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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Nah - not buying that one for a second.

There's absolutely no reason Iran would want Trump dead. They can certainly see, as everyone else (other than his deluded cultists) can see, that he's Putin's lap dog.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No reason Iran would want Trump dead? Under the Trump administration, Irans funds dried up and then when Biden and Kamala got in office they had billions flowing so that right there is reason enough imo. And I don't know where you've been but the Russia hoax was proven false long ago. The Steele dossier that it was based on was paid for by the Clinton campaign. One of the lawyers was convicted and sentenced for lying on an application to the FISA court in order to soy on the Trump campaign

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Who said anything about the Steele Dossier? That's just a bit of oft-regurgitated headlining intended to serve the exact purpose it serves here - providing the deluded base with an excuse to ignore the plain truth.

All anyone with any sliver of integrity has to do to see the truth of the charge that Trump is Putin's lap dog is look at him and listen to him and see how he behaves whenever the subject of Putin comes up. He's somewhere between a cringing courtier and a schoolgirl with a crush, and it's so obvious and blatant that it's creepy. And as with so many things regarding Trump, all anyone has to do is open their eyes to see it and their minds to accept it.

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