7/27/2020

RUSSIA/VLADIMIR PUTIN: [Reporter: “You did talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin. And I wanted to ask if you did bring up the reports of Russia having bounties on our soldiers in Afghanistan.”] “We don’t talk about what we discussed, but we had plenty of discussion, and I think it was very productive.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks […]

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7/20/2020

BRAZIL/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RUSSIA: “I see that over the weekend — I guess on Friday — there was a worldwide number of death [over 600,000 coronavirus deaths] worldwide. Because when you watch the news — the local news — and you see it, and it’s, like, all about the United States. They never like to talk about what’s […]

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7/20/2020

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/RUSSIA: “I am putting the Kremlin and other foreign governments on notice. If elected president, I will treat foreign interference in our election as an adversarial act that significantly affects the relationship between the United States and the interfering nation’s government.” -Joe Biden, “My Statement on Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections,” medium.com, July […]

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7/20/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/RUSSIA: “[O]n March 27, 2020, the State Department held a briefing describing how Russia was recklessly spreading disinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. Russia is not the only foreign actor seeking to interfere in our democracy. Increasingly, other states have shown an interest in copying Russia’s tactics.” -Joe Biden, “My Statement on Foreign Interference in […]

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7/11/2020

FAKE NEWS/JOE BIDEN/MEDIA/RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: “John, among others, should have gotten a Pulitzer for exposing Russia, Russia, Russia as Fake News. He was right. The ‘journalists’ who got them were all WRONG. Take back the Pulitzers, which have become a JOKE! RT @jsolomonReports My new book Fallout comes out next Tuesday and we are doing something […]

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7/8/2020

AFGHANISTAN/RUSSIA: “I think Russia, the last thing they want is to get involved with Afghanistan. Okay? The last thing they want. They were there for a long time. The Soviet Union became Russia because of Afghanistan, because they got beaten so badly in Afghanistan.” -Donald Trump on July 8, 2020 as quoted by Marc A. […]

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7/8/2020

OIL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nobody has been tougher on Russia than I have. I could give you 30 different things. I sent [Ukraine] a massive number of antitank busters. I sent them military equipment and Obama sent them nothing. That’s against Russia. I made us the number one oil-producing country in the world. It wasn’t even […]

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7/7/2020

DOJ/INTELLIGENCE/MILITARY/RUSSIA: [Greta Van Susteren: “You have a leaks investigation for this report about whether or not Russia had a bounty on American troops and the Taliban.”] “Well, it’s people in intelligence. And it’s people that, frankly, the Justice Department, it’s up to them. But it’s people in so-called intelligence. I don’t know if it’s intelligence […]

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7/3/2020

AFGHANISTAN/MILITARY/RUSSIA: “A memo produced in recent days by the office of the nation’s top intelligence official acknowledged that the C.I.A. and top counterterrorism officials have assessed that Russia appears to have offered bounties to kill American and coalition troops in Afghanistan, but emphasized uncertainties and gaps in evidence, according to three officials. The memo is […]

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7/1/2020

FAKE NEWS/GOP/RUSSIA: “The Russia Bounty story is just another made up by Fake News tale that is told only to damage me and the Republican Party. The secret source probably does not even exist, just like the story itself. If the discredited @nytimes has a source, reveal it. Just another HOAX!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July […]

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6/28/2020

AFGHANISTAN/FAKE NEWS/MIKE PENCE/RUSSIA/TALIBAN: “Intel just reported to me that they did not find this info credible, and therefore did not report it to me or @VP. Possibly another fabricated Russia Hoax, maybe by the Fake News @nytimesbooks, wanting to make Republicans look bad!!! RT @LindseyGrahamSC Imperative Congress get to the bottom of recent media reports […]

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6/28/2020

AFGHANISTAN/FAKE NEWS/RUSSIA/TALIBAN: “The Fake News @ nytimes must reveal its ‘anonymous’ source. Bet they can’t do it, this ‘person’ probably does not even exist! RT @RichardGrenell I never heard this. And it’s disgusting how you continue to politicize intelligence. You clearly don’t understand how raw intel gets verified. Leaks of partial information to reporters from […]

