>Final answer? Less than four years before Donald Trump denied having any links to Russia, the president-elect said he had a relationship with the nation's president, Vladimir Putin.
>In a resurfaced November 2013 interview which was filmed in Moscow ahead of a Miss Universe contest, Thomas Roberts asked Trump, "Do you have a relationship with Vladimir Putin? A conversational relationship or anything that you feel you have sway or influence over his government?"
>"I do a have relationship," the real estate mogul, now 70, replied. "And I can tell you that he's very interested in what we're doing here today. He's probably very interested in what you and I am saying today, and I'm sure he's going to be seeing it in some form. But I do have a relationship with him."
>"Look, he's done a very good job in terms of what he represents and who he's representing," Trump continued. "If you look at what he's done with Syria, if you look at so many of the different things, he has really eaten our president's lunch. Let's not kid ourselves. He's done an amazing job. ... He's put himself at the forefront of the world as a leader in a short period of time. ... I think that Putin has done an amazing job of showing certain leadership that our people have not been able to match."
And this fuckhead literally denied it just yesterday. WHEN THERE'S VIDEO PROOF. I cannot stand that they have allowed such a blatant, unapologetic liar to get as far as he has. It's sickening that they've already started briefing this shitbag on classified information. What the fuck is wrong with our government?
>How come when Bush had a bromance witb Putin, nobody cared?
Bush wasn't being black mailed by Jewtin.
Charles Murphy
4chin on major russian news today. You guys become popular in russia.
Isaac Hughes
He clearly means a detached business relationship, not a personal relationship.
Lucas Nguyen
Hillary for preeeseeedent, womyn need to be in control!
Henry Rivera
This board welcomed the birther theory even though the only government agency to ever conclude Obama wasn't born here was the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona.
Meanwhile, every intelligence agency in the USA has said Russia moved to interfere with the election and that they tried to get Trump elected.
The debate now is over whether or not they actually have video of him being pissed on, and whether or not the Trump campaign was connected to Russia.
>In an interview with the state-run news agency, Interfax, Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei A. Ryabkov said "there were contacts" with Trump’s "entourage" throughout the election, according to multiple translations of the interview. "I cannot say that all of them, but quite a few have been staying in touch with Russian representatives."
This interview was on November 10
Hudson Parker
Show proofs
Camden Clark
andddd /thread
Next time, OP.
Andrew Roberts
Awww, sweetie. Are you upset? You put so much effort into your post and no one cares! You poor little lamb! Bless you.
Lucas Jenkins
Trump is a time traveler, he gets the timelines mixed up sometimes.
Dylan Evans
>i don't trust trump, he lies and boasts all the time >look this one thing he said is totally true!
really activated my maple syrup
Grayson Martin
Election is over Retard. If we have a Russian puppet I guess Putin just ate all Americas lunch.
What are you gonna do bout it?
Matthew Stewart
It's pretty clear the deep state is going to frame Trump for some bullshit and then get him impeached
Zachary Wilson
What's wrong with what he said? There's nothing wrong at all with acknowledging an allies success.
Hunter Hughes
>politi"fact" >"truth o meter" >people making statements equates with anything meaningful
You need to Fuck off with that, you act as if the minute anything is discovered, Trump becomes some kind of terrible president.
Why is Russia so taboo? Saudi Arabia won't even let women drive and has some quasi slavery system in place but nobody cares who has ties to them?
>still no proof >unironically using politifact as an argument >thinks Sup Forums is ever wrong
Carson Cooper
The real goal right now is to amp up Russia's "evilness" as if mère shaking hands with anyone in the Russian government is something that no decent person would do.
Kevin Murphy
I'm with you OP but you have to realise the facts
>Sup Forums and the Donald are over run with Russias troll army
Any thread like this will be ignored or "American" posters will dog pile you with shit post after shit post
>Yet we get daily threads about how great Putin is >Shitting on Ukraine >Shitting on the Baltics >No shitting on Russia or Belrus
Matthew Anderson
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Eli Peterson
What an embarrassment.
