IS THIS EVIDENCE TRUMP WAS A RUSSIAN ASSET?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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What's really going on behind the Guardian's story on possibly leaked secret Russian documents? Did Trump only get elected with the support of the Russian government? Is Putin cutting him loose?.. Plus- a warning from Ulysses S. Grant.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.4 | It's been reported by the Guardian and their reprinting parts of these documents that |
| 0:21.7 | they have received a leak from inside the Kremlin that Donald Trump was basically installed |
| 0:28.9 | as president of the United States with the help of three different Russian spy agencies. |
| 0:33.4 | Now, the huge caveat on this is it possible that this itself is a Russian disinformation |
| 0:42.2 | program. |
| 0:43.2 | In other words, are these forged documents or tampered with documents or something like |
| 0:47.9 | that that were given to the Guardian for some reason? |
| 0:51.9 | Have the Russians, for example, finally decided that Donald Trump guy, he's probably more |
| 0:57.7 | of a liability than an asset. |
| 1:00.6 | Perhaps they don't want him talking about his private conversations with President Putin |
| 1:04.5 | or something like that. |
| 1:05.5 | Who knows? |
| 1:07.3 | But the papers, they reference this meeting that happened, and you can read it all at |
| 1:12.0 | thuguardian.com. |
| 1:14.0 | The papers that they have suggest that there was this meeting in the Kremlin on the 22nd |
| 1:17.9 | of January of 2016, that keep in mind, that was the election year, but this was 11 months |
| 1:23.6 | before the election, or 10 and a half months before the election. |
| 1:28.7 | But it was also like within a few weeks of Donald Trump basically locking up the Republican |
| 1:34.5 | nomination for president. |
| 1:35.8 | He didn't have it yet, but he was walking away with it. |
| 1:41.4 | And I mean, I think it was March, his super Tuesday. |
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