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6/28/2020

AFGHANISTAN/JOE BIDEN/OBAMA/RUSSIA/TALIBAN: “Funny to see Corrupt Joe Biden reading a statement on Russia, which was obviously written by his handlers. Russia ate his and Obama’s lunch during their time in office, so badly that Obama wanted them out of the then G-8. U.S. was weak on everything, but especially Russia!“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 28, […]

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6/28/2020

AFGHANISTAN/JOE BIDEN/MIKE PENCE/OBAMA/RUSSIA/TALIBAN/UKRAINE: “Nobody briefed or told me, @VP Pence, or Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an ‘anonymous source’ by the Fake News @nytimes. Everybody is denying it & there have not been many attacks on us….. …Nobody’s been tougher on Russia […]

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6/26/2020

AFGHANISTAN/MILITARY/RUSSIA: “American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops… The intelligence finding was briefed to President Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, the […]

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6/25/2020

MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/NANCY PELOSI/RUSSIA/CHUCK SCHUMER/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “[W]e have Schumer and Pelosi and people that are bad people that I honestly believe don’t love our country. What they do to our country and what they’ve done with this scam — the whole scam. Flynn is a piece of it. The Mueller scam. Now […]

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6/7/2020

2020 ELECTION/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/JOE BIDEN/RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: “If I wasn’t constantly harassed for three years by fake and illegal investigations, Russia, Russia, Russia, and the Impeachment Hoax, I’d be up by 25 points on Sleepy Joe and the Do Nothing Democrats. Very unfair, but it is what it is!!!“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2020 12:41 pm […]

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4/26/2020

MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When will all of the ‘reporters’ who have received Noble Prizes for their work on Russia, Russia, Russia, only to have been proven totally wrong (and, in fact, it was the other side who committed the crimes), be turning back their cherished ‘Nobles’ so that they can be given….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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4/13/2020

ENERGY/RUSSIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….disaster, the Energy Industry will be strong again, far faster than currently anticipated. Thank you to all of those who worked with me on getting this very big business back on track, in particular Russia and Saudi Arabia.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 13, 2020 8:31 am […]

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4/12/2020

OIL/RUSSIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The big Oil Deal with OPEC Plus is done. This will save hundreds of thousands of energy jobs in the United States. I would like to thank and congratulate President Putin of Russia and King Salman of Saudi Arabia. I just spoke to them from the Oval Office. Great deal for […]

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4/2/2020

OIL/RUSSIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just spoke to my friend MBS (Crown Prince) of Saudi Arabia, who spoke with President Putin of Russia, & I expect & hope that they will be cutting back approximately 10 Million Barrels, and maybe substantially more which, if it happens, will be GREAT for the oil & gas industry!” –Donald […]

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3/30/2020

GERMANY/NATO/RUSSIA: “Germany takes advantage of us on trade for years. They pay far too little in NATO, they’re paying one percent and they’re supposed to pay 2 percent. And nobody talks about that. You know, it’s sort of interesting, if you look at Russia, Russia lost 50 million people in World War II, 50 million. […]

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3/10/2020

DEMS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is another Russia, Russia, Russia meeting today. It is headed up by corrupt politician Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff, so I wouldn’t expect too much! @DHS_Wolf” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 10, 2020 9:28 am […]

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2/24/2020

DEMS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’U.S. Intelligence official overstated assessment of Russian efforts to help Trump.’ @FoxNews @GreggJarrett They supposedly told Crazy Bernie that Russia was looking at him, not me. This is all a big scam between Intel and the Democrats. They want Bernie OUT, & hate ‘Trump’.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 24, 2020 9:29 pm […]

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2/23/2020

DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Are any Democrat operatives, the DNC, or Crooked Hillary Clinton, blaming Russia, Russia, Russia for the Bernie Sanders win in Nevada. If so I suggest calling Bob Mueller & the 13 Angry Democrats to do a new Mueller Report, Democrat Edition. Bob will get to the bottom of it!” -Donald Trump, […]

