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Title: 50 reasons... Post by LostArtist on 04/17/19 at 10:12:48 https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1117433512863371267 0/50 Why we do think that Mr. Trump owes a debt to Mr. Putin? Here are fifty reasons. All of the facts are a matter of public record, and all of the sources can be found in my book The Road to Unfreedom. New conversation Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 2/50 In 1986, Mr. Trump was courted by Soviet diplomats, who suggested that a bright future awaited him in Moscow (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 220). 18 replies 895 retweets 3,620 likes Reply 18 Retweet 895 Like 3.6K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 3/50 In 1987, the Soviet state paid for Mr. Trump to visit Moscow, putting him up in a suite that was certainly bugged (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 220). 26 replies 952 retweets 3,787 likes Reply 26 Retweet 952 Like 3.8K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 4/50 In 2006, Russians and other citizens of the former Soviet Union financed Trump SoHo, granting Mr. Trump 18% of the profits -- although he put up no money himself (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 221). 17 replies 975 retweets 3,648 likes Reply 17 Retweet 975 Like 3.6K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 5/50 In 2008, the Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev in effect gave Mr. Trump $55 million in an unusual real estate deal. In 2016, Mr. Rybolovlev appeared in places where Mr. Trump campaigned (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 221). 20 replies 994 retweets 3,671 likes Reply 20 Retweet 994 Like 3.7K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 6/50 In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. explained that the Trump Organization was dependent upon Russia. (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 221). 12 replies 919 retweets 3,535 likes Reply 12 Retweet 919 Like 3.5K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 7/50 In 2010, the Russian propaganda server RT helped American white supremacists to spread the lie that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. In 2011, Mr. Trump became the most prominent backer of this lie. (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 223). 30 replies 1,161 retweets 3,849 likes Reply 30 Retweet 1.2K Like 3.8K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 8/50 Mr. Trump was endorsed by the Russian political technologist Konstantin Rykov in 2012 (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 102). 7 replies 696 retweets 2,870 likes Reply 7 Retweet 696 Like 2.9K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 9/50 In April 2013, the FBI busted two gambling rings inside Trump Tower, which according to authorities were run by a Russian citizen. The US attorney who ordered the raid was later fired by Mr. Trump (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 103). 31 replies 1,179 retweets 3,634 likes Reply 31 Retweet 1.2K Like 3.6K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 10/50 Mr. Trump expressed the wish, on 18 June 2013, to be Mr. Putin's "best friend." (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 102). 15 replies 748 retweets 3,033 likes Reply 15 Retweet 748 Like 3.0K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 11/50 Mr. Trump was paid $20 million by Russians to spectate at a beauty pageant in summer 2013. The man who did the work, Aras Agalarov, would later help to arrange a meeting between the Trump campaign and Russians. (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 102). 9 replies 861 retweets 3,173 likes Reply 9 Retweet 861 Like 3.2K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 12/50 In summer 2014, a Russian advance team was sent to the United States to plan the cyber war of 2016 (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 194). 17 replies 783 retweets 2,860 likes Reply 17 Retweet 783 Like 2.9K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 13/50 In 2014 Mr. Putin's advisor Sergey Glazyev anticipated the "termination" of the American elite (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 226). 6 replies 597 retweets 2,506 likes Reply 6 Retweet 597 Like 2.5K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 14/50 In 2014 a Russian think tank, the Izborsk Club, outlined the principles of a new information war to be fought against the United States (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 226). 8 replies 697 retweets 2,566 likes Reply 8 Retweet 697 Like 2.6K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 15/50 Steve Bannon met with Russian energy executives in 2014 and 2015, and tested messages about Putin on American voters. He would later run Mr. Trump's campaign (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 194). 15 replies 834 retweets 2,808 likes Reply 15 Retweet 834 Like 2.8K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 16/50 In late 2014 Russia penetrated the email networks of the White House, the Department of State, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 194). 7 replies 733 retweets 2,552 likes Reply 7 Retweet 733 Like 2.6K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 17/50 When Mr. Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015, Russia's Internet Research Agency created and staffed a new American Department. (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 227). 5 replies 788 retweets 2,674 likes Reply 5 Retweet 788 Like 2.7K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 18/50 In October 2015, while running for president, Mr. Trump signed a letter of intent to have Russians build a tower in Moscow and put his name on it. The Trump Organization planned to give its penthouse to Mr. Putin as a present (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 222). 4 replies 825 retweets 2,853 likes Reply 4 Retweet 825 Like 2.9K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 19/50 In October 2015, Mr. Trump tweeted that "Putin loves Donald Trump" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 222). 