{"id":55024,"date":"2022-10-08T17:15:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T00:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55024"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:08:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T18:08:36","slug":"james-carville-wails-on-cnns-gop-pundit-and-republicans-who-worship-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55024","title":{"rendered":"James Carville Whales on CNN’s GOP Pundit and Republicans Who Worship Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most bizarre perversions of rational policy making in the era of Donald Trump has been the embrace by Trump, and his tainted Republican Party, of Russia and its murderous dictator, Vladimir Putin. From the outset of Trump’s occupation of the White House he was taking Putin’s side against the U.S.<\/p>\n

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The reasons for Trump’s reverence of Putin likely include his feelings of indebtedness for Putin’s helping him to win the 2016 election, and his craving for the sort of financial rewards that Putin could lavish upon him during and after his term in office.<\/p>\n

That’s what accounts for Trump telling the world that he believed Putin over his own American intelligence agencies<\/a><\/strong> about Russian interference in U.S. elections. It would also account for Trump serving Russia’s geopolitical interests by attacking and weakening NATO, scrapping the Iran nuclear pact, and supporting Brexit and the dissolution of the E.U. And then there is also Trump’s constant praise for Putin as a “strong leader”<\/em> and a “genius,”<\/em> while he maligned the U.S. and President Biden.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday one of CNN’s Republican pundits, Scott Jennings, was asked about the recent announcement by OPEC that they intended to cut oil production in order to increase the price. Jennings responded by predictably blaming it on Biden and, just like Trump, accusing him of being weak. Whereupon, CNN’s liberal analyst James Carville laid into him with some logic and actual facts…<\/p>\n

“You know who doesn\u2019t think Biden is weak? Vladimir Putin. The Republican hero of the United States. The man that the Republican Party worships is getting the crap kicked out of him right now with U.S. Support and a Joe Biden-led coalition. If they want to love the Saudis that’s their business. The United States is making a successful stand in what, in my opinion, is the most successful foreign policy initiative since World War II.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Jennings: I think they see Joe Biden is weak
Carville: You know who doesn\u2019t think Biden is weak? Vladimir Putin. The Republican Hero. The man that the Republican Party worships is getting the crap kicked out of him right now with US Support and Biden-led coalition pic.twitter.com\/vd8v6pOCtO<\/a><\/p>\n

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n