Nathan Gray
Trumpfags on here don't give a shit about Putin or Russia, or even how much of a liar Trump is
Justin Nelson
Why is Russia so evil? Tell me
Josiah Wood
>we need to shit on countries
Take a big old shit on trump any time you like, i'd love to tell ypu why you are stupid
Nolan Peterson
Their alphabet looks scary.
Jacob Nguyen
Bumping.
Elijah Green
Maybe the war crimes and human rights violations have something to do with it?
Leo Butler
>implying this is any different than what the US government would have done during the cold war had there been an Internet like now then
Isaac Perry
those no not exist comrade, come come, have a hot drink, sit down.. relax. its all going to be okay
Justin Morris
What about Saudi Arabia, Turkey, or China? It's only bad to have relations with Russia, when they are the most westernized of the four nations?
Connor Reed
evil entities tend to flock together
Carter Taylor
Thanks user, i first myself noticed this shit when the Ukraine war happened and slowly this board has turned to shit
>Before Ukraine Sup Forums didnt give a fuck about eastern europe >The most i ever saw was threads asking if Estonia was Nordic and jokes about Finland being mongol >Now you have regular drive by posts from Canadians, Australians Americans etc like >Ukraine - no such thing! >Rightful clay! >Butthurt Baltics >Why are slavs/Putin/Russia so based
It really is tiresome, i find myself ignoring Sup Forums and spending more and more time on Sup Forums or /his/
Angel Butler
post video source?
Jason Diaz
Who said I was okay with them?
Parker Nelson
It's in the thread, but he's clearly talking about business relationships with the Russian government and exaggerating it to make him seem more important.
Brayden Richardson
>a leader that stands up for his country is good Wow someone get me some neon blue hair dye because I just can't even right now it's current year! WHITE MALES
Jackson Lee
Russians actually share North Korean tier antiwestern ideology. They see entire west as the enemy. Also I don't think chinese or turks want to nuke your country and brag about this on government sponsored tv channels to their folks regularly. Yet, turks hated here on this cartoon board.
Ayden Allen
Considering how much importance he places on his businesses over basically everything else and how he's still refusing to set them aside for the presidency you guys really shouldn't be reassured by that.
Alexander Reed
Well we already have normalized relations with the other three and Turkey is literally in NATO for no good reason. How is Trump normalizing relations with Russia any different than Nixon normalizing relations with China?
I don't blame them from some extent for having anti-western country bias when NATO has expanded to regions that if the situation were reversed NATO would have declared war long ago. Can you imagine if traditionally European nations were joining the Warsaw Pact, and the Warsaw Pact was pushing for Canada and Mexico to join?
He's already said his sons will manage any Trump business assets, all foreign contracts were canceled like back in October or something, and all foreign profits to Trump hotels will be donated to the Treasury. He literally had a press conference about this yesterday.
Isaiah Hernandez
so what are you saying? We should just change his title to King Trump now? King of Earth? Because good luck getting all the euro tranny soldiers and muslims to fight a good fight for you. Trump will have the world's most advanced army. Russia the most willing. Promise China a chunk of Africa and they'll stay out of the fight. Not much left at the end of the day except for a bunch of unarmed crybaby millenials.
Nicholas Jones
It was morning in western Russia during the election night, so of course there is gonna be higher activity there, thus higher probability of some hashtag. Russians were also happy a candidate that doesnt want an escalation of negative relations between the two countries won, which further increased the likelyhood of pro-Trump tweets.
Nathan Long
Zero Poofs
Zachary Price
Thats the exact reason i think he would do whatever Russia said if they had a video of him
>He would most likely lose his wife >He doesnt give a fuck about her but she would take him and his businesses to the cleaners Brendan Fraser style
Kevin Young
>implying Trump doesn't have ironclad prenups with anyone he marries
Austin Bailey
Maybe the Baltics and Poland wanting and joining NATO has something to do with the fact many people still alive in these countries today lived during the Soviet Union and were treated worse than the blacks are in Amercia
Caleb Smith
>He's already said his sons will manage any Trump business assets Do you honestly believe that giving his own children control is enough?
Samuel Flores
There is nothing similar to Warsaw pact now and Eastern Europe get fed by russian toxic ideology too much. People unironically hate russia in Poland and Baltics. Russian sphere of influence is Kazakhstan and Belarus, these countries have some defence and trade deals. All other ountries dont want to be in russian sphere of influence.
