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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

A New Dawn of Cynicism?

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

During Hour Four of Armstrong & Getty, Joe features the Glenn Greenwald's take on the notion that President Trump is a Russian asset. Plus, the WaPo's Matt Zapotosky talks to Joe about 2 yrs worth of media coverage of Trump. And, Jack re-joins the show for the Petering Out!

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0:00.0

You remember Glenn Greenwald? He was the guy who was working with Julie in a

0:21.5

song and he put out all that WikiLeaks stuff, some of which was really damaging and irresponsible

0:27.2

in my mind. Someone was important to know but Glenn Greenwald is no conservative. He is

0:32.3

a sure as hell not a Republican. In fact, he's not even American but he was talking about

0:35.9

the whole idea that Trump was colluding with Russian and Russia rather. And do you

0:40.1

remember Stephen Colbert calling Trump the sexual partner of Putin in obscene fashion smuggling

0:48.2

into the roars of his audience? Well, that makes for some fine comedy but when grown-ups

0:54.2

look at geopolitics, and juxtapose what's actually happening policy-wise with the idea that

1:01.4

Trump is in the pocket of Putin, they sing a very different tune. Here's Glenn Greenwald.

1:06.1

And as for him being a Russian asset, it's so irresponsible to say that because the reality

1:12.6

is that the conflict between the US and the Russians are at a worse and higher level than

1:18.1

they've been in many years, probably decades. How can you say Donald Trump is a stooge of

1:24.1

the Kremlin? When he's right now trying to remove one of Vladimir Putin's client regime states

1:30.4

in Venezuela, or when he's trying to bully Angela Merkel out of buying Russian natural

1:36.1

gats, probably the thing that's most important to the Russian economy, or when he sold lethal

1:42.3

arms to the Ukrainian, something Obama refused to do on the grounds that it would be provocative

1:47.6

to Russia, or when he bombed Putin's client state in Syria. Over and over the Trump administration

1:55.4

has taken actions far more adverse and aggressive and belligerent to the Russians than the Obama

2:01.9

administration did. That's why this whole narrative that Trump all that at all long was being

2:07.9

blackmailed by Putin that he's an asset of Russian intelligence. This is idiocy. It is completely

2:14.4

irrational. It is contrary to all facts. And Bob Mueller's investigation, who spent 22 months

2:20.8

examining that core question, what is the relationship between Trump and the Russians concluded that

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