McCabe: Trump Is a De Facto Russian Asset

Thursday, September 12, 2024

Donald Trump can be seen as a Russian asset, though not in the traditional sense of an active agent or a recruited resource, an ex-FBI deputy director who worked under the former US president said.

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What's the argument against this?

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-12 07:40 AM

There is none.

"But but but Hunter Biden's laptop"

Pathetic.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-12 08:16 AM

Having been on the alert for years for foreign agents from the USSR & its satellites, I see so many signs from Tchump of his being compromised. From his uncalled for public pronouncements of his admiration for Putin's authoritarianism, to private one-on-one meetings with Putin, to publicly dismissing US intel sources in favor of Putin as a personal source of intel, Trump is more than suspect.

Harris's claim that "Putin would have you for lunch!", was spot on. Biden and Harris have learned to not trust Putin for a second, and they are well-aware of how Putin played every US president since GHW Bush until Biden. None more so than how he mabaged Trump " an easy narcissist to play by appealing to Trump's self-adulation and materialism.

Luring Trump in by promising him rights to someday let him build landmark skyscrapers in Russia's largest cities, is like training a pet dog to follow its master with a pocketful of doggie treats.

#3 | Posted by Augustine at 2024-09-12 08:22 AM

Ukraine and NATO are frightened at the concept that the USA could see a 2nd Trump term. Their confidence in America's stability as a force for democracy has already been shaken by Trump's previous term and by the fact that after 2 impeachments and numerous indictments of his malfeasance, the Republican Party (once staunchly pro-West & pro-democracy) picked Trump as its party leader and that USA might pick Trump as its leader again.

#4 | Posted by Augustine at 2024-09-12 08:29 AM

It's amazing to see a playbook that only has one play in it.

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-09-13 02:37 AM

The GOP is also a Russian asset. They sat back for years and watched (assisted) Trump carry out their mission to turn democracy into an autocracy ~ a one-party rule forever ~ without uttering a peep of resistance and, in fact, joined forces with the Heritage Foundation AND the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, to draw the blueprint (Project 2025) of America's future under their draconian autocratic rule, with Russia being one of the prime beneficiaries.

So it isn't just Trump. Russian assets also include the Heritage Foundation and Chief Justice Roberts' U.S. Supreme Court.

There may be others. We won't know until we see it unfold . . . if Trump is elected.

#6 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-09-13 03:33 AM

Interest expense will soon surpass Social Security spending and become the single largest outlay of the US government, some time in late 2024 or early 2025 at the earliest.
Crazy with all the inflation you'd think it would be going down? would not be a threat and FeJoy could be ired and many other probkems sikved if we did not have the most corrupt Supreme Court in history,

#7 | Posted by danni at 2024-09-13 03:35 AM

Seven GQP Senators visited Moscow on July 4, 2018. This was two years after the Russians breached both the Dem and GQP computer systems, but never released what they stole from the GQP. Ever since that trip, the GQP has gone completely Pro-Russia, to the point where they spread Russian propaganda on their social media pages, even with their official government accounts, and they support Dotard's slavish devotion to Pu5in, which is amplified by and Faux Spews and other fascist media. Pretty much any GQP government official, Rep or Senator who was pro-NATO in Dotard's term in office has left government or is on the way out. What were those senators shown in that breach because that seemed to be a watershed moment. Don't forget it was the GQP led Senate Intelligence Committee who issued a report confirming the findings in the Muller Report that Dotard and his campaign conspired with Russia to cheat in the election. That committee was chaired by Marco Rubio who, most recently, was unconcerned that Russia was secretly paying Reichwing DBag influencers to spew Russian propaganda into the veins of MAGAts.

#8 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-09-13 04:09 AM

Leftists used to make fun of the idea of Russia being an "evil empire" now that they've gone away from fledged communism now the left thinks they are actually evil. Hilarious

#9 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-09-13 05:12 AM

#9 - Democrats have never been Communists, you are a idiot. There was a moment, pre-Putin, where Russia looked like it could join the rest of the democratic the way that Poland did. Unfortunately along came Dotard's boyfriend, and now we are in a democracy vs autocracy battle with Russia, China, the Norks, and MAGAts. Democracy will win, because Americans are not so stupid as to again elect a racist, sexist, criminal POS who is eager to take away their rights and sell NATO out to Russia. Thanks to Taylor Swift, we will have over a million new young voters who do not show up in likely voter polls because they have never voted. What we have to do is reintroduce civics as a class in American public schools, because people have no idea how government works in this country.