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2/21/2020

CONGRESS/DEMS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Another misinformation campaign is being launched by Democrats in Congress saying that Russia prefers me to any of the Do Nothing Democrat candidates who still have been unable to, after two weeks, count their votes in Iowa. Hoax number 7!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 21, 2020 10:36 am […]

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2/21/2020

DEMS/ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said Friday [2-21-20] that the disclosure by American intelligence officials that Russia was again meddling in a presidential election in his favor was merely another partisan attack against him, continuing a pattern in which he has sought to dismiss warnings of foreign interference in American elections. ‘Another misinformation campaign is […]

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2/21/2020

INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Richard Grenell’s tenure as the nation’s top intelligence official may be short-lived, but he wasted no time this week starting to shape his team of advisers, ousting his office’s No. 2 official — a longtime intelligence officer — and bringing in an expert on Trump conspiracy theories to help lead the agency, according to […]

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2/20/2020

ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected, five people familiar with the matter said, a disclosure to Congress that angered Mr. Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him. The day after the Feb. 13 […]

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2/19/2020

ATTORNEY GENERAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @RepLeeZeldin: ‘When law ends, tyranny begins.’ The Trump-Russia collusion hoax was rigged w/gross misconduct! The targeting of AG Barr isn’t because he is missing the mark. It’s because he is laser focused on it center mass. “ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 19, 2020 9:26 am […]

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2/13/2020

2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump administration officials investigating the government’s response to Russia’s election interference in 2016 appear to be hunting for a basis to accuse Obama-era intelligence officials of hiding evidence or manipulating analysis about Moscow’s covert operation, according to people familiar with aspects of the inquiry. Since his election, President Trump has […]

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2/7/2020

HEALTHCARE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I think they should blame RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA again! If they can’t count votes properly, how are they going to run U.S. HealthCare? https://t.co/JsNB8jvKoo“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 7, 2020 7:59 am […]

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2/4/2020

2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Dec. 10, 2016, the Fox News anchor Chris Wallace spent several hours interviewing Donald J. Trump for an episode of ‘Fox News Sunday.’ Mr. Wallace spoke with Mr. Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan and then flew with Mr. Trump and his advisers to the Army-Navy football game in Baltimore, […]

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2/4/2020

DEMS/IOWA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When will the Democrats start blaming RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, instead of their own incompetence for the voting disaster that just happened in the Great State of Iowa?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 4, 2020 9:22 am […]

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12/31/2019

RUSSIA/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Putin of Russia called to thank me and the U.S. for informing them of a planned terrorist attack in the very beautiful city of Saint Petersburg. They were able to quickly apprehend the suspects, with many lives being saved. Great & important coordination!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 31, 2019 9:06 am […]

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12/10/2019

FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just had a very good meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and representatives of Russia. Discussed many items including Trade, Iran, North Korea, INF Treaty, Nuclear Arms Control, and Election Meddling. Look forward to continuing our dialogue in the near future! https://t.co/tHecH9a9ck“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 10, 2019 5:51 pm […]

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12/9/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When the Mueller report was made public this spring, Attorney General William P. Barr seemed to try to blunt its findings, playing them down in an early summary and defending President Trump at a news conference just before its release. On Monday [12-9-19], when the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael […]

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12/9/2019

FBI/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A highly anticipated review of the origins of the FBI’s investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia is set for release Monday [12-9-19], following last-minute signaling from President Donald Trump and his allies that the report may not much offer much in the way of blockbuster revelations that […]

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12/7/2019

DEMS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “’Why re-elect Democrats when you know that this is what they are doing with their majority. Their case is not strong because first it was Russian Collusion, then it was obstruction, then it was Ukraine, now their pivoting back to Russia. Why would they be doing that?’ Lisa Booth” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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11/24/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘The whole Russia thing was a Hoax, and the Ukraine thing is a Hoax, and the Democrats are a Joke. This is a disaster for them!’ @DevinNunes @FoxNews The Do Nothing Democrats are hurting our Country, and they don’t care!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 24, 2019 5:16 pm […]

