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09 Oct, 2026

Was Trump’s Win a Quid Pro Quo with Russia?

November 13, 2024 Buck Banks

“The election campaign is over. To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them.”

— Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev, quoted by TASS.

Hillary Clinton: Dems Should Ask Chinese for Help to Counter Russian Support for GOP

June 3, 2019June 3, 2019 Jon Ponder

Hillary Clinton was not entirely serious last month when she suggested to Rachel Maddow that 2020 Democratic candidates should invite the Chinese to hack in to the IRS and release Trump’s taxes. But it’s an interesting hypothetical.

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Was Trump’s Win a Quid Pro Quo with Russia?

“The election campaign is over. To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them.”

— Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev, quoted by TASS.

Hillary Clinton: Dems Should Ask Chinese for Help to Counter Russian Support for GOP

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— President Trump, quoted by NewsNation.

— Paul Krugman

“We’re not talking about socialists, these are communists, Marxists and anarchists. You got to be kidding. They want us to call them democratic socialists, there’s nothing democratic about these people.”

— Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), quoted by Fox News.

Numerati

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”

29,000

Wall Street Journal: “The U.S. added 29,000 jobs in September, far short of expectations, in a sign that the labor market remains steady but may not be able to deliver consistent and sizable employment gains like it did in the past.”

13%

1,000

10%

“The unprecedented spate of mid-decade redistricting for the U.S. House has changed the congressional districts for one-tenth of Americans and significantly altered the makeup of at least one-fifth of districts, according to a new study,” the Associated Press reports.