Scholar Nina Khruscheva, who is Cold War era Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev’s granddaughter, knows a thing or two about how the Russian government operates at its highest levels.
Khruscheva has been observing the cat and mouse game that Vladimir Putin has been playing with his handpicked American puppet Donald Trump, and she made a startling prediction about what Putin is about to do to Trump now that our president is no longer serving Putin’s purposes.
Asked MSNBC host Joy Reid about Putin and Trump on AM Joy, “Where do you see this relationship going? It feels like it’s deteriorating or perhaps destined to deteriorate. What do you make of it?” Responded Nina, “Well, I actually never thought that it’s going to go anywhere. In fact, I actually wrote last summer that Putin is a pragmatic politician. He cannot possibly not think that the disaster of Donald Trump is going to work wonders for him. He could have hoped, he thought he could manipulate it, he used it for as long as he could have. But now the reality, as I said, has kicked in.”
Noting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent failure to set up a meeting between Trump and Putin, Khruscheva stated, “As much as the Russians want to have a relationship with the United States, they are clearly understanding that the longer that meeting doesn’t happen, the more Putin would actually return to his own devices. And that is a big, big danger.” Cut in Reid, “Very quickly. The fear that a lot of Americans have is the sort of underlying undercurrent, that there is some retaliation that regime might use because it might have something on Donald Trump.” Nina answered, “I’m certain. Because Putin, I keep saying on this show, he is an equal opportunity offender. If he had Hillary Clinton — then he certainly would have something on Trump and they will be very willing to act on it in an act of cyber-war, as Malcolm Nance always reminds me. That would be very dangerous and then can really can turn this relationship into the stage it is in.” Do you think Khruscheva is correct? Watch the full interview below:
When a concerned mother confronted Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) about his support for Donald Trump's destructive health care plan and how it would deny her son access to health care, the congressman told her that her son's skills in the service industry meant he is not good enough for insurance coverage.
Pete Souza, who worked as the White House photographer for former President Barack Obama, sent President Trump a subtle message on his Instagram.
On Wednesday night, Trump hosted right-wing provocateur Ted Nugent, failed vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, and shitty musician Kid Rock for dinner at the White House, in what looked like a white trash gathering for the ages.
A truly repugnant scene from Wednesday night was a photo of Ted Nugent, Sarah Palin, and Kid Rock standing underneath an official portrait of former First Lady, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton while making exaggerated poses and cheesy grins. In a post to her verified Facebook page, Shemane Nugent — wife of Ted — tagged the three using their official Facebook handles, but tagged the 2016 Democratic Presidential nominee with the words “Fuck Fake Bitches.”
In response to the photo, Pete Souza simply posted a photo from the Obama era, in which President Obama is seen with White House chief of staff Bill Daley, sitting underneath a portrait of President Ronald Reagan, a conservative icon. In the photo, the two appear to be discussing presidential business. Souza captioned the photo with the words, “Being respectful.”
While Souza didn’t publicly acknowledge the disrespectful photo Trump’s guests took next to the Clinton portrait, the timing of the photo is an obvious nod, given Souza’s penchant for using his Instagram platform to compare Trump’s behavior to Obama’s.
Jamie Green is a contributor for the Resistance Report covering the Trump administration, and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Donald Trump has a “dangerous mental illness” and is not fit to lead
the US, a…
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“I’ve worked with murderers and rapists. I can recognise dangerousness from a mile away. You don’t have to be an expert on dangerousness or spend fifty years studying it like I have in order to know how dangerous this man is.”
Donald Trump has a “dangerous mental illness” and is not fit to lead the US, a group of psychiatrists has warned during a conference at Yale University.
Mental health experts claimed the President was “paranoid and delusional”, and said it was their “ethical responsibility” to warn the American public about the “dangers” Mr Trump’s psychological state poses to the country.
Speaking at the conference at Yale’s School of Medicine on Thursday, one of the mental health professionals, Dr John Gartner, a practising psychotherapist who advised psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, said: “We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness.”
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"... 2002 report in the Guardian claims that Pavarotti once gave such a lackluster performance at one of Trump's Atlantic City casinos that Trump demanded Pavarotti return his fee for the event. "
Trump's claim of friendship deserves a second look.
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During a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Italy on Thursday, President Donald Trump praised late Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti and called him a "good friend of mine." But there's reason to doubt that alleged friendship.
Trump had taken to playing Pavarotti's rendition of "Nessun Dorma," a song from the final act of Puccini's famous opera Turandot, at stops along the campaign trail. The song ends with a repetition of the Italian word "Vincero," which translates to "I will win."
During the campaign, Pavarotti's widow, Nicoletta Mantovani, demanded that then-candidate Trump stop playing the works of her late husband at his campaign events.
In a letter from Pavarotti's widow and his three daughters the family told the Trump campaign that, "[T]he values of brotherhood and solidarity that Luciano Pavarotti upheld throughout his artistic career are incompatible with the world vision of the candidate Donald Trump."
There are other reasons to doubt the supposed friendship between Pavarotti and Trump. One account from a 2002 report in the Guardian claims that Pavarotti once gave such a lackluster performance at one of Trump's Atlantic City casinos that Trump demanded Pavarotti return his fee for the event.
“I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and Constitutional power,” he added.
Two things, Beauregard:
A) Hawaii is one of our fifty states (the fiftieth, in fact); and,
2) It's in that pesky "Constitution" thingie.
Hawaii has been a state since 1959, and it's technically an archipelago
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday seemed to describe Hawaii as if it weren’t part of the U.S. (or possibly a lesser part) and expressed outrage that a federal judge had the ability to block the Trump administration’s travel ban.
“We are confident that the president will prevail on appeal and particularly in the Supreme Court, if not the 9th Circuit. So this is a huge matter,” Sessions, a former Republican senator from Alabama, said in an interview with radio host Mark Levin, surfaced by CNN on Thursday.
“I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and Constitutional power,” he added.
COMMENTS Wait a minute...is Alabama a state? I thought it was just a collection of trailer parks with racist, misogynist, white trash inbreds. I hear they use replicas of the Constitution document as kindling for the cross burnings.
It's hard to keep things straight about a faraway "island in the Pacific" when you're a Keebler elf and you spend all day in a tree making delicious cookies.
