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Former President Trump continued to question the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Sunday, after being criticized for not explicitly blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for what many Western leaders believe was an assassination.

Navalny died in a Russian prison last month, with little being known about his death until days later. President Biden and other Western leaders have said Putin is responsible, though Trump has so far avoided saying the same.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Funny, he wasn't there when Obama was born, but he knew exactly what happened.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That's actually a more general problem here. Or maybe indicator.

Trump will spout an opinion on everything, but at the exact point where his opinion actually matters and would have consequences, he dodges and claims ignorance.

What a coward.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've been saying this for a while. Trump could have extorted billions out of the Saudis and/or Putin on Inauguration Day. Any kompromat Putin had would be denied by the CIA. Trump, having the bravery and street smarts of a lap dog, sold out the whole country for a piddling sum.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

That's an interesting take on it but the kompromat is overwhelming including financial beholdence and child rape evidence.

But yea, drumft is a scared little shit and thinking pootin put him in office and he could take him out and ruin him just as easily.

Which begs the question why didn't and doesn't the cia expose that drumft is a Russian asset?

It's very tough in that spy v spy battle with pootin, but surely the cia could get the transcripts of their conversations if the tried. So why didn't they?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Because Trump isn't the only one who would be harmed. The CIA has a duty to protect the country and the office of the president. No one in the US government is going to reveal that a sitting president was an agent of a foreign power except in the presence of overwhelming public evidence.

Just how bad it really is will be declassified in 50 years or so, just like every other major, damaging government secret. National stability and credibility is just too important.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

There's an old saying.

"Never say 'yes,' when you can just wink, and never wink when you can just nod your head."

For example, back in the 1980s when Trump first went to Moscow, they didn't sit him in a room and officially swaer him into the KGB. They'd flatter him, push him subtly, and then let him do his thing.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

but at the exact point where his opinion actually matters

I forgot that's actual reality and it depresses me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Sorry for reminding you.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So the story here is: A Russian asset tells a Russian narrative?

For reference: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Since a normally gifted 12-year old knows the answer, Trump not knowing is just one of many reasons to disqualify him from the 2024 election.

[–] Varyk 14 points 5 months ago

Some idiot who knows almost nothing also doesn't know something else. Shocking.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Walk him through the logic:

Putin was responsible for puting Navalny in a Siberian prison.

At a minimum, being in a Siberian prison resulted in death.

Sooooo...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Of course he doesn’t. The man doesn’t know shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

He knows, he's a fucking bitch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I am not saying this to defend him, but...he isn't getting national security briefings, so it's actually true that he knows nothing more about it than an average person. It's still a spineless bootlicker answer, of course.