2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNow We Know Why Trump Admires Putin, Kim, And The Chinese Regime - by Joe Conason
October 10, 2016 2:37 am
Now at last we know why Donald Trump so greatly admires Vladimir Putin. The Russian authoritarian doesnt just talk about putting his political adversaries in prison. Putin has actually jailed the opposition and that is an expression of power Trump would like to emulate. Last night, in the darkest moment of an angry and sometimes ugly performance, the belligerent billionaire uttered a threat never before heard in an American presidential debate.
If I win, spat Trump, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, referring to the email investigation closed earlier this year by FBI director James Comey. When Clinton replied that this thuggish outburst showed why we should be glad that someone with his temperament is not in charge of this countrys law enforcement, he retorted, Because you would be in jail.
So not only would President Trump just like his role model President Putin pervert the justice system to pursue a political vendetta, by appointing a prosecutor to investigate his opponent, but he already knows how the investigation and trial would conclude just like in Putins Russia.
So now we understand exactly why Trump would tell us that Putin is a strong leader, why he would praise the strength of North Koreas Kim Jong Un and the Chinese Communist bosses who massacred students at Tienanmen Square, and why he would approvingly tweet a tough-guy quote from Benito Mussolini.
As Trump is surely aware, there is a long list of Russian journalists, opposition figures, businessmen, and human rights activists who have been imprisoned under suspicious circumstances or simply gunned down on the street. There is a violent undercurrent in Russian political culture, encouraged by the Kremlin, that suppresses opposition to the regime.
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http://www.nationalmemo.com/now-we-know-why-trump-admires-putin-kim-chinese-regime/
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Fuck Putin and any KGB ahole like him.
drumph you are simply a pig in a suit.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Magnitsky was an auditor who discovered a scheme that cheated the russian state out of hundreds of millions of tax-payer dollars. It involved powerful businessmen, corrupt judges and falsified financial documents.
He reported the scheme to his higher-ups... and was arrested for being the mastermind behind the scheme.
He died in jail under suspicious circumstances and is the first and only person in russian history to be put on trial and sentenced AFTER having died.
The US passed the Magnitsky-Act, financial embargoes against several powerful Russians Magnitsky had implicated, which ROYALLY pisses off Russia to this day.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Blame to innocent to save themselves.
I'm sure a few Chinese whistle blowers have suffered extreme punishment.
It happens here too. Look at how they attack those who blow the whistle on tobacco etc Just slightly less extreme?
catbyte
(34,393 posts)wanting daddy to come in and fix everything. Well, we've seen how well that's worked out around the world. Shame on Trump and shame on his fans.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)He may imagine himself able to have things done for him with a wave of his presidential hand, but that shit doesn't work outside the Tower.