Rachel Maddow Exposes Trump's Putin Puppet Strings

Rachel Maddow made it clear that only one person benefits from Trump turning on Ukraine and it is Putin.

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Republicans pretend to be stunned by Trump’s overt use of Russian talking points as American foreign policy, but the writing has been on the wall when it comes to Trump and Putin since Trump entered national American politics.

Rachel Maddow looked behind the ambush of Zelenskyy and questioned who benefits from Trump putting the US on Russia’s side in the war in Ukraine.

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Maddow said:

 What does it seem like is going on here?

Imagine if a foreign adversary, imagine if the Putin government, somehow, Could just do a thought experiment. Imagine they could somehow exert control or influence over the government of the United States. What do you think the Putin government would have the U. S. government do if he could control it?

What kind of headlines would you expect to see about the operations of our government under that kind of a scenario? And what would you expect the news out of the Oval Office and the White House to look like? On a day like today at the start of this made for TV debacle at the White House today, where the president and vice president JD Vance screamed at our ally Zelenskyy and berated him with Russian government talking points. When this happened today in Washington, there's a couple of things that stuck out to me.

First of all, at the very start of this photo op, they had all the press in the room. Trump was asked, right at the outset, when he last spoke with Vladimir Putin. He said, quote, a couple of days ago. Which was news, because the US government had said nothing about Donald Trump speaking with Vladimir Putin a couple of days ago.

So that's new. He used to say, I'm not allowed to talk about that. Now he's admitting that he talks to Putin all the time, even when the US government doesn't release any information about those calls, like they do with all other foreign leaders. Second. was the truly bizarre revelation that Russian state controlled media, for some reason, was in the Oval Office today when this scene happened with Volodymyr Zelenskyy.