• Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world
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    Donald Trump, facing financial trouble after failed casinos and business ventures, gets invited by the Soviet government to collaborate 1987

    Trump had taken major losses with his casino’s in Atlantic city and other failed companies. So he was in desperate need of a different finance source. And this was around the time that russian oligarchies were looking to diversify their money given the growing instability of the country and you had Donald Trump needing that cash. In the following years, Trump sold roughly one third of his properties to individuals or companies affiliated with Russia.

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    How Trump supporters, a lot them I know hard-line McCarthyists, don’t see the takeover of the US by Russia is fucking beyond me. But then again, it was never about Russia, it was always about authoritarianism.

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      Especially the use of signicant disinformation by their propaganda networks all over USA, social media and msm

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      Fox News talking positively about Russia for 5 to 10 years will do wonders. These people never did a deep analysis, they were told Russia bad and now they’re told Russia good.

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      McCarthy was in fact backed in 1946 in the Republican primary against progressive Robert M. La Follette Jr. by the Wisconsin Communist Party because they felt that La Follette would be more effective in opposing communism.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    Its the same way he justifies being a racist bigot when he is married to a non Caucasian woman.