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11/13/2019

KURDS/RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday [11-13-19] pushed Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to walk away from the purchase of a Russian missile defense system, calling it a ‘very serious challenge’ to bilateral ties, even though he described a meeting between the two leaders as ‘wonderful.’ After the much anticipated meeting at the […]

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11/6/2019

2016 ELECTION/DEMS/E-MAILS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump was more personally involved in his campaign’s effort to obtain Democratic emails stolen by Russian operatives in 2016 than was previously known, phone records introduced in federal court on Wednesday [11-6-19] suggested. Federal prosecutors disclosed the calls at the start of the criminal trial of Roger J. Stone Jr., […]

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11/4/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/MIKE POMPEO/RUSSIA/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE: “As President Trump’s first C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo was briefed by agency officials on the extensive evidence — including American intercepts of conversations between participants — showing that Russian hackers working for the government of Vladimir V. Putin had interfered in the 2016 American presidential campaign. In May 2017, Mr. Pompeo testified […]

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10/24/2019

MILITARY/RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “A ceasefire in northeast Syria seems to be holding ‘by and large’, as major powers gather in Geneva ahead of the first meeting of Syria’s Constitutional Committee next week, the U.N. Special Envoy told Reuters on Thursday [10-24-19]. Geir Pedersen said that envoys from 7 Arab and Western states backing the opposition, […]

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10/19/2019

DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So now Crooked Hillary is at it again! She is calling Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard ‘a Russian favorite,’ and Jill Stein ‘a Russian asset.’ As you may have heard, I was called a big Russia lover also (actually, I do like Russian people. I like all people!). Hillary’s gone Crazy!” –Donald Trump, […]

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10/19/2019

DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Crooked Hillary Clinton just called the respected environmentalist and Green Party candidate, Jill Stein, a ‘Russian Asset.’ They need a Green Party more than ever after looking at the Democrats disastrous environmental program!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 19, 2019 2:47 pm […]

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10/14/2019

IMPEACHMENT/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “President Donald Trump’s former top Russia aide Fiona Hill told House impeachment investigators on Monday [10-14-19] that she had at least two meetings with a National Security Council lawyer about Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to convince Ukrainian officials to investigate the president’s political rivals, according to a person who was in the […]

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10/8/2019

GOP/INVESTIGATIONS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “To his allies, President Donald Trump never did anything to warrant the investigation into Russian collusion in the 2016 election. But this is not Russia. This time, some of those same allies say, Trump brought the Ukraine investigation on himself. One said it‘s ‘unseemly,’ while others called it a ‘naive’ and ‘stupid’ […]

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10/7/2019

CHINA/MILITARY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WAR: “I was elected on getting out of these ridiculous endless wars, where our great Military functions as a policing operation to the benefit of people who don’t even like the USA. The two most unhappy countries at this move are Russia & China, because they love seeing us bogged…..”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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9/30/2019

ELECTION/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States issued new economic sanctions on Monday [9-30-19] against seven Russians linked to an internet troll factory in what Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called a warning to foreigners who seek to interfere in American elections. The penalties were announced as Congress is investigating whether President Trump tried to enlist […]

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9/10/2019

DEMS/IRAN/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Next week, Democrats in Congress will have a golden opportunity to take a strong and principled stand against President Trump’s dangerous moves to resurrect the nuclear arms race. So far, Trump has set a treacherous course for U.S. nuclear policy. He is tearing down arms control treaties that were carefully constructed […]

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9/7/2019

RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russia and Ukraine just swapped large numbers of prisoners. Very good news, perhaps a first giant step to peace. Congratulations to both countries!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 7, 2019 8:48 am […]

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9/1/2019

RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: ….for the most ridiculous claim of all, that Russia, Russia, Russia, or Russian oligarchs, co-signed loan documents…”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 1, 2019 9:04 am […]

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8/29/2019

MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….for the most ridiculous claim of all, that Russia, Russia, Russia, or Russian oligarchs, co-signed loan documents for me, a guarantee. Totally false, as is virtually everything else he, and much of the rest of the LameStream Media, has said about me for years. ALL APOLOGIZE!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 29, 2019 […]

