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[blackhawks]

There was no hoax about Russian collusion; Trump's associates were neck deep in it. And now we have closed the circle from 'Russia if you are listening' to.........

Trump calls on Putin to release dirt on Hunter Biden
It’s the latest example of the former president soliciting foreign governments to intervene to damage his domestic political rivals.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/29/trump-putin-hunter-biden-00021223

Trump has repeatedly promoted dubious claims of foreign business dealings by Hunter Biden, specifically alleging that he received millions of dollars from the wife of Moscow’s late mayor, Yury Luzhkov.

“She gave him $3.5 million so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it,” Trump said in the interview, conducted at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. “I think we should know that answer.”

Trump failed to mention that he himself sought to do business with Luzhkov’s government in the late 1990s, according to POLITICO. Trump also was pursuing high-profile real estate deals in Russia as recently as 2016, including a proposed Trump Tower Moscow.

Trump’s new interview is far from the first time the former president has suggested or openly demanded that foreign governments intervene to damage his domestic political rivals.

In 2016, Trump publicly asked the Russian government to obtain and release emails from the private email server that then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton used during her tenure as secretary of State.

In 2019, the House of Representatives impeached Trump for allegedly withholding crucial military aid from Ukraine unless President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced investigations targeting the Bidens and other Democrats on discredited allegations.

Trump’s new request of Putin raises the specter of those scandals, as the Russian president plods on with his more than monthlong war in Ukraine and Zelenskyy’s forces continue to fend off the invaders.

Trump described Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as “genius” and “savvy” last month, and he argued that Joe Biden was “almost giving [Putin] an incentive” to deploy nuclear weapons amid the conflict last week.

Your support of Trump's policies DESPITE his execrable behavior described above, together with his lethally incompetent, economy wrecking, pandemic response, belies any credible claim that the ends justify the means doesn't cut it with you. I'd say it's the sharpest knife in your drawer of mostly dull cutlery.