#10 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-09-13 05:46 AM

#5 Balldinger, are you talking about Trump's Reelection Bid?

One play...'Make white racist people angry...'

Sounds about right.

#11 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-09-13 06:39 AM

...playbook...has one play in it.
#5 | Posted by BellRinger

If idiots like you didn't exist it wouldn't need to be repeated over and over.

#12 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-09-13 06:58 AM

If Trump is elected, I think we can expect to see members of the Kremlin moving into their new suite of office space in the West Wing.

All highly paid by taxpayer dollars, I might add. The shorter version is that U.S. citizens will be paying their own captors.

#13 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-09-13 08:30 AM

#9 | Posted by THEBULL

Such poor English skills or maybe poor comprehension? Let's break it down.

Well Leftist is euphemism for Communist, so you are right on the used to. It is sort of logical communists won't see other communists that way. Then you go off the rails. Leftist places like Cuba and Venezuela and China still see them as pals. And let's be honest, Leftist/Communist countries are essentially no more than dictatorships, which still puts them in line with Russia.

The "Left" aren't communist and thought Communist Russia was Evil and think Putin Russia is perhaps more evil. So go ahead and choke on that.

#14 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-09-13 09:28 AM

Many will wonder why McCabe writes and says such things about Der Dotard. It begins and ends with DJTJ's famous comment about the crime family's interaction with Russian banks. Trump is beholden to these arms of the Russian Government in ways and levels not realized by Americans. It's all about his supposed fortune. Were Trump to be at the end of his rope with his lenders at Alfa Bank and KGB Bank, he would lose properties, fortune and status in the worlds of New York, real estate and business. Knowing that Trump will do anything to stop that from happening, he has sold himself and this country to banker Vlad...

#15 | Posted by catdog at 2024-09-13 09:29 AM

#8 | Posted by _Gunslinger_

You know that is a great and easily over looked observation people need to remember and think about. The Russians released purported Democrat information while releasing none on the GQP. I mean the GQP didn't need to go to Moscow to get their marching orders but they did and it bears repeating.

Seven GQP Senators visited Moscow on July 4, 2018. This was two years after the Russians breached both the Dem and GQP computer systems, but never released what they stole from the GQP. Ever since that trip, the GQP has gone completely Pro-Russia, to the point where they spread Russian propaganda on their social media pages, even with their official government accounts, and they support Dotard's slavish devotion to Pu5in, which is amplified by and Faux Spews and other fascist media. Pretty much any GQP government official, Rep or Senator who was pro-NATO in Dotard's term in office has left government or is on the way out. What were those senators shown in that breach because that seemed to be a watershed moment. Don't forget it was the GQP led Senate Intelligence Committee who issued a report confirming the findings in the Muller Report that Dotard and his campaign conspired with Russia to cheat in the election. That committee was chaired by Marco Rubio who, most recently, was unconcerned that Russia was secretly paying Reichwing DBag influencers to spew Russian propaganda into the veins of MAGAts.

#16 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-09-13 11:41 AM

Hilarious

#9 | POSTED BY THEBULL

I bet you also thought it was "hilarious" when Trumpy invited Russian spies into the Oval Office and shared highly classified information with them endangering our agents in the field.

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-13 12:17 PM

"Leftists used to make fun of the idea of Russia being an "evil empire" now that they've gone away from fledged communism now the left thinks t"hey are actually evil. Hilarious.

Yeah, er're funny that way, we do actually thibk their invasion of Ukraine and the Crimes Against Humanity they have committed there are "actually evil." You don't?

#18 | Posted by danni at 2024-09-14 12:28 AM

Myonly issue with Headline of this thread is yhe use of the word 'Defacto."

#19 | Posted by danni at 2024-09-14 12:39 AM

defacto or dejure this is terrifying to hear from the former head of the FBI.

#20 | Posted by Tor at 2024-09-14 10:32 PM

WTF?!

OTTAWA " Two former Canadian lawmakers are calling on former President Donald Trump to apologize for reviving and circulating a long-debunked rumor that is "vile, vulgar, and deeply offensive."

Their move comes after Trump falsely claims that Canada's prime minister is the son of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in "Save America," the former president's new photo book that also provides commentary.

Trump writes in his new coffee-table book that Trudeau's mother, Margaret, was "somehow associated" with Castro and notes that "a lot of people say that Justin is his son."

The former president adds: "He swears that he isn't but how the hell would he know! Castro had good hair, the father' didn't, Justin has good hair, and has become a Communist just like Castro."

www.politico.com

#21 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-09-14 11:08 PM

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