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  • DracoM
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    • Mar 2007
    • 13005

    Dear Vladimir..........................

    The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian


    Well, well, who'd have guessed it?
    Snared by the vanity of sitting among big names, eh, DJT?
    As they laughed up their collective sleeves and could not believe their luck!
  • eighthobstruction
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 6469

    #2
    Originally posted by DracoM View Post
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...b-spy-new-book

    Well, well, who'd have guessed it?
    Snared by the vanity of sitting among big names, eh, DJT?
    As they laughed up their collective sleeves and could not believe their luck!
    Tinker Tailor Soldier Moron....
    bong ching

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    • french frank
      Administrator/Moderator
      • Feb 2007
      • 30652

      #3
      It's not proved in every detail, of course, but worth investigating. Not having any of this background, I had theorised that he was a useful idiot, a tool, of the anti-government alt-right. While obviously not being committed to their cause, his natural instincts tended the same way in many respects. As do those of a distressing number of his admiring supporters.
      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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      • DracoM
        Host
        • Mar 2007
        • 13005

        #4
        << he was a useful idiot >>
        .......and IMO too vain and narcissistic to realise or accept he was being used.
        After all, here he was at the very biggest table being TV'd, radioed, quoted, featured in technicolor daily, headline maker
        "The Everyday DJT Show" -
        AND
        250++ million Americans and many billions worldwide hanging on / cringing at but still listening to his every word AND depending on the soundness of his judgment.

        Couldn't make it up.

        ...........................Except that.......................he did and does!

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        • eighthobstruction
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 6469

          #5
          Originally posted by DracoM View Post
          << he was a useful idiot >>
          .......and IMO too vain and narcissistic to realise or accept he was being used.
          After all, here he was at the very biggest table being TV'd, radioed, quoted, featured in technicolor daily, headline maker
          "The Everyday DJT Show" -
          AND
          250++ million Americans and many billions worldwide hanging on / cringing at but still listening to his every word AND depending on the soundness of his judgment.

          Couldn't make it up.

          ...........................Except that.......................he did and does!
          ....a sleeper not even knowing he was sleeping....
          bong ching

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          • Frances_iom
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 2421

            #6
            It does explain why the Russians were so willing to bail out his empire -Luke Harding in Shadow State gives some details of the money from a Putin controlled Bank via Deutsche Bank - many of those who had a starring role in the Trump sections are amongst those who received Presidential pardons. What is never explained is why Mueller's report was such a damp squib tho apparently much evidence of a criminal nature was passed to the NY authorities and might well appear in court over next few months
            Last edited by Frances_iom; 29-01-21, 14:43.

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            • french frank
              Administrator/Moderator
              • Feb 2007
              • 30652

              #7
              Originally posted by Frances_iom View Post
              and might well appear in court over next few months
              We can but hope. It would certainly explain his desperation to cling on to power. Worst case, they'll only have four years before he'll be safe again
              It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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              • DracoM
                Host
                • Mar 2007
                • 13005

                #8
                Originally posted by french frank View Post
                We can but hope. It would certainly explain his desperation to cling on to power. Worst case, they'll only have four years before he'll be safe again

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                • kernelbogey
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 5841

                  #9
                  Originally posted by french frank View Post
                  Worst case, they'll only have four years before he'll be safe again

                  I was hoping to sleep soundly tonight....

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                  • french frank
                    Administrator/Moderator
                    • Feb 2007
                    • 30652

                    #10
                    Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post

                    I was hoping to sleep soundly tonight....
                    I'm sure they'll expedite matters, or have all they evidence they need before he gains any immunity. Schlaf gut!
                    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                    • Serial_Apologist
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 37995

                      #11
                      Originally posted by french frank View Post
                      I'm sure they'll expedite matters, or have all they evidence they need before he gains any immunity. Schlaf gut!
                      Terrorists always seem to target the wrong people these days... such a shame...

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