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  I'm sure he does. As do his followers. It's where their loyalty lies.
context: We saw him explicitly do this in Helsinki in 2018. There was nothing suggestive about it. >
  
  Right? He basically said, "Why would Vlad lie?" and "Fuck the US Intelligence agencies". Dude's a traitor. >
  
  Half of the voters are too >
  
  Not quite half but your point isn’t lost on the failure that is the electoral college. >
  
  Failure? The electoral college works just as designed. It gives a disproportionate amount of voting power to rural whites, whom by design are often far less educated, experienced, and have a low level of critical thought. >
  
  The founding fathers only wanted the educated to vote and create the electoral college to weed out candidates exactly like Trump that didn't have the ethical/intellectual capabilities required of the office of president. Donald Trump and the acceptance of his stupidity, racism, and lack of morals is precisely what they wanted to prevent reaching the oval office. 
  They expected the house to expand to match the US population to prevent the types of over representation you currently are witnessing in the EC. Much like every aspect of modern politics, they didn't expect bad faith actors to exist, let alone thrive and garner support, in our political system. Blaming the founding fathers is inappropriate when the blame squarely lies within the GOP for allowing partisan buffoonery to prevent functional government. They've corrupted SCOTUS and will never relinquish the bastardized system that keeps them in power regardless of the intentions of the founding fathers and the US Constitution >
  
  
  Much like every aspect of modern politics, they didn't expect bad faith actors to exist, let alone thrive and garner support, in our political system.
  
  They literally talked about this all the time, and claimed to have designed the entire governmental system while being actively cognizant of it. They were wrong, and Marx pretty much explained why, but compared to the dominant governmental systems of Europe at the time, they were ahead of the curve.
  Let me ask you this, quite simply: if the founders didn't expect bad-faith actors to exist at all, then why didn't they just propose having a Philosopher King, just like Plato outlined in The Republic? No bad-faith actors, right? Just get the best guy you can find and give him all the power. That maximizes efficiency. Why bother with the inefficiency of elections at all when nobody responsible for picking the Philosopher King could possibly be a bad-faith actor either, because those don't exist? >
  
  They certainly warned us about partisanship and how it'd cripple our system, but they expected it to be the minority that'd be addressed through the appropriate means. They clearly outlined how to handle bad actors, through expulsion of congressional members and the electoral college. They had not planned for bad actors at every level and branch of our government. 
  They wanted to create a system of checks and balances specifically to address bad actors and foreign influence. The system is clearly imperfect, but every system of government fails under the principle of garbage in, garbage out. >
  
  That, right there, tells you all you need to know about Trump. He's a lowlife traitor. >
  
  How totally bizarre that not one sane republican to stand up for America >
  
  First:  Or course he does and has been a Putin asset from the start
  Second:  US Intelligence has been spot on regarding Ukraine and Russia for the last year.  It has anticipated or identified every action and given Biden great information to work with.
  Observation:  US Intelligence has always been spot on.  Trump has always been a Putin asset.  US Intelligence has always known this. >
  
  They get things right when it’s convenient to be right, in the context of Russia it is imperative their intelligence is correct. It would be unwise to assume this is always the case. >
  
  I think you may be mixing political leadership with intelligence agencies. I don't think intelligence agencies are willfully screwing the pooch with any regularity. Failures happen but that's expected in intelligence analysis. You won't always have the full puzzle to make the right assessment. The problem is when leadership cherry pick and blatantly lie and use intelligence agencies and analysts as pawns (as they are wont to do) >
  
  To be fair the agencies are literally pawns >
  
  To be fair intelligence agencies are made up of people who are citizens and work for the agencies.  You confuse the political heads with the people who work there for living, have kids, homes and lives in the area. 
  It isn't the KGB. >
  
  Mmmm no I didn’t. I said the agency hun, not the secretary. >
  
  Where's the John Birch Society to burn Trump in effigy? >
  
  Burning an effigy while trying to suck it off sounds like a fire hazard. >
  
  Suggests? He has explicitly asserted this many times. >
  
  §2381. Treason
  Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
  (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(2)(J), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.) >
  
  $10k in 1948 is ~$123k today. 
  The monetary penalties really need to be indexed to inflation… >
  
