Julia Davis: Kremlin Insiders Spill Putin's Secret Plan to Manipulate Trump

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-insiders-spill-putins-secret-plan-to-manipulate-trump/

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Head of RT Margarita Simonyan, a decorated state TV propagandist and Kremlin insider, has spilled not only Russia’s hopes and dreams for Donald Trump’s second term in office but also Moscow’s strategy for suckering him in.

She believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin has an irresistible sway over Trump and will extract the desired outcome—but only if they meet face-to-face, without any influence or interference from other American power brokers, à la Helsinki, where the two men held discussions in secret.

The head of RT is convinced that a personal meeting between Trump and Putin will totally reverse the course taken by the Biden administration, including the sanctions that banned her propaganda network from American airwaves. Speaking on the program The Right To Know, Simonyan predicted that the incoming Trump administration would attempt to establish good relations with Russia and lift multiple sanctions. According to her, RT has good reason to believe that under Trump, it will return to the U.S. cable networks.

Simonyan explained that the ban cost many Americans their jobs and that alone should prompt Trump to reverse course. She noted, “These are American citizens and not the immigrants that irritate Trump. These are real Americans with real values that Trump and Elon Musk are defending.” The RT boss expressed her belief that this simplistic “explanation” should suffice for the incoming administration to lift the sanctions against Russia’s premier state TV outlet. Simonyan said, “I think there is no way Trump doesn’t understand this—and if he doesn’t, it’s just because the word didn’t get to him yet, in which case we’ll make sure that it does.”

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[Callie1979]

1. That would be SO obvious though.

[SheilaAnn]

2. After this trump fiasco finally comes to an end; the cleaning of every department, committee, sub-committee, all

russians, leaning russian types must be thoroughly completed. Everything red needs to be killed off. This will take years, I'm sure. It must be done.