About the revelation that Trump sent Putin Abbott Point of Care COVID test machines at a time when Americans were dying of COVID and technology like this was not available to them – a revelation the Kremlin confirms – Heather Cox Richardson writes,

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Trump chose to send them to Putin—not to charge him for them, or to negotiate for the release of Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed, two Americans being held by Russia at the time and later released under the Biden administration, but to give them to him—rather than keeping them for Americans."

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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Lucian K. Truscott unpacks the many ways we can be sure Trump is lying when he denies he spoke to Putin several times after leaving the White House, and adds,

"I think there is zero, nada, none, zip possibility that Trump hasn’t talked to Putin about what the Russians could do for his campaign this year."

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Kremlin confirms that Trump sent COVID testing equipment to Putin

Presidential candidate and convicted felon Donald Trump has unleashed his poodles to deny Bob Woodward’s allegations in his new book, “War,” that Trump had spoken to Vladimir Putin as many as seven times since leaving office. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung issued a flat denial of Woodward’s expose: “None of these made up stories by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

(luciantruscott.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

This new clip by Republican Voters Against Trump is important testimony about Trump's choice to send Putin life-saving medical equipment Americans ourselves could not get during the pandemic.

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[tcatinreality@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
A Guide to Trump-Speak:

- If Trump denies it, he did it
- If he accuses someone else of doing it, he did it
- If he takes credit for it, someone else did it
- If he says someone "came to me and said", it's a made up story
- If he says he did/saw/read anything for " a long time", he just learned about it
- If he says they're "working on it" or "looking strongly", he's waiting for someone to come with a plan and a bribe
- If he reads " The Snake", he's telling you who he is

[vaniaji@toad.social]

@wdlindsy If the calls were done on DonOLD’s cellphone…NSA has it. They listen into all international calls…kind of their “bread and butter.”

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Vaniaji Lucian K. Truscott thinks that Trump likely sent Putin a batch of burner phones along with the Covid test machine — and that's pure speculation, of course, but not beyond the realm of imagining.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@TCatInReality Thank you. This is excellent — will boost.

[vaniaji@toad.social]

@wdlindsy Yep…but NSA will still get the recording unless Putin figured a way around it… Anyways, the orange moron is a traitor.

[truthseeker54@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy We could not have done worse having him as president during a deadly pandemic.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@TruthSeeker54 Yes, and the fact that so many people now claim they have forgotten his outrageous behavior and dangerous response — dangerous for all of us — during the pandemic is astonishing to me.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Vaniaji Let's hope they can get ahold of it.

[truthseeker54@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy I will never forget or forgive his self-serving cruelty and incompetence, and will always be ready to remind people.

[laloofah@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy The sheer tonnage of evidence of his selfish callousness & vindictive cruelty, accumulated over most of his lifetime & growing far more dangerous, should be enough to dissuade any American from voting for him. Alas, there is a sect in this country who obviously admire and/or share those ugly traits, & seem oblivious to the fact that they too are his victims.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@TruthSeeker54 Same for me. Thank you for issuing reminders.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Laloofah Yes. I very much agree. Very well-stated.