{"id":52157,"date":"2022-02-27T09:25:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T17:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52157"},"modified":"2022-02-27T09:25:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T17:25:04","slug":"trump-doubles-down-on-his-treasonous-putin-puffery-while-continuing-to-insult-biden-and-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52157","title":{"rendered":"Trump Doubles Down on His Treasonous Putin Puffery While Continuing to Insult Biden and America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump simply refuses to let a single day go by without contaminating every public debate with his diseased and delusional misperceptions of the world. And Saturday was no different as he spoke at the ultra-rightist Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). His address to the CPAC crowd was predictably riddled with lies and exaltations of himself.<\/p>\n

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Among Trump’s preposterous observations was a reprise of his theory for why Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine<\/a><\/strong>. According to Trump it was because of the “rigged”<\/em> 2020 presidential election. Because what atrocity isn’t the result of that throbbing thorn in his tiny paw? He also tried to sell the absurdity that Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if he was still president. Although there’s some kernel of truth to that. Putin wouldn’t have needed to invade Ukraine because Trump was giving him all the things he wanted the invasion to produce: weaken NATO and the EU, expand Russia’s sphere of influence, sow discord among Western allies, and throw American democracy into disarray.<\/p>\n

True to form, Trump elaborated on his recent comments celebrating the intellect of his hero, Vladimir, whom he regaled as “smart,” “savvy,”<\/em> and a “genius.”<\/em> He told his glassy-eyed cult followers that…<\/p>\n

“Yesterday reporters asked me if I thought President Putin was smart. I said ‘Of course he’s smart.’ To which I was greeted with ‘Oh, that’s such a terrible thing to say.’ The NATO nations, and indeed the world, as he looks over what’s happening strategically, with no repercussions or threats whatsoever, they’re not so smart. They’re looking the opposite of smart.<\/p>\n

If you take over Ukraine we’re going to sanction you, they say. Sanction? Well, that’s a pretty weak statement. Putin is saying ‘Oh, they’re gonna sanction me. They’ve sanctioned me for the last twenty-five years. You mean I can take over a whole country and they’re gonna sanction me? You mean they’re not gonna blow us to pieces, at least psychologically?’ The problem is not that Putin is smart, which of course he’s smart. But the real problem is that our leaders are dumb. Dumb!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Trump calls Putin smart, says NATO is not so smart, and calls our leaders dumb pic.twitter.com\/lEEymSPSby<\/a><\/p>\n

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n