The stuff that, 15 years ago, would have been a screaming 72-point all-caps headline — and now appears in the sixth paragraph, almost as an aside
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Witkoff, a real estate developer, only there to scout deals
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Not surprising. Other Presidents had more patriotic ideals…Trump's personal mantra has always been "But what's in it for me?!"
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I suppose if #KingCorruption Trump eventually needs to flee the US to avoid further prosecution, Moscow might seem like a good landing place to him. The problem, Putin is way smarter than Trump.
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Well, at least we know where the corruption capital of the world is going up.
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Boiled frogs, we are boiled frogs
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Boiled frogs and such...
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Something something tan suit…
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Hey chat, is this defining deviancy down?
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there is no bottom
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Scary as hell.
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Trump's flipping over the chest board, eating the pieces, and shitting on the ground afterwards openly in front of reporters and the press acts like it's just business as usual. Mundane really
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Kirill Fedorov, a Russian military analyst, agreed. “The special military operation is a zero-sum game, and it can only be concluded with total victory. Both the Zelensky folks and the Kremlin understand that—while Trump is a 1990s businessman, so he just keeps imagining deals.” This is so true.
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As long as trump moves to Russia - let him go for it.
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Another Trump Tower in Moscow with Putin's permission, of course. Trump's gotta earn his keep!
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The MSM judges Trump by a different standard. His corruption and craziness are now fully normalized & taken for granted by the big newspapers & tv stations. Just compare the coverage of Trump with that of Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden. And the MSM isn't even embarrassed by the inconsistency.
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So reading the Mueller Report wasn’t enough….
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The #corruption is so vast, so open-throttle, so endless that the media can't or won't keep up. Having Republican ownership of most media outlets doesn't help either.
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So, the Moscow Trump Tower deal that the Trump campaign said never was when questioned about working with the Russians in 2016...is still a working concept? 🤔
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Dershowitz is frantically Googling to figure out if those Russian fried dumplings were pelmeni or pirozhki, and if either counts as pierogi
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Oh, the President's envoy is negotiating for a Trump Tower in Moscow? Well the President is a real estate mogul, you know. I wonder what the restaurants will be like?
The media failing, again.
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OK, but wasn't this same thing something that Trump had in the works in Moscow to where he gave Putin the penthouse? It sounds like Putin is holding this over Trump's head like a carrot to get everything Putin wants... and then he just won't do any of it... why should he? Trump just keeps playing
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What the hell and Gaza hotel too.
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Russia has definitely sent this US envoy a lot of free "room service" by now
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Why?
Why is this happening?
It’s not the press. Like any other “product”, the press produces what their consumers/users/audience wants.
This is 100% on the American citizen.
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Steve should have brought a doggie bag of those dumplings for Dershowitz.
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Well how did we think Putin would buy Turd? Flattery and outright bribes. He's not that complex...
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Moscow is an economic ruin in a dangerous and unstable country. Who in their right mind would invest in a new hotel in Moscow?
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Russians have been promising a Trump Tower to Moscow for about 40 years and Trump still thinks it will happen?
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If I'm Putin I have a large "prime" parcel of land in Moscow ready to "gift" to the U.S. for Hotel/Office/Retail project for US-Russia trade zone, Trump Hotel etc. - also offer "rare earth" minerals (with no details - Trump will fall for it) - and I lie to Trump that I'll side with him v. China -
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Just as Bezos wants for the 'news'paper he owns
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Come on. It is not like the Russians donated a luxury Tupolev plane.
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Kraznov thinks he's a big wheeler & dealer and no one will mind him using the unlimited cash flow from the American people. He shuts down anyone who does complain. God I hope this all catches up to him at some point.
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That Trump Tower Hotel in Moscow would presumably be his home if he has to escape US. With so much corruption and illegal activity from the President of US there will come a time when some kind of reckoning will have to happen. Trump will not want to face that.
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I think we have to say at this point that Trump has effectively legalized corruption in the United States. It is now OK for public officials to use their positions to enrich themselves and harm their enemies.
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I knew the second term would be bad but I am shocked at how corporate media has so quickly failed us. I should have known it would eventually be dollars over democracy.
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So giving away half of Ukraine to Russia in order to get a Trump Tower Moscow is soooo Art of the Deal.
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Serious question: Why is Witkoff allowing himself to be played like this?
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Special envoy’s duty is “real estate scout”?
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I love having my tax dollars spent on scouting the next Trump Tower monstrosity location.
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Ugh
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Who didn't see that coming? Gee wiz! Hotel guy's real estate lawyer talks about building a hotel.
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Shades of the "Bug House"
www.sfgate.com/news/article...
U.S. Finally Opens Moscow Embassy / Building was delayed 15 years after Russians riddled it with bugs
The first time around, the new American Embassy building in Moscow was like a giant Soviet...
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Trump Tower Moscow, it's worth remembering, is the deal that Trump was negotiating during his initial campaign, that they lied about and committed crimes to cover up.
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The United States of Amnesia forgets.
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What! A trump hotel in Moscow? I’shocked I tell you! Shocked! And all it’s going to take is giving away parts of a country that doesn’t belong to him! Slava Ukraine!
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Even in Trump’s first term this would have been a headline-making scandal (though it would have faded).
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Had it been Biden, it would have had that 72-point headline.
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A billion here, a billion there... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency?
A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.
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Trump Tower Moscow was the whole deal from his first term that he lied about!!!!
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This must be the “land swap” that Trump referred to yesterday. Ukraine gives land to Putin, Putin gives land and hotel to Trump. Quid pro quo.
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The effort that corporate media is putting into normalizing this administration could be considered criminal.
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The sheer amount of corruption, crime, and evil that conservatives have supported makes this one a rounding error.
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Quid pro quo.
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Moscow Times Nov. 12 1996
Trump Lays Bet on New Moscow Skyline By Jeff Grocott If things go the way Donald Trump plans -- and they usually do -- he will be the first big-time developer since Josef Stalin to attach his name to high-rise towers in Moscow.
https://archive.ph/vUM2Q
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WSJ: whats wrong with corruption in a capitalist system?Who needs true info and equal application of the laws? Another contributor to the collapse of American influence. Almost done?🤬🤬🤬
