Comments by "J Groovy" (@jgroovy1973) on "Late Night with Seth Meyers"
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- Trump is the only leader of a NATO member nation who didn't condemn Putin for poisoning an opposition leader.
- Trump promoted the Kremlin's own material attacking Joe Biden.
- The Trump Administration stopped giving intelligence briefings to Congress on Russian election interference.
- After reports of Russia paying bounties to Taliban fighters to kill US soldiers, Trump did nothing except call news reports "fake."
- Trump actively worked to get intelligence to change assessments that Russia was targeting the 2020 election to favor him, and fired two people over it.
- Trump inexplicably moved to pull a third of the US troop force out of Germany shortly after a call with Putin.
- Trump's son, son-in-law, and campaign chairman met with surrogates of the Russian government at the infamous Trump Tower meeting to trade illegally obtained information about Clinton for sanction relief.
- Trump proposed scrapping the European Reassurance Initiative that imposed sanctions on Russia for their invasion of Ukraine, and quietly defunded it.
- Trump lied about pursuing a real estate deal in Moscow that required Kremlin approval, leaving himself vulnerable to blackmail by the Russians, who obviously knew he was lying to the public.
- Trump tried to discredit US intelligence conclusions that Russia meddled in the 2016 election so he can lift sanctions put on Russia over that meddling.
- Trump blocked the release of a State Department statement condemning Russia for seizing Ukrainian ships.
- Trump resisted the expulsion of Russian diplomats from compounds in the US as a response to their meddling in the 2016 election.
- Trump pushed Ukraine to make a deal with Russia in order to lift sanctions imposed on them over their invasion of Ukraine.
- The debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine hacked the DNC in 2016 was originated by Russian military intelligence.
- Trump repeatedly insisted that Russia should be re-admitted to the G7, without any change in their behavior.
- Trump took funds from the Pentagon budget to fund his wall that came from programs to safeguard Ukraine from Russian aggression.
- Trump repeated Russian propaganda many times. He said the USSR occupied Afghanistan in '79 because of terrorists, and was "right to do it". (The US was instrumental in driving out the Soviets).
- While Putin was running a disinformation campaign against Montenegro, Trump said he thought Montenegro might start WWIII.
- Against advisor's advice, Trump congratulated Putin for "winning" a rigged election.
- Trump said Crimea was part of Russia.
- At a NATO summit, Trump refused to reaffirm Article 5, (The 'all for one' article only evoked once, by the US, after 9/11).
- At the Helsinki Summit, Trump said he didn't see why Russia would meddle in our election.
- "Russia, if you're listening..."
- Trump ordered a troop withdrawal from Syria a day before Putin's annual press conference. Russia is in Syria to protect the Assad regime. Under Obama, the official US position on Syria was that Assad should go. Trump changed that to allow Assad to stay for now.
- Trump security advisor, Carter Page, went to Moscow to make a speech disparaging US/Russia policy. (Page got caught-up in a Russian spy ring in 2013).
- The Trump campaign requested one change to the RNC platform - To remove language that said the US should help the Ukrainian resistance of Russian aggression.
- Trump campaign self described "dirty trickster", Roger Stone, said he had contacts with Guccifer 2.0 and Julian Assange, the very hackers who hacked the DNC and the guy who weaponized the information.
- The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee found that during the 2016 campaign, Stone had drafted pro-Putin tweets for Trump to send out as his own.
- Jarred Kushner met with the head of a SANCTIONED Russian bank to discuss setting-up a back-channel to the Kremlin to get around US intelligence.
- Russian born gangster, felon, and Trump business partner, Felix Sater, is reputed to have been working to get Trump elected. He worked with Trump on the Trump Tower Moscow project. Trump said he didn't know Sater well, and "probably wouldn't recognize him if I saw him". Sater was at Trump's election victory party.
- The Special Council's office arrested and charged a suspected Russian spy, Maria Butina, in connection with funneling money to the Trump campaign through the NRA.
- Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, offered polling data to a known Russian intelligence officer. 21 states' voter rolls were hacked. Manafort had been a lobbyist for Putin. He helped install a crooked, pro-Russian dictator in Ukraine.
- During the 2016 campaign, Michael Flynn went to Moscow for an RT event. (RT - Russia Today, aka, Russian propaganda), and made a speech disparaging US/Russia policy. He lied about his compensation and failed to register as a foreign agent.
- Flynn was fired as National Security Advisor for denying that he secretly discussed lifting newly imposed sanctions on Russia with Russian ambassador/spy, Sergey Kislyak, during the transition. After resisting, Trump was ultimately forced to fire Flynn, who was subsequently convicted of lying to the FBI.
- Trump chose Rex Tillerson, former CEO of Exxon, as his first Sec. of State. Tillerson had received Russia's highest award for a foreigner. Exxon lost a $500 billion oil deal with a Russian, state-run, oil company when the US sanctioned Russia for its illegal invasion of Ukraine. Trump fired Tillerson the day after he publicly criticized Putin.
- The FBI had asked the Trump campaign to call if they saw anything suspicious, but nobody did. Later, Trump would say, (about the Trump Tower meeting), "I think anyone would have taken that meeting". (No. that is not a normal part of a Presidential campaign).
- In a private meeting with Putin, Trump took possession of the notes of his own interpreter, and instructed the linguist not to discuss what transpired in the meeting with administration officials.