Jacob Price
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Brody Diaz
You're a mongoloid.
Joshua Gonzalez
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Zachary Rivera
Trump's impeachment is an inevitability at this point.Granted I don't know if it will be successful but just causing trouble for Trump and getting under his skin is worth it.
Christian Reyes
those people would have ended up in hitlers ovens you kiwi fuck.
Tyler Peterson
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Nicholas Nelson
So lucky they had some chance to live in prosperity of GULAGs. EBIL HITLOR!
Jonathan Kelly
I don't care whether King Nigger wasn't born here, I care that he was raised in a fucking Muslim country and very clearly absorbed non-American ideals in his youth
Kevin Adams
Wasn't there something a while back about the CIA or some other part of the US government intervening in the Ukrainian referendum?
Grayson Bennett
I guess the soros Shills are out in full force today
Nicholas Foster
If you say so Obama. MAGA!
Sebastian Cooper
poland and baltics are activly trying to drag europe in their petty old score settling with russia.
bringing them into NATO was a mistake.
Brandon Reyes
You should redo this to include the whole USA...since we won, and you lost like the loser cuck faggots you're mothers husband raised you to be.
Carter Scott
You are obvious shill. What referendum?
Cameron Barnes
baka desu senpai
John Taylor
The Crimean referendum in 2014. I can't find it now, but I think I remember hearing something back then about the US doing something covert to try to influence it, or maybe I'm confusing it with something else.
Wyatt Sullivan
Are you still literally shaking? Get over it.
Christopher Roberts
bump
Justin Thompson
It's silly. The whole referrendum thing was staged. No one even bothered to count votes. Of course crimeans like russia, they want to stay in their country, but there was no real referendum. No, there was no influence from US.
Evan Cook
saged
James Wilson
Consider if there was an election in Russia and the two main candidates were either openly willing to escalate relations with the USA to the point of starting WW3, or willing to normalize relations and attempt detente. Would it be out of the realm of reason to consider the US trying to influence the Russian election by helping to shed light on negative properties of the pro-war candidate?
So what if Putin himself hacked the DNC and Podesta and then leaked them to WikiLeaks? Is there evidence that the leaks significantly effected the election outcome or that Russian agents were outright altering ballots or ballot counting machines? DNC is a private organization, the US should not risk war because they can't manage their information security, and Podesta's password was literally password, he deserves everything that happened to him.
Eli Ramirez
This may come as a massive surprise to you, but in the days leading up to a presidential inauguration, you tend to try and build relationships with other major leaders.
He also fostered a relationship with the Japanese PM
Ethan Kelly
Less than four years before Donald Trump denied having any links to Russia, the man was a businessman. Not a fucking politician. You'd be a complete dumbass to ignore a large country like that. You're losing money if you do.
Grayson Garcia
The problem is that he denied doing it.
On top of that, he should be ashamed of allying with Russia of all countries.
The Latvian Legion (Latvian: Latviešu leģions) was a formation of the Waffen-SS during World War II created in 1943, consisting primarily of ethnic Latvian soldiers
Adam Ward
>he should be ashamed of allying with Russia of all countries Why? We have somewhat friendly relations with countries that have worse human rights violations than Russia. All Trump is suggesting is that Russia is not an existential threat to the US like the neocons and leftists want us to think.
From what I understand the Russian government is tired of European powers asserting dominance over traditionally Russian or eastern European nations.
Alexander Martin
>From what I understand the Russian government is tired of European powers asserting dominance over traditionally Russian or eastern European nations.
Yet, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were all anxious to join NATO and escape Russian influence
And after what Russia did to Ukraine because of a potential trade deal, how can anyone blame them for wanting to be in NATO?
Daniel Reyes
>"there were contacts" oh fuck. I heard that there were also contacts between Trump and Mexico, and Trump and the UK. Does Mexico secretly control Trump?
Lucas Allen
This. Russia are fucking saints compared to the likes of Saudia Arabia and other ME countries, yet we're bestest-buddies just because of oil nevermind their abhorrent human rights records.