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8/12/2019

RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia. We have similar, though more advanced, technology. The Russian ‘Skyfall’ explosion has people worried about the air around the facility, and far beyond. Not good!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 12, 2019 4:26 pm […]

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8/2/2019

NUCLEAR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “The United States formally withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia Friday [8-2-19], as the US military prepares to test a new non-nuclear mobile-launched cruise missile developed specifically to challenge Moscow in Europe, according to a senior US defense official. The US withdrawal puts an end to a landmark arms […]

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8/2/2019

INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Under pressure to confront Russia, President Donald Trump’s administration placed more sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s government over a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy living in Britain. It’s the second round of sanctions over the 2018 attempt to kill former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal in the British town of […]

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8/1/2019

RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on Russia for its use of chemical weapons in the 2018 attack on the Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, according to two U.S. officials. The Trump administration imposed a round of sanctions last year, as required by a 1991 […]

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7/31/2019

NATURAL DISASTERS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has offered help to Russia in combating wildfires raging in Siberia, the Russian Embassy said on Wednesday [7-31-19]. During a phone call between the two leaders, Trump offered American assistance to tame the fires that have engulfed 6.7 million acres of the Siberian woods. The Russian Embassy cited […]

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7/27/2019

DEMS/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats are still doing the Russians dirty work as they continue to push the fake crime. Media credibility is now shot, Democrat credibility is shot, they’ve wasted over 100 hearings on a Hoax, they’ve done nothing on Infrastructure, drug prices, trade….@JesseBWatters” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, 2019 11:02 pm […]

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7/25/2019

CYBERWAR/INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday [7-25-19] released a wide-ranging report that detailed Russia’s attempts to hack US election infrastructure during the 2016 election, urging states and the federal government to do more to prevent election cyberattacks in the future. The report included a host of recommendations to both the federal […]

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7/25/2019

RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A mystery was afoot in conservative Washington circles this week after an apparent mix-up made for an unexpected jab at President Trump. Let us set the scene. The venue: a Washington hotel where Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization, was hosting a conference for high school students, where Mr. Trump spoke […]

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6/28/2019

2016 ELECTION/DEMS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former President Jimmy Carter suggested Friday [6-28-19] that a full investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election would show that Donald Trump didn’t win the presidency. ‘There’s no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election. And I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if fully investigated would […]

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6/28/2019

ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At their first meeting since Robert Mueller’s Russia probe wrapped up, President Donald Trump playfully warned Russia President Vladimir Putin ‘don’t meddle in the election.’ The seemingly off-the-cuff remark is likely to stoke agitation back in Washington, where Democrats and Republicans have blasted Trump for not taking seriously the special counsel’s […]

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6/28/2019

ELECTION/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “They were having a good time. Like old friends reuniting, they warmly shook hands, smiled and chatted amiably. And then President Trump brushed off Russia’s interference in American democracy with a joke as President Vladimir V. Putin chuckled. The first encounter between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin since the special counsel […]

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6/26/2019

ELECTION/RUSSIA/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump today suggested tech giants like Google and Twitter are the greatest threat to the integrity of the 2020 presidential election — and said anti-conservative bias among the companies had a greater impact in 2016 than Russian meddling…Charging Google with being ‘totally biased’ in favor of Democrats and fomenting ‘hatred […]

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6/25/2019

FOREIGN POLICY/JAPAN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The next Trump-Putin meeting in Osaka, Japan is only days away, but the White House is maintaining radio silence about what it hopes to achieve there. Meanwhile, three senior voices with experience of dealing with Russia, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Joseph Dunford, the NSC’s in-house Russia expert Fiona Hill, […]

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6/20/2019

RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Declaring himself the victim of ‘an absurd political kidnapping,’ an American detained in Russia since December on espionage charges used a brief court appearance on Thursday [6-20-19] to appeal to President Trump to ‘keep American great’ by taking robust action to get him released. ‘Mr. President, we cannot keep America great […]

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