Why Did Putin Invoke The Name Of George Soros Today?.....

[global1]

And where does he get off on having that right to do that?

[Ccarmona]

1. I'm still Waiting for my Soros Check for Being a Good Liberal Protestor!

I’ve heard from Fox News we were all paid to march, so where’s my money?

[Blue_true]

12. Your check? Maybe Soros got the Trump disease and you're going to get stiffed. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

2. So weird, isn't it?

Putin has absorbed all the right-wing talking points. Like Trump, it sounds like he's trying to appeal to the Trump supporters.

Is he trying to take us from within?

[global1]

6. Putin Says He Didn't Interfere With The Election But....

here he is on this world stage today invoking the name of Soros - just like he would have ordered these 12 indicted Russians to do to spread discontent amongst Americans. His doing this today raised the red flag in me - almost to the point that he was admitting that he interfered.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. Putin has studied Trump and his supporters and knows them better than they know themselves.

He knows exactly how to appeal to the Trumpanzees and how to manipulate their twisted devotion to Trump. He's an expert on dog whistles and code words.

[Garrett78]

19. "Putin has absorbed all the right-wing talking points."

Yep.

[Voltaire2]

3. "The right"? He can say any shit he wants.

Who’s going to stop him? As to why? Their assault on liberal democratic institutions uses deliberate attacks on factuality- they are deliberately detaching the public from reality. Demonization of people like Soros is all part of the campaign.

[Freethinker65]

4. That is all Trump was able to get from the two hour negotiation?

Putin was able to get lots more.

[oberliner]

5. Obvious reasons

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Are you serious?

[kwassa]

8. George Soros is the target of the far right Hungarian government ...

and Putin doesn't need a right to do anything that he does. He's Putin.

Orbán, whose right-wing, increasingly authoritarian Fidesz party secured another term in Hungary’s national elections last month, has for years been waging an escalating war against Soros. The billionaire financier and philanthropist survived Nazi-occupied Hungary as a boy, and his foundation has been funding civil-society initiatives in Hungary and across Eastern Europe since before the end of the Cold War, as well as programs in Hungary and across Europe aimed at supporting immigrants. It’s the immigration programs that have riled up Orbán. Ever since the migration crisis of 2015, Fidesz has been depicting the nation and Europe as besieged by foreigners. Before the elections, Fidesz spent millions on ad campaigns Open Society called anti-Semitic, including a doctored image of Soros with his arms around opposition leaders who are taking wire cutters to the border fence.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/orban-european-union-soros/560480/

[RandomAccess]

9. what did he say about Soros?

[LonePirate]

11. He said it because he knows how to trigger the deplorables.

[Blue_true]

13. Putin was a master spy and is no idiot.

He knows what words elicit a reaction that he wants. He wants the Trump fans here in the US to go to war with anyone that dare criticize Trump once Trump returns. What more effective way than to mention Soros, to deplorables, Soros' name bring up images of the Deep State that is always bouncing around in their pinheads, Putin knows that to a T.

[uponit7771]

15. +1

[NightWatcher]

14. Firing up his base, oh and trump's too.

[cynatnite]

16. Putin was playing for the tRump base...

It's another inroad for him to fuel the divisions.

Putin will adopt every RW talking point and conspiracy if it will benefit him.

[blm]

17. Same as Trump - they say it for the talk-radio base. Putin knows the US audience for his propaganda

he wants to use them against this nation

[GulfCoast66]

18. Hmmm. Let me guess. He's a Jew? Yeah, I'll go with that.