Posted on 02/25/2022 8:21:17 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that former President Donald Trump was “despicable” for praising Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Schumer said, “Putin will come to regret this. Look, he is a bully. He is a thug. He has a monomaniacal desire to restore the Soviet Empire. But he will ultimately fail.”
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I don’t know anyone who thinks Putin is a good guy, what I have said, and what Trump said, is that Putin is a Smart and tactical person, knowing when to make moves on Ukraine and when not to.
Schmuckie has a bad case of TDS.
He needs to be in isolation for at least 2 years.
That’s okay. This Dick hasn’t had a clue in fifty years.
We’ve come to ignore the ignorant slob.
Whatever. He’s the last on the list of important things and people right now.
Putin is far better than the communist scum that rule this fallen nation
He wasn’t so much praising Putin as pointing out that we have incompetent morons running the country and that they’ve let a thug dictator take advantage of the situation they created.
IOW - WEAKNESS IS PROVOCATIVE. They all but invited Putin to attack Ukraine, and promised no meaningful repercussions other than whatever resistance the Ukrainians can provide.
Trump gave warning, not praise.
Imagine siding with Schumer.
By what measure?
It’s those same commies that enable him.
Oh no; they certainly invited him, with Brandon talking about “a minor invasion” and saying he wouldn’t rescue any US citizens that got trapped in a war zone there.
Yep.
Trump calling Putin smart, for his tactical skills, is despicable.
The press and Dems falling over themselves to call Brandon brilliant, for his Russia sanctions.....is admirable.
Geez.....in upside down world.
This A-hole is despicable because he’s an oxygen thief.
Schumer qualifies as a “despicable thug”.
Schumer was traumatized by the J6 Erection.
“ Putin is far better than the communist scum that rule this fallen nation”
Sadly true…not just the worst government in our history, the worst government on the planet today. We own it.
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Biden met with Putin in 2021 and had nothing but good things to say about him.
If fact, a month before the meeting in Geneva, Biden personally lifted the sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to please Putin and show Putin they could be friends and work together.
Just as he timed the Afghanistan pullout in time for a Celebration, he believed he was laying the groundwork for a great new relationship where Putin would be cooperative and willing partner.
Biden said afterwards, I can assure you that Russia has no interest in a Cold War.
He gave up that Pipeline thinking it would make Putin malleable, like a Chicago Ward boss.
When is it going to stop with these disingenuous commies?
I’m no EverTrumper but all Trump did - “IN CONTEXT” which has been their rallying cry since the riots - is describe how Putin is acting. He’s not “praising” him.
So, we’re only supposed to use adjectives for tyrants if they’re “negative”?
Trump should’ve called Putin stupid. That would’ve made Schumie and his duplicitous compatriots happy. Right?
Schumer now suddenly silent about Putin since he’s getting paid by lobbying firm tied to him
Posted by: Jim Patrick|December 15, 2021
One of the bigger voices claiming Trump-Russia collusion is Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who in 2018 issued the following warning:
“A single, ominous question now hangs over the White House: What could possibly cause President Trump to put the interests of Russia over those of the United States?”
Fast forward three years and now, according to journalist Daniel Greenfield of FrontPageMag, and one needs to ask Schumer questions along the same line. In this case, why is Schumer putting Russia’s interests above America’s regarding his blocking of sanctions placed on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline into Eastern Europe by former President Trump?
The answer is actually pretty easy, according to Greenfield. Once again, all you need to do is follow the money. In this case, Schumer, along with other top Democrats has realized significant campaign donations from a top Democrat fundraiser Vincent Roberti.
The connection? Roberti’s lobbying firm was paid over $8.5 million by Nord Stream 2, ironically owned by Russia’s state-run Gazprom energy monopoly. How weird is that?
Aside from Schumer, California Rep. Eric Swalwell, who apparently loves himself some communists, also was a recipient of money from Roberti, who maxed out donations to Swalwell’s campaign. Swalwell, you might recall, had a sexual affair with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
Roberti, a former Democrat politician, also donated $171,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as part of over a half-million dollars donated to Democrats.
Roberti, according to Greenfield, engages in lobbying on “issues related to the U.S. position toward the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, including potential financial sanctions affecting the project.”
In a complete 180 from his criticisms of Trump, Schumer has had a come to Jesus moment and refuses to hold a floor vote on the Russia sanctions, unlike a few years ago when he demanded Senate Republicans vote on sanctions while accusing Trump and the GOP of coddling Putin.
“Millions of Americans will continue to wonder if the only possible explanation for this dangerous behavior is the possibility that President Putin holds damaging information over President Trump,” Schumer bellowed back then.
Why the sudden change of heart?
In 2018, Schumer slammed Trump, calling his failure to immediately put sanctions on Putin as “an extreme dereliction of duty by President Trump, who seems more intent on undermining the rule of law of this country than standing up to Putin.” Nowadays? Not so much.
Another screeching banshee at the time was Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), another Democrat who suffered from Trump Derangement Syndrome and who also accused Trump of being too close to Putin.
“With him, all roads lead to Putin,” Pelosi bellowed at the time. “I don’t know what the Russians have on the president, politically, personally or financially.”
Well apparently, Putin has something financial on someone, in this case Pelosi. Roberti dropped $46,100 into Pelosi’s Victory Fund, while also giving the maximum amount in campaign donations to Pelosi’s campaign and another $5,000 to her PAC to the Future.
Oh, and according to Greenfield, Pelosi proposed a toast to Roberti and his wife at their wedding, also attended by Rep. John Larson (D-CT), Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Clinton pal Tony Podesta of the Podesta Group, Politico reported.
Another hypocrite (to nobody’s surprise who lives in CT) is Sen. Da Nang Dick Blumenthal (D-CT), who also was on the Trump-Russia collusion bandwagon. . .
Others who were beneficiaries of Roberti’s money were Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Patty Murray (D-WA), Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Cory Booker (D-NJ). All had been sharp critics of Trump, with Cortez-Maston having accused him of risking national security. Murray called for a special prosecutor, as did Hassan. Booker said that Trump had “betrayed” his role while accusing him of being “weak and submissive” to Putin.
All the above received the maximum donation from Roberti with the exception of Booker, who only received $1,000.
All of that, of course pales in comparison to the intense lobbying to stop Nord Stream 2 sanctions from the Biden White House, with top Biden aides pressuring Senate Democrats to look the other way and let Putin have his pipeline. Ironically (or perhaps not) this came shortly after Biden shut down the Keystone XL pipeline in the central U.S. . .
Biden and Roberti have long ties, with the latter bragging of having advised Biden on his failed 2008 presidential campaign, also flying Biden to his hometown during that presidential run.
Another interesting tie into Nord Stream is a man named Richard Burt, former U.S. ambassador to West Germany, who is also a member of a number of influential Washington, DC think-tanks. According to OpenSecrets, Burt lobbied for a number of foreign companies that had partnered on Nord Stream on “Russian sanctions issues’ and “natural gas as an element of European energy security.”
Burt donated $2,000 to Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, and an additional $10,000 to pro-Biden super PAC Unite the Country while serving as a registered lobbyist for federal companies that were partnered with Nord Stream on the pipeline.
OpenSecrets reported that the Biden campaign had not refunded Burt’s money at the time of publication, despite Biden pledged to reject lobbyist donations. However Greenfield said that after getting embarrassed by the New York Post, the money was finally returned. . .
Schumer is just plain despicable.
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