Russia says it stopped Mitt Romney from becoming secretary of State

[deanrd]

Russia says it stopped Mitt Romney from becoming secretary of State: report

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed to have stopped Romney from becoming head of the State Department.

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Trump better do what Putin says



or else!

 

[Sunni Man]

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[MisterBeale]

Russia says it stopped Mitt Romney from becoming secretary of State: report

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed to have stopped Romney from becoming head of the State Department.

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Trump better do what Putin says



or else!

I can't believe that The Hill is reporting shit from the Steele Dossier.

Anything having to do with that should immediately be reassigned to the conspiracy sub-forum.

 

[JLW]

Putin's hand is so far up Trump's ass that Trump is just an obese sock puppet for Putin.

 

[Borillar]

Too much bad blood between Trump and Mittens. Trump wouldn't have picked him for anything except White House piss boy.

 

[JGalt]

Russia says it stopped Mitt Romney from becoming secretary of State: report

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed to have stopped Romney from becoming head of the State Department.

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Trump better do what Putin says



or else!

Good for them. Romney is such a pussy and that Tillerson guy is such a manly man. I bet he could even whip Putin in arm-wrestling.

 

[ABikerSailor]

You know what's funny? Most of the information about what Russia is doing to Trump is coming from Russia itself!

 

[MarathonMike]

 

[depotoo]

You know what's funny? Most of the information about what Russia is doing to Trump is coming from Russia itself!

Isn’t that rather odd...

 

[deanrd]

Russia says it stopped Mitt Romney from becoming secretary of State: report

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed to have stopped Romney from becoming head of the State Department.

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Trump better do what Putin says



or else!

Good for them. Romney is such a pussy and that Tillerson guy is such a manly man. I bet he could even whip Putin in arm-wrestling.

Tillerson wouldn't fight Putin. Not after Putin decorated him.

To shake the hand of a murderer.

 

[TheOldSchool]

God knows what else the Russians have managed to get the Trump mafia to do

 

[deanrd]

God knows what else the Russians have managed to get the Trump mafia to do

No wonder he wants to be president for life.

 

[centerleftFL]

Jane Mayer, in The New Yorker, has an article that is being discussed everywhere today--for those who watch REAL NEWS. It states that Christopher Steele (yes the dossier author) is stating that 'RUSSIA' got Mitt Romney's appointment to Secretary of State NIXED! They wanted someone less hostile to Russia and to be sure sanctions would be lifted! Sound plausible?

I plan to read the actual article and will post a link tomorrow. This is ONE helluva of an indictment against the Trump team. CHRISTOPHER STEELE is said to have told this story, regarding memos circulated at MI6 in England, to MUELLER in his 10 hour (or more) interview. And, of course TILLERSON, friend to Putin and honored with Russia's highest civilian award becomes Secretary of State. And of course, a round of BIPARTISAN SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA sits on Trump's desk and has been there for a couple of months--at least.

That's a quick synoposis!

The New Republic
Alex Shephard
14 hours ago

Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Did Russia block Mitt Romney from becoming secretary of state?


In a lengthy profile in The New Yorker of Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer and author of the infamous pee tape dossier, Jane Mayer reports that Steele wrote a second memo shortly after the 2016 election, and that he is believed to have discussed it with special counsel Robert Mueller. That memo reportedly featured a single “senior Russian official” who told Steele that there was chatter within Russia’s foreign ministry that Russia had effectively blocked Mitt Romney’s appointment as Secretary of State.

The official said that he was merely relaying talk circulating in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but what he’d heard was astonishing: people were saying that the Kremlin had intervened to block Trump’s initial choice for Secretary of State, Mitt Romney. (During Romney’s run for the White House in 2012, he was notably hawkish on Russia, calling it the single greatest threat to the U.S.) The memo said that the Kremlin, through unspecified channels, had asked Trump to appoint someone who would be prepared to lift Ukraine-related sanctions, and who would coöperate on security issues of interest to Russia, such as the conflict in Syria. If what the source heard was true, then a foreign power was exercising pivotal influence over U.S. foreign policy—and an incoming President.

This is arguably more explosive than anything in the initial Steele dossier, which was made public in January of 2017 by BuzzFeed. That dossier suggested that Russia had a great deal of compromising material on Donald Trump, that it had cultivated him, and that it had aided his candidacy, possibly in exchange for the lifting of sanctions that had been placed after its annexation of Crimea. The second memo, however, suggests that Russia had actually done something with the leverage it purportedly had over Trump: It had blocked the appointment of a secretary of state who had made a hawkish stance on Russia one of his key policy positions when he ran for president in 2012. Rex Tillerson, who was eventually named secretary of state, was awarded the Order of Friendship by Vladimir Putin in 2013....



Did Russia block Mitt Romney from becoming secretary of state?

 

[impuretrash]

Thanks, Vlad! What a great guy.

 

[theHawk]

Oh please. If President Trump had nominated Romney for Secretary of State you regressives would had lost your minds and protested, just like you do for any and all of his nominations.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

From a website called the NewSSR

 

[centerleftFL]

Thanks, Vlad! What a great guy.

Oh please. If President Trump had nominated Romney for Secretary of State you regressives would had lost your minds and protested, just like you do for any and all of his nominations.

Actually, in my case, NOT!

 

[centerleftFL]

Thanks, Vlad! What a great guy.

Well, that's a pretty vapid response. Unless that was sarcasm. I don't know the players here, yet!

 

[impuretrash]

Thanks, Vlad! What a great guy.

Well, that's a pretty vapid response.

Vladmir Putin is a great leader and we should be glad that he helped us avoid having a filthy neocon like Romney anywhere near the reigns of power.

 

[MindWars]