You possibly can hearken to the rant within the second tweet under. Please observe that, stunningly, Trump’s rambling telephone audio is initially accompanied by graphic imagery of lifeless Ukranians—ostensibly in misplaced anticipation that Trump would communicate to Hannity’s “evil” immediate, reasonably than … do what he did as an alternative.
Transcript!
HANNITY: “I requested you the final time you have been on whether or not you suppose that is evil in our time. Do you suppose that is evil in our time?”
TRUMP: “I feel in 100 years individuals are going to look again and so they’re going to say, ‘How did we stand again and NATO stand again?’ which in some ways I’ve referred to as a paper tiger. Don’t overlook, I rebuilt NATO as a result of once I grew to become president, the very first thing I observed once I went there to the primary assembly was that many of the nations weren’t paying or have been paying far lower than they have been purported to.
“There have been solely eight out of 28 nations that have been paid in full. The USA was not solely one in all them, we have been making up the deficits to guard Europe. We have been paying probably 80% of NATO to guard them, after which they reap the benefits of us but on commerce. As a result of on commerce, they’re each bit as dangerous as China. They handled us very badly on commerce. We modified numerous that round however they have been very powerful on commerce. I requested Angela Merkel, ‘What number of Chevrolets are you promoting this month in Munich or Berlin?’ and he or she checked out me, ‘Effectively, most likely none.’ I mentioned, ‘You’re precisely proper, none.’ And but we had the Mercedes Benz, and the Volkswagens, and all of them. We had all the German corporations. And the identical factor with farmers, our farmers promote just about nothing to Europe, you check out what we promote and but we take their product. They handled us very badly on commerce, and we defended them, and we actually, when you have a look at the actual numbers, I guess it’s near 80% and I mentioned, ‘It’s a must to pay. And when you don’t pay, we’re not going to defend you.’”
Hmm, how about answering the query, Skippy? FFS, each time Trump opens his mouth, you get a rapid-fire sequence of $100,000 Pyramid clues for “Issues a Russian Agent Would Say.”
In fact, Trump’s blather about “rebuilding” NATO is fairly wealthy contemplating he undermined it at each attainable alternative. Making an attempt to hector different nations into spending extra of their GDP on their militaries (and opposite to what Trump appears to suppose, NATO nations haven’t any precise dues) didn’t “save” a 73-year-old alliance that was already ramping up protection expenditures earlier than Trump ever took workplace.
Oh, and never for nothing, Trump deliberate to withdraw the U.S. from NATO had he gained reelection—which, to be completely clear, he didn’t. If Trump had succeeded in vaporizing NATO, it might have been the most important present Putin ever obtained, and it might have come from the identical man who’s now mysteriously mute in relation to the Russian tyrant’s battle crimes.
Now, when you’re questioning why all this appears acquainted, it’s as a result of Hannity tried to get Trump to sentence Putin a month in the past—and Trump refused then, too.
From a March 10 Newsweek story:
“I feel I do know you a little bit bit higher than most individuals within the media,” mentioned Hannity. “And I feel you additionally acknowledge [Putin is] evil, do you not?”
Trump didn’t reply on to the query as as to if or not Putin is evil and launched right into a rambling protection of his administration.
“Effectively, I used to be referring to the truth that he mentioned that is an impartial nation, speaking about Ukraine, and I mentioned that this was earlier than there was any assault,” Trump mentioned, referring to Putin’s recognition of breakaway areas of Ukraine which have declared independence.
The one conclusion an inexpensive particular person can draw from these two interviews is that Trump doesn’t suppose Putin is evil. So when you’d just like the stout, courageous, righteously defiant Ukraine to be turned in a single day right into a kleptocratic Chuck E. Cheese, by all means vote for The Former Man in 2024.
In Wednesday’s interview, Trump additionally boasted to Hannity about how properly he knew Putin, even because the community confirmed much more stunning photos of Putin’s battle crimes.
HuffPost:
“I knew Putin very properly. Nearly in addition to I do know you, Sean,” Trump informed his shut confidante, Fox Information host Sean Hannity, because the community aired graphic photos of lifeless our bodies and the injury left by Russian troops in Ukraine.
“I’ll let you know, we talked about it, we talked about it lots, he did need Ukraine, however I mentioned, ‘You’re not going into Ukraine,’” Trump continued. “He would by no means, ever have gone into Ukraine.”
He wouldn’t have gone into Ukraine below Trump, regardless that he badly wished to take it? Then why did Putin transfer heaven and Earth to get Trump reelected—4 years after famously fucking with our election so as to set up this buffoon within the first place?
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However Trump wasn’t executed. In Wednesday’s Hannity interview, Trump additionally revealed that he’d requested former Legal professional Basic Invoice Barr to stay his neck waaaay out so as to buttress Trump’s horrifying marketing campaign to finish American democracy.
Salon:
Trump claimed in an interview with Fox Information host Sean Hannity that Barr didn’t wish to examine his baseless voter fraud claims as a result of he was nervous about being impeached regardless that Barr has repeatedly mentioned the Justice Division didn’t pursue the claims as a result of there was no proof of any widespread fraud that would have affected the election end result.
“Look, we additionally had an opportunity, however Invoice Barr, the legal professional basic, did not wish to be impeached,” Trump mentioned. “How do you not get impeached? You sit again and calm down and wait out on your time period to finish. That is what he did. And it was a tragic factor and a tragic day for our nation.”
Trump additionally lashed out at Barr for writing what he referred to as a “crummy e book” that was “so false.” Barr in his e book rejected Trump’s debunked fraud claims and blamed him for the lethal Jan. 6 Capitol riot, arguing that Trump was not match for workplace.
So there you’re. In summation, Donald Trump ♥s Vladimir Putin, he claims he saved NATO regardless that he brazenly deliberate to destroy it, and he wished his personal legal professional basic to break his profession over a barmy lie.
So simply one other typical day within the fever swamps of our worst president’s moldering mind.
Sheesh, why wouldn’t People need him again within the White Home?
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