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Politics : The Trump Presidency

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To: Lane3 who wrote (115050)	3/22/2019 10:24:38 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 358044

Context is important, though. He played footsie* with the Nazis and other hate groups throughout his campaign. And he has shown a lot of reluctance to criticize terrorism by non-brown folks. *By footsie I mean he re-tweeted memes and posts by such groups and luminaries of those movements. When he wasn't retweeting stuff, he tweeted the same information but in mangled wording. Now it wasn't a huge percentage of his tweets, but it was very noticeable. Either he or someone who has influence over him was very familiar with those groups. I truly have no idea whether or not Trump and company are followers, but they were aware of them and courted them to be part of their coalition. It very well may have been Manafort or someone else working with the Russians. The Russians have actively supported such groups in Europe with funding and other support. This is known and has been ever since Putin rose to power. I suspect the intent has been to sow dissent in Europe and, given their until recently fringe status, a low cost investment. I can see no real reason why they wouldn't do the same here. From what has been made public of their meddling in the 2016 election, this seems to be the case.

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