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Trump said the election could be tied up in litigation for years. He's setting up his eventual excuses and conspiracy theories.
He's offered no solutions to "problems" with mail-in voting. He's obviously creating problems with the post office. He lied and said he didn't meet with the Postmaster General and doesn't know what he's doing - cutting overtime, removing mail sorting machines, and removing mailboxes.
Trump is sending out his own absentee ballot requests to North Carolinians, complete with his picture and disparaging remarks about Dems. It's an obvious attempt to suppress votes. Anyone who returns one of those requests is a fool. Get the official state request.
He asked Russia, China, and Ukraine to help him win, even by investigating Americans. He said taking foreign government help is okay. (It's illegal). He says it's "oppo research" (when HE does it. When opponents do legal oppo research on him, he calls it treason).
It's likely Russia will attack the election. Obama prepared for a cyber attack on election day. I'm pretty sure Trump hasn't, and Putin knows it.
In 2012, Trump said Obama would start a war with Iran to get re-elected. Apparently, Trump thinks that could work. It wouldn't surprise me if he did that.
Turnout favors Democrats. 50% of voters won't vote for him under ANY circumstances. He's never reached across the aisle, and never had a day with over 50% approval. He considers everyone who didn't vote for him an enemy. He HAS to cheat to win, and he's doing just that.
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I'm a liberal who votes Democrat 90% of the time, but if Trump was a Democrat - EVEN IF HE CHAMPIONED DEMOCRATIC CAUSES - I'd be going out of my skull. I'd write-in independent candidates for the rest of my life. Trump followers are blindly biased tribalists. We're supposed to reserve that kind of devotion for our hometown football team. I expect the mothers of credibly accused criminals to swear up and down that their kids are innocent. Trump followers are like Catholic bishops who protect pedophile priests. Like police chiefs who protect dirty cops. The hypocrisy is INSANE! Half of Trump's campaign staffers were reaching-out to the Russian government, but HILLARY COLLUDED with Russia?? Trump bears NO responsibility for his rhetoric, and for directly, LITERALLY endorsing violence, but they'll accuse the left of inciting violence?? Character mattered when Bill Clinton cheated on his wife, but they give Trump a blank check?? Obama "ruined the country" by raising the national debt, but Trump putting the deficit into the TRILLIONS to give the 1% a tax break is just fine?? Lying (miscalculating) the benefits of the ACA made Obama an insufferable liar, but it's okay if Trump lies about EVERYTHING?? They don't care that Trump is FLAT-OUT LYING about protecting pre-existing condition protections?? The news is "fake" when they show video of Trump, himself, in the flesh, saying stupid and offensive things?? Trump followers are indistinguishable from cult members and Russian propaganda trolls.
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Trump said the election could be tied up in litigation for years. He's setting up his eventual excuses and conspiracy theories.
He's offered no solutions to "problems" with mail-in voting. He's obviously creating problems with the post office. He lied and said he didn't meet with the Postmaster General and doesn't know what he's doing - cutting overtime, removing mail sorting machines, and removing mailboxes.
Trump is sending out his own absentee ballot requests to North Carolinians, complete with his picture and disparaging remarks about Dems. It's an obvious attempt to suppress votes. Anyone who returns one of those requests is a fool. Get the official state request.
He asked Russia, China, and Ukraine to help him win, even by investigating Americans. He said taking foreign government help is okay. (It's illegal). He says it's "oppo research" (when HE does it. When opponents do legal oppo research on him, he calls it treason).
It's likely Russia will attack the election. Obama prepared for a cyber attack on election day. I'm pretty sure Trump hasn't, and Putin knows it.
In 2012, Trump said Obama would start a war with Iran to get re-elected. Apparently, Trump thinks that could work. It wouldn't surprise me if he did that.
Turnout favors Democrats. 50% of voters won't vote for him under ANY circumstances. He's never reached across the aisle, and never had a day with over 50% approval. He considers everyone who didn't vote for him an enemy. He HAS to cheat to win, and he's doing just that.
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@Based_Chilean Comparing BLM to the Capitol riots is like comparing apples to orangutans. Associating BLM with Antifa is like associating a stadium full of football fans with a few thugs vandalizing the restrooms.
93% of the BLM protests were peaceful. Of the remaining 7%, 99% of the people didn't riot. I live in a city at the center of those protests where law enforcement went after the rioters diligently.
While some Dem lawmakers expressed support for the cause, none supported Antifa, and none condoned violence. While the protesters tended to be liberal, they weren't partisan political events. They protested a real, repeating injustice.
Capitol insurrectionists rioted over a lie. The election wasn't stolen, and Pence couldn't stop the certification. "Stop the Steal" was fundamentally partisan. Republican politicians encouraged it despite months of growing intelligence and common sense that said organized groups were likely to use violence.
Put plainly, it was a coup attempt at one of America's highest value terrorist targets. There were several groups, several of which were white supremacists. Their level of planning and coordination far surpassed that of any of those protesting police brutality.
Giuliani said "Let's have trial by combat!" right before the riot. Once it was underway, The President attacked his own VP on Twitter as Pence and lawmakers were being whisked away by security. When Rep. McCarthy implored Trump to send backup, the President replied, "Well, Kevin, I guess these people are just more upset about the election than you are."
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