Bolton: Trump Was a ‘Useful Idiot’ for Putin

March 15, 2022 Buck Banks

“The Leninist phrase is ‘useful idiot,’ and they haven’t forgotten that in Moscow.”

— Former National Security Adviser John Bolton told Bill Press that he thinks Vladimir Putin may have waited to invade Ukraine because he thought Donald Trump would win reelection and pull the U.S. out of NATO.

Trump on Putin’s Bounties on US Troops: ‘I Have Never Discussed It with Him’

July 29, 2020 Jon Ponder

Trump admits he never discussed bounties on US troops with Putin

Trump has had eight conversations with Vladimir Putin since he learned that Russia paid Taliban militants to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan. But during an interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan on Tuesday Trump admitted that in all these conversations with Putin he never broached the subject of the bounties.

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Laurence Tribe: Donald’s Tweet about Flynn Was a Confession of Obstruction of Justice

December 2, 2017December 2, 2017 Jon Ponder

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Bolton: Trump Was a ‘Useful Idiot’ for Putin

“The Leninist phrase is ‘useful idiot,’ and they haven’t forgotten that in Moscow.”

— Former National Security Adviser John Bolton told Bill Press that he thinks Vladimir Putin may have waited to invade Ukraine because he thought Donald Trump would win reelection and pull the U.S. out of NATO.

Trump on Putin’s Bounties on US Troops: ‘I Have Never Discussed It with Him’

Laurence Tribe: Donald’s Tweet about Flynn Was a Confession of Obstruction of Justice

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), accusing Democrats of creating Hurricane Helene for political purposes.

“Liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices.”

— Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney finding that Georgia’s six-week abortion law violates Georgia’s Constitution, reports the AP.

“Maybe we’ll pay off the $35 trillion US debt in crypto. I’ll write on a little piece of paper ‘$35 trillion crypto we have no debt.’ That’s what I like.”

— Donald Trump, floating a plan to address the federal budget deficit and demonstrating his deep understanding of the crypto marketplace.

“To my friends in Nebraska, that one electoral vote could be the difference between Harris being president and not, and she’s a disaster for Nebraska and the world.”

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by Politico, on his trip to Nebraska to push for the state’s Republican leadership to change how it awards its electoral votes.

“I will if he does. That’s a trade-off I’d do.”

— George Clooney, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, responding to Donald Trump’s call for him “to get out of politics.”

Numerati

49% to 44%

A new Susquehanna poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally among likely voters, 49% to 44%.

40 trillion

$55 million

Kamala Harris raised about $55 million in high-dollar events in California this weekend, a haul that pads her financial advantage over Donald Trump, Bloomberg reports.

57%

A new NBC News poll finds about 57% of voters report feeling negatively about Project 2025, with 51% saying they see the proposal “very” negatively and another 7% saying they view it “somewhat” negatively. Just 4% of voters reported viewing the conservative policy plan positively.

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