{"id":135959,"date":"2018-03-20T11:53:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T17:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135959"},"modified":"2018-03-21T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T19:38:12","slug":"trump-makes-clear-bestest-buddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/20\/trump-makes-clear-bestest-buddy.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump makes it clear who his bestest buddy is"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have no doubt that Donald is wildly<\/i> impressed by and envious of Vlad’s 75% victory (not to mention the ease with which Vlad suppressed the opposition and the media). I have no doubt that Donald wishes he could do those same things. “Congratulations on the victory!”<\/p>\n

Oh, and that nerve agent attack that everyone — including portions of the US government, at least in theory — are blaming Russia for? Never came up in the conversation. Because, y’know, even if it’s not fake news, Donald probably thinks it’s kinda cool super-spy stuff that he wishes we were doing to his<\/del> our enemies.<\/p>\n


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\nTrump congratulates Putin on his reelection, discusses \u2018arms race\u2019 – The Washington Post<\/a><\/span>
\nThe U.S. president confirmed the call and said he hopes to meet with Putin \u201cin the not too distant future.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I have no doubt that Donald is wildly impressed by and envious of Vlad’s 75% victory (not to mention the ease with which Vlad suppressed the opposition and the media). I have no doubt that Donald wishes he could do those same things. “Congratulations on the victory!” Oh, and that nerve agent attack that everyone … Continue reading “Trump makes it clear who his bestest buddy is”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,350,10,1071,347],"tags":[1317,1078,1077],"class_list":["post-135959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-civil-liberties","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-trump","category-voting-rights","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/putin.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132475,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/tweetizen-trump-2017-01-01-from-russia-with-happy-new-year.html","url_meta":{"origin":135959,"position":0},"title":"Tweetizen Trump – 2017-01-01 "From Russia with Happy New Year"","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Jan-17 11:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"And what more fitting way to ring out 2016 than with a flurry of tweets from you, Donald, our PEOTUS? 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