  I wonder if it sounds crazy to Republicans now versus 4 years ago >
  
  Putin and the Russian PsyOps propaganda, including their American right wing media assets, have been grooming white supremacist Americans using our freedom of speech, for 15 years or more. Trump is the willing idiot accomplice! >
  
  He’s still going to make a shit ton of money off of this shit show that IDIOT VOTERS created. >
  
  Well, of course, Putin surely butters him up every time they talk, while those lowlifes confront him with actual, factual intelligence. *yawn* >
  
  The guy is immune to intelligence in all its forms, so no surprise there >
  
  he asked Russia to hack his political opponent's shit during a live nationally televised debate and we let him become president without issue. he spent his four years as president openly doing crimes and corruption without issue. when he failed to win a second term he tried to overthrow the government without issue. he's been riding off into the sunset ever since without issue. what is point of this headline? what are we supposed to get/expect out of it? >
  
  Projection at it's finest, bravo >
  
  And people will still vote for him >
  
  I will say tho, as long as trump retains some control over the republican base, the gop will never win a presidential election again. But they are violent and cheaters so gotta watch for that double edged sword >
  
  Ahhh yes, good job Republicans >
  
  Putin got him elected in 2016, of course he trusts Putin. >
  
  This is part of why he should never hold elected office in this country again. >
  
  Yeah, he's a Traitor. We knew hed sold out this country to this knob gobbling dictator seven years ago. He's also a rapist and according to Bob Woodward today, smells like shit -because he shits his pants and then doesn't change them.
  It's why anyone else would sell out this country for trump that defies reason. >
  
  And garland, fbi, cia, STILL will not indict him for treason/sedition. >
  
  And garland will say/do nothing. >
  
  If you feel that way then GTFO the country and take all your supporters to Russia. 
  Russia can accommodate the massive influx and have a top tier military /s >
  
  Ay yo fuck Trump! >
  
  It wasn’t just that Trump sold out his country. Hannity and Fox were eager to lie on Trumps behalf as well. >
  
  If Trump had not done all of the other stuff, and January 6th had never happened, this statement alone should disqualify him from ever holding any kind of elected office in the U.S. from now and forever. >
  
  Putin b#&ch slapped him in sweden. How embarrassing for usa. >
  
  Cuz Vlad has your peepee tapes! >
  
  as if that would even scratch trump.  its worse >
  
  Ya we all know >
  
  Of course he would, I’m sure he would have won the 16 election without Putin >
  
  Honestly doesn't the CIA do stuff about foreign agents fomenting violence? >
  
  Yes we all know.  He has said so before.  And his America hating low iq trashy followers are fine with that. >
  
  trump continues to be a russian asset. >
  
  Can we also point out that this dipshit was president for 4 years and doesnt know the difference between the FBI and the US foreign intelligence community? >
  
  The only lowlifes are the seditious treasonous traitor that would pick Russia over the United States & any asshole that would vote for such a lowlife asshole. >
  
  It's just so, so weird that we're used to this by now. A President being vocally disloyal to his own country. It's just so damn surreal. >
  
  Just one more reason he shouldn’t be president/ should have never been president. >
  
  He owed something to Putin, just showing his loyalty. >
  
  This is a problem. >
  
  He literally said that in Helsinki when he first met Putin, years ago. How are people just realising this now lol >
  
  Still loves putin dick in his mouth >
  
  Treason!  Again! >
  
  Well Putin helped put him in office so he probably feels some obligation. >
  
  Of course he's going to say he trusts his boss >
  
  He’s a traitor >
  
  The only lowlifes here are trump and his voters. >
  
  Contrary to what you may have heard, Trump has not literally kissed Putin's ass.  Metaphorically, though ... >
  
  putin has the most exquisite chocolate starfish you’ve ever seen DJT >
  
  Lock him up.
  Or send him to Russia with Love. >
  
  Real patriots back Putin and Russia >
  
  Bush Obama and Trump have been duped by Putin >
  
  Just finished watching Brandon don’t mess around >
  
  Suggests? He made it obvious a very long time ago. >
  
  If you don't trust the US intelligence community , then why did you have all those classified documents that you refused to return Mr Trump ?
  Surely those documents would be worthless if you don't trust the people who wrote them