8 replies 693 retweets 2,568 likes Reply 8 Retweet 693 Like 2.6K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 20/50 Felix Sater, who had brokered deals between the Trump Organization and Russian investors, wrote in November 2015 that "Our boy can become president of the United States and we can engineer it" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 222). 15 replies 868 retweets 2,811 likes Reply 15 Retweet 868 Like 2.8K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 21/50 Mr. Trump was endorsed in late 2015 by the think tank of the pro-Kremlin oligarch Konstantin Malofeev (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 150). 2 replies 601 retweets 2,296 likes Reply 2 Retweet 601 Like 2.3K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 22/50 In early 2016, the chair of the foreign relations committee of the Russian parliament said that Mr. Trump could "drive the Western locomotive right off the rails" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 218). 22 replies 902 retweets 2,721 likes Reply 22 Retweet 902 Like 2.7K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 23/50 In February 2016, Mr. Putin's cyber advisor boasted: "We are on the verge of having something in the information arena that will allow us to talk to the Americans as equals" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 227). 5 replies 610 retweets 2,323 likes Reply 5 Retweet 610 Like 2.3K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 24/50 Russian military intelligence penetrated the Democratic National Committee in March 2016 as well as personal accounts of leading Democrats. Stolen emails were then used to discredit Hillary Clinton and aid Mr. Trump. (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 232). 11 replies 665 retweets 2,396 likes Reply 11 Retweet 665 Like 2.4K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 25/50 George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy advisor of the Trump campaign, is told by Russians in April 2016 that "dirt" on Hillary Clinton is available. He then met with Mr. Trump. He was later convicted of lying to the FBI (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 240). 13 replies 643 retweets 2,374 likes Reply 13 Retweet 643 Like 2.4K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 26/50 A Russian military intelligence officer bragged in May 2016 that his organization would take revenge on Hillary Clinton on behalf of Mr. Putin (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 227). 6 replies 662 retweets 2,281 likes Reply 6 Retweet 662 Like 2.3K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 27/50 Carter Page, an advisor of the Trump campaign, traveled to Moscow in July 2016. He then worked with success to make the Republican platform friendlier to Russia at the Republican National Convention (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 214). 24 replies 632 retweets 2,282 likes Reply 24 Retweet 632 Like 2.3K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 28/50 General Michael Flynn, an advisor of the Trump campaign and then Mr. Trump's national security advisor, called himself "General Misha" and followed and retweeted Russian material from five Russian accounts. He later confessed to a federal crime (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 241). 6 replies 750 retweets 2,431 likes Reply 6 Retweet 750 Like 2.4K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 29/50 Mr. Trump requested, on 17 June 2016, that Russia search for Hillary Clinton's emails. That same day Russian military intelligence began a phishing campaign to do just that (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 232). 10 replies 747 retweets 2,516 likes Reply 10 Retweet 747 Like 2.5K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 30/50 Some 22,000 emails stolen by Russia were released right before the Democratic National Convention, on 22 July 2016. (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 232). 12 replies 634 retweets 2,282 likes Reply 12 Retweet 634 Like 2.3K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 31/50 Thanks to Russia's Internet Research Agency, 126 million Americans saw Russian propaganda designed to aid Mr. Trump in 2016. Almost none of them were aware that this was happening (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 230). |
Title: Re: 50 reasons... Post by LostArtist on 04/17/19 at 10:12:57 New conversation Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 32/50 Over the course of 2016 some fifty thousand Russian bots and some four thousand human accounts exploited Twitter to influence American public opinion on behalf of Mr. Trump. Almost no Americans were aware of this (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 230). 9 replies 634 retweets 1,997 likes Reply 9 Retweet 634 Like 2.0K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 33/50 In 2016, Russia sought to break into the electoral websites of at least thirty-nine American states (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 231). 11 replies 555 retweets 1,881 likes Reply 11 Retweet 555 Like 1.9K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 34/50 Throughout 2016, Russian elites referred to Mr. Trump as "our president" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 218). 3 replies 566 retweets 1,984 likes Reply 3 Retweet 566 Like 2.0K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 35/50 Throughout 2016, Russian journalists were instructed to portray Mr. Trump positively and Hillary Clinton negatively (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 218). 5 replies 452 retweets 1,778 likes Reply 5 Retweet 452 Like 1.8K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 36/50 In June 2016 the leaders of the Trump campaign, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump, Jr., and Paul Manafort met with Russians in Trump Tower as part of, as the broker of the meeting called it, "the Russian government's support for Trump" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 261). 4 replies 579 retweets 2,016 likes Reply 4 Retweet 579 Like 2.0K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 37/50 Mr. Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort resigned in August 2016 after news broke that he had received $12.7 million in cash from a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician. Mr. Manafort was later convicted of crimes (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 236). 6 replies 478 retweets 1,861 likes Reply 6 Retweet 478 Like 1.9K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 38/50 When Mr. Trump seemed to be in trouble when a tape of his advocacy of sexual assault was published on 7 October 2016, emails stolen by Russia were released to change the subject (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 233). 11 replies 626 retweets 2,130 likes Reply 11 Retweet 626 Like 2.1K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 39/50 Mr. Trump personally encouraged his followers to explore the emails that Russia had stolen in tweets of 31 October and 4 November 2016 (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 232). 5 replies 484 retweets 1,877 likes Reply 5 Retweet 484 Like 1.9K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 40/50 In the months between Mr. Trump's nomination as the Republican candidate and the election, anonymous limited liability ("offshore") companies furiously purchased his properties (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 222). 9 replies 675 retweets 2,101 likes Reply 9 Retweet 675 Like 2.1K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 41/50 After Mr. Trump was accorded the victory in the presidential election in November 2016, he was given a standing ovation in the Russian parliament (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 218). 8 replies 612 retweets 1,967 likes Reply 8 Retweet 612 Like 2.0K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 42/50 After Trump was accorded the victory in the presidential election, he called Mr. Putin to be congratulated (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 218). 8 replies 478 retweets 1,823 likes Reply 8 Retweet 478 Like 1.8K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 43/50 In December 2016, before the inauguration, Michael Flynn illegally met with Russian officials to discuss Russia-friendly policy. One of his aides explained: "Russia has just thrown the U.S.A. elections to" Mr. Trump (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 242). 15 replies 682 retweets 2,106 likes Reply 15 Retweet 682 Like 2.1K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 44/50 After Mr. Trump's victory, the leading man of the Russian media, Dmitry Kiselev, celebrated the end of human rights and democracy as US policy (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 218). 8 replies 610 retweets 1,871 likes Reply 8 Retweet 610 Like 1.9K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 45/50 In May 2017, Mr. Trump fired James Comey for taking part in an investigation of Russia's cyberwar against the United States, and then bragged about doing so to Russian officials in the Oval Office (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 245). 9 replies 635 retweets 2,165 likes Reply 9 Retweet 635 Like 2.2K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 46/50 In June 2017, Mr. Putin essentially admitted that Russia had intervened in the election, saying that he had never denied that "Russian volunteers" had carried out a cyberwar on behalf of Mr. Trump (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 227). 4 replies 557 retweets 1,915 likes Reply 4 Retweet 557 Like 1.9K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 47/50 In June 2017, Mr. Trump ordered the firing of Robert Mueller, who had been tasked to carry out an investigation of Russian interference. The White House Counsel refused to carry out the order. Russia then began a campaign to slander Mr. Mueller (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 246). 14 replies 715 retweets 2,207 likes Reply 14 Retweet 715 Like 2.2K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 48/50 In September 2017, a Russian parliamentarian said on national television that the American security services "slept through" as Russia chose the US president (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 225). 10 replies 788 retweets 2,271 likes Reply 10 Retweet 788 Like 2.3K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 49/50 2017-2018 Mr. Mueller's investigation led to the indictment of Russia's Internet Research Agency, several Russian military intelligence officers, and multiple associates and campaign officials of Mr. Trump. It also produced a report that we have not yet been allowed to read 15 replies 673 retweets 2,293 likes Reply 15 Retweet 673 Like 2.3K Direct message Timothy Snyder [ch8207] Verified account @TimothyDSnyder Apr 14 More 50/50 In June 2018, Mr. Putin confirmed before the international press that he had wanted Mr. Trump to win. At that same summit, in Helsinki, Mr. Trump said that he trusted Mr. Putin more than his own advisors. (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 227). 155 replies 1,152 retweets 3,322 likes Reply 155 Retweet 1.2K Like 3.3K Direct message |
Title: Re: 50 reasons... Post by MnSpring on 04/17/19 at 10:40:36 Let's see. Suppose to dislike a POTUS, because he, 'tweets'. Then suppose to take the word of another, 'tweeter', as sacrosanct. (Hey Spock, what do you think ?) |
Title: Re: 50 reasons... Post by T And T Garage on 04/17/19 at 10:47:48 6C4F725153484F46210 wrote:
Well, like mark said, 75% of what trump tweets cant be defended, so... |
Title: Re: 50 reasons... Post by WebsterMark on 04/17/19 at 11:46:26 Good thing we don't write all this on paper because what a waste that would have been. |
Title: Re: 50 reasons... Post by LostArtist on 04/17/19 at 15:54:28 45665B787A61666F080 wrote:
it's not that Trump tweet, Obama tweeted, a lot of people I like tweet a lot..... IT'S WHAT HE TWEETS. |
Title: Re: 50 reasons... Post by LostArtist on 04/17/19 at 15:55:50 0F3D3A2B2C3D2A15392A33580 wrote:
oh lord, could you imagine Trump actually hand writing his tweets..... we'd all get sick of trying to read his sharpie scribbles we'd all give up... |
Title: Re: 50 reasons... Post by LostArtist on 04/17/19 at 15:56:20 172522333425320D21322B400 wrote:
also, and you spent time typing that? and you're complaining about wasting time? |
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